November 7, 2008

The Quilter's Homecoming: An Elm Creek Quilt's Novel by Jennifer Chiaverini

Newly married, Elizabeth Nelson sets off with her husband for their newly purchased land in California. Their dreams are shattered when, upon arrival, they discover that they have been swindled out of their money and are without a home. Join Elizabeth and her husband as they struggle to find their way by working as hired hands on a farm they had once thought of as their own.

December 5, 2008

Blue Ridge by T.R. Pearson

This novel is Southern storytelling at its best. It is the tale of two cousins, Ray and Paul, who are both summoned to identify and discover the story behind a murder. One man must travel to Manhattan to identify the body of the son whom he barely knew, while the other must uncover history to solve the mystery of human remains found on the Appalachian Trail.

January 2, 2008

Gap Creek by Robert Morgan

In this novel, Morgan returns to the vivid world of the Appalachian high country to follow Julie and Hank in their new life on Gap Creek and their efforts to make sense of the world in the last years of the nineteenth century. Scratching out a life for themselves, always at risk of losing it all, Julie and Hank don't know what to fear most - the floods, or the flesh-and-blood grifters who insinuate themselves into their new lives.