The Free Farm: A Novel by Larry Smith
"Forbidden love. Counter-culture. The shadow of Vietnam. Sexual revolution. Social unrest.
Marijuana and LSD. In this intriguing coming-of-age novel by Larry Smith, The Free Farm, we
journey back to America’s turbulent late 60s and early 70s…. Smith provides a unique window into
Lee’s young life that is driven by idealism, love of Emerson and Thoreau, and devotion to his
beautiful partner, who practices Zen, meditates, and can fix cars….In this realistic yet often
surprising and tender novel, a quoted line from 'The Waking' by Theodore Roethke serves as a
guidepost: 'I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow/ I feel my fate in what I cannot fear/ I learn by
going where I have to go.'"
~ Laura Treacy Bentley, author of Lake Effect
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Sinners of Sanction County: Stories
by Charles Dodd White
"Sinners of Sanction County is one of the best story collections to come out of the American South in
recent times. Writing in a spare, poetic style that fairly crackles with energy, Charles Dodd White
makes his mark as a major new talent as he masterfully explores the raw beauty and pathos of life
among tough people caught in bad situations. With this book, he has nailed the coonskin to the wall."
~Donald Ray Pollock, author of Knockemstiff
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Learning How: Stories, Tales & Yarns
by Richard Hague
22 Stories, Yarns, & Tales, rich in character, voice, and landscape.
"The fiction in this collection is as comforting as it is challenging, as familiar as it is surprising, and, in
all of the aspects that matter to the serious reader of literature, it is thoroughly satisfying."
~Chris Holbrook, author of Upheaval
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Degrees of Elevation: Short Stories of Contemporary Appalachia Edited by Charles Dodd
White & Page Seay
A wonderful and rich collection of some of our best fiction writers treating the American landscape of
Appalachia and its people.
Writers include: Rusty Barnes, Sheldon Lee Compton, Jarrid Deaton, Richard Hague, Silas House,
Chris Holbrook, Denton Loving, Mindy Beth Miller, John McManus, Jim Nichols, Valerie Nieman,
Chris Offutt, Mark Powell, Ron Rash, Alex Taylor, Crystal Wilkinson
"From manic to elegiac to rough, raw, beautiful, and heartbreaking, these stories will strike the reader
as both absolutely true and as unforgettable, like the high pure ring of an ax on a cold winter
morning, vibrating across distance, hanging in the air long afterward." -Lee Smith, author of Saving
Grace
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Eclipse: Stories by Jeanne Bryner
These are powerful stories about the dignity, hope, wit, compassion, and struggles of seemingly
ordinary people in small town of Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Jeanne Bryner moves
beyond K-Mart class stereotypes into deeper spaces, uncovering a complexity and variety of
working-class lives few acknowledge." ~Janet Zandy
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Rushlight: Poems by Chris Green
Chris Green's Rushlight is a powerful new book of poems. Rushlights were made from rushes growing
in marshy ground by old-time working people as substitutes for candles, to push against the darkness
of the night. For me, Chris’ poems light the world in a similar way. I see better in my own dark
through these brilliant poems, for which I thank this very necessary writer.
— Gurney Norman, author of Kinfolks
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Blind Horse: Poems by Jeanne Bryner
"I hear the sweet drawl of country music lyric in Jeanne Bryner's poems and the push and drive of a
mountain fiddle too. Energetic and clear-sighted, these poems are never afraid of their difficult
subjects....Jeanne Bryner is the real thing." ~Maggie Anderson
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Lake Effect: Poems by Laura Treacy Bentley
"Everywhere I look these days no poetry is being written. There is a lot of pretend poetry, but nothing
really this fine. With this book it makes it very easy for me to say: Laura Bentley, I dub thee poet
supreme.” - Ray Bradbury
Laura’s love of the people and landscapes of West Virginia, western Maryland, and Ireland is
evident in her work. From earth to sky, this collection merges a lake effect of meditations that creates
its own weather.
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