Walsh, Dan
Summary: "When aspiring writer Michael Warner inherits his grandfather's venerable Charleston estate, he settles in to write his first novel. But within the confines of the stately home, he discovers an unpublished manuscript that his grandfather, a literary giant whose novels sold in the millions, had kept hidden from everyone -- but clearly intended Michael to find. As he delves deeper into the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALParr, Todd
Summary: "Algunas familias son grandes. Algunas familias adoptan hijos. ¡Abre este libro para leer sobre todo tipo de familia!"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: LB Kids, uan divsión de Little Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BRDMatney, Mandy
Summary: "Years before the name Alex Murdaugh was splashed across every major media outlet in America, local South Carolina journalist Mandy Matney had an instinct that something wasn't right in the Lowcountry. The powerful Murdaugh dynasty had dominated rural South Carolina for generations. No one dared to cross them. When Mandy and her reporting partner Liz Farrell looked closer at a fatal boat crash...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.152 MATBaldwin, Cindy
Summary: Twelve-year-old Della Kelly of Maryville, North Carolina, tries to come to terms with her mother's mental illness while her father struggles to save the farm from a record-breaking drought.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC BALHudson, Patricia L.
Summary: A presentation of American historic sites and museums in the Carolinas and the Appalachian states. Features up to date site information which includes location, visiting hours, phone numbers and fee information. Maps and illustrations are included.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stewart, Tabori & Chang 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.5 CAROLINAS HUDPryor, Shawn
Summary: "On February 1, 1960, four young black men sat down at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and staged a nonviolent protest against segregation. At that time, many restaurants in the South did not serve black people. Soon, thousands of students were staging sit-ins across the South, and within six months, the lunch counter at which they'd first protested was integrated....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 975.6 PRYMoore, Michael Boulware
Summary: "On the night of May 13th, 1862, as the Civil War raged on in the United States, 16 enslaved people decided they would reach freedom or die trying. Filled to the brim with suspense, this true story details how Robert Smalls commandeered a Confederate ship through the Charleston harbor toward liberation at the Union blockade. Experience both determination and triumph with this picture book...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SMAJean, Cassandra.
Summary: In a graphic novel adaptation of the book, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2013
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1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: YA FIC GARMarshall, Max
Summary: "From a brilliant young investigative journalist, an unprecedented look at elite American fraternity life, tracing a multi-million-dollar drug ring that ended in a chain of betrayals and a murder. When Max Marshall arrived on the campus of the College of Charleston in 2018, he hoped to investigate a small-time fraternity Xanax trafficking ring. Instead, he found a murder, several student...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.29 MARVan Camp, Richard
Summary: "Curtis has returned to Fort Smith, six weeks sober and determined to stay that way. Can he find healing in his grandfather's ancient cultural practices? Notorious bootlegger, Benny the Bank stands in his way. With poison slowly killing him, Benny is uneasy about how he'll be remembered. Can he find a way to make amends?"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighWater Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 VANGlatt, John
Summary: "In Tangled Vines, bestselling true crime author John Glatt reconstructs the rise of the prestigious Murdaugh family and the shocking double murder that led to the downfall of its patriarch, Alex Murdaugh. Among the lush, tree-lined waterways of South Carolina low country, the Murdaugh name means power. A century-old, multimillion-dollar law practice has catapulted the family into incredible...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 GLACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 GLAAllende, Isabel
Summary: Cuando la hija de Isabel Allend, Paula, cayó en coma gravemente enferma, la autora comenzó a escribir la historia de su familia para su hija inconsciente. En el desarrollo de la historia aparecen ante nostros ancestros extraordinarios, oímos recuerdos maravillosos y amargos de la infancia, anécdotas increibles de los años jóvenes, los secretos más íntimos se oyen en murmullos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Espanol, una división de Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 ALLGilbert, Victoria.
Summary: "The president of a reclusive writer's fan club is found dead after a book signing. Charlotte Reed, the owner of Chapters B&B and her neighbors Ellen and Ellen's trusty Yorkshire terrier, must page through the clues to catch a killer before the author meets the same fate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GILSummary: Celebrate the nation's sixteenth president. Presents a complex portrait of a man who many consider to be our greatest commander-in-chief, but who considered himself a lonely man. Brings to life the tumultuous time in which he led the country, some of his finest Civil War moments, and his final hours.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LINOwens, Delia
Summary: "Chase Andrews stirbt, und die Bewohner der ruhigen Küstenstadt Barkley Cove sind sich einig: Schuld ist das Marschmädchen. Kya Clark lebt isoliert im Marschland mit seinen Salzwiesen und Sandbänken. Sie kennt jeden Stein und Seevogel, jede Muschel und Pflanze. Als zwei junge Männer auf die wilde Schöne aufmerksam werden, öffnet Kya sich einem neuen Leben - mit dramatischen Folgen. Delia Owens...
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Publisher / Publication Date: hanserblau 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 FIC OWEHealy, Thomas
Summary: "A history of Floyd McKissick's 1969 plan to build a Black city in North Carolina, examining the story of the idealists who settled there, the obstacles that derailed the project, and what Soul City's saga says about Black opportunity, capitalism, and power then and now"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.6 HEAFields-Black, Edda L.
Summary: "In the spring and summer of 1863, as the outcome of the Civil War, and with it the fate of the nation, hung in the balance, Union forces struggled to capture the offensive. One promising place was along the coastal waters of South Carolina. A year and a half earlier, the Union Navy had taken the port cities of Port Royal and Beaufort, where the Union then made plans to attack the expansive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 FIECox, Lynne
Summary: This story is of a miraculous ocean encounter that happened to the author when she was seventeen and in training for a big swim (she had already swum the English Channel, twice, and the Catalina Channel).
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Publisher / Publication Date: A. A. Knopf 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.2 COXWhite, Jonathan W.
Summary: "The riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-nineteenth century, from the California Gold Rush, filibustering schemes in Nicaragua, and Cuban liberation to the Civil War and Reconstruction"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2023
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Summary: "Luna Bodman always looks forward to a new shipment of furniture at the restoration shop. Her brother, Cullen, has a knack for finding pieces with an intriguing history, and Luna likes to sit with each item to see if she can feel any kind of vibrations. The arrival of an old armoire triggers a reaction in Luna that's impossible to ignore. She asks for a flashlight and discovers words scraped...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MICLollar, Phil
Summary: "Young Whit & the shroud of secrecy concerns a coffin previously hidden under the floor in an old, supposedly haunted mansion and the meaning behind an old journal bequeathed to Johnny by his grandfather."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC LOLDobson, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1986
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3756 DobsoFrye, Jason
Summary: From the sprawling green countryside of Shenandoah to the mists rising over the Great Smoky Mountains, endless adventure and beauty await along America's most scenic highway.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avalon Travel 2023