Product Code: HH1061
ISBN: 9798897360178
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The sixty-year period following the American Civil War was a time of great wealth accumulation and materialistic excess. This book examines the reasons for the new wealth and its unequal distribution, why quail were the preferred quarry of Gilded Age barons, what attracted the hunting moguls to the North Carolina Piedmont, what became of them and their hunting estates, and how technology produced changes that transformed the American landscape, causing the collapse of quail populations once thought limitless. The Pine Needles lodge, established in 1912, is examined in detail with novel stories based on records, memorabilia, and recollections of descendants of those involved in the establishment and management of the lodge.
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Product Code: P748
ISBN: 9798897360338
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LET YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED is Judson Mitcham's first collection of poems in twenty years. It takes as its epigraph Paul Valéry's description of language as "the god gone astray in the flesh." These poems engage a single life and many lives at once, moving toward what is here called soul, traveling a path laid down by a lexicon of plain words. This is a collection that should reward opening the book at random, but it is structured so that it may also be read as the scaffolding of a narrative.
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Product Code: HH1064
ISBN: 9798897360345
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Born into humble circumstances in rural Georgia during the depths of the Great Depression, John Reginald "Reg" Murphy would go on to lead a long life of success, achievement, and acclaim of which most could only dream. Blessed with curiosity, drive, and natural intelligence tempered by common sense and the modesty of a Southern gentleman, during his career Murphy became a noted journalist and media executive, a staunch advocate for progress and civil rights in the South, a successful businessman, and with his wife, Diana, a generous supporter of worthy causes, the latter recognized by a lengthy list of honors and accolades received over the course of a long and productive life.
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Product Code: P749
ISBN: 9798897360369
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In this era of unprecedented division and distraction, we've lost the ability to recognize the goodness all around us. But it doesn't have to be that way. From the acclaimed author of THE CRACKER QUEEN comes a cheeky spiritual memoir with an audacious message of hope. In this collection of stories, Hannon shows that joy can arise from the deepest abyss; that everyone is designed with purpose and hardwired for restoration; and that love and peace are entirely warranted and possible. This is because grace abounds where we often miss it: in the grittiness of life.
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Product Code: P754
ISBN: 9798897360451
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FIRE IN THE MIND: POEMS NEW AND SELECTED crowns the lifetime career of an outstanding poet whom Claude Wilkinson calls "one of this country's finest poets" and James Matthew Wilson identifies as "one of the greatest poets of our age." This volume presents selections from Brosman's debut collection, WATERING (1972), which received high commendation nationally, through METATES AND OTHER POEMS (2025) and new and uncollected work. Page after page induces poetic shivers. The range of topics, mastery of form, and fidelity to what Wilkinson terms "her traditionalist aesthetic" are visible throughout.
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Product Code: HH1067
ISBN: 9798897360475
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STORIES CARRY is a personal memoir about faith, belonging, and the inherited stories that shape us. As the daughter of Chabad emissaries in 1970s Berkeley, California, and now a shlucha (emissary) herself in Atlanta, Georgia, Schusterman, a mother of eight, has spent her life straddling two worlds--deeply rooted in Hasidic tradition while fully engaged in modern society. Through warmth, honesty, and humor, this book extends a hand across perceived divides, welcoming readers into a world that is both deeply personal and universally resonant.
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Product Code: P750
ISBN: 9798897360383
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It did not take long to see that Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" would have an enduring impact on American culture. Instantly ubiquitous, it was widely reprinted, celebrated, criticized, and mocked during the years between its January 29, 1845, publication in New York and Poe's death in Baltimore on October 7, 1849. In QUOTHING "THE RAVEN," Paul Lewis follows America's most famous poem during these years from the literary salons where it was discussed, to the newspapers where it was reviewed, to the twenty-nine parodies that made fun of both the poem and its controversial author.
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Product Code: P751
ISBN: 9798897360390
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Construction of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is well underway in 1937 when the National Park Service recruits a young, freshly trained linguist, Thomas Haller, to investigate what life was like for residents before the park's creation. Also required to do a speech study of the stigmatized regional dialect, Haller conducts in-depth interviews with older residents, many of whom were born before the Civil War. John Stoll, an old man known in the mountains as a true believer in witchcraft, a witchdoctor, and "a good talker," regales Haller for hours with stories about an infamous witch, Mary Hess, who tormented her neighbors.
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Product Code: P752
ISBN: 9798897360413
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Sadie Bird lives in Shaconage, North Carolina, with Lazarus, a mixed-breed dog she rescued from the forest. Sadie supports herself by harvesting medicinal plants which she uses in her tonics and salves. Having recently buried her husband and children, Sadie is more worried about surviving the winter than the federal government's plan to create the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. When Bowman Marks, a government agent tasked with acquiring thousands of acres of land, arrives at Sadie's place, their initial meeting does not go well.
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Product Code: P753
ISBN: 9798897360437
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Edwina's shaky world is rocked by the murder of a childhood friend on a sweltering Georgia day in 1929. War erupts between the fed-up poor folks of Shine Town and Edy's in-laws, the old money Jacksons of Canes Crossin. Edwina and her sister are trapped in the middle. Get tangled in hardscrabble Southern living, small town politics, blood feuds, nearly forgotten folkways, family legacy, and a dash of Appalachian magic.
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Product Code: P755
ISBN: 9798897360468
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ORPHEUS REMAINS: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS is a means of time travel for Clifford Brooks. Here, he offers selected poems from his previous collections THE DRAW OF BROKEN EYES & WHIRLING METAPHYSICS, ATHENA DEPARTS, and OLD GODS in pursuit of confessing his full truth. Written in accessible, melodic form, every aspect of the poet's life is exposed. New poems find Brooks standing firmly in the present with hopeful anticipation for the future.
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Product Code: P757
ISBN: 9798897360505
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Thirteen owners rotate through a beach house on Edisto Island, South Carolina, four weeks a year, one week each season. They share a kitchen, a pool, a view of the ocean, and a set of storage lockers that nobody can agree on. John Lane's INTERVAL OWNERSHIP gives each owner a story. The owners come and go, and somebody always leaves the Old Bay seasoning open.
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