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Nineteen-year-old Cowney Sequoyah yearns to escape his hometown of Cherokee, North Carolina, in the heart of the Smoky Mountains. When a summer job at Asheville's luxurious Grove Park Inn and Resort brings him one step closer to escaping the hills that both cradle and suffocate him, he sees it as an opportunity. The experience introduces him to the beautiful and enigmatic Essie Stamper—a young Cherokee woman who is also working at the inn and dreaming of a better life. With World War II raging in Europe, the resort is the temporary home of Axis diplomats and their families, who are being held as prisoners of war. A secret room becomes a place where Cowney and Essie can escape the white world of the inn and imagine their futures free of the shadows of their families' pasts. Outside of this refuge, however, racism and prejudice are never far behind, and when the daughter of one of the residents goes missing, Cowney finds himself accused of abduction and murder. Even As We Breathe invokes the elements of bone, blood, and flesh as Cowney navigates difficult social, cultural, and ethnic divides. Betrayed by the friends he trusted, he begins to unearth deeper mysteries as he works to prove his innocence and clear his name. This richly written debut novel explores the immutable nature of the human spirit and the idea that physical existence, with all its strife and injustice, will not be humanity's lasting legacy.
Bland Simpson, the celebrated bard of North Carolina's sound country, has blended history, observation of nature, and personal narrative in many books to chronicle the people and places of eastern Carolina. Yet he has spent much of his life in the state's Piedmont, with regular travels into its western mountains. Here, for the first time, Simpson brings his distinctive voice and way of seeing to bear on the entirety of his home state, combining storytelling and travelogue to create a portrait of the Old North State with care and humor. Three of the state's finest photographers come along to guide the journey: Simpson's wife and creative partner Ann Cary Simpson, professional photographer Scott Taylor, and writer and naturalist Tom Earnhardt. Their photos, combined with Simpson's rich narrative, will inspire readers to consider not only what North Carolina has been and what it is but also what we hope it will be. This book belongs on the shelf of longtime residents, newcomers, and visitors alike.
North Carolina Gazetteer, 2nd Ed: A Dictionary of Tar Heel Places and Their History
From one of America's most prominent philanthropists, an eye-opening, myth-busting new perspective on the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. Howard G. Buffett has seen first-hand the devastating impact of cheap Mexican heroin and other opiate cocktails across America. Fueled by failing border policies and lawlessness in Mexico and Central America, drugs are pouring over the nation's southern border in record quantities, turning Americans into addicts and migrants into drug mules -- and killing us in record numbers. Politicians talk about a border crisis and an opioid crisis as separate issues. To Buffett, a landowner on the U.S. border with Mexico and now a sheriff in Illinois, these are intimately connected. Ineffective border policies not only put residents in border states like Texas and Arizona in harm's way, they put American lives in states like Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Vermont at risk. Mexican cartels have grown astonishingly powerful by exploiting both the gaps in our border security strategy and the desperation of migrants -- all while profiting enormously off America's growing addiction to drugs. The solution isn't a wall. In this groundbreaking book, Buffett outlines a realistic, effective, and bi-partisan approach to fighting cartels, strengthening our national security, and tackling the roots of the chaos below the border.
Celebrating the beauty, diversity, and significance of the state's natural landscapes, Wild North Carolina provides an engaging, beautifully illustrated introduction to North Carolina's interconnected webs of plant and animal life. From dunes and marshes to high mountain crags, through forests, swamps, savannas, ponds, pocosins, and flatrocks, David Blevins and Michael Schafale reveal in words and photographs natural patterns of the landscape that will help readers see familiar places in a new way and new places with a sense of familiarity. Wild North Carolina introduces the full range of the state's diverse natural communities, each brought to life with compelling accounts of their significance and meaning, arresting photographs featuring broad vistas and close-ups, and details on where to go to experience them first hand. Blevins and Schafale provide nature enthusiasts of all levels with the insights they need to value the state's natural diversity, highlighting the reasons plants and animals are found where they are, as well as the challenges of conserving these special places.
A fascinating assemblage of old family letters, diaries, journals, photos, and other memorabilia, Michigan Voices introduces the reader to a more personal side of the state's history.
In this richly illustrated love letter to the wild places and natural wonders of North Carolina, Tom Earnhardt, writer and host of UNC-TV's Exploring North Carolina and lifelong conservationist, seamlessly ties deep geological time and forgotten species from our distant past to the unparalleled biodiversity of today. With varied topography and a climate that is simultaneously subtropical, temperate, and subarctic, he shows that North Carolina is a meeting place for living things more commonly found far to the north and south. Highlighting the ways in which the state is a unique ecological crossroads, Earnhardt's research, insightful writing, and stunning photography will both teach and inspire. Crossroads of the Natural World invites readers to engage a variety of topics, including the impacts of invasive species, the importance of forested buffers along our rivers, the role of naturalists, and the challenges facing the state in a time of climate change and sea-level rise. By sharing his own journey of more than sixty years, Earnhardt entices North Carolinians of every age to explore the natural diversity of our state.
The New Jersey Vocabulary Teacher's Edition book includes 60 vocabulary words from the New Jersey Social Studies Standards. The Teacher's Edition includes a ñweek of wordsî in a straightforward, thought-provoking, and FUN format. Every day for the first four days of the week, you'll give students a new vocabulary word which includes a definition, an interesting fact, and a ñThink About Itî discussion question. On day five, students will take a quiz on the four words using the companion Student Practice Workbook. There are 15 weeks of quizzes. A must-have for every teacher! The New Jersey Vocabulary Teacher's Edition: ´ includes key vocabulary words hand-picked and correlated from the New Jersey Social Studies Standards ´ uses a focused approach to build students' comprehension of the social studies standards by developing their understanding of integral vocabulary ´ has a consistent format that is easy for teachers and effective for students ´ helps students learn how to apply their new words ´ includes assessments for each vocabulary word This New Jersey Vocabulary Teacher's Edition is a valuable test-prep tool when used with the companion Student Practice Workbook. This New Jersey Vocabulary Teacher's Edition is a valuable test-prep tool when used with the companion Student Practice Workbook. The vocabulary words are: abolish ´ agriculture ´ American Revolution ´ Bill of Rights ´ canal ´ capital city ´ capital resources ´ capitol ´ citizen ´ Civil Rights Movement ´ Civil War ´ Civilian Conservation Corps ´ climate ´ colony ´ community ´ constitution ´ culture ´ declaration ´ democracy ´ diversity ´ economy ´ entertainment industry ´ executive branch ´ factory ´ globalization ´ goods ´ government ´ governor ´ Great Depression ´ human characteristics ´ human resources ´ immigration ´ industrialization ´ inventor ´ judicial branch ´ jury ´ landform ´ legislative branch ´ local government ´ money ´ natural resources ´ physical characteristics ´ population ´ population density ´ Progressive Movement ´ Prohibition ´ Quakers ´ region ´ responsibilities ´ rights ´ rural ´ services ´ settlement ´ specialization ´ state ´ state government ´ statehood date ´ symbol ´ Underground Railroad ´ urban