Tag Archives: World War II
Laura S. Wharton. Leaving Lukens. Mt. Airy, NC: Broad Creek Press, 2011.
In June of 1942, Lukens is a small town on the North Carolina coast, and it’s getting smaller. Residents left first in trickles, but now they’re crossing the Neuse in a torrent to places like Oriental, with its modern conveniences … Continue reading
Filed under 2010-2019, 2011, Carteret, Coast, Craven, Historical, Pamlico, Suspense/Thriller, Wharton, Laura S.
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
A. L. Provost. The Unwilling Spy. New York: Xlibris, 2011.
It is 1943, and the atomic arms race is on. In Los Alamos, New Mexico, physicists labor night and day to develop the first atomic bomb … and nearby German spies observe them. In this fictional account of espionage and … Continue reading
Filed under 2010-2019, 2011, Coast, Historical, Lenoir, Onslow, Provost, A. L., Suspense/Thriller
Carolyn Guy. Autumn Bends the Rebel Tree. Vilas, NC: Canterbury House Publishing, 2011.
Clarinda Darningbush enters the world at the turn of the 19th century, the youngest in a large family rooted in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Absent parents and dangerous surroundings means she grows up quickly, learning from her older siblings how … Continue reading
Filed under 2010-2019, 2011, Guy, Carolyn, Historical, Mountains, Religious/Inspirational, Watauga
Kay Salter. Thirteenth Summer. 2nd ed. Beaufort, NC: Bara Media, 2008.
When she was twelve, Sarah Bowers spent the summer at her grandparents’ house in Beaufort, North Carolina. Now that it is her thirteenth summer, Sarah has returned to the coastal town. Besides being in a place she loves, Sarah has … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2008, Carteret, Children & Young Adults, Coast, Historical, Novels in Series, Salter, Kay
Kay Salter. Twelfth Summer. Beaufort, NC: SoundSide Publications, Inc., 2008.
Sarah Bowers’ father has just been called to serve in World War II. To give the rest of the family a diversion, her parents decide that Sarah, her mother, and her brother should live with her grandparents in Beaufort, North … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2008, Carteret, Children & Young Adults, Coast, Historical, Novels in Series, Salter, Kay, Wake
Keith Warren Lloyd. Cape Hatteras: A Novel. New York: iUniverse, 2008.
It’s common to think that the battle for the seas during World War II took place in distant locales like the South Pacific and the North Atlantic, but our own Outer Banks was the site of a dangerous cat-and-mouse game … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2008, Coast, Dare, Lloyd, Keith Warren
Tom Lewis. Sons of Their Fathers. Swansboro, NC: Tease Publishing, 2008.
In this the final volume in the Pea Island Trilogy, it is the late 1970s. Dieter Bach, a concert violinist, has been shot during a mugging. Dieter’s hands have been so injured that he will not be able to resume his career. … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2008, Coast, Dare, Lewis, Tom, Novels in Series
Tom Lewis. Sunday’s Child. Rocky Mount, NC: VP Publishing, 2006.
When Sunday’s mother dies in childbirth, she is handed over to a father who was unaware of her existence. Slick Everette is a gambling man, but a good cook, and he has been the cook for the surf men on … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2006, Coast, Dare, Lewis, Tom, Novels in Series
