mountain life

In 1940, tragedy forces Lou, her little brother Oz, and their invalid mother to move to the mountains of southwestern Virginia to live with their great-grandmother, but a courtroom battle could determine the fates of the entire family.

When a serial killer who leaves a blue ribbon at the site of his victims' last sightings appears in the peaceful town of Cleary, North Carolina, police chief Dutch Burton finds the case complicated by his ex-wife's disappearance during a blizzard.

Several years after Fontana dam flooded the town where they were born, Ingledove and her brother Lang go wandering in the southern Appalachians, where they encounter their mother's peculiar people, the Adantans, and an evil being who charms Lang.

Chronicles the experiences of a young woman after she arrives to teach school in a small town in the Great Smoky Mountains in 1912.

Johnny May comes of age when she realizes that her attempt at self-improvement is for her own gratification, not just to please her boyfriend.

Describes the coming of age of Eugene Gant, his boyhood in North Carolina and his growing passion to experience life.

Restores the missing text of Thomas Wolfe's novel "O Lost," which was hitherto published as the abridged "Look Homeward, Angel." Includes an introduction by scholar Matthew J. Bruccoli and textual, bibliographical, and explanatory notes.