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. 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...

2. The hush

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Author:
Hart, John, 1965-
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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Description:
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...

3. When ghosts come home: a novel

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Author:
Cash, Wiley
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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Description:
A "story of a father and daughter, crime and forgiveness, race and memory"--