Even moreso than in fiction, professors and other professionals run the gamut in our great state, so nonfiction crosses into many different subjects of expertise. Here’s a selection of NC authors with books based in fact coming out through April:
In 1969, with America’s inner cities in turmoil and racial tensions high, civil rights leader Floyd McKissick announced a plan to build a new city in rural North Carolina, intended primarily to benefit black people. Soul City received funding from the federal government and was rapidly growing. But the utopian vision was not to be, as Soul City was battered from the left and the right, causing its bankruptcy in 1979. Thomas Healy, a native of NC, resurrects this forgotten saga of race, capitalism, and the struggle for equality. Was it an impossible, misbegotten dream from the beginning? Or a brilliant idea thwarted by prejudice and bad timing? And how might history have turned out if Soul City had been allowed to succeed?
The rollicking memoir from the cardiologist turned legendary scientist and winner of the Nobel Prize, recipient of the National Medal of Science, and someone who revels in the joy of science and discovery. In addition to his time as a physician, from being a "yellow beret" in the public health corps with Dr. Anthony Fauci to his time as a cardiologist, and his extraordinary transition to biochemistry, Dr. Lefkowitz has ignited passion and curiosity as a fabled mentor and teacher. But it's all in a day's work, as Lefkowitz reveals in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stockholm, which is filled to the brim with anecdotes and energy, and gives us a glimpse into the life of one of today's leading scientists.
Transform the way you use your freezer with 100 flavorful meal prep recipes that can be brought to the table in fewer than 30 minutes, from a two-time James Beard Award-winning chef and restaurateur. The freezer is the secret weapon in the home kitchen of renowned Raleigh chef Ashley Christensen and her wife, cookbook author Kaitlyn Goalen. In It’s Always Freezer Season, with delicious recipes, bright photography, technical information, and tips on stocking a frozen pantry, Christensen and Goalen reveal how the freezer can easily become the single most important kitchen tool for a home cook.
As businesses prioritize their bottom line over employee satisfaction and workers become increasingly isolated, the need to safeguard your well-being is crucial. Through tactical advice on how to approach work in a smart and healthy manner, Raleighite Laurie Ruettimann lays out an essential guide for how to snap out of autopilot and become your own best advocate, providing the framework necessary to champion your interests and create a life you enjoy. Packed with advice and stories of others who regained control of their lives, Betting on You is a game-changing must-read for how to radically improve your day-to-day.
In the 1920s and 1930s, forestry organizations built dozens of lookout structures in Western North Carolina as the backbone of a firefighting system. Many of these lookouts survive in North Carolina today— they represent some of the best destinations for hikers who want to see the incredible vistas of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Part hiking guide and part photography collection, this book contains wonderful stories about the history and folklore of the lookouts and their fire lookout inhabitants, a detailed guide of hikes to each, and details about the views at the top.
Burton Craig Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence at the UNC Chapel Hill, Michael J. Gerhardt reveals how a group of five men, some of whom Lincoln had never met but some he knew intimately—Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, Zachary Taylor, John Todd Stuart, and Orville Browning—mentored an obscure lawyer with no executive experience to become American’s greatest leader, teaching him, among many other things, how to develop policies and rhetoric to match a constitutional vision that spoke to the monumental challenges of his time.
Licensed counselor and relationship expert Nedra Glover Tawwab demystifies the complex topic of setting boundaries in order to achieve work/life balance, cope with toxic people, and enjoy rewarding relationships. Set Boundaries, Find Peace presents simple-yet-powerful ways to establish healthy boundaries in all aspects of life. Rooted in the latest research and best practices, these techniques help readers identify and express our needs clearly and without apology, unraveling a root problem behind codependency, power struggles, anxiety, burnout, and more.
Matt Doherty played and coached basketball at the University of North Carolina. He started on the 1982 National Championship team coached by Dean Smith while playing alongside NBA stars Michael Jordan and James Worthy. He is the former head coach at the University of Notre Dame and UNC, and was named 2001's National Coach of the Year. Yet in 2003, he was forced to resign. How do you prepare for your next opportunity? You rebound! In Rebound, Coach Doherty provides a game plan to help you navigate the rough terrain of leadership. He shares his journey in an authentic manner that will engage you with riveting stories of tremendous successes and failures.
The Carolina Ground Flour Mill in Asheville, NC is a baker-driven mill. Jennifer Lapidus’s intensely flavorful flour, made from grains grown and cold stone-milled in the heart of the South, is transforming bakeries, allowing them to move away from industrial commodity flour and deliver extraordinary taste, texture, and story. Serving instruction and insight into how to use and enjoy these flavor-forward flours, Southern Ground harnesses the wisdom and knowledge that our baking community has gained. With profiles on some of the top Southern bakers (including Nicole and Jason Evans Groth from Anisette here in Raleigh!) and eighty recipes, this is a love story to Southern baking and a call for the home baker to understand the source and makeup of the most important of ingredients: flour.
