Tag Archives: Class struggle
Alan Thompson. A Hollow Cup. Livermore, CA: Wingspan Press, 2011.
Lilah Freedman, a young woman involved in the civil rights movements in the small North Carolina town of New Hope in 1966, was brutally murdered one night after a protest at the local university. The white man originally accused of … Continue reading
Filed under 2010-2019, 2011, Historical, Mystery, Novels Set in Fictional Places, Orange, Piedmont, Thompson, Alan
Nicholas Sparks. The Best of Me. New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2011.
Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole both live in Oriental, North Carolina, but they might as well be from different planets. Amanda is a daughter of one of the oldest, most respected families in the town, while Dawson’s kin make up … Continue reading
Filed under 2010-2019, 2011, Coast, Pamlico, Romance/Relationship, Sparks, Nicholas
John Hart. Iron House. New York, NY: Thomas Dunne Books, 2011.
Michael knows how to kill, possibly better than anyone else alive. He dispatches his victims without emotion or drama, a virtue that makes him nearly invisible in New York City. He is the Old Man’s silent, deadly shadow. But before … Continue reading
Filed under 2010-2019, 2011, Buncombe, Chatham, Hart, John, Madison, Mountains, Piedmont, Suspense/Thriller
Lauren Myracle. Shine. New York: Amulet Books, 2011.
Patrick Truman was never afraid, or if he was it never showed. When his classmates called him a pansy or a fairy, when they stole his pants and left him trapped in the bathroom, when they knocked into him or … Continue reading
Filed under 2010-2019, 2011, Children & Young Adults, Mountains, Myracle, Lauren
Cleveland Jones. The Firescalds Road to the Sky. Summerville, SC: Holy Fire Publishing, 2009.
The Firescalds Road to the Sky is the life story of a young boy, called simply RC, growing up during the 1950s and ’60s. As a small child, RC lives happily on his family’s farm in the beautiful Appalachian Mountains. … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2009, Jackson, Jones, Cleveland, Mountains, Religious/Inspirational
Alice E. Sink. Ain’t No Bears Out Tonight. Kernersville, NC: Alabaster Book Publishing, 2010.
It is the summer of 1951 in the fictional town of Piedmont, North Carolina and nearby Burnett Mill Village. For the fifty-odd years since Piedmont was founded by a band of upright gentleman, it has always appeared to be the … Continue reading
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
Grace Lumpkin. To Make My Bread. New York: Macaulay Co., 1932.
To Make My Bread follows the McClure family during the years 1900-1929. Initially, they are mountaineers, self-sufficient on their small plot of land. Most of their neighbors live as they do, except for the Swains, who own the store in … Continue reading
Filed under 1930-1939, 1932, Gaston, Historical, Lumpkin, Grace, Mountains, Piedmont
L. C. Evans. Jobless Recovery. Coral Springs, FL: Llumina Press, 2005.
Dave Griffin is a young man from the North Carolina mountains. After graduating from NC State, he gets a job with a large conglomerate in a city a lot like Charlotte. He has a house in the suburbs and a … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2005, Evans, L. C., Piedmont
Michael Malone. Time’s Witness. Boston: Little, Brown, 1989.
Time’s Witness is narrated by Cuddy Mangum, formerly a homocide detective and now the Chief of Police for the Piedmont town of Hillston. By his own admission Cuddy doesn’t have the best thing one can have in Hillston (class), or … Continue reading
