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African Americans Fiction Married women Fiction Mothers and daughters Fiction North Carolina North Carolina Fiction North Carolina History 20th century Fiction Race relations Fiction Race relations Juvenile fiction South Carolina Fiction South Carolina History Civil War, 1861-1865 FictionCurtis, Christopher Paul
Summary: When his poor sharecropper father is killed in an accident and leaves the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie agrees to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit of people who have stolen from him; Cap'n Buck tells Little Charlie that his father's debt will be cleared when the fugitives are captured, which seems like a good deal until Little Charlie comes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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Summary: "When Major Gryffth Hockaday is called to the front lines of the Civil War, his new bride is left to care for her husband's three-hundred-acre farm and infant son. Placidia, a mere teenager herself living far from her family and completely unprepared to run a farm or raise a child, must endure the darkest days of the war on her own. By the time Major Hockaday returns two years later, Placidia...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Rivers 2017Headen, Sandra W.
Summary: In 1939 North Carolina, an all-Black baseball team "trespasses" on the whites-only baseball field, and the resulting racial outrage can only be resolved on the mound.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HEAMangel, C. P.
Summary: "When Titus Horace, successful African American author, inherits a large tract of land, he leaves Chicago with his Jewish wife Ardene and their daughter Asa, and moves to the segregated North Carolina of 1950. Unhappy at being uprooted from her school and friends, Asa quickly learns how persons of color are intimidated and humiliated on a daily basis and how, despite their education and talent,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Mangel 2019Brock, Kimberly
Summary: "Based on real history and alternating between the story of war widow Alice searching for identity in the 1940s and excerpts from Eleanor Dare's Commonplace Book and the tale of her harrowing survival, The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare explores the meaning of female history and the sacrifices every mother makes for her daughter"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Muse 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRODoctorow, E. L.
Summary: In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then to the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces and lived off the land, pillaging the Southern plantations, taking cattle and crops for their own, demolishing cities and accumulating a borne-along population of freed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DOCDameron, DéLana R. A.
Summary: ""Mika, you sit at our feet all these hours and days, hearing us tell our tales. You have all these stories inside you: all the stories everyone in our family knows and all the stories everyone in our family tells. You write 'em in your books and show everyone who we are." So begins DéLana R.A. Dameron's stunning novel-in-stories, Redwood Court. The baby of the family, Mika Mosby spends much of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2024
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Hitchcock, Shannon
Summary: From the moment she met Samantha, star of the school basketball team, on her first day at Daniel Boone Middle School, Allison Drake felt she had found a friend, something she needs badly since her brother died and her father left--but as their friendshipgrows it begins to evolve into a deeper emotion, and in North Carolina in 1977, it is not easy to discover that you might be gay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HITGibbons, Kaye
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIBSmith, Katy Simpson
Summary: Set in a small coastal town in North Carolina during the waning years of the American Revolution, this debut novel follows three generations of family--fathers and daughters, mother and son, master and slave, characters who yearn for redemption amidst a heady brew of war, kidnapping, slavery, and love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMIEverhart, Donna
Summary: For fourteen-year-old Wallis Ann Stamper and her family, life in the Appalachian Mountains is simple and satisfying, though not for the tenderhearted. While her older sister, Laci--a mute, musically gifted savant--is constantly watched over and protected, Wallis Ann is as practical and sturdy as her name. When the Tuckasegee River bursts its banks, forcing them to flee in the middle of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Everhart 2018Gabaldon, Diana.
Summary: From 1767 to 1770, Claire, a 20th-century woman, and her 18th-century Scottish husband, struggle to set up their home in South Carolina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Gabaldon 1997Boyd, Natasha
Summary: The story of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, who ran her father's plantation outside Charleston, South Carolina in the 1700s and struck a bargain with the plantation's slaves--teach her how to make indigo and she would teach them to read.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Stone Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION BOYSpera, Deb
Summary: "It's 1924 South Carolina and the region is still recovering from the infamous boll weevil infestation that devastated the land and the economy. Gertrude, a mother of four, must make an unconscionable decision to save her daughters from starvation or die at the hands of an abusive husband. Retta is navigating a harsh world as a first-generation freed slave, still employed by the Coles,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPEMcCrumb, Sharyn
Summary: A story inspired by a true crime made famous by the Kingston Trio's folk song recording reimagines the events surrounding the murder of North Carolina mountain girl Laura Foster and the hanging of her lover, Tom Dula, in a meticulously researched accountthat reveals additional information that may prove Dula's innocence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction McCrumb 2011Hahn, Sumi
Summary: "A talented young deep-sea diver from occupied 1948 Korea's neighboring Jeju Island visits Mt. Halla for her family's annual trading trip before her romance with a mountain youth is upended by family tragedy and political turbulence."--Publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Hahn 2020Gohlke, Cathy
Summary: "When Lilliana Swope's beloved mother dies, Lilliana gathers her last ounce of courage and flees her abusive husband for the home of her only living relative in the foothills of No Creek, North Carolina. Though Hyacinth Belvidere hasn't seen Lilliana since she was five, she offers her cherished great-niece a safe harbor. Their joyful reunion inspires plans to revive Aunt Hyacinth's estate and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOHGabaldon, Diana.
Summary: The fifth installment in the Outlander series featuring the time-traveling Frasers. This story takes place in pre-Revolutionary War North Carolina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P GABGibbons, Kaye
Summary: Maureen Ross, who has had her spirit battered throughout her marriage to Troop Ross, is experiencing a difficult pregnancy, and Troop's niece, coming to help her aunt in the last weeks of confinement, is horrified by Troop's bullying.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike/Chivers 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GIBRoyce, Eden
Summary: In 1963 in South Carolina, eleven-year-old twins Jez and Jay Turner begin lessons in rootwork, and their uncle's training offers them healing, protection, and a connection to their heritage even as they face threats from the local police deputy, school bullies, and others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2001
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Summary: 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 Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark. But Kya is not what they say. Abandoned at age ten, she has survived on her own in the marsh that she calls home. A born naturalist with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC OWEFuller, Iola.
Summary: The story of an Indian girl destined to grow up with the incompatible traditions of her own people and of the white traders on Mackinac Island. One of the most popular books ever written about the conflict of alien peoples.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1984
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FULKidd, Sue Monk.
Summary: "The story follows Hetty "Handful" Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid. "The Invention of Wings" follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2014