Gerda Lerner

Pahes are clean and unmarked. Binding is tight. Cover has significant wear.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

Pioneers for Women's Rights and Abolition

"A landmark work of women's history originally published in 1967, Gerda Lerner's best-selling biography of Sarah and Angelina Grimke explores the lives and ideas of the only southern women to become antislavery agents in the North and pioneers for women's rights. This revised and expanded edition includes two new primary documents and an additional essay by Lerner. In a revised introduction Lerner reinterprets her own work nearly forty years later and gives new recognition to the major significance of Sarah Grimke's feminist writings.

The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina

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Dorothea Benton Frank

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Georgia

A Novel

Hurricane season begins early and rumbles all summer long, well into September. Often people's lives reflect the weather and The Hurricane Sisters is just such a story. Once again New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank takes us deep into the heart of her magical South Carolina Lowcountry on a tumultuous journey filled with longings, disappointments, and, finally, a road toward happiness that is hard earned. There we meet three generations of women buried in secrets. The determined matriarch, Maisie Pringle, at eighty, is a force to be reckoned with because she will have the final word on everything, especially when she's dead wrong. Her daughter, Liz, is caught up in the classic maelstrom of being middle-age and in an emotionally demanding career that will eventually open all their eyes to a terrible truth. And Liz's beautiful twenty-something daughter, Ashley, whose dreamy ambitions of her unlikely future keeps them all at odds. Luckily for Ashley, her wonderful older brother, Ivy, is her fierce champion but he can only do so much from San Francisco where he resides with his partner. And Mary Beth, her dearest friend, tries to have her back but even she can't talk headstrong Ashley out of a relationship with an ambitious politician who seems slightly too old for her. Actually, Ashley and Mary Beth have yet to launch themselves into solvency. Their prospects seem bleak. So while they wait for the world to discover them and deliver them from a ramen-based existence, they placate themselves with a hare-brained scheme to make money but one that threatens to land them in huge trouble with the authorities. So where is Clayton, Liz's husband? He seems more distracted than usual. Ashley desperately needs her father's love and attention but what kind of a parent can he be to Ashley with one foot in Manhattan and the other one planted in indiscretion? And Liz, who's an expert in the field of troubled domestic life, refuses to acknowledge Ashley's precarious situation. Who's in charge of this family? The wake-up call is about to arrive. The Lowcountry has endured its share of war and bloodshed like the rest of the South, but this storm season we watch Maisie, Liz, Ashley, and Mary Beth deal with challenges that demand they face the truth about themselves. After a terrible confrontation they are forced to rise to forgiveness, but can they establish a new order for the future of them all? Frank, with her hallmark scintillating wit and crisp insight, captures how a complex family of disparate characters and their close friends can overcome anything through the power of love and reconciliation. This is the often hilarious, sometimes sobering, but always entertaining story of how these unforgettable women became The Hurricane Sisters.

The Hurricane Sisters

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Karen White

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Inheriting an historic home from an elderly man she had recently met, Melanie Middleton, a Charleston real-estate agent who possesses the ability to see ghosts, finds herself dealing with an entire family of haunts and joins forces with Jack Trenholm, a handsome writer, to unravel the house's dark history and find some long-missing diamonds. Original.

The House on Tradd Street

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Book jacket discolored 

Dell Book, 1983 book club edition, 408 pages

The saga of an American family divided by revolution continues in this stunning sequel to The Fires of July. 
As Drew Manning and his passionate young wife, Gwynne Templeton, enjoy a happy new life together, political matters in the Colonies threaten to explode in revolution and tear their families apart. The cry for liberty rings throughout South Carolina, and Drew openly supports the Patriots, while his aristocratic parents, and even his brother, remain staunchly loyal to the Crown. But soon the very foundations of his life will be shaken by more than revolution-Joanna Templeton Townshend, Gwynne's sister and Drew's spurned fiancée, stands ready to betray her own blood for the sake of ven-geance. Together with her British soldier hus-band, she masterminds a slave uprising on the Manning estate, killing many faithful slaves and several family members, and ultimately gaining a victory for the British king. But Drew and Gwynne will live through this bloody insurgency to continue America's fight for freedom, and Drew, torn between ties of blood and the rousing challenge of war, will come face to face with his own father and brother across a battlefield….





California

The Drums of December

Kathy Reichs

Virginia

A Temperance Brennan Novel

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her twentieth gripping novel featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, whose examinations of unidentified bodies ignite a terrifying series of events. "This is A-game Reichs, with crisp prose, sharp dialogue, and plenty of suspense" (Booklist).

On the way to hurricane-ravaged Isle of Palms, a barrier island off the South Carolina coast, Tempe receives a call from the Charleston coroner. The storm has tossed ashore a medical waste container. Inside are two decomposed bodies wrapped in plastic sheeting and bound with electrical wire. Tempe recognizes many of the details as identical to those of an unsolved case she handled in Quebec fifteen years earlier. With a growing sense of foreboding, she travels to Montreal to gather evidence.

Meanwhile, health authorities in South Carolina become increasingly alarmed as a human flesh-eating contagion spreads. So focused is Tempe on identifying the container victims that, initially, she doesn't register how their murders and the pestilence may be related. But she does recognize one unsettling fact. Someone is protecting a dark secret--and willing to do anything to keep it hidden.

An absorbing look at the sinister uses to which genetics can be put and featuring a cascade of ever-more-shocking revelations, The Bone Code is "a murder mystery story that races across America at the speed of fright" (James Patterson).

The Bone Code

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Some color fading to the spine of the dust jacket 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

South Carolina

A Lowcountry Tale

The latest Lowcountry novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Shem Creek. When Becca Sims wanders into the beautiful seaside Gallery Valentine, she has no idea her life is about to be transformed.

Pawleys Island

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Andrea Davis Pinkney

Book is in excellent shape. Never been read.  No markings no bent pages.  Bought at a thrift store.  See pics for condition of book. 

Abraham Lincoln Letters from a Young Slave Girl

A fictional correspondence between President Abraham Lincoln and a twelve-year-old slave girl that discusses his decision to write the Emancipation Proclamation.

Dear Mr. President 

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Christopher Byrd Downey

Charleston's Gentleman Pirate

Hundreds of pirates traversed the waters of the Atlantic during America's colonial period, but few had a more adventurous tale than Stede Bonnet. Originally a wealthy plantation owner from Barbados, Bonnet abandoned his wife and children in 1717 to set sail on the pirate ship Revenge. He soon fell into company with Blackbeard in the Bahamas and headed for America. In May 1718, they arrived in Charleston and held the entire city hostage in a daring siege. Bonnet was eventually captured in North Carolina and transported back to Charleston, where he was brought to justice and executed on December 10, 1718. Join local pirate tour guide Captain Christopher Byrd Downey as he recounts the swashbuckling life of the most infamous pirate to ever darken the Holy City's waters.

Stede Bonnet

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Utah

Spine has several cracks. Please review the pictures. 

Her sleazy husband left her for a lingerie model who's barely more than a teenager, and her kids are busy with their own lives. But before Miriam Elizabeth Swanson can work herself up into a true snit about it all, her newest tenant, Liz, arrives from Birmingham with plenty of troubles of her own. And then Miriam meets a man named Harrison, who makes her laugh, makes her cry, and makes her feel like a brand-new woman.

It's almost too much for one Manhattan quasi-socialite to handle--so Miriam's escaping to the enchanted and mysterious land of Sullivans Island, deep in the low country of South Carolina, a place where she can finally get her head on straight--and figure out that it's not pride that's going to keep her warm at night . . .

The Land of Mango Sunsets

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Connecticut

W. Thomas McQueeney

More Conversations with Visionaries, Luminariesnd Emissaries of the Holy City

Sunsets over Charleston

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Pat Conroy

Refresh Your Book Wardrobe 4-book Bundle 

Leona Blair - The Side of the Angels
Look Again - Lisa Scottoline
South of Broad - Pat Conroy
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3 hardcover; 1 paperback

A great way to discover / gift yourself some great new books-(!) 

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Washington

After his brother's suicide, Leopold Bloom King struggles along with the rest of his family in Charleston, South Carolina, until he begins to gather an intimate circle of friends, whose ties endure for two decades until a final, unexpected test of friends

Refresh Your Book Wardrobe 4-book Bundle

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Joyce Hansen

A small ding on front cover edge. Otherwise excellent. See photos. First edition. 

Michigan

Dear America Series:  The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina 1865

Joyce Hansen's Coretta Scott King Honor Book I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly is now back in print with a gorgeous new package!

In this Coretta Scott King Honor Book, Patsy, an orphaned slave with a bad leg and a quiet nature, is considered slow by the Davis family. But Patsy's smart-smart enough to learn to read and write on the sly. After the Civil War ends and slavery is abolshed, Patsy believes Master Davis's promise to pay the former house slaves and to provide education for the slave children. But when the master ignores this promise to establish a school, and the Freedmen's Bureau cannot provide a teacher, Patsy steps in to teach the students to read and write.

Hansen fills Patsy's diary with courage, conviction, and hope as she strives toward freedom.

I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly **First Edition 

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Sherryl Woods

Very well loved by previous reader.
Some damage to cover.
Previous owners info covered on first page.

The Backup Plan by Sherryl Woods released on Feb 22, 2005 is available now for purchase.

The Backup Plan

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Laurie Stahl

Laurel and Kendra Marston seek love and marriage in post-Revolutionary South Carolina.

Winds of Catawba *Vintage*

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Tally Johnson

Ghosts of the South Carolina Upcountry

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P. J. Vernon

Massachusetts

For fans of S. J. Watson and Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects, comes a chilling look at marriage and madness from a talented new voice in psychological suspense.

Her husband is missing.

Visiting her family's South Carolina estate, socialite Gray Godfrey wakes from a night out to an empty bed. Her husband Paul is gone and a thrashing hangover has wiped her memory clean. At first, she's relieved for the break from her tumultuous marriage; perhaps Paul just needed some space. But when his car is found abandoned on the highway, Gray must face the truth- Paul is gone. And Gray may not want him found.

Her life is unraveling.

When a stranger named Annie calls claiming to know Paul's whereabouts, Gray reluctantly accepts her help. But this ally is not what she seems- soon Annie is sending frightening messages and revealing disturbing secrets only Gray could know. As Annie's threats escalate and Gray's grip on reality begins to slip, the life she thought she had and the dark truth she's been living begin to merge, leaving an unsettling question- What does Annie want? And what will she do to get it?

A chilling look at marriage, madness, and the lives we think we lead, When You Find Me is a daring debut from a talented new voice in psychological suspense.

When You Find Me

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Dorothy Allison

Texas

Ruth Anne "Bone" Boatwright, an illegitimate young girl, dreams of escaping her Greenville County, South Carolina, home, her notorious, hard-living family, and the unwanted attentions of her abusive stepfather, Daddy Glen. A first novel. Reprint. National Book Award finalist.

Bastard Out of Carolina

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Ashley Harrell

MaSovaida Morgan

Illinois

Lonely Planet's Pocket Charleston and Savannah is your guide to the city's best experiences and local life - neighborhood by neighborhood. Immerse yourself in history at Fort Sumter and admire Spanish moss and homely southern cuisine; all with your trusted travel companion. Uncover the best of Charleston and Savannah and make the most of your trip!

Lonely Planet Pocket Charleston and Savannah 2 2nd Ed

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Missouri

the color of light

Katie Crouch

When Hannah Legare was 11, her father went on a fishing trip in the Charleston harbor and never came back. And while most of the town and her family accepted Buzz's disappearance, Hannah remained steadfastly convinced of his imminent return. Twenty years later Hannah's new life in San Francisco is unraveling. Her marriage is on the rocks, her business is bankrupt. After a disastrous attempt to win back her husband, she ends up back at her mother's home to "rest up", where she is once again sucked into the mystery of her missing father. Suspecting that those closest are keeping secrets--including Palmer, her emotionally closed, well-mannered brother and Warren, the beautiful boyfriend she left behind--Hannah sets out on an uproarious, dangerous quest that will test the whole family's concepts of loyalty and faith.

Men and Dogs

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Mary Alice Monroe

Last Light Over Carolina Every woman in the sultry South Carolina low country knows the unspoken fear that clutches the heart every time her man sets out to sea. Now, that fear has become a terrible reality for Carolina Morrison. Her husband, shrimp boat captain Bud Morrison, is lost and alone somewhere in the vast Atlantic fishing grounds, with a storm gathering and last light falling. Over the course of one terrifying, illuminating day, Carolina looks back across thirty years of love and loss, joy and sorrow: How she rejected a well-to-do upbringing to marry Bud and embrace his extraordinary lifestyle by the sea . . . how hard times and loneliness have driven them apart . . . and how, with one mistake, she may have shattered their once-unbreakable bond forever. While their the close-knit community rallies together to search for one of its own, Carolina knows their love must somehow call him home, across miles of rough water and unspeakable memories. New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe explores a vanishing feature of the southern coastline, the mysterious yet time-honored shrimping culture, in a compelling tale of a strong woman struggling to prove that love is a light that never dies.

Last Light over Carolina

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Denise Hunter

Mississippi

When western novelist Sadie Goodwin must pen a romance novel to rescue her lackluster sales, there's only one tiny problem: she's never been in love.

Desperate to salvage her career, Sadie accepts an invitation to hole up at her friend's beach duplex for the summer and devote herself to this confounding genre. After all, where better to witness love than on the beautiful South Carolina shore?

But Sadie soon finds many ways to procrastinate the dreaded task--like getting to know the beach regulars and installing a Little Free Library on the property. She even attempts conversation with Sam Ford, the frustratingly stubborn neighbor on the other side of the duplex. But things take an unexpected turn when Sadie finds inside her library an abandoned novel with a secret compartment--and a beautiful engage­ment ring tucked inside.

Suddenly, locating the ring's owner becomes the perfect way to put off writing that romance. Sadie draws a reluctant Sam into her mission. And as the two close in on an answer to the mysterious proposal, she discovers a tender side to him. She begins to wonder if he just might make the perfect hero for her romance novel--or maybe even her heart.

From the bestselling author of The Convenient Groom (now a beloved Hallmark Original movie) comes a sweet and sizzling story of a romance writer surprised by her own happily ever after.

 * Sweet and thoughtful contemporary read
 * Stand-alone novel
 * Book length: 80,000 words
 * Includes discussion questions for book clubs

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The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina

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Karen White

The House on Tradd Street

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The Drums of December

Kathy Reichs

The Bone Code

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Andrea Davis Pinkney

Dear Mr. President

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Stede Bonnet

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The Land of Mango Sunsets

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Sunsets over Charleston

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Refresh Your Book Wardrobe 4-book Bundle

Joyce Hansen

I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly **First Edition

Sherryl Woods

The Backup Plan

Laurie Stahl

Winds of Catawba *Vintage*

Tally Johnson

Ghosts of the South Carolina Upcountry

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When You Find Me

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Bastard Out of Carolina

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Men and Dogs

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Last Light over Carolina

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