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Experience the unforgettable, heartbreaking love story set in post-World War II North Carolina about a young socialite and the boy who once stole her heart — one of PBS's "Great American Reads".

Every so often a love story so captures our hearts that it becomes more than a story-it becomes an experience to remember forever. The Notebook is such a book. It is a celebration of how passion can be ageless and timeless, a tale...

2) Shooting at loons

Author

Maron, Margaret

Series

Deborah Knott mysteries volume 3
Wheeler large print book

Pub. Date

c1994

Formats

3) Miss Julia stands her ground

Author

Series

Miss Julia series volume 7

4) Look homeward, angel: a story of the buried life

Author

Wolfe, Thomas

Description

Wolfe's largely autobiographical novel features Eugene Gant, who pines for a more expansive life after being born to a father whose bouts of maniacal raving are fueled by a prodigious appetite for drink.

5) Buried in a book: a Novel Idea mystery

Author

Arlington, Lucy

Series

Novel Idea mysteries volume 1

Publisher

Center Point Pub

Pub. Date

2012

Physical Desc

350 p.

Description

Accepting an internship at A Novel Idea, a literary agency in Inspiration Valley, North Carolina, Lila, while dealing with her quirky new co-workers and a stack of query letters, stumbles upon a murder mystery involving a penniless aspiring author.

6) Pepperoni pizza can be murder

Author

Cavender, Chris

Series

Pizza lovers mysteries volume 2
Pizza lovers mystery volume 2

Publisher

Kensington Books

Pub. Date

2010

Physical Desc

278 p. ; 22 cm.

Description

After the body of her delivery driver's brother ends up on the floor of her pizzeria, Eleanor Swift enlists the help of her sister Maddy in searching for the real killer, all while trying to keep her pizza business afloat.

7) Last lessons of summer

Author

Maron, Margaret

Publisher

Mysterious Press

Pub. Date

c2003

Physical Desc

295 p. ; 24 cm.

8) A land more kind than home

Author

Cash, Wiley

Pub. Date

2012

Description

Growing up in a small North Carolina town, Jess Hall is plunged into an adulthood for which he is not prepared when his autistic older brother, Stump, sneaks a look at something he is not supposed to see, which has catastrophic repercussions.

9) Miss Julia renews her vows

Author

Series

Miss Julia series volume 11

Publisher

Viking

Pub. Date

2010

Physical Desc

341 p. ; 22 cm.

10) Miss Julia paints the town

Author

Series

Miss Julia series volume 9

Pub. Date

2008

Formats

Description

"When developers threaten to bulldoze the old courthouse to make way for condominiums, Miss Julia is dismayed. She enlists the help of Etta Mae Wiggins in a plot to scare off the money by exposing the town's many eccentric characters." --From publisher description.

11) Holly

Author

Deveraux, Jude

Publisher

Atria Books

Pub. Date

c2003

Physical Desc

1 v. (large print) ; cm.

12) Miss Julia delivers the goods: a novel

Author

Series

Miss Julia series volume 10

Pub. Date

2009

Formats

Description

If there's no rest for the weary, Miss Julia must be absolutely exhausted. She's just learned a secret - Hazel Marie is pregnant with twins and the prospective father has cleared out of town. But good things come in unexpected packages. Abbotsville finds itself the scene of a heist, and Miss Julia knows there's only one man who can solve the crime. It's J. D. Pickens, P. I., renowned investigator and Hazel's wayward love.

13) Miss Julia throws a wedding

Author

Series

Miss Julia series volume 3

Publisher

Thorndike Press

Pub. Date

c2002

Physical Desc

p. (large print) cm.

14) Miss Julia to the rescue: a novel

Author

Series

Miss Julia series volume 13

Publisher

Viking Adult

Pub. Date

2012

Physical Desc

320

Description

"Can Miss Julia spring J.D. Pickens from a sheriff's clutches and investigate a cult--plus keep up appearances as a proper Southern lady?"--

15) Light from heaven

Author

Karon, Jan

Series

Mitford years volume 9

16) Surviving the Applewhites

Author

Tolan, Stephanie S

Series

Applewhites volume 1

Publisher

HarperCollins

Pub. Date

2002

Physical Desc

216 p. ; 22 cm.

Description

Jake, a budding juvenile delinquent, is sent for home schooling to the arty and eccentric Applewhite family's Creative Academy, where he discovers talents and interests he never knew he had.

17) Miss Julia stirs up trouble

Author

Series

Miss Julia series volume 14

Formats

Description

With a crisp bite in the air, Miss Julia is enjoying a well-earned respite by her new fireplace. But autumn leaves aren't the only things falling: James, Hazel Marie's housekeeper, has had a nasty tumble down some stairs. How can Hazel Marie feed and take care of him--not to mention a husband and two babies--when she barely knows how to boil water? Miss Julia jumps in to help by convincing the ladies ofAbbotsville to put on their aprons and give cooking...

18) Horseplay: a novel

Author

Singer, Judy Reene

Publisher

Broadway Books

Pub. Date

2004

Physical Desc

278 p. ; 22 cm.

Description

Determined to leave her unfaithful husband, Judy Van Brunt takes the money she inherited from her mother and flees, taking a job as a groom at a North Carolina horse farm, where she shares an apartment with three extraordinary women.

19) Three times lucky

Author

Turnage, Sheila

Series

Tupelo Landing volume 1

Publisher

Dial Books for Young Readers

Pub. Date

Physical Desc

312 p. : map ; 22 cm.

Description

Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a café and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.

20) Nightwalkers

Author

Deutermann, P. T

Series

Cam Richter novels volume 4

Description