When the South Wind Blows: The Untold Story of the Phantom of the Carolina Coast
By Ginny Brock
"When the South Wind Blows" is based on an old legend. It begins during the waning days of the Civil War, at the abandonment of Fort Sumter in South Carolina.
An officer in the confederate navy, Ross Stanley, has been marooned there and is trying to get home to his father's plantation on Pawley's Island and the girl he plans to marry - if she still wants him. It is a tale of adventure with his childhood friend Zack, a plantation slave and the son of the root doctor Sadie Jones who wet nursed both him and Ross when Ross's mother was unable to care for him.
The story makes a trail through the dangers of the flooded swamps, heart break, black magic, and a love so strong, it crosses dimensions.
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Available at Amazon.
The Writer's Cottage
By Ginny Brock
"The Writer's Cottage" is the sequel to "When the South blows." It opens, surprisingly, and mysteriously, in 2019 in Charlotte's International Airport. A military helicopter crashes, Claire Kincaid, a young photojournalist, faces the photo op of a lifetime as she rushes to the helicopter and snaps a shot of the sole survivor, never dreaming that that one snap of her camera will change her life forever.Their eyes meet and a flash of recognition passes between them, opening into a time long ago, sending her down the dark corridors of old family scandals and reigniting a love story that spans centuries. It travels through the mysterious history of the South Carolina coast, threatening to spill her life and her sanity into a miasma of unreality, where nothing is as it seems. Murder, intrigue, the sadness of interracial relationships will keep you turning pages, and sharply drawn characters will stay with you long after the last word is read.
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"The Writer's Cottage" is the sequel to "When the South blows." It opens, surprisingly, and mysteriously, in 2019 in Charlotte's International Airport. A military helicopter crashes, Claire Kincaid, a young photojournalist, faces the photo op of a lifetime as she rushes to the helicopter and snaps a shot of the sole survivor, never dreaming that that one snap of her camera will change her life forever.Their eyes meet and a flash of recognition passes between them, opening into a time long ago, sending her down the dark corridors of old family scandals and reigniting a love story that spans centuries. It travels through the mysterious history of the South Carolina coast, threatening to spill her life and her sanity into a miasma of unreality, where nothing is as it seems. Murder, intrigue, the sadness of interracial relationships will keep you turning pages, and sharply drawn characters will stay with you long after the last word is read.
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Sweet Tea and Vinegar Pie
By Denise DeVries
When a retired Baltimore teacher steps off the steamboat in Virginia, she expects a short stay in Hull Crossing while she saves for the journey of her dreams. All she wants is to be left alone. Instead, Myra Jean Evans immediately becomes grist for the gossip mill led by Sarabell Simms, who has her own secrets to hide. Forced to adapt to a completely unfamiliar environment, Myra Jean must confront her own assumptions and make some changes, with repercussions on the lives of everyone around her.
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When a retired Baltimore teacher steps off the steamboat in Virginia, she expects a short stay in Hull Crossing while she saves for the journey of her dreams. All she wants is to be left alone. Instead, Myra Jean Evans immediately becomes grist for the gossip mill led by Sarabell Simms, who has her own secrets to hide. Forced to adapt to a completely unfamiliar environment, Myra Jean must confront her own assumptions and make some changes, with repercussions on the lives of everyone around her.
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Prickly Pear Lemonade
By Denise DeVries
Disaster threatens Myra Jean's Arizona honeymoon with Walter Cates, at the very least causing them to question some of their choices. Meanwhile, their friends back in Hull Crossing are caught in a power struggle between Sarabell Simms and her younger, meaner rival Lida Grace Loomis. Will Walter and his bride come home to big changes, or will they decide to extend their adventure?
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Disaster threatens Myra Jean's Arizona honeymoon with Walter Cates, at the very least causing them to question some of their choices. Meanwhile, their friends back in Hull Crossing are caught in a power struggle between Sarabell Simms and her younger, meaner rival Lida Grace Loomis. Will Walter and his bride come home to big changes, or will they decide to extend their adventure?
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Garfield's Train
By Feather Schwartz Foster
President Garfield dies in Long Branch, NJ in 1881. Fictional characters interact with the real people. Good for young adults as well as just plain adults.
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President Garfield dies in Long Branch, NJ in 1881. Fictional characters interact with the real people. Good for young adults as well as just plain adults.
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LADIES: A Conjecture of Personalities
By Feather Schwartz Foster
First Ladies from Martha Washington to Mamie Eisenhower "write" their own chapters, and ev erybody (thru Hillary Clinton) chimes in with commentary.
Enjoyable and humorous book.
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First Ladies from Martha Washington to Mamie Eisenhower "write" their own chapters, and ev erybody (thru Hillary Clinton) chimes in with commentary.
Enjoyable and humorous book.
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Always Remembering
By Kathy Kasunich
Helen has only one dream in her life: to marry Mike. What happens when World War II erupts and the new lovers are forced to separate and endure a new normal of uncertainty, loneliness, heartache, and misunderstandings? How do they contend with Helen’s domineering mother who forces her to accept an engagement ring from another man and cancels wedding plans? How can they deal with meddling relatives who question Mike’s intentions? What is the antidote for all the poisons infiltrating their world? Nostalgic memories and unceasing correspondence. They must learn to adapt and remember the person who stole their heart.
From Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to the trails of the 42nd Rainbow Division battlegrounds during World War II, the pangs of separation and the destruction of war resonate deeply. In a story told through both of their perspectives, Mike, an outgoing, confident medic, and Helen, a diffident, humble grocer, take you on their journey as they navigate situations beyond their control.
A genuine, heartfelt tale based on a true romance, Always Remembering depicts the emotional effects and unseen collateral damage of war seen through the eyes of two average individuals. This Capraesque love story is both inspiring and poignant as it portrays the resilience of the human spirit and the power of sentimental memories.
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Helen has only one dream in her life: to marry Mike. What happens when World War II erupts and the new lovers are forced to separate and endure a new normal of uncertainty, loneliness, heartache, and misunderstandings? How do they contend with Helen’s domineering mother who forces her to accept an engagement ring from another man and cancels wedding plans? How can they deal with meddling relatives who question Mike’s intentions? What is the antidote for all the poisons infiltrating their world? Nostalgic memories and unceasing correspondence. They must learn to adapt and remember the person who stole their heart.
From Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to the trails of the 42nd Rainbow Division battlegrounds during World War II, the pangs of separation and the destruction of war resonate deeply. In a story told through both of their perspectives, Mike, an outgoing, confident medic, and Helen, a diffident, humble grocer, take you on their journey as they navigate situations beyond their control.
A genuine, heartfelt tale based on a true romance, Always Remembering depicts the emotional effects and unseen collateral damage of war seen through the eyes of two average individuals. This Capraesque love story is both inspiring and poignant as it portrays the resilience of the human spirit and the power of sentimental memories.
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The Wealth of a Nation:
Blackbeard's Legacy
By Barbara McLennan
Blackbeard and his fleet sail the Atlantic coast and Caribbean capturing many ships and enriching themselves. Andrew Morgan from Virginia, Blackbeard’s gunner, invests his shares with a banker in Philadelphia. Andrew visits friends in Virginia and agrees to bring along young Benjamin Harrison on one of his spring voyages. Ben is eighteen, has just completed his studies, and has been promised in marriage to a daughter of King Carter of Virginia.
Ben witnesses Blackbeard’s election as captain and impresses Blackbeard with his education and family background. Blackbeard allows him to become assistant navigator on his ship and Ben is included, along with the navigator, in meetings of the ship’s officers. When they get to the Bahamas, Ben, who has made enemies, duels with the previous assistant navigator. He also meets the governor of Jamaica and becomes aware of the dangers awaiting Blackbeard and other privateers.
Upon their return to the mainland Andrew marries his banker’s daughter and is present when Blackbeard blockades Charles Towne harbor. Ben, who has received a small ship from Blackbeard for his hard work at sea, returns to Virginia and is elected burgess.
Ben meets Governor Spotswood and participates in Spotswood’s fall in Virginia politics. Ben also learns of Spotswood’s plan to murder Blackbeard and travels to Ocracoke trying to warn the captain. There, from another ship, he witnesses Blackbeard’s assassination at the hands of Spotswood’s hired killers.
Andrew and Ben live through the aftermath: trials, executions, political recrimination from London and North Carolina, Spotswood’s seizure of large tracts of property, and Spotswood’s eventual replacement as governor. This is followed by marriages, new families, new businesses, the growth of trade and manufacturing, and fond memories of Blackbeard.
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Blackbeard and his fleet sail the Atlantic coast and Caribbean capturing many ships and enriching themselves. Andrew Morgan from Virginia, Blackbeard’s gunner, invests his shares with a banker in Philadelphia. Andrew visits friends in Virginia and agrees to bring along young Benjamin Harrison on one of his spring voyages. Ben is eighteen, has just completed his studies, and has been promised in marriage to a daughter of King Carter of Virginia.
Ben witnesses Blackbeard’s election as captain and impresses Blackbeard with his education and family background. Blackbeard allows him to become assistant navigator on his ship and Ben is included, along with the navigator, in meetings of the ship’s officers. When they get to the Bahamas, Ben, who has made enemies, duels with the previous assistant navigator. He also meets the governor of Jamaica and becomes aware of the dangers awaiting Blackbeard and other privateers.
Upon their return to the mainland Andrew marries his banker’s daughter and is present when Blackbeard blockades Charles Towne harbor. Ben, who has received a small ship from Blackbeard for his hard work at sea, returns to Virginia and is elected burgess.
Ben meets Governor Spotswood and participates in Spotswood’s fall in Virginia politics. Ben also learns of Spotswood’s plan to murder Blackbeard and travels to Ocracoke trying to warn the captain. There, from another ship, he witnesses Blackbeard’s assassination at the hands of Spotswood’s hired killers.
Andrew and Ben live through the aftermath: trials, executions, political recrimination from London and North Carolina, Spotswood’s seizure of large tracts of property, and Spotswood’s eventual replacement as governor. This is followed by marriages, new families, new businesses, the growth of trade and manufacturing, and fond memories of Blackbeard.
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The Serpent Papers
The Serpent Papers
by Jeff Schnader
A finalist in the Blue Moon Novel Competition of 2021, The Serpent Papers is set at Columbia University during the Vietnam War era of the 1970s. The war created a generational rift between those who fought and those who protested which this novel aims to heal with rapprochement.
The story is about two friends, one who enters college and the other who volunteers to fight in Vietnam, as they confront the fear, violence and issues of conscience surrounding the war which remains the defining event of its generation.
Summary: J-Bee, son of a military officer, is raised in a violent milieu during the 1960s. After his brother is persecuted by bullies, J-Bee commits a retaliatory act of brutality which scars him.
When his best friend, Gilly, volunteers to fight in Vietnam, J-Bee—repulsed by his own violence—refuses to follow either his father or Gilly into the military. Instead, he matriculates at Columbia in 1971 in an era of counterculture in order to seek his redemption.
While there, he is introduced to the mysterious Serpent, a coffeehouse sage, and to the politically active Margo who schools him in anti-war politics and the virtues of peace. Although he feels loyalty to his friend fighting overseas, he increasingly sympathizes with Margo’s rationale against the war. Torn between supporting the war or protesting against it, J-Bee’s paradoxical feelings are ignited when Gilly, on furlough from Vietnam, visits him at Columbia.
With ratcheting tensions and bullhorns leading students in protest, pro-war and anti-war factions collide in campus riots, and J-Bee makes the choice that defines his life.
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by Jeff Schnader
A finalist in the Blue Moon Novel Competition of 2021, The Serpent Papers is set at Columbia University during the Vietnam War era of the 1970s. The war created a generational rift between those who fought and those who protested which this novel aims to heal with rapprochement.
The story is about two friends, one who enters college and the other who volunteers to fight in Vietnam, as they confront the fear, violence and issues of conscience surrounding the war which remains the defining event of its generation.
Summary: J-Bee, son of a military officer, is raised in a violent milieu during the 1960s. After his brother is persecuted by bullies, J-Bee commits a retaliatory act of brutality which scars him.
When his best friend, Gilly, volunteers to fight in Vietnam, J-Bee—repulsed by his own violence—refuses to follow either his father or Gilly into the military. Instead, he matriculates at Columbia in 1971 in an era of counterculture in order to seek his redemption.
While there, he is introduced to the mysterious Serpent, a coffeehouse sage, and to the politically active Margo who schools him in anti-war politics and the virtues of peace. Although he feels loyalty to his friend fighting overseas, he increasingly sympathizes with Margo’s rationale against the war. Torn between supporting the war or protesting against it, J-Bee’s paradoxical feelings are ignited when Gilly, on furlough from Vietnam, visits him at Columbia.
With ratcheting tensions and bullhorns leading students in protest, pro-war and anti-war factions collide in campus riots, and J-Bee makes the choice that defines his life.
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Gold and Steel
By Robert Webb
An embattled noble in feudal Japan hires a team of ninja to take his daughter to a place where she will be safe from his enemies. They are pursued relentlessly by samurai in the service of a rival lord.
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Contact Robert: brainstorm721@gmail.com
Available at: https://studiobrainstorm.net/shop
Contact Robert: brainstorm721@gmail.com