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Charleston (S.C.) Fiction Chinook Indians Fiction Etiquette Fiction Frontier and pioneer life Washington (State) Fiction Haunted houses Fiction Historic buildings South Carolina Charleston Fiction Large type books North Carolina Women psychics Fiction Women real estate agents FictionHeaden, Sandra W.
Summary: In 1939 North Carolina, an all-Black baseball team "trespasses" on the whites-only baseball field, and the resulting racial outrage can only be resolved on the mound.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HEACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HEAHooper, Kay
Summary: "A town shrouded in the occult. An evil that lurks in the dark. The SCU returns in a hair-raising novel from New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper. Nellie Cavendish has very good reasons to seek out her roots, and not only because she has no memory of her mother and hardly knew the father who left her upbringing to paid caregivers. In the eight years since her twenty-first birthday, very...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HOORobinson, Sharon
Summary: Eight-year-old Steve Satlow is thrilled when Jackie Robinson moves into his Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn in 1948, although many of his neighbors are not, and when Steve actually meets his hero he is even more excited--and worried that a misunderstanding over a Christmas tree could damage his new friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ROBWhite, Karen (Karen S.)
Summary: "Karen White invites you to explore the brick-walked streets of Charleston, where historic mansions house the memories of years gone by and restless spirits refuse to fade away"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHICopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION WHICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction White 2017White, Karen (Karen S.)
Summary: "With her extended maternity leave at its end, Melanie Trenholm is less than thrilled to leave her new husband and beautiful twins to return to work, especially when she's awakened by a phone call with no voice on the other end--and the uneasy feeling that the ghostly apparitions that have stayed silent for more than a year are about to invade her life once more. But her return to the realty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WHISummary: Picking up a year after Season 2 ends, the still-audacious Kenny goes to Myrtle Beach, SC, a tourist destination filled with fireworks stores, mini-golf and underage boozing and somehow resurrects his baseball career as the closer for the minor-league Myrtle Beach Mermen. Kenny struggles to come to terms with growing older, both in his personal life, and professionally.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2012
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV EASGrisham, John
Summary: In the summer of his seventeenth year, Samuel Sooleymon gets the chance of a lifetime: a trip to the United States with his South Sudanese teammates to play in a showcase basketball tournament. He has never been away from home, nor has he ever been on an airplane. The opportunity to be scouted by dozens of college coaches is a dream come true. During the tournament, Samuel receives devastating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRICopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC GRICurtis, Christopher Paul
Summary: When his poor sharecropper father is killed in an accident and leaves the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie agrees to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit of people who have stolen from him; Cap'n Buck tells Little Charlie that his father's debt will be cleared when the fugitives are captured, which seems like a good deal until Little Charlie comes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CURCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Curtis 2018Leppard, Lois Gladys.
Summary: A collection of tales featuring Mandie, an orphan, and her friends as they solve mysteries together in turn-of-the-century North Carolina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 2007
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Summary: Set in a small coastal town in North Carolina during the waning years of the American Revolution, this debut novel follows three generations of family--fathers and daughters, mother and son, master and slave, characters who yearn for redemption amidst a heady brew of war, kidnapping, slavery, and love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMIKennedy, Elle
Summary: "When former bad girl Genevieve West returns home for her mother's funeral, she's prepared to keep her distance from her ex-boyfriend, Evan Hartley. Their history is rife with turbulence. And passion. A heck of a lot of passion...which she's trying desperately to forget. But it's impossible not to run into Evan in the small coastal town where they once ran wild. And the moment she sees her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2022
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC KENBrock, Kimberly
Summary: "Based on real history and alternating between the story of war widow Alice searching for identity in the 1940s and excerpts from Eleanor Dare's Commonplace Book and the tale of her harrowing survival, The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare explores the meaning of female history and the sacrifices every mother makes for her daughter"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Muse 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROMangel, C. P.
Summary: "When Titus Horace, successful African American author, inherits a large tract of land, he leaves Chicago with his Jewish wife Ardene and their daughter Asa, and moves to the segregated North Carolina of 1950. Unhappy at being uprooted from her school and friends, Asa quickly learns how persons of color are intimidated and humiliated on a daily basis and how, despite their education and talent,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Mangel 2019Holm, Jennifer L.
Summary: Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and while living among the American traders and Chinook Indians of Washington Territory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOLTrotter, William R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TROWhite, Karen (Karen S.)
Summary: "Melanie is only going through the motions of living since refusing Jack's marriage proposal. She misses him desperately, but her broken heart is the least of her problems. Despite an insistence that she can raise their child alone, Melanie is completely unprepared for motherhood, and she struggles to complete renovations on her house on Tradd Street before the baby arrives. When Melanie is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHIHolm, Jennifer L.
Summary: Far from her native Philadelphia, Miss Jane Peck continues to prove that she is more than an etiquette-schooled graduate of Miss Hepplewhite's Young Ladies Academy as she braves the untamed wilderness of Washington Territory in the mid 1850s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOLWhite, Karen (Karen S.)
Summary: "The Christmas spirit is overtaking Tradd Street with a vengeance in this festive new novel in the New York Times bestselling series by Karen White. Melanie Trenholm should be anticipating Christmas with nothing but joy--after all, it's only the second Christmas she and her husband, Jack, will celebrate with their twin toddlers. But the ongoing excavation of the centuries-old cistern in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHICopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHIWhite, Karen (Karen S.)
Summary: Melanie Middleton has grown accustomed to renovating old houses, but she never imagined she'd have to renovate her own life to include her estranged mother. Ginnette Prioleau Middleton left Charleston thirty-five years ago. Now she's received an ominous premonition and rushed to Charleston to protect the daughter she's never really known.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WHIWhite, Karen (Karen S.)
Summary: Practical Melanie Middleton hates to admit she can see ghosts. But she's going to have to accept it. An old man she recently met has died, leaving her his historic Tradd Street home, complete with housekeeper, dog--and a family of ghosts anxious to tell her their secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Publishing 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WHIWhite, Karen (Karen S.)
Summary: Practical Melanie Middleton hates to admit she can see ghosts. But she's going to have to accept it. An old man she recently met has died, leaving her his historic Tradd Street home, complete with housekeeper, dog--and a family of ghosts anxious to tell her their secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction WhiWhite, Karen (Karen S.)
Summary: Realtor and psychic Melanie Middleton is facing single motherhood in a haunted house she refuses to admit she loves, but it seems her pregnancy has awakened some malevolent feelings in at least one of the ghosts who shares her home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WHISummary: Kenny Powers is a former Major League pitcher who used to have it all: fame, endorsements, and a lucrative contract. Now, after hard living has taken its toll on his fastball, Kenny finds himself crashing with his brother's family and teaching gym class at the same North Carolina middle school where he once attended. Wherever he goes, Kenny wreaks havoc with his boorish behavior, all while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV EASGriffin, Kitty.
Summary: Recounts the legend of North Carolina teenager, Betsy Dowdy, whose courageous ride on a cold December night in 1775 may have played a crucial role in the American Revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010