Read Local - Adult Titles

Be delighted by reading works from a host of North Carolina and local area authors who, like you, have called this wonderful place Home!
 

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1. Other birds

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Author:
Allen, Sarah Addison
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Formats:
Book, Large Print, OverDrive eBook
Description:
"Right off the coast of South Carolina, on Mallow Island, The Dellawisp sits--a stunning cobblestone building shaped like a horeshoe and named after the tiny turquoise birds who, alongside [their] human tenants, inhabit an air of magical secrecy. When Zoey comes to claim her deceased mother's apartment on Mallow Island, she meets her quirky and secretive neighbors, including a girl on the run, two estranged middle-aged sisters, a lonely chef, a legendary...

2. What moves the dead

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Author:
Kingfisher, T.
Series:
Sworn soldier volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
Formats:
Book, OverDrive eAudiobook
Description:
"From T. Kingfisher, the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones, comes What Moves the Dead, a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's classic "The Fall of the House of Usher." When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed...