NOBLE Books

The following locally produced Talking Books are available:

• Money Rock: a family's story of cocaine, race, and ambition in the new south

  by Pam Kelley, Pam
  Read by Joe Simpson. Reading Time approximately 9 hours, 20 minutes.
  - Download Money Rock, DBX01242

• Game Changers: Dean Smith, Charlie Scott, and the Era That Transformed a Southern College Town

  by Art Chansky
  Read by Mirron Willis. Reading Time approximately 8 hours, 5 minutes.
  - Download Game Changers, DBC06127

• Carolina Built: a novel

  by Kianna Alexander
  Read by Shayna Small and Leon Nixon. Reading Time approximately 10 hours and 9 minutes.
  - Download Carolina Built, DBC06126

• Fire to Light: A Memoir of Family, Race, and War

  by Charles Malone
  Read by George Douglas. Reading Time approximately 8 hours, 40 minutes.
  - Download Fire to Light, DBC06124

• NCABLS Writing Contest Winners 2020-2021

  by Clint Exum, ed.
  Read by Florence Nash. Reading Time approximately 3 hours, 16 minutes.
  - Download NCABLS Writing Contest 2020 to 2021, DBC06123

• Adulting at the moto-lodge: a humorous family life romp

  by Joshua Berkov
  Read by Geoffrey Livingston. Reading Time approximately 7 hours, 2 minutes.
  - Download Adulting at the moto-lodge, DBC06122

• Longneedle

  by Anne Marshall Runyon
  Read by Anne Marshall Runyon. Reading Time approximately 55 minutes.
  - Download Longneedle, DBC06121

• The Life and Times of Asheville's Thomas Wolfe

  by Jennifer S. Prince
  Read by Kathy Norris. Reading Time approximately 2 hours, 20 minutes.
  - Download The Life and Times of Asheville's Thomas Wolfe, DBC06120

• We Who Believe in Freedom : The Life and Times of Ella Baker

  by Lea E. Williams
  Read by Lea E. Williams. Reading Time approximately 2 hours 10 minutes.
  - We Who Believe in Freedom, DBC06118

• The Pot Is Boiling Over: Daily Poems about God & Life

  by Courtney Fleming
  Read by Alana McFarland. Reading Time approximately 45 minutes.
  - Download The Pot is Boiling Over, DBC06117

• Quilt Trip: A Southern Quilting Mystery

  by Elizabeth Spann Craig
  Read by Frannie Ashburn. Reading Time approximately 7 hours 30 minutes.
  - Download Quilt Trip, DBC06116

• Animals among us: a collection of short stories

  by Ruthann Anderson
  Read by Judith Bareham. Reading Time approximately 5 hours, 26 minutes.
  - Download Animals Among Us, DBX01240

• Slings & Arrows: How Toxic Narratives Perpetuate Poverty in Indian Country

  by David W. Bland
  Read by David W. Bland. Reading Time approximately 10 hours, 27 minutes.
  - Download Slings and Arrows, DBX01241

• The Way I See It

  by David Gates
  Read by Lanny Parker. Reading Time approximately 4 hours, 32 minutes.
  - Download The Way I See It, DBC06115

• Memories of World War I: North Carolina Doughboys on The Western Front

  by R. Jackson Marshall III
  Read by Emily Andino. Reading Time approximately 7 hours, 5 minutes.
  - Download Memories of World War I, DBC06114

• Knot What It Seams: A Southern Quilting Mystery

  by Elizabeth Craig
  Read by Frannie Ashburn. Reading Time approximately 7 hours, 55 minutes.
  - Download Knot What It Seems, DBC06113

• A Day of Blood: The 1898 Wilmington Race Riot

  by LaRae Sikes Umfleet
  Read by Deborah Banks. Reading Time approximately 8 hours, 4 minutes.
  - Download A Day of Blood, DBC06112

• Best in Hollywood: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful

  by James Best
  Read by Bob Martin, North Carolina Reading Service. Reading Time approximately 8 hours, 4 minutes.
  - Download Best in Hollywood, DBX01239

• How To Go Blind and Not Lose Your Mind: Dealing with the Physical and Emotional Challenges of Sight Loss

  by R. Mike Harmer
  Read by Bob Endersby. Reading Time approximately 4 hours, 25 minutes.
  - Download How To Go Blind and Not Lose Your Mind, DBX01226

• Awesome Science & What Makes Science So Awesome!

  by Phillis Goldman
  Read by Johnny M. Reading Time approximately 1 hour, 55 minutes.
  - Download Awesome Science & What Makes Science So Awesome!, DBX01238

• Descriptive Video Club Catalog - 2019

  by NCLBPH
  Read by text to speech. Reading Time approximately 5 hours, 36 minutes.
  - Download Descriptive Video Catalog 2019, DBX01237

• Before they were heroes at King's Mountain

  by K. Randell Jones
  Read by Florence Nash. Reading Time approximately 15 hours, 47 minutes.
  - Download Before they were heroes at King's Mountain, DBC06110

• Quilt or Innocence: A Southern Quilting Mystery.

  by Elizabeth Craig
  Read by Frannie Ashburn. Reading Time approximately 7 hours, 36 Minutes.
  - Download Quilt or Innocence, DBC06111

• I was nothing. Now I'm something.

  by D. P. May
  Read by Judith Bareham. Reading Time approximately 30 minutes.
  - Download I was nothing. Now I'm something, DBX01236

• Ironclads and Columbiads: The Civil War in North Carolina, The Coast

  by William R. Trotter
  Read by Lanny Parker. Reading Time approximately 15 hours, 46 minutes.
  - Download Ironclads and Columbiads, DBC06107

• Between the Creeks: My Sapony Adventures

  by Roy A. Cooper, Jr.
  Read by Bob Martin, North Carolina Reading Service. Reading Time approximately 6 hours 5 minutes.
  - Download Between the Creeks, DBX01235

• North Carolina Division of Services for the Blind Independent Living Rehabilitation Program Reference and Resource Guide

  by NC Division of Services for the Blind
  Read by Frannie Ashburn. Reading Time approximately 3 hours 40 minutes.
  - Download The Independent Living Rehabilitation Program Reference and Resource Guide, DBC06109

• The Third Reconstruction: How a Moral Movement Is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear

  by William J. Barber, II
  Read by Robert Blue. Reading Time approximately 6 hours 33 minutes..
  - Download The Third Reconstruction, DBC06106

• Boston Terrier Mysteries: The Kennel Caper

  by Carol Martin and Dot Hallinan
  Read by Bob Martin, North Carolina Reading Service. Reading Time approximately 1 hour 23 minutes.
  - Download Boston Terrier Mysteries, DBX01234

• Blind Justice

  by Craig B. Brown
  Read by Wayne Wagner, Triangle Radio Reading Service. Reading Time approximately 4 hours 32 minutes.
  - Download Blind Justice, DBX01233

• A Fork in the Road

  by Craig B. Brown
  Read by Bob Martin, North Carolina Reading Service. Reading Time approximately 6 hours 27 minutes.
  - Download A Fork in the Road, DBX01232

• Through the years 1867-1977, light out of darkness: a history of the NC School for the Negro Blind and Deaf

  by M. H. Crockett and Barbara Crockett Dease.
  Read by Ward Zimmermann. Reading Time approximately 6 hours 58 minutes.
  - Download Through the Years 1867-1977, DBX00718

• Dead and Gone: classic crimes of North Carolina

  by Manly Wade Wellman.
  Read by Don Schier. Reading Time approximately 5 hours 43 minutes.
  - Download Dead and Gone, DBX00828

• Civil War in North Carolina

  by John Gilchrist Barrett.
  Read by Mike Robbins. Reading Time approximately 18 hours.
  - Download Civil War in North Carolina, DBC06108

• The Governor's Lady: A Novel

  by Robert Inman.
  Read by Kathy Norris. Reading Time approximately 11 hours 5 minutes.
  - Download The Governor's Lady, DBC06105

• When the Parkway Came.

  by David E. Whisnant
  Read by Daniel Wade. Reading Time approximately 43 minutes.
  - Download When the Parkway Came. DBC06103

• Changing Places: Things I Learned at the NC State School for the Blind in the 1950s.

  by Myra Yarborough DeBruhl.
  Read by Myra Yarborough DeBruhl. Reading Time approximately 6 hours 57 minutes.
  - Download Changing Places, DBX01231

• Lucky to See at All: One Man's Journey with Visual Impairment

  by William Bryan Waters
  Read by Lanny Parker. Reading time approximately 2 hours 50 minutes.
  - Download Lucky to See at All, DBC06102

• Scoundrels, Rogues and Heroes of the Old North State

  by H.G. Jones
  Read by Daniel Wade. Reading time approximately 6 hours.
  - Download Scoundrels, Rogues and Heroes, DBC06101

• Victims: a true story of the Civil War

  by Phillip Shaw Paludan
  Reading time approximately 6 hours 15 minutes.
  - Download Victims, DBX00998

• Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue

  by John Shelton Reed and Dale Volberg Reed, with William McKinney.
  Read by John Stein. Reading time approximately 11 hours.
  - Download Holy Smoke, DBX01133

• Mercy Me

  by Margaret A. Graham.
  Read by Lisa Macy. Reading Time approximately 4 hours 40 minutes.
  - Download Mercy Me, DBX01134

• Silk Flags and Cold Steel: The Civil War in North Carolina, the Piedmont

  by William R. Trotter.
  Read by John Stein. Reading Time approximately 14 hours 30 minutes.
  - Download Silk Flags and Cold Steel, DBX01136

• Bushwhackers: The Civil War in North Carolina, the mountains

  by William R. Trotter.
  Read by Drew Smith. Reading Time approximately 15 hours.
  - Download Bushwhackers, DBX01160

• Shell Game: a Professor Simon Shaw Mystery

  by Sarah R. Shaber.
  Read by Drew Smith. Reading Time approximately 6 hours 30 minutes.
  - Download Shell Game, DBX01161

• Good Heavens: Part of the Esmeralda Series

  by Margaret A. Graham.
  Read by Lisa Macy. Reading Time approximately 7 hours.
  - Download Good Heavens, DBX01162

• Land Sakes: Part of the Esmeralda Series

  by Margaret A. Graham.
  Read by Lisa Macy. Reading Time approximately 6 hours 45 minutes.
  - Download Land Sakes, DBX01163

• The Bug Funeral: a Professor Simon Shaw Mystery

  by Sarah R. Shaber.
  Read by Marti Miller. Reading Time approximately 6 hours 15 minutes.
  - Download The Bug Funeral, DBX01164

• Beyond the Darkness: A literary journal

  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.
  edited by Linda West Wooten.
  Read by Sherrie Zeblisky. Reading Time approximately 1 hour.
  - Download Beyond the Darkness, DBX01183

• Tar Heel Traveler: Journeys across North Carolina

  by Scott Mason.
  Read by Jeff Ashburn. Reading Time approximately 6 hours 35 minutes.
  - Download Tar Heel Traveler, DBX01195

• Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont: A Guidebook

  by Georgann Eubanks.
  Read by Lisa Macy. Reading Time approximately 14 hours.
  - Download Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont, DBX01196

• Cataloochee

  by Wayne Caldwell.
  Read by Drew Smith. Reading Time approximately 12 hours 15 minutes.
  - Download Cataloochee, DBX01197

• Requiem by Fire

  by Wayne Caldwell.
  Read by Daniel Wade. Reading Time approximately 11 hours 50 minutes.
  - Download Requiem by Fire, DBX01217

• Christmas Cake

  by Lynne Hinton.
  Read by Marti Miller. Reading Time approximately 6 hours 20 minutes.
  - Download Christmas Cake, DBX01219

• The Highland Scots of North Carolina, 1732-1776

  by Duane Gilbert Meyer.
  Read by John Stein. Reading Time approximately 5 hours 5 minutes.
  - Download The Highland Scots of North Carolina, DBX01220

• Last Rose of Summer

  by Theresa Cocolin.
  Read by Drew Smith. Reading Time approximately 8 hours 15 minutes.
  - Download Last Rose of Summer, DBX01221

• Bryson City Tales

  by Walt Larimore.
  Read by Drew Smith. Reading Time approximately 11 hours 41 minutes.
  - Download Bryson City Tales, DBX01222

• Bryson City Seasons

  by Walt Larimore.
  Read by John Stein. Reading Time approximately 9 hours 35 minutes.
  - Download Bryson City Seasons, DBX01224

• Bryson City Secrets

  by Walt Larimore.
  Read by Drew Smith. Reading Time approximately 9 hours 19 minutes.
  - Download Bryson City Secrets, DBX01225

• Nvr Nevr Never Quit

  by Bonnie Habel
  Read by Drew Smith. Reading time approximately 3 hours 10 minutes.
  - Download Nvr Nevr Never Quit, DBX01227

• My Mother's Restaurant

  by Sylvia Perkins.
  Read by Sylvia Perkins. Reading Time approximately 2 hours 5 minutes.
  - Download My Mother's Restaurant, DBX01229

The following locally produced Braille books are available:

• Haunted Wilmington...and the Cape Fear Coast

  by Brooks Newton Preik.
  Length one volume.
  - Download Haunted Wilmington, BRX02132

• More than Petticoats: Remarkable North Carolina Women

  by Scotti Kent
  Length two volumes.
  - Download More Than Petticoats, volumes 1 and 2, BRX02133 

• How To Go Blind and Not Lose Your Mind: Dealing with the Physical and Emotional Challenges of Sight Loss

  by Mike R. Harmer
  Length one volume.
  - Download How to Go Blind and Not Lose Your Mind, volume 1, BRX02205

• Never Too Late: Carolina Cousins, Book 3

  by Michael Phillips
  Length two volumes.
  - Download Never Too Late, volumes 1 and 2, BRX02571 

• Lucky to See at All: One Man's Journey with Visual Impairment

  by William Bryan Waters
  Length one volume.
  - Download Lucky to See at All, BRX02635

• The Enlightenment of Angeline

  by Josh Berkov
  Length six volumes.
  - Download The Enlightenment of Angelina, BRC01865

• Knot What It Seams: A Southern Quilting Mystery

  by Elizabeth Spann Craig
  Length two volumes.
  - Download Knot What It Seams, BRX02816

• African American Music Trails of Eastern North Carolina

  by Beverly Patterson, et al.
  Length six volumes.
  - Download African American Music Trails, BRX02817

• Longneedle

  by Anne Marshall Runyon
  Length one volume.
  - Download Longneedle, BRX02818

• The Life and Times of Asheville's Thomas Wolfe

  by Jennifer S Prince
  Length one volume.
  - Download Life and Times of Thomas Wolfe, BRX02819