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Definitive study of TV series using in-depth interviews with most of principals involved.

Joe Wilson is a guide to a state-endorsed 250-mile trail that focuses on Virginia's musical heritage. Includes two CDs featuring narrated information about sites along the trail and examples of Appalachian traditional music.

RELATIVE STRANGERS was chosen by celebrated author Jill McCorkle to receive the Doris Bakwin Award for Writing by a Woman. In McCorkle's words: "Relative Strangers is a stunning collection of stories. Every single story is vivid and memorable, and yet, equally powerful is the collective thematic effect. So many of these characters are strangers within their own families and their own lives - people thought to be dead are resurrected and anothe...

Winner of the 2006 Doris Bakwin Award for Writing by a Woman. Contest judge Quinn Dalton wrote: 'These eleven stories are fueled by a robust mix of voices children, young women, mothers, fathers all of whom are driven to survive past losses or the overwhelming challenges of their present circumstances. Take for example Nike Site, told from the perspective of ten-year-old Petie, which starkly depicts the landscape of children, where a nuclear p...

In these nine short stories that Ann Beattie called "a powerful first collection, " Lewis brilliantly captures the complexity of African-American family life. With memories as sublime as they are precise, Lewis' characters live in these pages, struggle for meaning, and learn to love each other. The spirits that connect us all are embodied in these wise, confused, passionate people and moments poetic in their shadings.

The story of Phoebe Hoss's endeavor to find help for her son, who began to have behavioral difficulties at age 10. The memoir deals with ins and outs of mental health care in the 1970s and 80s in and around New York City, but is still relevant as a map to the landscape of parenting a mentally-ill child. Winner of the 2009 Doris Bakwin Award for Writing by A Woman.

Although he grew up in the United States, Presnton L. Allen was born in Honduras, on one of its Caribbean possessions, the island of Roaton, which is populated by a thriving community of English-speaking members of the African diaspora. "Preston Allen's writing is in the tradition of writers such as James Baldwin...His work is especially important because he reveals within the consciousness of young Black men, who have too often been the targe...

This volume of Trotter's trilogy details events from North Carolina's ambivalence about secession to the final days of the war.

In the tradition of The Stranger and The Old Man and the Sea, this masterful novella by critically acclaimed novelist Michael Farris Smith explores the human spirit and its capacity for faith and forgiveness in an imperfect world and begs the question: how do you survive when hope is lost? Jon and Estelle walk the picturesque Paris streets but are living through the cruelest of realities the disappearance of their nine-year-old daughter, Jenni...

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Well, Shut My Mouth! The Sweet Potatoes Restaurant Cookbook is recipesrecipes from the restaurant, recipes from the families of Chef Stephanie Tyson and co-owner Vivian Joiner, recipes that are Southern, plain and simple.

Critically acclaimed New York Times-bestselling author Sharyn McCrumb chronicles the Civil War in the Southern mountains.

A comprehensive look at the various facets of Gullah culture.

Memoir of two sisters who struggle to navigate the joys and sorrows of family, friendship, sisterhood, and loss.

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This book tells the stories behind nearly 100 monuments in Antietam National Battlefield. Features almost 300 color photos and maps.

The autobiography of the "Voice of the Tar Heels, " the radio play-by-play man for UNC-Chapel Hill from 1971 until 2011.

This story chronicles 18 months in the life of sixteen-year-old Thomas Young during 1780-81. He lived and fought in the South Carolina backountry during America's Revolutionary War. His exploits lead him from Musgrove's Mill to Kings Mountain to the battle at Cowpens.

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First-person and other contemporary accounts tell the story of the Outer Banks of NC.