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Folklore

OCTOBER

In this companion volume to the popular Ghost Dogs of the South, award-winning folklorist Randy Russell presents more than 20 original stories of cats who reach between the worlds of life and death . . .
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Hark the Sound of Tar Heel Voices
Edited by Daniel W. Barefoot

Hark the Sound of Tar Heel Voices provides nearly 220 years' worth of words from the men and women who created and nurtured UNC-Chapel Hill.
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SEPTEMBER

$16.95
paperback

History/Regional

Portsmouth: Spies, U-boats, and Romance on the Outer Banks
Edward P. Norvell

In Portsmouth we follow Kurt Sanger, a German submariner who comes ashore on Portsmouth Island, located just south of Ocracoke. Kurt's assignment is to find out what happened to the U-85 with its Enigma code machine that the Germans did not want to fall into Allied hands.
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Fiction

Chautauqua: 20th Anniversary of the Chautauqua Writers' Center
Edited by Jill and Philip Gerard

In crafting this volume, editors Jill and Philip Gerard contacted every writer they could find who served--or who will serve this season--on The Chautauqua Writers' Center faculty. The anthology includes more than 70 poems and 20 works of prose.
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The Bottle Chapel at Airlie Gardens: A Tribute to Minnie Evans
Fred Wharton and Susan Taylor Block

Minnie Evans is considered one of America's most important visionary artists. To create a fitting memorial, Wright-Frierson assembled a team of North Carolinians to interpret the artist's themes in various media.
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Where the Lake Becomes the River
Kate Betterton

The antebellum McCullough home in Mississippi is haunted by by Parrish's McCullough's father, whose death has left a black hole in the family. Parrish is a gifted artist who desperately hopes to attend college, but there is no money, and she is afraid to leave her mother alone. When civil rights workers arrive in Mississippi, Parrish gets the chance to do something stellar.
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The Yazoo Blues
John Pritchard

Junior Ray Loveblood returns in this sequel of sorts to Junior Ray, the 2005 debut novel by John Pritchard. Now, in a setting some years later, Loveblood is semi-retired and working as a security guard in a floating casino in the Mississippi Delta.
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Junior Ray
John Pritchard

Junior Ray Loveblood, a white racist deputy sheriff, and his sidekick, Voyd, pursue and try to kill a shell-shocked war veteran.
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The Wrong Side of Murder Creek
Bob Zellner with Constance Curry

Zellner tells how one white Alabamian joined ranks with the black students who were sitting-in, marching, fighting, and sometimes dying to challenge the Southern "way of life".
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In the Company of Owls
Peter Huggins

Aaron Cash and his sister Shelley live on a dairy farm in Tennessee. The siblings find themselves caught in the struggle between their father and their neighbor who runs an illegal still.
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Space
Roger Reid

The author of acclaimed novel Longleaf continues his saga of teenage sleuth Jason Caldwell. Set at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, Space incorporates factual information about astronomy and America's space program into its intriguing tale of suspicion and pursuit.
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The Courage to Lead
Howard N. Lee

Howard Lee tells about his childhood on a sharecropper's farm in Georgia during segregation. He tells about the hurdles he faced, as well as the triumphs and the people who helped him during his college and army days and his long and respected political career in North Carolina.
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An Old Salem Christmas, 1840
Karen Cecil Smith

An Old Salem Christmas, 1840, tells the story of Christmas celebration in historic Salem, North Carolina, as seen through the eys of a young Moravian girl.
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Shell Castle
Elizabeth Matheson

This book documents the plantantion house Shell Castle in Halifax County during the last days of Charles Whitaker, the last member of the family who built it.
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North Carolina Afield, Second Edition
Ida Phillips, Maria Sadowski, and Maura High

This illustrated guide to The Nature Conservancy's preserves and projects in North Carolina is an updated and enlarged edition of the 2002 volume.
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Thirteen Terrifying Tales from the North Carolina Piedmont
Edited by Leslie Rindoks

Appropriate for children and adults alike, this beautiful book includes thirteen tales about places we know from storytellers that hail from North Carolina's Piedmont.
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Coastal Waters: Images of North Carolina
Scott Taylor

The 90 stunning black-and-white duotones in this coffee-table book were taken on the North Carolina coast.
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Carolina Country Reflections
Edited by Michael E. C. Gery

The monthly magazine Carolina Country asked their readers to donate pictures for a book depicting life in rural North Carolina before 1970. The resulting book has 220 duotones, each with a personal caption by its contributor.
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King of the Mountain: The Jerry Moore Story
Dick Brown

The story of Jerry Moore's rise from the depths of despair to lead the Appalachian State University Mountaineers to three straight national championships.
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SEPTEMBER

$22.95
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Biography/Sports