The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper

I checked out this book because it mentions Knoxville as one of the places the author lived.  It's a biography of a girl growing up in Liberia.  She lived through Liberia's sad history as a child living in the wealthy class of the country then...Her life gets harder as the country changes.She comes to America and then goes back to Liberia years later....Sad...

Meigs Line by Dwight McCarter and Joe Kelly

I saw this book at the Sugarlands Visitor Center and I ordered it from the library...It's written by retired ranger McCarter and it describes journeys he and his friend made in the mountains to find the original boundary between the United States and the Cherokee Nation...The line went through the Smokies and into South Carolina and over the Blue Ridge Parkway.  The two men did not follow trails, they "shot" the historical line and walked through bushes and rhodendron hells and over bluffs and caves and through rivers...Reading the book is like taking a hike in the mountains....I loved it......