![]() ![]() She is an ordained deacon in the Episcopal Church and lives in Charleston, West Virginia. Make sure you take the time to follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Denise Giardina is the author of Storming Heaven, Emily's Ghost, and Saints and Villains, which won the Boston Book Review Prize. Virginia Slavery and King Salt in Booker T. In 1921, an army of 10,000 unemployed pro-union coal miners took up arms and threatened to overthrow the governments of two West Virginia counties. She grew up in a coal camp and has produced an epic that is mostly unknown. The Telltale Lilac Bush and other West Virginia Ghost Tales by Ruth Ann Musick Storming Heaven and The Unquiet Earth are historical novels about the often violent efforts of coal operators to keep miners in West Virginia from forming a union. ![]() Strange as This Weather Has Been by Ann Pancake In the Language of Miracles by Rajia Hassib And keep supporting local by browsing Taylor Books online bookstore for their bestsellers and regional reads! ![]() Introduce the kids to an old friend, Shiloh, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. Now’s a good time to read all the Mountain State classics you’ve been meaning to get around to, like Homer Hickam’s Rocket Boys (an anagram for October Sky, the movie it inspired) and Denise Giardina’s Storming Heaven. ![]()
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