Discovering Analees Williamsburg, a fifteen-year-old runaway slave in 1810, August King faces a moral dilemma in which he must decide between turning the girl in for a reward or risking his life to help her. Reprint. Movie tie-in.

The Journey of August King

Literature & Fiction

EHLE, John

Genre Fiction

Harpercollins

Food memoir by North Carolina Author.

The cheeses and wines of England and France,: With notes on Irish whiskey

Harper Row Publishers

From the Paperback Edition:Originally published in 1967, The Road is epic historical fiction at its best. At the novel's center is Weatherby Wright, a railroad builder who launches an ambitious plan to link the highlands of western North Carolina with the East. As a native of the region, Wright knows what his railway will mean to the impoverished settlers. But to accomplish his grand undertaking he must conquer Sow Mountain, "a massive monolith of earth, rock, vegetation and water, an elaborate series of ridges which built on one another to the top." Wright's struggle to construct the railroad—which requires tall trestles crossing deep ravines and seven tunnels blasted through shale and granite—proves to be much more than an engineering challenge. There is opposition from a child evangelist, who preaches that the railroad is the work of the devil, and there is a serious lack of funds, which forces Wright to use convict labor. How Wright confronts these challenges and how the mounta

The Road

Literary

Dust jacket notes:"Few writers have the ability to emblazon and project an authentic past the way John Ehle has done, and few have his narrative skill. In this new novel he has presented the American Civil War in such a way that it shows the shape of time to come; his characters go on living after the book is closed, and its action continues after its final events. The novel, touching, honest, brutal, funny, sad and sometimes glorious, recounts the fall of an era as seen through the eyes of Owen Wright, a colonel in his thirties, a soldier in the Army of the Confederacy. This is his personal accounting for his feelings and actions during six months of his life: time spent in winter camp in 1862, time spent at home with his family - where he falls in love again, this time with a widow-girl of nineteen whom he fears he cannot have and cannot forget - and Gettysburg leading his regiment of mountain soldiers. For its authentic portrayal of the Civil War and its compassionate portrayal of love and family, this novel is a powerful, living achievement. Time of Drums is one of four novels John Ehle has written about the Wright and King families. The Land Breakers tells the story of the first settlers in the North Carolina mountains; Time of Drums deals with the period of the Civil War; The Road is the story of the postwar efforts to open up the mountain country; and Lion on the Hearth is about a prosperous mountain family in the depression of the 1930s. John Ehle (pronounced EE-lee), who was born in Asheville and owns a cabin that looks out on the highest peaks in eastern America, writes: 'It has been particularly rewarding for me to write about mountain people, for they seem to have more humor in them than do most others, and more pride. Sometimes I have seen them standing in a field or alongside a road looking off at the horizon, as if listening to voices indistinct, to some far, forgotten reminders of an unremembered country, of another time, of an ancestry obscure...."

Time of Drums: A Novel

The Winter People

Widower Wayland Jackson and his daughter chance on a small North Carolina mountain village and on Collie Wright and her baby, beginning an idyllic life that ends with the sudden reappearance of Collie's violent ex-lover

United States

Harper&Row

Amanda and Pinckney Wright move from their small North Carolina mountain settlement to Asheville, where--years later--their three children battle to control Pinckney's life-insurance business

Last One Home

Brutalized by her sadistic, drug-dealing husband, a charming woman on trial for his murder must battle the macho tradition that pervades her North Carolina mountain town

The Widow's Trial

Brutalized by her sadistic, drug-dealing husband, a charming woman on trial for his murder must battle the macho tradition that pervades her North Carolina mountain town

Winter People

Macmillan

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The Journey of August King

The cheeses and wines of England and France,: With notes on Irish whiskey

The Road

Time of Drums: A Novel

The Winter People

Last One Home

The Widow's Trial

The Winter People

The Widow's Trial

Winter People