Regional Authors

Every Tree is the Forest / Stories of the Seven-Headed Sewing Machine Flip Book (Paperback)

By Emoke B'Racz, Katalin Ladik, Townie New (Illustrator)

$17.95

ISBN: 9780965865722

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Published: Burning Bush Press of Asheville - March 1st, 2005

Emoke Z. B'Racz was born in Budapest Hungary in 1948, daughter of Magrit Imre B'Racz and Hungarian political activist, winner of The Officer's Cross of The Order of The Hungarian Republic Medal-of-Honor in 1991, Istvan B'Racz. She came to the U.S. in 1964. She is a poet, translator, and bookstore owner in Asheville, NC. Her first published translations from Hungarian were of Gyula Illyes and appeared in 1973 in the New York Quarterly. Stories of the Seven-Headed Sewing Machine came from a volume of collected poems which was published in Budapest in 1988.

Asheville: A History (Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies #19) (Paperback)

By Nan K. Chase

$29.95

ISBN: 9780786431762

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Published: McFarland & Company - July 25th, 2007

Asheville, North Carolina, grew from humble beginnings as a hamlet for local livestock handlers to become one of the most culturally and artistically diverse cities in the South. The city experienced a quick rise to prosperity in the late 19th century under the influence of wealthy benefactors including George W. Vanderbilt and E.W. Grove. A devastating downturn during the Great Depression was followed by slow economic revitalization up until the late 1970s. In the 1990s, however Asheville entered boom time, a period that reestablished the city as a popular retreat for tourists, artists, and retirees. Here in this book is all the fascinating history of Asheville, complete with a rich array of photographs. Multiple appendices reveal details concerning many lesser-known aspects of Asheville's unique history, including city buildings designed by architects Richard Sharp Smith and Douglas D. Ellington, and city projects funded by philanthropist Julian Price.

The Last Ballad: A Novel (Paperback)

By Wiley Cash

$15.99

ISBN: 9780062313126

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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - June 5th, 2018

Fate stamped Jack Cain's dance card years before his birth. His father, a photographer with Patton's third army, stumbles upon a children’s camp near the German town of Worms. In Camp Rainbow, situated on the former grounds of Hausser Pharmaceutical, he photographs young Gypsies, Slavs, Poles, and Jews being treated to comforts enjoyed only by privileged Germans. When he returns two weeks later, the camp has become a ghost town. Years later, the secret of this camp dies along with Jack’s father. The only remaining clue is a box of photographs. Years later, Jack is a forty-five-year-old surgeon whose life has become a slow funeral.