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Appalachian Heritage Writer-in-Residence : In Our Collection 2022

Books on Identity in Appalachia

Class definitions: on the lives and writings of Maxine Hong Kingston, Sandra Cisneros, and Dorothy Allison / Michelle M Tokarczyk

Circulating Collection, 3rd floor

PS228.L33 T65 2008

Talking Appalachian: voice, identity, and community / edited by Amy D. Clark and Nancy M. Hayward

Circulating Collection, 3rd floor

PE2970.A6 T35 2013

Appalachia Revisited : New Perspectives on Place, Tradition, and Progress / edited by William Schumann and Rebecca Adkins Fletcher.

Circulating Collection, 3rd floor

F106.A5775 2016

Books on Economics in Appalachia

Modernizing the Mountaineer: People, Power and Planning in Appalachia/David E Whisnaught

Circulating Collection, 3rd floor

HC107.A127 W48 1994

The News Untold: Community Journalism and the Failure to Confront Poverty in Appalachia/Michael Clay Carey

EBSCOHost Academic Collection. Online eBook. Click on Linked Resource

The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia/ Dwight B Billings and Kathleen Bee

Circulating Collection, 3rd floor

HC107.A127 W48 1994

Mountains of Injustice: Social and Environmental Justice in Appalachia/Michele Morrone and Geoffrey L Buckley

Circulating Collection, 3rd floor

GE235.A13 M68 2011

 

Books onEnvironmental Ethics

Ecology, Economics, Ethics: The Broken Circle/ F Herbert Bormann and Stephen R Kellert

Circulating Collection, 3rd floor

QH541 .E31934 1991

The Ethics of Climate Change: Right and Wrong in a Warming World/James Garvey

Circulating Collection, 3rd floor

QC981.8.C5 G378 2008

Education, Cultural Myths, and the Ecological Crisis: Toward Deep Changes/C A Bowers

Circulating Collection, 3rd floor

GF27 .B69 1993

Environmental Ethics: Intercultural Perspectives/King-Tak Ip

EBSCOHost Academic Collection. Online eBook. Click on Linked Resource

Books on Butterflies and Other Pollinators

The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science/Joyce Sidman

Circulating Collection, Youth Collection

S5689g

Do Butterflies Bite?: Fascinating Answers to Questions about Butterflies and Moths  / Hazel Davies and Carol A Butler

EBSCOHost University Press Collection. Online eBook. Click on Linked Resource

The Spirit of Butterflies: Myth, Magic and Art/Maraleen Manos-Jones

Circulating Collection, Oversize Collection

GR751 .M36 2000

The Butterflies of West Virginian and Their Caterpillars/Thomas J Allen

Circulating Collection, 3rd floor

QL551.W4 A44 1997

Protecting Pollinators: How to Save the Creatures that Feed Our World/ Jodi Helmer

EBSCOHost Academic Collection. Online eBook. Click on Linked Resource

 

Books on Migrations

 

Migrations and cultures: a world view/ Thomas Sowell

Circulating Collection, 3rd floor

JV6217.S69 1996

How Birds Migrate/Paul Kirlinger

Circulating Collection, 3rd floor

QL698.9.K47 1995

Monarchs in a changing world: biology and conservation of an iconic butterfly/Karen Suzanne Oberhauser, Kelly R Nail, and Sonia M Altizer (Eds)

EBSCOHost MasterFILE Reference Collection. Online eBook. Click on Linked Resource

In Media Res: Race, Identity and Pop Culture in the Twenty-First Century/ James Braxton Peterson (Editor)

EBSCOHost Academic Collection. Online eBook. Click on Linked Resource

 

Folk Songs and Sheet Music

For those interested in folk songs or the use of Appalachian instruments in performance, here is a selection of volumes containing music scores.

Glow ree bee: Traditional Black spirituals arranged for unchanged voices and Orff instruments/ Shirley W McRae

Circulating Collection, 3rd floor

M2198.M33 G56

Angel at the door: Southern folksongs : voices and Orff instruments / Shirley W. McRae

Oversize book in Quarto Collection, 3rd floor

 MT810.M35 A5

Ballads, folk songs & folk tales from West Virginia.

Musick, Ruth Ann.

West Virginia Collection. Library use. Retrieved by staff

M1629.M966 B3