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21) One second after
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One man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war based upon an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) weapon that will send America back to the Dark Ages.
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Charlie, Diesel, and Helen are heading to North Carolina to spend a week at a boutique hotel and participate in a gathering of a mystery reader's club. When one of the club members turns up dead, it is up to Charlie and Diesel to prove that their friends are not the guilty parties.
26) The notebook
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Pub. Date
1996
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214 p. ; 22 cm.
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In a testimony to the lasting power of love, a man tells an elderly woman a story from a faded old notebook, his voice relating the heartbreaking tale of two lovers and their fifty-year journey to happiness.
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Ballad novels volume 9
Pub. Date
2012
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443 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
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A story inspired by a true crime made famous by the Kingston Trio's folk song recording reimagines the events surrounding the murder of North Carolina mountain girl Laura Foster and the hanging of her lover, Tom Dula.
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©1998
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390 pages ; 18 cm
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A widow tries to survive in a hostile town in North Carolina. She is Rachel Stone whose TV evangelist husband defrauded scores of citizens. Rachel, who has a child, finds work at a drive-in theater owned by widower Gabe Bonner. Love is born, but his family opposes her, considering her a gold digger.
31) Buried in a book
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2012
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350 p. cm.
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Accepting an internship at A Novel Idea, a thriving literary agency in Inspiration Valley, North Carolina, 45-year-old former journalist Lila Wilkins, while dealing with her quirky new co-workers and a stack of query letters, stumbles upon a murder mystery involving a penniless aspiring author.
33) Legendborn
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Legendborn volume 1
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"To discover the truth behind her mother's mysterious death, a teen girl infiltrates a magical secret society claiming to be the descendants of King Arthur and his knights"--
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2016.
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271 pages ; 24 cm.
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A Depression-era Appalachian farm wife is branded as a witch by her fundamentalist husband when she bonds with a USDA agent who has traveled to the North Carolina mountains to instruct regional families on how to modernize their homes and farms.
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Mitford years volume 2
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In the gentle tradition of James Herriot, Bailey White, Ferrol Sams, and Garrison Keillor, Karon continues the fresh and beautifully written story of a small mountain town in the South. The village rector, Father Tim, can no longer deny his feeling for his neighbor. But what about the wealthy widow who has been wooing him with casseroles? It's clear that Father Tim is in need of divine intervention.
37) Sooley: a novel
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After seventeen-year-old Samuel "Sooley" Sooleymon receives a college scholarship to play basketball for North Carolina Central, he moves to Durham from his native, war-torn South Sudan, enrolls in classes, joins the team, and prepares to sit out his freshman season, but Sooley has a fierce determination to succeed so he can bring his family to America, working tirelessly on his game until he dominates everyone in practice, and when Sooley is called...
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Miss Julia series volume 13
Pub. Date
2012
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305 p. ; 22 cm.
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"Can Miss Julia spring J.D. Pickens from a sheriff's clutches and investigate a cult--plus keep up appearances as a proper Southern lady?"--
40) At first sight
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Jeremy Marsh is now living in Boone Creek, North Carolina, married to Lexie Darnell, and awaiting the birth of their daughter. But, just as when things a looking goods, an unsettling and mysterious message brings trouble from the past.
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