Central Kansas Library System

"The Christmas spirit is overtaking Tradd Street with a vengeance in this festive new novel in the New York Times bestselling series by Karen White. Melanie Trenholm should be anticipating Christmas with nothing but joy--after all, it's only the second Christmas she and her husband, Jack, will celebrate with their twin toddlers. But the ongoing excavation of the centuries-old cistern in the garden of her historic Tradd Street home has been a huge...

With the Charleston Film Festival in full swing, Theodosia Browning and the staff of the Indigo Tea Shop are busy catering the opening night gala, but the festivities are interrupted when famed director Jordan Cole is shot while on his way to the podium.

Ellie Kline is compiling a mountain of evidence about a dirty detective, but as the anniversary of her escape from a serial killer nears, she may be in danger from many sides.

"Family has to take you in, no matter how many mistakes you’ve made. At least that’s what Joanna Rutledge Reed thought. At eighteen, she left her family’s ancestral home in Charleston, South Carolina, despite promising to stay. For years, she did whatever she wanted, barely giving her family a second thought. But a string of bad decisions results in heartbreak, forcing her to return home, her life in tatters. While her wayward sister traveled...

After her father is called away from their plantation near Charleston, South Carolina, during the Civil War, twelve-year-old Susanna must lead her brothers on a difficult journey in hopes of being reunited with him.

Nick Barrett is called in to solve a cold case, a former beauty queen's disappearance. Nick discovers an unlikely connection to a Citadel cadet's brutal hazing. His investigation circles closer to a century-old conspiracy to expose and punish the secret sins of Charleston's high society.

"Joy is delighted when sisters Abrielle and Claire Fleury inclde her in planning an art auction for the hospital. But things take a drastic turn when valuable paintings are stolen! This old-time Charleston family's perfect image begins to crack, especially when Abrielle and Claire's long-lost sister, Belina, appears. Could she have something to do with the missing paintings? Or is someone out there with a grudge against the Fluery family? Meanwhile,...

"The year is 1973, and by all appearances, Monty Atkins has a wonderful life. He lives in beautiful Charleston, S.C., his small law practice is growing, and he and his wife are raising two boys. Walker is their own son and Eli is a child from Rose's first marriage, a troubled union she has been running from since its dissolution. But brewing beneath the surface lurks a conspiracy of lies, about who they are and what they believe. When a brutal...

"What happened when a former slave took beat-up old instruments and gave them to a bunch of orphans? Thousands of futures got a little brighter and a great American art form was born. In 1891, Reverend Daniel Joseph Jenkins opened his orphanage in Charleston, South Carolina. He soon had hundreds of children and needed a way to support them. Jenkins asked townspeople to donate old band instruments - some of which had last played in the hands of Confederate...