In his beautifully written, heartrending memoir, Jones tells how he carried the burdens of pain and resentment between his charming, but irresponsible, alcoholic father and his long-suffering, former Southern belle mother.
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California-based screenwriter Heidi Schnakenberg crafted a book that readers can easily envision on the silver screen.
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Merging her tough-minded newspaper personality with the glamour of beauty pageants, Denton’s Venus Wallace crossed borders in an effort to promote her tiny town.
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The metamorphosis of small-town classical pianist Eunice Waymon into international superstar Nina Simone is tabloid fodder, a life packed with outbursts and upheavals as well as triumphs that would guarantee her star billing on and offstage.
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Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney have created a lovely picture book in verse about the four college students, who courageously sat at Woolworth’s “whites only” lunch counter.
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In Leader of the Pack, 35 Wolfpack women relay lessons they learned from Coach Yow.
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Every time he straps on a headset, Woody Durham imagines speaking to just one person — you.
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Barile not only documents the love affair with the finesse of a true storyteller, but skillfully constructs a window into war-beleaguered Chapel Hill.
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Drawing on detailed research, Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen, Faculty Fellow at Montreat College, have written an engaging novel that explores the stories of Gen. George Washington, Thomas Paine, and Jonathan Van Dorn.
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Cline, an award-winning journalist and biographer, traces the rocky and astonishing rise of Davis, who started out poor on a farm in eastern North Carolina and died in 2008 as one of the state’s biggest power brokers.
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