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The silent sister
Settling her late father's affairs only to discover evidence that contradicts understandings about her sister's suicide twenty years earlier, Riley MacPherson learns that her sister is still alive and has been on the run from dangerous family secrets.
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The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth
The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth was originally released in 1994 and was the first published book from acclaimed writer Ron Rash. This twentieth anniversary edition takes us back to where it all began with ten linked short stories, framed like a novel, introducing us to a trio of memorable narrators—Tracy, Randy, and Vincent—making their way against the hardscrabble backdrop of the North Carolina foothills. With a comedic touch that may surprise readers familiar only with Rash's later, darker fiction, these earnest tales reveal the hard lessons of good whiskey, bad marriages, weak foundations, familial legacies, questionable religious observances, and the dubious merits of possum breeding, as well as the hard-won reconciliations with self, others, and home that can be garnered only in good time. The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth shows us the promising beginnings of a master storyteller honing his craft and contributing from the start to the fine traditions of southern fiction and lore. This Southern Revivals edition includes a new introduction from the author and a contextualizing preface from series editor Robert H. Brinkmeyer, director of the University of South Carolina Institute for Southern Studies.
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The world ends in April
\"When seventh-grader Eleanor reads an article online claiming that an asteroid will hit Earth in April, she starts an underground school club to prepare kids for the end of the world as we know it\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Can Grave Secrets Be Revealed via Analysis of Bare Bones? How Kathy Reichs's Fiction Novels Feed the Public Perception of Forensic Anthropology
Forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, Ph.D., earned her doctoral degree from Northwestern University and is an emeritus professor within the University of North Carolina Charlotte's (UNCC) Department of Anthropology (currently on indefinite leave). Since 1997, she has woven her own case experiences and state-of-the-art technical knowledge of the process of reading bones into 13 crime novels, all of which are New York Times \"bestsellers\" (Reichs 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010). Her protagonist, Temperance Brennan, Ph.D., analyzes decomposing, putrefied, mummified, and skeletonized remains to identify victims of violent crimes and to determine when and how death occurred. Reichs intertwines each of Brennan's adventures with threads of theory and practice from the subfields of biological anthropology and archaeology and seamlessly emboldens Brennan with comprehensive (but not wearisome) descriptions of the methods used. And in a quiet nod to cultural anthropology, Brennan's victim, witness, and informant interviews are often a key component in driving character development and moving the plot forward. Reichs's novels provide the public with a clear understanding of forensic anthropology. As a scholar-practitioner, Reichs's accounting of the thought process and technical steps implicit in skeletal analysis and case resolution is realistic as well as provocative. Although crime authors tend to pander to the reader by focusing on the seedier aspects of forensic cases, Reichs faithfully weaves the human condition into a rich tapestry of the living and dead through discovery, recovery, and analysis. Adapted from the source document.
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Where the watermelons grow : a novel
Twelve-year-old Della Kelly of Maryville, North Carolina, tries to come to terms with her mother's mental illness while her father struggles to save their farm from a record-breaking drought.
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The legend of Buddy Bush
In 1947, twelve-year-old Pattie Mae is sustained by her dreams of escaping Rich Square, North Carolina, and moving to Harlem when her Uncle Buddy is arrested for attempted rape of a white woman and her grandfather is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor.
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The dark of the island
\"Nick Wolf is a public research specialist sent to scout potential drilling sites for NorthAm Oil Company. His latest assignment finds him on Hatteras Island, on North Carolina's Outer Banks. As soon as he arrives, Nick discovers that four families run everything and everyone is connected, even to him.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Back on the map
By helping fix up an abandoned building in New Hope, North Carolina, Penny hopes that she and her brother, Parker, will be able to stay there rather than going into foster care.
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The rites & wrongs of Janice Wills : a novel
Aspiring anthropologist Janice Wills reports on the socio-cultural ordeals of being an almost-seventeen-year-old in Melva, North Carolina, including \"Beautiful Rich Girls,\" parties, and the Miss Livermush pageant.
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The land breakers
\"First published fifty years ago in 1964 to great acclaim, The Land Breakers is John Ehle's best-known work of historical fiction, chronicling the hard-won settlement of southern Appalachia. A cinematic saga spanning the Revolutionary War years of 1779 to 1784, The Land Breakers recounts in spare, unflinching prose the challenges, setbacks, and small triumphs of the defiant men and women who were drawn to the wilderness of provincial North Carolina. Eager for opportunity in a land where the easy country had been claimed, Ehle's unforgettable characters stake their lives on the settlement of the unnamed high mountain territory. Strong and silent Mooney Wright is the first to make his way into the forbidding mountains. Others steadily follow: the cruel patriarch Tinkler Harrison, his daughter Lorry, the free-spirited Mina Plover. The Land Breakers is a paean to man's capacity for work, and Ehle imbues the hardworking men and women of his book--the land breakers of this young country--with nobility\"-- Provided by publisher.
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