New stuff on the way!

Wilmington author, veteran, and civic leader Wilbur D. Jones will tell his fascinating story in the memoir, "The Day I Lost the President," coming this spring from Dram Tree Books.

Spring 2020 will bring several new titles to the Dram Tree Books lineup, including a new edition of the continuing Coastal Chronicles series of magazine-length stories about a wide variety of topics related to the history of North Carolina; a new memoir by one of Wilmington's native sons who has led a life that has taken him from New Hanover High School, to a career as a naval officer, to service in the White House and beyond; and even the return of a venerable book of local ghost stories that have been augmented by Dr. Chris E. Fonvielle, Jr. to tell the real history behind the spooky tales.

In the third volume of the Coastal Chronicles, author Jack E. Fryar, Jr. will offer stories about North Carolinians in World War I, Civil War blockade running, Admiral Vernon's ill-fated expedition to Cartagena and the role North Carolina men played in it, the connections that have linked Charleston, S.C. and its Wilmington cousin since the very beginnings of Carolina settlement, Robley D. Evans' account of the battle at Fort Fisher in 1865, the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918, the sinking of the S.S. John D. Gill, and much more!