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The first single-volume reference to the events, institutions, and cultural forces that have defined the state, the Encyclopedia of North Carolina is a landmark publication that will serve those who love and live in North Carolina for generatio
In this episode, Hobson shares his story of a boyhood that never ends, relived each year during basketball season in the frantic, tortured life of a fan.
In this episode, Joe and Teresa Graedon, the best-selling authors of The Peoples Pharmacy, fill in the void with all the information readers need to become savvy health-care consumers from their latest comprehensive guide to healthful living.
In this episode, Statesville lawyer Mike Lassiter shares the many images he captured on his travels along North Carolina's rural highways and byways, exploring an era before Internet shopping, big-box stores, shopping malls, chain restaurants a
In this episode, the Hillsborough native shares her enlightening and revealing story set amid a chorus of swamps, voodoo, floods, and the inevitable cold-running creek.
An aging Zen master and bicycle repairman confronts his mortality and looks for a successor in this new novel by Duke Professor, and longtime Buddhist practitioner, David Guy. In this episode, the Durham author explores the Zen landscapes of Ja
An aging Zen master and bicycle repairman confronts his mortality and looks for a successor in this new novel by Duke Professor, and longtime Buddhist practitioner, David Guy. In this episode, the Durham author explores the Zen landscapes of Ja
Byer’s new poetry collection, entitled Coming to Rest, is considered a re-articulation and a culmination of her distinguished career, which includes her present position as a North Carolina Poet Laureate. In this episode, the award-winning loca
Drawing from interviews with 60 veterans, The Marines of Montford Point relates the experiences of these pioneers in their own words. In this episode, author Melton McLaurin shares the Marines' stories and reasons for enlisting; their arrival a
This memoir recounts the deep eight-year friendship of young Texas newspaper journalist Tim Madigan and famed children's television host Fred Rogers (1928-2003). Their contact began with an interview assignment but developed steadily into numer
In this episode, Peacock explores both the present and the past to develop the idea of 'grounded globalism' in which global forces and local cultures rooted in history, tradition, and place reverberate against each other in mutually sustaining
As Judge Deborah Knott presides over a case involving a barroom brawl, it becomes clear that deep resentments over race, class, and illegal immigration are simmering just below the surface in the countryside. An early spring sun has begun to sh
Why do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do we improve the chances of worthy ideas? In Made to Stick, accomplished educators and idea collectors Chip and Dan Heath tackle, head-on, these vexing questions. Inside, the brothers Heath re
In this episode of North Carolina Bookwatch, Dodson shares Beautiful Madness — his true tale of shared horticultural obsession and burrows deeply into the story of how Americans became such fanatical gardeners and are today, in fact, at the for
Joanna Catherine Scott was born in England, raised in Australia, and took her graduate degree in Philosophy at Duke University. From this award-winning author of Cassandra Lost and The Lucky Gourd Shop, comes The Road From Chapel Hill -- a swee
Joseph Bathanti was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. He came to North Carolina as a VISTA (domestic Peace Corps) volunteer in 1976 to work with prison inmates and for nearly thirty years he has continued to teach in prisons, battered women’s
Neal Thompson was born (1965) and raised in New Jersey, outside New York City. After graduating from the University of Scranton, he began his award-winning journalism career as a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer. For the next 15 years, he
Michele Andrea Bowen is a native of St. Louis, MO. She was raised on the city’s north side or the traditional African American Community by everyday, hardworking black folk. And she was a member of Washington Metropolitan African Methodist Ep
Now serving in his second term as Governor of North Carolina, Mike Easley has compiled an impressive wide-ranging record on education reform. His highly successful More at Four program ranks as one of the nation’s best Pre-K programs for at-ri
J. Peder Zane is the Ideas Columnist for The News & Observer newspaper of Raleigh, N.C. Peder’s writing has won several national awards, including the Distinguished Writing Award for Commentary from the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
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