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348 pages ; 23 cm
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Español
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In 1899, a twelve-year-old rat catcher on North Carolina's Biltmore Estate teams up with the estate owner's young nephew to battle a great evil and, in the process, unlocks the puzzle of her past.
"Serafina nunca ha tenido motivos para desobedecer a su padre y aventurarse más allá de los confines de la mansión donde se esconden. Hay much que explorar en sus sombrios pasillos, aunque tiene que tener cuidado de que sus habitantes no la vean. Pero...
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"Discover the true story of how in 1944, Coach John McLendon orchestrated a secret game between the best players from a white college and his team from the North Carolina College of Negroes. At a time of widespread segregation and rampant racism, this illegal gathering changed the sport of basketball forever"--Dust jacket flap.
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411 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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An investigation into the Word of Faith Fellowship, a secretive evangelical cult whose charismatic female leader, Jane Whaley, is a master of manipulation. Starting in 1979 with a small group of followers, the group has expanded to include thousands of congregants across three continents. Gives the story of a singular female cult leader, a terrifying portrait of life inside the cult, and the harrowing account of one family who escaped after two decades.
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325) One second after
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xiv, 511 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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One man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war in one second, a war based upon an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) weapon that will send America back to the Dark Ages.
326) Viajera
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1019 pages ; 22 cm
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Desde el momento en que anida en su corazon la esperanza de que James Fraser haya sobrevivido la guerra entre ingleses y escoceses, Claire Randall decide emprender un nuevo viaje en el tiempo para reunirse con el. El traslado es un exito y los amantes estan juntos otra vez, pero la felicidad se empana cuando las circunstancias los obligan a iniciar una larga travesia hacia las exoticas y desconocidas costas del Caribe. Alla lejos, entre las amenazas...
327) Beneath the surface
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Dive team investigations volume 1
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348 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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"After a harrowing experience with an obsessed patient, oncology nurse practitioner Leigh Weston needed a change. She thought she'd left her troubles behind when she moved home to Carrington, North Carolina, and took a job in the emergency department of the local hospital. But when someone tampers with her brakes, she fears the past has chased her into the present. She reaches out to her high school friend turned homicide investigator, Ryan Parker,...
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xxiv, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"Priscilla Joyner was born into the world of slavery in 1858. Her life story, which she recounted in an oral history decades later, captures the complexity of emancipation. Based on interviews that Joyner and formerly enslaved people had with the Depression-era Federal Writers Project, historian Carole Emberton draws a portrait of the steps they took in order to feel free, something no legal mandate could instill. Joyner's life exemplifies the deeply...
329) Blue birds
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393 pages : map ; 22 cm
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English
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"As tensions rise between the English settlers and the Native peoples on Roanoke Island, twelve-year-old Alis forms an impossible friendship with a native girl named Kimi"--
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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English
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"A thirteen-year-old African American boy in 1960s Greenville, North Carolina, uses his typing skills to make a statement as part of the Civil Rights movement. Based on true events. Includes author's note"--Provided by publisher.
331) Ecos del pasado
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Outlander novels volume 7
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1182 pages ; 22 cm.
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Español
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As battle-scarred Jamie Fraser and his twentieth-century time-travelling wife Claire Randall flee from North Carolina to the high seas during the American Revolution, they encounter privateers and ocean battles. Meanwhile in the relative safety of the 20th century Brianna (Claire and Jamie's daughter) and Roger MacKenzie, Brianna's husband, search for clues not only to Claire's fate--but to their own fate in the Highlands.
En plena revolución americana,...
332) A will for the woods
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1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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While battling lymphoma, Clark has discovered a burgeoning movement that uses burial to conserve and restore natural areas, forgoing typical funeral practices that stress the ecosystem. Boldly facing his mortality, Clark and his partner Jane have become passionate about green burial, compelled by both the environmental benefits and the idea that one can remain within the cycle of life, rather than being cut off from it.
333) The last ballad
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378 pages ; 24 cm
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"The eagerly awaited next novel from the author of the New York Times bestselling A Land More Kind Than Home about a young mother desperately trying to hold her family together in the years before the Great Depression, a haunting and moving story of cowardice, courage and sacrifice"--
Ella May Wiggins, a young mother desperately trying to hold her family together with the paltry nine dollars a week she earns from the textile mill two miles away,...
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xiii, 257 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations
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English
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Kathy Izard was a graphic designer, wife, mother of four daughters, and volunteer at Charlotte's Urban Ministry Center when an unlikely meeting with formerly homeless author Denver Moore changed the course of her life. Inspired by Denver's challenge to do more than serve in this soup kitchen, Kathy quit her job to take on what seemed like an unimaginable task in her second half of life--to build housing for Charlotte's homeless. Woven together in...
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160 pages ; 19 cm.
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"Ted Scheinman spent his childhood eating Yorkshire pudding, singing in an Anglican choir, and watching Laurence Olivier as Mr. Darcy. As the son of a devoted Jane Austen scholar, this seemed normal. Despite his attempts to leave his mother's world behind, he found himself in grad school organizing the first ever University of North Carolina Jane Austen Summer Camp, a weekend-long event that falls somewhere between an academic conference and superfan...
336) Serena
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1 videodisc (approximately 110 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In 1929, just as the Depression has hit, George and Serena Pemberton, love-struck newlyweds, move from Boston to North Carolina to build a timber empire. Serena soon proves herself to be equal to any man: overseeing loggers, hunting rattlesnakes, even saving a man's life in the wilderness. With power and influence now in their hands, the Pembertons refuse to let anyone stand in the way of their inflated love and ambitions. However, once Serena discovers...
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