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While visiting her grandmother in small-town North Carolina to get over a break-up and improve her riding skills, seventeen-year-old Piper and local eighteen-year-old Kat, who is unsure of her sexual preference, help each other face their insecurities.

In 1918, caring for her family's homing pigeons whileher father is away fightingin World War I, twelve- year-old Pam comes to suspect that a mysterious stranger in her small North Carolina town is a Germanspy.

Now at home again in Mitford, Father Tim and Cynthia find change in the air. Though Father Tim dislikes change, he dislikes retirement even more. A new challenge seems promising until an unexpected event propels him on a painful journey. For years, Father Tim has helped others find forgiveness; now he must find the courage and grace to forgive himself.

Eighteenth-century North Carolina indentured servant Susannah Marsh, seeking temporary respite at Whisper Falls from hard labor and a brutal master, discovers twenty-first century student and mountain biker Mark Lewis, and he, in turn, seeks to help her. Whisper Falls waterfall proves to not only heal emotional wounds but also to act as a pathway to freedom for Susannah.

After traveling two centuries into the twenty-first century, Susanna is overwhelmed by her new home, and seeking refuge in history and news of the people she left behind, she learns that danger stalks her sister. Will she return to help?.

A collection of true stories about twenty-nine events that helped shape the history of North Carolina.

Illustrations and text present the history, geography, people, politics and government, economy, and social life and customs of North Carolina, which was the first colony to vote for independence.

In a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, 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.