Luna (The Lykanthrop Series #2)

Author: Farago, Gina
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 372pp.
Pub. Date: January 22, 2008
Publisher: NeDeo Press

Werewolf Ivy Cole has her hands full. Willful and hot-blooded, she found she’s borne the same in her offspring, five-year-old she-pup Luna, who has a deadly gift of her own: the ability to shape-shift without the full moon. It’s this lethal virtue that draws the attention of the Order, a murderous cult of lycanthropes with their own plans for Ivy’s child.

But the werewolves are not the only predators with sights set on Ivy and Luna Cole. Sheriff Hubbard, still seeking justice after her last encounter with the white wolf, and Deputy Sanders, Ivy’s wronged long-lost love with a horrible secret of his own, have tracked the tiny pack down to their new home in the historic fishing village of Salty Duck, North Carolina.

While Ivy goes about the facade of everyday life among the quirky residents of the quaint seaside town, forces from her past are moving in quick to converge for a climactic and surprising bloody end.

Ivy Cole and the Moon (The Lykanthrop Series #1)

Author: Farago, Gina
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 384pp.
Pub. Date: October 3, 2006
Publisher: Berkley

Ivy Cole and the Moon (The Lykanthrop Series #1)

Author: Farago, Gina
Format: Hardcover
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 416pp.
Pub. Date: September 1, 2005
Publisher: NeDeo Press

Winner of the New York Book Festival Award.

Ivy Cole has come home to the South, and her first order of business upon arriving in her new town is to eliminate the unsavory folks who reside there. Proud of what she can accomplish under the spell of the full moon, Ivy leaves the consequences of her actions lying about Doe Springs (in pieces) as a reminder that evil happens to those who deserve it.

But something else has taken up residence in the land, something violent and cruel, with an unconscionable appetite that eventually targets the ones Ivy loves. While she hunts and is hunted by the other, Sheriff Hubbard doggedly works to solve the mystery behind the savage killings and mutilations.

Ivy Cole and the Moon is an artful mix of horror, mystery, and Southern literary fiction. Farago weaves ancient werewolf and wolf mythology throughout her plot while blending in scientific and historical facts about true wolves. Forget the stereotypical Hollywood monster. Farago reinvents the werewolf in this first of the Lykanthrop series.

Absent for more than a century, the voice of the wolf rises over the Appalachian peaks once more.

Making Do: How to Cook like a Mountain Mema

Author: Sutphin, Lois R. and Farago, Gina
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Non-Fiction
Page Count: 168pp.
Pub. Date: July 30, 2005
Publisher: NeDeo Press

Beautifully conceived and delivered, this mother-daughter undertaking is a book that can warm both the kitchen and the heart.

Tasty Appalachian recipes and authentic stories of mountain living are brought together here in this book inspired by a way of life forgotten in the fast-paced modern world. Generations in the making, this collection of old-timey favorites takes us on a culinary journey to a vanishing past, back to a life driven by necessity and the principles of making do.

From simple dishes like Fried Green Tomatoes to those that take a little more effort but are definitely worth the work (Molasses and Apple Butter Cake comes to mind), you’ll find delicious meals to grace your table and accompanying vignettes to warm your heart. And all the recipes in this book are from scratch, just like the way real MeMas up on the Blue Ridge did it “back then” and even today. So join our kitchen, the kitchen of a mountain MeMa, and savor a taste of the past.

A sampling of our recipes:
Apple Butter, Deviled Eggs, Chicken and Dumplings, Souse Meat, Frog Legs, Fried Squirrel and Gravy, Potato Cakes, Fried Apple Pies, Blackberry Cobbler, Rhubarb Pie, Leather Britches, Buckwheat Pancakes, and many, many more.