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Kid Carolina
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Heidi Schnakenberg |
The Reynolds tobacco family was an American dynasty like the Rockefellers, Vanderbilts, and Astors. R.J. "Dick" Reynolds Jr. was born into privilege and decadence, but his disastrous personal life ev… |
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To free a family
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Sydney Nathans |
What was it like for a mother to flee slavery, leaving her children behind? To Free a Family tells the remarkable story of Mary Walker, who in August 1848 fled her owner for refuge in the North and s… |
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When the diagnosis is multiple sclerosis
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Kym Orsetti Furney |
A physician working, teaching and raising a daughter despite her own multiple sclerosis gives us personal and professional insights into the physical, medical and psychological challenges in the afte… |
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Separate pasts
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Melton Alonza McLaurin |
In *Separate Pasts* Melton A. McLaurin honestly and plainly recalls his boyhood during the 1950's, an era when segregation existed unchallenged in the rural South. In his small hometown of Wade, Nort… |
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Gertrude Weil
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Leonard Rogoff |
"It is so obvious that to treat people equally is the right thing to do," wrote Gertrude Weil (1879-1971). In the first-ever biography of Weil, Leonard Rogoff tells the story of a modest southern Jew… |
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Live your own life
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Mary Bayard Clarke |
"Mary Bayard Clarke (1827-1886) grew up in a North Carolina planter family that revered southern traditions, but she was not a woman to be stymied by conventional expectations. A writer of ambition a… |
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