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Roanoke Rock Muddle This work of southern fiction, set in the 1920s in the small eastern town of Williamston, centers around former teacher Mary Cavett Haughton and her disappointing marriage to local football hero “Big Dan” Hardison. Mary turns to a traveling salesman for solace, and in doing so a secret is built. When it is discovered, it forever changes the town. Author Lucia Peel Powe attended UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke University and East Carolina for graduate work. Published by Ivy House Publishing Group in Raleigh. Softcover, $14.95. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Roanoke River Project. Call (800) 775-1100 or visit www.ivyhousebooks.com |
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Once Upon a Different Time Based upon a series of articles, this novel traverses along the hills and hollows of the Appalachian mountains in 1884. “Once Upon A Different Time” includes pages from articles originally published in Atlantic Monthly magazine based on a true account of a mountain trip. Novelist Marion Coe envisioned the trip as it might have happened for her five fictional characters, who depended on the hospitality of farm homes and taverns during their two-month adventure. The pages are interwoven with vivid descriptions of feuds and a developing romance. Published by High Country Publishers, Ltd. in Boone. Softcover, $12.95. Call (800) 462-6420 or visit http://highcountrypubs.tripod.com |
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Best of the best cookbook Forty-eight contributors lent their favorite recipes in this unusual compilation of North Carolina cookbooks. Organized by appetizers, soups, salads, bread and breakfasts, vegetables, seafood, poultry, pies, cakes and desserts, the diverse recipes within these chapters are gleaned from several cookbooks such as “Coastal Carolina Cooking,” “The Fearrington House Cookbook,” “The Grecian Plate,” “What’s New in Wedding Food,” ”North Carolina and Old Salem Cookery” and “Bill Neal’s Southern Cooking.” For example, the appetizers chapter offers a hot dip with sliced apple dish and crab-potato nibblers from cookbooks “Sip to Shore” and “Island Born and Bred.” The salads chapter serves up Cobb salad from “A Dash of Down East,” and the breads and breakfast chapter offers “Sweet Potato Love Buns from “A Taste of History.” Edited by Gwen McKee and Barbara Moseley, “Best of the Best from North Carolina Cookbook” is part of the Best of the Best State Cookbook Series published by Quail Ridge Press in Brandon, MS. Softcover, $16.95. Call (800) 343-1583 or visit www.quailridge.com |
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Cold Mountain Hunter Author and Haywood EMC member Lessley Griffin of Cruso writes about hunting experiences he enjoyed as a country boy in his descriptive memoir. Griffin recalls and explores the art of bear hunting with hounds, and details many creeks, coves, ridges and trails in the Cold Mountain and Shining Rock Wilderness territories. Griffin’s recollections stem from a specific year, 1983, and the black and white photographs in “Cold Mountain Hunter” include shots of hunting buddies, town barber, community structures and other little-known or long-gone images. Published by InfinityPublishing.com Softcover, $14.95. Call toll-free at (877) 289-2665 or visit www.buybooksontheweb.com |
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Aunt Mag's Recipe Book What would you do if you discovered a great-aunt’s handwritten recipe book that revealed all the secrets of how to put an honest-to-goodness southern meal on the table? That’s the story Carolyn Rawls Booth tells in “Aunt Mag’s Recipe Book: Heritage Cooking from a Carolina Kitchen.” The cookbook presents more than 50 recipes Booth developed from ones passed down through her southeastern North Carolina family, now updated for today’s modern kitchen and healthier diets. Recipes for candied sweet potatoes, divinity caramel cake, collards and cornmeal dumplings and baked country ham are among those included. “Aunt Mag’s Recipe Book” is available in bookstores and directly from the author or publisher. Books are $12 each plus 7 percent North Carolina sales tax and $3.95 for shipping up to three books. Send check or money order to Carolyn Booth, P.O. Box 6, Cary, NC 27512. Or contact Barbara Brannon at Winoca Press, 106 North 16th St., Wilmington, NC 28401-3819. E-mail: Brannon@ec.rr.com. |