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	<title>Read North Carolina Novels</title>
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	<description>A Guide to Fiction Set in North Carolina</description>
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		<title>Inglis Fletcher. Toil of the Brave. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1946</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The unrest of the Regulators and the fight for American independence are of little interest to many of the residents of River Plantation in Chowan County. The beautiful Angela Ferrier busies herself with romances even as her step-father, who sits on the Governor&#8217;s Council, fears for North Carolina and his family.  Only when Angela finds [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncnovels/index.php/2009/11/20/inglis-fletcher-toil-of-the-brave-indianapolis-bobbs-merrill-1946/</link>
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		<title>Price, Reynolds.  Blue Calhoun.  New York: Atheneum, 1992.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blue Calhoun narrates the story of his adult years in Raleigh during the 1950s from the distance of old age.  He begins his story in his mid-thirties, when he is working at a store that sells sheet music and instruments.  One day at work, an old friend from school stops by the store with her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncnovels/index.php/2009/11/20/price-reynolds-blue-calhoun-new-york-atheneum-1992/</link>
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		<title>Joyce Moyer Hostetter. Comfort. Honesdale, PA: Calkins Creek, 2009.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The year is 1945 in this sequel to Hostetter&#8217;s earlier novel, Blue.  Ann Fay has returned from treatment in a polio hospital and her beloved father is back from the war.  Ann Fay thinks that she understands the changes that occurred at home during the war&#8211;the deprivation, the polio epidemic that killed her younger brother [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncnovels/index.php/2009/11/13/joyce-moyer-hostetter-comfort-honesdale-pa-calkins-creek-2009/</link>
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		<title>Suzetta Perkins. Behind the Veil. Largo, MD: Strebor Books, 2006.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Life in the suburbs of Fayetteville is not necessarily what it seems to be.  For the Myles family, their seemingly perfect life is about to be turned upside down.  Jefferson and Margo have a marriage that has lasted a quarter century, four grown, adoring children, thriving careers, and a cozy house in a nice, friendly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncnovels/index.php/2009/11/10/suzetta-perkins-behind-the-veil-largo-md-strebor-books-2006/</link>
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		<title>T. Lynn Ocean. The Jersey Barnes Series.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Southern Fatality. New York: St. Martin&#8217;s Minotaur, 2007.
Southern Poison. New York: St. Martin&#8217;s Minotaur, 2008.
Southern Peril. New York: Minotaur Books, 2009.

Jersey Barnes was a Marine MP and a government anti-terrorism agent.  After leaving government service, she moved back to Wilmington to open up her own security firm.  When even that feels like too much, Jersey [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncnovels/index.php/2009/11/10/t-lynn-ocean-the-jersey-barnes-series/</link>
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		<title>Mark de Castrique. The Fitzgerald Ruse. Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2009.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This novel picks up where Blackman&#8217;s Coffin (2008) left off.  Iraq veteran Sam Blackman and Nakayla Robertson have opened a detective agency in Asheville.  Their first client is an elderly woman who wants them to return a manuscript she stole from F. Scott Fitzgerald to his heirs.  Shortly after Blackman retrieves the lock box containing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncnovels/index.php/2009/11/09/mark-de-castrique-the-fitzgerald-ruse-scottsdale-az-poisoned-pen-press-2009/</link>
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		<title>Mark de Castrique. The Sam Blackman Mysteries.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Blackman&#8217;s Coffin. Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2008.
The Fitzgerald Ruse. Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2009.

In the first book in this series, Sam Blackman is a wounded Iraq War veteran who comes to Asheville for rehabilitation.  A job offer from the head of a local security firm provides him with a new career path, even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncnovels/index.php/2009/11/09/mark-de-castrique-the-sam-blackman-mysteries/</link>
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		<title>Joe C. Ellis. Murder at Whalehead. Martins Ferry, OH: Upper Ohio Valley Books, 2007.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Outer Banks lore and description are nicely woven into this tale of murder. When two Ohio families come to the Outer Banks for a vacation, they find that they haven&#8217;t left all their troubles behind.  Byron Butler, father and minister, is still tormented by disturbing dreams, and young Dugan Walton struggles to be understood and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncnovels/index.php/2009/11/06/joe-c-ellis-murder-at-whalehead-martins-ferry-oh-upper-ohio-valley-books-2007/</link>
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		<title>DuBose Heyward. Angel. New York: George H. Doran Co., 1926</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This novel&#8217;s North Carolina setting is a bit of a surprise since the author, DuBose Heyward, is strongly associated with that other Carolina&#8211;particularly the city of Charleston, the setting for his novel Porgy.  Porgy was the basis for Porgy and Bess, the play, movie and great George Gershwin opera.
Angel is set among the mountaineers of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncnovels/index.php/2009/11/06/dubose-heyward-angel-new-york-george-h-doran-co-1926/</link>
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		<title>Lori Foster. Say No To Joe?. New York: Zebra, 2003.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Joe Winston is the type of guy that girls flock to.   He has no problem with getting his pick of the litter until he meets Luna Clark.   Luna knows better than to fall for Joe&#8217;s usually irresistible charms and, of course, this drive&#8217;s Joe crazy.   He pursues and she ignores until Luna [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncnovels/index.php/2009/11/02/lori-foster-say-no-to-joe-new-york-zebra-2003/</link>
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