Frank Carlson Library

On t.p.: Ironmaking, blacksmithing, flintlock rifles, bear hunting, and other affairs of plain living.

Unhappy because he cannot sing with his schoolmates in the Christmas pageant, Jamie, a mute boy, is allowed to play a shepherd. A blizzard necessitates the cancellation of the pageant, but Jamie's imagination and loving nature find a special use for his shepherd robe and crook.

Wrong turn: The nightmare begins when a group of young friends, stranded on an isolated road deep in the Appalachain hills of West Virginia, finds themselves relentlessly pursued by a force of evil beyond their imaginations--Container. Wrong turn 2: A post-apocalyptic reality show, in which participants are challenged to survive a remote West Virginia wasteland, turns into a nightmarish showdown when the contestants realize they're being hunted for...

A fifth in a series of books on affairs of plain living.

"...Celebrates the rituals and recipes of the Appalachian homeplace, and includes sections on herbal remedies, planting and growing a garden, preserving and pickling, smoking and salting, honey making, beekeeping, and fishing..." -- page 4 of cover.

In the 1880s, young Fanny McCoy witnesses the growth of a terrible and violent feud between her Kentucky family and the West Virginia Hatfields, complicated by her older sister Roseanna's romance with a Hatfield.

Gives a brief history of the folk culture and crafts in the Appalachian region and discusses their present-day revival by introducing contemporary craftsmen and their work.

A collection of tall tales by Paul and Bil Lepp, two repeat winners of the West Virginia State Liars Contest.

"After witnessing the death of his younger brother in a terrible home accident, 14-year-old Kevin and his grieving mother are sent for the summer to live with Kevin's grandfather. In this peeled-paint coal town deep in Appalachia, Kevin quickly falls in with a half-wild hollow kid named Buzzy Fink who schools him in the mysteries and magnificence of the woods. The events of this fateful summer will affect the entire town of Medgar, Kentucky."--