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  • Growing up White in Brassfield a Memoir

    by Sally Pearson Congleton ...
    Growing Up White in Brassfield 1946: Every room in the funeral home was full. I guess Daddy knew about everybody in the county and the town. The grown men carried on something awful, laughing and talking about tobacco stripping and hog prices. Didn't they know my Daddy was dead? I always appreciated the fact that there was one entire room full of colored people at daddy's funeral. The entire ... Read more

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    “A memoir that shines with a bright spirit, a generous heart and an entertaining knack for celebrating absurdity.”—The New York Times Book Review“This is Smith at her finest.”—Library Journal, starred reviewSet deep in the mountains of Virginia, the Grundy of Lee Smith’s youth was a place of coal miners, tent revivals, mountain music, drive-in theaters, and her daddy’s dimestore. When she was sent ... Read more

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  • Growing Up Black

    by Jay David ...
    A classic work on the African-American experience is revised for the nineties with essays reflecting the concerns of black children from the last three decades and commentary from today's sports stars, politicians, and inner-city gang members. ... Read more

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  • The Indigenous Black People of Monroe, Louisiana and the Surrounding Cities, Towns, and Villages

    A 100 Year Documentary

    by James O. McHenry ED.D ...
    This book is for those Louisiana slaves (and all the American slaves) whose labor was forced without regard to their humanity, even further, with unrestrained disrespect for their existence. This book is a tribute to the indigenous (originated in or native to the region) Black people of Northeast Louisiana, those folk who were reared in the rural areas, villages, and small towns; who worked on the ... Read more

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  • Haunts of Virginia's Blue Ridge Highlands

    by Joe Tennis ...
    Series series Haunted America
    This "interesting collection of Southwest Virginia ghost stories" is packed with pictures and Appalachian lore ( Roanoke Star-Sentinel).A Confederate soldier forever lost at Cumberland Gap. The wispy woman of Roanoke College. The spectral horse that runs the streets of Abingdon. These are just a few of the restless spirits of southwestern Virginia.Join local author Joe Tennis as he takes readers ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kinfolk

    A Historical Look at the Flanery Family of Floyd County

    by Parley Bryan Flanery Jr. ...
    Although Kinfolk is primarily about the Flanery family of Floyd County, Kentucky, it also offers an insightful look at a way of life unique to Appalachian America. Kinfolk is certain to make you laugh, cry, and marvel at the bond that unites this intriguing family. It describes in great detail what it was like to farm steep hillsides and mountaintops without the aid of mechanized equipment; it ... Read more

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  • "Cut from the Same Cloth"

    A Collection of Smith Family Stories 1841 - 2006

    by C.A. Hawkins ...
    Cynthias parents migrated, during the 1940s, moving from Texas to California, shortly after World War II. She was born in 1948, growing up in Berkeley, California. She came from a close-knit, hardworking family. She grew up hearing stories of family members and of times long ago in the lumber mill towns located in East Texas. She writes about the little known, experiences of her relatives who ... Read more

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  • The New Kid

    Reflections on an Eleven-Year Journey in a Children’S Home

    by Andrew Moss ...
    The author reflects on his growing up there and how those experiences have affected his life, both as a child and as an adult. Contained herein are factual, comical, heartbreaking, and thoughtprovoking stories about his journey.This is a book that will touch the reader's heart and provide inspiration to those who need encouragement to understand that no matter what happens in one's life, things ... Read more

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  • Raisin' Cane in Appalachia

    by David Osborne ...
    Author David Osborne has brought to life the difficult experiences and carefree joys of growing up in Appalachia. The family consisted of thirteen children plus Mom and Dad, and they lived on the old home place that the family referred to simply as The Holler. The children worked tirelessly alongside their father, Steve, and mother, Thelma, to coaxor perhaps forcea living from the hills and the ... Read more

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  • Drinnons of Mulberry Gap

    A Century of Family History

    by Kenneth C. Drinnon ...
    Drinnons of Mulberry Gap author, Kenneth C. Drinnon, decided a few years ago to begin writing a permanent record of the results of his several years collecting and compiling information on his Drinnon ancestors, which he traced back nine generations to Walter Drinnon/Drinnen who came from County Antrim, Ireland. He also compiled a family tree on Family Tree Maker and uploaded to FTMs composite ... Read more

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  • A Town of Mabel's

    How I Remember What My Mother Doesn't.

    by Christie Wood ...
    I began to write a book about my mothers life. As she descended further and further into a disease called Alzheimers, my writing morphed into Why her? Why this disease for her, for our family? It became a search to get to know a woman I had only seen as my mom before. Its my story of how I handled with tenacious determination to always approach her with a smile, willing to meet her wherever she ... Read more

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  • Mississippi Secrets

    Facts, Legends, and Folklore

    by Dr. Gary D. McDowell, Ruth A. McDowell ...
    Delve into the fascinating history of one of the South's greatest states with Mississippi Secrets: Facts, Legends, and Folklore. Authors Dr. Gary D. and Ruth A. McDowell offer an intriguing collection of little-known events in Mississippi's history.Written in short, easy-to-read vignettes, these tales uncover some of the state's most fascinating figures and legends from how the Choctaws and ... Read more

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