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23 produkter
Lark Ascending
Av Silas House
Häftad, 2023
194 kr
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Winner of the Southern Book Prize ?for Fiction * Winner of a Nautilus Award (Gold)?With fires devastating much of America, Lark and his family first leave their home in Maryland for Maine. But as the country increasingly falls under the grip of religious nationalism, it becomes clear that nowhere …
Clay's Quilt
Av Silas House
Häftad, 2020
190 kr
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In his New York Times bestselling debut novel, Silas House introduced himself as an important voice for Appalachia, and indeed, for the entire rural South. In Clay’s Quilt, now a touchstone for his many fans, House takes us to Free Creek, Kentucky, where a motherless young man forges his path to …
Parchment of Leaves
Av Silas House
Häftad, 2020
190 kr
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In this nationally bestselling novel, A Parchment of Leaves, Silas House produced an iconic story of 1900s rural mountain Kentucky that remains a favorite of many of his fans. On his way to find work in the Redbud Camp, Saul Sullivan encounters a Cherokee girl who is said to possess a beauty that …
Coal Tattoo
Av Silas House
Häftad, 2020
190 kr
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In World War II-era rural Kentucky, twenty-two-year-old Easter and Anneth, her teenaged sister, lose their parents young, so they must raise each other. Easter finds her life in the Pentecostal Holiness church and its music, while Anneth dances and drinks in less-than-holy honky-tonks. Will the …
Those Who Carry Us
Av Silas House
Inbunden, 2025
236 kr
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A timely and poignant poetry collection by acclaimed author and former Poet Laureate of Kentucky Silas House, including the poem read at Governor Andy Beshear’s 2023 inauguration and an interview by Barbara Kingsolver.Silas House is known throughout the South as a quintessential person of letters—a …
Chinaberry
E-bok, 2011
351 kr
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Celebrated as the "Dean of Appalachian Literature," James Still has won the appreciation of audiences in Appalachia and beyond for more than seventy years. The author of the classics River of Earth (1940) and The Wolfpen Poems (1986), Still is known for his careful prose construction and for the …
Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume III: Contemporary Appalachia Volume 3
Contemporary Appalachia
Av Gilbert Allen, Maggie Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
382 kr
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“The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume III, second edition, edited with passion and precision, in collaboration with Texas Review Press, transcends the stereotypes surrounding Appalachia, revealing the true diversity and complexity of Appalachia’s poetic voices. Commitment to showcasing the rich …
Something's Rising
Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal
Inbunden, 2009
683 kr
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Something's Rising collects oral histories from a diverse group of individuals from Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, and Virginia who are fighting mountaintop removal, an ecologically devastating form of coal mining. Taken together, these voices stand as a testament of what it means to be an …
Chinaberry
E-bok, 2011
343 kr
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Celebrated as the "Dean of Appalachian Literature," James Still has won the appreciation of audiences in Appalachia and beyond for more than seventy years. The author of the classics River of Earth (1940) and The Wolfpen Poems (1986), Still is known for his careful prose construction and for the …
Something's Rising
Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal
Häftad, 2011
382 kr
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Something's Rising collects oral histories from a diverse group of individuals from Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, and Virginia who are fighting mountaintop removal, an ecologically devastating form of coal mining. Taken together, these voices stand as a testament of what it means to be an …
Something's Rising
Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal
E-bok, 2009
44 kr
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Two Appalachian authors record personal stories of local resistance against the coal industry in this "revelatory work . . . oral history at its best" (Studs Terkel). Developed as an alternative to strip mining, mountaintop removal mining consists of blasting away the tops of mountains, dumping …
Chinaberry
Häftad, 2012
413 kr
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Celebrated as the "Dean of Appalachian Literature," James Still has won the appreciation of audiences in Appalachia and beyond for more than seventy years. The author of the classics River of Earth (1940) and The Wolfpen Poems (1986), Still is known for his careful prose construction and for the …
Something's Rising
Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal
E-bok, 2009
630 kr
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Like an old-fashioned hymn sung in rounds, Something''s Rising gives a stirring voice to the lives, culture, and determination of the people fighting the destructive practice of mountaintop removal in the coalfields of central Appalachia. Each person''s story, unique and unfiltered, articulates the …
Eli the Good
Av Silas House
Ljudbok, 2011
525 kr
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The summer of 1976 should have been the best of times for nature-loving Eli Book, but instead it is filled with terrible changes. His sister begins to hate her country. His beautiful but distant mother is caught between his traumatized Vietnam War vet father and his former antiwar protester aunt, …
Same Sun Here
Ljudbok, 2012
572 kr
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Meena and River have a lot in common: fathers forced to work away from home to make ends meet, grandmothers who mean the world to them, and faithful dogs. But Meena is an Indian immigrant girl living in New York City’s Chinatown, while River is a Kentucky coal miner’s son. As Meena’s family studies …
Lark Ascending
Av Silas House
Inbunden, 2022
281 kr
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“This beautiful book is shot through with such tenderness and humanity, such love and courage and beauty and hope, that it feels almost like a prayer.” —Margaret Renkl, author of Late MigrationsA timely, powerful story of survival set in the not-too-distant future, reminding us to always hold on to …
The Tulip Poplars
Av Silas House
Inbunden, 2026
356 kr
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A sweeping historical novel about hidden, forbidden love in the early 1900s by bestselling writer and former poet laureate of Kentucky, Silas House."A masterful storyteller, House has crafted an ambitious and utterly beautiful love story so attuned to the minute moments in which a life can change." …
All These Ghosts
Av Silas House
E-bok, 2025
232 kr
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A timely and poignant poetry collection by acclaimed author and former Poet Laureate of Kentucky Silas House, including the poem read at Governor Andy Beshear’s 2023 inauguration. Silas House is known throughout the South as a quintessential person of letters—a novelist, music journalist, …
