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Rodin's Debutante

By Ward Just

$14.95

"...a grand inquiry into family, honor, and injustice in his beguiling and unnerving seventeenth novel."

22 Britannia Road

By Amanda Hodgkinson

$16.00

A WW II tour de force that echoes modern classics like Suite Francaise & The Postmistress.

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Whimsical, expressive watercolors illustrate this story of mallards for age 3-6.

The Scorpio Races

By Maggie Stiefvater

$17.99

Breathtaking novel of teens in deadly horse race on Irish coast. Ages 12+

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$16.99

The sea in poetry and dazzling watercolor illustrations for ages 4-8.

Outside Your Window: A First Book of Nature

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$19.99

Lyrical observations on nature, season by season, with vibrant mixed media illustrations. Beautiful and engaging. Ages 4+

Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart

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Rollicking collection of best poems for children, beautifully illustrated by Michael Emberley.

John Shelton & Dale Volberg Reed

John Shelton Reed and Dale Volberg Reed live in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Both are members of the Southern Foodways Alliance and the North Carolina Barbecue Society. They have collaborated on several books, including 1001 THINGS EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE SOUTH, CORNBREAD NATION 4: THE BEST OF SOUTHERN FOOD WRITING, and their latest, HOLY SMOKE.

Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue (Hardcover)

By John Shelton Reed, Dale Volberg Reed, Will McKinney

$32.00

ISBN-13: 9780807832431
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: University of North Carolina Press, 11/2008

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John Shelton and Dale Volberg Reed's latest is a comprehensive and entertaining exploration of the Tar Heel barbecue tradition.

1001 Things Everyone Should Know/South (Paperback)

By John Reed, Dale Volberg Reed

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ISBN-13: 9780385474429
Availability: Out of Print
Published: Main Street Books, 6/1997

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In 1,001 short, eminently readable mini-essays, Dixieologists John Shelton Reed and Dale Volberg Reed illuminate every nook and cranny of this fertile land and culture, clarifying with an authoritative but humorous touch what everyone should know about the South but probably doesn't. Interspersed with their incisive entries on history, politics, life, and literature in this great collection of Southern trivia is a whole mess of fun facts--like how barbecue differs from state to state, where kudzu originally came from, why chivalry is so important to Southern males, and how bluegrass music first developed. From Stonewall Jackson to Mahalia Jackson, from William Byrd to "Free Bird," "1001 Things Everyone Should Know About the South" covers it all.