north carolina

Introduces the geography, history, government, economy, industry, culture, historic sites, and famous people of the Tar Heel State.

A chance encounter on a rain-swept road will alter the life course of Colin, who is trying to put his bad decisions and violent past behind him, and Maria, the hardworking daughter of Mexican immigrants with a law degree and her own past, by challenging held assumptions about each other and themselves. Presented in Spanish.

Two small-town former high school sweethearts from opposite sides of the tracks, now middle-aged, are called back to their hometown for the funeral of the mentor who once gave them shelter, and they will be forced to confront the choices each has made.

Veterinarian Travis Parker is very content with his good job, loyal friends, and waterfront home in North Carolina, so he is not looking for love, especially not with his testy new neighbor Gabby Holland, but he cannot seem to keep from trying to ingratiate himself with her, even though he knows she has a longtime boyfriend, and it is not long before they find themselves facing an important choice.

When U.S. Marine Logan Thibault finds a half-buried photograph of a smiling young woman in the desert in Iraq, he carries it with him and soon discovers that it brings him luck in games and during combat; after returning to Colorado, his obsession with the picture leads him in a fateful search for what may be the love of his life. Presented in Spanish.

Noah Calhoun, recently returned from World War II in 1946, buys an old plantation home in rural North Carolina, where he contents himself with memories of his first love, a girl he met fourteen years earlier, but then she unexpectedly arrives at his door.

Tells the story of colonial North Carolina, from the arrival of explorers to the Revolution, discussing the colonies at Roanoke, relations with Native Americans, the Regulators, and other topics.

Sapphire, having inherited the qualities of perseverance and strength from her mother, a woman forced into slavery in 1749, passes on those traits to successive generations of African-American women as they struggle to triumph over rape, humiliation, poverty, and scandal.

Story of three generations of women from the Kate family living in rural North Carolina.

Describes the coming of age of Eugene Gant, his boyhood in North Carolina and his growing passion to experience life.