The Sweet Hell Inside: A Family History

• RC 56781
  Edward Ball
  Continues the study of his ancestors, the Harlestons of South Carolina, which the author began in Slaves in the Family (RC 46018).
  

My Losing Season

• RC 55514
  Pat Conroy
  Author of The Prince of Tides (RC 25248) describes his basketball team's mediocre season during his senior year at The Citadel in 1966-1967.
  

Allegiance: Fort Sumter, Charleston, and the Beginning of the Civil War

• RC 54746
  David Detzer
  Describes the events leading up to the first shots of the Civil War, fired at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861.

The Guns of Meeting Street: A Southern Tragedy

• RC 58034
  T. Felder Dorn
  Reconstructs a series of murders in the early 1940s involving the Logue and Timmerman families of rural South Carolina that culminated in executions of three persons, including the first woman sent to the electric chair in the state.
  

South Carolina: A History

• CBC 430-435
  Walter Edgar
  A sweeping 475 year narrative of a state with an illustrious, sometimes infamous past by the popular author from the University of South Carolina.

Shem Creek: A Lowcountry Tale

• RC 59026
  Dorothea Benton Frank
  Fed up with New Jersey and a local ex-husband, Linda Breland and two teenage daughters head to her ancestral South Carolina home to be near her sister Mimi.

The Last American

• RC 55417
  Elizabeth Gilbert
  Biography of South Carolina native Eustace Conway, who gave up a suburban lifestyle in 1977 when he was seventeen and returned to nature.

Spikes: A Novel

• RC 53227
  Michael Griffith
  Brian Schwan, former college champion golfer, can't succeed in professional tournaments and his wife wants him to quit. But when Brian finally has a great game everything changes.

Raising the Hunley: The Remarkable History and Recovery of the Lost Confederate Submarine

• RC 54755
  Brian Hicks
  Authors describe an underwater archaeological expedition off the South Carolina coast leading to the recovery of a Civil War submarine missing since 1864.

Older But Wilder: More Notes from the Pasture

• RC 56395
  Effie Wilder
  In this sequel to Over What Hill? (RC 45171), Miss Hattie has her knee replacement "retreaded" and returns to Fair Acres.