The coming of summer to Appalachia's Zebulon Mountain brings a blossoming in nature as well as in the lives of reclusive wildlife biologist Deanna Wolfe, young hunter Eddie Bondo, transplanted city-girl Lusa Landowski, and a pair of elderly, feuding neighbors.

"The Great Recession of 2008 left many young professionals out of work. Promising careers were suddenly ended as banks, hedge funds, and law firms engaged in mass lay-offs and brutal belt tightening. Samantha Kofer was a third year associate at Scully & Pershing, New York City's largest law firm. Two weeks after Lehman Brothers collapsed, she lost her job, her security, and her future. A week later she was working as an unpaid intern in a legal aid...

Based on true events, a young woman used to the finer things in life arrives in small town Appalachia in 1911 to help her formidable cousin combat adult illiteracy by opening moonlight schools--

A survey of the spiritual customs and traditions of the people of the southern highlands of Appalachia--

Text and illustrations explore the countryside and people of Appalachia.

Les, a longtime sheriff, is just weeks from retirement when he is forced to contend with the ravages of crystal meth-and his own corruption-in his small Appalachian town. Meanwhile, Becky, a park ranger with a harrowing past, finds solace amid the lyrical beauty of the North Carolina mountains. - Enduring the mistakes and tragedies that have indelibly marked them, they are drawn together by a reverence for the natural world. When an embittered elderly...

Ivy Rowe never strays far from her Virginia mountains, but through the years, the letters she writes take her on a journey of passion and wonder.

"Upends notions of family, protest, and Appalachia, and forces us to reimagine an America we think we know"--