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Booklist and Notes George Brosi Bush, Florence Cope. Doric: Woman of the Mountains. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992. 240 pages with 40 illustrations and an afterword by Durwood Dunn. Hardback. $24.95. Trade paperback, $10.95. This is the author's biography of her mother, Dorie Woodruff Cope, who was born in 1899 on a farm within the present-day borders of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The book tells of Dorie's early farm life, her marriage to a logger, and their migration to cities in search of work. It makes a particularly useful nonfiction companion to lair and, Tender Ladies, Lee Smith's fictional account of a strong mountain woman living over almost the exact same span of time. Like Smith's Ivy Rowe, Dorie Woodruff Cope is a sensitive woman whose working-class life is enriched by a deep appreciation of nature. "An engaging and useful work history of an Appalachian family that avoids historical truisms and will challenge some stereotypes."—Michael J. McDonald, University of Tennessee. Coyne, John. Child of Shadows. New York: Warner, 1991. 321 pages. Reprint of a 1990 release. Mass-market paperback. $4.99. In this story, a New York social worker flees the city with a homeless boy named Adam. In their sanctuary in the North Carolina mountains, the boy becomes the Chosen One of a religious cult. "The taut narrative is penetrated by a pervasive aura of evil. Sinister horror fiction in the tradition of Stephen Bang."—Booklist. "Coyne goes as far as you can go . . . and then takes it a mile further."—Stephen King. Dawson, Fielding. The Black Mountain Book. Rocky Mount, North Carolina: North Carolina Wesleyan College Press, 1991. New edition of a 1970 book. 249 pages, illustrated. Trade paperback. $15.95. George Brosi is the proprietor of a business called Appalachian Mountain Books and publishes a periodical by that same name twelve times a year. He sells books, both new and out-of-print, through the mail and brings a display ofbooksfor sale to regional events. His address is Appalachian Mountain Books, Route 2, Box 238, Whittier, North Carolina 28789. His phone number is 704-586-5319. 73 Black Mountain College was a small experimental college that was founded in 1933 and folded in 1957. It was located near Black Mountain, North Carolina, a small town just east of Asheville. The college was coed, interracial, and faculty-owned, with no board of trustees. Many of the most outstanding innovative artists and writers of its era were connected with the college as students, faculty members, or visitors. This book, more than doubled in size since its first edition twenty years ago, is simply a collage of documents. Together they give a feel for the place in a way which is as disorganized and chaotic yet also as artistic and stimulating as the college itself was. Finger, John R. Cherokee Americans: The Eastern Band of Cherokees in the Twentieth Century. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991. 247 pages, illustrated with an index and bibliographic essay. Hardback. $35.00. John Finger's earlier book, The Eastern Band of Cherokees: 1819-1900, is widely regarded as the definitive history of the Eastern Band from the time of the Removal of most of the eastern Cherokees to Oklahoma until the turn of the century. This companion volume completes the story, bringing it up to contemporary times. "An important contribution to the fields of Native American studies, history and anthropology. Finger writes well, and his documentation is scrupulous."—Theda Perdue, University of Kentucky. Hiscoe, Helen B. Appalachian Passage. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991. 321 pages, illustrated with photographs. Hardback. $29.95. Ms. Hiscoe prepared this book by relying on her memory and referring to the diary she kept when, right after graduating from Vassar, she came to Wyoming County, West Virginia, with her husband, who served for a year as the company doctor in a coal camp. It presents a well-written account of life in the coalfields forty years ago from the perspective of an outsider who was quite sympathetic and always seeking deeper understanding. It illuminates many aspects of life at that time and place, from health practices to...