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"Years before the name Alex Murdaugh was splashed across every major media outlet in America, local South Carolina journalist Mandy Matney had an instinct that something wasn’t right in the Lowcountry. The powerful Murdaugh dynasty had dominated rural South Carolina for generations. No one dared to cross them. When Mandy and her reporting partner Liz Farrell looked closer at a fatal boat crash involving the storied family’s teenage son Paul,...
2) The Patriot
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
A hero of the French and Indian conflict, Benjamin Martin had renounced fighting forever to raise his family in peace. However, when British troops arrive at his South Carolina home and endanger his family, he takes up arms alongside his idealistic patriot son, Gabriel.
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Muddy footprints and straw dolls betray the presence of an ancient evil. Author John James has brought his innocent young son Sam and sullen teenage daughter Louisa to a new home to start their lives over after James's wife abandoned them. The house, of course, is huge and in the middle of an overgrown forest--and the discovery of a strange mound nearby doesn't make things any less spooky. Louisa's adolescent hormones practically beg for supernatural...
Pub. Date
©2008
Description
Lily Owens is a young girl who lives on the peach farm that her abusive father owns. Rosaleen is a black woman hired by Lily's father to be a stand in mother for Lilly. Rosaleen insults some of the biggest racists in their town. Lily and Rosaleen run away to a town Lily believes that her mother once lived in. They go to live with the three Boatwright sisters on their honey farm. She finds solace in their mesmerizing world of beekeeping.
Pub. Date
2019
Description
Billy and Ellie's marriage may be on the rocks, but they don't know the meaning of the word 'chaos' until Billy's wayward brother arrives and spreads his unique brand of mayhem to the family, their neighbors, and eventually the entire town of Guppie, South Carolina, as it prepares for its annual festival. Turns out, though, that all the havoc might just be the spark Billy and Ellie need to patch things up.
10) Burden
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
It tells the incredible true story of Michael 'Mike' Burden, an ardent young member of the South Carolina Ku Klux Klan who rose to the rank of Grand Dragon and walked away from all of it with the help of new love and an unlikely ally, the African American religious leader and social activist Reverend David Kennedy.
11) The Marine
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
An Iraq War veteran must rescue his wife from a gang of jewel thieves.
12) Sherman's March
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
General William Tecumseh Sherman's total war strategy against the south helped end the Civil War and forever changed the nation. Sherman's brutal and effective campaign, which not only saved the Lincoln presidency, the Union, and thousands of lives, but also made Sherman one of the most hated and controversial figures in American history. In November 1864, Sherman and an army of 60,000 troops began their march from Atlanta to Savannah, and then up...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Denise and Frank fight to save their marriage; while Claudia Joy discovers a life-changing personal truth of her own. Newly promoted Joan wrestles with a major decision that will affect her husband and new baby; while Roland imagines what his life would be like had he taken a different path. Pamela questions Chase's family commitment after he returns from capture; and Roxy encounters unexpected new responsiblities as Trevor explores a new job in the...
14) Conrack
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Description
The story of an idealistic, innovative teacher on a remote South Carolina island. His unorthodox teaching methods bring him into conflict with the reactionary school superintendent
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Description
A collection of six war movies all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
300: In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC, an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian King Xerxes lead an Army of well over 100,000 men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700...
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Denise and Frank fight to save their marriage; while Claudia Joy discovers a life-changing personal truth of her own. Newly promoted Joan wrestles with a major decision that will affect her husband and new baby; while Roland imagines what his life would be like had he taken a different path. Pamela questions Chase's family commitment after he returns from capture; and Roxy encounters unexpected new responsiblities as Trevor explores a new job in the...
18) Perfect Harmony
Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Description
Set in South Carolina during the 1950s, two boys form a friendship in spite of the racial barriers that divide the town.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Denise and Frank fight to save their marriage; while Claudia Joy discovers a life-changing personal truth of her own. Newly promoted Joan wrestles with a major decision that will affect her husband and new baby; while Roland imagines what his life would be like had he taken a different path. Pamela questions Chase's family commitment after he returns from capture; and Roxy encounters unexpected new responsiblities as Trevor explores a new job in the...
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