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A Southern Girl

Beginnings (preview)

by John Warley
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014

ABOUT THIS PREVIEW These are the opening pages of A Southern Girl, John Warley’s novel of international adoption and of families lost, then found anew through revelations, courage, and the perseverance of a love without bounds. A Southern Girl: Beginnings introduces readers to the harrowing plight...
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Resolute Rebel

General Roswell S. Ripley, Charleston's Gallant Defender

by Chet Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017

Roswell S. Ripley (1823–1887) was a man of considerable contradictions exemplified by his distinguished antebellum service in the U.S. Army, followed by a controversial career as a Confederate general. After the war he was active as an engineer/entrepreneur in Great Britain. Author Chet Bennett...
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Yes, Lord, I Know the Road

A Documentary History of African Americans in South Carolina, 1526-2008

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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017

Yes, Lord, I Know the Road is the first comprehensive history of African Americans in the Palmetto State. From the first North American slave rebellion near the mouth of the Pee Dee River in the early sixteenth century to the 2008 state Democratic primary victory of Barack Obama, award-winning historian...
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A Delicate Balance

Constructing a Conservation Culture in the South Carolina Lowcountry

by Angela C. Halfacre
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013

Sustainability of the natural environment and of our society has become one of the most urgent challenges facing modern Americans. Communities across the country are seeking a viable pattern of growth that promotes prosperity, protects the environment, and preserves the distinctive quality of life...
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Smoke Signals from Samarcand

The 1931 Reform School Fire and Its Aftermath

by Barbara Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018

In 1931 sixteen poor, white girls—all teenaged inmates at Samarcand Manor, officially named the State Home and Industrial School for Girls, in Samarcand, North Carolina—were accused of burning down two campus buildings in protest against living conditions. Barbara Bennett offers not only a dramatic...
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Little Orange Honey Hood

A Carolina Folktale

by Lisa Anne Cullen, Kim Shealy Jeffcoat
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018

Little Orange Honey Hood brings a Carolinian spin to the classic Brothers Grimm Little Red Cap and Charles Perrault’s Little Red Riding Hood folktales. Illustrated and written by Lisa Anne Cullen, this story follows young Blossom on her journey through the river swampland to deliver mosquito-fever...
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A Southern Sportsman

The Hunting Memoirs of Henry Edwards Davis

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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014

Henry Edwards Davis (1879–1966) began his hunting adventures as a boy riding in the saddle with his father on foxhunts and deer drives in the company of Confederate cavalry veterans. Born on Hickory Grove Plantation in Williamsburg County, South Carolina, Davis developed his taste for the hunt at...
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Order and Ardor

The Revival Spirituality of Oliver Hart and the Regular Baptists in Eighteenth-Century South Carolina

by Eric C. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018

The origins of the Southern Baptist Convention, the world’s largest Protestant denomination, is most often traced back to the colorful, revivalist Separate Baptist movement that rose out of the Great Awakening in the mid-1700s. During that same period the American South was likewise home to the...
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by Marjory Wentworth
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014

New and Selected Poems includes more than fifty poems from Marjory Wentworth’s previous three collections, Noticing Eden, Despite Gravity, and The Endless Repetition of an Ordinary Miracle, plus twenty-eight new poems. This collection serves as a capstone to Wentworth’s tenure as South Carolina...
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The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth

And Other Stories from Cliffside, North Carolina

by Ron Rash, Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014

The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth was originally released in 1994 and was the first published book from acclaimed writer Ron Rash. This twentieth anniversary edition takes us back to where it all began with ten linked short stories, framed like a novel, introducing us to a trio of memorable narrators—Tracy,...
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Signals

Poems

by Ed Madden
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012

Selected by Afaa Weaver as the third annual winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, Signals is the first book-length collection from Ed Madden. Deeply rooted in the recognizable landscapes and legacies of the American South, these lyric poems couple daring engagements in topics of race and...
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by Archibald Rutledge
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016

Archibald Rutledge’s suspenseful story “The Egret’s Plumes” is a cautionary tale exalting the virtues of good sportsmanship, conservation of the natural world, and the universality of parental instincts. Fleeing the relentless plume hunters of their native Florida, a pair of exquisite snowy...
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by Archibald Rutledge
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015

Archibald Rutledge’s story “The Doom of Ravenswood” is a harrowing account of the power of the natural world and of the dangers for humans and animals alike to be found in the ominous swamps of the South Carolina lowcountry. As the narrator of this cautionary tale is riding home astride his...
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Eutaw Springs

The Final Battle of the American Revolution's Southern Campaign

by Robert M. Dunkerly, Irene B. Boland
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017

The Battle of Eutaw Springs took place on September 8, 1781, and was among the last in the War of Independence. It was brutal in its combat and reprisals, with Continental and Whig militia fighting British regulars and Loyalist regiments. Although its outcome was seemingly inconclusive, the battle,...
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