Silas House is a bestselling novelist of Clay’s Quilt, A Parchment of Leaves, and The Coal Tattoo, whose nonfiction has been published in Newsday, Sierra, The Oxford American, No Depression, and elsewhere. In 2008 he won the Helen Lewis Award for Community Service for his efforts in the fight against mountaintop removal. He teaches at Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tennessee.
14 Ebooks von Silas House
Silas House & Jason Howard: Something’s Rising
Two Appalachian authors record personal stories of local resistance against the coal industry in this “revelatory work . . . oral history at its best” (Studs Terkel).   …
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€21.82
James Still: Chinaberry
Celebrated as the ‚Dean of Appalachian Literature, ‚ James Still has won the appreciation of audiences in Appalachia and beyond for more than seventy years. The author of the classics River of Earth …
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€21.99
Amy D. Clark & Nancy M. Hayward: Talking Appalachian
Tradition, community, and pride are fundamental aspects of the history of Appalachia, and the language of the region is a living testament to its rich heritage. Despite the persistence of unflatterin …
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€32.99
Mary Ellen Miller & Morris Allen Grubbs: Every Leaf a Mirror
Jim Wayne Miller (1936–1996) was a prolific writer, a revered teacher and scholar, and a pioneer in the field of Appalachian studies. During his thirty-three-year tenure at Western Kentucky Universit …
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€27.99
Fenton Johnson: Crossing the River
A spirited Southern woman upends the insular world of her small Kentucky town in this acclaimed debut novel by "a storyteller of distinction" (Publishers Weekly).Kentucky, 1944. Though she …
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€19.01
Hal Crowther: Freedom Fighters and Hell Raisers
‚I don’t have any children, so I’ve decided to claim all the future freedom-fighters and hell-raisers as my kin, ‚ wrote journalist Molly Ivins. Ivins is one of the biggest hell-raisers profiled in t …
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€14.99
James Still: Chinaberry
Celebrated as the "Dean of Appalachian Literature, " James Still has won the appreciation of audiences in Appalachia and beyond for more than seventy years. The author of the classics River …
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€69.60
Amy D. Clark & Nancy M. Hayward: Talking Appalachian
Tradition, community, and pride are fundamental aspects of the history of Appalachia, and the language of the region is a living testament to its rich heritage. Despite the persistence of unflatterin …
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€209.29
Morris Allen Grubbs & Mary Ellen Miller: Every Leaf a Mirror
Jim Wayne Miller (1936–1996) was a prolific writer, a revered teacher and scholar, and a pioneer in the field of Appalachian studies. During his thirty-three-year tenure at Western Kentucky Universi …
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€239.69
Silas House & Jason Howard: Something’s Rising
Like an old-fashioned hymn sung in rounds, Something’s Rising gives a stirring voice to the lives, culture, and determination of the people fighting the destructive practice of mountaintop removal in …
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€43.99
Ouita Michel: Just a Few Miles South
For twenty years, diners in the Bluegrass have been able to satisfy their cravings for Ouita Michel’s sustainable, farm-to-table cuisine at her many acclaimed restaurants. Each restaurant—from Wallac …
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€26.99
Ouita Michel: Just a Few Miles South
For twenty years, diners in the Bluegrass have been able to satisfy their cravings for Ouita Michel’s sustainable, farm-to-table cuisine at her many acclaimed restaurants. Each restaurant—from Wallac …
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€26.99
Fenton Johnson: Crossing the River
Make no mistake: Martha Bragg Picket is a headstrong southern woman with a rebellious spirit, a characteristic her son Michael shares. Yet to see her after almost twenty years of marriage, it might n …
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€23.99
Sherry Robinson: Echo Her Lovely Bones
Much like the sturdy bones of the centuries-old house in Echo Her Lovely Bones, the women who inhabited its rooms are bound together through the letters they leave in the attic. In these letters …
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