Coming Home to My Country Heart
AlexSandra Lett's memoir, published in 2007, offers reflections on work, family, health and spirit in a North Carolina setting. It includes the author's life and the history of the Lett family.
Person in the county’s record
AlexSandra Lett
1950– as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
3 indexed works are connected with this person.
Indexed works
Works in the index that concern this person directly, or were written by them. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it; background reading with wider context sits further down.
Timeless Moons
AlexSandra Lett's autobiography, subtitled seasons of the fields and matters of the heart, published in 2004. It recalls her childhood and youth in the Lett family and twentieth-century North Carolina life.
A Timeless Place
AlexSandra Lett's family history and memoir of country life around a Lee County store, subtitled Lett's set a spell at the country store. Published in 2000, it includes anecdotes of the Lett family and of Sanford and Lee County, North Carolina.
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Books about AlexSandra Lett
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- Chapel Hill Public Library (opens in a new tab) Public library in Chapel Hill
- Durham County Library (opens in a new tab) Public library next door in Durham
- UNC Libraries (opens in a new tab) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Duke Libraries (opens in a new tab) Duke University, Durham
- NC Cardinal (opens in a new tab) The State Library of North Carolina and public libraries across the state
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- Read contemporary evidence: DigitalNC newspapers: 5 Orange County pages naming AlexSandra Lett DigitalNC Searchable pages from historic Orange County newspapers
- Search beyond the index: NC LIVE: prepared search for AlexSandra Lett NC LIVE An advanced search of the state’s shared databases already scoped to Orange County’s places and this subject; edit it freely, and sign in through your North Carolina library to read
- Ask locally: Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection (OCPL) The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
- Ask locally: Local History Help Hours and request form OCPL Local History Liaison The library’s Local History Liaison helps in person most Mondays, 12 to 3, at the Main Library, or by the online request form
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