Monthly Archives: April 2008

Warren Rochelle. Harvest of Changelings. Urbana, IL: Golden Gryphon Press, 2007.

Ten years ago, librarian and Garner,NC-resident Ben Tyson met and married a woman who happened to be a fairy. After her death, it fell on Ben to raise their son, Malachi. Their lives are relatively normal until Malachi’s tenth birthday, when the boy begins to manifest the powers of his mother’s people without the control possessed by full-blooded fairies.

Check this title’s availability in the UNC Library Catalog.

Comments Off on Warren Rochelle. Harvest of Changelings. Urbana, IL: Golden Gryphon Press, 2007.

Filed under 2000-2009, 2007, Piedmont, Rochelle, Warren, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Wake

Shelia P. Moses. The Baptism. New York: Margaret K. McElderry, 2007.

Twin brothers Leon and Luke Curry’s God-fearing mother thinks that it’s time for her adolescent sons to commit their lives to the Lord. The boys mean to do that, but the challenges of new family relationships, a trickster older brother, and the innocent temptations of summer in the rural South make it hard for them to give up their sinning ways. Racism, past and present, is part of Leon and Luke’s world, and navigating that adds tension and depth to the novel.

Check this title’s availability in the UNC Library Catalog.

Comments Off on Shelia P. Moses. The Baptism. New York: Margaret K. McElderry, 2007.

Filed under 2000-2009, 2007, Children & Young Adults, Coastal Plain, Moses, Shelia P., Northampton

John Hart. Down River. New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2007.

The chance for easy money tempts both the haves and the have-nots in this novel set along the Yadkin River near Salisbury. When Adam Chase, acquitted of a local murder years before, comes back to Rowan County, he finds that suspicion of him has not faded. He also discovers that the duplicity that wrecked his past may wreck both his future and the lives of the people he loves. When Chase tries to renew his tattered relationships, he uncovers secrets that upend his understanding of his past and set a new cycle of violence in motion.

Check this title’s availability in the UNC Library Catalog.

Comments Off on John Hart. Down River. New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2007.

Filed under 2000-2009, 2007, Hart, John, Mystery, Piedmont, Rowan

Richard Dansky. Firefly Rain. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2008.

In this supernatural thriller prodigal son Jacob Logan fails to heed Thomas Wolfe’s warning about going home again. When Logan returns to his hometown of Mayfield, North Carolina and moves into the family homeplace years after his parents’ deaths, he is confronted with the ghosts of his past.

Check this title’s availability in the UNC Library Catalog.

Comments Off on Richard Dansky. Firefly Rain. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2008.

Filed under 2000-2009, 2008, Dansky, Richard, Horror, Novels Set in Fictional Places

Susan Kelly. Now You Know. New York: Pegaus Books, 2007.

Two women form a friendship in college that sustains them even as it mystifies and troubles the others who know them. With the death of Frances, the more traditional of the women, Frances’ daughters unite with her old friend, the novelist Libba, in the hope of better understanding their mother, her friendship with Libba, and themselves.

Check this title’s availability in the UNC Library Catalog.

Comments Off on Susan Kelly. Now You Know. New York: Pegaus Books, 2007.

Filed under 2000-2009, 2007, Kelly, Susan S., Mountains

Lee Smith. On Agate Hill.Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2006.

Molly Petree, the orphaned daughter of a Confederate soldier, begins writing her diary in 1872, on her 13th birthday. From that point onward, Molly chronicles her life in post-Civil War North Carolina, both at Agate Hill–her uncle’s plantation located near Hillsborough–and elsewhere in the state.

Check this title’s availability in the UNC Library Catalog.

Comments Off on Lee Smith. On Agate Hill.Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2006.

Filed under 2000-2009, 2006, Historical, Orange, Piedmont, Smith, Lee

J.D. Rhoades. Good Day in Hell. New York: St. Martin’s, 2006.

Fayetteville-based bounty hunter Jack Keller returns in this sequel to The Devil’s Right Hand. Teamed up with his new girlfriend, a local sheriff’s deputy, Keller pursues a couple of murderers across the state.

Check this title’s availability in the UNC Library Catalog.

Comments Off on J.D. Rhoades. Good Day in Hell. New York: St. Martin’s, 2006.

Filed under 2000-2009, 2006, Cumberland, Novels in Series, Piedmont, Rhoades, J.D., Suspense/Thriller

Patricia Rice. Sweet Home Carolina. New York: Ballantine Books, 2007.

When the textile mill in the fictional Piedmont town of North Fork, North Carolina goes bankrupt, Amy Warren is determined to reopen the mill and reinstate jobs for the people in her town. But Zack St. Etienne, a successful European buinessman, arrives in Norfolk with other plans for the mill. Upset by the obstruction of her goal, Amy must also come to terms with the romance that develops with Zack.

Check this title’s availability in the UNC Library Catalog.

Comments Off on Patricia Rice. Sweet Home Carolina. New York: Ballantine Books, 2007.

Filed under 2000-2009, 2007, Novels Set in Fictional Places, Piedmont, Rice, Patricia, Romance/Relationship

Susan S. Kelly. The Last of Something. New York: Pegasus, 2006.

Twenty years after they met in college, three women gather for a reunion in the fictional coastal town of Dune Ridge. While they wait for their husbands to arrive, and keep their eye on an approaching hurricane, they tell old stories and discuss their lives.

Check this title’s availability in the UNC Library Catalog.

2 Comments

Filed under 2000-2009, 2006, Coast, Kelly, Susan S., Novels Set in Fictional Places

Vicki Lane. Art’s Blood. New York: Dell, 2006.

Elizabeth Goodweather, who first appeared in Lane’s Signs in the Blood, is back in another mountain mystery. Elizabeth pursues the case of a murdered local artist in a story that takes place among the arts community in and around Asheville.

Check this title’s availability in the UNC Library Catalog.

Comments Off on Vicki Lane. Art’s Blood. New York: Dell, 2006.

Filed under 2000-2009, 2006, Buncombe, Lane, Vicki, Mountains, Mystery, Novels in Series