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A Room of RainAuthor: Gary FinckePublisher: Vandalia PressPublication Date: Mar 01, 2015Number of Pages: 200 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1940425204ISBN-13: 9781940425207

All My Mothers and Fathers: A MemoirAuthor: Michael BlumenthalPublisher: Vandalia PressPublication Date: Sep 01, 2016Number of Pages: 272 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

This collection of poetry by West Virginia Poet Laureate Marc Harshman explores the difficulty of living with an awareness of the eventual death of all living things. Each of its four sections...

Karen Osborn is the author of three previous novels, Patchwork (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year), Between Earth and Sky, and The River Road. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts with her...

Cinco BecknellAuthor: Lee MaynardPublisher: Vandalia PressPublication Date: Apr 01, 2015Number of Pages: 298 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 194042545XISBN-13: 9781940425450

In Crum, a gritty coal town on the West Virginia-Kentucky border, the boys fight, swear, chase and sometimes catch girls. The adults are cramped in and clueless, hemmed in by the mountains. The...

What's wrong with the contemporary American medical system? What does it mean when a state's democratic presidential primary casts 40% of its votes for a felon incarcerated in another state? What's...

The characters within these fifteen stories are in one way or another staring into the abyss. While some are awaiting redemption, others are fully complicit in their own undoing. We come upon them in...

The nine stories in My Pulse Is an Earthquake take place in the clutches of grief. Characters struggle to make sense of sudden losses of life, love, and community. From 1970 to the present day,...

The members of Dunlap Fellowship of All Things in Common share everything from their meager incomes to the only functioning toilet in the community house-- everything, that is, except secrets. When...

Title Page -- Copyright -- On Homesickness: A PleaAuthor: Jesse DonaldsonPublisher: Vandalia PressPublication Date: Sep 01, 2017Number of Pages: 250 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Out of Peel TreeAuthor: Laura LongPublisher: Vandalia PressPublication Date: Apr 01, 2014Number of Pages: 160 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 194042500XISBN-13: 9781940425009

Paradox Hill: From Appalachia to Lunar Shore, Revised EditionAuthor: Louise McNeillPublisher: Vandalia PressPublication Date: Mar 23, 2009Number of Pages: 128 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Riding on Comets: A MemoirAuthor: Cat PleskaPublisher: Vandalia PressPublication Date: May 01, 2015Number of Pages: 236 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1940425514ISBN-13: 9781940425511

In this sequel to Crum, Jesse Stone is still on the move. He finds himself in a holy-roller church in Kentucky, on the other side of the Tug River from his native West Virginia, "screaming with the...

Still Life with Plums: Short StoriesAuthor: Marie ManillaPublisher: Vandalia PressPublication Date: Oct 01, 2010Number of Pages: 172 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1933202602ISBN-13:...

Surviving Mae WestAuthor: Priscilla a. RoddPublisher: Vandalia PressPublication Date: May 01, 2006Number of Pages: 208 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1933202076ISBN-13: 9781933202075

Winner of The Paterson Prize for Books for Young People Recommended by USA Today for Black History Month as "a blend of history and suspense." In this novel for young adults, Josh knows there is...

The Pale Light of Sunset: Scattershots and Hallucinations in an Imagined LifeAuthor: Lee MaynardPublisher: Vandalia PressPublication Date: Oct 01, 2009Number of Pages: 348 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Coal burns underground and destroys a small town. A woman confronts police officers with her pet copperheads. A young girl drinks Drano. A man is banned from his favorite bar. Within these eleven...

Secrets and snakes, rock and gospel, guilt and grace. The Psalms of Israel Jones is the story of a father and son's journey towards spiritual redemption. This novel tells the tale of a famous father...

The Safety of Deeper WaterAuthor: Tim PolandPublisher: Vandalia PressPublication Date: Feb 10, 2009Number of Pages: 276 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1933202327ISBN-13: 9781933202327

In the third and final part of the Crum Trilogy, Jesse Stone once again embarks upon his constant search for a place in the world. At the start of The Scummers, Jesse hits the road and heads West,...

Jason Stevens is growing up in picturesque, historic Harpers Ferry, West Virginia in the 1970s. Back when the roads are smaller, the cars slower, the people more colorful, and Washington, D.C. is way...

Witches, Ghosts, and Signs: Folklore of the Southern AppalachiansAuthor: Patrick W. GainerPublisher: Vandalia PressPublication Date: Mar 01, 2008Number of Pages: 220 pagesBinding: Paperback or...