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2012 AWA Book of the Year Nominees 


Appalachian Book of the Year Nominations

Fiction Nominees:

Be Still my Soul
,
by Joanne Bischof                         

A Place More Kind than Home
by Wiley Cash           
 

The Cove
by Ron Rash                      
                         
The Devil's Son: Cap Hatfield and the End of the Hatfield and McCoy Feud 
by
Anne Black Gray

Midwife of Hope River
by Patricia Harman            
 

The Dark Corner
by Mark Denise Frasier


Sherburn Stories
 by Rod (R. T.) Smith                    

The Hills Remember: The Complete Short Stories of James Still,
edited by Ted Olson


Hellbender
by Jason Jack Miller


Hills of Fire: Bare-Knuckle Yarns of Appalachia Edited
by Frank Larnerd


Poetry Nominees

She Let Herself Go: Poems,
by George Ella Lyon


Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place,
by bell hooks


Revelations,
by
Ted Olson


Blacksnake at the Family Reunion
by David Huddle


She Who is Like a Mare: Poems of Mary Breckinridge and the Frontier
Nursing
Service
by Karen Koprba


Nonfiction Nominees


A Few Honest Words: The Kentucky Roots of Popular Music,
by Jason Howard


Appalachian Travels: The Diary of Olive Dame Campbell,
edited by Elizabeth McCutchen Williams  

Mountains on the Markets: Industry, the Environment, and the South,
by Randal Hall


Helen Matthews Lewis: Living Social Justice in Appalachia,
by Helen Matthews Lewis, edited by Patricia D. Beaver and Judith
Jennings


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