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Phoning Home is a collection of entertaining and thought-provoking essays featuring the author’s quirky family, his Jewish heritage and his New York City upbringing. Jacob M.

Civil rights activist, writer, theologian, preacher and educator, Benjamin Elijah Mays (1894–1984) was one of the most distinguished South Carolinians of the 20th century.

Fragments of the Ark follows the exploits of runaway slave Peter Mango, his family, and a band of fellow escaped slaves as they commandeer a Confederate gunboat out of Charleston harbor and deliver

DéLana R. A.

Two short stories about the life lessons a hunter learned in pursuit of wild turkeys and deer. In "Thanks to Gert," the first of this two-story eBook, A.

During William Gilmore Simms’s life (1806–1870), book reviews and critical essays became vital parts of American literary culture and intellectual discourse.

A product of the industrialized New South, Eugene Healan Thomason (1895–1972) made the obligatory pilgrimage to New York to advance his art education and launch his career.

Vividly set in the rich pluralistic culture and primeval landscape of colonial South Carolina, this historical novel brings to life, and back into our memory, the birth of free-range cattle herding

Upcountry South Carolina Goes to War chronicles the lives and concerns of the Anderson, Brockman and Moore families of piedmont South Carolina during the late-antebellum and Civil War eras through

John Arthos discovers and promotes an organic reciprocity between rhetoric as a humanist practice and hermeneutics as a theoretical comportment.

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

Brian T.

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