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Captivity, A Novel
Debbie Lee Wesselmann

Primatologist Dana Armstrong struggles to determine who was responsible for releasing a group of dangerous chimpanzees from the primate sanctuary she runs in South Carolina. Pressure mounts from all sides as she faces local protestors, animal rights groups, an old nemesis bent on destroying her, and a journalist who threatens to uncover her past.

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Voices from St. Simons: Personal Narratives of an Island's Past
Edited by Stephen Doster

Voices from St. Simons records interviews with 17 people whose connection to the island stretches back generations. Five of the people interviewed are direct descendants of well-known planters who owned large plantations in and around St. Simons. Six interviewees are direct descendants of slaves, many of whom lived and worked on those same plantations.
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Hiking North Carolina's Lookout Towers
Peter J. Barr


In Hiking North Carolina's Lookout Towers, Peter Barr describes 26 fire and lookout towers in the mountains of North Carolina. Each entry includes historical information about the tower and the mountain on which it stands. The entries contain descriptions of what can be seen from the towers; thorough directions, distances, and difficulty ratings for hiking trails and routes leading to the towers; maps; and photographs.

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Homegrown Handmade: Art Roads and Farm Trails
NC Department of Cultural Resources & NC Cooperative Extension

This guide combines authentic arts and agricultural experiences and unique places and people into 16 self-directed driving tours through the rural countryside of North Carolina. The trails comprise an insider's guide to 72 Piedmont and eastern North Carolina counties.

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Travel

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Nature/Essays

Backyard Carolina: Two Decades of Public Radio Commentary
Andy Wood

Beginning in 1987, Andy Wood began reporting his observations on nature as a weekly commentator on WHQR, the public radio station for the coastal Carolinas. Backyard Carolina includes Wood's most memorable commentaries and observations on nature.
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Show & Tell: Writers on Writing
UNC-Wilmington Faculty

Now in its fifth edition, this collection of excerpts and essays by the creative-writing faculty of the University of NC Wilmington is designed as both a text for apprentice writers and a guide for apprentice readers.
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Writing
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Education

Best Practices in University Teaching
Essays by Award-Winning Faculty at the University oof North Carolina Wilmington

Edited by Carolina Clements, Ph.D.

Best Practices in University Teaching compiles pedagogical essays by esteemed UNCW professors from a broad range of academic disciplines.
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The Hatterasman
Ben Dixon MacNeill

Winner of the 1958 Mayflower Award, The Hatterasman is part nature story, part historical narrative, part adventure story, and part rhetorical farce. The 50th anniversary edition features a new introduction by author Philip Gerard (Cape Fear Rising) and a biographical essay by Barbara Brannon.
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History

The Roots of Penderlea
A Memoir of a New Deal Homestead Community
Ann S. Cottle

The Roots of Penderlea combines documentary history and firsthand accounts of North Carolina's path-breaking Penderlea Homestead Farms.
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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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Cultural Studies

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Music/Essays

Making Notes: Music of the Carolinas
Edited by Ann Wicker

Making Notes is a lively, readable sampler of essays, articles, and recollections about the music and musicians with roots in the Carolinas; and how that musical legacy continues to grow and thrive today.

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Refuge
Dot Jackson

Late one night in 1929, a young Charleston society matron named Mary Seneca Steele goes to bed while considering suicide. But instead she arises, steals her children and her husband's new Auburn Phaeton, and sets out on a journey of enlightenment--which begins with learning how to drive. The scandal begets a string of tragedies, including murder, some tough and urgent maturing, and a surprising salvation.
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Politics/Current Events

American Crisis, Southern Solutions: Where We Stand Volume II
Edited by Anthony Dunbar

Editor Anthony Dunbar and more than a dozen Southern writers, historians, business and labor-watchers, and philosophers reexamine some of the issues raised in the 2004 collection of essays Where We Stand, Voices of Southern Dissent.

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Chicken Man
Michelle Edwards

Chicken Man was the winner of the 1992 National Jewish Book Award, with delightful illustrations by author Michelle Edwards. This reissued edition includes an updated afterword by the author, discussing modern changes in kibbutz life.

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Health
Diet for Life: A Metabolism Expert's Commonsense Plan for Overcoming Obesity
David S.H. Bell and Anita Smith (co-author)

Diet for Life tells Dr. Bell's story on how he overcame obesity.

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Three Deuces Down
Keith Donnelly

Bored Wall Street whiz kid Donald Youngblood retires to his east Tennessee hometown and on a whim gets a private-eye license.

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Mystery
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Memoir/Travel

Poor Man's Provence: Finding Myself in Cajun Louisiana
Rheta Grimsley Johnson

These days, much is labeled Cajun that is not, and the popularity of the unique culture's food, songs, and dance has been a mixed blessing. Poor Man's Provence helps define what's what through lively characters and stories. The book is both a personal odyssey and good reporting, a travelogue and a memoir, funny and frank.
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Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Its Songs
Guy and Candie Carawan

Two classic collections of freedom songs by historians Guy and Candie Carawan, We Shall Overcome (1963) and Freedom is a Constant (1968), are reprinted here in a single edition.
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Biography

Nobody But the People
Warren A. Trest

In this first authorized biography of former Alabama governor John Patterson, historian Warren Trest offers new insights and rich details into the life of a significant Southern politician whose career touched some of the key struggles of the twentieth-century civil-rights movement.
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Fear in North Carolina
The Civil War Journals and Letters of the Henry Family
compiled by Karen L. Clinard and Richard Russell

Cornelia Henry's three journals, written between 1860 and 1868, offer an excellent source for daily information on western North Carolina during the Civil War period. They also provide and intimate and very personal glimpse into the lives and activities of a struggling Confederate family.
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