Since the 2016 presidential election, Americans have witnessed countless stories about Appalachia: its changing political leanings, its opioid crisis, its increasing joblessness, and its declining population. These stories, however, largely ignore black Appalachian lives. Karida L. Brown's Gone Home offers a much-needed corrective to the current whitewashing of Appalachia. In telling the stories of African Americans living and working in Appalachian coal towns, Brown offers a sweeping look at race, identity, changes in politics and policy, and black migration in the region and beyond. Drawn from over 150 original oral history interviews with former and current residents of Harlan County, Kentucky, Brown shows that as the nation experienced enormous transformation from the pre- to the post-civil rights era, so too did black Americans. In reconstructing the life histories of black coal miners, Brown shows the mutable and shifting nature of collective identity, the struggles of labor and representation, and that Appalachia is far more diverse than you think.

Building on the success of "May I Walk You Home?," this collection of stories helps readers navigate the bewildering landscape of grief. The authors reflect on their own stories of loss, as well as those of others, and offer meditations to assist readers through some of the more difficult issues that come with the loss of a loved one.

Shirley Jackson meets "The X-Files" in this riveting novel of supernatural horror.

Portia and her cousin Julian discover adventure in a hidden colony of forgotten summer houses on the shores of a swampy lake.

Meet Sweetness, who has saved an abandoned baby and held up a convenience store, both on the same day. And Starr, who arrives on her Day-Glo orange bicycle to baby-sit for a summer -- and changes a family forever. And Victor, who cannot hear but sees clearly that his brother and sister will soon learn to fly. In 12 taut, emotional stories, Angela Johnson explores the hardship, hope, and surprising acts of compassion in the lives of young people gone from home.

These are accounts from the journeys of former Christians-including some Clergy-who left the churches they grew up in and came over to Paganism and the Goddess. Why? The idea and title for this anthology was conceived in a hot tub over 20 years ago, after an interfaith conference, where several of us Pagans were sharing our stories of how we found (or were found by...) the Goddess...and could never go back. Thirty deeply personal-and often heart-rending-accounts are bracketed by introductory material and Appendices to provide background, history and context for the emergence of an alternative religious paradigm that is now one of the world's fastest-growing faith categories... Oberon Zell is a renowned Elder in the global magickal community. In 1967 he was the first to claim the identity of "Pagan." Incorporating the first Pagan Church of All Worlds, and publishing Green Egg magazine since 1968, Oberon has been instrumental in the coalescence of the modern Pagan movement. He is also Founder and Headmaster of the online Grey School of Wizardry. Phaedra Bonewits has been a practicing psychic and Witch for more than forty years, teaching and leading rituals from coast to coast. Her articles have appeared in many periodicals and with her late husband she co-authored Real Energy: Systems, Spirits, and Substances to Heal, Change, and Grow (New Page, 2007). She has also been the editor behind the curtain for other Pagan books.

From a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, a ferociously intimate story of a family facing the ultimate question: how far will we go to save the people we love the most? When Margaret's fiancée, John, is hospitalized for depression in 1960s London, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans despite what she now knows of his condition, or back away from the suffering it may bring her. She decides to marry him. Imagine Me Gone is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith. At the heart of it is their eldest son, Michael, a brilliant, anxious music fanatic who makes sense of the world through parody. Over the span of decades, his younger siblings -- the savvy and responsible Celia and the ambitious and tightly controlled Alec -- struggle along with their mother to care for Michael's increasingly troubled and precarious existence. Told in alternating points of view by all five members of the family, this searing, gut-wrenching, and yet frequently hilarious novel brings alive with remarkable depth and poignancy the love of a mother for her children, the often inescapable devotion siblings feel toward one another, and the legacy of a father's pain in the life of a family. With his striking emotional precision and lively, inventive language, Adam Haslett has given us something rare: a novel with the power to change how we see the most important people in our lives. "Haslett is one of the country's most talented writers, equipped with a sixth sense for characterization"-Wall Street Journal "Ambitious and stirring . . . With Imagine Me Gone , Haslett has reached another level."-New York Times Book Review