'Moving Mountains' wins Foreword's prize for best environmental book

A panel of librarians and book sellers has awarded “Moving Mountains”  a Bronze Award in the environment book category for 2007.

The award is from the highly-competitive contest ran by Foreword, a magazine that endeavors to put independently published books on equal terms with those from the trade press.
 
 The magazine provides book reviews and promotions to librarians and book sellers, both in the United States and around the world.

Published by University of Kentucky Press, “Moving Mountains” is written by Virginia resident  Penny Loeb, a former senior editor at U.S. News & World Report and a former investigative reporter for Newsday.

Loeb spent nine years chronicling the triumphs and setbacks of people in the West Virginia coalfields--people caught between the economic opportunities provided by coal and the detriments to health and to quality of life that are so often the by-products of the coal industry. The result of her work is an account of the human and environmental costs of coal extraction, and the inspirational grassroots crusade to mitigate those costs.

She has received numerous awards for journalism and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 and for a National Magazine Award in 1993 and 1997.

The book is published by the University Press of Kentucky and is available from the Press, on Amazon and in bookstores.

Go online at www.kentuckypress.com for more information.