Expectant moms couldn’t ask for a better gift and will create sweet memories for the entire family. “Hello in There!”: Poetry to read to the Unborn Baby is a delightful, charming, poignant poetry to read aloud to your unborn child! A great gift for mom-to-be, and a joyful opportunity for brothers and sisters to interact with the unborn sibling! "Hello in There!”: Poetry to read to the Unborn Baby is so cute; it’s just plain fun to read to baby before he or she gets h...

What if an unborn baby could talk? Well, this one does! Listen in and hear this sweet baby’s charming, thoughtful, humorous musings during its nine-month adventure! If baby seems to have a little attitude as gets more crowded in there, well… The baby tries to figure out the meaning of the words it hears at home, visits to the doctors office, in the garden, going to the hospital and more! There is original colorful artwork throughout the book. Prepare to laugh and weep ...

Carole Marsh Longmeyer has been writing about hurricanes ever since she lived on the North Carolina coast and got blown all the way to Colorado by the back-to-back hurricanes Fran and Bertha. A long-time resident of Savannah, the author would shake her head at the comments, “Oh, it can’t happen here.” But in October 2016, Matthew zipped up the coast to slam-bang the lovely Lowcountry, just getting its autumn colors and cool, fall golfing weather. Paradise was marauded, raided, and ...

When I started my writing career with a single children’s mystery book, I had no idea the can of worms I was opening! Success and a reader fan base soon meant that I was awash in requests to “visit our school!” I always say I’m a writer, not a speaker, but how do you say no to a librarian/media specialist or teacher? You don’t!And so, from a humble first visit at a local school, over the years I embarked on visits far and wide around the nation. This book recounts some of the most...

More than 400 years of the history, mystery, legend, lore, luscious recipes and more related to the Christmas season as celebrated in the lovely lowcountry of the Carolinas, Georgia, Virginia, and the Outer Banks, the marshes, sea, forts, plantations and more. Historical and contemporary recipes complete this picture of the loving, lonely, spirited beautiful, forlorn, war torn in the low lying lands we love known as the Lowcountry. The Lowcountry Christmas A to Z

Who doesn't love brownies?Surveys show that out of every dozen people polled-fifteen loved brownies!I love to learn.I love to eat.I prefer chocolate.I wrote this book for me.Why brownies?Why not?I could create the same educational experience with Jello, I suppose, but why not the international, historic, culturally-diverse, intrinsically creative, and totally delicious brownie? You live, you learn, you get a reward-what could be wro...

Silo-that word has always touched some root-worthy chord in my soul.Obviously, I was indeed a city girl, who had no inkling of the real farm workaday world, that of ever-gritty fingernails, dawn egg-gathering, chores chores chores, sweat sweat sweat, and all the work of planting, hoeing, weeding, and harvesting. All I knew is that somewhere, while my mother opened a can of creamed corn for dinner, some farm child's mom was lathering fresh-picked corn on the cob with fresh-churned b...

Four Hundred Years of Blood, Sweat & Tears!The truth of the matter is that our culinary heritage is not all that pretty. After all, millions of Africans were enslaved to work on sugar plantations to satisfy the European craving for sweets. Indeed, the burgeoning sugar industry from about 1550 on, was one of the great forces behind the expansion of slavery and helped ease the introduction of such slave labor to the cotton plantations of the American colonies.In the homes...

Kudzu? Would you?... Could you?... Should you?... Cook with that wild & crazy vine? You bet! Growing inside this book are delicious & healthy recipes, fascinating history, flabbergasting trivia and more than a smidgen of humor, even poetry who knew kudzu could be so much fun? Soon, you will!One trivia statement in The Kudzu Cookbook includes that Kudzu was first brought to the Unites States from Japan in 1876 when it was grown in the Japanese pavilion at the Philadelphia C...

New Orleans and Haiti are not the only "ground zeros" of voodoo. Historic Beaufort, S.C. (where the author lives) is home to a rich history of voodoo culture and conjurors. From the ancient knowledge of the Gullah-Geehee on St. Helena's Island to avowed voodoo Sheriff James McTeer, this book shares the serious, silly, spooky, believable, unbelievable, and amazing influences of voodoo on the Lowcountry.

Feeling lost, in pain, falling behind, or just plain clueless? This book’s for you! “First Aid for Ignorance” is a real shot in the arm for the meandering high schooler or college student who needs a dose of reality to pull it all together.  No more wimpy handshakes, lame presentations or sketchy eye contact this book helps young adults shine amongst the competition with common-sense career strategy tips and financial literacy straight-talk that take all the suffering out of success! A great...

Bon appetite!I have only cried over food three times.Each time was in Paris. The first was over a grapefruit sorbet intermezzo in a local restaurant on the Left Bank. The second was over the world's best pasta carbonara in what Americans might call an all-night diner. And the third was in the middle of the night at a hotel restaurant near the Charles de Gaulle airport. Starving and exhausted, I ordered a Caesar Salad. I was so tired that I failed to say, "Hold the anch...