**A haunting, "exquisitely written" novel that explores the true costs of tradition, gun ownership, masculinity, and Southern mythmaking through the lens of an accidental shooting that reverberates across generations (Fiona McFarlane, author of The Night Guest).“A vital Southern novel that speaks to a violent American legacy.” —The New York Times Book Review**Rachel Ruskin never intended to return to her family’s tobacco farm in Shiloh, North Carolina. But...

“Haunting and provocative . . . Rowland’s writing is compelling and masterful.” —Delia Ephron, author of The Lion Is InOnce, there were many transcriptionists at the Record, a behemoth New York City newspaper, but new technology has put most of them out of work. So now Lena, the last transcriptionist, sits alone in a room--a human conduit, silently turning reporters’ recorded stories into print--until the day she encounters a story so shocking tha...

A haunting, "exquisitely written" novel that explores the true costs of tradition, gun ownership, masculinity, and Southern mythmaking through the lens of an accidental shooting that reverberates across generations (Fiona McFarlane, author of The Night Guest).Rachel Ruskin never intended to return to her family’s tobacco farm in Shiloh, North Carolina. But when her academic career studying Southern folklore in New York City flames out, she has no choice. B...

Lena, the transcriptionist, sits alone in a room far away from the hum of the newsroom that is the heart of the Record, the big city newspaper for which she works. For years, she has been the ever-present link for reporters calling in stories from around the world. Hooked up to a machine that turns spoken words to print, Lena is the vein that connects the organs of the paper. She is loyal, she is unquestioning, yet technology is dictating that her days there are numbered.W...

Fifteen of North Carolina’s finest writers reimagine and reclaim the stories of the ghosts who have haunted all corners of the state.North Carolina ain’t what it once was: forests and fields have given way to suburbs and vacation homes, textile mills to high tech, tobacco farms to tourism. That doesn’t mean, though, that the ghosts of the Old North State have gone away.In this anthology, readers might glimpse some of the ghostly apparitions, headless fiends...

The biography of one of Britain's foremost fashion designers who led a fascinating double life as a couturier and an intelligence officer during the Second World War. Sir Hardy Amies was one of Britain's foremost fashion designers who led a fascinating double life as a couturier and an intelligence officer during the Second World War. Sir Hardy's work for the Belgian resistance effort as part of the Special Operations Executive, was so significant that he was awarded l'Ordre de la Couronne...

Travis Williams is a man without a past, without a memory, and a peculiar gift. Haunted by visions of tragedies and crimes yet to happen, he strives to save as many lives as he can and alter the future for the better. But, when Travis is attacked and left for dead, his long dormant memory begins flickering back to life, leaving him with more questions than answers.Soon, he finds he is being hunted for a past he still can't remember, by a mad man, with a dangerous vendetta. To prote...