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.
Traces the history, geography, economy, and people of the state of North Carolina, with information on important dates and events, plants and animals of the region, and the branches of government.
In the summer of 1973 at an amusement park in a small North Carolina, town college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.
Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgina, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her overworked mother's calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer.
Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a cafe? and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
In 1982 Buncombe County, North Carolina, sixteen-year-old Alex Stromm writes of the aftermath of the accidental drowning of a friend, as his English teacher reaches out to him while he and a fellow boarding school student try to cover things up.
Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a cafe? and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
At first unhappy about transferring to a new high school senior year, Claire quickly makes friends and, despite her determination to avoid football, captures the attention of the arrogant quarterback.
