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After the death of their father, Kyle and Klint Hayes are taken in by the wealthy town matriarch, Candace Jack. As she grows to care more and more for them, the secret from her past is threatened by their presence to be revealed.

Feeling abandoned by his parents, who have gone their separate ways and left him behind in a small Pennsylvania town, seventeen-year-old Jay finds hope for the future a church-sponsored basketball team and a female friend.

Fourteen-year-old Pat McFarlane, forced to go to work as a breaker boy in a Pennsylvania coal mine after the death of his father, wonders how his already poverty-stricken family will survive when the miners, spurred on by unionist John Mitchell, call a strike in 1902.

True Son had been captured at four years of age, and then made a part of the tribe that had captured him, but by the time all the captives were to be released True Son had come to hate the White Man and his ways.

In 1841 in Pennsylvania, Pippin Biddle, determined to get his three orphaned sisters out of the poorhouse, tries to earn a living as an itinerant painter.

Philadelphia defense attorney Ellie Hathaway, unsatisfied with the course of her career and personal life, leaves her job for an open-ended stay at her great-aunt's home in Paradise, Pennsylvania, arriving just in time to become embroiled in the case of a young, unmarried Amish woman accused of killing her newborn baby.

Edgar Tobbit meets Neal Kraft at a group session arranged by their psychotherapist and their friendship ends up thwarting the plans of an eccentric widow to get revenge on the town where she was mistreated as a young girl.

Orphan Peter York, taken in by the taciturn Quaker Mr. Shinn in 1768, is confused by the mixed signals he receives from his guardian and decides he must take matters into his own hands when the community is roused to search for two young indentured servants who have escaped.

Mike, a fourteen-year-old boy with a math learning disability, is sent to rural Pennsylvania for the summer to work on an engineering project, and while his plans to impress his mathematician father fall flat when Mike discovers the project has nothing to do with engineering, he learns much more valuable lessons while working with his eccentric, elderly aunt, a homeless man, and a punk rock girl as part of a town-wide effort to adopt a Romanian orphan.

Provides an overview of the state of North Carolina, covering its history, geography, economy, people, and points of interest.