Tag Archives: University of North Carolina
Michele Young-Stone.The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors. New York: Shaye Areheart Books, 2010.
New York City is a place where young people go to leave their pasts and make their futures. Two of those young people–Becca Burke and Buckley Pitank–have something unusual in common–both are lightning strike survivors. Buckley survived a strike that … Continue reading
Filed under 2010, 2010-2019, Orange, Piedmont, Young-Stone, Michele
Marilyn Denny Thomas. The Gentile and the Jew. Enumclaw, WA: Pleasant Word, 2005.
The rules of dating dictate that talk of money, politics, and religion is off limits. However, these complex topics must be addressed if a long-term relationship is the goal. For UNC graduate students Mike and Carrie, the significance of these … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2005, Duplin, New Hanover, Orange, Romance/Relationship, Thomas, Marilyn Denny
James McConnaughey. Village Chronicle. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1936.
For many of us, Chapel Hill is indeed “the southern part of heaven” but in this novel our little college town has its share of sinners. Professors preen and jockey for position; their wives gossip while maids do the housework, … Continue reading
Filed under 1930-1939, 1936, McConnaughey, James, Orange, Piedmont
James Patterson. Kiss the Girls. Boston: Little, Brown, 1995.
As an expert in abnormal psychology working for the FBI, Dr. Alex Cross is used to calmly solving gruesome crimes, but in Kiss the Girls the case is personal. His niece–a law student at Duke–is kidnapped while on campus, and … Continue reading
Filed under 1990-1999, 1995, Durham, Novels in Series, Orange, Patterson, James, Piedmont, Suspense/Thriller
Vicki Lane. Old Wounds. New York: Bantam Dell, 2007.
Ten year-old Maythorn Mullins disappeared on Halloween in 1986. After nineteen years of trying to forget all about the incident, UNC professor Rosemary Goodweather has returned home and is determined to find out what happened to her childhood best friend. … Continue reading
Andrea Ferrell. Autumn Seclusion. Victoria, BC: Trafford Publishing, 2007.
This first novel is a coming of age tale, told in the first person. Anna is brought up in a strict religious family near the North Carolina coast. She absorbs most of the lessons of her upbringing, but her family … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2007, Coast, Ferrell, Autumn, Religious/Inspirational
John W. Moore. The Heirs of St. Kilda: A Story of the Southern Past. Raleigh: Edwards, Broughton & Co., 1881.
The large antebellum plantations of the St. Kilda Valley provide the setting for this lush, nostalgic novel of horse racing, fox hunting, and other aristocratic pursuits. The main character, Philip Eustace, lives the good life at home and abroad in … Continue reading
Filed under 1880-1889, 1881, Coastal Plain, Hertford, Moore, John W., Novels to Read Online
Ellyn Bache. The Activist’s Daughter. Duluth, Minn.: Spinsters Ink, 1997.
In this novel set amidst the Civil Rights protests of the early 1960s, Beryl Rosinsky has graduated from high school and is anxious to get away from her activist mother and her hometown of Washington, D.C. She enrolls at the … Continue reading
Filed under 1990-1999, 1997, Bache, Ellyn, Orange, Piedmont
