north carolina

"When the final gavel clapped in a rural southern courtroom in the summer of 1988, Willie J. Grimes, a gentle spirit with no record of violence, was shocked and devastated to be convicted of first-degree rape and sentenced to life imprisonment. Here is the story of this everyman and his extraordinary quarter-century-long journey to freedom."--Provided by publisher.

Twelve-year-old Della Kelly of Maryville, North Carolina, tries to come to terms with her mother's mental illness while her father struggles to save the farm from a record-breaking drought.

"A rumor that Blackbeard's buried treasure is somewhere near Tupelo Landing causes pirate fever to sweep through town just as clues about Mo's Upstream Mother surface and the Desperado Detectives--aka Mo LoBeau and her best friends Dale and Harm--take on the most important case of Mo's life"--.

From the moment she met Samantha, star of the school basketball team, on her first day at Daniel Boone Middle School, Allison Drake felt she had found a friend, something she needs badly since her brother died and her father left--but as their friendship grows it begins to evolve into a deeper emotion, and in North Carolina in 1977, it is not easy to discover that you might be gay.

A collection of short stories, none more than 1,800 words, by contemporary authors from North Carolina.

Discover the life of Blackbeard (Edward Teach), among the most famous pirates of all time.

The inhabitants of Mitford gather together for the long awaited wedding of Father Tim Kavanagh and Cynthia Coppersmith.

Episcopal priest Father Tim Kavanagh, recently retired from service at Lord's Chapel in Mitford, accepts a post as interim priest at a small parish on an island off the Atlantic Coast where he and his wife Cynthia quickly become involved in the lives of a whole new community of people.

Father Timothy Kavanagh, married for the first time at the age of sixtysomething, struggles to deal with the upheaval and delight of having a wife, while also presiding over the triumphs and troubles of the people of the small town of Mitford, North Carolina.

Memoir of black American doctor Damon Tweedy about his experiences with racism and prejudice in the medical field. Tweedy writes about the scholarship he was given specifically to increase black enrollment in medical schools which was questioned by one of his professors, up to his experiences as a doctor dealing with the, he argues, prejudiced diagnosis that some diseases are "More common in blacks than in whites.".