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The biblical story of Ruth celebrates the power to begin life anew, to gather what has been scattered, to glean what one needs.

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These are the opening pages of A Southern Girl, John Warley's novel of international adoption and of families lost, then found anew through revelations, courage and the perseverance of a love

Art and Craft presents the hand-picked fruit of Bill Thompson’s three decades covering writers and writing as book review editor of Charleston, South Carolina’s Post and Courier.

Originally published in 1992, South Carolina in the Modern Age was the first history of contemporary South Carolina to appear in more than a quarter century and helped establish the reputation of t

Major General Johnson Hagood (1873–1948) was one of South Carolina's most distinguished army officers of the 20th century.

In a weaving together of contradictory realms' past and present, rustbelt city and rural/urban South, old-world Catholicism and backwoods Protestantism — Joseph Bathanti draws readers into the

The constant assault of natural forces make fragile barrier islands some of the most rapidly changing locations in the world, but human activities have had enormous impact on these islands as well.

"Lord, I'm glad I'm a hermit novelist," Flannery O'Connor wrote to a friend in 1957.

Fear and brutality grip Columbia, South Carolina, in the harsh winter of 1865 as General William Tecumseh Sherman continues his fiery march to the sea and advances on the capital city where secessi

Named by Harold Bloom as one of the most significant American novelists of our time, Cormac McCarthy has been honored with the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for All

From Italy to Switzerland, Germany to Spain and Philadelphia to New Orleans, Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq describes the beauty of different historic gardens in this collection of essays.

Ben McC. Moïse served with distinction as a South Carolina game warden for nearly a quarter century, patrolling the coastal woods and waters of the Palmetto State.

There are two portrayals of Scarlett O’Hara: the widely familiar one of the film Gone with the Wind and Margaret Mitchell’s more sympathetic character in the book.

Novelist Walker Percy once said that the only remaining unexplored territory in Southern literature was the Jewish southerner.