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The Only Way Out Is Through

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The Only Way Out Is Through

Fancy Meeting You

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Fancy Meeting You

Riptide: New and Selected Poems

Cover for Riptide by Enid Shomer. An white-cap ocean wave with the title text in the bottom right.

Riptide: New and Selected Poems

All These Ghosts

Bottom half of is a photograph of an outstretched arm in front of a tree branch. The top half is white and shows the silhouette of three birds, with one bird flying the other direction.

All These Ghosts

Cipher: Decoding My Ancestor's Scandalous Secret Diaries

Cipher: Decoding My Ancestor's Scandalous Secret Diaries

The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush

A teal background with an orange cartoon of a bent leg shown from the knee down. The title is in bold yellow letters.

The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush

The Devil's Done Come Back: New Ghost Tales from North Carolina

The Devil's Done Come Back: New Ghost Tales from North Carolina

Atomic Family

Behind the Waterline

Front cover for Behind the Waterline by Kionna Walker LeMalle, a wavy abstract design of oranges, golds, blue-greens, and brown, with the title in a bubbly bold white text.

Behind the Waterline

Now What? How North Carolina Can Blaze a Progressive Path Forward

Top half of the cover is dark red with white text for the title. The bottom half of the cover is white with red text for Gene Nichols's name.

Now What? How North Carolina Can Blaze a Progressive Path Forward

Edge of the World: An Anthology of Queer Travel Writing

The background is a rainbow filter over the sky with the words “Edge of the World” in large bright green letters, and “An Anthology of Queer Travel Writing” below it in smaller navy blue letters.

Edge of the World: An Anthology of Queer Travel Writing

The Saddest Girl on the Beach

An illustration of the back of a woman in a red bathing suit, long brown hair blowing in the wind. She faces away, looking at the ocean.

The Saddest Girl on the Beach

The Rest of Our Lives

The background is a painting by Laurie Smithwick, yellow and teal arches with texture scraped in. The Rest of Our Lives appears in white bold letters at the top.

The Rest of Our Lives

Unbound: Notes from a Reluctant Disability Activist

Large black text for the title at the top and the author’s name in smaller gold letters on the right. The background is white with blue, yellow, and grey abstract shapes underlining the main title.

Unbound: Notes from a Reluctant Disability Activist

The Opposite of Cruelty

The top half is white and the bottom half is black. There are branches, a bird, and a red ribbon at both the top and bottom, and a window on the top right, and a mirror on the bottom left.

The Opposite of Cruelty

The Book of Flaco: The World's Most Famous Bird

A photo of Flaco the eagle-owl, a tawny colored owl with bright orange eyes. The title text is in large white text on the right side.

The Book of Flaco: The World's Most Famous Bird

Dancing Woman

Cover of Dancing Woman by Elaine Neil Orr. A burnt yellow-orange background with dark blue text for the title spelled vertically, and a red bird woven between the letters.

Bible Belt Blues: Collected Essays

A textured background resembling a field and the sky. The title is in dark blue block letters in the sky, and the author's name is in yellow text in the green field.

Bible Belt Blues: Collected Essays

Patchwork Dolls

A periwinkle background with the sketch of a girl putting tape over her mouth. Her face is blank, and her eyes and mouth are depicted to her left floating.

Patchwork Dolls

The Marriage Bed

Cover of The Marriage Bed by Tommy Hays. A photograph of rumpled bedsheets in shades of white and pale blue. The title is centered on the page in blue letters.

The Marriage Bed

Sex Romp Gone Wrong

Pink text over a black and white image of a woman with chin-length dark hair and wearing a dark coat blowing smoke up into the air.

Sex Romp Gone Wrong

The Legendary Caddies of Augusta National: Inside Stories from Golf's Greatest Stage

A green transparent rectangle covers the left half where the title appears in yellow text, and to the right is a Black golf Caddie crouching on a golf course with his chin in his hand.

The Legendary Caddies of Augusta National: Inside Stories from Golf's Greatest Stage

Touring the Western North Carolina Backroads

A photograph of road along a mountain covered in bright fall foliage, with the title on the upper-left side on a tan background.

Touring the Western North Carolina Backroads

Cover of Holding on to Nothing by Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne. A graining image of a cloudy blue sky, with trees and mountains making up a small strip below.

Holding On To Nothing

Gumbo Life: A Journey Down the Roux Bayou

Title appears in large yellow text against a background of a swamp, with cypress trees and Spanish moss. In the foreground is a boat’s prow with an illustration of a shrimp.

Gumbo Life: A Journey Down the Roux Bayou

River Road

A stylized river in the foreground and the valleys and peaks of mountains in the background against a pinkish sky that reflects on the water.

The Wild Horses of Shackleford Banks: 2nd Edition

Photograph by Scott Taylor of two horses standing in the foreground. In the background is a blurred image of the sound, and the Cape Lookout Lighthouse.

The Wild Horses of Shackleford Banks: 2nd Edition

Hello Down There

Cover for Hello Down There by Michael Parker. A black background with yellow text, and a silhouette of a man with messy hair.

Hello Down There

Paul Green: North Carolina Writers on the Legacy of the State's Most Celebrated Playwright

Book cover of Paul Green anthology featuring a sepia toned picture of Paul Green.

Paul Green: North Carolina Writers on the Legacy of the State's Most Celebrated Playwright

Carolina Clay: The Life and Legend of Enslaved Potter David Drake

Cover of Carolina Clay by Leonard Todd. A large brown clay pot inscribed and signed by the enslaved potter David Drake adorns the cover on a beige background

Carolina Clay: The Life and Legend of Enslaved Potter David Drake

The House on Sun Street

Cover for The House on Sun Street by Mojgan Ghazirad. A blue background with shadows of birds and the title in yellow font and one orange bird in the foreground.

The House on Sun Street

Letter to My Transgender Daughter

A pink background with two cartoon deer drawn. The larger one is standing in the back and is orange, and in front is a smaller pink one.

Letter to My Transgender Daughter

American Ending

Cover for American Ending by Mary Kay Zuravleff. A cream background with quilted red edges on the left and right, and a red illustration of a wolf in the center.

American Ending

Key West Sketches: Writers at Mile Zero

Cover of Key West Sketches by writers at Mile Zero. A photograph of a silouetted dock at sunset. People stand on the dock, seeming to be admiring the sunset.

Key West Sketches: Writers at Mile Zero

Cover of Fight Songs by Ed Southern. A cream-colored background with an orange-brown dirt on the bottom third of the cover.

The Essential Mayberry

A black and white image of a group crowded around a film set in a small clearing outside.

The Essential Mayberry

Time and Tide: The Vanishing Culture of the North Carolina Coast

Cover of Time and Tide by Tim Hatcher. A photograph of a man standing on a pier fishing against an orange sunset.

Time and Tide: The Vanishing Culture of the North Carolina Coast

Cover of Tomorrow in Shanghai by May-Lee Chai. A teal background with three large red circles.

Tomorrow in Shanghai

Gullah Culture in America: 2nd Edition

Cover of Gullah Culture in America by Wilbur Cross. A dark blue background with a painting of two black people sitting in a wheat field pictured in the center.

Gullah Culture in America: 2nd Edition

A cream background, with half of a flower on the top and half of a flower on the bottom. The flowers are identical with layers of yellow, read, and teal.

Upon Her Shoulders

North Carolina in the 1950s

A mint-green background with three images along the bottom. From left to right: Two black women dancing together, a white man holding a cigar, a white woman driving a convertible car.

North Carolina in the 1950s

Cover of The Necessity of Wildfire by Caitlin Scarano. Image of an orange and red sunset with the silouette of powerlines and trees at the bottom. A red crescent moon is centered at the top.

The Necessity of Wildfire

In the bottom is clip art of two black boys wearing green shirts in front of purple trees. In the top right is a cloud. On the left is a black person standing on a white circular surface.

The Future of Black