North Carolina Collection: Novels

This story of a day in the life of Joe Robert Kirkman, a North Carolina mountain schoolteacher, sly prankster, country philosopher, and family man, won the hearts of readers and reviewers across the country.

In the early twentieth century, the rolling countryside of North Carolina’s southern Piedmont region was dotted by farms inhabited by women who measured their lives in "womanyears"—not in the mechanical passage of days, weeks, and months, but in the "subtle meld of season into season with the gentle spiral of life in its folds."

One of the great novels of the American Revolution.

Selected by the author, this anthology presents Chappell's work in a variet of forms--one complete novel, eight short stories, poems, a portion of four novels, and an Afterword.

The third and last book culled from the mountain of manuscript Thomas Wolfe behind, The Hills Beyond "contains some of his best, and certainly his most mature, work".

stories from the people of the Cape Fear Valley.

The author recounts humorous anecdotes concerning his experiences as a lawyer and a member of the United States Senate.

In the Bales-McCord family there are several old people contemplating their final resting places. Two of them--Glenn and Laura Bales--are in bad shape, and everybody is wondering which one will go first.

Set in New Orleans, Juicy Watusi features Helms' creation Pat Gallegher - failed seminarian, retired forensic psychologist, disgraced college professor, who now makes a living playing jazz cornet in a dive bar off Toulouse Street in the French Quarter.

King's Mountain is a vivid, colorful account of one of the most crucial battles of the American Revolution.

Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life is a 1929 novel by Thomas Wolfe. It is Wolfe's first novel, and is considered a highly autobiographical American Bildungsroman.

Short story told from the perspective of a child colonist.

In 1937, The Lost Colony, Paul Green's dramatic retelling of the founding and mysterious disappearance of the Roanoke Island colony, opened to standing-room-only audiences and rave reviews.

Sketches from the authors boyhood home in North Carolina.

Carl Sandburg's granddaughter tells what it was like to grow up close to the land on the famous poet's North Carolina mountain farm.

Nonfiction writings by Richard McKenna.

A collection of plays.

In this classic account of the Revolutionary War experiences of the North Carolina Continentals, Hugh F. Rankin traces the events leading to war in North Carolina and follows all the campaigns and battles in which the North Carolina Continentals took part.

Television essays by Bob Inman.

Of Time and the River (subtitled A Legend of Man's Hunger in his Youth) is a 1935 novel by American author Thomas Wolfe. It is a fictionalized autobiography, using the name Eugene Gant for Wolfe's, detailing the protagonist's early and mid-twenties, during which time the character attends Harvard University, moves to New York City and teaches English at a university there, and travels overseas with the character Francis Starwick.

This heartwarming book reminds us again of some of the extraordinary people he has met over the years in words and photographs, and provides the exact words of the interviews, so that we can permanently enjoy his visits with people we have come to know and care for, again and again.

Stories by North Carolina Writers.

Short stories recalled from Carolinians.

Charleston, South Carolina was regarded by Union troops as the "Seat of the Secession" and this is a detailed account of the Northern attempt in 1862 to capture the city and avenge Fort Sumter.

A collection of short stories.

The Discovery of an old corpse dredges up the past for a small town with a lot to hide.

A celebration of the inspirational potential of great works of art lies before you.

Politics, progress, & outrages ambitions.

"On March 9, 1862, the ""battle of the century"" took place at Hampton Roads. The U.S.S. Monitor, the world's first all-iron fighting ship, repulsed the Confederate ironclad Merrimack."

Story and poem for each of the 12 days of Christmas from some of North Carolina's finest writers.

The Way We Were is a description of the emergence of a new century in a small town in Eastern North Carolina and the picture of a family that had to keep up its prestige largely on its personality.

The Web and the Rock is an American bildungsroman novel by Thomas Wolfe, published posthumously in 1939. Like its sequel, You Can't Go Home Again, it was extracted by Edward Aswell from a larger manuscript after Wolfe's death, and features writer George Webber as its protagonist.

The fourth book in Richard Helms' Pat Gallegher Mystery Series. Gallegher investigates the seventy year old murder of a man found entombed in a concrete floor next to Holliday's, and discovers that this murder is deviously connected with his own recent violent past.

While prior books on the battle to capture Wilmington, North Carolina, have focused solely on the epic struggles for Fort Fisher, in many respects this was just the beginning of the campaign. In addition to complete coverage (with significant new information) of both battles for Fort Fisher, The Wilmington Campaign includes the first detailed examination of the attack and defense of Fort Anderson.

You Can't Go Home Again is a novel by Thomas Wolfe published posthumously in 1940, extracted by his editor, Edward Aswell, from the contents of his vast unpublished manuscript The October Fair.