Southern Garden

NATIONAL BESTSELLER An enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city: “Elegant and wicked.... [This] might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime." —The New York Times Book...

Garden in the South Battery is the first novel of a trilogy with the main character named Abigail, a 40-something interior designer, who moves to start a new life with her college age daughter, Anna, now living in Charleston, S.C. Abigail fulfills her lifelong dream of buying a historic home on the infamous Charleston Battery. Yankees, Abigail and Anna, skate their way through living in the South by sipping sweet tea and finding they may have a spirit hanging about in the new home. Through trials and tribulations, they deduce that moving to Charleston and being Southern entails more than ...

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For her sixth birthday, Fiona Campbell’s mother, Claire, made her a peace-sign piñata filled with wishes for a better planet instead of candy. When she got her period, her mother held a womanhood ceremony at their café and invited the neighborhood. On her 16th birthday, they celebrated with a drum circle. Fiona grew up trying to keep the impulsive Claire in check and their struggling café afloat. She plans to move out, but first she must find a way to stop a big corporation from tearing down their business and destroying her mother’s livelihood.

Southern belle Verity Long is back in business - as a ghost hunter. Now all she has to do is visit the town's creepiest mansion and exorcise a family of vengeful spirits. Piece of cake. After all, ghosts love her and need her...that is until she meets the ghosts of Rock Fall mansion. They'll do anything to keep their murderous secrets hidden within the cliffside fortress - even if that means getting rid of one meddling ghost hunter.

In Caliban Hollow, the soil doesn’t just feed the living—it remembers the dead. When a failed farming town in the deep South uncovers “miraculous” new growth in its red clay fields, the townsfolk call it a blessing. But the roots twisting under their feet are older than prayer and hungrier than sin. From the first hog slaughter to the last broadcast on the county emergency frequency, The Meat Garden unearths a lineage of faith, rot, and flesh that binds every living thing to the same dark harvest. Bodies bloom. Mouths feed. The earth forgives—by consuming. Blending rural gothic ...

French Dirt is a love story between a man and his garden. It's about plowing, planting, watering, and tending. It's about cabbage, tomatoes, parsley, and eggplant. Most of all, it's about the growing friendship between an American outsider and a close-knit community of French farmers.

From the bestselling authors of The Southerner’s Handbook, Good Dog, and The Southerner’s Cookbook comes a lively compendium of Southern tradition and contemporary culture. The American South is a multifaceted region with its own vocabulary, peculiarities, and cultural touchstones. Even for...

The Garden Left Behind A Story of Roots, Ruins, and the Courage to Begin Again After twenty years as a crisis counselor, Nora Whitaker is emotionally spent. Burned out and untethered, she leaves Chicago behind when she unexpectedly inherits her great-aunt’s long-abandoned cottage in the quiet mountain town of Laurel Hollow, North Carolina. What she finds is more than dust and disrepair. 🪴 A forgotten garden, wild with memory and mystery 📖 A weathered journal revealing a decades-old secret love story 🏡 A house filled with echoes—and the chance to start over 🤝 New friendships ...

A book that strikes at the heart of the recent flare-ups over Confederate symbols in Charlottesville, New Orleans, and elsewhere, Denmark Vesey's Garden reveals the deep roots of these controversies and traces them to the heart of slavery in the United States: Charleston, South Carolina, where almost half of the US slave population stepped onto our shores, where the first shot at Fort Sumter began the Civil War, and where Dylann Roof shot nine people at Emanuel A.M.E. Church, the congregation of Denmark Vesey, a black revolutionary who plotted a massive slave insurrection.

"The narrators form a kind of tag team as they voice the florid descriptions of the city, its people, and a murder investigation led by the unlikeliest of characters, high society's Morgana Musgrove, portrayed by Karen Commins." - AudioFile on The Kingdoms of Savannah Savannah may appear to be...

Sugar Hill Isn’t Through With Avery Yet An Explosion of Paranormal Chaos Unleashes the Spirits of the Past Avery and Summer Dufresne thought they had finally laid the ghosts of Sugar Hill to rest. But the mansion’s restless spirits have other plans. After Avery and Reed tie the knot, a shocking explosion of paranormal energy disrupts the Starlight Ball, and Jessica Chesterfield from My Haunted Plantation is hurled back in time. Now, with Jessica trapped in the past and Sugar Hill teetering on the edge of supernatural upheaval, Avery must lead her family and Jessica’s friends in a ...

This richly atmospheric and luminous debut about three generations of empathic witches combines mystery, magical realism, and a touch of romance--perfect for fans of Practical Magic and Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe. As featured on The Kelly Clarkson Show. There’s something magical about...

In the breathtaking wilderness of South Africa, a running expedition becomes a deadly chase. What starts out as the adventure of a lifetime—traveling through South Africa’s stunning coastlines and exploring the pristine wilderness of Kariega Game Reserve—turns into a fight for survival when the leader of Global Runners accidentally witnesses the brutal actions of Victor Malanga, one of South Africa’s most dangerous crime bosses. From Cape Town’s iconic Table Mountain to the ancient forests of the Garden Route, each spectacular destination reveals another piece of Malanga’s ...

This program is read by the author. South Toward Home is a wry and humorous audiobook about life and culture in the American South. In thinking about her native land, Julia Reed quotes another Southern writer, Willie Morris, who said, “It’s the juxtapositions that get you down here.” These...

Want to grow your own thriving garden—year after year—without constantly rebuying seeds? Then keep reading… Discover the time-tested skill that turns every harvest into next season’s success—no green thumb required. Do you wish you could stop depending on store-bought seeds that are expensive, unreliable, or genetically modified? Have you ever felt confused, frustrated, or even intimidated by the idea of saving your own seeds? Does the idea of confidently preserving your garden’s best performers—and growing stronger plants each year—sound like a dream? You're not alone—and...

Three lives converge as a wildly talented baker returns to Dove Pond to face her past in this “enthralling story of losing, loving, and finding your way home again” (Woman’s World). Ella Dove is an acclaimed baker whose desserts spark vivid, cherished memories in those who taste them. A...

Will the Delarosa family survive the latest tragedy? Can Jacinta make contact with Jonatan? When a secret room is discovered at Seven Sisters a horrible spirit is released and wreaks havoc on the residents of the old house. In the 1800s, Lafonda struggles to keep her sanity and discovers Philip has a horrible secret. Does he love her, or is he there for his own reasons? The family's tragedies continue and Lafonda is left to pick up the pieces, which could mean taking desperate actions. Wracked with guilt, Jacinta tries to speak to Jonatan, but her new friend and medium makes contact with ...

‘Based on meticulous research in original sources … Goodman illustrates vividly how adept [Banks] was … Shining a light on individuals whose achievements are relatively uncelebrated’ Jenny Uglow, New York Review of Books A bold new history of how botany and global plant collecting –...

In the sultry, shadowed streets of New Orleans, where jazz drifts through iron-laced balconies and secrets fester beneath the Spanish moss, four extraordinary women are drawn together by fate—and a touch of the supernatural. Welcome to The Order of the Midnight Bloom , an urban fantasy series that will sweep you into a world where life, death, and everything in between blur like smoke on a moonlit night. Rose and Gail, society mavens and proprietors of their family’s historic funeral parlor, have built lives steeped in tradition—but nothing could prepare them for what lies beyond the ...