uscpress.com - Books https://uscpress.com/ Understanding Beth Henley https://uscpress.com/book-post/4449328/Understanding-Beth-Henley
A reunification of the Mississippi playwright's two distinctive periods of work

Beth Henley remains best known for Crimes of the Heart, a play that won the Pulitzer Prize and the New Yo…]]>
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Carnival of Blood https://uscpress.com/book-post/4449320/Carnival-of-Blood
The shocking history of homicide in the Palmetto State at the dawn of the twentieth century

Carnival of Blood presents the often disturbing history of changes in homicidal tendencies in…]]>
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Windows of the Heart https://uscpress.com/book-post/4449352/Windows-of-the-Heart
The first publication of decades of correspondence between Wolfe and the teacher he deemed "the mother of my spirit"

Thomas Wolfe remains one of the least understood of the major twenti…]]>
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Mary Black's Family Quilts https://uscpress.com/book-post/4449312/Mary-Blacks-Family-Quilts
A lavishly illustrated exploration of the material behavior and symbolic value of quilting across six generations

Mary Black's Family Quilts utilizes a remarkable collection of sixteen…]]>
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In Search of Ulster-Scots Land https://uscpress.com/book-post/4449376/In-Search-of-Ulster-Scots-Land
A cultural geographic view on Scots-Irish emigration from Ulster to the Bible Belt

Drawing insights from geography, history, social psychology, sociology, and theology, Barry Aron Vann…]]>
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Heaven Is a Beautiful Place, second edition https://uscpress.com/book-post/4450192/Heaven-Is-a-Beautiful-Place-second-edition
Born in 1928 in the small coastal town of Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, Genevieve "Sister" Peterkin grew up with World War II bombing practice in her front yard, deep-sea fishing expeditions…]]>
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Standing On Holy Ground https://uscpress.com/book-post/4449304/Standing-On-Holy-Ground
A harrowing tale of how faith and friendship can surmount hate and violence

After a vicious hate crime destroyed St. John Baptist Church in Dixiana, South Carolina, in 1984, two courage…]]>
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Understanding Jamaica Kincaid https://uscpress.com/book-post/4449344/Understanding-Jamaica-Kincaid
A comprehensive survey of the life and works of a writer deeply invested in themes of exile and exploitation

Understanding Jamaica Kincaid introduces readers to the prizewinning author…]]>
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The Realist Short Story of the Powerful Glimpse https://uscpress.com/book-post/4449360/The-Realist-Short-Story-of-the-Powerful-Glimpse
An aesthetic perspective on the short fiction of Chekhov, Joyce, Hemingway, O'Connor, and Carver

Taking a distinctively aesthetic approach to the genre of realist short fiction, Kerry M…]]>
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Soil Exhaustion as a Factor in the Agricultural History of Virginia and Maryland, 1606-1860 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4449368/Soil-Exhaustion-as-a-Factor-in-the-Agricultural-History-of-Virginia-and-Maryland-1606-1860
The germinal study of agriculture's impact on southern history from colonial through antebellum times

Recognized since its initial publication in 1926 as a watershed in American histori…]]>
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