This book tackles some big topics–adoption, racial stereotypes, family dynamics, and small-town secrets. Young NCSU student Isaac Hunt confronts them all after his dying grandfather tells him is not the child of the well-to-do and politically connected Chloe Hunt, but instead the son of Betty Douglas of Pettigrew, North Carolina.
Check this title’s availability in the UNC Library Catalog.
Comments Off on Linda Leigh Hargrove. The Making of Isaac Hunt. Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2007.
Filed under 2000-2009, 2007, Coastal Plain, Hargrove, Linda Leigh, Novels Set in Fictional Places
Loosely based on the life of frontiersman William Holland Thomas, narrator Will Cooper provides a detailed picture of life in western North Carolina in the early nineteenth-century. After working as a “bound boy” at a “trade post at the edge of the Nation,” Will is adopted by a Cherokee elder, Bear. Will eventually leads the clan as a white Indian chief and then as a Colonel for the Confederacy. Still haunted by the memory of his one true love, Claire, Will escapes solitude through his travels.
Check this title’s availability in the UNC Library Catalog.
Comments Off on Charles Frazier. Thirteen Moons. New York: Random House, 2006.
Filed under 2000-2009, 2006, Frazier, Charles, Historical, Mountains
