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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORMorgan, Robert
Summary: Stories on working-class people in North Carolina. In The Ratchet, a truck driver descending a mountain discovers his brakes do not work, while in The Bullnoser an unemployed worker makes a living blackmailing a farmer who is dumping toxic wastes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gnomon Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORMorgan, Robert
Summary: Fleeing the South Carolina plantation where he has spent his entire life, eighteen-year-old slave Jonah Williams uses the stars to escape to the North and is pursued by both slave hunters and a free-spirited fellow slave who believes Jonah can help her secure her own freedom.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MORMorgan, Robert
Summary: Fleeing the family farm disguised as a man after killing her abusive stepfather, Josie Summers meets and marries the Reverend John Trethman, but when he is kidnapped by British soldiers, Josie must risk her life to find her husband.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORMorgan, Robert
Summary: On a moonless night in the spring of 1851, a young slave makes a bid for freedom with only the North Star to guide him in a stunning new work of historical fiction from bestselling novelist and historian Robert Morgan. In Chasing the North Star, Morgan brings to full and vivid life the story of a runaway slave named Jonah Williams, who, on his eighteenth birthday, flees the South Carolina...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Morgan 2016Morgan, Robert
Summary: Seen through the eyes of the youngest daughter, Annie, the Richards family faces triumph and hardships during the Great Depression and World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Morgan 2013Morgan, Robert
Summary: A novel on the harsh life in the Appalachian Mountains at the turn of the century. The heroine is Julie Harmon whose work load includes hauling water, butchering a hog, rendering lard, plucking a turkey, baking and preserving--all described in detail.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORMorgan, Robert
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: J.F. Blair 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORMorgan, Robert
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MORMorgan, Robert
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Highbridge Co. 2001