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They must leave home now. They were told it's time--that they're finally ready.After the Great Storms, communications were down for a year and a half, and society was crippled. So when the G.O.D. (Global Operational Datalink) switch was finally turned on, the world was starved for electronic devices and ripe for what would happen next. It was the beginning of the end. Anyone who didn't receive the mark of the Global Union was an outsider, shun...

Die Freunde-Seiten sind schwarz-weiß gestaltet, da diese durch die Fantasie der Kinder schön bunt werden dürfen. Entsprechend dem Alter der Kindergarten- und Grundschulkinder kann manches ganz einfach auch mit Buntstiften beantwortet werden. Die "Fragen" sind passend zum Thema dieses Buches vorgegeben, wie z.B. "Da hat mein Schutzengel mal besonders auf mich aufgepasst" oder "Was ich mir von den Engeln wünsche". Und natürlich gibt es jeweils n...

Inzwischen hört man zunehmend das Wort "Hochsensibilität". Zugleich heißt es da, dass es sich hierbei nicht um eine Krankheit, sondern um eine Gabe handelt, die uns für dieses Erdenleben mitgegeben wurde. Und auch wenn es schon hilfreich ist, dass wir dem Kind einen Namen geben können - sich also zeigt, dass uns "zu viel" Feingefühl bisher so manches im Kindes- wie auch im Erwachsenenalter nicht immer leicht gemacht hat - so ist es für uns sel...

Bringing the New Orleans of the late 1800s and early 1900s vividly to life, Nicole Seitz's latest novel unfolds as a series of letters, journal entries, and newspaper articles discovered in the secret compartment of an enormous and exquisitely detailed birdcage that Trish, a twenty-first-century blogger, has inherited from a heretofore unknown relative.

In response to the "thousand year flood" of 2015 in South Carolina, eighteen beloved and bestselling authors graciously contributed a water-themed story, essay, novel excerpt, or poem to this heart-warming and thought-provoking anthology. Like a winding river, their words meander through memories and nostalgia or swell in a fit of faith, fear, or questioning. Some offer lessons learned by the water or new beginnings because of it. There are ev...

Set in the South Carolina Sea Islands, Nicole Seitz's second novel follows the stories of two sisters. One is seeking to recreate her life yet again and learns to truly live from a group of Gullah nannies she meets on the island. The other thinks she's got it all together until her sister's imminent death from cancer causes her to re-examine her own life and seek the healing and rebirth her troubled sister managed to find on St. Anne's Island....

Essie Mae Laveau Jenkins is a 78-year-old sweetgrass basket weaver who sits on the side of Hwy. 17 in the company of her dead husband, Daddy Jim. Inspired by her Auntie Leona, Essie Mae finally discovers her calling in life and weaves powerful "love baskets, " praying fervently over them to affect the lives of those who visit her roadside stand. When she's faced with losing her home and her stand and being put in a nursing home, Daddy Jim talk...

A beautiful young woman. An American soldier. A war-torn country. Nearly forty years of silence. Now, two daughters search for the truth they hope will set them free and the elusive peace their parents have never found. In the South Carolina Lowcountry, a young mother named Katherine Ann is struggling to help her tempestuous father by plunging into a world of secrets he never talks about. A fry cook named Lisa is trying desperately to reach he...

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It was about four years ago, the last trip we ever took together--my mother, sister, grandparents and me. Course, we didn't know it at the time. You never know something like that, like it's the last one you'll ever get, till it's just a memory, hanging like mist. This is what happened that summer, true as I can tell it. Not a one of us was ever the same." Part road trip, part mystery, and completely unexpected, Saving Cicadas picks you up in ...

Beauty is sometimes found in the most unlikely places. In 1929, the train brings strangers to small-town Levy, South Carolina. There is a struggle--and a fire--and the lives of four childhood friends will never be the same.

When single mother Priscilla Lynn Macy learns she's having another child unexpectedly, she packs the family into the car to escape. Eight-year-old Janie and Rainey Dae, her seventeen-year-old sister with special needs, embark on the last family vacation they'll ever take with Poppy and Grandma Mona in the back seat. The trip seems aimless until Janie realizes they are searching for the father who left them years ago. When they can't find him, ...