Becky Hatcher Crabtree Libros

Penelope Ann Davis suffers a childhood of abuse at the hands of her older brother before she runs away on graduation night. She escapes on a bus headed north from her home in Atlanta and ends up on a mountain farm in southern West Virginia. There she establishes a happy, contented life as Stella for the next three decades. Then, out of the blue, her brother shows up in front of her church and her life starts to unravel: church money goes missing, her best friend is found dead, and a new church member is in desperate financial straits. Her brother discovers her identity and she faces imminent danger. Underlying the action is wry mountain humor and a tender love story between Stella and an Alaskan Inupiaq man with some mysterious circumstances of his own.

Second in series of Appalachian woman, Hung Over with Grandma continues the love story of Stella and Jonas, her Inupiat boyfriend from Alaska. His mother suffering the start of dementia, and her brother awaiting trial for murder, create a bumpy road. See commonalities in Appalachia and rural Alaska: love of nature, independent thinking, and humor.

Pick Your Poison builds on the first two novels of the series, Drunk on Peace and Quiet and Hung Over with Grandma , but all the reader really needs to know is Stella and Jonas are middle-aged newlyweds who are plagued by Stella's troubled brother Timmy Lee. In this sequel, Stella and Jonas face a new obstacle, a huge unwanted natural gas pipeline crossing their mountain farm. At the same time, her brother, a suspected murderer, is pretending to be a preacher at a sunny beach town in South Carolina and is targeting a wealthy woman who lives in a nursing home there. The two plots intersect in a conclusion that features Stella's usual pragmatic decision-making. She 'picks her poison' in a way that the reader may not expect.

Biography of Henry Lake Dickason documents the life of the first president of Bluefield State College, WV. Dr. Dickason was an early 20th century leader of Black education. He rose above racial inequities and personal tragedies to hold the door open for others to have better opportunities, guided by his father's words, "Try and be somebody."

Beautifully illustrated and with charming detail, this book documents fifty-nine houses and public structures of builder John Campbell Miller primarily in southwestern Monroe County, West Virginia, which were constructed between 1886 and 1923. They range from the high Victorian Queen Anne style to the twentieth century Colonial Revival and Craftsman styles, and many are elegant farmhouses that stand out from the bucolic landscape. Readers gain a glimpse of the era when large farming families were the norm and horse-drawn wagons were giving way to motorized vehicles. Organized by community, this book contains over two hundred photographs, roughly half of which are vintage, and a text that covers the stylistic elements as well as the family stories of each. These details have been resurrected through visits and interviews with current residents as well as from the files of the Monroe County Historical Society. The identification of Miller's buildings is based on a list and photo file maintained over the last hundred years by generations of his family.