The first single-volume reference to the events, institutions, and cultural forces that have defined the state, the Encyclopedia of North Carolina is a landmark publication that will serve those who love and live in North Carolina for generations to come.

In this episode, Hobson shares his story of a boyhood that never ends, relived each year during basketball season in the frantic, tortured life of a fan.

In this episode, Joe and Teresa Graedon, the best-selling authors of The Peoples Pharmacy, fill in the void with all the information readers need to become savvy health-care consumers from their latest comprehensive guide to healthful living.

In her guidebook, Literary Trails of the North Carolina Mountains, the first of three regional volumes, Carrboro's own Georgann Eubanks invites residents and out-of-state visitors to explore North Carolina while reading literature from our state's finest writers.

An aging Zen master and bicycle repairman confronts his mortality and looks for a successor in this new novel by Duke Professor, and longtime Buddhist practitioner, David Guy. In this episode, the Durham author explores the Zen landscapes of Jakes Fades, acknowledged as a low-key tale of meditation, mentoring, and mouth-watering baked goods.

Byer’s new poetry collection, entitled Coming to Rest, is considered a re-articulation and a culmination of her distinguished career, which includes her present position as a North Carolina Poet Laureate. In this episode, the award-winning local poet shares her latest works and how they reflect on remembered seasons of personal, familial time and which are said to bring words alive.

Drawing from interviews with 60 veterans, The Marines of Montford Point relates the experiences of these pioneers in their own words. In this episode, author Melton McLaurin shares the Marines' stories and reasons for enlisting; their arrival at Montford Point and the training they received there; their lives in a segregated military and in the Jim Crow South; their experiences of combat.

This memoir recounts the deep eight-year friendship of young Texas newspaper journalist Tim Madigan and famed children's television host Fred Rogers (1928-2003). Their contact began with an interview assignment but developed steadily into numerous visits, letters, and emails. In Rogers, Madigan found an archetypal father, a nurturing mentor whom he could trust.

In this episode, Peacock explores both the present and the past to develop the idea of 'grounded globalism' in which global forces and local cultures rooted in history, tradition, and place reverberate against each other in mutually sustaining and energizing ways.

As Judge Deborah Knott presides over a case involving a barroom brawl, it becomes clear that deep resentments over race, class, and illegal immigration are simmering just below the surface in the countryside. An early spring sun has begun to shine like a blessing on the fertile fields of North Carolina, but along with the seeds sprouting in the thawing soil, violence is growing as well...