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 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...

2. When ghosts come home: a novel

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

3. Where the crawdads sing

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Author:
Owens, Delia
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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...