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AA

A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Piedmont North Carolina
Catherine Bishir/Michael Southern
2003 - Season Six

A Life of James B. Duke
Robert Durden
2003 - Season Six

A Mind at a Time
Mel Levine
2002 - Season Five

A Serious Way of Wondering
Reynolds Price
2003 - Season Six

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

A Well Tempered Mind
Peter Perret
2005 - Season Eight

BB

Back to Wando Passo
David Payne
2006 - Season Nine

Bad to the Bone
Katy Munger
2001 - Season Four

Beautiful Madness
James Dodson
2007 - Season Ten

Best Choices from the People’s Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon
2007 - Season Ten

Blood Done Sign My Name
Timothy Tyson
2005 - Season Eight

Bloodlines of Shackleford Banks 
BJ Mountford
2004 - Season Seven

Blue Blood
Art Chansky

2006 - Season Nine

Broken As Things Are
Martha Witt
2005 - Season Eight

Bulletproof Girl
Quinn Dalton
2005 Season Eight

CC

Carolina Preserves
William Mangum
2001 - Season Four

Cathedral of Kudzu
Hal Crowther
2001 - Season Four

Cold Running Creek

Zelda Lockhart
2007 - Season Ten

Coming to Rest

Kathryn Stripling Byer
2007 - Season Ten

Coventry
Joseph Bathanti
2007 - Season Ten

DD

Driving with the Devil
Neal Thompson
2007 - Season Ten

EE

Encyclopedia of North Carolina

William Powell
2007 - Season Ten

Eyewitness to Power
David Gergen
2001 - Season Four

FF

First to Fly: North Carolina and the Beginnings of Aviation
Thomas Parramore
2002 - Season Five

Following Muhammad 
Carl Ernst
2004 - Season Seven

Fourth Down and Goal To Go
Pat Taylor

2006 - Season Nine

From the Heart of Covington
Joan Medlicott
2002 - Season Five

GG

Gap Creek
Robert Morgan
2001 - Season Four

Ghost Riders
Sharyn McCrumb
2004 - Season Seven

Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals
Bland Simpson
2002 - Season Five

Grave Secrets
Kathy Reichs
2002 - Season Five

Grievances
Mark Ethridge

2006 - Season Nine

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

James Peacock
2007 - Season Ten

Growing Up Nigger Rich
Gwendoline Fortune
2003 - Season Six

HH

Hard Row
Margaret Maron
2007 - Season Ten

Hatteras Blues
Tom Carlson
2006- Season Nine

Heaven Lake 
John Dalton
2004 - Season Seven

Hissy Fit
Mary Kay Andrews
2005 - Season Eight

Holy Ghost Corner
Michele Bowen
2007 - Season Ten

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

Orrin Pilkey
2004 - Season Seven

II

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

I’m Proud of You: My Friendship With Fred Rogers
Tim Madigan
2007 - Season Ten

Ishi's Brain 
Orin Starn
2004 - Season Seven

JJ

Jake Fades: A Novel of Impermanence

David Guy
2007 - Season Ten

Jim the Boy
Tony Earley
2001- Season Four

Just Listen
Sarah Dessen

2006 - Season Nine

KK

King of Lies
John Hart
2006 - Season Nine

LL

Leaving Maggie Hope
Anthony S. Abbott
2003 - Season Six

Literary Trails of the North Carolina Mountains

Georgann Eubanks
2007 - Season Ten

Look Out College, Here I Come!
Governor Mike Easley
2007 - Season Ten

Looking for Longleaf 
Lawrence Earley
2005 - Season Eight

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

Lost Christianities: The Battle for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew 
Bart Ehrman
2004 - Season Seven

Lunch at the Piccadilly
Clyde Edgerton
2004 - Season Seven

MM

Made to Stick
Dan Heath
2007 - Season Ten

Minding the South
John Shelton Reed
2004 - Season Seven

Mirror to America
John Hope Franklin

2006 - Season Nine

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

Mojo Mom
Amy Tiemann
2005 - Season Eight

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

Timothy Silver
2003 - Season Six

Music of a Thousand Hammers
Paul Leonard
2006 - Season Nine

My Old True Love 
Sheila Kay Adams
2004 - Season Seven

NN

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

New Stories from the South, 2006
Allan Gurganus

2006 - Season Nine

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

Nowhere Else On Earth
Josephine Humphreys
2001 - Season Four

OO

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

Fred Hobson
2007 - Season Ten

On Agate Hill
Lee Smith
2006 - Season Nine

One Foot in Eden
Ron Rash
2003 - Season Six

Our Vanishing Americana: A North Carolina Portrait

Mike Lassiter
2007 - Season Ten

PP

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

Walter Turner
2004 - Season Seven

Plant Life
Pamela Duncan
2003 - Season Six

Plum Wine
Angela Davis-Gardner

2006 - Season Nine

Poe & Fanny
John May
2004 - Season Seven

Princeville: 500 Year Flood 
Carole Boston Weatherford
2003 - Season Six

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

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RR 

Ray in Reverse
Daniel Wallace
2001 - Season Four

Red Clay, Blue Cadillac: Stories of Twelve Southern Women
Michael Malone
2002 - Season Five

Refuge
Dot Jackson
2006 - Season Nine

Remarkable Reads: 34 Writers and Their Adventures in Reading
J. Peder Zane
2004 - Season Seven

Remembering Bill Neal  
Moreton Neal
2005 - Season Eight

Rescuing Patty Hearst
Virginia Holman
2003 - Season Six

Robert F. Irwin 40 Years
Robert F. Irwin
2005 - Season Eight

SS

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

Salt
Isabel Zuber
2003 - Season Six

Saltwater Cowboys
Bill Morris
2005 - Season Eight

Seasoned in the South
Bill Smith
2006 - Season Nine

Shadow Puppets
Orson Scott Card
2003 - Season Six

Somerset Homecoming
Dorothy Spruill-Redford,
2001 - Season Four

Squizzy the Black Squirrel: A Fabulous Fable of Friendship
Chuck Stone
2004 - Season Seven

Storm Track
Margaret Maron
2001 - Season Four

Sweet Stuff: Karen Barker's American Desserts 
Karen Barker
2004 - Season Seven

Sweet Tea, Fried Chicken & Lazy Dogs: Reflections on North Carolina Life
Bill Thompson
2004 - Season Seven

TT

The American
Andrew Britton
2006 - Season Nine

The Best Tar Heel Barbecue: From Manteo to Murphy
Jim Early
2004 - Season Seven

The Bridge
Doug Marlette
2002 - Season Five

The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons From a Life in Coaching
Dr. Gerald Bell
2004 - Season Seven

The Last Girls
Lee Smith
2002 - Season Five

The Marines of Montford Point
Melton McLaurin
2007 - Season Ten

The Myth of You and Me
Leah Stewart 
2006 - Season Nine

The Piano Teacher
Lynn York
2004 - Season Seven

The Pleasure Was Mine
Tommy Hays
2005 - Season Eight

The Rescue
Nicholas Sparks
2001 - Season Four

The Road from Chapel Hill
Joanna Catherine Scott
2007 - Season Ten

The Solace of Leaving Early
Haven Kimmel
2003 - Season Six

The Southern Woman
Elizabeth Spencer
2002 - Season Five

The Top Ten
J. Peder Zane
2007 - Season Ten

The Vision of a Champion
Anson Dorrance
2003 - Season Six

The Waterman’s Song
David Cecelski
2003 - Season Six

The White House Looks South
William Leuchtenburg
2006 - Season Nine

Thirteen Moons
Charles Frazier
2006 - Season Nine

This is Where We Live
Michael McFee
2001 - Season Four

To Hate Like This is to be Happy Forever   
Will Blythe
2006 - Season Nine

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

John Drescher
2002 - Season Five

UU

VV

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

Visits from the Drowned Girl
Steven Sherrill
2004 - Season Seven

WW

Walking On Water:Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
Randall Kenan
2005 - Season Eight

While They’re at War
Kristin Henderson

2006 - Season Nine

With a Woman's Voice: A Writer's Struggle for Emotional Development
Lucy Daniels
2002 - Season Five

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