Non-Fiction
Race, Rock & Religion: Profiles from a Southern Journalist
The Catawba River (with Dot Jackson and Don Sturkey)
The Unfinished Presidency: Essays on Jimmy Carter
The Dream Long Deferred: A Community’s Quest for Desegregation
Southern Voices: Profiles and Other Stories
Kyle at 200 MPH: A Sizzling Season in the Petty/NASCAR Dynasty
Lessons from the Big House: One Family’s Passage through the History of the South
The Way We See It (with Rachel Gaillard)
If I Were a Carpenter: Twenty Years of Habitat for Humanity
The Heart of Dixie: Southern Rebels, Renegades and Heroes
Voices from the Attic
Mobile and the Eastern Shore (with Nancy Gaillard and Tracy Gaillard)
As Long As the Waters Flow: Native Americans in the South and East
The 521 All-Stars: A Championship Story of Baseball and Community
The Greensboro Four: Civil Rights Pioneers
Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement That Changed America
The Books That Mattered: A Reader’s Memoir
Fiction
The Secret Diary of Mikhail Gorbachev
Children’s
Spacechimp (with Melinda Farbman)
Anthologies
No Hiding Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Charlotte Area Writers (Co-edited with Amy Rogers and Robert Inman)
Novello: Ten Years of Great American Writing (Co-edited with Amy Rogers and Robert Inman)