Carolina StarWatch: The Essential Guide to Our Night Sky (Starwatch: The Essential Guide to Our Night Sky)

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With the down-to-earth style and far-ranging knowledge that have made him America's favorite stargazing instructor, Mike Lynch guides amateur and expert alike through the wonders of the night sky over North and South Carolina. Whether watching the sky from a backyard lawn chair or manning a high-powered telescope, stargazers of all levels will learn how and when to identify the major constellations at the Carolinas' latitude. With chapters on the origins and movements of stars, the mythology of constellations, the phases of the moon, the planets, and even buying a telescope, this book also serves as an accessible and in-depth beginner’s guide to the night sky. It includes 12 monthly star maps for Carolina skies, 21 constellation diagrams, a local resources guide, a list of the brightest stars in the region, and more than 80 beautiful color photographs of the heavens.

A Year in Our Gardens: Letters by Nancy Goodwin and Allen Lacy

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Chatty exchange of letters....

A Year in Our Gardens: Letters by Nancy Goodwin and Allen Lacy
Nancy Goodwin
Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0807826030
Release Date: 2000-12-02

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This engaging collection of letters follows the course of a year in the gardens of two passionate gardeners, Nancy Goodwin and Allen Lacy. They share a climate zone (7A), but their gardens differ enormously. Lacy gardens on a 100-by-155-foot plot of former farmland in southern New Jersey, on soil so sandy that he must water frequently if he is to garden at all. Goodwin gardens on rich clay loam at her historic piedmont North Carolina home--which comprises more than sixty acres of woodland, meadow, and established plantings--and she refuses to irrigate, because she believes in growing only those plants that are naturally adapted to the conditions of her land.

Through their letters, Lacy and Goodwin provide a charming and revealing chronicle of their lives and the lives of their gardens. They exchange stories of their horticultural successes and failures; trade information about a great many plants; discuss their hopes, fears, and inspirations; and muse on the connections between gardening and music, family, and friendship.

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Chatty exchange of letters...........2001-10-11

A YEAR IN OUR GARDENS by Nancy Goodwin and Allen Lacy is a chatty exchange of letters and faxes between two old friends, both of whom have many years of gardening experience to their credit. Ms Goodwin ran Montrose Nursery for many years and is very informed and informing about plants -- native, cultivated, imported, and home-grown.

Dr. Lacy has written many books about gardening and garden design -- centered on his garden in New Jersey and other gardens futher afield. My personal favorite of Lacy's books is THE GARDEN IN AUTUMN, although THE INVITING GARDEN is probably his best selling book. I wouldn't recommend A YEAR IN OUR GARDENS to the novice gardener since it has no colorful photographs and a plethora of Latin named flowers and plants. Even the intermediate gardener searching for tips might find THE INVITING GARDEN a better read.

If you've been gardening awhile and like to read about green adventures from the comfort of your easy chair or need a good book for bedtime reading, you'll probably enjoy A YEAR IN OUR GARDENS. To me it's something of a cross between the books by Elizabeth Lawrence and Beverly Nichols. In fact, if Lawrence and Nichols had written to each other their conversations might have been a bit like the conversations of Goodwin and Lacey.

Goodwin and Lacey both had an affilitation with Duke University as did Elizabeth Lawrence though neither Goodwin nor Lacey is a botonist like Lawrence. Lacey wrote garden columns for the Wall Street Journal and New York Times and until recently taught philosopy and horitculture at Richard Stockton College in New Jersey where he lives and gardens. Lawrence's father was Lacey's professor of English at Duke University, and Lawrence lives and gardens near Hillsborough NC.

Both Goodwin and Lacey have gardens in growing zone 7. As they relate their experiences over the course of the year, it becomes obvious this counts for little. Lacey lives near the Atlantic, has sandy soil he must amend with humus, and experiences milder summers and colder winters. Goodwin lives in the NC piedmont, gardens in clay, and has hot-hot summers. Both have green houses that allow them to cultivate a variety of plants more suited to tropical climates. Lacey tends to grow many plants in pots on a large extended deck, while Goodwin has a much larger property with room for numerous shubs and trees and a woodland garden. Lacey says he prefers summer months for gardening, and Goodwin says she prefers anything but summer.

In addition to the exchange about plants, garden design and the various wildlife sightings, both correspondents share the ups and downs of daily living. Over the course of a year, Lacey undergoes major surgery and Goodwin's husband has eye surgery and her father dies. Both Godwin and Lacey travel to various locations to give lectures and undergo interviews on television and radio. Martha Stewart drops by for a fifteen minute tour of Montrose, and Lacey goes to Disneyland.

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What is it about North Carolina that makes our state so special? See for yourself in "Our North Carolina," a stunning pictorial tour through every beautiful corner of our popular state—a tour that captures our unique character and landscape. From the Great Smoky Mountains to the sandy Atlantic beaches and the Outer Banks; from Civil War battle sites and vivid hues of autumn foliage along the Blue Ridge Parkway to cities, farmland, and much more, renowned local photographer Kevin Adams showcases the people and places that make North Carolina such a splendid state in which to live and visit. About the Author/Photographer: Kevin Adams is the photographer of "North Carolina Waterfalls," "Wildflowers of the Southern Appalachians," "Waterfalls of Virginia and West Virginia," "Hiking Great Smoky Mountains National Park," and "North Carolina’s Best Wildflower Hikes." A member of the North American Nature Photography Association, Adams has received many awards, including one from the North Carolina Zoological Park, 1998; the North Carolina Year of the Coast Award, 1995; and the North Carolina Year of the Mountains Award, 1996.

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NC at its best - beautiful vistas, fantastic photography.......2005-03-29

Enjoy mountain vistas along Blue Ridge Parkway in the Great Smoky Mountains, a dawn's early light of Cape Hatteras National Seashore, gaze at the Whitewater Falls, highest waterfall of the East of 411 feet, and be awed by 5,000 pipes of the Duke University Chapel's organ. If you are an avid hiker, you will be delighted with the jagged crest of Grandfather Trail on Grandfather Mountain. Or a whitewater rafter will enjoy the photography of Nantahala River with its Class I, II, and III rapids plus many more nature lover spots.

History buffs will love the photographs of George W. Vanderbilt's Biltmore House, largest private home-four acres in size, in Asheville; the Oconaluftee Indian Village; and, The Elizabeth II Sir Walter Raleigh's vessel that he used in his voyage to the New World. Many more historical photographs are included. In addition you will also find lovely photographs of wildlife, flowers and many other interesting landmarks.
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Kevin Adams photography credits include: North Carolina's Best Wildflower Hikes, Hiking Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina Waterfalls, Wildflowers of the Southern Applachians, and Waterfalls of Virginia and West Virginia. Adams, member of North American Nature's Photography Association, has received the following awards:

* In 1995, the North Carolina Year of the Coast Award
* In 1996, the North Carolina Year of the Mountains Award
* In 1998, North Carolina Zoological Park

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North Carolina, my state (transplanted from Texas), with lots of wonderful, wonderful photographs for any reader's enjoyment. A great coffee table book to show your friends and relatives. These vistas are as breath-taking and splendid as the photography in Our North Carolina and I can personally attest to that! All will enjoy this collection of Southern beauty.

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Taking Up Our Daily Tools
Al Maginnes
Manufacturer: St. Andrews College Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1879934515

Our Separate Ways: Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina

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Our Separate Ways: Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina
Christina Greene
Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0807856002
Release Date: 2005-04-04

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In an in-depth community study of women in the civil rights movement, Christina Greene examines how several generations of black and white women, low-income as well as more affluent, shaped the struggle for black freedom in Durham, North Carolina. In the city long known as the "capital of the black middle class," Greene finds that, in fact, low-income African American women were the sustaining force for change.

Greene demonstrates that women activists frequently were more organized, more militant, and more numerous than their male counterparts. They brought new approaches and strategies to protest, leadership, and racial politics. Arguing that race was not automatically a unifying force, Greene sheds new light on the class and gender fault lines within Durham's black community. While middle-class black leaders cautiously negotiated with whites in the boardroom, low-income black women were coordinating direct action in hair salons and neighborhood meetings.

Greene's analysis challenges scholars and activists to rethink the contours of grassroots activism in the struggle for racial and economic justice in postwar America. She provides fresh insight into the changing nature of southern white liberalism and interracial alliances, the desegregation of schools and public accommodations, and the battle to end employment discrimination and urban poverty.

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Living in Our World: North Carolina : Grade 4

Manufacturer: Macmillan/Mcgraw-Hill School
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1885647271

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Another One Hundred Chronicles of Our Area
Bob Witty
Manufacturer: Hospice of the Carolina Foothills
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N5UD22

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Based on writings by Bob Witty, August 1996 - August 2003. Originally published in the Tryon Daily Bulletin. Short columns from that newspaper; Index.

A Brief History of Lionism in North Carolina. Forty five Years of Service to Our Fellowman.

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A Brief History of Lionism in North Carolina. Forty five Years of Service to Our Fellowman.
Joseph D. and Abrams, W. Amos and Hester, Neil (editors) Clark
Manufacturer: NC Lions State Council
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000E300BW

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Eating Our Way Through the Carolinas
I. Chow Down
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000J3XZ6Y

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A compilation of the favorite restaurants of AAA motor club members in North and South Carolina submitted March through June 1986.

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Edmonton In Our Own Words
Linda Goyette , and Carolina Jakeway Roemmich
Manufacturer: The University of Alberta Press
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Binding: Paperback

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Linda Goyette and Carolina Roemmich have tapped EdmontonÂ's collective memoir through the written record, the spoken stories, and the vast silences. All of the people who ever lived at this bend in the North Saskatchewan took part in creating the city we know as Edmonton. Citizens with diverse viewpoints speak for themselves, describing important events in EdmontonÂ's social, political, and economic development. They have plenty to tell us. (Information about a companion project, Kidmonton, is found at http://www.brindleandglass.com/kidmonton.htm. A website is available at www.edmonton.ca.)

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Vancouver local Ray Chatelin has personally selected the best places to eat, shop, sightsee, and simply hang out. Not just the fancy places, either - there are selections geared for every budget. Fun to read, this guide features input from a range of Vancouver residents. Also included is a special focus on the city's outdoor activities and international cultures.

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"City Smart: Vancouver.......2000-08-23

Many guide books on Vancouver exist, but Ray Chatelin's "City Smart: Vancouver" is probably the best. In addition to the nuts and bolts that you would expect to read - where to stay, where to eat, tourist sights and shopping venues, there are also special sections on museums and galleries, "kid's stuff", sports and receation, performing arts, nightlife, day trips from Vancouver, and helpful tips and fun trivia. A great appendix gives you the 411 on everything from car rentals to consulates. I like its 8 1/2" by 5" size - it won't quite fit into my back pocket but it does fit nicely into my wife's purse. The book is appropriate for the one day visitor to Vancouver on a cruise ship, or for the visitor with more time to explore, or for anyone thinking of moving to Vancouver.

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Robert Cormier, much-lauded author of fiction for teens, pulls a switch on his readers with this memoir in blank verse, and proves to be an equally dazzling success as a poet. The story takes place in the streets, alleys, and tenements of the French-Canadian district of Monument called Frenchtown, familiar to Cormier fans from Fade, Heroes, and Tunes for Bears to Dance To. A bookish young boy, lonely in his big family, spends his thirteenth summer watching, learning, fearing, wondering--"in the days when I knew my name, but did not know who I was." He yearns for a sign of love from his enigmatic, silent father, and hides a terrible secret about his beloved uncle and the girl whose broken body was found in the woods long ago. This is vintage Cormier--he has distilled the most powerful themes and images of his previous books into one intensely beautiful and deceptively small work. Every poem is capable of standing alone, yet each additional chapter adds insights and events to carry the story forward. The voice is natural and easy, recognizable from his earlier novels but with heightened emotional impact. Poetry-loving teens will take this book to heart, along with other verse novels like Stop Pretending, by Sonya Sones; Foreign Exchange, by Mel Glenn; and Karen Hesse's Newbery Award-winning Out of the Dust. (Ages 10 and older) --Patty Campbell

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Eugene is remembering the summer of 1938 in Frenchtown, a time when he began to wonder “what I was doing here on the planet Earth.” Here in vibrant, exquisite detail are his lovely mother, his aunts and uncles, cousins and friends, and especially his beloved, enigmatic father. Here, too, is the world of a mill town: the boys swimming in a brook that is red or purple or green, depending on the dyes dumped that day by the comb shop; the visit of the ice man; and the boys’ trips to the cemetery or the forbidden railroad tracks. And here also is a darker world–the mystery of a girl murdered years before. Robert Cormier’s touching, funny, melancholy chronicle of a vanished world celebrates a son’s connection to his father and human relationships that are timeless.

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Frenchtown Summer.......2007-08-22

This is a very different format for the author, but very readable. Anyone who has grown up in Massachusetts will surely recognize Frenchtown as Leominster. I could personally relate to the setting, sights and smells portrayed in this short, unique book. It was a nostalgic trip back to my hometown after being away for 50 years.

Didn't work for me..........2006-09-29

I really enjoy Robert Cormier's novels. I've read several of them and enjoy the Monument, Frenchtown setting particularly of some of them. I also like YA novels in verse, Hesse's "Witness" and Koertge's "Shakespeare Bats Cleanup," for instance, are terrific. Other reviewers here have quoted the first four lines of the book: "That summer in Frenchtown/ in the days/ when I knew my name/ but did not know who I was./ Perhaps I would have liked Eugene's story more a few years later when he did know who he was. This was uninvolving. Cormier's heroes tend to be lonely and loners, observers as Eugene is, but he's so very cut off.
I imagine I will *love* the next Cormier novel I read.

More Plot, story and poetry than other free verse novels.......2003-08-26

FRENCHTOWN SUMMER is brilliant. Where other free verse novels
seem to be words thrown together in quick, uneven fashion,
this one (like OUT OF THE DUST and JUDY SCUPPERNONG) has
heart, poetic language and story. Robert Cormier has succeeded
in giving us real, solid, amazing literature.
Page after page is an easy, quick, yet worthy read.

Frenchtown Summer.......2003-07-16

Frenchtown Summer is a book written in verse form. It is written from the point of view of Eugene, a 12-year-old, and tells the story of his summer living in Frenchtown, hence the title.

I was disappointed in this book. When I first saw it, I thought since it was short it would be very easy to read. This book was 113 pages long, but it took me 4 days to read it, which is sad since usually I finish books in this format in a day.

This book has no plot. All it is is this kid telling about different things that happened in his summer. The only thing close to a plot is him feeling separated from his family, especially his father, and then at the end he finally feels close to him. But that is just a minor part of the story, the rest of it is just descriptions of random things. The first few chapters aren't too boring or anything. They set the stage and setting for what seems like a good story. But then the rest of the chapters pretty much just describe random things. All of those random chapters are tied together slightly, but not enough to make it a good story.

If you are looking for an action-packed story, find another book. Even if you are looking for a book that describes a 12-year-old's summer, there are better books out there. If you are looking for a good book of poems that tells a good story, tying in the random chapters really well, there are also better books out there. Try Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse or What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones. If you are looking for a book that you can finish fast and read easily, don't be misled, this isn't one of them. This book just doesn't have that element that good books have that keep you wanting to read more. Sure, it's not the most boring book I've read, but it's sure one of them.

The way the verses are written isn't bad. They are actually written pretty well. This is a talented author, but this book isn't one of his best.

Frenchtown Summer.......2003-05-20

This book was chosin in a book club at my school as the next book to read. I thought when I first saw it that it was small so it would probably be pretty boring, but easy to read. After I had begun to read it I found that it was anything but boring. Many different things occur that are mysterious or hard to understand. After reading the book within a couple of hours I had a couple of questions that lingered in my mind about it, with several different answeres that I could think up. When we were all done my club hada group discussion and answered some of those questions. I reccomend this book just because it is so mysterious yet easy to read. ~4 stars~

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FRENCHTOWN SUMMER
CORMIER ROBERT
Manufacturer: LAUREL LEAF
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ASIN: B000PGROAS

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Frenchtown Summer
Cormier Robert
Manufacturer: Puffin Books
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ASIN: B000OJCWZI

Audio poetry: a call to words.(If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand)(The Sun Is So Quiet)(In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall Live)(When We Were Very Young ... An article from: The Horn Book Magazine

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Audio poetry: a call to words.(If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand)(The Sun Is So Quiet)(In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall Live)(When We Were Very Young ... An article from: The Horn Book Magazine
Kristi Elle Jemtegaard
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000ALP4U0
Release Date: 2006-07-14

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This digital document is an article from The Horn Book Magazine, published by Horn Book, Inc. on May 1, 2005. The length of the article is 2851 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Audio poetry: a call to words.(If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand)(The Sun Is So Quiet)(In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall Live)(When We Were Very Young & Now We Are Six)(The Frogs Wore Red Suspenders)(Jack Prelutsky's BIG Collection)(The New Kid on the Block)(A Pizza the Size of the Sun)(Antarctic Antics: A Book of Penguin Poems)(Where the Sidewalk Ends)(A Child's Calendar)(Frenchtown Summer)(Heartbeat Harper)(Out of the Dust)(The First Part Last)(Wolff Make Lemonade)(Wolff True Believer)(Locomotion)(Audiobook Review)
Author: Kristi Elle Jemtegaard
Publication: The Horn Book Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2005
Publisher: Horn Book, Inc.
Volume: 81 Issue: 3 Page: 357(8)

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Frenchtown Summer.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article): An article from: The Horn Book Magazine

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Frenchtown Summer.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article): An article from: The Horn Book Magazine
Patty Campbell
Manufacturer: Horn Book, Inc.
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from The Horn Book Magazine, published by Horn Book, Inc. on September 1, 1999. The length of the article is 306 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Frenchtown Summer.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
Author: Patty Campbell
Publication: The Horn Book Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 1999
Publisher: Horn Book, Inc.
Volume: 75 Issue: 5 Page: 608

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