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Life support

2003
Rena Richardson enters into a fierce legal battle with her powerful father-in-law over the right to terminate life support for her comatosed husband, and attorney Alexia Lindale is pulled into the battle, unaware of the dangerous motives both parties have for ending the young man's life.

The secret life of bees

2002
Fourteen-year-old Lily and her companion, Rosaleen, an African-American woman who has cared for 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.

Cry liberty

the great Stono River slave rebellion of 1739
2010
Provides an account of the slave revolt along South Carolina's Stono River on September 9, 1739, the only notable rebellion to occur in British North America between the founding of Jamestown in 1607 and the start of the American Revolution.

Full speed

2003
Newspaper publisher Jamie Swift and millionaire playboy Max Holt pose as husband and wife to track down the story of a lifetime. They become involved with a corrupt minister, a gang of mobsters on the loose, a hound dog named Fleas, and a wise-cracking computer whiz.

The girl who ate chicken feet

1998
As she grows up in Midville, South Carolina, in the 1960s, Sissy's life is especially shaped by her relationships with her grandparents, her mother, her bossy cousin, and the black woman who cooks for her family.

Call to home

African Americans reclaim the rural South
1996

Goat

a memoir
2004

South Carolina, 1540-1776

2007
A history of South Carolina from its beginning as an English colony to 1788 when it became the eighth state, focusing on the experiences of people who lived and worked in the region.

The calling

2007
Esther Leah Ridley, a twelve-year-old girl in South Carolina in 1962, discovers she has the gift of healing and is sent out on a crusade along with her boy-crazy sister, and her favorite uncle Peter Earl, whose intense interest in the collection plate soon has Esther worrying about whether she is really answering God's call.

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