A memoir by an award-winning poet describes her retreats to a primitive mountain cabin to write in solitude and find answers to life's big questions, describing how a fire forced her to reconcile her conflicting needs for isolation and community.

"Preacher has agreed to escort Barnaby Cooper through Dakota Territory's hills to establish a trading post. Accompanied by his friends Lorenzo and Tall Dog, the mountain man hopes they'll be able to protect Cooper from Sioux warriors who don't want any white man trespassing on their sacred grounds. But the Sioux aren't the only hostiles staking their claim in the region. Englishman Albion Shaw knows there's gold in the hills. And with a band of cutthroat...

In 1949, in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, Salina struggles to accept the inevitability of change--a highway cutting through farmland, a brother and sister starting their own lives, and nothing left in common with her best friend.

In 1955, thirteen-year-old Lyric finds her whole life changing when her family moves from the hills of Virginia to a town in Michigan and her older sister Summer begins descending into mental illness.

During the Civil War, a twelve-year-old Bowery Boy from New York City joins the Union Army as a drummer, deserts during a battle in Virginia, and encounters a hostile old mountain woman.

In order for big-city doctor Evan Gibbs to get the job of a lifetime, the workaholic single parent must spend his summer in the mountains of North Carolina setting up a clinic. Arriving in Dunn's Rock with his 10-year-old son, the doctor discovers what is most important to him and learns to enjoy the simple things in life.

Set in a Welsh settlement in 1850s Appalachia, a young girl becomes determined to find the sin eater after her grandmother's death.

While staying with her Aunt Millie in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky in the summer of 1934, Kit tries to discover who is sabotaging a visiting folklore researcher.

It is difficult to recover when hurt by those we love and trust, but in this second novel in the beloved Smoky Mountain Series, a young woman finds healing and new confidence while staying in a mountain cabin on the quiet side of the mountains. New Yorker Jenna Howell has spent many pleasant hours listening to her older neighbor, Sam Oliver, spin stories about his beloved home place on Orchard Hollow Road in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains....