When work ceases in the Kentucky coal mines during the Depression, a young boy and his family move to the mountains to live off of their land.

Sporty Creek: A novel about an Appalachian boyhood

James Still

PUTNAM

Winner of AATE's Distinguished Play Award and originally produced at The Kennedy Center, Amber Waves focuses children in a family struggling to hold on to their farm and each other. This acclaimed one act about children in a struggling farm family is now available in a full length version that builds on the emotional strengths of the shorter play.

Amber Waves: Two-Act Version

Samual French

James Still first achieved national recognition in the 1930s as a poet. Although he is better known today as a writer of fiction, it is his poetry that many of his essential images, such as the "mighty river of earth," first found expression. Yet much of his poetry remains out of print or difficult to find. From the Mountain, From the Valley collects all of Still's poems, including several never before published, and corrects editorial mistakes that crept into previous collections. The poems are presented in chronological order, allowing the reader to trace the evolution of Still's voice. Throughout, his language is fresh and vigorous and his insight profound. His respect for people and place never sounds sentimental or dated. Ted Olson's introduction recounts Still's early literary career and explores the poetic origins of his acclaimed lyrical prose. Still himself has contributed the illuminating autobiographical essay "A Man Singing to Himself," which will appeal to every lover of his work. James Still, the first poet laureate of Kentucky, recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships and many other awards and honors, is the author of numerous works, including his masterful novel River of Earth. Ted Olson, associate professor of Appalachian studies and English at East Tennessee State University, is the author of Blue Ridge Folklife and the editor of CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual.

From the Mountain, From the Valley: New and Collected Poems

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

University Press of Kentucky

James Still first achieved national recognition in the 1930s as a poet. Although he is better known today as a writer of fiction, it is his poetry that many of his essential images, such as the "mighty river of earth," first found expression. Yet much of his poetry remains out of print or difficult to find. From the Mountain, From the Valley collects all of Still's poems, including several never before published, and corrects editorial mistakes that crept into previous collections. The poems are presented in chronological order, allowing the reader to trace the evolution of Still's voice. Throughout, his language is fresh and vigorous and his insight profound. His respect for people and place never sounds sentimental or dated. Ted Olson's introduction recounts Still's early literary career and explores the poetic origins of his acclaimed lyrical prose. Still himself has contributed the illuminating autobiographical essay "A Man Singing to Himself," which will appeal to every lover of his work. James Still, the first poet laureate of Kentucky, recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships and many other awards and honors, is the author of numerous works, including his masterful novel River of Earth. Ted Olson, associate professor of Appalachian studies and English at East Tennessee State University, is the author of Blue Ridge Folklife and the editor of CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual.

Jack Frost a Russian folk Tale

The Dramatic Publishing Company

Hush: An Interview With America [Paperback] [Mar 01, 1998] Still, James

Hush: An Interview With America

Dramas & Plays

Dramatic Pub. Co.

Contemporary adaptation by James Still from the classic story by Margery Williams. 1 act; 55 minutes. Unit set. Cast of 3M, 7M or F (doubling possible). Finalist, Theatre Communications Group "Plays in Process." Originally produced by The Emmy Gifford Children's Theater in Omaha, NE. A Christmas and Holiday season classic.Written as a "memory play," THE VELVETEEN RABBIT is an emotional journey through time told through the eyes of a young man looking back on his childhood. By reliving the relationship between his four-year-old self and his favorite toy (the Velveteen Rabbit), he rediscovers the true meaning of friendship. Central to the story is, of course, The Velveteen Rabbit, who is introduced to the idea of becoming real by the old Rocking Horse. The play explores the rewards of loyalty, the poignancy of loss and the wonderful, surprising powers of love. Successfully produced at theaters around the country,VELVETEEN is enjoyable to all groups (including adults), and is appropriate for holiday productions. The play is filled with action and humor, and the costumes for the toys can be great fun!

The Velveteen Rabbit (Playscript) From the Story by Margery Williams

Margery Williams Bianco

Anchorage Pr

Fiction. First published in 1976, with a 2001 afterword by Wendell Berry. James Still was born on Double Creek in Alabama, one of ten children. For most of his life he lived in a log house at the forks of Troublesome and Wolfpen creeks in Knott County, Kentucky. The unique native dialect of the Kentucky mountains informs the language of all his stories. "Not many writers have been able to concentrate so much power into a few pages. When you look up from `The Nest' or `The Scrape,' you find the room filled with afterimages...Because, perhaps, of its artistic integrity this body of work never exploits or condescends to its subject, a region that has been condescended to and exploited almost by convention"--Wendell Berry.

Pattern of a Man and Other Stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

Gnomon Press

A Village Fable

Michael Keck

Dramatic Publ.

.NET is the most exciting Microsoft release for many years. As companies turn their attention to the .NET Framework, developers need to transfer their skills as quickly as possible. This book will make it easy to transfer your skills from Visual Basic 6 to C#, the language of choice of the .NET Framework. 
Building on the familiar territory of VB6, this book will teach you C# and how to use it to program the .NET Framework. Packed with real-world, usable code, this book is full of practical examples. 100% relevant to your everyday programming tasks, it shows you what you really need to know to build powerful desktop applications. 
With Visual C# .NET: A Guide for VB6 Developers you will learn to: 
- Build powerful, effective Windows applications with C# 
- Exploit Visual Studio .NET's time-saving features 
- Use the power of the .NET Framework in your applications 
- Benefit from code reuse through object orientation and class libraries 
- Access and manipulate data sources through ADO.NET 
- Build maintainable, scalable applications quickly 
- Use familiar ActiveX controls in .NET applications 
- Create new user controls in C#, which can be used in any .NET application 
- Integrate existing Visual Basic code with C# .NET programs

Visual C# .NET: A Guide for VB6 Developers

Computers & Technology

Cristian Darie

Brad Maiani

Marco Bellinaso

Angelo Kastroulis

Programming

Apress

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