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Pearl Starling is forty-five, a hermit with a colorful past-a past filled with treachery and desire, death and survival-who makes her living weaving rugs in a North Carolina military town. For years she has been an object of curiosity and scorn, and now she has defied the societys conventions once again: she is pregnant and no one knows who the father is. In The Secret of Hurricanes Pearl tells...

Rivals! The Ten Greatest American Sports Rivalries of the 20th Century presents the most memorable rivalries in over a hundred years of American sports history.

• Examines ten of the greatest American sports rivalries of the past century, relating them to their broader historical context
  
  
• Includes the rivalries between the Boston Red Sox and the New York...

Nicole Michelin avoids airplanes, motorcycles, and most of all, Japan, where her parents once were missionaries. Something happened in Japan...something that sent Nicole and her father back to America alone...something of which Nicole knows only bits and pieces. But she is content with life in little Mount Olive, North Carolina, with her quirky relatives, tank of lively fish, and plenty of home...

After returning home from teaching English at a refugee camp in the Philippines, Samantha Bravencourt enjoys her quiet life working at her mothers clothing boutique in Falls Church, Virginia. When she receives an invitation to a wedding in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, she looks forward to reconnecting with her college friend. Instead her life collides with Carson, a fellow teacher and the man...

The Markov Anniversary Meeting, June 12-14, 2006 was the fifth in a series of conferences devoted to the Numerical Solution of Markov Chains (NSMC). The prior four NSMC conferences were held in 1990, 1995, 1999, and 2003. The first two conferences were held in Raleigh, North Carolina, the third moved overseas to Zarazoga, Spain, and the fourth was held in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.

This fift...

Carolina Whitewater is the premier guide to paddling the waterways of North and South Carolina. The updated guide features detailed river maps, critical river data, and descriptive narrative. The ultimate guide to paddling whitewater in the Carolinas, Carolina Whitewater has guided paddlers to the best creeks and rivers in the Tar Heel and Palmetto states for more than 35 years.

This is the first study to analyze the content, training, and performance of a World War I draft division from its formation onward. The 82nd division consisted heavily of non-English speaking European immigrants and conscripts fresh from farming towns in Tennessee and North Carolina. Despite these apparent obstacles, it would evolve into an effective combat unit on the front lines of St. Mihie...

The Last Lawyer is the true, inside story of how an idealistic legal genius and his diverse band of investigators and fellow attorneys fought to overturn a clients final sentence.

Ken Rose has handled more capital appeals cases than almost any other attorney in the United States. The Last Lawyer chronicles Roses decade-long defense of Bo Jones, a North Carolina farmhand convicte...

Born to a tobacco farmer in rural North Carolina, Kaye Gibbons found her literary voice by speaking through the strong southern women who inhabit her novels. While concentrating on the places and people she knows well, Gibbons has managed to speak for people who struggle to find their own place, wherever they are, and her books have reached a worldwide audience. Whether for students assigned to...

In January 1830, a debate on the nature of sovereignty in the American federal union occurred in the United States Senate between Senators Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and Robert Hayne of South Carolina. This debate exposed the critically different understandings of the nature of the American union that, by 1830, had developed between the North and the South and would ultimately lead to civi...

Deena Livingston leaves behind a broken romance and her chef job in Atlanta to spend time at her grandfathers cabin in the mountains of North Carolina. But her grandfather has an odd request: he wants Deena to teach cooking classes to the ragtag group of middle-schoolers who attend the local afterschool program, The Center. Reluctantly, Deena agrees, but how is she supposed to convince these ki...

Gordy couldnt be more unhappy about moving back to his hometown of College Hill, where everybody knows his familys troubled history. In North Carolina, Gordys life had finally seemed to be on the right track. But in College Hill, Gordy and his sister, June, move into a cramped apartment with their brother Stu and his new family. The principal at Gordys school immediately has it in for him, his ...

In this beautifully written debut, Anna Jean Mayhew offers a riveting depiction of Southern life in the throes of segregation, what it will mean for a young girl on her way to adulthood - and for the woman who means the world to her. . .

On a scorching day in August 1954, thirteen-year-old Jubie Watts leaves Charlotte, North Carolina, with her family for a Florida vacation. Crammed into the P...

Jill never expected her week at surf camp to be interrupted by a hurricane, but one is heading for the North Carolina coast. Abby and Sara think surfing in a hurricane will be amazing. Then the waves get out of control. Time is running out, and the storm is coming.

Do we have to be beautiful to be loved?

Do we have to be beautiful to be loved? Hobbie this novels darkly romantic hero has been banished to homely man exile in the North Georgia Mountains, where his enemies are mirrors and bears. Things are not going well for Hobbie. His skin? Pizza Face, super-sized, with extra pepperoni and pitted olives. Job status? Former bank teller. Love life? His comm...

“Edward Lynskey has given the force of his fine talent and the strong faith of his poetry, to the people of this world... And the poems bountifully reward his readers.â€�-Fred Chappell, University of North Carolina, Greensboro. 

“It is good to have these poems. Lynskey is well worth reading, and the best poems in this volume leave the reader looking forward to the next.�-O. B. ...

Though its an unseasonably chilly October in Timber Ridge, North Carolina, Eleanor Swift is warm and cozy in A Slice of Delight - her scrumptious pizzeria. But when snooty Judson Sizemore breezes into town to open an upper-crust pizza parlor nearby, Eleanors biggest worry is that her beloved restaurants days may be numbered. . .until she hears Judsons days have come to a most gruesome end. . ....

For years, Wardsville sat nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, a peaceful small town. The kind of place where neighbors care for each other. But thats until unexpected funding arrives to build a road into town. With millions to be gained in land and development deals and millions to be lost for those in the roads way everyone has something at stake. Suddenly, this quiet town i...

Dylan Hargreave thinks Im an actress paid to pose as his girlfriend at a North Carolina society wedding. How did this happen to me, of all people? Kendall Clarke, award-winning actuary, the veritable shining star of number crunchers who, just hours ago, learned her responsible fianc (sorry, ex-fianc) called off our wedding because hed gotten one of my colleagues pregnant. What are the odds?

Middle-aged shrink David Gritz Goldberg is enjoying lunch one day when he receives a message to hurry to the historic Battery Park Hotel in Asheville, North Carolina, where an unidentified man is preparing to leap to his death.

The predicament, as it turns out, is both more and less dire than it first appears. The man has no intention of jumping. He is T Royal, Gritzs childhood caretaker, bac...

Edward Lynskey has given the force of his fine talent and the strong faith of his poetry, to the people of this world...And the poems bountifully reward his readers. Fred Chappell, University of North Carolina, Greensboro. It is good to have these poems. Lynskey is well worth reading, and the best poems in this volume leave the reader looking forward to the next. O. B. Hardison, Small Press R...