North Carolina Chemical Fire: What Went Wrong
The fire that tore through a hazardous waste facility in Apex, N.C., was so dangerous that the fire department just let it burn. (Photograph by Chris Seward/Raleigh News and Observer/WPN) On the evening of Oct. 5, 2006, Jack Lewis was sprawled on ... [... more]
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Author: Philip Moeller Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 12 Publication Date: 1995-01-01 Release Date: 2005-07-28 [... more]
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Remarkable Reads: 34 Writers and Their Adventures in Reading
 In personal essays that read like short stories, writers describe their life-altering encounters with books. CAN BOOKS BE DANGEROUS, elegant, or sad? Can books be tempting, or smokin', or double-d-daring? Can they compel you to hitchhike to the middle of [... more]
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Roxanna Slade: A Novel
Not since Reynolds Price's award-winning, bestselling novelIKate Vaiden/Ihas he told a woman's story in her own voice. Roxanna Slade is this woman.PRoxanna begins her story on her twentieth birthday -- a day that introduces her to the harsh realities of [... more]
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She's Gone Country: Dispatches from a Lost Soul in the ...
Raised among artists, drag queens, and liberal intellectuals, the author--an aspiring newspaper reporter--goes to North Carolina to cut her chops at the News & Observer, interviewing everyone from skeet-shooting cowboys and Christian rockers to the [... more]
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Wings: 50 High-Flying Recipes for America's Favorite Snack
When it comes to hearty, satisfying snacks, one food rules the roostwings. This full-color cookbook gives you 65 terrific recipes that demonstrate just how deliciously versatile wings can befrom easy choices like Crunchy Lemon-Pepper Wings to incendiary [... more]
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Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an ...
IBorn on a Blue Day/iis a journey into one of the most fascinating minds alive today -- guided by the owner himself. Daniel Tammet is virtually unique among people who have severe autistic disorders in that he is capable of living a fully independent [... more]
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Girls
"A BIG COMPELLING NOVEL...UNFLINCHINGLY REAL... INTIMATE IN A COMPLETELY DISARMING WAY."br--Detroit NewsbrPete Chickery is dead. It was sudden, it was violent, and it was by his own wife's hand. Why would Jessie Chickery, the prettiest, most [... more]
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The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed ...
DIVThe Three Roosevelts is the extraordinary political biography of the intertwining lives of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt, who emerged from the closed society of New York's Knickerbocker elite to become the most prominent American political [... more]
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First Cut: A Season in the Human Anatomy Lab
In an utterly winning book . . . as engrossing as any novel ( The Raleigh News & Observer ), Carter recounts the semester he spent watching first-year medical students in a human anatomy lab. Illustrations. [... more]
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Tony Stewart: 2005 Nextel Cup Champion
This chronicle of Tony Stewart's quest for the 2005 Nextel Cup championship offers many positive and inspirational stories about the NASCAR superstar's admitted transformation that seemingly coincided with his move back to Columbus, Indiana. The photo- [... more]
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Homefront: A Military City and the American Twentieth ...
Who is a Soldier, and What is War?: Residents of Fayetteville, North Carolina awoke one morning in April of 1954 to find the front page of their local paper carrying news of a nuclear attack downtown; they were informed that sixty-four thousand soldiers [... more]
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