Fall, 2008 - A Chosen Few featured in Our State Magazine

Tar Heel Literature

A Chosen Few

by Carolyn Rawls Booth. Chapel Hill Press. 2008. 401 pages, paperback, $18.95. Available through the publisher at (866) 942-8389.

Summer, 2008 - We are pleased to announce publication of A Chosen Few, by Carolyn Rawls Booth
$18.95, paperback,
405 pages.
Pub. Date: May, 2008

CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA: In the third book of her Between the Rivers trilogy, Carolyn Rawls Booth once again uses a deft hand to weave historical context into her sprawling family history. In A Chosen Few, Booth continues the saga of the Ryan and McBryde families as they face the Great Depression in rural Bladen County, North Carolina. Times are hard, but one of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs holds great promise for young farmers like Len Ryan who marries Millie McBryde hoping to qualify for Penderlea Homesteads, a resettlement project across the river in Pender County developed by Wilmington entrepreneur Hugh MacRae. Only those young families with the greatest potential are chosen to lease/purchase a homestead that includes a picture-perfect cottage, outbuildings, and livestock for only sixty dollars a year. But the drama deepens when the government takes over the project and the Ryans find life on Penderlea less than utopian.

Fans of Booth's historical fiction eagerly await this captivating story involving true-life and fictional characters, many who reappear from her earlier novels Between the Rivers and Bandeaux Creek. Readers new to her work will want to read the entire trilogy. To aid in identifying characters, a genealogy chart is included in the new book.

A Chosen Few is available directly from the author: Carolyn Rawls Booth, P.O. Box 6, Cary, NC 27512, as well as from the publisher, The Chapel Hill Press (919-942-8389) or Parnassus Book Distributors (803-782-7748); also in book stores and gift shops. Discounts available to retail.

"Meet a captivating woman from Cary, NC who embodies the graciousness, the grit and the spunk that only the South can produce," begins Susan Ely's story in a recent issue of Cary Living. "That woman is Carolyn Booth, free-lance writer/photographer and author of Between the Rivers, Aunt Mag’s Recipe Book, and her most recent novel, Bandeaux Creek, released in August."

Read the complete story by clicking on the link below or subscribe to Cary Living and request a hard copy. Carolyn is somewhat biased, but she thinks Susan is a wonderful writer and Cary Living an outstanding publicaiton.

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