FREE BOOKS! (with purchase)

We are preparing for our closet cleanout/issue inventory next week, which seems like a good time to mail out copies of back issues to NCLR readers.

GOAL: $2500 of the NCLR budget is contingent upon back issue sales, and we still need almost $2000 of that. So, until June 1, we are offering a FREE BOOK with every purchase of at least $50 (while supplies last) or the chance to be in a drawing for a FREE BOOK for any purchase. The number of names we’ll draw will depend on how close we get to our $2000 sales goal.

How do I get my free book? After making your purchase from our UStore, use the button below to email 3 of the titles from the list below, in order of preference (in case your 1^st or 2^nd choices have already been claimed). We’ll put your gift book in the mail with your new back issues.

You can read reviews of most of these books via NCLR Online but don’t wait – we only have one copy of each book. START SHOPPING!

(You can find the tables of contents of every back issue online from this page.) NCLR issues never go out of date!

Disclaimer: These are review copies sent to us over the years by publishers, so many have been “slightly used” as we quote-checked our book reviewers.

• Joseph Bathanti & David Potori, Editors, Crossing the Rift: North Carolina Poets on 9/11 & Its Aftermath (Press 53, 2021)
• Edited by George Brosi and Kate Egerton, Appalachian Gateway: An Anthology of Contemporary Stories and Poetry (U of Tennessee Press, 2013)
• David W. Blight, A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped Freedom: Including Their Own Narratives Of Emancipation (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007)
• Micah Cash, Waffle House Vistas (The Bitter Southerner, 2019)
• David S. Cecelski The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway & the Slaves’ Civil War (UNC Press, 2012)
• Rob Christensen, The Rise and Fall of the Branchhead Boys: North Carolina’s Scott Family & the Era of Progressive Politics (UNC Press, 2019)
• Jack Claiborne & William Price, Editor, Discovering North Carolina: A Tar Heel Reader (UNC Press, 1991)
• Nanette Davidson, The Folk School Cookbook: A Collection of Seasonal Favorites from John C. Campbell Folk School (John C. Campbell Folk School, 2018)
• Timothy Duffy, Blue Muse: Timothy Duffy’s Southern Photographs (UNC Press)
• Joyce Dyer, Editor, Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers (UP of Kentucky, 1998)
• Georgann Eubanks, The Month of Their Ripening: North Carolina Heritage Food through the Year (UNC Press, 2018)
• Henry C. Ferrell, Jr., Editor No Time for Ivy: East Carolina University, 1907-2007 (ECU Foundation, 2006)
• Henry C. Ferrell, Jr., Editor, Promises Kept: East Carolina University, 1980-2007 (ECU Foundation, 2006)
• Keith Flynn & Charter Weeks, Prosperity Gospel: Portraits of the Great Recession (Redhawk Publications, 2021)
• Nicholas Graham & Cecelia Moore, UNC A to Z: What Every Tar Heel Needs to Know about the First State University (UNC Press, 2020)
• John Chandler Griffin, Memories of Thomas Wolfe: A Pictorial Companion to Look Homeward, Angel (Summerhouse Press, 1996)
• Vivian Howard, Deep Run Roots: Stories and Recipes from My Corner of the South (Little, Brown and Company, 2016)
• Neal Hutcheson, The Moonshiner Popcorn Sutton (Reliable Archetype, 2021)
• andall Kenan, Editor and Intro, The Carolina Table: North Carolina Writers on Food (Eno, 2016)
• William A. Link, Frank Porter Graham: Southern Liberal, Citizen of the World (UNC Press, 2021)
• Michael McFee, Editor The Language They Speak is Things to Eat (UNC Press, 1994)
• Richard A. Paschal, Jim Crow in North Carolina: The Legislative Program from 1865 to 1920 (Carolina Academic Press, 2021)
• Lew Powell, On This Day in North Carolina (John F. Blair Publisher, 1996)
• Lorraine Hale Robinson, Editor, A Briefe and True Report: A History of Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences, 1909-2004 (University Printing and Graphics ECU, 2006)
• Leslie Harper Worthington and Jurgen E. Grandt, Editors, Seeking Home: Marginalization and Representation in Appalachian Literature and Song (U of Tennessee, 2016)
• Margaret Sartor, Editor, Where We Find Ourselves: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum, 1897-1922 (UNC Press, 2019)
• Nancy Simpson, Editor, Echoes Across the Blue Ridge: Stories, Essays, and Poems by Writers Living in and Inspired by the Southern Appalachian Mountains (Winding Path Publishing, 2010)