Laura Wright

Appalachian Curiosities is a copious compendium of creatures, characters, crimes, and conundrums. Curiosities features information that most history books won't discuss. The volume highlights five central Appalachian states, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Kentucky, and West Virginia, with a strong focus on Southwestern Virginia and Northeastern Tennessee.

Dr. Jay was an esteemed physician in North Carolina, until addiction overtook him and he enacted one of the most heinous massacres in the history of the state. Edward Wentz, a Virginia mining magnate, disappeared in 1903. His body was found in 1904, but puzzling circumstances surrounding the case leaves researchers baffled even today. Is Virginia's Black Mountain really the Appalachian Bermuda Triangle? One Kentucky establishment is rumored to have its own "Portal to Hell." What are the facts behind the legend?

Curiosities proves there's no shortage of mysteries and wonders to be found, not just in history, but in the history of the Appalachians.

This volume contains a plethora of beautiful, and often humorous, vintage artwork from the author's own library.

Beyond the reaches of civilization, beyond the nearest town, deep in one of the darkest Appalachian Mountain hollows grew a very strange flower. As this unique species developed, she began to turn life into words. Surrounded by more trees than humans, the specimen spent years observing humanity. Years of solitude and isolation focused her voice into powerful works of life, love, obsession, grief, abuse, the paranormal, mysterious gypsies, and even pirates.

The Girl in the Trees is a vast compilation of some of the most obscure lyrics, prose, and verse by thriller author Laura Wright/L. Chambers Wright.

The Tri-Cities region encompasses three main cities, in two states, as well as numerous towns and villages. It has a combined population of around 500,000. This region is located among the central and southern Appalachian Mountains. It extends from Saltville, Virginia, through Unicoi County, Tennessee. Bizarre Tri-Cities is filled with folklore, true crime, oddities, discoveries, ghost stories, and historic events that have been forgotten by mainstream history books. It covers such topics as the Buchanan County Butcher, Bristol’s Axe Murderer, the Marble Hall Fiend, strange mines, vanishing plagues, disappearing Civil War battalions, the truth behind the Rotherwood legends, strange lights in the sky, and historic structures we have lost in time. History has never been more fascinating… or more bizarre.

Botanical Beauties offers a spectrum of gorgeous, vintage flowers for your papercraft. Whether you scrapbook, make junk journals, greeting cards, or whatever your papercraft, Botanical has the flower for you. The book is in full-color with 29 full page-sized images, 6 Full-Page Backgrounds, 45 medium, 12 small, and 41 fussy cut graphics. This book has been created, with crafters in mind, to disassemble and reuse in art projects.