Sarah Goodwin can hardly wait for her first year of school to begin. "I'll have a girlfriend at last," she thinks. But when she reaches the one-room schoolhouse

A Cherokee chief chooses his successor by asking three candidates to climb a mountain, thus testing their character and strength.

Higher Than Yonder Mountain is Deany Brady's second memoir, following her well-received childhood memoir An Appalachian Childhood. Yonder Mountain reveals the a

Originally released in 1932, Wayman Hogue's Back Yonder is a rare and entertaining memoir of life in rural Arkansas during the decades follow- ing the Civil War

Published to wide acclaim in April 2008 in the US, Wurlitzer's fifth novel, his first in 25 years, furthers the author's exploration of the American West and th