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2) Mean streak
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Emory Charbonneau, a pediatrician and marathon runner, disappears on a mountain road in North Carolina. By the time her husband Jeff, miffed over a recent argument, reports her missing, the trail has grown cold. Literally. Fog and ice encapsulate the mountainous wilderness and paralyze the search for her. While police suspect Jeff of "instant divorce," Emory, suffering from an unexplained head injury, regains consciousness and finds herself...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
373 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A year after his family is shattered by the disappearance of his twin sister, thirteen-year-old Johnny Merrimon risks everything in a final, desperate search through the dark side of his hometown with the aid of a giant-sized man.
Author
Publisher
Marysue Rucci Books, Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When a journalist investigating a string of unsolved disappearances goes missing, Abigail Lovett, the manager of The Passage Inn in the North Carolina mountain town of Cutter's Pass, decides to investigate and discovers how little she knows about her coworkers, neighbors, and even those closest to her.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the Appalachian foothills of North Carolina, a young mother desperately tries to hold her family together when she joins a union to reclaim her dignity and rights.
6) Iron house
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Two decades after a pair of orphaned brothers are separated when one of them flees after a murder accusation, the runaway brother, now a seasoned killer, returns to North Carolina to protect his brother and solve the mystery of their past.
7) Sooley
Author
Language
English
Description
This time. John Grisham takes you to a different kind of court. In the summer of his seventeenth year, Samuel Sooleymon gets the chance of a lifetime: a trip to the United States with his South Sudanese teammates to play in a showcase basketball tournament. He has never been away from home, nor has he ever been on a airplane. The opportunity to be scouted by dozens of college coaches is a dream come true. Samuel is an amazing athlete, with speed,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the mysteries and miracles of everyday life introduces the small North Carolina town of Mitford and its colorful inhabitants, including Tim, a bachelor rector, who is falling in love with his neighbor.
Author
Series
Providence Falls volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1844 Ireland, Liam O'Connor, a rogue and a thief, fell madly in love with a squire's daughter and unwittingly altered the future. Shy and naive Cora McLeod thought Liam was the answer to her prayers. But the angels disagreed and they've been waiting for the right moment in time to step in. Now Liam finds himself reunited with his beloved Cora in Providence Falls, North Carolina. The angels have given Liam a task. He must make sure Cora falls in...
10) Hard row
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As Judge Deborah Knott presides over a case involving a barroom brawl, it becomes clear that deep resentments over race, class, and illegal immigration are simmering just below the surface in the North Carolina countryside"--Provided by publisher.
12) Secrets
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Every antique tells a story. Cullen and Luna Bodman learned that through their parents' furniture business. Now, with their restoration shop and cafe, they often find themselves at the center of those stories, unraveling mysteries for their clients"--Book jacket flap.
13) A new song
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Recently retired, Episcopal priest Father Tim and his wife, Cynthia, discover new challenges and adventures when Tim agrees to serve as interim minister of a small church on Whitecap Island
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wish comes a poignant love story about risking everything for a dream--and whether it's possible to leave the past behind. Colby Mills once felt destined for a musical career, until tragedy grounded his aspirations. Now the head of a small family farm in North Carolina, he spontaneously takes a gig playing at a bar in St. Pete's Beach, Florida, seeking a rare break from his duties at home. But...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"When a county initiative in the Piedmont of North Carolina forces the students at a mostly black public school on the east side to move across town to a nearly all-white high school on the west, the community rises in outrage. For two students, quiet and aloof Gee and headstrong Noelle, these divisions will extend far beyond their schooling. As their paths collide and overlap over the course of thirty years, their two seemingly disconnected families...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
The final volume in the Mitford Years series finds Father Tim contemplating the revival of a remote mountaintop church, a challenge he hopes will be his ultimate calling, but fears will be an impossible task.
19) Cold, cold bones
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan novel volume 21
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"#1 New York Times bestselling thriller writer Kathy Reichs returns with her twenty-first novel of suspense featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan who, after receiving a box containing a human eyeball, uncovers a series of gruesome killings eerily reenacting the most shocking of her prior cases."--
Winter has come to North Carolina and, with it, a drop in crime. Freed from a heavy work schedule, Tempe Brennan is content to dote on her...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Scottish Highlander Jamie Fraser, made aware by his time-traveling wife Claire of the outcome of the impending American Revolution, and living under the shadow of a newspaper clipping from the future that reports the deaths of him and his family, faces a dilemma when the colonial governor of North Carolina asks him to secure the region for King and Crown.