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Unearthing seeds of fire
Unearthing Seeds of Fire is a thorough historical account of Highlander Folk School and the life of its founder Myles Horton
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Prayin' to be set free
First-person narratives of former Mississippi slaves edited from WPA slave narratives.
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Rules for being dead
“Kim Powers's haunting and spellbinding novel Rules for Being Dead reads like an intoxicating blend of the best of Shirley Jackson, Alice Sebold and Fannie Flagg." —STARRED Review, Shelf Awareness It's the late 1960s in McKinney, Texas. At the downtown theater and the local drive-in, movies—James...
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Legends of the outer banks and tar heel tidewater
Legends of Virginia Dare, Theodosia Burr, Blackbeard, and the witch of Nags Head on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
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Gumbo life
Straight from the roux bayou, a culinary memoir about how a centuries old Cajun and Creole secret―gumbo―has become one of the world’s most beloved dishes.The product of a melting pot of culinary influences, gumbo reflects the diversity of the people who cooked it up: French aristocrats, West Afri...
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Ghost cats of the south
Good ghost cats, bad ghost cats, ghost cats in many manifestations and moods: 22 stories that the cats dragged in.
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North carolina waterfalls
In this third edition of his classic photography/ hiking guide, Adams showcases his own beautiful color photographs. This complete compendium includes 1,000 waterfalls, highlighting more than 300 of the best waterfalls found in North Carolina with full descriptions, comprehensive directions, and ...
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Cumberland island
Award-winning environmental writer Charles Seabrook describes the island's natural bounty and tells its long and intriguing history.
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On jordan's stormy banks
First-person narratives of 28 former Gerogia slaves edited from WPA slave narratives.
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Still & barrel
A history of the distilling of spirits in North Carolina, including addresses and visitor information for NC's current craft distilleries.
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River road
River Road is a collection of narrative poems in the voice of Susan McFalls, writing from her new home in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains.Wayne Caldwell, author of Cataloochee, returns to North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains to continue the story of Susan McFalls, who is left on Mount Pisg...
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Bearwallow
Jones' memoir of moving back to the Blue Ridge Mountains to land where his family has lived for over 200 years, now in paperback.
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Ghosts and haunts of tennessee
This new compilation of authentic folklore offers a fresh look at things that go bump in the night in the Volunteer State.
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Now what?
Commentator Gene Nichol offers inspiration and ideas for blazing a progressive path forward in North Carolina, a decidedly purple state.In the 2024 election cycle, there was good news and bad news for North Carolina progressive politics. The people elected a Democratic Governor, Lt. Governor, Att...
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Behind the waterline
WINNER OF THE LEE SMITH NOVEL PRIZEBehind the Waterline takes readers to the home of a teenager and his grandmother in a New Orleans neighborhood on the eve of Katrina, where there are few resources and little warning of what is about to happen, in this novel that mixes magical realism with reali...
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Any other place
From Appalachia to South Korea and back, this stunning and relentless collection explores themes of home and displacement.
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Blue marlin
On a patched-up family vacation to Key West, a young girl seeks out movie stars and redemption for her fractured family.
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The future of black
An anthology of poems and art exploring Afrofuturism, science fiction, and speculative fiction by Black writers and writers of color.
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First in flight
Stephen Kirk details the influence of the Outer Banks on the Wright Brothers’ quest for flight.
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Hello down there
Haunted by a secret tragedy, Edwin, son of the richest family in a small Southern town, fights to overcome his addiction to morphine and face the truth that his parents have worked to obscure. This timeless debut novel of master Southern storyteller Michael Parker takes readers to a small Southe...
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American ending
An Oprah Daily pick for spring 2023 David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction Finalist A woman growing up in a family of Russian immigrants in the 1910s seeks a thoroughly American life. Yelena is the first American born to her Old Believer Russian Orthodox parents, who are buildi...
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What makes you think you're awake?
Winner of the Bakwin Award. Final contest judge and award-winning author Carmen Maria Machado (Her Body and Other Parties) described the work as “a wonderful debut; a collection of frank, funny, and heartbreaking stories that delve into the mire of human loneliness.” Poland’s stories usher in a...
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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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Far more terrible for women
Drawing from interviews with former slaves in the 1930s, these are firsthand accounts from the perspective of enslaved women.
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Ocracoke
Stories about fishing, wild ponies, shipwrecks, general island lore, and the lifestyle and spirit of the islanders of Ocracoke.
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Great waterfalls of north carolina
65 waterfalls and cascades in the beautiful Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina
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Woodsmoke
A poetry collection about living “in the shadow of the mountain my father said was mother to us all.”
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Blackbeard the pirate
A reassessment of the life of Edward Teach, infamous colonial American pirate, and his social, political, and cultural milieus.
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Silk flags and cold steel
This volume of Trotter's trilogy details events from North Carolina’s ambivalence about secession to the final days of the war.
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Helping our world get well
Kids can do their part to help heal the world and stop the pandemic by getting a COVID vaccine.
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Bullets and bandages
A guide to the aid stations and field hospitals that served casualties following the Battle of Gettysburg.
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North carolina ghost lights and legends
A guide to the luminous phenomena of ghost lights in North Carolina—their settings, origins, and the legends surrounding them.
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Hauntings of williamsburg, yorktown, and jamestown
Williamsburg, Yorktown, and Jamestown comprise Virginia's historic triangle. Jackie Behrend brings together thirty-seven of the region's most intriguing spirits.
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Granny curse, the
Twenty-five tales, all based in historical fact or tied to an actual location and intertwined with regional Eastern Tennessee folklore.
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Key bridge
Key Bridge is a poem about race, sex, birth, and death set against the backdrop of Washington, D.C.
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What else could it be
A collection of collaborative and ekphrastic poetry from award-winning poet Ravi Shankar
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Sacrilegion
A collection of poems by L. Lamar Wilson chosen by Lee Ann Brown as winner of the Carolina Wren Press Poetry Series prize.
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Goldberg—variations
Winning poetry collection for the 2014 Carolina Wren Press Poetry Series contest. Ekphrastic poems inspired by Bach's "Goldberg Variations".
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Ironclads and columbiads
A history of the Civil War in NC's coastal area.
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The geography of jazz
A poetry collection by internationally acclaimed poet Lenard D. Moore focusing on jazz music as an experience and an inspiration.
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The devil's done come back
Fifteen of North Carolina’s finest writers reimagine and reclaim the stories of the ghosts who have haunted all corners of the state.North Carolina ain’t what it once was: forests and fields have given way to suburbs and vacation homes, textile mills to high tech, tobacco farms to tourism. That d...
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No man's yoke on my shoulders
First-person narratives of former Florida slaves edited from WPA slave narratives.
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Andy griffith show book
Definitive study of TV series using in-depth interviews with most of principals involved.
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Fishing north carolina
A definitive guide to fishing throughout the entire state of NC from well-known fishing expert, Mike Marsh.
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Voices from st. simons
Excerpts from interviews with 17 people whose connection to St. Simons Island, GA, tells the story of the island's heritage.
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Haunted inns of the southeast
Grouped by state, Turnage tells 5 to 18 stories about haunted inns in each of the Southeastern states .
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Lessons from north carolina
North Carolina had a big, unfortunate headstart on now-common attacks on democratic institutions—the lessons learned as NC makes its way out of the chaos can benefit other states. Attacks from the radical right will plague the entire nation for the foreseeable future, and now is the time to seek ...
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This african-american life
In this engaging memoir, Hugh Price, former CEO of the National Urban League, recounts his amazing American life and ancestry.
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The saddest girl on the beach
Grieving her father’s death, Charlotte McConnell seeks solace at the Outer Banks inn owned by her best friend's family, but she finds them dealing with their own family drama and soon lands in the center of an unexpected love triangle.Her hotel family welcomes Charlotte with chowder dinners and a...
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The only way out is through
In this gripping debut novel, former abductee Bria Singer must reconcile with her past as she tries to build her life on her own terms. Winner of the Bakwin Award selected by Tiya Miles, Tara Weinstein tells the riveting story of one woman confronting her history on a journey of growth, explorati...
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Time and tide
A longtime coast watcher tells the story of the beautiful and ever-changing coast of North Carolina—rich in culture, history, and landscape—with words and photographs. This gorgeous, richly illustrated book for visitors and residents alike details the charms and controversies of the “banks” of N...
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The necessity of wildfire
Winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award for poetryWinner of the Wren Poetry Prize selected by Ada Limón, Caitlin Scarano’s collection wrestles with family violence, escaping home, unraveling relationships, and the complexity of sexuality. The Necessity of Wildfire begins, “To not harm / e...
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Losing my sister
Memoir of two sisters who struggle to navigate the joys and sorrows of family, friendship, sisterhood, and loss.
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Holding on to nothing
In rural Tennessee, two young people struggle to make a life in a town rife with poverty, guns, and alcohol."Holding On To Nothing is a resonant song of the South, all whiskey, bluegrass, Dolly Parton, tobacco fields, and women who know better but still fall for the lowdown men whom they know wil...
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Useful phrases for immigrants
Eight innovative, timely stories illuminate the hopes and fears of Chinese immigrants and their descendants.
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A parchment of leaves
In 1900s Kentucky, Saul Sullivan leaves his bride behind to seek work, and his brother steps in, with violent consequences.
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Exploring north carolina's lookout towers
A hiking guide and photography book on North Carolina’s lookout towers.
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My c.c.c. days
Davis' memoirs of working for the Civilian Conservation Corps in western NC during the Depression.
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Woody durham
The autobiography of the “Voice of the Tar Heels,” the radio play-by-play man for UNC-Chapel Hill from 1971 until 2011.
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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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Civil war blunders
From Fort Sumter to Appomattox, Civil War Blunders traces the war according to its amusing, often deadly miscues.
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Life of general francis marion, the
Biography of General Francis Marion after the fall of Charleston during the American Revolution.
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Unbound
This insightful and often witty collection of essays charts the making of a reluctant disability activist—including his commentary for NPR, the New York Times and elsewhere.Ben Mattlin was born in 1962 with spinal muscular atrophy, a congenital and progressive neuromuscular weakness. He never sto...
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Letter to my transgender daughter
A parent’s love letter to a daughter who has always known exactly who she is. One ordinary day, a caseworker from the Department of Children and Families knocked on the Hays family's door to investigate an anonymous complaint about the upbringing of their transgender child. It was this knock, thi...
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Outer banks tales to remember
Stories about Indians, trappers, ghosts, firebirds, sea horses, and sand dollars in this collection of tales from coastal NC.
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Jamestown adventure, the
Using first-person documents, these narratives tell the story of the founding of Jamestown from 1605-1614.
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Dancing woman
Elaine Neil Orr, born in Nigeria to expat parents, brings us an indelible portrait of a young female artist, torn between two men and two cultures, struggling to find her passion and her purpose.It’s 1963 and Isabel Hammond is an expat who has accompanied her agriculture aid worker husband to Nig...
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I was born in slavery
First-person narratives of 27 former Texas slaves edited from WPA slave narratives.
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Georgia ghosts
A collection of over 50 ghost stories from across Georgia.
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Atomic family
2023 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Long List2023 Book of the Year, Southern Literary ReviewNamed a 2023 Great Group read, Women’s National Book AssociationA South Carolina family endures one life-shattering day in 1961 in a town that lies in the shadow of a nuclear bomb plant.It’s November 1, 1...
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Black indian slave narratives
First-person narratives from Native Americans who were enslaved right alongside African Americans, and African Americans owned by Native Americans.
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Bushwhackers
A history of the Civil War in the mountains of NC.
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Clay's quilt
A motherless young man must stitch his life together among his relatives and other lively folks of Free Creek Kentucky.
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My folks don't want me to talk about slavery
This volume offers 21 narratives from more than 170 interviews conducted with former slaves in North Carolina.
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Best hikes of pisgah national forest, the
Guide to over 100 hikes in Pisgah National Forest
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Downriver
Short story collection, chosen as Winner of the 2006 Doris Bakwin Award for Writing by a Woman.
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Fancy meeting you
A middle-aged woman’s unlikely and hilarious tardy coming-of-age.Meet Laura Harrigan. Depending on who Laura is talking to, she’s a psychiatrist, a business consultant, or a mother of twin boys at Yale. That last one is a new lie she’s trying on for size. In reality, Laura is middle-aged, childle...
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Ghosts of georgetown
Ghosts of Georgetown tells the stories of twenty local apparitions: dynamic men and women who once lived and prospered here.
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Churchboys and other sinners
Preston Allen's stories explore the boundary between boy and man, church and smut shack in spare, deadpan prose.
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In the arms of our elders
Debut short story collection by William Henry Lewis.
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Outer banks mysteries and seaside stories
A collection of fifteen tales from North Carolina’s coast.
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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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The legendary caddies of augusta national
[Large print edition, Luciole font, size 16]Starting in the 1930s, the Black caddies of Augusta National walked the course with the world’s greatest golfers. This book tells their stories, forever entwined with the history of the game. They used nicknames like Stovepipe, Burnt Biscuits, Skillet,...
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All these ghosts
A timely and poignant poetry collection by acclaimed author and former Poet Laureate of Kentucky Silas House, including the poem read at Governor Andy Beshear’s 2023 inauguration and an interview by Barbara Kingsolver.Silas House is known throughout the South as a quintessential person of letters...
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The rest of our lives
A lively and poignant exploration of life’s latter decades.In The Rest of Our Lives, memoirist Judy Goldman brings her devoted readers dispatches from the edge of life, when turning eighty can be as surprising and baffling as losing your virginity or seeing The Beatles at Shea Stadium. In this li...
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Voices of cherokee women
Voices of Cherokee Women is a compelling collection of first-person accounts by Cherokee women.
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Covid-19 helpers
Winner of the 2020 Emory Global Health Institute Competition. Here’s a book that provides children honest yet positive information about Coronavirus (Covid-19). COVID-19 HELPERS gives kids the facts of the pandemic, but also offers hope. Mr. Rogers said that when things get scary, “Look for the h...
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Ghost dogs of the south
Twenty haunting hound tales illustrated with reprints of nostalgic Victorian photographs
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Cape fear rising
When black citizens win elected offices in 1898 Wilmington, NC, white citizens stage a coup. Based on real events. Twenty-fifth anniversary edition.
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Hatteras journal
Reflection of the complex natural cycles, ecosystems, bird, plant, and marine life, and seasonal routines on Hatteras Island.
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Fight songs
A wry and witty commentary on college sports and identity in the complicated social landscape of the South.
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Cipher
In the 1800s, Appalachian farmer and rogue William Prestwood kept salacious coded diaries, leaving his descendent, Jeremy Jones, to reflect on his complicated legacy.In 1975, a man stumbled upon a box of hand-sewn notebooks in a house set for demolition in Wadesboro, North Carolina. After thumbin...
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Gullah days
The inspiring post-Civil War history of the Gullah people on Hilton Head Island, as told by their descendants.
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