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Nonfiction Authors


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 Walter Dennis Roger Pinckney
Pat Conroy William Elliott Lawrence Rowland
Wilbur Cross Harriet Keyserling Mason L. Weems
Ron Daise George McMillan
Jonathon Daniels J.E. McTeer



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

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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


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