Staff Picks: North Carolina Authors


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Book cover for "Tomorrow's bread"
Star rating for Tomorrow's bread
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"In 1961 Charlotte, North Carolina, the predominantly black neighborhood of Brooklyn is a bustling city within a city. When Loraylee Hawkins hears rumors that the city plans to bulldoze her neighborhood, claiming it's dilapidated and dangerous, she searches for a way to keep her family together in this novel that explores the conflicts of gentrification"--
Book cover for "What's mine and yours"
Star rating for What's mine and yours
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"When a county initiative in the Piedmont of North Carolina forces the students at a mostly black public school on the east side to move across town to a nearly all-white high school on the west, the community rises in outrage. For two students, quiet and aloof Gee and headstrong Noelle, these divisions will extend far beyond their schooling. As their paths collide and overlap over the course of thirty years, their two seemingly disconnected families...
Book cover for "When ghosts come home"
Star rating for When ghosts come home
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Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
A "story of a father and daughter, crime and forgiveness, race and memory"--