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Hatteras summers
On the sea's edge in North Carolina lies an isolated, idyllic village that shaped a boy’s life.Nestled along the stunning coast of North Carolina’s Outer Banks, Hatteras Village is more than just a location—it’s a part of Buddy Swain’s heart. This tight-knit, isolated community served as his summ...
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The curious calling of leonard bush
WINNER of the Willie Morris Award for Southern FictionYoung Leonard Bush buries his lost leg and saves his whole East Tennessee town in this winsome and miracle-making novel.When twelve-year-old Leonard Bush loses his leg in a freak accident, he decides to give his leg a proper burial in the hill...
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Sweetwater mass
A powerful and innovative debut collection—the first in the new Polaris Poetry Series—that captures the rhythms of Black girlhood as it navigates the spaces between city and southern roots. Through poems rooted in Hoodoo spirituality and the author’s Gullah Geechee heritage, Shakeema Smalls’s Swe...
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Nags headers
A lively history of the historic beach cottages on the Outer Banks and the families that have inhabited them.Nags Head’s Historic Cottage Row District—on the National Register of Historic Places—stretches a mile along North Carolina’s Outer Banks, forming a pattern of angles and lines the color o...
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My hungry ghosts
In this collection of timely essays and incantations, award-winning author May-lee Chai explores the intersection of world history and her own—feeding herself and her ghosts in the process.Drawing upon the traditional Chinese Daoist and Buddhist concept of hungry ghosts, May-lee Chai writes about...
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New stories from the south 2026
A revival of the iconic anthology of best Southern short stories featuring eminent and emerging voices.This anthology marks the much-anticipated return of the annual story collection, New Stories from the South, gathering outstanding short stories written by Southern writers or about the American...
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Honor
Based on a true story, Honor unravels the murder of a young woman within the harrowing world of organized crime in 1920s Baltimore.In her debut novel, A. B. Dozier delivers a fresh and compelling take on the old story of misogyny and organized crime. Honor shines a light on the machinations of th...
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Guilt ledger
Winner of the Wren Poetry Prize selected by Sandra Beasley, Guilt Ledger is Ross White’s sophomore poetry collection.In Guilt Ledger, money is a weight, a wound, and a reckoning. Opening amid the fallout of the savings and loan scandal of the late 1980s, this collection maps the complex and corro...
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Succory
Second book to be published in the Carolina Wren Press Chapbook Series.
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All we know of pleasure
A groundbreaking anthology of well-known female poets that broadens traditional notions of erotic poetry.
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A half-red sea
Full-length collection of poems by Evie Shockley featuring a special fold-out page for the poem "a thousand words."
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In this paradise
Part of a chapbook sequence, In This Paradise: Terra Lucida XXI-XL is the fifth chapbook in the Carolina Wren Press Chapbook Series.
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Foreign bodies
Collection of poetry by Sandra Becker.
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The north carolina alphabet book
An alphabet book illustrated by Pamela George and calligraphed by Walter Brown. Teaches letter-recognition and facts about North Carolina.
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Conjure blues
Poetry collection by Jaki Shelton Green
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The flying days
Second book in the Carolina Wren Press Poetry Laureate series.
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Piece logic
Third chapbook in the Carolina Wren Press Chapbook Series.
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Dead on arrival
Debut poetry collection by Jaki Shelton Green.
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Startling
A collection of lyric and experimental poems and poem-series about cancer, birth, and love.
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Far sides of the only world
Fourth book published in the Carolina Wren Press Chapbook Poetry series.
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Letters lost and found
In 1945, a fifteen-year-old North Carolina farm girl and a sixteen-year-old Liverpool schoolboy begin a 50-year-long correspondence.
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The book of ystwyth
Work by six American and British poets--three men, three women--who find inspiration in the art of Clive Hick-Jenkins.
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Little domesday clock
19th book in the Carolina Wren Press Poetry Series.
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Aviaries
Debut poetry collection chosen by Minnie Bruce Pratt as winner of the Carolina Wren Press Poetry Series prize.
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White boots
A compendium of poems about the Western United States by the esteemed poet William Pitt Root
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Crowns of charlotte
Part of Lee Ann Brown's tripartite series, NC Ode.
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Binary stars
Winning poetry collection for the 2016 Carolina Wren Press Poetry Series contest from former Stegner Fellow Dana Koster
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Living above the frost line
Poetry collection, the first in the Laureate Series, which features manuscripts chosen by past or present North Carolina Poets Laureate.
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Matching skin
A second collection of poetry by Shirlette Ammons, poet and musician, which also includes the music CD "John Anonymous."
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Breath of the song
A long-awaited compendium of selections from Green's previous books as well as many new poems, including her response to 9-11-01.
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Punish honey
No. 12 in the Carolina Wren Press Poetry Series, Karen Leona Anderson's work was selected for publication by Evie Shockley.
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Boy returning water to the sea
Poetry collection inspired by the titles of works in William Kelly Fearing's retrospective catalog.
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Suddenly, fruit
Winner of the 2005 Carolina Wren Press Poetry Contest judged by William Pitt Root.
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And aeneas stares into her helmet
Winner of the 2008 Carolina Wren Press Poetry Contest
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Gold indigoes
First in the Carolina Wren Press Chapbook Poetry series.
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All the songs we sing
An anthology celebrating twenty-five years of the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective edited by founder Lenard D. Moore.
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Inside the money machine
Debut poetry collection chosen by Minnie Bruce Pratt as winner of the Carolina Wren Press Poetry Series prize.
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Singing a tree into dance
A special edition poetry chapbook in celebration of Jaki Shelton Green's receipt of the 2003 North Carolina Award for Literature.
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The opposite of cruelty
Steven Leyva’s second collection of poetry renders beauty through a Black man’s lens in a post-pandemic world populated with superheroes and characters from ancient mythology.In The Opposite of Cruelty, Steven Leyva’s poems ask readers to see and remember beauty when the world seems to be in ruin...
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Weren't no good times
First-person narratives of former Alabama slaves edited from WPA slave narratives.
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The flaming ship of ocracoke and other tales of the outer banks
Collection of eleven interesting tales from North Carolina’s Outer Banks.
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Patchwork dolls
In this debut story collection, Ysabelle Cheung weaves an eerie fabulism with tales that cross continents, technology, and time.Set in Hong Kong and America—between the present day and an uncannily altered future—this story collection warps the familiar rules of our world to ask: what does it mea...
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Rules for being dead
A movie-obsessed boy in 1960s Texas loses his mother, and he and her ghost search for what happened to her.
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All eyes
Memoir detailing mental health care in 1970s and -80s New York City, and the landscape of parenting a mentally-ill child.
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The gods of green county
Coralee Harper struggles for justice for her dead brother and her own sanity in Depression-era rural Arkansas.
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Voices from the outer banks
First-person and other contemporary accounts tell the story of the Outer Banks of NC.
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Dark of the island, the
In this thriller, contemporary Outer Banks politics, including issues about offshore drilling, interweave with the region’s World War II history.
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Soul food odyssey
In Soul Food Odyssey, Tyson takes readers along on her journey to find the food her grandmother called “sumntaeat.”
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Key west sketches
An eclectic collection by writers who have lived, worked, and played in Key West, Florida. Key West has long been America’s most vibrant writers' colony, tracing its writerly roots to Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, Robert Frost, John Hersey, Richard Wilbur, James Merrill, and Elizabeth Bi...
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The minotaur takes a cigarette break
Five thousand years out of the labyrinth, the Minotaur finds himself living in a trailer park in the American South.
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Mulberry
Faced with her mother’s absence and father’s neglect, eleven-year-old Maddy struggles to care for brothers in the Jim Crow South.
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Boys of the battleship north carolina
Ramsey tells the story of the battleship through the eyes of the men who served her in WW II.
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Touring the shenandoah valley backroads
Exclusive photography, detailed maps, and engaging text detail the stories behind 13 tours on the backroads of the Shenandoah Valley.
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Midnight bowling
A Seventies-era teenaged girl must decide whether to follow her father’s bowling legacy or the coach who caused his career failure.
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Cherokee voices
Selections gathered from journals, treaty records, and correspondence written by Cherokees or by Europeans or Americans who knew them.
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Nell and the baby dolphin
A little girl magically transforms into a mermaid and goes on an underwater adventure with her new dolphin friend.Nell lives on the coast of North Carolina and longs to be part of the underwater world she sees off the end of the pier in front of her house. One day her wish is granted by a friendl...
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The book of flaco
The story of Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl who escaped from Central Park Zoo and captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of followers around the world, with 32 pages of stunning color photographs.This is a parable of freedom, wildness, and our urban ecosystems. Flaco has been dubbed “the...
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Arlington
This book tells the stories of 250 people buried in Arlington National Cemetery, accompanied by color photographs and GPS coordinates.
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What if wilhelmina
A worried little girl’s imagination runs wild when her cat Wilhelmina goes missing.
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Footsteps of the cherokees
This book divides the Cherokees’ eastern homeland into 19 geographical sections and explores many of the historic Cherokee sites.
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So you think you know gettysburg? volume 2
This second volume covers an additional 200+ park attractions. It also includes area maps and 270+ color photographs.
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Carolina clay
The compelling story of a talented potter, enslaved by the author's ancestors, who became one of the singular artists of the nineteenth century.He signed many of his works simply as “Dave” and is known today as Potter David Drake. He made pots and storage jars—everyday items, but because of their...
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Ocracoke in the fifties
50 years after The Lonely Doll, Dare Wright's only adult book is a tribute to her favorite place: Ocracoke, NC.
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Ayudantes en covid-19
Ganador del Concurso de libros infantiles de Emory Global Health Institute de 2020. ¿Busca formas honestas pero positivas de hablar con los niños sobre el Coronavirus-19 (Covid-19)? AYUDANTES EN COVID-19 describe la pandemia de forma objetiva pero optimista. Este cuento asegura a los niños y sus...
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Witness to change
Sybil Morial’s autobiography traces her childhood in New Orleans, activism during the Civil Rights Movement, and continuing life of service.
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Blackbeard and other pirates of the atlantic coast
Eighteen swashbuckling sea robbers brought to life.
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Voices of the american revolution in the carolinas
This book uses 27 firsthand accounts from actual participants to help readers experience what life was like between 1775 and 1782.
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Well, shut my mouth!
Collection of recipes from the restaurant and families of Stephanie Tyson and Vivian Joiner.
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North carolina craft beer & breweries
A guide to over 140 craft breweries in NC.
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Jugtown pottery 1917-2017
The story of 100-year-old Jugtown Pottery, which spawned a pottery movement in rural NC that now produces sought-after collector's artware.
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Pirates, ghosts, and coastal lore
The staff of John Blair Publisher selected their favorite stories from the 5 ghost-story collections by Judge Charles Harry Whedbee.
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Floodgate
A former West Virginia coal miner encounters corruption and cultural upheaval working on a dam project that will submerge his town.In the remote corner of West Virginia in the 1960s, former coal miner Lance Drennen takes a job as an overseer for the construction of an immense flood-control dam, w...
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Tomorrow in shanghai
A short story collection exploring cultural complexities in China, the Chinese diaspora in America, and the world at large.In a vibrant and illuminating follow-up to her award-winning story collection, Useful Phrases for Immigrants, May-lee Chai’s latest collection Tomorrow in Shanghai explores m...
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Guide to north carolina's wineries, a
A guide to over 60 wineries in North Carolina.
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Before freedom, when i just can remember
First-person narratives of 27 former SC slaves edited from WPA slave narratives.
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Seaside spectres
Seaside Spectres offers 33 haunted tales from North Carolina's coastal region.
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Bible belt blues
Like most progressive Southerners, Hal Crowther is decidedly angry about current social and political events, but few writers are more able than he to articulate the problems, the issues, and even the bitter humor of our present situation.Hal Crowther is a writer who has made a long and illustrio...
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Gullah culture in america
A history of the rich culture of the Gullah people–a story of upheaval, endurance, and survival in the Lowcountry of the American South.Gullah Culture in America chronicles the history and culture of the Gullah people, African Americans who live in the Lowcountry region of the American South. Thi...
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Upon her shoulders
A documentary-style collection of stories, poems, essays, and interviews by Southeastern Native American women.Upon Her Shoulders is a collection of stories, poems, and prose by Southeastern Native American women whose narratives attest to the hard work and activism required to keep their communi...
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Step into the circle
Beloved Appalachian writers and photographers profile each other and their homeland with words and images.
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Blackbeard's cup and stories of the outer banks
16 tales about local phenomena and bizarre happenings on the Outer Banks.
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Haints of the hills
Haints of the Hills is a collection of 27 haunted tales from North Carolina’s mountainous west.
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Tales of the south carolina low country
South Carolina legends, mysteries, and tales drawn from interviews and folklore.
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Wild geese flying
A little boy named Alex learns about the wild geese who fly in the sky over the coastal waters of North Carolina. By day, his grandfather introduces him to the traditional art of carving decoys of ducks and geese in his workshop, and by night, the geese take Alex on a fantastical adventure.
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Orlean puckett
The biography of Orlean Puckett, a midwife who lived from 1844 to 1939 in Carroll County, Virginia
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We lived in a little cabin in the yard
First-person narratives of 21 former Virginia slaves edited from WPA slave narratives.
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Fight songs
A wry and witty commentary on college sports and identity in the complicated social landscape of the South. Ed Southern, lifelong fan of the Wake Forest University Demon Deacons, the smallest school in the NCAA's Power 5, set out to tell the story of how he got tangled, in vines of history and h...
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Hatteras light
Compelling story of the dedicated keepers of Hatteras lighthouse, set off NC’s Outer Banks during the final days of WWI.
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Voices from the trail of tears
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 displaces over 100,000 Cherokee from their lands east of the Mississippi.
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Beaut
After fire destroys her home and threatens relationships with her children, a woman explores her roles as mother, wife, caretaker, lover.
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The ice garden
In a small1960s Southern town, ten-year-old Claire struggles to protect herself and her baby sister from their mother’s mental illness.
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Touring the western north carolina backroads
Now in its fourth edition, Touring the Western North Carolina Backroads has long been the go-to guide for folks seeking the unspoiled landscape and little-known cultural attractions of western North Carolina. This is a guide for those who want to travel the mountains of western North Carolina, w...
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Helping our world get better
Kids can do their part to help heal the world and stop the pandemic by getting a COVID vaccine.
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The minotaur takes his own sweet time
"Sherrill gives his Minotaur a forlorn Buster Keaton dignity. M has a silent film’s starring role in the midst of a country-and-western talkie. Precisely by limiting the beast to deeds, not speech, the writer eventually creates—against all odds—a living hybridized contradiction. M, if stuck in ...
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Sex romp gone wrong
In her debut story collection, Julia Ridley Smith navigates the currents and eddies of desire, sex, love, and relationships. These twelve highly accomplished stories are witty and accessible, intelligent and thought-provoking. A girls' week at the beach prompts hot tub drinking, awkward confessio...
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Bob garner's book of barbeque
Bob Garner’s previous books are combined, updated, and expanded into one volume, creating the ultimate reference to North Carolina barbecue.
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Freedom fighters and hell raisers
Firebrand commentator Hal Crowther’s essays commemorate “freedom-fighters and hell-raisers” whose lives changed the social landscape of the South.
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