Tag Archives: Civil War
Eileen Clymer Schwab. Shadow of a Quarter Moon. New York: New American Library, 2011.
“Jacy Lane, you are nothing more than a foolish quarter moon!” While Jacy is the pride and joy of her father, the wealthy plantation owner Mr. Bradford Lane, she is often the subject of her mother Claudia’s anger. Raised to … Continue reading
Filed under 2010-2019, 2011, Camden, Coastal Plain, Gates, Historical, Pasquotank, Romance/Relationship, Schwab, Eileen Clymer
Sharyn McCrumb. The Ballad of Tom Dooley. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2011.
If you grew up in the Appalachians of western North Carolina, chances are you’ve heard the tale of Tom Dooley at least once. You may even have heard the song made famous by the likes of Frank Proffitt, the New … Continue reading
Filed under 2010-2019, 2011, Historical, McCrumb, Sharyn, Mountains, Watauga, Wilkes
Sain, Leanna. Magnolia Blossoms. Kingsport, TN: Twilight Times Books, 2010.
Sweet Magnolia Poinsett (understandably) loathes her name, preferring instead to go by Maggie. At 25, tough and worldly Maggie is a photographer for the prestigious National Geographic magazine, until she contracts malaria on a shoot in Zaire. Ordered to rest, … Continue reading
Eugenia Collier. Beyond the Crossroad. Baltimore, MD: Three Sistahs Press, 2009.
Caroline’s lifelong dream has been freedom. Born into slavery in the mountains of North Carolina, she witnessed the brutal deaths of her parents as they tried to flee their masters’ oppression. This event, traumatizing for the three year-old who was … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2009, Collier, Eugenia, Historical, Mountains
Kim Reynolds. Alex Charles: The Evening Oak. Plymouth, MI: HMSI Publishing, 2010.
Alexandra “Alex” Charles is at a crossroads in her life. Over the past eighteen months, she has wished many times for her parents’ guidance. After both perished in a tragic car accident when she was just sixteen, Alex was left … Continue reading
Filed under 2010, 2010-2019, Johnston, New Hanover, Novels in Series, Piedmont, Reynolds, Kim, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Wake
James Boyd. Marching On. New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1927.
James Boyd followed up the success of his Revolutionary War novel, Drums, with this novel, set during the 1860s. James Fraser, a descendant of the hero of Drums, is the son of a small farmer with land along the Cape … Continue reading
Filed under 1920-1929, 1927, Boyd, James, Coastal Plain, Historical, New Hanover
Ellen Elizabeth Hunter. Murder on the Cape Fear. Greensboro, NC: Magnolia Mysteries, 2007.
Since Ashley Wilkes works as an historic preservationist, it’s natural that stories from the past enter into Ashely’s present. Ashley’s sister, Melanie, who is a high-end real estate agent, is more concerned with the present, although she knows the history … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2007, Coast, Hunter, Ellen Elizabeth, Mystery, New Hanover, Novels in Series
Marjorie Hill Allee. The Road to Carolina. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1932.
Tristram Coffin was just a young man looking for adventure when he left Indiana heading south to the Carolinas. However his traveling companion, Uncle Tommy, is anything but lighthearted. Old Tommy Pearson is a Quaker and a committed abolitionist. All … Continue reading
Filed under 1930-1939, 1932, Allee, Marjorie Hill, Children & Young Adults, Historical, Piedmont, Randolph
Cameron Kent. The Road to Devotion. Winston-Salem, NC: Press 53, 2009.
Transition is rapidly occurring on the Talton farm in 1860 Winston, North Carolina. Miles Talton, the patriarch, has just passed away, leaving his strong-willed daughter, Sarah, in charge. However, the farm is failing, requiring her to sell slaves and acres … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2009, Forsyth, Historical, Kent, Cameron, Piedmont, Surry
Terrel T. Garren. The Fifth Skull: A Historical Novel of the Civil War and the American West. Spartanburg, SC: Reprint Co., 2008.
It’s 1864, the last year of the Civil War, when a new conscription law establishes the Confederate Junior Reserves, which requires boys to serve in the army after their 17th birthday. Protagonists Billy Nick Long of Henderson County and John … Continue reading
Filed under 2008, Burke, Garren, Terrel T., Henderson, Historical, Mountains
