University of North Carolina Press
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Language and Life on Ocracoke: The Living History of the Brogue
$25.00 Add to cartIn this follow-up to the celebrated Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks, Jeffrey Reaser, Walt Wolfram, and Candy Gaskill have produced the most comprehensive linguistic look at Ocracoke yet. Many visitors ar… [more below]
- Author: Reaser, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1469685299
- Language: English
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The Fabulous Ordinary: Discovering the Natural Wonders of the Wild South
$35.00 Add to cartGeorgann Eubanks offers readers a tour of the seasonal joys of ecosystems in the Southeast. The ordinary destinations and events she explores are scattered across seven states and include such wonders… [more below]
- Author: Eubanks, Georgann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1469685922
- Language: English
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The Sixth Wisconsin and the Long Civil War: The Biography of a Regiment
$35.00 Add to cartReimagining one of the oldest genres of Civil War history, this book engagingly presents the story of the war and its aftermath through the lens of a single regiment, the Sixth Wisconsin. One of the c… [more below]
- Series: Civil War America
- Author: Marten, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1469684233
- Language: English
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A Campaign of Giants–The Battle for Petersburg: Volume 2: From the Crater’s Aftermath to the Battle of Burgess Mill
$45.00 Add to cartGrinding, bloody, and ultimately decisive, the Petersburg Campaign was the Civil War’s longest and among its most complex. A Campaign of Giants: The Battle for Petersburg offers a gripping, comprehens… [more below]
- Series: Civil War America
- Author: Greene, A. Wilson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 712
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1469684810
- Language: English
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Shattering the Glass: The Remarkable History of Women’s Basketball
$25.00 Add to cartAmerican women’s basketball has reached new peaks of interest and popularity, thanks to spellbinding athletes, exhilarating games, and a vibrant, empowered vision of womanhood. Shattering the Glass st… [more below]
- Author: Grundy, Pamela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1469674785
- Language: English
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Southern News, Southern Politics: How a Newspaper Defined a State for a Century
$35.00 Add to cartNewspapers are a tough business, and no one knows that better than Rob Christensen, who was chief political reporter at North Carolina’s capital newspaper, the News and Observer, for decades. Here he … [more below]
- Author: Christensen, Rob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1469685248
- Language: English
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Black Girls and How We Fail Them
$22.00 Add to cartFrom hip-hop moguls and political candidates to talk radio and critically acclaimed films, society communicates that Black girls don’t matter and their girlhood is not safe. Alarming statistics on phy… [more below]
- Author: Halliday, Aria S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1469686112
- Language: English
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Doc Watson: A Life in Music
$30.00 Add to cartArthel “Doc” Watson (1923-2012) is arguably one of the most influential musicians Appalachia has ever produced. A musician’s musician, Doc grew up on a subsistence farm in the North Carolina mountains… [more below]
- Series: American Music: New Roots
- Author: Huffman, Eddie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1469680351
- Language: English
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Brown Women Have Everything: Essays on (Dis)comfort and Delight
$22.00 Add to cartAs a child growing up in New Delhi, Sayantani Dasgupta wanted to go on adventures involving shipwrecks and treasure chests. Her parents wanted her to stay in school instead. She satisfied her curiosit… [more below]
- Author: Dasgupta, Sayantani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1469681773
- Language: English
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Tar Heel Lightnin’: How Secret Stills and Fast Cars Made North Carolina the Moonshine Capital of the World
$32.50 Add to cartFrom the late nineteenth century well into the 1960s, North Carolina boasted some of the nation’s most restrictive laws on alcohol production and sale. For much of this era, it was also the nation’s l… [more below]
- Author: Pierce, Daniel S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1469653559
- Language: English
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Art of the State: Celebrating the Visual Art of North Carolina
$60.00 Add to cartThis beautiful and informative volume illustrates the vitality and importance of North Carolina’s contemporary art scene, showcasing the creation, collection, and celebration of art in all its richnes… [more below]
- Author: Roberts, Liza
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1469661241
- Language: English
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Passion Plays: How Religion Shaped Sports in North America
$25.00 Add to cartRandall Balmer was a late convert to sports talk radio, but he quickly became addicted, just like millions of other devoted American sports fans. As a historian of religion, the more he listened, Balm… [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Balmer, Randall
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1469670062
- Language: English
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Fifteen Hurricanes That Changed the Carolinas: Powerful Storms, Climate Change, and What We Do Next
$31.00 Add to cartThis informative and engaging book tells the true stories of the hurricanes that had the greatest impact on North Carolina and South Carolina, from the eighteenth century to the present day. Hurricane… [more below]
- Author: Barnes, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1469666308
- Language: English
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Bring Your a Game: A Young Athlete’s Guide to Mental Toughness
$34.50 Add to cartMental training is just as important as physical training when it comes to success in sport. And like physical fitness, mental toughness is something that can be taught and learned. Yet many young ath… [more below]
- Author: Etnier, Jennifer L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: December 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0807859907
- Language: English
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The Marines of Montford Point: America’s First Black Marines
$24.00 Add to cartWith an executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, the United States Marine Corps–the last all-white branch of the U.S. military–was forced to begin recruiting and enlisting African … [more below]
- Author: McLaurin, Melton A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0807861766
- Language: English
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Amphibians & Reptiles of the Carolinas and Virginia
$31.95 Add to cartRevised and updated to reflect the most current science, and including 30 new species, this authoritative and comprehensive volume is the definitive guide to the amphibians and reptiles of the Carolin… [more below]
- Author: Beane, Jeffrey C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 03 2010
- ISBN10: 0807871125
- Language: English
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White Evangelical Racism, Second Edition: The Politics of Morality in America
$16.00 Add to cartThe American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals play a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. In this clear-eyed, hard-hitting chroni… [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Butler, Anthea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 146968151X
- Language: English
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Family of Earth: A Southern Mountain Childhood
$21.00 Add to cartDiscovered as a typewritten manuscript only after her death in 2006, Family of Earth allows us to see into the young mind of author and Appalachian native Wilma Dykeman (1920-2006), who would become o… [more below]
- Author: Dykeman, Wilma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 1469629143
- Language: English
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Anatomy of a Purple State: A North Carolina Politics Primer
$22.00 Add to cartNorth Carolina represents a perfect distillation of the promise and peril of modern American democracy: hyperpartisanship, gerrymandering, dissatisfaction with the two-party system, the urban-rural di… [more below]
- Author: Cooper, Christopher A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1469681714
- Language: English
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Seashells of North Carolina, Revised and Expanded Edition
$22.00 Add to cartGathering seashells is one of the delights of a beach trip; everyone knows the feeling of spotting something beautiful among a seemingly infinite array of colors and shapes dotting the shoreline. Gene… [more below]
- Series: Southern Gateways Guides
- Author: North Carolina Sea Grant
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1469678942
- Language: English
