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Book Recommendations for General Fiction, set in N & S Carolina

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  • The Caretaker
    The Caretaker: A Novel
    Ron Rash
    Paperback: 07/16/2024
     
    Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, The ...
  • Long After We Are Gone
    Terah Shelton Harris
    Hardcover: 05/14/2024
     
    An explosive and emotional story of four siblings―each fighting their own personal battle―who ...
  • Joy Is the Justice We Give Ourselves
    J Drew Lanham
    Hardcover: 04/02/2024
     
    From J. Drew Lanham, MacArthur "Genius" Grant recipient and author of Sparrow Envy: A Field Guide to Birds and...
  • When These Mountains Burn
    David Joy
    Paperback: 07/04/2023
     
    Acclaimed author and "remarkably gifted storyteller" (the Charlotte Observer) David Joy returns with a fierce ...
  • Black Cloud Rising
    David Wright Falade
    Paperback: 02/21/2023
     
    Black Cloud Rising is a compelling and important historical novel that takes us back to an extraordinary ...
  • The Last House on the Street
    Diane Chamberlain
    Paperback: 01/17/2023
     
    A community's past sins rise to the surface in New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain's The Last ...
  • Carolina Moonset
    Matt Goldman
    Paperback: 05/31/2022
     
    Both suspenseful and deeply moving, Carolina Moonset is an engrossing novel about family, memories both golden...

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