Below is a listing of local nonfiction authors in residence and their works.
Click on the author name to be directed to a bibliography of their works.
Patricia Bee
Mama's Pearls : poetry to live by 811 BEE
Available at Beaufort and Bluffton
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Pat Conroy
The Boo B COURVOISIE
Available at Beaufort and Hilton Head
The Water is Wide 372.1 CON
Available at All branches
Audio version available at Bluffton, Hilton Head, and St. Helena
Conrack 372.1 CON
Video based on The Water is Wide
Available at Beaufort
My Losing Season B CONROY
Available at all branches
The Pat Conroy Cookbook: recipes of my life 641.59 CON
Available at all branches
SEE ALSO: Fiction
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Wilbur Cross:
Encyclopedia of American Submarines 359.9 CRO
Available at Bluffton and Hilton Head in Reference
Disaster at the Pole: the tragedy of the airship Italia and the 1928 Mobile Expedition to the North Pole 910 CRO
Available at Hilton Head
Zeppelins of World War I 950.4 CRO
Available at Hilton Head
Space Shuttle 629.441 CRO
Available at Hilton Head in Children's Collection
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Ron Daise:
Reminiscences of Sea Island Heritage 975.799 DAI
Available at all branches
De Gullah Storybook 398.2 DAI
Available at Beaufort, Bluffton, and Hilton Head
Audio version available at Hilton Head
We'll Stand the Storm: and other spirituals (sound recording) 782.25 DAI
Available at Beaufort in the South Carolina Room
Feel Like Journey On (sound recording) 781.62 DAI
Available at Hilton Head
Little Muddy Waters: a folktale E DAI
Available at Beaufort, Hilton Head, Lobeco, and St. Helena in the Children's Collection
Gullah Branches, West African Roots 305.8961 DAI
Available at all branches
Gullah Gullah Island [VHS] 791.45 GUL
Available at Beaufort
Sing Along with Binya Binya E SIN
Available at Beaufort and Hilton Head
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Jonathon Daniels:
The Devil's Backbone: the story of the Natchez Trace 976.2 DAN
Available at Hilton Head
Washington Quadrille: the dance beside the documents 973.91 DAN
Available at Hilton Head
Ordeal of Ambition: Jefferson, Hamilton, and Burr 973.4 DAN
Available at Hilton Head
The gentlemanly serpent and other columns from a newspaper man in paradise
Available at Beaufort and Hilton Head
White House Witness 973.91 DAN
Available at Hilton Head
917.5799 DAN
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Walter Dennis:
Poetry/Personal Stories:
The Train of Time...selected poems 818 DEN
The Diary of Private Clean Sleeves 811 DEN
Our Segmented Lives 813 DEN
Childhood memories and "Dem Dog-gone Dog stories" 813 DEN
Stolen Moments 813 DEN
Silhouettes: African Americans in a time of change 323.11 DEN
The Legend of Mother Cuffee 811 DEN
Just Gettin' By 811 DEN
Fish Tales from the Dixie Drifter 811 DEN
Ask me, I might 811 DEN
If you don't like the way I drive 811 DEN
No Thanks, I'd rather walk 811 DEN
"I don't like oatmeal" 811 DEN
Fried Grits 811 DEN
(also available at Hilton Head)
Caution...this surface might be hot! 811 DEN
(also available at Hilton Head)
Street People 811 DEN
Cookbooks:
Food and Thought 641.5 DEN
Stone Soup Cookbook 641.5 DEN
Seafood and Not-so-fancy Food 641.5 DEN
Uncle Junnie's Family Reunion Cookbook and Stuff 641.5 DEN
Look What's Cookin' 641.5 DEN
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William Elliott:
Carolina Sports by Land and Water 799.757 ELL
Available at Beaufort, Bluffton, and Hilton Head
Address to the people of St. Helena Parish [pamphlet] 973.561 EL5A
Available at Beaufort in South Carolina Room
Address delivered at the commencement of work on the Port Royal Dry Dock, Carolina Day, 1891 387.1 ELL
Available at Beaufort in South Carolina Room
The Southern Agriculturalist (1828) [Magazine] 630. 9757 SOU
Available at Beaufort in South Carolina Room
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Harriet Keyserling:
Against the Tide: one woman's political struggle 328.75 KEY
Available at all branches
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George McMillan:
The Old Breed: a history of the first Marine Division in World War II 940.54 MCM
Available at Beaufort
The Golden Book of horses 636.1 MCM
Available at Beaufort in the Children's Collection
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J.E. McTeer:
Fifty Years as a Lowcountry Witch Doctor B MCTEER
Available at Beaufort, Bluffton, and Hilton Head
Adventure in the Woods and Waters of the Lowcountry 799 MCT
Available at Beaufort, Bluffton, and Hilton Head
Beaufort, Now and Then 975.799 MCT
Available at Beaufort, Hilton Head, and St. Helena
High Sheriff of the Lowcountry B MCTEER
Available at Beaufort, Bluffton, Hilton Head, and Lobeco
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Roger Pinckney:
Blue Roots: An African-American Folk Magic of the Gullah People 398 PIN
Available at Beaufort, Bluffton, Hilton Head, and Lobeco
The Beaufort Chronicles: Old Houses, Old Stories 917.599 PIN
Available at Beaufort
The Right Side of the River: Romance, Rage, and Wonder 917.799 PIN
Available at Beaufort, Bluffton, Hilton Head, and Lobeco
Signs and Wonders 975.799 PIN
Available at Beaufort, Bluffton, and Hilton Head
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Lawrence Rowland:
Window on the Atlantic: the rise and fall of Santa Elena, South Carolina's Spanish City 975.701 ROW
Available at Beaufort, Bluffton, and Hilton Head
The History of Beaufort, South Carolina 975.799 ROW
Available at all branches
Eighteenth Century Beaufort [microfiche] 975.799 ROW
Available at Beaufort
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Mason. L. Weems:
The Life of General Francis Marion: A Celebrated partisan in the Revolutionary War against the British and Tories in South Carolina and Georgia 973.3 WEE
Available at Beaufort, Bluffton, Hilton Head, and St. Helena
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Resource prepared by the Beaufort Branch Library 
Date Created: August 2007 Last Updated: August 2007