Here are a few more suggestions to finish up your summer reading!
Friendship Cake by Lynne J. Hinton (Asheboro)
Five women, working together to create a church cookbook, share their passions, loves, and losses, including pastor Charlotte Stewart, who is suffering a crisis in faith ; widow Margaret, the town confidante; and Jessie, the only African American in an all-white church (from Novelist).
Gap Creek: A Novel by Robert Morgan (born in Hendersonville, N.C.)
A novel on the harsh life in the Appalachian Mountains at the turn of the century. The heroine is Julie Harmon whose work load includes hauling water, butchering a hog, rendering lard, plucking a turkey, baking and preserving–all described in detail.
(from Google Books).
Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-eyed Stranger: New and Selected Stories by Lee Smith (Hillsborough, N.C.)
Collection of fourteen short stories focused on the bittersweet nature of life, including the story of a young boy who dreams of being a comedian and the widowed Mrs. Darcy’s trip to the beach (from Novelist).
These titles are available for check out at the Government and Heritage Library by North Carolina State Agency employees or may be borrowed through an inter-library loan request at your local public library.
