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AA

Anthony S. Abbott
Leaving Maggie Hope

2003 - Season Six

Sheila Kay Adams
My Old True Love 

2004 - Season Seven

Jean Anderson
A Love Affair with Southern Cooking

2008 - Season Eleven

Mary Kay Andrews
Hissy Fit
2005 - Season Eight

Dan Ariely
Predictably Irrational

2009 - Season Twelve

BB

Dan Barefoot
Hark the Sound of Tar Heel Voices

2009 - Season Twelve

Suzy Barile
Undaunted Heart: The True Story Of A Southern Belle & A Yankee General

2010 - Season 13

Karen Barker
Sweet Stuff: Karen Barker's American Desserts 

2004 - Season Seven

Joseph Bathanti
Coventry

2007 - Season Ten

Dr. Gerald Bell
The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons From a Life in Coaching 

2004 - Season Seven

John Claude Bemis
The Nine Pound Hammer
2010 - Season 13

Kate Betterton
Where the Lake Becomes the River

2009 - Season Twelve

Catherine Bishir/Michael Southern
A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Piedmont North Carolina

2003 - Season Six

Will Blythe
To Hate Like This is to be Happy Forever

2006 - Season Nine

Michele Bowen
Holy Ghost Corner

2007 - Season Ten

Andrew Britton
The American

2006 - Season Nine

Nic Brown
Flood Markers

2010 - Season 13

Kathryn Stripling Byer
Coming to Rest

2007 - Season Ten

CC

Wayne Caldwell
Cataloochee

2008 - Season Eleven

Orson Scott Card
Shadow Puppets

2003 - Season Six

Tom Carlson
Hatteras Blues

2006 - Season Nine

Justin Catanoso
My Cousin the Saint

2009 - Season Twelve

David Cecelski
The Waterman’s Song

2003 - Season Six

Art Chansky
Blue Blood

2006 - Season Nine

Rob Christensen
The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics

2008 - Season Eleven

Martin Clark
The Legal Limit

2008 - Season Eleven

Hal Crowther
Cathedral of Kudzu

2001 - Season Four

DD

John Dalton
Heaven Lake
 
2004 - Season Seven

Quinn Dalton
Bulletproof Girl
2005 - Season Eight

Lucy Daniels
With a Woman's Voice: A Writer's Struggle for Emotional Development

2002 - Season Five

Michael Davis
Street Gang

2009 - Season Twelve

Angela Davis-Gardner
Plum Wine

2006 - Season Nine

Nina de Gramont
Gossip of the Starlings
2008 - Season Eleven

Sarah Dessen
Just Listen

2006 - Season Nine

James Dodson
Beautiful Madness

2007 - Season Ten

Anson Dorrance
The Vision of a Champion

2003 - Season Six

Pamela Duncan
Plant Life

2003 - Season Six

Robert Durden
A Life of James B. Duke

2003 - Season Six

John Drescher
Triumph of Good Will:
How Terry Sanford Beat a Champion of Segregation and Reshaped the South

2002 - Season Five

EE

Tony Earley
The Blue Star

2008 - Season Eleven

Jim Early
The Best Tar Heel Barbecue: From Manteo to Murphy

2004 - Season Seven

Lawrence Earley
Looking for Longleaf
2005 - Season Eight

Tony Earley
Jim the Boy

2001 - Season Four

Governor Mike Easley
Look Out College, Here I Come!

2007 - Season Ten

Clyde Edgerton
Lunch at the Piccadilly

2004 - Season Seven

Clyde Edgerton
The Bible Salesman

2008 - Season Eleven

Elizabeth Edwards
Resilience

2009 - Season Twelve

Bart Ehrman
Lost Christianities: The Battle for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew

2004 - Season Seven

Erica Eisdorfer
The Wet Nurse's Tale
2009 - Season Twelve

Carl Ernst
Following Muhammad

2004 - Season Seven

Paul Escott
What Shall We Do with the Negro?: Lincoln, White Racism, and Civil War America

2009 - Season Twelve

Mark Ethridge
Grievances

2006 - Season Nine

Georgann Eubanks
Literary Trails of the North Carolina Mountains

2007 - Season Ten

FF

Gwendoline Fortune
Growing Up Nigger Rich

2003 - Season Six

Therese Fowler
Souvenir

2008 - Season Eleven

John Hope Franklin
Mirror to America

2006 - Season Nine

Charles Frazier
Thirteen Moons

2006 - Season Nine

Barbara Fredrickson
Positivity

2009 - Season Twelve

Brett Friedlander
Chasing Moonlight

2009 - Season Twelve

GG

David Gergen
Eyewitness to Power

2001 - Season Four

Marianne Gingher
Adventures in Pen Land

2009 - Season Twelve

Joseph Glatthaar
General Lee’s Army: From Victory to Collapse

2008 - Season Eleven

Joe and Terry Graedon
Best Choices from the People’s Pharmacy

2007 - Season Ten

Allan Gurganus
New Stories from the South

2006 - Season Nine

David Guy
Jake Fades: A Novel of Impermanence

2007 - Season Ten

Minrose Gwin
The Queen Of Palmyra

2010 - Season 13

HH

Nortin Hadler
Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America

2008 - Season Eleven

Bernie Harberts
Too Proud to Ride a Cow

2008 - Season Eleven

Trudier Harris - Lopez
Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature
2002 - Season Five

John Hart
King of Lies

2006 - Season Nine

John Hart
The Last Child

2009 - Season Twelve

Louise Hawes
Black Pearls

2008 - Season Eleven

Anna Hayes
Without Precedent:The Life of Susie Marshall Sharp

2008 - Season Eleven

Tommy Hays
The Pleasure Was Mine
2005 - Season Eight

Dan Heath
Made to Stick

2007 - Season Ten

Kristin Henderson
While They’re at War

2006 - Season Nine

Fred Hobson
Off the Rim: Basketball and Other Religions in a Carolina Childhood

2007 - Season Ten

Virginia Holman
Rescuing Patty Hearst

2003 - Season Six

Cindy Horrell Ramsey
Boys of the Battleship North Carolina

2008 - Season Eleven

Scott Huler
No-Man’s Lands

2008 - Season Eleven

Josephine Humphreys
Nowhere Else On Earth

2001 - Season Four

II

Robert F. Irwin
Robert F. Irwin 40 Years

2005 - Season Eight

JJ

Dot Jackson
Refuge

2006 - Season Nine

Todd Johnson
The Sweet By and By

2009 - Season Twelve

KK

Randall Kenan
Walking On Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

2005 - Season Eight

John Kessel
The Baum Plan for Financial Independence: and Other Stories

2009 - Season Twelve

Haven Kimmel
The Solace of Leaving Early

2003 - Season Six

LL

Mike Lassiter
Our Vanishing Americana: A North Carolina Portrait

2007 - Season Ten

Howard Lee
The Courage to Lead

2009 - Season Twelve

Paul Leonard
Music of a Thousand Hammers

2006 - Season Nine

William Leuchtenburg
The White House Looks South

2006 - Season Nine

William Leuchtenburg 
In The Shadow Of FDR: From Harry Truman To Barack Obama

2010 - Season 13

Mel Levine
A Mind at a Time

2002 - Season Five

William Link
Righteous Warrior
2008 - Season Eleven

Zelda Lockhart
Cold Running Creek

2007 - Season Ten

Malinda Maynor Lowery
Lumbee Indians In The Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, And The Making Of A Nation

2010 - Season 13

MM

Tim Madigan
I’m Proud of You:
My Friendship With Fred Rogers

2007 - Season Ten

Michael Malone
Red Clay, Blue Cadillac: Stories of Twelve Southern Women

2002 - Season Five

Michael Malone
The Four Corners of the Sky

2009 - Season Twelve

Margaret Maron
Hard Row

2007 - Season Ten

Francis Mayes
A Year in the World

2008 - Season Eleven

Jill McCorkle
Going Away Shoes

2009 - Season Twelve

Sharyn McCrumb
Ghost Riders

2004 - Season Seven

Michael McFee
This is Where We Live

2001 - Season Four

Melton McLaurin
The Marines of Montford Point

2007 - Season Ten

William Mangum
Carolina Preserves

2001 - Season Four

Doug Marlette
The Bridge

2002 - Season Five

Margaret Maron
Storm Track

2001 - Season Four

John May
Poe & Fanny  

2004 - Season Seven

Joan Medlicott
From the Heart of Covington

2002 - Season Five

Robert Morgan
Gap Creek
2001 - Season Four

Robert Morgan
Boone: A Biography

2008 - Season Eleven

Bill Morris
Saltwater Cowboys
2005 - Season Eight

Shelia Moses
The Baptism

2008 - Season Eleven

BJ Mountford
Bloodlines of Shackleford Banks 

2004 - Season Seven

Katy Munger
Bad to the Bone

2001 - Season Four

NN

Lawrence Naumoff
A Southern Tragedy in Crimson and Yellow
2005 - Season Eight

Moreton Neal
Remembering Bill Neal  
2005 - Season Eight

OO

 

PP

Thomas Parramore
First to Fly: North Carolina and the Beginnings of Aviation

2002 - Season Five

Andrew Park  
Between A Church And A Hard Place:  One Faith-Free Dad's Struggle To Understand What It Means To Be Religious (Or Not)

2010 - Season 13

Michael Parker
If You Want Me to Stay
2005 - Season Eight

David Payne
Back to Wando Passo

2006 - Season Nine

James Peacock
Grounded Globalism:
How the U.S. South Embraces the World

2007 - Season Ten

Nancy Peacock
A Broom of One’s Own

2008 - Season Eleven

Gary Pearce
Jim Hunt: A Biography

2010 - Season 13

Theda Perdue
The Cherokee Nation and The Trail of Tears

2008 - Season Eleven

Peter Perret
A Well Tempered Mind
2005 - Season Eight

Marisha Pessl
Special Topics in Calamity Physics

2009 - Season Twelve

Henry Petroski
Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering
2005 - Season Eight

Orrin Pilkey
How to Read a North Carolina Beach: Bubble Holes, Barking Sands, and Rippled Runnels

2004 - Season Seven

Barry Popkin
The World Is Fat

2009 - Season Twelve

William Powell
Encyclopedia of North Carolina

2007 - Season Ten

Reynolds Price
A Serious Way of Wondering

2003 - Season Six

Reynolds Price
Ardent Spirits

2009 - Season Twelve

QQ

 

RR

Ron Rash
One Foot in Eden

2003 - Season Six

Ron Rash
Serena

2009 - Season Twelve

Shannon Ravenel
New Stories From the South, 2005
2005 - Season Eight

John Shelton Reed
Minding the South

2004 - Season Seven

John Shelton Reed and Dale Volberg Reed
Holy Smoke

2009 - Season Twelve

Kathy Reichs
Grave Secrets

2002 - Season Five

Kathy Reichs
Spider Bones

2010 - Season 13

J.D. Rhoades
Breaking Cover

2008 - Season Eleven

Leonard Rogoff 
Down Home: Jewish Life In North Carolina

2010 - Season 13

Ann B. Ross
Miss Julia's School of Beauty 
2005 - Season Eight

Anna Rubino
Queen of the Oil Club
2008 - Season Eleven

SS

Joanna Catherine Scott
The Road from Chapel Hill

2007 - Season Ten

Steven Sherrill
Visits from the Drowned Girl  

2004 - Season Seven

Jerry Shinn
Loonis: Celebrating a Lyrical Life
2005 - Season Eight

Timothy Silver
Mount Mitchell & The Black Mountains:
An Environmental History of the Highest Peaks in Eastern America

2003 - Season Six

Bland Simpson
Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals

2002 - Season Five

Bill Smith
Seasoned in the South

2006 - Season Nine

Lee Smith
The Last Girls

2002 - Season Five

Lee Smith
On Agate Hill

2006 - Season Nine

Lee Smith
Mrs. Darcy And The Blue-Eyed Stranger

2010 - Season 13

Alexandra Sokoloff
The Unseen

2009 - Season Twelve

Nicholas Sparks
The Rescue
2001 - Season Four

Elizabeth Spencer
The Southern Woman

2002 - Season Five

Dorothy Spruill-Redford
Somerset Homecoming

2001 - Season Four

Orin Starn
Ishi's Brain
 
2004 - Season Seven

Shelby Stephenson
Family Matters: Homage to July, The Slave Girl

2009 - Season Twelve

Leah Stewart 
The Myth of You and Me

2006 - Season Nine

Chuck Stone
Squizzy the Black Squirrel: A Fabulous Fable of Friendship

2004 - Season Seven

TT

Eleanora Tate
Celeste’s Harlem Renaissance

2008 - Season Eleven

Pat Taylor
Fourth Down and Goal To Go

2006 - Season Nine

Bill Thompson
Sweet Tea, Fried Chicken & Lazy Dogs: Reflections on North Carolina Life

2004 - Season Seven

Neal Thompson
Driving with the Devil

2007 - Season Ten

Amy Tiemann
Mojo Mom
2005 - Season Eight

Larry Tise
Conquering The Sky: The Secret Flights Of The Wright Brothers At Kitty Hawk

2010 - Season 13

Walter Turner
Paving Tobacco Road: A Century of Progress by the North Carolina Department of Transportation  

2004 - Season Seven

Timothy Tyson
Blood Done Sign My Name
2005 - Season Eight

UU

Roy Underhill
The Woodwright’s Guide

2008 - Season Eleven

VV

WW

Michael Walden
North Carolina in the Connected Age

2009 - Season Twelve

Daniel Wallace
Ray in Reverse
2001 - Season Four

Carole Boston Weatherford
Princeville: 500 Year Flood

2003 - Season Six

Gerhard Weinberg
Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War II Leaders
2005 - Season Eight

Roy Williams
Hard Work

2009 - Season Twelve

Emily Herring Wilson
No One Gardens Alone: A Life of Elizabeth Lawrence
2005 - Season Eight

Eric Wilson
Against Happiness

2008 - Season Eleven

Martha Witt
Broken As Things Are
2005 - Season Eight

XX

 

YY

Lynn York
The Piano Teacher

2004 - Season Seven

Andrew Young
The Politician

2010 - Season Twelve

Michele Young-Stone
The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors

2010 - Season 13

ZZ

J. Peder Zane
Remarkable Reads: 34 Writers and Their Adventures in Reading

2004 - Season Seven

The Top Ten
2007 - Season Ten

Isabel Zuber
Salt

2003 - Season Six



 

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