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  • Under the Dome

    Walks with Paul Celan

    by Jean Daive ...
    Translated by Rosmarie Waldrop ...
    An arresting memoir of the final years and tragic suicide of one of twentieth-century Europe’s greatest poets, published on the centenary of his birth."Daive's memoir sensitively conjures a portrait of a man tormented by both his mind and his medical treatment but who nonetheless remained a generous friend and a poet for whom writing was a matter of life and death."—The New Yorker"Jean Daive's ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hatteras Light

    A Novel

    by Philip Gerard ...
    Set off the treacherous Outer Banks of North Carolina during the final days of the First World War, Hatteras Light is the compelling story of the dedicated keepers of the Hatteras lighthouse and their tightly knit community. For generations these men have drawn their livelihood from the sea, served in the rescue of shipwreck victims, and guarded seagoers from the hazardous shoals. Their wives and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dark of the Island, The

    by Philip Gerard ...
    Nick Wolf is a public research specialist for NorthAm Oil Company, but he likes to think of himself as the company storyteller. Nick, who believes in the old-fashioned integrity of the people who run NorthAm, is sent to scout potential oil exploration/drilling sites to assess the political climate. His latest assignment sends him to Hatteras Island, on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Growing up, ... Read more

    $6.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Art of Creative Research

    A Field Guide for Writers

    by Philip Gerard ...
    Series series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
    A guide to finding and using information that enriches your fiction, nonfiction, or poetry, "filled with anecdotes from a wide range of writers" ( Choice).All writers conduct research. For some this means poring over records and combing archives, but for many creative writers research happens in the everyday world—when they scribble an observation on the subway, when they travel to get the feel ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cape Fear Rising

    by Philip Gerard ...
    In August 1898, Wilmington, North Carolina, was a mecca for middle-class black citizens. Many of the city's lawyers, businessmen, and other professionals were black, as were all the tradesmen and stevedores. The black community outnumbered the white community by more than two to one. But white civic leaders, many descended from the antebellum aristocracy, did not consider this progress. They ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • North Carolina in the 1940s

    The Decade of Transformation

    by Philip Gerard ...
    Series series North Carolina through the Decades
    This book is the first in a series of small, richly illustrated books about North Carolina history through the decades. Originally published as hugely popular serialized articles for Our State magazine, this book chronicles events in North Carolina in the 1940s—a decade which began with the state gearing up for war just as the last formerly enslaved person passed away. The volume is not a textbook ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • North Carolina in the 1950s

    The Decade in Motion

    by Philip Gerard ...
    Series Book 2 - North Carolina through the Decades
    Notable events of the 1950s in North Carolina, the second book in this North Carolina history series.This book is the second in a series of small, richly illustrated books about North Carolina history through the decades. Originally published as hugely popular serialized articles for Our State magazine, this book chronicles events in North Carolina in the 1950s—a decade which began with a postwar ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Down the Wild Cape Fear

    A River Journey through the Heart of North Carolina

    by Philip Gerard ...
    In Down the Wild Cape Fear, novelist and nonfiction writer Philip Gerard invites readers onto the fabled waters of the Cape Fear River and guides them on the 200-mile voyage from the confluence of the Deep and Haw Rivers at Mermaid Point all the way to the Cape of Fear on Bald Head Island. Accompanying the author by canoe and powerboat are a cadre of people passionate about the river, among them a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Last Battleground

    The Civil War Comes to North Carolina

    by Philip Gerard ...
    To understand the long march of events in North Carolina from secession to surrender is to understand the entire Civil War — a personal war waged by Confederates and Unionists, free blacks and the enslaved, farm women and plantation belles, Cherokees and mountaineers, conscripts and volunteers, gentleman officers and poor privates. In the state’s complex loyalties, its sprawling and diverse ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • WORDS & MUSIC

    An Album of a Life in Story and Song

    by Philip Gerard, Jill Gerard (Foreword by), Ray McAllister (Introduction by) ...
    ONE RAINY AFTERNOON, sixth grader Philip Gerard sat down and made a list of ten things he wanted to do: Go to Alaska. Write a book. Sail the ocean. And so forth. A virtual outline of a life.The legendary writer would check off most items during his lifetime, some many times over. But Number Ten remained elusive, a quest unfulfilled:Make a record album.Gerard had been learning to play his first ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Politics of Time

    Imagining African Becomings

    Edited by Achille Mbembe, Felwine Sarr ...
    Series series Critical South
    As we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, the world is undergoing a major historical shift: Africa, and the Global South more generally, is increasingly becoming a principal theatre in which the future of the planet plays itself out. But not only this: Africa is at the same time emerging as one of the great laboratories for novel forms of social, economic, political, intellectual, ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • The Patron Saint of Dreams

    by Philip Gerard ...
    Meet the characters of essayist Philip Gerard’s world: a misguided sailor and his crew of rowdy teenage boys, an ancient nun, a nurse who believes the government has been secretly spreading the bubonic plague, a park ranger, jaded baseball players, a voice on a VHF radio far out to sea, a family of itinerant Mexicans camping dangerously in a dry riverbed, a famous alcoholic writer, and a few ... Read more

    $8.99 USD