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How to Make Your Mother Cry
Fictions
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CA$33.99
ISBN: 9781959000136
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
In the eleven linked short stories of How to Make Your Mother Cry, Sejal Shah builds a shrine gleaming with memory and myth. Keys, rocks, photographs, fairy tales, fables, and relics all add texture...
Utter, Earth
Advice on Living in a More-than-Human World
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CA$29.99
ISBN: 9781959000150
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
A light, literary take on an animal book for grown-ups, a tongue-in-cheek self-help column with lessons drawn from nature, a sort of hitchhiker’s guide to the more-than-human world—Isaac Yuen’s...
Hell's Not Far Off
Bruce Crawford and the Appalachian Left
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CA$36.99
ISBN: 9781959000105
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
Hell’s Not Far Off is a grounded, politically engaged study of the Appalachian journalist and political critic Bruce Crawford, a scourge of coal and railway interests. Crawford fought injustices wherever...
Slime Line
A Novel
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CA$29.99
ISBN: 9781959000198
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
A fresh and trippy portrait of the diverse underclass of the commercial fishing industry, Slime Line is a tragicomedy of one college dropout’s attempts to remake himself into a hard-nosed workingman. Fleeing...
Roxy and Coco
A Novel
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CA$29.99
ISBN: 9781959000068
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
Sisters Roxy and Coco are two glamorous harpies—mythical bird women—attempting to outrun extinction and fix the planet by preventing child abuse, one child at a time. When Roxy is suddenly attracted...
God of River Mud
A Novel
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CA$30.95
ISBN: 9781959000020
Pub Date: January 2024
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
Grappling with innate desires and LGBTQ identity, a family struggles under the oppressive expectations foisted on them by fundamentalist Christianity.
Finding the Singing Spruce
Musical Instrument Makers and Appalachia's Mountain Forests
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9781959000006
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
Environment, craft, and meaning in the work of Appalachian instrument makers.
Mama Said
Stories
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781952271984
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
Original stories of Black family life in Louisville, Kentucky, for readers of Dantiel Moniz (Milk Blood Heat) and Kai Harris (What the Fireflies Knew).
"Surprising and revelatory. . . . I love this book." -Stephanie Powell Watts, author of No One Is Coming to Save Us
Critical Geographies of Youth
Law, Policy, and Power
Price:
CA$36.95
ISBN: 9781952271946
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
Scholarly and activist perspectives on identities often overlooked in the study of geography: youth and age.
Shattered
Fragments of a Black Life
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CA$34.95
ISBN: 9781952271922
Pub Date: August 2023
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
A heartrending and engrossing memoir that challenges narratives of racial progress and postracial America.
"Every so often, a book comes along that changes the way we see, speak, and think about the world. Shattered is one of those books." -Frank B. Wilderson III, author of Afropessimism and Incognegro
Clear Creek
Toward a Natural Philosophy
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CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781952271908
Pub Date: August 2023
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
Acclaimed author Erik Reece spends a year beside a rural Kentucky stream, in close observation of the natural world's cycles, revelations, and redemptions.
Essential Voices
A COVID-19 Anthology
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9781952271885
Pub Date: July 2023
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
A collection of creative writing and art about COVID-19 at the onset of the pandemic by people from vulnerable populations.
The Wounds That Bind Us
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CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781952271861
Pub Date: June 2023
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
The improbable and powerful true story of a single mother with prosthetics for both legs who travels the globe with her young daughter in a Land Rover.
Abigail Field Mott's The Life and Adventures of Olaudah Equiano
A Scholarly Edition
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CA$36.95
ISBN: 9781952271847
Pub Date: June 2023
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
An adaptation of Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative published for Black children in 1829, now given new life in a major scholarly edition.
Community across Time
Robert Morgan's Words for Home
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9781952271823
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
One of the first book-length considerations of the Appalachian writer Robert Morgan.
American Energy Cinema
Price:
CA$36.95
ISBN: 9781952271762
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
Historians investigate the relationships between film, culture, and energy.
How to Make Your Mother Cry
Fictions
CA$33.99
ISBN: 9781959000136
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
Utter, Earth
Advice on Living in a More-than-Human World
CA$29.99
ISBN: 9781959000150
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
Hell's Not Far Off
Bruce Crawford and the Appalachian Left
CA$36.99
ISBN: 9781959000105
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
Slime Line
A Novel
CA$29.99
ISBN: 9781959000198
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
Roxy and Coco
A Novel
CA$29.99
ISBN: 9781959000068
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
God of River Mud
A Novel
CA$30.95
ISBN: 9781959000020
Pub Date: January 2024
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
Finding the Singing Spruce
Musical Instrument Makers and Appalachia's Mountain Forests
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9781959000006
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
Mama Said
Stories
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781952271984
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
"Surprising and revelatory. . . . I love this book." -Stephanie Powell Watts, author of No One Is Coming to Save Us
Critical Geographies of Youth
Law, Policy, and Power
CA$36.95
ISBN: 9781952271946
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
Scholarly and activist perspectives on identities often overlooked in the study of geography: youth and age.
Shattered
Fragments of a Black Life
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9781952271922
Pub Date: August 2023
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
A heartrending and engrossing memoir that challenges narratives of racial progress and postracial America.
"Every so often, a book comes along that changes the way we see, speak, and think about the world. Shattered is one of those books." -Frank B. Wilderson III, author of Afropessimism and Incognegro
Clear Creek
Toward a Natural Philosophy
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781952271908
Pub Date: August 2023
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
Acclaimed author Erik Reece spends a year beside a rural Kentucky stream, in close observation of the natural world's cycles, revelations, and redemptions.
Essential Voices
A COVID-19 Anthology
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9781952271885
Pub Date: July 2023
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
The Wounds That Bind Us
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781952271861
Pub Date: June 2023
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
Abigail Field Mott's The Life and Adventures of Olaudah Equiano
A Scholarly Edition
CA$36.95
ISBN: 9781952271847
Pub Date: June 2023
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
An adaptation of Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative published for Black children in 1829, now given new life in a major scholarly edition.
Community across Time
Robert Morgan's Words for Home
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9781952271823
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
One of the first book-length considerations of the Appalachian writer Robert Morgan.
American Energy Cinema
CA$36.95
ISBN: 9781952271762
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: West Virginia University Press