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North to Nunavut It began as an interest in Inuit art. Once Fred and Joyce Sparling booked their first cruise to Nunavut to visit its master artisans, they had taken the first step in what would become a ten-year odyssey...[more...]	Doodlebug, Doodlebug Your House Is On Fire! Growing up in Laurinburg, NC, James P. McRae had total freedom to roam the large family farm. He often would wake up earlier than his parents or sister, put on his overalls ...[more...]

The Family He Would Never Know Thirty-five years ago, as part of a college assignment, Gary Herion began a ten-year-long project helping his grandfather write his autobiography. When it came to family roots, he was surprised how little his grandfather knew ....[more]	All The Days of My Life Back in the mid-1970s, as part of a college history project at the University of North Carolina, Gary Herion sat down with his grandfather, John H. Herion, and began ... [more]

Man's Chief End This story is an adventure, the actors speaking with a variety of dialects from the Great Depression and World War II to the peace and prosperity years, progressing from toddlers to old age; from grammar school to prep school and college to a brief ...[more]	Between The Creeks Roy A. Cooper Jr. set out to tell the stories of growing up in the country in the late 1920s and 1930s. In doing so, he has accomplished much more than that. His collection of tales ...[more]

Passion and Ice "Steve Stefano’s voice is one of the freshest and most original in leadership writing today. With self-effacing humor and an eye for the truest detail by which to tell his...[more]	More Than I Deserve Dan Perry’s memoir, More Than I Deserve, is the humble story of one man’s life, or rather the journey of that life. As the reader quickly discovers, the 76-year-old author is...[more]

False Dawn In False Dawn, Stephen Negron tells tales of a paradise that he laments is now slipping away. His journey, begun humbly as a laborer on a production-room floor, took him...[more]	MACRAES TO AMERICA!! This project began as a personal search for Cornelia W. Bush’s ancestors in the MacRae branch of my family. It led her to the discovery that she was a Mackenzie of Ballone, which...[more]

Wildflowers Among the Cotton Seeds Childhood can be magical, and one of the functions of magic is delivering the audience into another realm. Doyle Porter transports his readers...[more]	A Pleasant Gale on My Lee The past fifty years have seen rapid and profound changes in the Pamlico and Outer Banks; changes that author John Morgan, a former journalist and radio [more...]

The Loving Caregiver It is a story of faith. It is a story of courage. It is a story of brilliant medicine. It is a story of God working through people to help other people...[more]	Ask Charlie Ask Charlie highlights the sixty-seven year connection between Archdale, North Carolina native Charlie Hendricks and Guilford College in Greensboro, NC. [more...]

Against the Stream Against the Stream is the captivating and unsolved story of a true individual who lived his life unreservedly, without fear of judgment from others. Leonard’s unique perspective on his brother’s life and disappearance...[more...]	Confessions of an Outer Banks Filly To a little girl observing the world from the porch above her father's store in the middle of North Carolina's Hatteras Village in the 1930s, life was inventive and wonderful. [more...]

Mid Life • Mid Century • Mid South From roots sown by the earliest settlers to brushes with long foreign lineages, we experience an exciting life as she recalls her career and travels. In all facets, she has...[more...]	Cap'n Dell's Stories Pamlico County was a different world in the 1920's, '30s and '40s. People paid twenty-five cents to pile into the back of the two-ton truck belonging to the owner [more...]

Going Up Al Wilcox went to work full-time at age sixteen after a childhood in which he and his two brothers had mostly raised themselves. [more...]	Davidson Co. Community College Davidson County Community College: The First Forty Years, 1963 - 2003 recounts the history of DCCC from its modest beginnings to...[more...]

Health Care in the Trenches After a distinguished forty-year career in nursing, Jimmie Butts decided to retire. Instead of settling...[more...]	Saturday's Child This memoir is also “the story of two families.” Her father’s family, the Ritters, “enjoyed a comfortable, financially secure lifestyle” in New Jersey. Her mother’s family, the Whortons, had been among the first English settlers in North... [more...]

Ladd/Paddock Family Ladd/Paddock Family: A Perspective is about ordinary people. In part, it is the story of the first... [more...]	No Ashes, R.C. Pace: A Sheriff's Life In the early 1900, Jasper County in the heart of the Piney Woods of Texas was not the wide, flat, cactus-dotted prairie of one's imagination. It was a dense forest with steep hills...[more...]

Orchids In The Icebox The emergence of women a political power was perhaps never more evident than in 1952, when armies of Republican women across the country delivered fifty-four...[more...]	Memories Memories: A Collection extends the record of Frank B. Easton, Jr.’s remembrances that he began in his book, As I Recall.... giving readers glimpses into life in a Vermont village during the years of the Great Depression and World War II. [more...]

Enterprising Spirit Quakers, farmers, slave owners, inventors, industrialists, business founders, philanthropists, and political leaders... [more...]	Challenges on the Home Front In their latest book, members of The Writers' Discussion Group and their friends share stories of their lives during World War II. Taking place... [more...]

My Journey Wasn't Easy In this heartwarming account of overcoming life’s roadblocks, Jean tells her story of having to overcome the difficulties of growing... [more...]	Born to Win Mary A. Richardson began writing her autobiography at the age of eighty. Her journey takes the reader through the cotton and tobacco fields... [more...]

Keep Singing Keep Singing is the inspiring story of Eloise Vaughn and Patsy Clarke, two women who became the unlikeliest of activists and gave a new face to the fight against bigotry and...[more..]

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