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...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

The epic true story of an extreme athlete, a stray dog, and how they found each other—now a major motion picture from Lionsgate starring Mark Walhberg and Simu Liu. When you're racing 435 miles through the jungles and mountains of South America, the last thing you need is a stray dog tagging along. But that's exactly what happened to Mikael Lindnord, captain of a Swedish adventure racing team, when he threw a scruffy but dignified mongrel a meatball one afternoon.

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

Discover the “sometimes whimsical, often insightful, always absorbing” (Shelf Awareness) Dove Pond series with this novel that explores the magic in the tea leaves—from New York Times bestselling author Karen Hawkins. Ava Dove—the sixth of the seven famed Dove sisters and owner of Ava...

From the award-winning Southern lifestyle magazine Garden & Gun comes this rich collection of some of the South’s most notable women. For too long, the Southern woman has been synonymous with the Southern belle, a “moonlight and magnolias” myth that gets nowhere close to describing the...

Hummingbirds. Such a fascinating bird species that captivate anyone who has ever seen one to learn more about these "jewels of the sky". In "Hummingbirds: How To Attract And Feed With A Backyard Habitat" you will discover... About 12 different hummingbird species frequently seen in North America Best ways to attract and feed hummingbirds through feeders and flowers Our hummingbird nectar recipe that will continue to bring hummers back And much more! Order today and find out why this book is full of useful, insightful information on hummingbirds that will help you appreciate the fragility ...

Victoria Sinclair, New Orleans’ sassiest gossip columnist, thrives on the juiciest scandals. But when her pen starts making headlines literally come to life, she discovers a curse from a long-forgotten interview with a voodoo priest. Now, her words are rewriting reality—stirring up everything from city-wide chaos to a nose-diving tourism industry. With the French Quarter and Garden District teetering on the edge of madness, her three closest friends—funeral parlor queens with their own knack for drama—must join forces to stop Victoria from turning her column into a catastrophe. But ...

Start the vegetable garden of your dreams and access an abundance of fresh produce and healthier food options! You have discovered the ideal companion created especially to provide beginner gardeners like you with all the information you require to effectively construct your first vegetable garden!

Step beneath the Spanish moss and enter the humid, secret-laden world of Hawthorn House, rebranded as Beaufort Botanical Retreat. Saffron returns after twelve years, drawn back by the impending death of her godmother, the formidable matriarch Delaphina Duval. But the house, with its aged stucco and grand columns, is not merely a place of fading life; it echoes with the "sting of her mother's last harrowing screams" and is thick with unspoken truths. Saffron finds Delaphina frail but still commanding, surrounded by those vying for position or protecting their own interests. There's Jolie ...