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. 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."--

3. The heiress: a novel

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Author:
Hawkins, Rachel, 1979-
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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Description:
"When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she's not only North Carolina's richest woman, she's also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family's estate high in the Blue Ridge mountains. In the aftermath of her death, that estate--along with a nine-figure fortune and the complicated legacy of being a McTavish--pass...

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 summer of songbirds: a novel

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Author:
Harvey, Kristy Woodson
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
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Description:
"Four women come together to save the summer camp that changed their lives and rediscover themselves in the process"--