Tag Archives: Race relations
Roy Irwin Gift. Moon Blue.[United States]: Spirit Books, 2011.
Sergeant Holly Rollins comes home to Raleigh, North Carolina in the spring of 1943 to recover from the bloody carnage he experienced on Guadalcanal. With him he brings malaria and a lung fungus, a load of shrapnel embedded in his … Continue reading
Filed under 2010-2019, 2011, Gift, Roy Irwin, Historical, Mystery, Piedmont, Wake
John Sayles. A Moment in the Sun. San Francisco: McSweeney’s Books, 2011.
This big book takes readers back to the America of the late nineteenth century with all of that period’s optimism, adventurism, technological progress–and its imperialism and racism. Part of the story takes place in Wilmington, North Carolina where two families–one … Continue reading
Filed under 2010-2019, 2011, Coast, Historical, New Hanover, Sayles, John
Mike Sanders. Thirsty 2. East Orange, NJ: Wahida Clark Presents, 2011.
Justice Dial is back in this bloody sequel to Thirsty, Mike Sanders’s novel about hustling on the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina. Beautiful, clever, and ruthless, Justice used to make loads of cash by seducing men, gleaning the location of … Continue reading
Filed under 2010-2019, 2011, Mecklenburg, Piedmont, Sanders, Mike, Suspense/Thriller
Alice J. Wisler. A Wedding Invitation. Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House, 2011.
When Samantha Bravencourt misinterprets a wedding invitation and lands up at a stranger’s nuptials in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, she’s embarrassed and annoyed. Still, the trip gives Sam the chance to visit her eccentric Aunt Dovie, and to get away from working in … Continue reading
Filed under 2010-2019, 2011, Forsyth, Piedmont, Religious/Inspirational, Romance/Relationship, Wisler, Alice J.
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
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
Lori Copeland. The One Who Waits for Me. Eugene, OR: Harvest House Publishers, 2011.
Captain Pierce Montgomery, Second Lieutenant Samuel “Preach” Madison, and First Lieutenant Gray Eagle are three veterans traveling home to North Carolina after the Civil War. They cannot wait to get home to their family, the promise of peace, and the … Continue reading
Clyde Edgerton. The Night Train. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2011.
The phrase “the night train” has two meanings in Clyde Edgerton’s latest novel. For most people in Starke, North Carolina, this daily event is something to which they give little thought. Accepting the brief clatter, many have trained themselves to … Continue reading
Filed under 2010-2019, 2011, Edgerton, Clyde, Novels Set in Fictional Places
Kat Meads. When the Dust Finally Settles. Spokane, WA: Ravenna Press, 2011.
Clarence Carter died unexpectedly, giggling at the irony of it all, flipped over and pinned under his Oliver tractor on account of a wayward tree stump. Bewildered but rather amused by suddenly finding himself a ghost, he wanders back through … Continue reading
Filed under 2010-2019, 2011, Coast, Currituck, Historical, Meads, Kat, Novels Set in Fictional Places
Alex Hairston. She Creeps. New York: Dafina Books, 2008.
For the first time in Naomi Gaffney’s twenty-nine years, life is normal. Although her childhood was marred by her white mother’s death, her black father’s conviction of that murder, and the racial tensions that episode created in the community of … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2008, Hairston, Alex, Piedmont, Rockingham
