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At the age of six, Estie was kidnapped by her father, a diagnosed Paranoid Schizophrenic. He was a street-preacher and self proclaimed evangelist. They hitchhiked (with two younger siblings) across the US, in thirteen different states, from North Carolina to California. Her father's mission in life was to load ships with Bibles to be delivered to Communist China and distributed to all the "lost and dying souls". Journey with her, as they stick...

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Nachtay brothers Itstokay and Adrian learn early that the course of one's life can shift dramatically in a single instant. After their father is badly injured during a hunt to gather food for the family, he sends the teen-aged boys away to master the skills they will need to survive. Under the direction of the King of Nightmares and the King of Dreams, they develop the expertise needed to prevail against a once ally species turned enemy throug...

Imbued with mystery and romance, this provocative novel pays homage to Naomi Wise, an orphan who lived in Randolph County, North Carolina during the early 1800s. Like Naomi, author Sandra Redding grew up near the banks of Deep River. There, as a child, she heard the sad tales and haunting songs describing how the orphan was murdered by devious Jonathan Lewis, the man who promised to marry her. The author revives feisty Naomi on these pages. Po...

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In Deadly Company, Diana Delaney narrowly escaped death at the hands of Ashley Marsh and, Rob, her accomplice. During her rescue, Rob was killed, and Ashley suffered a head injury that led to amnesia. She was confined to a mental hospital for treatment before standing trial for kidnapping and attempted murder. As Deadly Beauty begins, Ashley, who has kept the return of her memory a secret, has escaped from the institution with another patient ...

The novel is set in North Carolina in 1899 and 1951 and explores the ritual, traditions, and gender politics within different families. The brutal rape and murder of an eccentric middle-aged woman affects all the characters' lives in subtle, but unique ways.The story begins in 1951. Woven throughout are family secrets: incidents involving misogyny, prejudice, superiority, miscegenation, and bastard births. The 1951 sections reveal startling tr...

The Serial Killer: Sitting on the edge of a filthy mattress in a dilapidated house, the killer holds a jar filled with milky liquid - dark orbs bob inside it. The room is silent with the exception of his sing-song voice, "Peek-a-boo I see you." He bursts into a crazed cackle of laughter then stops. His whisper is barely audible, "But you can't see me." The Blind Psychic: Peter Cole moves into a boarding house on the wrong side of town. That's ...

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When Emma Daniels is approached by a stranger and asked to deliver a note about a gallery in Rochester NY to an artist who regularly paints on Siesta Beach, she agrees because the man tells her he's been unexpectedly called out of town. But when the note turns out to be a ransom note for the artist's grandmother, Emma unwittingly becomes involved. Her attempt to help Beth Wilkinson find "Grandy" not only fails but Emma is drawn even further in...

In times past, if a woman found herself suddenly on her own, there were very few options for her to make her way in the world. Widowhood, abandonment and other circumstances often forced women to turn to one of the only respectable avenues of income available to them opening a boarding house. In this unique volume, Alice Sink and Nickie Doyal tell the stories of resourceful women across North Carolina who opened their homes to strangers out of...

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The Turner family's saga of life and conflict begins in the Southern cotton mill village where several members of the family share one of the small rented company houses that surrounds the mammoth Banner Cotton Mill located in Pine Valley, North Carolina. Emma Lee rules the roost, holding the family together for Cindy, aged seven, and Punky, aged two, who have been abandoned by their mother, Emma Lee's cousin. Added to the mix are her older br...

Few times in our early history have people put aside their differences about race relations! This epidemic, called infantile paralysis, was one of those times as illustrated in this true story so well written by Alice E. Sink.People came together, without preconceptions, to fight this terribledisease labeled the Great Crippler, and ultimately, over the years, overpower it.

The Pierce brothers, Lucy and Jackellel bid their wolf manimal friends farewell and link arms at the entrance to the Portal to return to the land they call home. They leap forward and are swiftly carried through the Portal until a sudden shift in the current sends them off track and spews them into a strange, timeless land. A land with prodigious eyeball trees that swing in all directions preventing passage beyond their landing point. Suddenly...

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