Best Mountain Towns In West Virginia - April 2024

Waterfalls of Virginia & West Virginia: 174 Falls in the Old Dominion and the Mountain State (Best Waterfalls by State)

Find Your Way to the Most Beautiful Waterfalls Waterfalls create a feeling of serenity, a sense of restrained power. Their grandeur takes our breath away. Their gentle sounds complement periods of meditation. Let professional photographer and West Virginia resident Randall Sanger guide you to the top-ranked waterfalls of Virginia and West Virginia. Your bucket list should include these 174 gorgeous locales that decorate the landscape. The informative guidebook pairs professional photographs of every waterfall with all the information you need, including directions, distance, hike difficulty, a... [Read More]

• ASIN: 159193723X
• ASIN: 159193723X
• ISBN: 159193723X
• Brand: ADVENTURE PUBLICATIO
• Size: One Size
• Manufacturer: Adventure Publications

Ghost Towns of the West

Ghosts Towns of the West is filled with photographs, maps, history, and detailed directions to find the best ghost towns to linger in the wake of the Old West.Ghost Towns of the West blazes a trail through the dusty crossroads and mossy cemeteries of the American West, including one-time boomtowns in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. The book reveals the little-known stories of long-dead soldiers, indigenous peoples, settlers, farmers, and miners. Perfect for planning a road trip, each section covers a geographic area and ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0760350418
• ASIN: 0760350418
• ISBN: 0760350418
• Manufacturer: Voyageur Press

Wish You Well

• ASIN: 0446527165
• ASIN: 0446527165
• ISBN: 0446527165
• Brand: Grand Central Publishing
• Manufacturer: Warner Books

The Lady in the Lake: Camelot, West Virginia, Season 1, Episode 2 (Camelot West Virginia Season One)

A Tragic KingdomMayor Dreama Avalon still loves her little town of Camelot, but she doesn’t like it anymore. Not since the jobs went away, the drugs poured in, and hope for a brighter future died. Widowed since her twenties, Dreama doesn’t believe she’ll ever find a man to match her beloved Beau. So she dreams of revitalizing Camelot instead. But when local beauty Gwennie Pritchard turns up dead in Dreama’s lake and the chief of police goes missing, it’s up to Dreama to catch a killer.Roy Pendragon is a haunted man. All his life he’s tried to escape his vivid dreams of a world on f... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07NWZ4N8Y
• ASIN: B07NWZ4N8Y
• Manufacturer: Lyonnesse Books

Running on Red Dog Road: And Other Perils of an Appalachian Childhood

Publishers Weekly:  Berkheimer candidly brings her personality to the page in this incredible journey from naivete to wide-eyed maturity.  (April 2016)Library Journal:  Berkheimer's homespun memoir provides a wistful look back at a simpler time. An appealing counterbalance to more dreary war-era accounts.  (May 2016)"Mining companies piled trash coal in a slag heap and set it ablaze. The coal burned up, but the slate didn't. The heat turned it rose and orange and lavender. The dirt road I lived on was paved with that sharp-edged rock. We called it red dog. Grandma said, Don't you go run... [Read More]

• ASIN: B010R0I518
• ASIN: B010R0I518
• Manufacturer: Zondervan

Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains, Or, the Last Voice from the Plains An Authentic Record of a Life Time of Hunting, Trapping, Scouting and Indian Fighting in the Far West

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

• ASIN: B008472CO8
• ASIN: B008472CO8

Rose Hill Mystery Series Three-Book Collection: Books 1-3

This set includes: Rose Hill (Book 1), Morning Glory Circle (Book 2), and Iris Avenue (Book 3)Rose Hill is a small mountain town where everyone knows everyone else’s business. In this cozy mystery series, amateur female sleuths (also cousins) Maggie, Hannah, and Claire navigate the challenges of marriage, family, children, and nosy neighbors as they solve crimes and entertain each other. If you like small town cozy mysteries with a little humor and romance, you will love the Rose Hill mystery series.From readers: “I just happened upon this series and I am hooked. These three cousins are no... [Read More]

• ASIN: B074S8XT6P
• ASIN: B074S8XT6P

Strange as This Weather Has Been: A Novel

Set in present day West Virginia, Ann Pancake’s debut novel, Strange As This Weather Has Been, tells the story of a coal mining family—a couple and their four children—living through the latest mining boom and dealing with the mountaintop removal and strip mining that is ruining what is left of their mountain life. As the mine turns the mountains to slag and wastewater, workers struggle with layoffs and children find adventure in the blasted moonscape craters.Strange As This Weather Has Been follows several members of the family, with a particular focus on fifteen-year-old Bant and her mot... [Read More]

• ASIN: 159376166X
• ASIN: 159376166X
• ISBN: 159376166X
• Brand: Pancake, Ann
• Manufacturer: Shoemaker & Hoard

The Little House

• ASIN: 039525938X
• UPC: 046442259385
• ASIN: 039525938X
• ISBN: 039525938X
• Brand: HMH Books for Young Readers
• Manufacturer: HMH Books for Young Readers

Rocket Boys (The Coalwood Series #1)

The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that inspired the film October Sky, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir—a powerful, luminous story of coming of age at the dawn of the 1960s, of a mother's love and a father's fears, of a group of young men who dreamed of launching rockets into outer space . . . and who made those dreams come true.With the grace of a natural storyteller, NASA engineer Homer Hickam paints a warm, vivid portrait of the harsh West Virginia mining town of his youth, evoking a time of innocence and promise, when anything was possible, even in a company town that swal... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0385333218
• ASIN: 0385333218
• ISBN: 0385333218
• Brand: Delta
• Manufacturer: Delta

When Butterflies Cry: Book Three in the Based on True Stories Collection

Jealousy. Disaster. Hope. When the dam explodes, only a little girl who was never really there at all can save them.Grayson Addington comes home to Saddler Hollow, West Virginia, from Vietnam a broken man, ravaged by post traumatic stress syndrome, a chaplain who left his faith in the jungle mud with his massacred unit. In his absence, his wife, Piper, turned to his brother Carter for support. Now, she must choose between them—and Carter will stop at nothing to have her.And into this family torn apart by jealousy, greed and clan loyalties comes a mysterious little girl. Maggie, a battered ch... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00PZ6EW6W
• ASIN: B00PZ6EW6W

Brother

From the bestselling horror author of Within These Walls and The Bird Eater comes a terrifying novel that follows a teenager determined to break from his family’s unconventional—and deeply disturbing—traditions.Deep in the heart of Appalachia stands a crooked farmhouse miles from any road. The Morrows keep to themselves, and it’s served them well so far. When girls go missing off the side of the highway, the cops don’t knock on their door. Which is a good thing, seeing as to what’s buried in the Morrows’ backyard. But nineteen-year-old Michael Morrow isn’t like the rest of his ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00P42WZBG
• ASIN: B00P42WZBG
• Manufacturer: Gallery Books

Big Stone Gap: A Novel

• ASIN: 0345438329
• ASIN: 0345438329
• ISBN: 0345438329
• Brand: Ballantine Books
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

PIPELINE: A Novel

Waking up in Strong's Creek is culture shock enough until novice pastor Billy Upshur encounters a Frog Hollow "welcoming" reception. Rattled at first, Billy discovers it's all part of the fear an impending natural gas pipeline strikes in the hearts of people who feel victimized by an energy company behemoth. Billy soon learns the pipeline will destroy the home of a Cherokee healer, which is considered "sacred" property. A tree-sitting protest results in violence and increased anger. Volatile spring weather complicates things with unpredictable storms. Billy falls in love with Frog Hollow nativ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07H15SZDX
• ASIN: B07H15SZDX
• Manufacturer: WORDQUILT BOOKS

Miranda Warning (A Murder in the Mountains Book 1)

Meet Tess Spencer, the married sleuth readers say feels like a friend.Child of the Appalachian mountains, Tess Spencer has experienced more than her share of heartache. The Glock-wielding, knife-carrying housewife knows how to survive whatever life throws at her. But when an anonymous warning note shows up in her best friend Miranda’s mailbox—a note written in a dead woman’s handwriting—Tess quickly discovers that ghosts are alive and well in Buckneck, West Virginia. Hot on a cold trail, she must use limited clues and her keen insight into human nature to unmask the killer...or the nex... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00L0N6N7U
• ASIN: B00L0N6N7U
• Manufacturer: WoodHaven Press

Trick or Treat in West Virginia : A Halloween Adventure Through the Mountain State

An unexpected visitor arrives in town But who is he? What is he? Where did he come from? Readers will learn the answers to all these questions as they watch the mysterious visitor travel through

• UPC: 244201189

Mountain Fever: Words from West Virginia

A collection of short stories and poetry highlighting the emotional ups and downs of growing up in Appalachia. Old Appalachia remains defiant and poor, but always unique. Amber D. Tran's Mountain Fever illustrates this portrait

• UPC: 295526382
• Rating: 3.2

Mining Town Memories : Minden, West Virginia

Mining Town Memories: Minden, West

• UPC: 493586185

Mountain Voices : Illuminating the Character of West Virginia

Mountain Voices: Illuminating the Character of West

• UPC: 426505428

A Mountain Trail : To the Schoolroom, the Editor's Chair, the Lawyer's Office and the Governorship of West Virginia

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• UPC: 695363858

BACKCOUNTRY : CONTEMPORARY WRITING IN WEST VIRGINIA

This is as closely-knit an anthology as you are ever likely to see. It is as though a large, extended family were drawing on the same store of family stories, jokes, symbols, landscapes, animals, trees,

• UPC: 53685717
• Rating: 3.5

Possum Crossing : A Tale of a Place in West Virginia

You've heard the slogan "WV Almost Heaven." Possum Crossing is a story about what the narrator refers to as a "real" heaven here on earth. It is populated by mountaineers who are hardworking and patriotic

• UPC: 667160299

Thunder In the Mountains : The West Virginia Mine War, 1920–21

The West Virginia mine war of 1920-21, a major civil insurrection of unusual brutality on both sides, even by the standards of the coal fields, involved thousands of union and nonunion miners, state and private

• UPC: 25661494
• Rating: 5.0

West Virginia Ghost Stories, Legends, and Haunts

Discover the spookier side of West Virginia with over 85 ghost stories, legends, and haunts from Harpers Ferry, where Screaming Jenny still never outruns the trains, to Hatfield-McCoy Country where Devil Anse Hatfield rises from

• UPC: 595758011

Monsters of west virginia : mysterious creatures in the mountain state: 9780811710282

Find out about the bizarre creatures that live in West

• UPC: 17411143