Product Description: Eureka Mill tells the story of Carolina cotton mill workers through poetry. Clemson, S.C., poet Ron Rash follows the migrations of Appalachian mountain farmers to Piedmont mill villages. Following the blood-memory of his parents and grandparents, Rash tells the human stories of cotton mill life: long hours, low pay, loss of self-sufficiency...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Raising the Dead is Ron Rash's third book of poetry. The overall theme is loss, both the social loss from the disappearance of communities due to the external effects of technology, and the personal loss from the death of a family member...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The sheriff of a small town in the southern Appalachian region, Will Alexander is determined to prove that local thug Holland Winchester has been murdered, despite the lack of a body or a witness to the crime, in a novel told through the disparate voices of the characters. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

Spanning the entire twentieth century, a collection of short stories, set against the backdrop of Appalachia, chronicles the struggle of rural communities with the changes of the modern world, capturing the collision between the Old and New South in the lives of the region's inhabitants. Original. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton arrive in North Carolina to create a timber empire. Although George has already lived in the camp long enough to father an illegitimate child, Serena is new to the mountains―but she soon shows herself to be the equal of any worker, overseeing crews, hunting rattlesnakes, even saving her husband's life in the wilderness...read more

Maggie Glenn, a newspaper photographer sent to cover an incident in her home town, becomes caught in the middle of the conflict, opening old wounds and forcing her to revisit a past she wanted to leave behind.

Rooted in places like Watauga County, Goshen Creek, and Dismal Mountain, the poems in Ron Rash's fourth collection, Waking, electrify dry counties and tobacco fields until they sparkle with the rituals and traditions of Southerners in the stir of their lives.In his first book of poetry in nearly a decade, Rash leads his readers on a Southern odyssey, full of a terse wit and a sense of the narrative so authentic it will dazzle you. As we wake inside these poems, we see rivers wild with trout, lightning storms, and homemade churches, nailed and leaning against the side of a Tennessee mountain. A two-time PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist, Rash has been compared to writers like John Steinbeck and Cormack McCarthy. With his eye for the perfect detail and an ear for regional idiom, Rash furthers his claim as the new torchbearer for literature in the American South.Here is a book full of sorrow and redemption, sparseness and the beauty of a single, stark detail - the muskellunge at first light, a barn choked with curing tobacco, a porch full of men and the rockers that move over the same spot until they carve their names into the ground, deeper, even, into the roots where myths start, into the very marrow of the world.

Product Description: Set in the border states of Kansas and Missouri, WOE TO LIVE ON explores the nature of lawlessness and violence, friendship and loyalty, through the eyes of young recruit Jake Roedel. Where he and his fellow First Kansas Irregulars go, no one is safe, no one can be neutral...read more

Product Description: Set in the border states of Kansas and Missouri, WOE TO LIVE ON explores the nature of lawlessness and violence, friendship and loyalty, through the eyes of young recruit Jake Roedel. Where he and his fellow First Kansas Irregulars go, no one is safe, no one can be neutral...read more

A New York Times Bestselling Author -- Deep in the Appalachians of North Carolina lies the cove -- a dark, forbidding place where spirits and fetches wander. The townsfolk of Mars Hill that Laurel, the young woman who lives there, is a witch. Alone except for a brother newly returned from the war in France, Laurel aches for her life to begin. Then it happens -- a stranger appears, carrying only a silver flute and a note saying that his name is Walter, he is mute, and he is bound for New York.

Product Description: The New York Times bestselling author of Serena--the basis of the fall 2014 movie starring Academy Award winner Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper--illuminates lives shaped by violence, passion, and a powerful connection to the land in this haunting tale set in contemporary Appalachia...read more

Product Description: From the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of Serena and The Cove come thirty of his finest short stories, collected in one volume.No one captures the complexities of Appalachia--a rugged, brutal landscape of exquisite beauty--as evocatively and indelibly as author and poet Ron Rash...read more

Product Description: NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING NOAH WYLE, JEREMY IRVINE, MINKA KELLY, ADELAIDE CLEMENS, STEVE EARLE, AND HALEY JOEL OSMENT."ONE OF THE MAJOR WRITERS OF OUR TIME." -- THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTIONTravis Shelton is seventeen the summer he wanders into the woods onto private property outside his North Carolina hometown, discovers a grove of marijuana large enough to make him some serious money, and steps into the jaws of a bear trap...read more

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A New York Times bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist, Serena by award-winning author Ron Rash is ""masterfully written, sprawling, engrossing and--from time to time--nightmarish,"" (San Francisco Chronicle); a remarkable novel that ""recalls both John Steinbeck and Cormac McCarthy,"" (The New Yorker)...read more

Product Description: The Shark's Tooth is a poetic tale of imagination and conservation in which a young girl visiting her grandparents' beach house finds friendship with the ocean's creatures. Sharks' teeth are given to her by her new aquatic friends as gifts, symbolic of her connections to nature and the sea...read more

Product Description: A collection of haunting lyricism that evokes the beauty and hardship of the rural South, by a revered American master of letters—the award-winning, bestselling author of the novels Serena, Something Rich and Strange, and Above the Waterfall...read more