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West Virginia University Press is the only university press, and the largest publisher of any kind, in the state of West Virginia. A part of West Virginia University, they publish books and scholarly journals by authors around the world, with a particular emphasis on Appalachian studies, history, higher education, the social sciences, and interdisciplinary books about energy, environment, and resources. They also publish works of fiction and creative nonfiction, and collaborate on innovative digital publications, notably West Virginia History: An Open Access Reader.

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Bede and Aethelthryth

An Introduction to Christian Latin Poetics

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2016
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The Rope Swing: Stories

West Virginia University Press, Vandalia Press
  • Copyright year: 2016
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My Radio Radio

West Virginia University Press, Vandalia Press
  • Copyright year: 2016
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Algerian Diary

Frank Kearns and the "Impossible Assignment" for CBS News

By Gerald Davis; Foreword by Tom Fenton
West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2016
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The Night I Freed John Brown

West Virginia University Press, Vandalia Press
  • Copyright year: 2016
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Folk-Songs of the South

Collected Under the Auspices of the West Virginia Folk-Lore Society

Edited by John Harrington Cox; Introduction by Alan Jabbour
West Virginia University Press

Folk-Songs of the South: Collected Under the Auspices of the West Virginia Folk-Lore Society is a collection of ballads and folk-songs from West Virginia. First published in 1925, this resource includes narrative and lyric songs that were transmitted orally, as well as popular songs from print sources. Through 186 ballads and songs and 26 folk tunes, this collection archives a range of styles and genres, from English and Scottish ballads to songs about the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, the opening of the American West, boat and railroad transportation, children’s play-party and dance music, and songs from African American singers, including post-Civil war popular music. The original introduction by Cox contains vibrant portraits of the singers he researched, with descriptions of performance style and details about personalities and attitudes. With a new introduction by Alan Jabbour, this reprint renews the importance of this text as a piece of scholarship, revealing Cox’s understanding of the workings of tradition across time and place and his influence upon folk-song research.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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Taming the Muskingum

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2014
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The Last Great Senator

Robert C. Byrd's Encounters with Eleven U.S. Presidents

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2015
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Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields

The Southern West Virginia Miners, 1880-1922 2nd Edition

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2015
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My Pulse Is an Earthquake

West Virginia University Press, Vandalia Press
  • Copyright year: 2015
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An American Phoenix

A History of Storer College from Slavery to Desegregation 1865-1955, Commemorative Edition

West Virginia University Press, Storer College Books
  • Copyright year: 2015
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Riding on Comets

A Memoir

West Virginia University Press, Vandalia Press
  • Copyright year: 2015
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Isidorean Perceptions of Order

The Exeter Book Riddles and Medieval Latin Enigmata

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2015
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Robert C. Byrd

Child of the Appalachian Coalfields

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2015
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Magnetic North

West Virginia University Press, Vandalia Press

In Magnetic North an aging warrior and his best friend—perhaps his only friend—ride motorcycles to Alaska, with the ultimate goal of riding to the Arctic Circle. It is a ride that mirrors their lives, a ride that causes old stories, old trials, old darkness to come, once again, through the spinning wheels of the machines they are riding.

Morgan is a man who can't give it up. His propensity toward violence has followed him through all the days of his life, and it follows him now.

Slade has shared much of Morgan's life, and he has been the one of the rare stabilizing factors in that life. Without Slade, it is clear that Morgan has no guidance, no goals, and no potential for living much longer than his next encounter with . . . almost anything.

And so the two old friends ride out from New Mexico and Colorado—heading north.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Cinco Becknell

West Virginia University Press, Vandalia Press
  • Copyright year: 2015
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Uncle Abner

Master of Mysteries

West Virginia University Press, West Virginia Classics

First published in 1918, Uncle Abner: Master of Mysteries is an anthology of detective stories written by Melville Davisson Post. The popular stories within this collection were serialized in national magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post in the early 20th century.

Uncle Abner is an amateur detective in present-day Harrison County, West Virginia. Throughout his journeys around this antebellum wilderness, long before the nation had a proper police system, the honest Uncle Abner is confronted by murders and mysteries that cannot be ignored. With uncanny intuition, impressive logic, and keen observation of human actions, Uncle Abner is Melville Davisson Post’s most celebrated literary creation and is considered to be one of the most important texts in American detective and crime fiction.

This new edition contains an introduction by Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire novels. 

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Stuttering Meets Sterotype, Stigma, and Discrimination

An Overview of Attitude Research

West Virginia University Press, West Virginia University
  • Copyright year: 2015
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