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Prodigal Summer
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Prodigal Summer

By Barbara Kingsolver ,

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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

By Barbara Kingsolver , Camille Kingsolver , Steven L Hopp , Lily Hopp Kingsolver

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Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area
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Night Comes to the Cumberlands

By Harry M. Caudill ,

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Feud: Hatfields, McCoys, and Social Change in Appalachia, 1860-1900
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Feud

By Altina L. Waller ,

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Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness: Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia
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Lost Mountain

By Erik Reece ,

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The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
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The Unsettling of America

By Wendell Berry ,

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To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia
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To Save the Land and People

By Chad Montrie ,

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The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America
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The Injustice of Place

By Kathryn J. Edin , H. Luke Shaefer , Timothy J. Nelson

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Walking Toward the Sunset: The Melungeons of Appalachia
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Walking Toward the Sunset

By Wayne Winkler ,

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What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia
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What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia

By Elizabeth Catte ,

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Reformers to Radicals: The Appalachian Volunteers and the War on Poverty
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Reformers to Radicals

By Thomas Kiffmeyer ,

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Uneven Ground: Appalachia since 1945
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Uneven Ground

By Ronald D Eller ,

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To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice
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To Live Here, You Have to Fight

By Jessica Wilkerson ,

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A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia
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A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia

By Rose McLarney (editor) , Laura-Gray Street (editor) , L. L. Gaddy Jr. (editor)

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A Year Without Months
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A Year Without Months

By Charles Dodd White ,

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Light at the Seam: Poems
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Light at the Seam

By Joseph Bathanti ,

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Met Her on the Mountain: The Murder of Nancy Morgan
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Met Her on the Mountain

By Mark I. Pinsky ,

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North Carolina Ghosts and Legends
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North Carolina Ghosts and Legends

By Nancy Roberts ,

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Another Country: Journeying toward the Cherokee Mountains
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Another Country

By Christopher Camuto ,

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Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
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Ramp Hollow

By Steven Stoll ,

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In the Shadow of the Valley: A Memoir
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In the Shadow of the Valley

By Bobi Conn ,

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Deciduous Forests of Eastern North America
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Deciduous Forests of Eastern North America

By E. Lucy Braun ,

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Tumult on the Mountains
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Tumult on the Mountains

By Roy B. Clarkson , William A Lunk (illustrator) ,

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Ecology and Recovery of Eastern Old-Growth Forests
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Ecology and Recovery of Eastern Old-Growth Forests

By Andrew Barton ,

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Outside the Frame
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Outside the Frame

By Catherine Pritchard Childress ,

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