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The Best of Me - Nicholas Sparks
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"What happens when an adventurous hermit crab from Folly Beach, South Carolina, gets scooped up by a net from a local shrimp trawler? Why, he goes shrimping, of course!" by Andrea Weathers & illustrated by Bob Thames
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"A delightful story that follows Hermy on his search for a new shell. This unique book celebrates the beauty of ocean life with 20 watercolor illustrations that entertain and educate the reader about coastal environment of the Lowcountry." by Charleston native Andrea Weathers & illustrated by Bob Thames also from Charleston
Hermy the Hermit Crab The Adventure Begins by native Charlestonian, Andrea Weathers & illustrated by Bob Thames also from Charleston
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'Good Night Charleston celebrates this great American city with illustrations of sweet grass baskets, City Market, Rainbow Row, Waterfront Park, the Magnolia Plantation, Middleton Place, the South Carolina Aquarium, Fort Sumter, Patriot’s Point and the USS Yorktown, Morris Island Lighthouse, the beach, Dock Street Theater, Charleston Harbor, praline candy, and much, much more. If you love Charleston, you will love Good Night Charleston.' - by Mark Jasper & Illustrated by Cooper Kelly
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"From debut author Beth Webb Hart comes a coming-of-age tale about God’s terrifying, befuddling grace. When a business venture goes sour, Charleston blue-bloods Billy and Dee DeLoach uproot their family and move into the caretaker’s cottage on what was once the family plantation estate on Edisto Island. And while the rest of her family falls to pieces, teenaged DeVeaux sustains them through her reluctant help and her stubborn hope."
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"Charleston’s Anne Brumley has long dreamed of romance while ringing the bells at St. Michael’s, but those dreams are beginning to fade. Her sister Alicia and cousin Della encourage her to strike out and make her own way—after all, she’s thirty-six. But the tall redhead is sure God said, 'Stay here and wait.'"
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"She wanted her husband to attend the town’s society-driven church. God answered her prayer in a radical way. An emptiness dogs Mary Lynn Scoville that shouldn't. After all, she’s achieved what few believed possible. Born in the rural south, she has reached the pinnacle of worldly success in Charleston, SC. Married to a handsome real estate developer and mother to three accomplished daughters, Mary Lynn is one Debutante Society invitation away from truly having it all..."
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'Charleston, SC and Avery's upbringing as a Southern girl shine through as an important element in this book. The readers learn a lot about Charleston and its history and the Southern way of looking at things. Amazingly, author Cathy Pickens managed to do this in a fascinating way. Cathy Pickens has created an intelligent and likeable character in Avery Andrews.' - A Review from: Reviewing the Evidence
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'In this latest in Cathy Pickens’s Southern Fried Mystery series, Avery explores the nature of family—the ones we’re born into and the ones we find—and learns about the haunting power of the past in the process. Hush My Mouth offers an original blend of humor and mystery, peppered with quirky characters and boasting a decidedly Southern flavor.'
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Southern Fried by Cathy Pickens
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'Now, as two women from opposite sides of the same sea meet, a tale unfolds that will draw readers into the heart's remembrances-and the tender awakenings of first love. Though bogged down in the stress of planning her elaborate wedding to a professional golfer, twenty-seven-year-old Kara Larson still makes time to visit ninety-six-year-old Maeve Mahoney at her nursing home. And as Maeve recounts the rambling story of her first love back in Ireland, Kara is driven to remember her own first love: childhood neighbor Jack Sullivan.'
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'Meridy Dresden was once a free-spirited, fun-loving girl. All that changed when the boy she loved was killed in a tragic fire. Since then, she alone has carried the burden of a terrible secret. Years later, married to a wonderful man and mother of a teenage son, she is shocked to learn that a childhood friend is being blamed for that long-ago fire. Fearful but determined, Meridy returns to the South Carolina Lowcountry and summons the courage to make a deicion that may destroy her well-ordered life, her family’s reputation, her contented marriage , and everything she’s worked so hard to protect…including her heart.'
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'From the bitterly divided Carolina of the American Revolution to the flaming downfall of the Confederacy, CHARLESTON is peopled with a huge cast of heroic men and courageous women - aristocrats and commoners -- slaves and freedmen. The colossal story follows the lives, loves, and fortunes of one unforgettable family...'
"I've been in sorrows kitchen and licked out all the pots" - Susan Straight
Did you know that scenes from Dear John were filmed at 1111 Middle Street on Sullivan's Island now a vacation rental managed by IslandRealty.com?
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"In BEACH MUSIC, Pat Conroy writes of the dark memories that haunt generations, in a story that spans South Carolina and Rome and reaches back into the unutterable terrors of the Holocaust."
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"THE WATER IS WIDE is Pat Conroy’s extraordinary memoir based on his experience as the only teacher in a two-room schoolhouse, working with children the world had pretty much forgotten. It was a year that changed his life, and one that introduced a group of poor black children to a world they did not know existed. THE WATER IS WIDE was made into the film CONRACK."
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The Ghosts of Charleston by Julian T. Buxton III
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Sullivan's Island by Dorothea Benton Frank
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"I stood there watching the sun rise on the Isle of Palms. Right then and there, I decided that my dream had been a message that it was way past time to tell my story. So, here I am."
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Based in Isle of Palms, SC about the relationship between a mother & daughter & parallels with loggerhead sea turtles
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Coastal Living Magazine
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Southern Living Magazine
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Charleston Weddings Magazine & CharlestonWedding...
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