Adventure Begins at the Library with NC Authors

Summer Reading 2024. Enjoy these North Carolina authors and their works based in locations across the state. Adventure begins within a book!
 

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1. Big lies in a small town

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Author:
Chamberlain, Diane, 1950-
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
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Description:
"From bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes an irresistible new novel. North Carolina, 2018: Morgan Christopher's life has been derailed. Taking the fall for a crime she did not commit, she finds herself serving a three-year stint in the North Carolina Women's Correctional Center. Her dream of a career in art is put on hold-until a mysterious visitor makes her an offer that will see her released immediately. Her assignment: restore an old post...

2. Garden spells

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Author:
Allen, Sarah Addison
Series:
Waverley family novels volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Description:
A successful caterer in Bascomb, North Carolina, Claire has always remained tied to the legacy of the Waverly family, until her peaceful life is transformed by Tyler Hughes, an art teacher and new next-door neighbor, and by the return of her prodigal sister, Sydney.

3. A good neighborhood

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Author:
Fowler, Therese
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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Description:
"A gripping contemporary novel that examines the American dream through the lens of two families living side by side in an idyllic neighborhood, and the one summer that changes their lives irrevocably."--

4. The hush

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Author:
Hart, John, 1965-
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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Johnny Merrimon is ten years removed from the shattering events which killed his twin sister and tore the rest of his family apart. He has since become a prickly recluse, living in self-imposed isolation in the forbidding swampland of Hush Arbor, six thousand acres he alone knows how to traverse. His best friend Jack, now a local attorney, is his only invited guest, and others who attempt to conquer the Hush often meet inexplicably violent ends. The...

5. The last ballad

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Author:
Cash, Wiley
Average Rating:
3.6 stars
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Description:
"The eagerly awaited next novel from the author of the New York Times bestselling A Land More Kind Than Home about a young mother desperately trying to hold her family together in the years before the Great Depression, a haunting and moving story of cowardice, courage and sacrifice"--

6. Where the crawdads sing

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Author:
Owens, Delia
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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"Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase...