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  • LIVING A BIG WAR IN A SMALL PLACE
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    LIVING A BIG WAR IN A SMALL PLACE
    PHILIP N. RACINE
    A history of life in one South Carolina city during the American Civil War, featuring personal stories from those who were there. Most of what we know about how the Civil War affected life in the Confederacy is related to cities, troop movements, battles, and prominent political, economic, or military leaders. Far less is known about the people who lived in small Southern towns...

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  • AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SOUTH CAROLINA JAZZ & BLUES MUSICIANS
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    AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SOUTH CAROLINA JAZZ & BLUES MUSICIANS
    BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
    This comprehensive A-to-Z reference is "an impressive contribution to jazz history and surprisingly good reading" (Michael Ullman, author of Jazz Lives). This informative book documents the careers of South Carolina jazz and blues musicians from the nineteenth century to the present. The musicians range from the renowned (James Brown, Dizzy Gillespie), to the notable (Freddie G...

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  • FOR CHURCH AND CONFEDERACY
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    FOR CHURCH AND CONFEDERACY
    Through letters and other writings, this historical study chronicles an Irish Catholic family's influence on mid-nineteenth–century South Carolina. For Church and Confederacy unveils the lives of the Lynch family during the late antebellum and Civil War years. Settling in the South Carolina upcountry, Irish immigrants Conlaw and Eleanor Lynch imparted their ambitions to their c...

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  • FAMOUS ALL OVER TOWN
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    FAMOUS ALL OVER TOWN
    BERNIE SCHEIN
    This sweeping comic novel examines the public and private upheavals of life in a small Southern town from the Civil Rights era to the new millennium. Famous All Over Town, the first novel from Southern storyteller Bernie Schein, is a comically candid multi-generational account of two Jews, a lowcountry native and a Northern transplant. Their lives interweave through the momento...

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  • MESSENGER FROM MYSTERY
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    MESSENGER FROM MYSTERY
    DENO TRAKAS
    A young academic becomes embroiled in the Iranian hostage crisis in this historical novel of romance, geopolitics, and clashing cultures. It's 1979 and Jason "Jay" Nichols is just making the transition from student to teacher when he faces a nearly impossible challenge. While teaching a group of students from Iran, more than fifty Americans are taken hostage at the U.S. Embassy...

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  • FATE MORELAND'S WIDOW
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    FATE MORELAND'S WIDOW
    JOHN LANE
    Corruption, infatuation, and conflicting loyalties collide in a rural Southern mill town in this debut novel by an award-winning poet and environmentalist. On a placid Blue Ridge mountain lake on Labor Day Weekend in 1935, three locals in an overloaded boat drown, and the cotton mill scion who owns the lake is indicted for their murders. Decades later Ben Crocker—a reluctant pa...

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  • WRITING WAR AND REUNION
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    WRITING WAR AND REUNION
    JEFFERY J. ROGERS
    A collection of Civil War and Reconstruction era journalism by one of the most popular and acclaimed authors of the antebellum South. Nineteenth-century writer William Gilmore Simms was once considered the South's premier literary figure, with achievements including more than twenty major novels, several volumes of poetry, and biographies of important figures in American histor...

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  • SOUTHEASTERN WILDLIFE COOKBOOK
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    SOUTHEASTERN WILDLIFE COOKBOOK
    SOUTH CAROLINA WILDLIFE MAGAZINE
    More than three hundred recipes that use wild game, fresh and saltwater foods, and natural seasonings, to bring the taste of the outdoors to your table. This cookbook is for those who take the time to scout the woods and wetlands—bringing home quail or duck, deer, turkey, crabs, shrimp, and fish. And it's also for those who don't have the means to hunt or fish or gather, but do...

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  • TALES OF WHITETAILS
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    TALES OF WHITETAILS
    ARCHIBALD RUTLEDGE
    Immersive stories of thrilling pursuit of the wisest game animalNo American outdoor writer has more convincingly captured the myriad, and often elusive, meanings of the hunt than Archibald Rutledge. The renowned outdoor writer and poet laureate, who grew up at Hampton Plantation in South Carolina, had a mystical attachment to deer. His stories immortalize the world of the hunte...

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  • THE GRIM YEARS
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    THE GRIM YEARS
    JOHN J. NAVIN
    A striking account of South Carolina's tumultuous beginningsThe Grim Years: Settling South Carolina, 1670-1720 is a graphic account of South Carolina's tumultuous beginnings, when calamity, violence, and ruthless exploitation were commonplace. With extraordinary detail and analysis, John J. Navin reveals the hardships that were experienced by people of all ethnicities and all s...

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  • THE GULF OF MEXICO
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    THE GULF OF MEXICO
    JOHN S. SLEDGE
    "[Sledge] rightfully celebrates and affirms the southern sea's enriching past and gives readers reason to want for its wholesome and meaningful future." —Jack E. Davis, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea The Gulf of Mexico presents a compelling, salt-streaked narrative of the earth's tenth largest body of water. In this beautifully written ...

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  • GHOSTS OF THE CAROLINAS
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    GHOSTS OF THE CAROLINAS
    NANCY ROBERTS
    North and South Carolina are steeped in history—some of it supernatural. The "custodian of the twilight zone" shares their spookiest tales ( Southern Living). Nancy Roberts, known as the "First Lady of American Folklore," is a topnotch storyteller and one of the few who both write and tell their own stories. For more than two decades, Ms. Roberts has documented ghost stories an...

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  • CIVIL WAR GHOST STORIES & LEGENDS
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    CIVIL WAR GHOST STORIES & LEGENDS
    NANCY ROBERTS
    The "First Lady of American Folklore" explores the supernatural side of the Civil War with chilling tales of spectral soldiers and haunted battlefields. Few events have sparked more legends and stories of the supernatural than America's Civil War. The accounts of gallantry and heroism have spread far and wide. Nancy Roberts grew up listening to her father's stories of the War B...

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  • THE HAUNTED SOUTH
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    THE HAUNTED SOUTH
    NANCY ROBERTS
    The Old South comes to supernatural life in this classic collection of chilling tales from the "custodian of the twilight zone" ( Southern Living). Nancy Roberts, known as the "First Lady of American Folklore," is a topnotch storyteller and one of the few who both write and tell their own stories. For more than two decades, Ms. Roberts has documented ghost stories and interview...

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  • TO COUNT OUR DAYS
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    TO COUNT OUR DAYS
    ERSKINE CLARKE
    An in-depth look at the institution as the center of many important cultural shifts with which the South and the wider Church have wrestled historically. Columbia Theological Seminary's rich history provides a window into the social and intellectual life of the American South. Founded in 1828 as a Presbyterian seminary for the preparation of well-educated, mannerly ministers, i...

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  • THE CHIEF JUSTICESHIP OF WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT, 1921–1930
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    THE CHIEF JUSTICESHIP OF WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT, 1921–1930
    JONATHAN LURIE
    A study of the Supreme Court tenure of the only US president to serve as chief justice provides a unique perspective on 1920s America. In this book, Jonathan Lurie offers a comprehensive examination of the Supreme Court tenure of the only person to have held the offices of president of the United States and chief justice of the United States Supreme Court. William Howard Taft j...

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  • THEY STOLE HIM OUT OF JAIL
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    THEY STOLE HIM OUT OF JAIL
    WILLIAM B. GRAVELY
    "Reminds readers that the history of lynching and racial violence in the United States is not a closed book, but an ever-relevant story." — Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books Before daybreak on February 17, 1947, twenty-four-year-old Willie Earle, an African American man arrested for the murder of a Greenville, South Carolina, taxi driver named T. W. Brown, was abducted fr...

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  • SOUTHERN WOMEN IN THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
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    SOUTHERN WOMEN IN THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
    "Stories of personal tragedy, economic hardship, and personal conviction . . . a valuable addition to both southern and women's history." — Journal of Southern History From the 1890s to the end of World War I, the reformers who called themselves progressives helped transform the United States, and many women filled their ranks. Through solo efforts and voluntary associations bo...

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  • THE OCEAN'S MENACE
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    THE OCEAN'S MENACE
    ARCHIBALD RUTLEDGE
    A twist-filled adventure story set in a treacherous land where most hunters dare not venture—enhanced with artwork and a literary scholar's commentary. One of the more underappreciated aspects of Archibald Rutledge's varied literary efforts is the way he could weave stories of danger in the wilds. What he frequently described as chimeras—great sharks, alligators, rattlesnakes, ...

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  • MASTERS OF VIOLENCE
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    MASTERS OF VIOLENCE
    TRISTAN STUBBS
    From trusted to tainted, an examination of the shifting perceived reputation of overseers of enslaved people during the eighteenth century. In the antebellum southern United States, major landowners typically hired overseers to manage their plantations. In addition to cultivating crops, managing slaves, and dispensing punishment, overseers were expected to maximize profits thro...

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  • GIVING VOICE TO TRADITIONAL SONGS
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    GIVING VOICE TO TRADITIONAL SONGS
    JEAN REDPATH
    The singer tells her story from Scottish childhood to success on the Greenwich Village folk scene and beyond, and shares her passion for traditional music. Jean Redpath is best remembered for her impressive repertoire of ancient ballads, Robert Burns songs, and contemporary folk music, recorded and performed over a career spanning some fifty years. In this book, Mark Brownrigg ...

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  • THE TORRID ZONE
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    THE TORRID ZONE
    The first comparative history of European settlers' trading, pirating, and colonizing activities in the Caribbean. Brimming with new perspectives and cutting-edge research, the essays collected in The Torrid Zone explore colonization and cultural interaction in the Caribbean from the late 1600s to the early 1800s—a period known as the "long" seventeenth century—a time when thes...

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  • WRITERS AND THEIR NOTEBOOKS
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    WRITERS AND THEIR NOTEBOOKS
    DIANA M. RAAB
    Personal reflections on the vital role of the notebook in creative writing, from Dorianne Laux, Sue Grafton, John Dufresne, Kyoko Mori, and more. This collection of essays by established professional writers explores how their notebooks serve as their studios and workshops—places to collect, to play, and to make new discoveries with language, passions, and curiosities. For thes...

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  • THE VAIN CONVERSATION
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    THE VAIN CONVERSATION
    ANTHONY GROOMS
    "A real-life racially motivated mass killing from 1946 is boldly and deeply reimagined [in this] incisive, gripping and empathetic novel" ( Kirkus, starred review). Inspired by true events, The Vain Conversation reflects on the 1946 lynching of two black couples in Georgia from the perspectives of three characters—Bertrand Johnson, one of the victims; Noland Jacks, a presumed p...

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  • UNDERSTANDING FRANZ KAFKA
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    UNDERSTANDING FRANZ KAFKA
    ALLEN THIHER
    An analysis of the life of the eccentric author of The Trial, and his quest for meaning in his work. Franz Kafka is without question one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century despite the fact that much of his work remained unpublished when he died at a relatively young age in 1924. Kafka's eccentric methods of composition and his diffident attitude toward pub...

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  • MY GHOST HAS A NAME
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    MY GHOST HAS A NAME
    ROSALYN ROSSIGNOL
    This memoir about a friend's murder—and the mystery surrounding her daughter's role in it—is "a true-crime work that digs deeper" ( Foreword Reviews). On October 20, 1999, thirty-eight-year-old Nell Crowley Davis was bludgeoned, strangled, and stabbed to death in her backyard in Bluffton, South Carolina, near Hilton Head Island. In this blend of true crime and memoir, Rosalyn R...

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  • WHEN NIGHTTIME SHADOWS FALL
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    WHEN NIGHTTIME SHADOWS FALL
    DIANE MICHAEL CANTOR
    A young social worker from Atlanta struggles to gain the trust of pregnant teens in rural Appalachia in this novel by the author of The Poisoned Table. In the early 1970s, Laura Bauer decides to leave college and head fifty miles north of her comfortable Atlanta home to manage a federally funded project aiding pregnant teenagers from the back roads of Appalachia. Almost as youn...

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  • THE BEST GUN IN THE WORLD
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    THE BEST GUN IN THE WORLD
    ROBERT S. SEIGLER
    A thoroughly researched account of weapons innovation and industrialization in South Carolina during the Civil War and the man who made it happen. A year after seceding from the Union, South Carolina and the Confederate States government faced the daunting challenge of equipping soldiers with weapons, ammunition, and other military implements during the American Civil War. In T...

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  • MY TOUR THROUGH THE ASYLUM
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    MY TOUR THROUGH THE ASYLUM
    WILLIAM E. DUFFORD / AÏDA ROGERS / SALLEY MCINERNEY
    "[A] testament to his journey toward South Carolina's—not only desegregation of schools—but full integration and voice for African American students." —Libby Bernardin, author of Stones Ripe for Sowing Immortalized in the writings of his most famous student, bestselling author Pat Conroy, veteran education administrator William E. Dufford has led an inspirational life as a stal...

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  • RESOLUTE REBEL
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    RESOLUTE REBEL
    CHET BENNETT
    The first biography of the general's complex, often contradictory military service in the US and Confederate armies and his postwar British exploits. Roswell S. Ripley (1823–1887) was a man of considerable contradictions exemplified by his distinguished antebellum service in the US Army, followed by a controversial career as a Confederate general. After the war he was active as...

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