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HOME IN THE VILLAGE
By Walter Bonner
Known to locals simply as "The Village," McClellanville, S.C. is the epitome of southern charm. This book provides an intimate account of life in The Village and fills the reader with the warmth of family, a sense of life along the tidal creeks, and a love for the land. (S. C. history / folklore)
RETRIBUTION
By John Copeland
When Arab nuclear terrorists threaten the U.S. with three bombs, what -- or who -- will stop them? "A magnificently written, uncomfortably plausible action/adventure novel." -- Midwest Book Review. (Contemporary fiction / action-adventure)
MARY'S WORLD:
Love, War, and Family Ties in Nineteenth-century Charleston
By Richard N. Côté
This powerful true story of planter-aristocrat Mary Pringle, her husband, their 13 children, and their 337 slaves, explores their life before, during, and after the Civil War through 167 of Mary's own letters to and from her children. 480 pp. Click here for the Mary's World Reading Group Guide(Biography: women / Civil War)
THE REDNECK RIVIERA
By Richard N. Côté
Can a mother's love heal the deepest wounds of a daughter's heart? That's the challenge for Dolly Devereaux, a thirty-something divorced mother from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Dolly has spent twenty years fighting tooth and nail to break free from the grasping tentacles of her poor, rural origins and work her way into the middle class. But can Dolly save April, her rebellious 18-year-old daughter, from the neglect of her indulgent, absentee father, and seduction by a local gang leader and drug dealer? Dolly's dilemma: she'll have to do a lot better than her own mother did when Dolly was April's age. This powerful, emotional, and insightful story weaves its way through the secret worlds of teenagers and the lives of the parents and grandparents who try to guide and nurture them. The Redneck Riviera explores the unbreakable bonds of love that bind together three generations of Southern women struggling to escape the chains of their troubled family history. The tale is set against the backdrop of tourist-crazy Myrtle Beach, the epicenter of The Redneck Riviera. There, three women clash and ultimately forge the intensely loving, supportive family none of them were born into, and a mother shows how love can heal wounds to the heart that have bled for generations.
THEODOSIA BURR ALSTON:
Portrait of a Prodigy
By Richard N. Côté
Vice President Aaron Burr had a vision. Her name was Theodosia. He gave his stunning young daughter a man's education and groomed her to become Empress of Mexico. A mysterious portrait holds her secret: lost at sea or killed by pirates in 1813? "What a monumentally exciting story!" -- South Carolina Click here for the Dolley Madison Reading Group GuideHistorical Magazine. 442 pp. (Biography: women / Federal period)
STRENGTH AND HONOR:
The Life of Dolley Madison
By Richard N. Côté
Born a sprightly Quaker farm girl in the North Carolina wilderness in 1768, Dolley Payne became the wife of John Todd, a mother, a widow, the wife of President James Madison, a national hero of the War of 1812, a social and fashion icon, and the best-loved Click here for the Dolley Madison Reading Group GuideFirst Lady of the 19th century. 464 pp. (Biography: women / First Ladies)
CITY OF HEROES:
The Great Charleston Earthquake of 1886
By Richard N. Côté
At 9:51 PM on August 31, 1886, William Ashmead Courtenay, the much-respected mayor of Charleston, South Carolina, was relaxing aboard the Etruria, an elite luxury liner bound for New York from Liverpool. At that same moment, the most powerful earthquake ever to hit the East Coast struck South Carolina and devastated Charleston, killing over 150 people and damaging or destroying over 90% of the historic city’s masonry buildings within sixty seconds. Within ten minutes, it had spread terror throughout half the nation, causing panic and damage as far north as Toronto, east to Long Island, south to Cuba, and west to St. Louis. The nation was stunned. No one in Charleston, or anywhere on the East coast, ever thought such an unthinkable catastrophe of such magnitude could possibly strike east of the Mississippi. They were very, very wrong.
IN SEARCH OF GENTLE DEATH:
The Fight for Your Right to Die With Dignity
By Richard N. Côté
IN A PERFECT WORLD, when life is coming to its natural end, most people would like to die peacefully, at home, surrounded by loving friends and family members. Sadly, this rarely happens anymore. Instead, countless numbers of people are forced to live out their last months and years in unbearable, untreatable pain against their will, kept alive solely by machines they don’t want and laws they can’t escape. Polls show that a large majority of all people in the Western world believe that physicians should be allowed to hasten the deaths of rational, terminally ill people experiencing unendurable pain if requested. But most local laws forbid what many believe to be the ultimate civil liberty: the right to die. This gripping, inspiring book tells the stories of men and women worldwide who, since 1975, have devoted their lives–often at great risk to their careers and to their personal freedom–to eliminating needless suffering at the end of life and to rob death of its sting. Working in a loose, multicultural international coalition known as the death-with-dignity movement, they fight to bring universal access to the ultimate civil liberty: the right to die in the manner, place, and time of their own choosing.
GETTING TO NANTUCKET:
An Artist's Journey
By Kerry Hallam
"Hallam has some funny, sexy stories to tell." --Kirkus Reviews. "His writing is as spirited as his paintings." --Lord Jennett Bodden. (Art / Biography: artists)
CLIPPINGS FROM ORENE'S GARDEN:
A Southern Gardener's Year
By Orene Horton
Master Gardener Orene Horton takes you, month-by-month, through a whole year in her garden, providing encouragement, wisdom, insight, and warm humor. "Her artistic skills transform the science of gardening into the joy of gardening." -- Rowland Alston, Host, "Making It Grow". (Non-fiction: gardening)
THE GOSPEL OF YESHUA:
A Fresh Look at the Life and Teaching of Jesus
By Skip Johnson
Virtually nothing is known about Jesus until he was about 30. Then, for the next one to three years, he led an itinerant, mostly rural ministry. Fast-forward 2,000 years, though, and Jesus has become the most influential person who ever lived, and his teaching has become the basis for the world's largest religion. But somewhere along the way, a wide variety of conflicting religious, political, and theological forces has fragmented the teaching into countless schools of thought. Who was Jesus? And what did he actually teach? In The Gospel of Yeshua, veteran journalist Skip Johnson blends modern Bible research with ancient Bible testimony to produce a simple yet richly detailed narrative of the life and teaching of Jesus the man (Yeshua). This portrait presents Jesus' teaching as his disciples would have heard and understood it, and it focuses on Jesus' central teaching that anyone can attain happiness beyond human imagination, regardless of any circumstances.
THE SCARBOROUGH PLAN:
Maximizing the Power of Your 401(k)
By J. Michael Scarborough
In The Scarborough Plan, J. Michael Scarborough shares his powerful, practical (and often humorous) insights and financial management secrets. Once available only to financial and investment professionals, these state-of-the-art strategies enable ordinary employees to retire millionaires through the optimum management of their 401(k) plans.
TWO SEASONS. Poetry by Rose Morgan Moore and Rose Moore Tomlin
By Rose M. Tomlin
The mother-daughter bond is as inescapable as the slipping of a sweet spring into the intensity of summer. Read it to warm your heart, then re-read it often to experience its intricate subtleties. (Poetry / mother-daughter)
SHOOTER IN THE SKY:
The Inner World of Children Who Kill
By Dr. Lauren J. Woodhouse
"Riveting and revealing. It's about time someone found a way to show us this side of teen violence." -- Dr. Steven Pierce, prison psychologist. (Psychology / teenage violence)
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MARY'S WORLD: Love, War, and Family Ties in Nineteenth-century Charleston
Coming April 2012
IN SEARCH OF GENTLE DEATH: The Fight for Your Right to Die With Dignity