Marshall, 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 New Non-fiction, Call number: 362.29 MARHawes, Jennifer (Jennifer Berry)
Summary: "A deeply moving work of narrative nonfiction on the tragic shootings at the Mother Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina. On June 17, 2015, twelve members of the historically black Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina welcomed a young white man to their evening Bible study. He arrived with a pistol, 88 bullets, and hopes of starting a race war. Dylann Roof's massacre of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 HAWBall, Edward
Summary: Journalist Ball confronts the legacy of his family's slave-owning past, uncovering the story of the people, both black and white, who lived and worked on the Balls' South Carolina plantations. It is an unprecedented family record that reveals how the painful legacy of slavery continues to endure in America's collective memory and experience. Ball, a descendant of one of the largest slave-owning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.7915 BALBall, Edward
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BALSummary: National headlines blazed the story: Churchgoers Gunned Down During Prayer Service in Charleston. South Carolina. After a 21-year-old white supremacist opened fire in Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, nine African Americans lay dead, leaving their families and the nation to grapple with this senseless act of terror. Featuring intimate interviews with survivors and family members. From...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EMAChilds, Laura
Summary: "A haunted house with a real-life corpse land tea maven Theodosia Browning in hot water in this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series. Tea maven Theodosia Browning and her tea sommelier, Drayton Conneley, are catering a Victorian Christmas party at a swanky mansion in downtown Charleston for Drucilla Heyward, one of the wealthiest women in town. As the champagne flows and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHIKelly, Joseph
Summary: An account of the two hundred-year practice of slavery in Charleston examines its hotly contested debates and early slave rebellions through the Nullification crisis and the secession that sparked the Civil War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 KELHicks, Brian
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.757 HICGabaldon, Diana.
Summary: From 1767 to 1770, Claire, a 20th-century woman, and her 18th-century Scottish husband, struggle to set up their home in South Carolina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Gabaldon 1997Conroy, Pat.
Summary: The author reflects on the place of sports in his life, describing his love of basketball, the role of the athlete for young men searching for their own identity, his education at the Citadel, and his journey to best-selling writer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.323 CONLawrence, Stratton
Summary: "Fodor's correspondents highlight the best of Charleston, including historic downtown attractions, famed cuisine, lovely inns, and scenic nearby plantations. Our local experts vet every recommendation to ensure you make the most of your time, whether it's your first trip or your fifth."--page [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fodor's Travel, a division of Internet Brands, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 910 TRAVEL USAWalsh, 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 WALWhite, 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, Call number: Fiction White 2017Gabaldon, Diana.
Summary: Twice Claire has used an ancient stone circle to travel back to the 18th century. The first time she found love with a Scottish warrior but had to return to the 1940s to save their unborn child. The second time, twenty years later, she reunited with her lost love but had to leave behind the daughter that he would never see. Now Brianna, from her 1960s vantage point, has found a disturbing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1999
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Jordan-Lake, Joy
Summary: "Told in alternating tales at once haunting and redemptive, A Tangled Mercy is a quintessentially American epic rooted in heartbreaking true events examining the harrowing depths of human brutality and betrayal, and our enduring hope for freedom and forgiveness." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION JORWhite, Karen (Karen S.)
Summary: "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 garden of her historic Tradd Street home has been a huge millstone, both financially and aesthetically. Local students are thrilled by the possibility...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC WHISummary: I am somebody : Records the 1969 strike by black, predominantly female, hospital workers in Charleston, S.C. for better working conditions and higher wages. Shows how the struggle was won by a coalition of local and national union and civil rights groups plus the local black community through nonviolent marches and demonstrations. Highlights Andrew Young, Coretta Scott King, Ralph Abernathy,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ILance, Rachel
Summary: "A story about a woman scientist's journey to discover a submarine"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2020
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Summary: It is Sunday afternoon, and Theodosia and Drayton are catering a formal tea at a hot-air balloon rally. The view aloft is not only stunning, they are also surrounded by a dozen other colorful hot-air balloons. But as the sky turns gray and the clouds start to boil up, a strange object zooms out of nowhere. It is a drone, and it appears to be buzzing around the balloons, checking them out. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M CHIWhite, 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 WHIChilds, Laura
Summary: "Tea shop owner Theodosia Browning's life heats up when a gala at a local jewelry store serves up heists and homicide alongside her herbal teas ... Catering a high-class trunk show at Heart's Desire Jewelry is a shining achievement for Theodosia and the Indigo Tea Shop. After all, a slew of jewelers, museums, and private collectors will be there to showcase their wares and sip some of Theo's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHISteel, Danielle.
Summary: Set in the Deep South, Danielle Steel's Southern Lights unfolds the story of a mother and daughter both commencing new and separate lives, one in corporate Manhattan, fighting to put a serial killer behind bars, and the other in sultry Charleston, reconnecting with the father she's barely known.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2009
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Summary: "Tea maven Theodosia Browning and her tea sommelier, Drayton Conneley, are catering a Victorian Christmas party at a swanky mansion in downtown Charleston. Drucilla Heyward, the hostess, is one of the wealthiest women in town. As the champagne flows and the tea steeps, Drucilla is so pleased with the reception by her partygoers that she reveals her secret plan to Theodosia. The Grande Dame has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC CHIChilds, Laura
Summary: "A movie director's death on set at a haunted manor launches Theodosia Browning into an electrifying investigation in this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series. Theodosia and Drayton were expecting a mellow break from the bustle at the Indigo Tea Shop while catering a film, until the director ropes Theodosia into a role as a fortune teller. At the haunted Brittleback...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024