Blogs in July 2017

Looking For Ireland: An Irish-Appalachian Pilgrimage 31st July 2017

Journey from Appalachia to Ireland in Looking For Ireland: An Irish-Appalachian Pilgrimage. Both chapbook and a work of art, her book creates a seamless alchemy of elegant poems and stunning photographs. “In one of the poems in her luminous...

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Flight Behavior 14th April 2017

Flight Behavior is a brilliant and suspenseful novel set in present day Appalachia; a breathtaking parable of catastrophe and denial that explores how the complexities we inevitably encounter in life lead us to believe in our particular chosen truths....

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The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap 24th January 2016

Wendy Welch and her husband had always dreamed of owning a bookstore, so when they left high-octane jobs for a simpler life in an Appalachian coal town, they seized an unexpected opportunity to pursue their dream. The only problems?...

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North of Need 3rd November 2015

Desperate to escape agonizing memories of Christmas past, twenty-nine-year-old widow Megan Snow builds a snow family outside the mountain cabin she once shared with her husband, realizing too late that she’s recreated the very thing she’ll never have. Called...

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Gray Mountain 12th July 2015

Donovan Gray is ruthless and fearless. Just the kind of lawyer you need, deep in small-town Appalachia. Samantha Kofer is a world away from her former life at New York’s biggest law firm. If she is going to survive...

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