Blue Ridge Traditions Marketplace - Books of fiction set in Virginia or the Blue Ridge Region

FICTION

Patches on the Same Quilt Becky Mushko This charming book is a series of related stories relayed by six generations of a rural Virginia family. Their homes, lives, relationships, wars, losses, and horses are lovingly portrayed by an author who lives in the country and loves horses, history, and all things Virginian. An entertaining and informative set of stories. Paperback, 173 pages. Qty: ~~$14~~ $6.00	Shine Rodger Doss Lively, fictitious account of the lives of moonshiners in Franklin County, VA. Paperback, 154 pages. Qty: ~~$15~~ $9.00	Girl Who Raced Mules Becky Musko Short stories of rural Virginia life as crafted by award-winning Virginia author Becky Mushko. Paperback, 132 pages. Qty: ~~$11~~ $7.95
Where There's a Will Eight stories set in rural Virginia from 1950’s through 1970’s featuring youngsters and lessons learned about life. The book includes Study Guides based on the Virginia 6th grade Standards of Learning. Paperback, 91 pages. Qty: ~~$10~~ $5.95	The Old Family Farm, from Life 100 Years Ago George Grier Fictitious, illustrated with photos and graphics this very detailed view of life on a family farm in northern Maryland a century ago, reads like a family almanac full of wisdom, covering the life of a boy, George Shaffer, and his extended family from his young years though his late teens. The book consists of brief sections on such things as chestnuts, ice houses, farm buggies, one-room schools, chores, equipment, the dinner bell, outhouses, butter churns, mills, country stores, blacksmiths, funerals, and just about every other thing, activity, place, and event that would have been part of a farm boy’s life long ago. A delightful book for children, as well. Large Paperback, 149 pages. 8 x 10 Qty: $14.95	Blackberries, Blackberries Crystal E. Wilkinson Eighteen stories, described by the author as: “...from the ordinary. From black, country women with curious lives. From struggle, from fear, from love, from life, from the gut, from the heart. Black and juicy, just like a blackberry.” Southern lives beautifully written by a young Kentucky writer. Paperback, 180 pages. Qty: ~~$15~~ $7.95
The Cistern K. Kamal Ayyildiz Turkish-American poet K. Kamal Ayyildiz wanders the streets of Istanbul searching for the clues to his Turkish identity. And as he wanders he listens to the songs these districts sing to him. These are the lullabies of his father and his father's people and the melodies that course through his being. His nineteen poems arrest us with their evocative language and we, the reader, identify with the poet as we also find the unique essence of our own inner selves. The Cistern has been nominated by the Virginia Library Association for Best Poetry by a Virginia Author 2004. Hardcover, 63 pages. Qty: $10.00	Georgianna Fay L. Logan A story about the challenges faced by a poor, rural southwestern Virginia woman and her family at the turn of the 19th century and on into the middle of the 2oth. Written as if dictated by a member of the family, the style is not fancy, but the story is unforgettable. Paperback, 388 pages. Qty: ~~$24~~ $8.00	Follow the River James Alexander Thom This thrilling account of the capture and escape of Mary Draper Ingles in 1755, taken by the Shawnee in a violent raid on the first white settlement west of the Blue Ridge (Draper’s Meadow), is part history, part fiction, as Thom tried to reconstruct her days in the wilderness. A page-turner! [Her great-granddaughters, Margaret and Virginia Saunders Hale married the builder of The Grove, the old tobacco plantation mansion in Rocky Mount, VA (where the Blue Lady Bookshop and Blue Ridge Traditions Marketplace originate)] Paperback, 406 pages. Qty: $7.99
Moving Day Ibby Greer A novel made up entirely of letters written from the main character and Boulder, CO, resident, Ann C. Bow, to her family and friends in one year, this novel received praise from Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, author pf “A Woman of Independent Means,” another epistolary novel by another graduate of Hollins College in Virginia. Ann Bow, a widow of 74, is a spiritual woman who has to face change, loss, grief, and modern life. Humor, mellow reflection, and an artistic personality characterize the subject of this fictitious book. Hardcover, 167 pages. Qty: ~~$24~~ $10.00	Nichole Simone Poirier-Bures In this unique blend of memoir and autobiographical fiction, Poirire-Bures chronicles what it was like to come of age in Halifax in the 1950s. Softcover, 143 pages. Qty: $7.00