The Wind in the Woods is a family saga about a man's commitment to the legacy of North Carolina's Green River Valley and to the camp he built to share its wonders. Charismatic widower Tiger Morrison has spent a lifetime saving children from nature-deficit disorder, only to find himself in the fight of his life to protect his undisturbed world from land-grabbing developers in the southern Blue Ridge Mountains. He's also fighting to win Katie Warlick, but she can't forgive him for not wanting her the way she wanted him 20 years earlier. While Tiger is involved in the struggle to save his camp, his daughter, Sammy, is trying to find her place in the clannish realm of summer youth camps. As she searches for her identity, she never suspects that a serial killer is stalking her. Author Rose Senehi used the confession of an actual serial killer who murdered hikers in the North Georgia mountains in 2008 to create the plot line in which the murderer stalks both Sammy and Katie.

The Wind in the Woods

Romance

Rose Senehi

Romantic Suspense

Canterbury House Publishing

After her mother dies, Loren Creek, a precocious 14 year old, flees the foster-care system in Tennessee by moving to North Carolina. With the help of a curmudgeonly mountain man, she manages to evade detection by assuming the identity of a boy. Having studied dance and gymnastics at her mother's insistence, Loren has a lean, muscular appearance, which allows her to easily pass as a boy when she enters high school. She reluctantly becomes the kicker on the school football team and grows popular with boys and girls alike, causing some stressful, confusing, and even dangerous situations. Meanwhile, Loren's foster-care guardian takes her disappearance personally. He won't give up until he finds her and places her with what he considers a good family. A confrontation is inevitable.

Girl

Literature & Fiction

Bart Bare

Genre Fiction

Schools do not offer classes in persuasiveness. Most people never receive formal sales training. No wonder they struggle with ''selling'' their ideas, much less products or services. Millions of people are trying to succeed in business. They all could benefit from learning how to effectively engage and be persuasive with others. Everyone needs to know how to sell. ABC's of Selling with Etiquette distills the complex behavior of selling into 26 easy-to-understand concepts. The concepts build upon each other until, by the end, the reader has a complete understanding of how selling works, why customers buy, and how to be more persuasive. As a bonus, the book presents business etiquette. Knowing how to behave in typical business situations builds confidence. Knowing proper business etiquette allows the reader to feel more comfortable in public and focus their attention on being more persuasive.

ABC's of Selling with Etiquette

Business & Money

Edie Hand

Dale Brakhage

Greg Kilgore

Business Culture

Autumn Bends the Rebel Tree is a family saga set in the 1930s and '40s in the mountains of northwest North Carolina that will appeal to fans of Olivia Ann Burns and Lee Smith--anyone who enjoys strong female characters, Southern literature, and a great sense of place. After her husband dies at the young age of 42, Clarinda's strong character and deep love for her children manifest as she fights for her family's survival. Of the 17 children she bore, 11 still live at home, ranging in age from 11 months to 17 years. In order to survive, Clarinda battles the grim reaper when the cabin catches on fire at midnight during a blizzard; she hooks rag rugs and trades them for children's secondhand clothes; she works the harvest fields, accepting corn as payment for her labor; she's a washer woman for the well-off. After five years of widowhood, Clarinda marries a prosperous older man with a large farm. Instead of providing a good home for her and her children, the marriage drives her family apart. During this time, she loses a son in World War II. Hard labor, a grouchy husband, and the unhappiness of her children lay heavy on her heart. She turns her face homeward--toward her cabin on Levi's Mountain, and she and her children walk off the farm with nothing but the clothes on their backs. At once, the entire family gathers for a homecoming get-together, Happiness and joy abound for the moment, but winter is nigh at hand and they have nothing to sustain them. Soon, Clarinda's husband shows up weeping. She refused to return to his farm but has a plan for reconciliation. He must provide half of all living expenses for the family. At first, he balks, but considering his lonely plight of gnawing on last years corn cobs by a cold hearthstone, he accepts her proposal. Clarinda's sacrifices are praiseworthy and her heart-warming family stories, some funny, some poignant, must be told.

Autumn Bends the Rebel Tree

Carolyn Guy

Liv and Autis Oakley, a young professional couple, have purchased their dream home on several wooded acres of Wadmalaw Island--one of the Sea Islands bordering Charleston, South Carolina. In short order they find slave graves from the Civil War-era on their land. Soon after, they realize that there are ghostly spirits in their furnished basement, and a demon appears in the form of a large black panther, which rages and ravages. Finally, they see the wraith-like lady who lives in the run-down old mansion back in the woods behind Liv's and Autis's dream home. All of these sinister elements are intertwined in Liv's family history: a history of which she was totally unaware. Liv's role in this family history is the catalyst activating the spirit elements on the property. Liv and Autis discover that finding their dream home was no accident. Liv and Autis--with the assistance of their large pointer, Bob, new-found friends, Carole "Bambi" Bamberg, a vivacious blonde southerner, and Sweetgrass Weaver, 90-year-old decendant of slaves--struggle to defeat the forces making their lovely home into a living prison. Peopled with the characters of distinct and compelling Southern flavor and set among the lovely live oaks, towering pines, and fecund swamp and salt marshes of the coastal islands of South Carolina, Wadmalaw is a contemporary ghost story with a satisfying and surprising ending.

Wadmalaw: A Ghost Story

Bare, Bart

Hera's Revenge is the first book in the Yvonne Suarez Travel Mystery series. From sunny metropolitan Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where the Pinkerton Travel agency is located across from the famous Galt Ocean Mile, to exotic destinations around the world, this series is sure to carry readers along on an exciting adventure. In Hera's Revenge, when an airport employee turns up dead in baggage claim upon their arrival in Athens, the Pinkerton Travel Group gets off to a rocky start. How far will travel agent Yvonne Suarez go to keep her tourists safe and her tour on track? David Ludlow needs a vacation from his stressful job, and this itinerary to the land of mythology, Greek philosophers, and early democrats is just the ticket to a leisurely escape, until grumpy passengers, missing museum art, and deathly accidents plague their journey. Will Yvonne's fear of losing control stand in the way of solving these crimes? Who among her travel companions can she trust? Is David using Yvonne and her tour to solve his own dangerous mystery? Find the answers to these questions and get to know Yvonne Suarez in Hera's Revenge.

Hera's Revenge

Dingwall, Wendy

United States

When Donald MacIntyre, an avid off-trail hiker, fails to return from a quest to bushwhack through difficult terrain to the top of the Jumpoff, a dramatic cliff in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, good-natured back-country ranger Hector Jones leads a search-and-rescue team into the remotest depths of the Greenbrier section of the park and discovers MacIntyre's body. From the nature of MacIntyre's injuries, it is clear that he fell to his death from the top of the Jumpoff. Or was he pushed?The job of investigating the suspicious death goes to Sally Connolly, a 31-year-old detective with the Sevier County, Tennessee, sheriff's office. Due to Hector's expert knowledge of the hiking trails, Sally enlists his help in the investigation, and they follow several leads. One lead reveals a feud between MacIntyre, who was a professor at the University of Tennessee, and a rival professor at Emory University. The second concerns the illegal digging of plants in the park on behalf of MacIntyre's wife, who has a garden design business. And a third lead reveals a complicated relationship with an older female hiking friend.Murder at the Jumpoff is a novel with a powerful sense of place and unusual characters who challenge themselves to seek excitement, beauty, and fulfillment from undiscovered, treacherous mountain landscapes--and from those they dare to love.

Murder at the Jumpoff

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Jenny Bennett

Mystery

Delia Eleanor Walker's life is perfectly planned. The wedding date is set, the invitations mailed. Her family is gathered at a North Carolina beach house ready to celebrate when Delia receives Prentice's unexpected Fed-Ex announcing he has married someone else!
What on earth will she do?
Delia centered every aspect of her future around her upcoming marriage, and she knows her family will somehow blame the breakup on her. They always do. They'll call it one more immature botch by the baby of the family.
In her lap, among the mail just received, Delia seizes on the answer--an invitation from Maureen Cross for a last visit to her aunt Dee's old cottage near Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Delia knows it's cowardly to run, but run she does, hoping to find in the mountain getaway time to heal and space to chart a new direction for her life.
Instead of peace and quiet, Delia finds a troubled cousin she's never met hiding out in her aunt's house and a childhood playmate and heartthrob, Tanner Cross, back in town, reminding her of yet another time she made a fool of herself romantically. To top it off, a criminal is on the loose, along with an increasingly complicated array of problems Delia never expected to encounter.
This warm contemporary romance follows Delia as she makes her way through surprising twists of sorrow, suspense, and sweetness amid the beauty of the Great Smoky Mountains and the charm of Gatlinburg.

Delia's Place (Smoky Mountain)

Lin Stepp

Hellebore, the sequel to Kaiser¿s popular "Bloodroot: A Novel of the Civil War," is the story of the feud'n, fight'n and fuss'n that tore up the people of Appalachia after the American Civil War. Beset by bushwhackers, carpetbaggers and scalawags, the Truehill family - Billy Jack, and Elvira May - are tempted, tormented and torn by the historic events of the post-war occupation of the Southern States by Union Army troops. Mountain men who served in either the Confederate army or the Union army and survived the war return home to continue the war - the beginning of famed family feuds that still echo today in the remote corners of the mountains. The events in this novel, including the incursion of the Ku Klux Klan into western North Carolina are real, as are some of the historic characters. Other characters, protagonists and antagonists, including Billy Jack and Elvira May are based upon real people of the times.

Hellebore: A Novel of Reconstruction

William F. Kaiser

Life is sometimes hard for a widowed, single mother with three young children, a business to run, bills to meet, and debts to pay. Despite it all, Rosalyn McCreary tries to count her blessings. She cherishes her shop, Second Hand Rose, her family, and her friends. A practical woman by necessity, she seldom indulges in impulse and fancy except for that crazy spring day she danced with a total stranger she d never met. Whatever was she thinking? And to learn later that her mystery stranger, Kendrick Lanier, planned to move to Wear's Valley. Great. Just one more problem she doesn t need.
Despite Rosalyn's efforts to crowd him out, Kendrick soon pursues her, finding ways into her life and the lives of her children and creating complications Rosalyn simply doesn't want to deal with. Especially since the more she learns of the man's life and secrets, the more she realizes how ill-suited they are.
Given Rosalyn and Kendrick's troubled pasts and Rosalyn's temper, readers will find it a toss-up whether these two stubborn, determined individuals should or shouldn't ever get together.

Second Hand Rose: A Smoky Mountain Novel (Book Five) (Smoky Mountain, 5)

Contemporary

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