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We Who Believe in Freedom: The Life and Times of Ella Baker by Lea E. Williams

Presents the life and accomplishments of the community organizer best known for facilitating the meeting of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee at Shaw University, a key force in the Civil Rights movement. Read the rest of this work in NLS Digital Talking Book format (NLS patrons only)

The Life and Times of Asheville’s Thomas Wolfe

A biography on the Asheville native who took the literary world by storm. A genius, a giant figuratively and literally, the mountain writer angered many in Asheville with his depictions. But late in life, he did go home again, sitting with his mother on the steps of the boarding house and renewing old acquaintances. Read the rest of this work in NLS Digital Talking Book format (NLS patrons only)

The Civil War in North Carolina by John Gilchrist Barrett

A comprehensive account of military operations in North Carolina during the Civil War. This clip contains the first 3 minutes from the 1st chapter. Read the rest of this work in NLS Digital Talking Book format (NLS patrons only)

Beyond the Darkness: A literary journal edited by Linda West Wooten

Presented by the students of The Governor Morehead School for the Blind, located in Raleigh, North Carolina. Includes student artwork, poetry, short stories, novel excerpts, and creative non-fiction. Read the rest of this work in NLS Digital Talking Book format (NLS patrons only)

The Last Rose of Summer by Theresa Cocolin

A story from the Depression-era in North Carolina, about a woman who's life is turned over when her brothers leave the family farm and her mother dies. She then kills her drunken, abusive father and is sent to Dorothea Dix Hospital. Her time at Dix, is life changing. Read the rest of this work in NLS Digital Talking Book format (NLS patrons only)

My Mother‘s Restaurant by Sylvia Perkins

The author tells the story of her mother's time bringing up children on her own in an unfamiliar country. Armed with intense determination and unconventional wits, she faces hard economic times and a domineering father to prove she is capable of meeting this momentous task. Read the rest of this work in NLS Digital Talking Book format (NLS patrons only)

Memories of World War I: North Carolina Doughboys on The Western Front by R. Jackson Marshall

Describes the Great War as seen through the eyes of North Carolina doughboys who fought on the western front in Belgium and France. Read the rest of this work in NLS Digital Talking Book format (NLS patrons only)

Quilt or Innocence: A Southern Quilting Mystery by Elizabeth Craig

Retired folk art curator Beatrice Coleman knows everything there is to know about quilts, except how to make them. But with her recent move to Dappled Hills, North Carolina, she's learning all sorts of new things--including how to solve a murder. Includes quilting tips. Read the rest of this work in NLS Digital Talking Book format (NLS patrons only)

Changing Places: Things I Learned at the NC State School for the Blind in the 1950s by Myra Debruhl

Author's account of her life growing up in the 1950s at the NC State School for the Blind in Raleigh. Read the rest of this work in NLS Digital Talking Book format (NLS patrons only)

Cataloochee by Wayne Caldwell

Set in the mountains of western North Carolina, an historical novel follows the lives of three families from the end of the Civil War until 1928, when the National Park Service prepares to uproot them to make way for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Read the rest of this work in NLS Digital Talking Book format (NLS patrons only)