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701) Main Street
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Several residents of a small Southern city whose lives are changed by the arrival of a stranger with a controversial plan to save their decaying hometown. In the midst of today's challenging times, each of the colorful citizens of this close-knit North Carolina community, will search for ways to reinvent themselves, their relationships and the very heart of their neighborhood.
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
"The Monitor Chronicles brings shipboard experience to life through the words of Civil War sailor George S. Geer, whose never-before-published letters home to his beloved wife, Martha, faithfully chronicle the events of that dramatic year. Like many men of his station, George S. Geer had joined Abraham Lincoln's navy less to help save the Union than to earn money and learn a reliable trade, so his accounts are unflinchingly honest - at times colored...
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
This television adaptation features Lauren Lee Smith as the 19-year-old schoolteacher who flounders and perseveres in an isolated mountain community in the early 1900s. Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Great Smokey Mountains, this 89-minute film begins with an elderly Christy returning to the long-abandoned mission where she once taught. Her memories center around a time when change was coming to Cutter Gap--some for the better, some not,...
704) Finding normal
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
The only thing standing between Dr. Lisa Leland and the wedding of her dreams in the Hamptons is a 2,600-mile drive from Los Angeles to her new life. However, a run-in with the law in the country town of Normal, NC, leaves Dr. Leland with a choice: jail or community service. Sentenced to serve three days as the town's doctor, Lisa has her world turned upside down by a man she would never expect. Quickly, Lisa finds that there's a lot more to Normal...
705) American Tragedy
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Tom Dooley returned from the Civil War to a tumultuous affair with Ann Foster Melton, a married woman, and later became involved with her cousins Pauline and Laura. Tom is about to elope with Laura, who is found murdered, and he and Ann are arrested. After exonerating Ann, Tom is tried and found guilty. But why would he kill the girl he was going to run away with?
706) A slave no more: two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
The newly discovered slave narratives of John Washington and Wallace Turnage-and their harrowing and empowering journey to emancipation. Slave narratives, among the most powerful records of our past, are extremely rare, with only fifty-five surviving post-Civil War. This book is a major new addition to this imperative part of American history-the firsthand accounts of two slaves, John Washington and Wallace Turnage, who through a combination of...
708) The keeper's son
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 21
Description
"In 1941, Killakeet Island of the wind-swept Outer Banks of North Carolina is home to a tiny, peaceful population of fisherman, clam stompers, oyster rakers, and a few lonely sailors of the Coast Guard. Dominating the glorious, raw beauty of the little island is the majestic Killakeet Lighthouse, which for generations has been the responsibility of one family, the Thurlows.".
"However, Josh Thurlow, the Keeper's son, has forsworn his heritage to...
709) Grace interrupted
Author
Series
Formats
Description
"Grace investigates the murder of a Civil War re-enactor and also rescues a stray cat on the grounds of Marshfield Manor"--
711) Country remedy
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
In order for big-city doctor Evan Gibbs to get the job of a lifetime, the workaholic single parent must spend his summer in the mountains of North Carolina setting up a clinic. Arriving in Dunn's Rock with his 10-year-old son, the doctor discovers what is most important to him and learns to enjoy the simple things in life.
713) Paper angels
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
An inspirational holiday story about a child in the Salvation Army's Angel Tree program who encounters the disillusioned businessman who picked his name from the tree.
Series
Woodbridge trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2021
Description
Megan Forrester is a woman bent on taking over her father's far-reaching business ventures in the Carolinas. However, he will never agree as she is merely a woman. He would have her marry the man he has chosen and forget her foolish notions.Megan's identical twin sister married and her husband has moved Margaret and their daughter to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Since then, all communication has ceased. Recognizing the evil in Jordan Higgins, Megan...
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Message in a bottle : A grieving widower and a lonely divorcee come together when she finds a message in a bottle on a Cape Cod beach that she knows was written by him -- Nights in Rodanthe : Each at a turning point in their lives, a man and woman meet by chance at an inn in a small, coastal North Carolina town.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"This riveting story of a top-earning NFL center and his family who walked away from it all to follow God's call to alleviate hunger as farmers--a life they knew absolutely nothing about--illustrates the sacrifice and ultimate reward of obedience to our heavenly Father even when it doesn't make earthly sense"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Secret Society mystery volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Thirty-year-old Black woman Camille Fitzsimons is a talented early American history professor, working in fast-paced Washington DC, with her eyes on promotion. She's also currently persona non grata. Who knew that making an inconvenient historical discovery would see her stuck at her desk, shuffling paper? So when she receives an anonymous and very cryptic invitation to visit historic small-town Robbinsville, North Carolina and hunt for a missing...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Appears on list
Description
"In a North Carolina mountain town filled with moonshine and rotten husbands, Sadie Blue is only the latest girl to face a dead-end future at the mercy of a dangerous drunk. She's been married to Roy Tupkin for fifteen days, and she knows now that she should have listened to the folks who said he was trouble. But when a stranger sweeps in and knocks the world off-kilter for everyone in town, Sadie begins to think there might be more to life than being...
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