North Carolina Authors

Titles by North Carolina authors you do not want to miss.
 

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1. The land breakers

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Author:
Ehle, John, 1925-2018
Series:
Wright Family saga (John Ehle) volume 1.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Formats:
Book, OverDrive eBook
Description:
"First published fifty years ago in 1964 to great acclaim, The Land Breakers is John Ehle's best-known work of historical fiction, chronicling the hard-won settlement of southern Appalachia. A cinematic saga spanning the Revolutionary War years of 1779 to 1784, The Land Breakers recounts in spare, unflinching prose the challenges, setbacks, and small triumphs of the defiant men and women who were drawn to the wilderness of provincial North Carolina....

2. The tobacco wives: a novel

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Author:
Myers, Adele
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Formats:
Book, Large Print
Description:
In 1946 North Carolina, seamstress Maddie Sykes, a dressmaker for Bright Leaf's most influential women--the wives of powerful tobacco executives, uncovers dangerous truths about this lucrative industry in a place where everyone depends on Big Tobacco to survive.