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1.
Fireflies, Glow-worms, and Lightning Bugs: Identification and Natural History of the Fireflies of the Eastern and Central United States and Canada (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books)
by:
Lynn Frierson Faust
4.74 avg rating β 39 ratings
2.
Witches, Ghosts, and Signs: Folklore of the Southern Appalachians
by:
Patrick W. Gainer
3.88 avg rating β 145 ratings
3.
Signs, Cures, and Witchery: German Appalachian Folklore
by:
Gerald C. Milnes
4.19 avg rating β 52 ratings
4.
The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales
by:
Ruth Ann Musick
4.17 avg rating β 487 ratings
5.
Women Who Run With the Wolves
by:
Clarissa Pinkola EstΓ©s
4.11 avg rating β 90,557 ratings
6.
Virginia Folk Legends
by:
Thomas E. Barden
3.64 avg rating β 47 ratings
7.
The Norse Myths
by:
Kevin Crossley-Holland
4.17 avg rating β 7,451 ratings
8.
Zen in the Art of Archery
by:
Eugen Herrigel
3.99 avg rating β 15,905 ratings
9.
The End of the Game
by:
Peter H. Beard
4.50 avg rating β 127 ratings
10.
The Power of Myth
by:
Joseph Campbell
4.26 avg rating β 53,107 ratings
11.
The Sacred Art of Hunting: Myths, Legends and the Modern Mythos
by:
James A. Swan
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 15 ratings
12.
Wildwoods Wisdom: Encounters With the Natural World
by:
Douglas B. Elliott
4.37 avg rating β 19 ratings
13.
Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History
by:
Dan Flores
4.09 avg rating β 7,200 ratings
14.
Ginseng Diggers: A History of Root and Herb Gathering in Appalachia
by:
Luke Manget
3.96 avg rating β 47 ratings
15.
The Ginseng Hunter
by:
Jeff Talarigo
3.64 avg rating β 966 ratings
16.
The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing; Log Cabin Building; Mountain Crafts and Foods; Planting by the Signs; Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing
by:
Eliot Wigginton
4.35 avg rating β 1,874 ratings
17.
Foxfire 2: Ghost stories, spring wild plant foods, spinning and weaving, midwifing, burial customs, corn shuckin's, wagon making, and more affairs of plain living
by:
Eliot Wigginton
4.32 avg rating β 887 ratings
18.
Foxfire 3
by:
Eliot Wigginton
4.35 avg rating β 617 ratings
19.
Foxfire 4
by:
Eliot Wigginton
4.39 avg rating β 451 ratings
20.
Foxfire 5
by:
Eliot Wigginton
4.46 avg rating β 382 ratings
21.
Foxfire 6
by:
Foxfire Fund Inc.
4.45 avg rating β 312 ratings
22.
Foxfire 7
by:
Paul F. Gillespie
4.52 avg rating β 265 ratings
23.
Foxfire 8: Southern Folk Potter from Pug Mills, Ash Glazes, Groundhog Kilns to Face Jugs, Churns, Roosters, Mule Swapping and Chicken Fighting (Foxfire Series)
by:
Eliot Wigginton
4.52 avg rating β 224 ratings
24.
Foxfire 9: General Stores, The Jud Nelson Wagon, A Praying Rock, A Catawban Indian Potter, Haint Tales, Quilting, Homes Cures, The Log Cabin Revisited (Foxfire Series)
by:
Foxfire Fund Inc.
4.51 avg rating β 269 ratings
25.
Foxfire 10: Railroad Lore, Boardinghouses, Depression-Era Appalachia, Chairmaking, Whirligigs, Snake Canes, Gourd Art (Foxfire Series)
by:
Eliot Wigginton
4.56 avg rating β 184 ratings
26.
Foxfire 11: The Old Home Place, Wild Plant Uses, Preserving and Cooking Food, Hunting Stories, Fishing, More Affairs of Plain Living (Foxfire Series)
by:
Foxfire Fund Inc.
4.42 avg rating β 258 ratings
27.
Foxfire 12: War Stories, Cherokee Traditions, Summer Camps, Square Dancing, Crafts, and More Affairs of Plain Living
by:
Kaye Carver Collins
4.51 avg rating β 162 ratings
28.
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
by:
C.G. Jung
4.17 avg rating β 37,274 ratings
29.
An Island Out of Time: A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake
by:
Tom Horton
3.98 avg rating β 201 ratings
30.
Legends and Lore of the Hudson Highlands
by:
Jonathan Kruk
3.92 avg rating β 13 ratings
31.
Legends and Lore of Sleepy Hollow and the Hudson Valley
by:
Jonathan Kruk
3.90 avg rating β 115 ratings
32.
Under the Witching Tree: A Folk Grimoire of Tree Lore and Practicum
by:
Corinne Boyer
4.58 avg rating β 79 ratings
33.
Virginia Beach Shipwrecks
by:
Alpheus J. Chewning
3.80 avg rating β 10 ratings
34.
Haunted Virginia Beach
by:
Alpheus J. Chewning
3.75 avg rating β 52 ratings
35.
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
by:
Nathaniel Philbrick
4.16 avg rating β 115,986 ratings
36.
Ghosts, Witches & Weird Tales Of Virginia Beach
by:
Lillie Gilbert
3.40 avg rating β 15 ratings
37.
The Approaching Storm: U-Boats Off the Virginia Coast During World War II
by:
Alpheus J. Chewning
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
38.
Virginia Beach in Vintage Postcards (VA) (Postcard History Series)
by:
Alpheus J. Chewning
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 5 ratings
39.
Swanfall: Journey of the Tundra Swan
by:
Tom Horton
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 3 ratings
40.
Choptank Odyssey: Celebrating a Great Chesapeake River
by:
Tom Horton
3.50 avg rating β 2 ratings
41.
Chesapeake: Bay of Light: An Exploration of the Chesapeake Bay's Wild and Forgotten Places
by:
Tom Horton
4.33 avg rating β 3 ratings
42.
Bay Country
by:
Tom Horton
3.68 avg rating β 34 ratings
43.
Turning the Tide: Saving the Chesapeake Bay
by:
Tom Horton
3.78 avg rating β 23 ratings
44.
Hunting for Hope: A Father's Journeys
by:
Scott Russell Sanders
3.84 avg rating β 243 ratings
45.
The 48 Laws of Power
by:
Robert Greene
4.10 avg rating β 210,240 ratings
46.
The Journals of Constant Waterman: Paddling, Poling, and Sailing for the Love of It
by:
Matthew Goldman
4.57 avg rating β 7 ratings
47.
The General History of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles V1: Together with the True Travels, Adventures, Observations and a Sea Grammar (1907)
by:
John Smith
2.90 avg rating β 59 ratings
48.
Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown
by:
Helen C. Rountree
3.98 avg rating β 128 ratings
49.
The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America
by:
Scott Weidensaul
4.07 avg rating β 1,013 ratings
50.
Tracking Humans: A Fundamental Approach To Finding Missing Persons, Insurgents, Guerrillas, And Fugitives From The Law
by:
David DΓaz
3.98 avg rating β 51 ratings
51.
Animal Magnetism: My Life with Creatures Great and Small
by:
Rita Mae Brown
3.50 avg rating β 399 ratings