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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Book cover for "The hush"
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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...
Book cover for "The queen of hearts"
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Average Rating:
3.9 stars
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"A debut novel that pulses with humor and empathy and explores the heart's capacity for forgiveness... Zadie Anson and Emma Colley have been best friends since their early twenties, when they first began navigating serious romantic relationships amid the intensity of medical school. Now they're happily married wives and mothers with successful careers--Zadie as a pediatric cardiologist and Emma as a trauma surgeon. Their lives in Charlotte, North...
Book cover for "This dark road to mercy"
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Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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"A resonant new novel about a father's efforts to rescue his young daughters by the critically-acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller A Land More Kind Than Home"--