Chef Kevin Mitchell and Professor David S. Shields crisscross South Carolina geography and social history in "Taste the State". Their alphabetical compendium of stories, recipes, and photographs champions the Palmetto State’s... Read More

Love’s Legacy is exciting as it untangles a modern family’s complex connection to one of the nineteenth century’s most prominent men. Daniel Fallon’s literary memoir Love’s Legacy documents his search for the truth about his... Read More

The short stories collected in Jo Lloyd’s "Something Wonderful" are luminous, startling, and diverse. In them, characters search for meaning, value, and truth, often describing their circumstances with wry bluntness. In “Work,” a... Read More

In "How to Talk to a Science Denier", Lee McIntyre comments that “our fellow citizens don’t seem to listen to facts anymore.” Still, be the topic climate change or vaccines, he endorses respectful conversation as the best way to... Read More

Inspired by Korean folklore, this bedtime story uses cutout ink characters within detailed dioramas to depict a magical summer night, when it is so hot that the moon begins to melt. A quick-thinking grandmother wolf catches the drops in... Read More

In the creative psychological novel "Midget", a malicious conservator is pit against a disabled man who resists her abuse. In Kate Valery’s suspenseful novel "Midget", music and mystery reign among a group of mentally ill people. Jim... Read More

Bootleggers and sports heroes populate the stories of "The Portable Creek", a memoir set in the unique world of an affable Southern man. Keith Huffman’s gentle and nostalgic memoir "The Portable Creek" is set in the South; it concerns... Read More

"Chasing Alexander" is a revealing soldier’s memoir about the intrigue and brutality of war. Christopher Martin’s memoir "Chasing Alexander" pushes aside vague notions of what it means to be a marine, replacing them with the raw... Read More