When Molly Commander, matriarch of a powerful Southern family, dies in a car crash on a dark two-lane road on the Waccamaw Neck, a chain of events is set in motion, linking lowcountry life with the clandestine activities of the third largest bank in the country. From boardrooms and private clubs in New York and Atlanta to the lush setting of Pawleys Island and the South Carolina lowcountry, the main characters in the story, children of privilege all, come to grips with the contemporary greed of Wall Street and the complex responsibilities placed on them by great wealth. In this 30-somethings, coming-of-age story, peopled by characters who read like old friends, birthright places Molly's grandson and his close circle at the crossroads of opposing societal forces. Will they triumph to emerge as the new generation of leadership that must become today's South?

Waccamaw Gold

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Woodson, William

Mystery

Class LLC

At home in the South, a retired and aging Jay Bluffing runs across an old magazine article that triggers the remembrance of a significant period in his life, decades ago. It's the mid-1980s and Bluffing, crushed by an incident involving his law practice, has left Kentucky and landed on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. As he wanders the city in search of himself, his wry sense of humor intact, a chance meeting with playwright and screenwriter Marty Sequatchee throws Bluffing into a world of Off-Broadway theatre, beautiful young actresses ... and murder.

Bluffing

Literature & Fiction

Ketron, Larry

Literary

Pawleys Island: Chasing the light

photography by Tanya Ackerman

This is not your stereotypical gay-hairdresser-addict-convict story ... if there is such a thing. In the vein of Augusten Burroughs and Jeannette Walls, Lost and Found is a harrowing tale of survival in a world hostile to diversity. The memoir spans five decades, from the young boy whose search for identity and self-empowerment begins with the haunting observation, “there are no pictures of me as a baby,” through a dark, spiraling vortex of bad decisions, while “looking for love in all the wrong places.” With unflinching candor, Merchant explores the issues of sexual diversity, drug addiction, crime and punishment, and social prejudice. His sardonic humor and clear-eyed honesty take the reader on a dangerous journey, battling the demons of self-destruction – a war that turns out to be surprisingly uplifting.

Lost and Found: A Memoir

LGBTQ+ Books

Merchant, Ernest

Biographies & Memoirs

A Very Special Family: The House of Joseph Thomas Raad, Georgetown, S.C.

Kenny, John

Community & Culture

For 13 years, Cindy Hedrick and soulmate Skip Yeager (owners of Sweetie's on Front Street in Georgetown) operated an exotic animal sanctuary on acreage outside Georgetown. The story of how the SC Coastal Animal Rescue & Education Sanctuary came to be, was instrumental in the healthy and happy lives of scores of exotics, farm animals, and non-releasable wildlife, and ultimately had to be dismantled is both inspiring and heartbreaking. While aimed to raise awareness and compassion in middle school children for the creatures that share their world, Cindy's natural approach to telling the tales of just a few of the characters the sanctuary rescued is a lesson in memoir writing and a tearful/joyful read for animal lovers of all ages.

Tails from SC CARES

Hedrick, Cindy

Teen & Young Adult

Decorative painter Bridget O'Brien is working late at the Magnolia Blossom Country Club when she hears noises in the dark deserted clubhouse. Investigating, she stumbles over a body in the men's locker room. A business woman in Chapel Hill, N.C., Bridget's neglected her family as she dealt with personal demons. But when her estranged teenage daughter confesses to the murder, Bridget finally gets her priorities. She charges into a wacky, reckless investigation to clear her daughter's name. But is the child really innocent? Dodging police, Bridget blitzes through clues and suspects, managing to stay on the right side of the law ... just. Despite family secrets frustrating her efforts, and bonding and redemption with loved ones almost out of reach, Bridget targets the killer amid the March Madness of a UNC-Duke basketball game. The teams battle. The crowd erupts. Is Bridget in over her head?

Faux Finished, A Mystery

Dixon, Dawn

This story of wealthy thirty-somethings negotiating relationships, social and economic obligations, and being targeted as privileged one-percenters, is delivered by a stable of pitch-perfect characters caught in a web of greed, murder and mystery. When Molly Commander, matriarch of a powerful Southern family, dies in a car crash on a dark two-lane road on the Waccamaw Neck, a chain of events is set in motion, linking lowcountry life with the clandestine activities of the third largest bank in the country. From boardrooms and private clubs in New York and Atlanta to the lush setting of Pawleys Island and the South Carolina Lowcountry, Molly's grandson and his close circle of privileged friends come to grips with the contemporary greed of Wall Street and the complex responsibilities placed on them by great wealth.

United States

A helicopter crashes in a storm raging at Charlotte's International Airport. For journalist, Claire Kincaid, racing through the rain into the forbidden zone surrounding the crash site, it's the photo-op of a lifetime. She arrives just in time to snap the sole survivor being dragged from the burning fuselage. But, in the instant that she raises her camera, their eyes meet in a flash of recognition that strikes with the force of lightning. Little does she know that one click of her camera has captured the moment that will change her life forever, sending her down the dark corridors of old family scandals and reigniting a love story that spans generations and dimensions. A love so strong, it refuses to die, threatening to spill into a cauldron of black magic and a miasma of unreality where nothing is as it seems. Clinging to the vestiges of her sanity, Claire hunts for her identity, inexorably entwined it seems with that of the unknown man in her photograph.

The Writer's Cottage

BROCK, GINNY

Finding Love at 80

Mikos, Paul

Keefer, Pris

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