University of North Carolina Press
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Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land
$45.00 Add to cartFrom the moment I got to Auschwitz I was completely detached. I disconnected my heart and intellect in an act of self-defense, despair, and hopelessness.” With these words Sara Nomberg-Przytyk begins … [more below]
- Series: True Tales from a Grotesque Land
- Author: Nomberg-Przytyk, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 197
- Publish Date: August 30 1986
- ISBN10: 0807841609
- Language: English
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Seacoast Plants of the Carolinas: A New Guide for Plant Identification and Use in the Coastal Landscape
$31.95 Add to cartThis accessibly written and authoritative guide updates the beloved and much-used 1970s classic Seacoast Plants of the Carolinas. In this completely reimagined book, Paul E. Hosier provides a rich, ne… [more below]
- Series: Southern Gateways Guides
- Author: Hosier, Paul E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: June 25 2018
- ISBN10: 1469641437
- Language: English
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Latin American Street Food: The Best Flavors of Markets, Beaches, & Roadside Stands from Mexico to Argentina
$26.00 Add to cartFrom tamales to tacos, food on a stick to ceviches, and empanadas to desserts, Sandra A. Gutierrez’s Latin American Street Food takes cooks on a tasting tour of the most popular and delicious culinary… [more below]
- Author: Gutierrez, Sandra A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1469672561
- Language: English
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Garden Perennials for the Coastal South
$39.50 Add to cartFinally: a book that addresses the unique challenges of gardening in the coastal South.
Master Gardener Barbara Sullivan provides an authoritative guide for gardeners from Tidewater Virginia to Florida… [more below]
- Author: Sullivan, Barbara J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 13 2003
- ISBN10: 0807854735
- Language: English
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Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia
$32.00 Add to cartFrom the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to resettle in the United States. Many of these Scots-Irish… [more below]
- Author: Ritchie, Fiona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1469664186
- Language: English
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North Carolina Lighthouses: The Stories Behind the Beacons from Cape Fear to Currituck Beach
$26.00 Add to cartOf the over four dozen lighthouses that once marked the jagged shoreline of North Carolina, only nine still stand, watching over 300 miles of coast. These beacons are cherished monuments of North Caro… [more below]
- Author: Shelton-Roberts, Cheryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1469641488
- Language: English
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Wondrous Transformations: A Maverick Physician, the Science of Hormones, and the Birth of the Transgender Revolution
$30.00 Add to cartHarry Benjamin (1885-1986), a German-born endocrinologist, was a pivotal figure in the development of transgender medicine. He was physician to transgender pioneers such as Christine Jorgensen, the 19… [more below]
- Author: Li, Alison
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1469674858
- Language: English
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Mama Dip’s Kitchen
$24.00 Add to cartFor nearly twenty-five years, Mildred Council–better known by her nickname, Mama Dip–has nourished thousands of hungry folks in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Her restaurant, Mama Dip’s Kitchen, is a … [more below]
- Author: Council, Mildred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 04 1999
- ISBN10: 0807847909
- Language: English
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Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army After Appomattox
$30.00 Add to cartThe Army of Northern Virginia’s chaotic dispersal began even before Lee and Grant met at Appomattox Court House. As the Confederates had pushed west at a relentless pace for nearly a week, thousands o… [more below]
- Author: Janney, Caroline E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1469663376
- Language: English
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Oconaluftee: The History of a Smoky Mountain Valley
$26.00 Add to cartThe Oconaluftee Valley, located on the North Carolina side of the Smokies, is home of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians and part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (a UNESCO World Herit… [more below]
- Author: Giddens, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 146967341X
- Language: English
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Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command
$37.50 Add to cartAlthough he took command of the Army of the Potomac only three days before the first shots were fired at Gettysburg, Union general George G. Meade guided his forces to victory in the Civil War’s most … [more below]
- Series: Civil War America
- Author: Brown, Kent Masterson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: June 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1469661993
- Language: English
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Edible North Carolina: A Journey Across a State of Flavor
$35.00 Add to cartMarcie Cohen Ferris gathers a constellation of leading journalists, farmers, chefs, entrepreneurs, scholars, and food activists–along with photographer Baxter Miller– to offer a deeply immersive por… [more below]
- Author: Ferris, Marcie Cohen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1469667797
- Language: English
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Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics
$36.00 Add to cartShaking up New York and national politics by becoming the first African American congresswoman and, later, the first Black major-party presidential candidate, Shirley Chisholm left an indelible mark a… [more below]
- Author: Curwood, Anastasia C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1469671174
- Language: English
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The After: A Veteran’s Notes on Coming Home
$21.00 Add to cartWhen Michael Ramos enlisted in the Navy and was assigned to serve as a chaplain’s bodyguard thirteen days before 9/11, he had no idea he would soon be sent to Iraq. But he embraced the posting, combat… [more below]
- Author: Ramos, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1469678071
- Language: English
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Exploring the Geology of the Carolinas: A Field Guide to Favorite Places from Chimney Rock to Charleston
$34.95 Add to cartHow were the Appalachian Mountains formed? Are the barrier islands moving? Is there gold in the Carolinas? The answers to these questions and many more appear in this reader-friendly guide to the geol… [more below]
- Series: Southern Gateways Guides
- Author: Stewart, Kevin G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0807857866
- Language: English
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Graveyard of the Atlantic: Shipwrecks of the North Carolina Coast
$25.00 Add to cartThis is a factual account, written in the pace of fiction, of hundreds of dramatic losses, heroic rescues, and violent adventures at the stormy meeting place of northern and southern winds and waters … [more below]
- Author: Stick, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 11 1989
- ISBN10: 0807842613
- Language: English
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Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South
$21.00 Add to cartIn 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was splashed across headlines nationwide. Two eccentrics,… [more below]
- Author: Cox, Karen L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1469661438
- Language: English
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An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era
$35.00 Add to cartBy the late 1960s, what had been widely heralded as the best qualified, best-trained army in US history was descending into crisis as the Vietnam War raged without end. Morale was tanking. AWOL rates … [more below]
- Author: Bailey, Beth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1469673266
- Language: English
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Country Capitalism: How Corporations from the American South Remade Our Economy and the Planet
$28.00 Add to cartThe rural roads that led to our planet-changing global economy ran through the American South. That region’s impact on the interconnected histories of business and ecological change is narrated here b… [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Elmore, Bart
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1469673339
- Language: English
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Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time
$26.00 Add to cart2014 James Beard Foundation Book Award, Reference and Scholarship
Honor Book for Nonfiction, Black Caucus of the American Library AssociationIn this insightful and eclectic history, Adrian Miller delve… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 01 2017
- ISBN10: 146963242X
- Language: English
