south carolina

Fourteen-year-old Lily and her companion, Rosaleen, an African-American woman who has cared from Lily since her mother's death ten years earlier, flee their home after Rosaleen is victimized by racist police officers, and find a safe haven in Tiburon, South Carolina, at the home of three beekeeping sisters, May, June, and August.

Fourteen-year-old Lily and her companion, Rosaleen, an African-American woman who has cared from Lily since her mother's death ten years earlier, flee their home after Rosaleen is victimized by racist police officers, and find a safe haven in Tiburon, South Carolina, at the home of three beekeeping sisters, May, June, and August.

Draws on personal stories to explore the art and history of Lowcountry cooking, with recipes for traditional dishes and information on the region's cuisine, restaurants, and seafood industry.

In 1962 in South Carolina, twelve-year-old Esta is called into the ministry of Jesus and anointed with the gift of healing, but when her relatives decide to take her on a religious crusade she wonders if it is the right thing to do.

Fifteen-year-old Huger Dillard from the Lowcountry of South Carolina gets caught up in several mysteries when he and his blind uncle discover a headless corpse at the Hungry Neck Hunt Club.

Holly sets out to New York City to make a new life for herself, and she uses the values she learned while raising her six younger siblings to deal with the trials an tribulations of her first romantic and professional relationships.

A biography of the industrious young woman who helped introduce the cultivation of the indigo plant in South Carolina.

"Historical fiction based on journals and correspondence of William Stone, Union veteran and head of the Freedmen's Bureau in Aiken, South Carolina, during Reconstruction. Major Stone's story involves violence, prejudice, politics, compassion, justice, and romance. The Ku Klux Klan, freed blacks, Edgefield plantation owners, and Quaker educators all play roles"--Provided by publisher.