New From RLP!
Another Ivy League Mystery
The Mystery of the Circus Curse
By Karen Petit
A fast-paced, three-ring adventure begins for Ivy and her friends when a dancing bear named Pirouette escapes from the circus. In their quest to find Pirouette, the pets discover that a mysterious curse involving the theft of valuable paintings and jewels has surrounded the circus for nearly 100 years. So come along as Ivy, Ernest, Spooky, Lovely, Hoover, Blitz and Marigold are joined in their crime-solving efforts by a fancy circus Poodle named Louise and a group of misfit dogs known as the Park Street Pack.
$14.95
Notice!
The launch for The Mystery of the Circus Curse, the fourth book in the “Shandon’s Ivy League” Mystery Series, was held on May 26 at Hand Middle School.
The book, written by children’s mystery writer Karen Petit of Columbia and published by Red Letter Press, continues the adventures of a group of crime-solving pets.
Since 2004, Hand Middle School students have been a test audience for Petit’s mystery series. Teachers and students who participated in the testing of The Mystery of the Circus Curse will be at the launch. More than 200 middle school students have participated in the program since its inception.
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Now that's courage!
A young woman, blind since birth, goes off to college to seek her independence
and a chance at a normal life. A true story of triumph over adversity!
Carmella's Quest: Taking On College Sight Unseen
By Carmella Broome
ISBN 9780979442063, $14.95 (267 pgs.)
(Note: The author will be featured in an upcoming issue of Carolinian in a story written by Marshall Swanson. The S.C. State Library, with the author reading, is also recording her book for the blind.)
Come on over and stay a spell!
Welcome to the small North Carolina town of Lonesome Pines. Let the author, who grew up in a town pretty much like Lonesome Pines, introduce you to the kinds of unusual characters who seem to have found a permanent home in Southern fiction.
Lonesome Pines -- Living and Dying in a Little Town
By Mike Miller (Illustrations by Rob Barge)
ISBN 9780979442087, $14.95, (157 pgs.)
Now In Paperback!
A newspaper reporter and two cops search for a missing college girl. The search leads through the underbelly of urban Atlanta to murder and heartbreak.
Named "one of the three best novels of 2004 -- and maybe the best!"
Atlanta Blues
By Robert Lamb
ISBN 9780966119923, $14.96 (223 pgs.)
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An Indispensable Guide For Non-Southerners!
Writer Cooper Riverbridge and Illustrator Rob Barge team up to serve as translators of the Southern argot in
Y'all Ain't From Around Here, Are Ya?
(How To Speak Like a South Carolinian)
Examples: Imo, as in "You go ahead; Imo sit here and rest a while."
Barium - What Southerns do with dead people.
ISBN 9780966119916, $4.95
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Heart-Warming! Lovable! More!
That's what readers say about this story of a Lily Kate, a young girl whose guardian/grandmother dies suddenly and leaves her an orphan.
A Place for Lily Kate
By Pat Guerry Hodnett
ISBN 9780979442094, $12.95 (120 pgs.)
Don't miss the sequel to this lovely novel:
Dragon Smoke
Coming Soon!