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Author
Series
Outlander novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
Scottish soldier Jamie Fraser and his wife, Claire Randall--a twentieth century doctor who has traveled two centuries back in time--find themselves in South Carolina on the eve of the American Revolution, where they must fight to save a young girl.
Author
Series
Tea Shop mysteries (Laura Childs) volume 8
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Language
English
Description
Promoting her latest blend from within her Charleston tea shop throughout a blooming southern spring season, Theodosia Browning suspects foul play when broker Mark Congdon promptly dies after winning a bid for a rare monkey-face orchid.
Author
Series
Tea Shop mysteries (Laura Childs) volume 11
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a particularly successful evening of sales, Charleston's Theodosia Browning discovers the body of map store owner Daria. Locals have shown interest in buying her shop--but enough to kill? Plus there's been a customer hell-bent on acquiring a not-for-sale map. Most alarming of all theories, however, is Detective Tidwell's: the killer mistook Daria for Theodosia. And if that theory holds, the killer's work isn't done.
Author
Series
Tea Shop mysteries (Laura Childs) volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
©2002
Language
English
Description
When a member of the Charleston elite turns up dead during the annual yacht race and the simultaneous launching of the latest tea flavor, Gunpowder Green, from her Indigo Tea Shop, proprietor Theodosia Browning must draw on her sleuthing skills to find a killer.
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A book that strikes at the heart of the recent flare-ups over Confederate symbols in Charlottesville, New Orleans, and elsewhere, Denmark Vesey's Garden reveals the deep roots of these controversies and traces them to the heart of slavery in the United States: Charleston, South Carolina, where almost half of the U.S. slave population stepped onto our shores, where the first shot at Fort Sumter began the Civil War, and where Dylann Roof shot nine people...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"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 deaths, and millions of dollars circulating around the Deep...
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"What happened when a former slave took beat-up old instruments and gave them to a bunch of orphans? Thousands of futures got a little brighter and a great American art form was born. In 1891, Reverend Daniel Joseph Jenkins opened his orphanage in Charleston, South Carolina. He soon had hundreds of children and needed a way to support them. Jenkins asked townspeople to donate old band instruments - some of which had last played in the hands of Confederate...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"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 nine innocents during their closing prayer horrified the nation. Two days later, some relatives of the dead stood at Roof's hearing and said, 'I forgive you.' That grace offered the country...
Author
Series
Tea Shop mysteries (Laura Childs) volume 6
Publisher
Berkley Pub
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
"The streets of Charleston, South Carolina, are alive with music, dancing, and the arts as the Spoleto festival gets underway. But Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning feels far from festive when the inaugural Poet's Tea is caught in a surprise downpour and forced into one of the Heritage Society's austere halls - where high society proceeds to mingle with high art. And when it rains, it pours ... as proven when a respected auction house owner...
10) Haunted hibiscus
Author
Series
Tea Shop mysteries (Laura Childs) volume 22
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"It is the week before Halloween and Theodosia Browning, proprietor of the Indigo Tea Shop, and her tea sommelier, Drayton, are ghosting through the dusk of a cool Charleston evening on their way to the old Bouchard Mansion. Known as the Gray Ghost, this dilapidated place was recently bequeathed to the Heritage Society, and tonight heralds the grand opening of their literary and historical themed haunted house. Though Timothy Neville, the patriarch...
Author
Series
Tea Shop mysteries (Laura Childs) volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Pub
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is finally invited to a social event that she doesn't have to cater-but trouble is brewing at the engagement soiree of the season ...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven years ago Alexa Hamilton left the South behind, fleeing the pain of her ex-husband's betrayal and the cruelty of his prominent Charleston family. Now an assistant D.A. in Manhattan, she's made a name for herself as a top prosecutor while juggling her role as devoted single mom to a teenage daughter. But everything changes when Alexa is handed her latest case: the trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin. Facing a high-stakes trial, her private...
13) Steeped in evil
Author
Series
Tea Shop mysteries (Laura Childs) volume 15
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Theodosia Browning has never considered herself a wine connoisseur, tea has always been her forte. But that doesn't mean she's going to pass up an invitation to a fancy wine-tasting party at the upscale Knighthall Winery, just outside of Charleston, South Carolina. But a sweet evening takes on a bitter aftertaste when a dead body is discovered in one of the wine barrels. The son of proprietor Jordan Knight has been murdered. Dissatisfied with the...
14) Oolong dead
Author
Series
Tea Shop mysteries (Laura Childs) volume 10
Language
English
Description
While riding her horse in a race through the South Carolina Lowcountry, Theodosia Browning finds her arch nemesis, Abby Davis, dead. What's more, the victim's brother is Theodosia's old flame. Who'd have guessed they'd be reunited through cold-blooded murder?
Author
Series
Tea Shop mysteries (Laura Childs) volume 9
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Language
English
Description
Theodosia Browning and the staff of the Indigo Tea Shop are busy catering the opening night gala of the Charleston Film Festival, but the festivities are interrupted when famed director Jordan Cole is shot while on his way to the podium.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Every fire begins with a little heat–and in Slow Burn, bestselling author Julie Garwood provides the spark, skillfully blending pulse-pounding action, intense emotion, and characters with grit and heart. The result is an electrifying novel of romantic suspense that will have readers burning through the pages.
An unpretentious beauty who radiates kindness, Kate MacKenna doesn’t have a bad bone in her body–or an enemy in the world....
An unpretentious beauty who radiates kindness, Kate MacKenna doesn’t have a bad bone in her body–or an enemy in the world....
Author
Series
Lowcountry tales volume 12
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A chance meeting on the Isle of Palms, one of Charleston's most stunning barrier islands, brings former sweethearts Adam Stanley and Eve Landers together again. Their respective spouses, Eliza and Carl, fight sparks of jealousy flaring from their imagined rekindling of old flames. As Adam and Eve get caught up on their lives, their partners strike up a deep friendship--and flirt with an unexpected attraction--of their own. Year after year, Adam,...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
©1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
Description
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 families in the South, discovered that his ancestors...
19) My losing season
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the "New York Times" bestselling author who "makes history come brilliantly alive" ("The Washington Post Book World") comes a novel that spans decades and generations--from the American Revolution through the downfall of the Confederacy--in Jakes's most ambitious work yet.
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