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Walking Across Egypt

By: Clyde Edgerton

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: 1987

Seller ID: 16091

ISBN: 0912697512

Binding: Paperback

Good reading copy ; 5.20 X 1.20 X 1 inches; 216 pages
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Return to Sullivans Island A Novel

By: Dorothea Benton Frank

Price: $7.50

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks: 2010

Seller ID: 7283

ISBN: 0061988332

Binding: Paperback

Great copy with minimal signs of wear. ; 1.1 x 8 x 5.3 Inches; 416 pages;

Beloved New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank returns to the enchanted landscape of South Carolina's Lowcountry to tell the story of the next generation of Hamiltons and Hayeses.

Newly graduated from college, Beth Hayes must put all her grand ambitions on hold when the family elders elect her to house-sit the Island Gamble, ghosts and all. Instead of conquering new worlds, Beth will rest and rejuvenate while basking in memory and the magic of white clapboards and shimmering blue wate...
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Bulls Island

By: Dorothea Benton Frank

Price: $7.50

Publisher: William Morrow: 2008

Seller ID: 9894

ISBN: 006143843X

Binding: Paperback

Good reading copy; 1.3 x 9.1 x 6.1 Inches; 352 pages;

A satisfying tale of honor, chance, and star-crossed love infused with Southern wit, grace, and charm from the New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank

After twenty years, Elizabeth "Betts" McGee has finally managed to put her past behind her. She hasn't been home to beautiful South Carolina and untouched Bulls Island since the tragic night that ended her engagement to Charleston's golden boy, J. D. Langley.

And why is that? Really, this is the story of two old S...
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The Tilted World A Novel

By: Franklin, Tom & Beth Ann Fennelly

Price: $7.95

Publisher: William Morrow: 2013

Seller ID: 18745

ISBN: 0062069187

Binding: Paperback

8.90 X 6 X 1 inches; 320 pages
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Between The Tides

By: Henry, Patti Callahan

Price: $7.95

Publisher: NAL Trade: 2007

Seller ID: 17632

ISBN: 0451221141

Binding: Paperback

8.20 X 5.50 X 1 inches; 324 pages
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The King of Lies

By: John Hart

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Minotaur Books: 2011

Seller ID: 12949

ISBN: 0312677375

Binding: Paperback

Has some general cover wear and use, but still a good reading copy ; 8.20 X 5.40 X 1.30 inches; 432 pages
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The Four Seasons Monroe

By: Mary Alice Monroe

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Mira: 2009

Seller ID: 11444

ISBN: 0778326845

Binding: Paperback

Reading copy only with heavy page tanning ; 1.3 x 7.8 x 5.1 Inches; 432 pages; They are the Season sisters, bound by blood, driven apart by a tragedy. Now they are about to embark on a bittersweet journey into the unknownan odyssey of promise and forgiveness, of loss and rediscovery.

Jillian, Beatrice and Rose have gathered for the funeral of their younger sister, Meredith. Her death, and the legacy she leaves them, will trigger a cross-country journey in search of a stranger with the power to mend their shattered lives. As the emotions of the past reverberate into the present, Jillian, Beat...
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Hissy Fit A Novel

By: Mary Kay Andrews

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks: 2005

Seller ID: 12788

ISBN: 0060564652

Binding: Paperback

Nice clean copy; 7.80 X 5.30 X 1.10 inches; 448 pages
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Message in a Bottle

By: Nicholas Sparks

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing: 1999

Seller ID: 6777

ISBN: 0446676071

Binding: Paperback

General wear and page tanning, but still a good readable copy. ; 1 x 7.8 x 5.2 Inches; 352 pages; Divorced and disillusioned about relationships, Theresa Osborne is jogging when she finds a bottle on the beach. Inside is a letter of love and longing to "Catherine," signed simply "Garrett." Challenged by the mystery and pulled by emotions she doesn't fully understand, Theresa begins a search for this man that will change her life. What happens to her is unexpected, perhaps miraculous-an encounter that embraces all our hopes for finding someone special, for having a love that is...
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My Losing Season A Memoir

By: Pat Conroy

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Bantam Books: 2003

Seller ID: 11651

ISBN: 0553381903

Binding: Paperback

Good reading copy; 0.9 x 8.2 x 5.2 Inches; 402 pages;

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Pat Conroy, one of America’s premier novelists, has penned a deeply affecting coming-of-age memoir about family, love, loss, basketball??and life itself. During one unforgettable season as a Citadel cadet, Conroy becomes part of a basketball team that is ultimately destined to fail. And yet for a military kid who grew up on the move, the Bulldogs provide a sanctuary from the cold, abrasive father who dominates his life??and a crucible for becoming his own man.

With all the drama and in...
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South of Broad A Novel

By: Pat Conroy

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback: 2010

Seller ID: 4832

ISBN: 0385344074

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Good reading copy ; 1.4 x 8 x 5.1 Inches; 544 pages; Leopold Bloom King has been raised in a family shatteredand shadowedby tragedy. Lonely and adrift, he searches for something to sustain him and finds it among a tightly knit group of high school outsiders. Surviving marriages happy and troubled, unrequited loves and unspoken longings, hard-won successes and devastating breakdowns, as well as Charleston, South Carolinas dark legacy of racism and class divisions, these friends will endure until a final test forces them to face something none of them are prepared for.
Spanning two turbulent ...
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South of Broad

By: Pat Conroy

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Nan A. Talese: 2009

Seller ID: 2985

ISBN: 038541305X

Binding: Hardcover

1.4 x 8.5 x 5.9 Inches; 528 pages; The publishing event of the season: The one and only Pat Conroy returns, with a big, sprawling novel that is at once a love letter to Charleston and to lifelong friendship.

Against the sumptuous backdrop of Charleston, South Carolina, South of Broad gathers a unique cast of sinners and saints. Leopold Bloom King, our narrator, is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school. His mother, an ex-nun, is the high school principal and a well-known Joyce scholar. After Leo's older brother commits suicide at ...
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The Truest Pleasure

By: Robert Morgan

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Algonquin Books: 1998

Seller ID: 12308

ISBN: 1565122224

Binding: Paperback

Good reading copy ; 1.1 x 6.9 x 4.9 Inches; 334 pages; Ginny, who marries Tom at the turn of the century after her family has given up on her ever marrying, narrates THE TRUEST PLEASURE--the story of their life together on her father's farm in the western North Carolina mountains. They have a lot in common--love of the land and fathers who fought in the Civil War. Tom's father died in the war, but Ginny's father came back to western North Carolina to hold on to the farm and turn a profit. Ginny's was a childhood of relative security, Tom's one of landlessness. Truth be known--and they both kno...
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Gap Creek H/C A Novel

By: Robert Morgan

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Algonquin Books: 2000

Seller ID: 9367

ISBN: 1616201762

Binding: Paperback

Good reading copy ; 1.3 x 8.4 x 5.9 Inches; 324 pages; There is a most unusual woman living in Gap Creek. Julie Harmon works hard, "hard as a man," they say, so hard that at times she's not sure she can stop. People depend on her to slaughter the hogs and nurse the dying. People are weak, and there is so much to do. She is just a teenager when her little brother dies in her arms. That same year she marries and moves down into the valley where floods and fire and visions visit themselves on her, and con men and drunks and lawyers come calling.

Julie and her husband discover that the...
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Mariah of the Spirits And Other Southern Ghost Stories

By: Sherry Austin

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Overmountain Press: 2002

Seller ID: 5135

ISBN: 1570722315

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

Signed and inscribed; 0.5 x 8.7 x 5.9 Inches; 181 pages; In the Appalachian mountains a gentle ghost beckons thereluctant dead to the other side of the French Broad River... on the South Carolina coast bewildered spirits await passage across a foggy Charleston harbor... in the Shenandoah hills the ghost of laundry hangs white and flowing against a black storm cloud... in the north Georgia mountains a mysterious face smiles beneath the surface of a pond... in a New Orleans curio shop an antique wooden mannequin is consumed with love for the shopkeeper... and on a windswept North Carolin...
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Clay's Quilt

By: Silas House

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Ballantine Books: 2002

Seller ID: 11490

ISBN: 0345450698

Binding: Paperback

Has some foxing and general wear, but still a good readable copy. ; Ballantine Reader's Circle; 0.7 x 8.16 x 5.52 Inches; 292 pages; A YOUNG WRITER OF IMMENSE GIFTS . . . One of the best books I have ever read about contemporary life in the mountains of southern Appalachia. . . . I could see and feel Free Creek, and the mountain above it.
LEE SMITH

After his mother is killed, four-year-old Clay Sizemore finds himself alone in a small Appalachian mining town. At first, unsure of Free Creek, he slowly learns to lean on its residents as family. Theres Aunt Easter, who is always ...
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The Secret of War A Dramatic History of Civil War Crime in Western North Carolina

By: Terrell T. Garren

Price: $35.00

Publisher: The Reprint Company: 2004

Seller ID: 8156

ISBN: 0871525453

Binding: Hardcover

Out of Print; 1.3 x 9.3 x 6.3 Inches; 400 pages; Civil War crime in western North Carolina is the subject of The Secret of War, by Terrell T. Garren. Based on the true-life experience of Delia Russell Youngblood, the great-grandmother of the author, the book "captures what the Civil War was like in the mountains and throughout the south."

After hearing his great-grandmother's story, Garren spent nearly fifteen years researching this story in particular and the Civil War history of western North Carolina in general. It is the story of Joseph Youngblood and Delia Russell of Hoopers...
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Cataloochee A Novel

By: Wayne Caldwell

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks: 2008

Seller ID: 11152

ISBN: 0812973739

Binding: Paperback

1 x 7.9 x 5.2 Inches; 368 pages; A brilliant portrait of a community and a way of life long gone, a lost America.
Charles Frazier

Against the breathtaking backdrop of Appalachia comes a rich, multilayered postCivil War saga of three generations of familiestheir dreams, their downfalls, and their faith. Cataloochee is a slice of southern Americana told in the classic tradition of Flannery OConnor and William Faulkner.

Nestled in the mountains of North Carolina sits Cataloochee. In a time when where you was born was where God wanted you, the Wrights and the Carters, both ...
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The Tall Woman

By: Wilma Dykeman

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Wakestone Books: 1982

Seller ID: 11255

ISBN: 096138591X

Binding: Paperback

Good reading copy ; 1 x 8.1 x 5.4 Inches; 315 pages; Lydia Moore grew up in the Appalachian region before the Civil War and married Mark McQueen shortly after it began. Her husband went off to fight for the Union while her father and brother fought for the Confederates. While the men were gone, outliers raided Lydia's mother's home, assaulting her and stealing the livestock. A pregnant Lydia returned to her old home place to tend to her mother and brothers and sisters. When her labor began, the doctor was too inebriated to come, so Lydia's Aunt Tildy delivered the baby, who was turned the wron...
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