Rue Toulouse It’s Mardi Gras time in New Orleans. Attending a masquerade ball, wealthy fashion designer Caterine Doucette, dressed as a shimmering ice princess, has her cool façade shattered when she encounters Bayou-born ex-cop Remi Michaud, disguised as the darkly handsome pirate Jean Lafitte. Their true identities hidden, the princess and the pirate come together in an explosion of passion and desire. But when fantasy turns to cold reality, Caterine panics and disappears into the night, unaware this man will soon be sent to rescue her from a killer and will capture her heart.

Babette Benoit: Between Dusk and Dark A South Louisiana ill-fate love story. The heroine's naïve innocence and absence of social sophistication gives rise to an intensely moving narrative. The author set the southern saga, based on a true story, in Thibodaux, Louisiana, a bayou town approximately 45 miles southwest of New Orleans. The book's main characters, two French girls growing up in Cajun Country in the 1950s and 1960s, are descendants of the French who settled in South Louisiana in the 1700s. The young Cajun beauty, Babette Benoit falls in love with the aristocratic son of the owner of Sugar Oaks Plantation, Louie Levert. Babette's innocence makes her story a Cajun/Creole tragedy of manners. The continuing conflicts that occur throughout her life create the heartbreak in her life. After Babette loses her son, fragile and frail, she breaks from reality. Torn by guilt, she chooses vodka as her disastrous drug of choice. Babette's best friend, Gabrielle Chappell, chronicles an ordinary girls' life into an extraordinarily bittersweet romance.

The Buried War The Buried War is a bugle cry; a Reveille of rage and a eulogy for the lost souls of war. It is the story of my father, his PTSD as a WW II veteran, my own journey as a Franciscan monk and heartfelt struggle with depression throughout my life. It is the story of a family from Alliance, Ohio weathering the storm of incredible poverty and hopelessness while living with the insanity of a father impaired and afflicted by the war. It is the story of my search for purpose and meaning by following the way of St. Francis of Assisi even after leaving behind the robe, the cord and the sandals.

You Don't Have to Come Back, You Just Have to Go Out: AN AUTHOR'S ADVENTURES IN 30 YEARS OF SCHOOL VISITS (Bluffton Books) When I started my writing career with a single children s mystery book, I had no idea the can of worms I was opening! Success and a reader fan base soon meant that I was awash in requests to visit our school! I always say I m a writer, not a speaker, but how do you say no to a librarian/media specialist or teacher? You don't!

How to Speak Golf: An Illustrated Guide to Links Lingo (HOW TO SPEAK SPORTS) From ace to zinger, How to Speak Golf includes over 125 golf terms paired with charming and clever illustrations that decode the words and phrases that fly around a golf course. Clubhouse Chatter sections are sprinkled throughout where you'll learn about everything from the origins of golf, the worst courses and biggest sand bunkers in the world, to the reason why there are so many bird references in golf terminology, a history of famous holes-in-one, and much, much more!

Fast Track Networking: Turning Conversations Into Contacts Whether you are looking to secure a new deal--or land a new job--Fast Track Networking gives you the tools you'll need to put the power of networking to work for you. You'll be amazed at the opportunities that will unfold once you begin to network right...and unconditionally.

Untying the Moon: A Novel (Story River Books) Recalling the writings of James Dickey, Jack Kerouac, Jack London, Pat Conroy, Mary Alice Monroe, and Lee Smith, Untying the Moon explores the redemptive powers of home, nature, creation, and storytelling itself. With prose that ebbs and flows from the lyrical and lush to the staccato and sparse, Malphrus's novel is rich with classical allusions and regional folklore, the enrapturing beauty of its settings, a racially and geographically diverse charismatic cast, and all the mystery and magic of fate. New York Times best-selling writer and Story River Books editor at large Pat Conroy provides a foreword to the novel.

Art and Craft: Thirty Years on the Literary Beat 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. Beginning with a foreword by Charleston novelist Josephine Humphreys, this collection is a compendium of interviews featuring some of the most distinguished novelists and nonfiction writers in America and abroad, including Tom Wolfe, Pat Conroy, Joyce Carol Oates, Rick Bragg, and Anthony Bourdain, as well as many South Carolinians. With ten thematic chapters ranging from the Southern Renaissance, literature, biography, and travel writing to crime fiction and Civil War history, Art and Craft also includes a sampling of Thompson’s reviews.

Dawn of The Living Ghost (The InSpectre Series) (Volume 1) Advertising artist Wayne Martin dies in a car accident, but it wasn't his time. He is given the opportunity to return to life by InSpectres, afterlife beings who return souls to their bodies if they die at the wrong time, but he must also work as an InSpectre himself. Wayne's first mission as an InSpectre is to track down the evil spirit Schofield, a powerful herald of The Fallen One who has destroyed many InSpectres over the last 130 years. Will Wayne be the latest InSpectre to fall to Schofield?

Rise And Shine Johnathon Barrett takes you on a decades-long journey of culinary exploration, starting in the 1960s in his hometown of Perry, Georgia. There in the low-rolling hills and slow-moving creeks of Middle Georgia he tells--with good humor and reflection--stories about his family, and how for generations farm-to-table food was a mainstay in their daily lives. He also relates how food was the common denominator for all aspects of life in the South, especially in small towns and rural communities. Barrett shares his need to leave behind those days of stewed squash and fried okra, and move on to what he felt were more sophisticated and global offerings. He discovered, however, that while he tried to take his palate of out of Dixie, there was always some Georgia red clay in his blood--and in his taste buds.

A Peach of a Pair March, 1953. Nettie Gilbert has cherished her time studying to be a music teacher at Columbia College in South Carolina, but as graduation approaches, she can’t wait to return to her family—and her childhood sweetheart, Brooks—in Alabama. But just days before her senior recital, she gets a letter from her mama telling her that Brooks is getting married . . . to her own sister.

Voracious: A Hungry Reader Cooks Her Way through Great Books As a young bookworm reading in her grandfather's butcher shop, Cara Nicoletti saw how books and food bring people to life. Now a butcher, cook, and talented writer, she serves up stories and recipes inspired by beloved books and the food that gives their characters depth and personality.

Sunrise on Hilton Head Island Hilton Head is a foot-shaped island off the coast of South Carolina, approximately 20 miles northeast of Savannah, Georgia and 95 miles southeast of Charleston, South Carolina. Most of the photographs in this book were taken on Coligny Beach, which is located on the "instep" of the island, at the end of Pope Avenue and due east of Coligny Circle. They are grouped by the season in which they were shot in order to show the tremendous diversity of scenes that can be witnessed throughout the year. Other photographs are included to show the magnitude of beauty on the island.

Lowcountry Voodoo A to Z (Bluffton Books)
New Orleans and Haiti are not the only "ground zeros" of voodoo. Historic Beaufort, S.C. (where the author lives) is home to a rich history of voodoo culture and conjurors. From the ancient knowledge of the Gullah-Geehee on St. Helena's Island to avowed voodoo Sheriff James McTeer, this book shares the serious, silly, spooky, believable, unbelievable, and amazing influences of voodoo on the Lowcountry.

Morgan Otter Saves the Sea Turtles Eight-year-old Morgan Otter moves from her home in the hot Arizona desert to damp, green Georgia when her father gets a new job. She attends a day camp at the Nature Center where she meets new friends and learns about the animals of the Lowcountry, including endangered sea turtles. As Morgan learns about the sea turtles, she vows to become a sea turtle superhero with her new friend, Claire. The dynamic duo help protect baby sea turtles at the beach and make sure they make it to the ocean unharmed.