Tag Archives: Environmentalism
Rose Senehi. The Wind in the Woods. Vilas, NC: Canterbury House Publishing, 2010.
Jack “Tiger” Morrison is an honorable man. He has balanced the competing demands of family and his strong environmental creed. Together, he and his wife, Susan, created a family and started a successful camp for children in North Carolina’s Green … Continue reading
Filed under 2010, 2010-2019, Henderson, Mountains, Senehi, Rose, Suspense/Thriller
George Ivey. Up River: A Novel of Attempted Restoration. Indianapolis, IN: Dog Ear Publishing, 2009.
Moving to a new place, especially a small town, without knowing anyone is difficult. People look at you inquisitively, and most people know everything about you even before a formal introduction. In Walnut Falls, North Carolina, Peter Bailey finds this … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2009, Ivey, George, Mountains, Novels Set in Fictional Places
Kenneth Butcher. The Middle of the Air. Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, Publisher, 2009.
The Colebrook family is not your typical four-generation span of Hendersonville, NC residents. The patriarch, Pipo, is a talented but controversial painter. His son, Philip, has an active business account with a nuclear weapons facility, and Phillip’s wife Lilly heads … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2009, Butcher, Kenneth, Henderson, Mountains
Wilma Dykeman. The Tall Woman. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962.
Wilma Dykeman tells the story of a tight-knit mountain family living in Appalachia as the Civil War ends and Reconstruction begins. Lydia McQueen moves to a mountain clearing when her husband, Mark, returns from fighting for the Union during the … Continue reading
Filed under 1960-1969, 1962, Dykeman, Wilma, Graham, Historical, Mountains
Joan Medlicott. The Gardens of Covington. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2001.
The “Ladies” have been living in Covington for just over a year and although they have settled into their home, they’re not so sure they are truly accepted by their neighbors. Each of the women faces her own trials, tribulations, … Continue reading
Joyce and Jim Lavene. Fruit of the Poisoned Tree. New York: Berkley Prime Crime, 2006.
When lawyer Park Lamonte dies after his car plummets off an overpass, the police first suspect that he committed suicide. Then attention shifts to his wife Beth and the accusations against her grow louder after Park’s mother is also killed. … Continue reading
Filed under 2006, Lavene, Jim and Joyce, Mecklenburg, Mystery, Novels in Series, Piedmont
Ron Rash. Serena. New York: Ecco, 2008.
Set in 1929, Serena begins with timber-baron George Pemberton bringing his new wife from Boston to the North Carolina Mountains. The wife is the titular Serena, an ambitious and intelligent woman who is a good match for her husband and … Continue reading
Theodore Taylor. The Weirdo. New York: Harcourt Paperbacks, 2006.
A four-year ban on hunting in the Powhatan Swamp is about to expire and the situation creates tension between local environmentalists and hunters. One of the people spearheading the conservation efforts is teenager Chip Clewt, a boy generally more comfortable … Continue reading
William J. Everett. Red Clay, Blood River. Booklocker.com, 2008.
Through the lives of its main characters and with the Earth as a narrator, Red Clay, Blood River spans space and time to tell a story that is both historical and ecological. It ties together two massive and tragedy-filled relocations … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2008, Everett, William J., Historical, Mountains
Rose Senehi. In the Shadows of Chimney Rock. Boone, NC: Ingalls Publishing Group, 2008.
Since Elizabeth Tarrington went to a lot of trouble to make it look like her husband died in the Vietnam War, she’s angry when he informs her that he will be including their daughters in his will. One daughter, Hayden, … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2008, Buncombe, Mountains, Mystery, Rutherford, Senehi, Rose, Suspense/Thriller
