<p>If Charleston were wine, it would be a dry claret. Smell it, savor it as that first sip blooms on your tongue like a red, red rose. Do you feel the warmth as it seeps into your bloodstream? If you do, you've just had your first deception, for Charleston will entertain you, entice and seduce you, but she will never, ever warm you. It is here in the moral ruins of the Holy City, that Arlena Prince loses everything, only to find loss can bring redemption. Go with her now to paradise, to Old Charleston by the Atlantic. But be wary, for though Arlena is saved in the end, you may not be so lucky.</p>

Charleston's Elegant Sinners

Tucker, Terry Ward

Literature & Fiction

Capulet

This is the poignant story of Tommy and Rhona, two adolescents in the early 1900's South who must prematurely put an end to childhood to help support their families. Child labor is still legal in spite of a national move to outlaw it, and millions upon millions of children, some as young as seven and eight, labor in spirit-numbing menial jobs the same long hours as adults. Not until 1913 do the first laws banning labor go on the books. The boy in Tucker's story has stood before a loom in a cotton mill since he turned eleven. The girl is a beautiful gypsy princess who has told fortunes for money and food for as long as she can remember. Yet in spite of their hopeless circumstances, Tommy and Rhona manage to find sweet and funny moments to behave like the children they are. Theirs is the story of the resilience of youth and young love blooming.

Moonlight and Mill Whistles

Genre Fiction

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Charleston's Elegant Sinners

Moonlight and Mill Whistles