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! New York Times bestselling author Dottie Frank is back home in the Carolina lowcountry, spinning a tale that brims with the warmth, charm, heart, and humor that has become her trademark. Porch Lights is a stirring, emotionally rich multigenerational story – a poignant tale of life, love, and transformation – as a nurse, returning from the Iraq War to Sullivans Island, with its unique pluff mud beaches, palmetto trees and colorful local lore, finds her life has been irrevocably altered by tragedy. She now must rediscover love and purpose with the help of her son and aging mother.
$25

Friday 06/15/2012 at 11:00 AM
Maryann McFadden
(The Book Lover) at Capt. Dave's Dockside
Ruth Hardaway has had one passion all her life: books. For thirty years she's devoted her life to her book store, trying to bury her painful past. But now the store is in jeopardy, and the past is catching up with her. Lucinda Barrett lost everything in a life-shattering betrayal. Desperate, she goes after one last dream - to be an author. Alone and broke, she embarks on a journey, eventually landing on Ruth's doorstep. Ruth takes Lucy under her wing, championing her book and even offering her refuge at a nearby lake cabin. In return, she wants Lucy to keep an eye on her son, Colin, who's recovering from a war injury. As the two women grow closer and begin to face the past, neither has any idea that their toughest decisions lie ahead - or that their friendship is about to fall apart because of a little white lie.
$25

Friday 06/22/2012 at 11:00 AM
Karen White
(Sea Change) at Pawleys Plantation
The "blurb" isn't available yet. But fans know it will be fabulous, as are all of Karen's creations! Here's a little about her: After playing hooky one day in the seventh grade to read "Gone With the Wind," Karen White knew she wanted to be a writer—or become Scarlett O'Hara. In spite of these aspirations, Karen pursued a degree in business and graduated cum laude with a BS in Management from Tulane University. Ten years later, after leaving the business world, she fulfilled her dream of becoming a writer and wrote her first book. In the "Shadow of the Moon" was published in August, 2000. This book was nominated for the prestigious RITA award in 2001 in two separate categories. Her books have since been nominated for numerous national contests including another RITA, the Georgia Author of the Year Award and in 2008 won the National Readers' Choice Award for "Learning to Breathe."
$25

Friday 06/29/2012 at 11:00 AM
Angie LeClercq
(A Grand Tour of Gardens) at Kimbel's, Wachesaw
Following her successful travelogue of the international adventures of a southern widow turned patron of historical discovery ("Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's Tales from the Grand Tour, 1890–1910") chronicling the captivating episodes in exotic lands as experienced by an intrepid American aristocrat and her son at the dawn of the twentieth century, Charleston native, Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq turns her eye to the Grand Gardens. As director of the Daniel Library at the Citadel and a great-grandniece of Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe, she holds a master's degree in librarianship from Emory University and a J.D. from the University of Tennessee.
$25