Appalachia. According to popular mythology, it's a mountainous hold-over from colonial days, an all-white outlaw society mired in poverty and cliché jokes about family feuds. Throw in some stories about moonshine, add a few images of grimy coal miners and you're done. People who know better and try to preserve Appalachian history and culture are no match for developers greedy for more land and franchise locations. The process is irreversible, but the real story-hilariously funny, sometimes poignant, always surprising-can be told, savored and remembered.

Voices from the Hollow: What happened when the Blue Bloods met the Blue Ridge

Biographies & Memoirs

Hirsh Jr., Philip Reid

Historical

Mariner Publishing

The Lexington Letters - Two Centuries of Water Under the Bridge

Doug Cumming

Kimberly M. Jew

Wicklund, a pioneer of sea exploration, tells of his adventures under the sea. Diving for science, government, and treasure, he has experienced amazing discoveries, dangers, and thrills. He shares his experiences with the world in this book, containing over 50 photos. 
 Bob Wicklund shares an insiders view of historic events ... from underwater encounters with Cuban President Fidel Castro to meetings with fish in icy Arctic waters and standoffs with drug smugglers, all share the single element that makes them at once entrancing and enduring they are all true ... some terrifying, some wise, some breakout-laughing hilarious, others painful sagas of loss, both of treasured friends and of treasured places in the sea. Sylvia A. Earle, PhD, Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society, author, documentary film producer, and former Chief Scientist at NOAA 
 In Eyes of the Sea Bob Wicklund takes you on a voyage into the wonders beneath the waves. His carefully researched and dramatically described expeditions of his underwater adventures is certain to intrigue the readers and make them wish to learn more about the mysteries lurking in the depths, if not incite them to take up diving and see the wonders for themselves. Clive Cussler, bestselling author and the founder of the National Underwater &amp; Marine Agency (NUMA).

Eyes in the Sea

Robert I. Wicklund

Reading is So Easy

Education & Teaching

van Ravenswaay, Susan

Schools & Teaching

The House on Fuller Street is a collection of memories of the people and places in the  African American neighborhoods in small town Lexington, Virginia, from the days of emancipation, through segregation, and  to the present day. These recollections were initially recorded as oral histories by the Historic Lexington Foundation. This book could have been volumes longer. There is so much more to be said and there are so many stories that deserve to be told-perhaps one day they will. Those that have been selected were mostly recommended by people who live in Green Hill and Diamond Hill neighborhoods. Whether we live in these neighborhoods or not, this is our history, and while the African American community is bonded by its unique history, we all live in the village-together.

The House on Fuller Street

Tucker, Beverly

All dog lovers will be entertained by the sequence of laugh-out-loud events that follow Stella's 16-month adventure from arrival to accepting her new farm job. Bob Moses recounts the hilarious learning curve he and Stella experienced that bonded them into a cohesive (and mostly efficient) working team.  Eventually taking her place as a valued "hired hand" on the family's farm in the picturesque Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, Stella has earned the sheep's respect and the gratitude of her owners. This book offers tips and encouragement for all dog owners to set and pursue a goal for yourself and your friend.  Anyone who has gone through puppyhood with a four-legged companion will enjoy this man's search for the perfect dog.

Your Name is Stella

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Moses, Robert

Pets & Animal Care

In a devastating indictment of the GM management system, this insider exposé outlines the $100 Billion fear-driven, top-down boondoggle that didn't make the news-anywhere. And it was called the Paint Plan. Moving from general corporate engineering to a specialty in environmental issues, the author, Nicholas Kachman, became a quiet but persistent spokesman for common sense solutions to, among other things, the problem of air pollution from the auto painting process. Writing with passion, Kachman equips the reader with the background needed to grasp the folly of the decisions that were made. Even those unfamiliar with air pollution and the auto industry will find the mismanagement lessons broadly applicable.

GM: Paint it Red

Kachman, Nicholas

Professionals & Academics

In September 1865, five months after his surrender at Appomattox that effectively ended the Civil War, Robert E. Lee came to Lexington, Virginia, to begin a new life, to rebuild Washington College that had called him as its president, and to restore what peace and prosperity he could to a nation devastated by the most brutal conflict in its history. After one year, he had succeeded so well on his first two goals that, regarding the second, the college quickly outgrew its facilities. Lee called for a new chapel large enough to allow the growing faculty and student body to meet together for religious and academic gatherings. By June 1868, it was finished.Two years later, Lee died. He was interred in that building. At the same time, the college renamed itself Washington and Lee University.Over the 150 years of its existence, the association between Lee and the structure he was responsible for creating made it more than another college building. It has been used for many purposes: a place for celebrations, lectures, and academic assemblies; a mausoleum, shrine, museum, and even a place of pilgrimage. For some, it is the ¿heart¿ of the university.This is its story.

LEE CHAPEL AT 150: A History

R. David Cox

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