Serving Jackson, Macon and Swain Counties with six public libraries in Western North Carolina

With the Fourth of July already here, it's a great opportunity to delve deeper into U.S. History. Your local library has a wide range of materials on our collective history – from our founding fathers to the 21st century. And if nonfiction's not your thing, why not try out some historical fiction? Check out these titles:

• American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic by Joseph Ellis

• American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham

• American Passage: The History of Ellis Island by Vincent Cannato

• The Civil War documentary on VHS or DVD by Ken Burns

• Ladies of Liberty: TheWomen Who Shaped Our Nation by Cokie Roberts

• The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary by Candace Fleming

• The March: a novel by E.L. Doctorow

• A Mercy by Toni Morrison

• One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael Dobbs

• One Thousand White Women: the Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus

• This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust

• Voices Rising: Stories From the Katrina Narrative Project edited by Rebeca Antoine

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JUST FOR CHILDREN
Check out the new books now available at your library.

FOR EVERYONE
Many of us will be staying close to home this summer – the Fontana Regional Library system has many new books on home decorating, house plans, architecture, gardening, and landscaping so whatever you feel like spending your time on this summer we’ve got the information you need. Check out our new books about home and garden.