Friday 02/10/2012 at 11:00 AM
Rose Senehi
(Render Unto the Valley) at Inlet Affairs
A breathless tale of three generations of a star-crossed family struggling to mend itself and preserve something of its rightful heritage. In the midst of this tempestuous story stands Travis Whitfield, as stony-hearted a bad hat as you are ever likely to meet. But the female forces arrayed against him are formidable. Are they strong enough to prevail?
$25

Friday 02/17/2012 at 11:00 AM
Nicole Seitz
(Beyond Molasses Creek) at Ocean One
Three lives are bound by a single book … and the cleansing waters of Molasses Creek. One a world traveler – home to bury her father as well as her past; one who stayed at home with their broken friendship; and one who escapes a life of slavery in Nepal to follow the truth wherever it leads her. A deep current intertwines the lives of these three, and a destiny of freedom, faith and friendship awaits them all on the banks of Molasses Creek.
$25

Friday 02/24/2012 at 11:00 AM
Margaret Baroody
(The Unexpected Visitor) at Nosh
A stunning collection of black and white photographs and inspirational passages that takes the reader on a journey of discovery, surprise and faith. The photographs were taken over a period of more than half a century by physician N.B. Baroody, who traveled the world in recent years with his wife Margaret doing medical mission work. The book shares moments of their life journey together, their bond of connection and love that is both personal and universal.
$25

Friday 03/02/2012 at 11:00 AM
Sara Arnold & Stephen Hoffius
(The Life & Art of Alfred Hutty) at Kimbels, Wachesaw
A celebration of paintings and prints by one of the principal artists of the Charleston Renaissance. Hutty (1877–1954) was a master painter and printmaker whose evocative landscapes and realistic studies of the human condition represent the best aspects of the Woodstock and Charleston art traditions of his era.
$25

Friday 03/09/2012 at 11:00 AM
John Lane
(My Paddle to the Sea) at Capt. Dave's Dockside
Upstate South Carolina nature writer and poet John Lane launched an 11-day river journey from his home in Spartanburg to the Atlantic ocean to calm his nerves after a rafting accident resulted in the loss of two friends. Along the way he encounters a cast of characters Twain himself would envy. Through it all, paddle stroke by paddle stroke, Lane is reminded why life and rivers have always been wedded together.
$25

Friday 03/16/2012 at 11:00 AM
Stephanie McAfee
(Diary of a Mad Fat Girl) at Pawleys Plantation
Ace Jones needs a vacation, but she's not going to get it. What she gets instead is a good dose of scandalous small town politics that takes her on a wild quest for truth and redemption. Things get really complicated when the love of her life, whom she hasn't seen or heard from in over three years, shows up and vows not to leave town until she agrees to marry him. Adventurous and entertaining, Ace and her friends delve into illegal surveillance, stalking and covert operations in a strip club.
$25

Friday 03/23/2012 at 11:00 AM
Bill Noel
(Ghosts: A Folly Beach Mystery) at Sea View Inn
Retired Chris Landrum, Noel's loveable protagonist, is finding bodies (or are they disembodies?) on his beloved Folly Beach. Always a favorite!
$25

Friday 03/30/2012 at 11:00 AM
Kirk Neely
(Banjos, Barbecue and Boiled Peanuts) at Carefree Catering
Neely uses his precise eye, keen ear and down-home voice to capture small truths of life in the South as he spins yarns about groundhogs and black snakes, mockingbirds and bluebirds, pound cake and cypress knees. In this fitting sequel to "A Good Mule is Hard to Find," he pulls back the curtain of kudzu to reveal a place of weirdness and wonder. These are stories of warmth and wit, of heart and humor.
$25

Friday 04/06/2012 at 11:00 AM
Brad Crowther
(The Ninth Man) at Capt. Dave's Dockside
This modern day mystery takes place in the Charleston area.The plot revolves around a fictional diary kept by a Union spy that explains the disappearance of the Confederate "fishboat" Hunley, the world's first successful combat submarine, which vanished after sinking a Union ship in Charleston Harbor in 1864 and did not emerge for 136 years. Russ Berard, a retired Rhode Island police detective, returns home to Charleston to investigate his father's murder and becomes entangled in the unhappy marriage of high school classmates who are pursuing a secret Hunley diary for purposes of developing a controversial reality TV show. The diary belongs to a shadowy former special forces assassin, whose ancestor, a Union spy, wrote the diary and was on board the Hunley the night it disappeared. Berard finds himself caught between devious friends and foes with competing interests as he discovers connections between his father's murder and the Hunley diary.
$25

Friday 04/13/2012 at 11:00 AM
Charles Martin
(Thunder and Rain) at Inlet Affairs
Third generation Texas Ranger Tyler Steele is the last of a dying breed ~ a modern day cowboy hero living in a world that doesn't quite understand his powerful sense of right and wrong and instinct to defend those who can't defend themselves. Despite his strong moral compass, Ty has trouble seeing his greatest weakness. His hard outer shell, the one essential to his work, made him incapable of forging the emotional connection his wife Andie so desperately needed. Now retired, raising their son Brodie on his own, and at risk of losing his ranch, Ty does not know how to rebuild from the rubble of his life.But he does know how to help two on-the-run innocent strangers in danger! Will Ty confront his weaknesses and become the man he needs to be?
$25

Friday 04/20/2012 at 11:00 AM
Taylor Polites
(The Rebel Wife) at Nosh
Brimming with atmosphere and edgy suspense, this debut novel presents a young widow trying to survive in the violent world of Reconstruction Alabama, where the old gentility masks a continuing war fueled by hatred, treachery, and still-powerful secrets. Augusta Branson was born into antebellum Southern nobility during a time of wealth and prosperity, but now all that is gone, and she is left standing in the ashes of a broken civilization. When her scalawag husband dies suddenly of a mysterious blood plague, she must fend for herself and her young son. Slowly she begins to wake to the reality of her new life: her social standing is stained by her marriage; she is alone and unprotected in a community that is being destroyed by racial prejudice and violence; the fortune she thought she would inherit does not exist; and the deadly blood fever is spreading fast. Nothing is as she believed, everyone she knows is hiding something, and Augusta needs someone to trust. Somehow she must find the truth amid her own illusions about the past and the courage to cross the boundaries of hate, so strong, dangerous, and very close to home. Using the Southern Gothic tradition to explode literary archetypes like the chivalrous Southern gentleman, the good mammy, and the defenseless Southern belle, "The Rebel Wife" shatters the myths that still cling to the antebellum South and creates an unforgettable heroine for our time.
$25

Friday 04/27/2012 at 11:00 AM
Mark Sloan & Josephine Humphreys
(Palmetto Portraits Project) at Kimbel's, Wachesaw
$25

Friday 05/04/2012 at 11:00 AM
Jim Harrison
(The Palmetto and its South Carolina Home) at Carefree Catering
$25

Friday 05/11/2012 at 11:00 AM
Ron Rash
(The Cove) at Tara Ballroom, Litchfield Beach & Golf Resort
The New York Times bestselling author of "Serena" returns to Appalachia, this time at the height of World War I, with the story of a blazing but doomed love affair caught in the turmoil of a nation at war. Deep in the rugged Appalachians of North Carolina lies the cove, a dark, forbidding place where spirits and fetches wander, and even the light fears to travel. Or so the townsfolk of Mars Hill believe–just as they know that Laurel Shelton, the lonely young woman who lives within its shadows, is a witch. Alone except for her brother, Hank, newly returned from the trenches of France, she aches for her life to begin. Then it happens–a stranger appears, carrying nothing but a beautiful silver flute and a note explaining that his name is Walter, he is mute, and is bound for New York. Laurel finds him in the woods, nearly stung to death by yellow jackets, and nurses him back to health. As the days pass, Walter slips easily into life in the cove and into Laurel's heart, bringing her the only real happiness she has ever known.
$25

Monday 05/14/2012 at 11:00 AM
Mary Alice Monroe
(Beach House Memories) at Pawleys Plantation
Special Monday Book Launch! New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe returns to her classic Southern setting in the Isle of Palms with the sequel to her beloved novel "The Beach House," skillfully weaving together issues of class, women's rights and domestic abuse. Set in the tumultuous South during the 1970s, she tells the story of Olivia, "Lovie" Rutledge, the mother from The Beach House. As Lovie sits on the porch of her charming beach house and looks out over the ocean, the old woman reflects on the difficult choices she made in many years earlier—during the summer that changed her life. In 1974, at thirty-nine years old, Lovie hosts a formal dinner party for her unappreciative husband in their lovely home in a neighborhood of privilege in Charleston. The following morning she takes her two children to a nearby barrier island where her family has a modest beach cottage. Behind closed doors, and exhausted from keeping up appearances — her husband's infidelity and his withering, disdainful looks — she can only find solace and happiness at the beach. But when a handsome biologist arrives to research the status of nesting turtles — a project that is Lovie's passion — she finds herself falling in love over the course of the summer, with devastating consequences. Beautifully wrought and rich with keen insight, this is an unforgettable tale of marriage, resilience, and one woman's private strength.
$25

Friday 05/18/2012 at 11:00 AM
O'Neal Smalls
(Blessed Be the Ties That Bind) at Ocean One
Before joining the USC law faculty in 1989, Professor Smalls taught at American University and George Washington University. Recent scholarly activities included the design and coordination of a workshop to present research on early twentieth century rural African American education in Southern schools - the Rosenwald Schools Workshop. Professor Smalls has served on a number of boards and committees, including President and Chair of the Freewoods Foundation, which has established Freewoods Farm, the only historical living farm museum in the United States dedicated to re-creating life on farms owned or operated by African Americans, and recognizing the enormous contributions made by African-American farmers through agriculture to the economy of South Carolina – and indeed to the nation's economy. Freewoods Farm, located in a rural section of Horry County approximately ten miles southwest of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, provides education, documentation and preservation of the activities and practices of these farms.
$25

Friday 05/25/2012 at 11:00 AM
Wiley Cash
(A Land More Kind than Home) at Kimbel's, Wachesaw
Deep in the heart of the rural South is a quiet and unassuming small town with secrets that threaten to destroy the residents’ firm belief in the way things always have been and always will be. Jess Hall, an adventurous, precocious boy, has grown up there and feels enormously protective of his older sibling, whom everyone calls Stump, an autistic child who has never uttered a word in his life. One day the boys climb up on the rickety rain barrel beside their house and spy something through the window that they shouldn't. Stump is taken away, and with the brother's separation comes catastrophe, shattering the world as they know it. If Jess has suspected that there is much about the world of adults he doesn't understand, he now knows that that knowledge is also much more dangerous and close to him than ever before.
$25

Friday 06/01/2012 at 11:00 AM
Michel Stone
(The Iguana Tree) at Pastaria 811
Set amid the perils of illegal border crossings, "The Iguana Tree" is the suspenseful saga of Lilia and Hector, who separately make their way from Mexico into the United States, seeking work in the Carolinas and a home for their infant daughter. This harrowing novel meticulously examines the obstacles each faces in pursuing a new life: manipulation, rape, and murder in the perilous commerce of border crossings; betrayal by family and friends; exploitation by corrupt officials and rapacious landowners on the U.S. side; and, finally, the inexorable workings of the U.S. justice system. Hector and Lilia meet Americans willing to help them with legal assistance and offers of responsible employment, but their illegal entry seems certain to prove their undoing. The consequences of their decisions are devastating. In the end, Stone has written a universal story of loss, grief and human dignity.
$25

Friday 06/08/2012 at 11:00 AM
Jeff Shaara
(A Blaze of Glory) at Inlet Affairs
Award winning and New York Times bestselling author of historical fiction, Shaara begins a new trilogy marking a literary return to the Civil War. The first in the series covers the Battle of Shiloh and coincides with the 150th Anniversary year of that momentous event. The next two works, featuring Vicksburg and Sherman's March, will be released a year apart, 2013 and 2014.
$25

Tuesday 06/12/2012 at 11:00 AM
Dorothea Benton Frank
(Porch Lights) at Ocean One
Special Tuesday Book Launch!
$25

Friday 06/15/2012 at 11:00 AM
Mary Ann McFadden
(The Book Lover) at Capt. Dave's Dockside
$25

Friday 06/22/2012 at 11:00 AM
Karen White
(Sea Change) at Pawleys Plantation
$25

Friday 06/29/2012 at 11:00 AM
Angie LeClercq
(A Grand Tour of Gardens) at Kimbel's, Wachesaw
$25