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2 weeks ago | 
postandcourier.com | Jonathan Haupt
GOTHICTOWN. By Emily Carpenter. Kensington. 368 pages. $28. Now in development as a television series, Emily Carpenter’s “Gothictown” is a haunting and timely exploration of individual autonomy and accountability squarely in conflict with unquestioning fealty to patriarchal traditions, wrapped up in an immersive southern ghost story.
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Mar 30, 2025 | 
postandcourier.com | Jonathan Haupt |Julia Garnett
THE FABLED EARTH. By Kimberly Brock. Harper Muse. 400 pages. $28.99. “Hard to live in a dream if you keep trying to wake everybody up,” warns “The Fabled Earth,” a finalist for the Townsend Prize for Fiction and the third novel from past Georgia Author of Year honoree Kimberly Brock.
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Mar 30, 2025 | 
postandcourier.com | Julia Garnett |Jonathan Haupt
BANNED TOGETHER: Our Fight for Readers’ Rights. Edited by Ashley Hope Pérez, illustrated by Debbie Fong. Holiday House. 304 pages. $19.99. “Knowledge is power,” says one of America’s most frequently banned authors, Ellen Hopkins. “And that is what (book banners) fear. Regardless of your upbringing, of where you live, or how you're otherwise pigeonholed, you'll find the knowledge you need in books.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
postandcourier.com | Jonathan Haupt
THAT LIBRARIAN: The Fight Against Book Banning in America. By Amanda Jones. Bloomsburg. 288 pages. $29.99. Amanda Jones has far more than earned the “Moxie” tattoo on her left wrist. A school librarian and former English teacher at Live Oak Middle School, her alma mater in Livingston Parish, La., Jones has faithfully served her hometown community as a professional educator for more than 20 years.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
postandcourier.com | Jonathan Haupt
LULA DEAN’S LITTLE LIBRARY OF BANNED BOOKS. By Kirsten Miller. William Morrow. 304 pages. $30.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
postandcourier.com | Jonathan Haupt
HER BEST SELF. By Mindy Friddle. Regal House. 366 pages. $20.95. Edisto resident Mindy Friddle was awarded a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers recognition for her debut novel “The Garden Angel” (2004) and the prestigious Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction for her sophomore novel “The Secret Keepers” (2009).
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
postandcourier.com | Jonathan Haupt
WORKING IN THE 21ST CENTURY: An Oral History of American Work in a Time of Social and Economic Transformation. By Mark Larson. Agate. 408 pages. $35. Fifty years ago, esteemed Chicago journalist Studs Terkel published the landmark oral history volume “Working,” in which he interviewed hundreds of representatives of the American workforce about what they did and how they felt about it.
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May 5, 2024 | 
postandcourier.com | Jonathan Haupt
WHEN CICADAS CRY. By Caroline Cleveland. Union Square. 336 pages. $18.99. “There will always be good and bad, right and wrong on both sides, and racists come in all colors. But justice is worth standing up for.
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Mar 10, 2024 | 
postandcourier.com | Jonathan Haupt
THE WAYWARD PRINCE. By Leonard Goldberg. Minotaur. 338 pages. $28. In the seventh mystery in the “Daughter of Sherlock Holmes” series by USA Today bestselling author and Sullivan’s Island resident Leonard Goldberg, the offspring of literature’s most famous sleuth at last confronts the legacy of her father’s archnemesis, Prof. Moriarty, as she strives to save a missing royal from harm and England from defeat in the Great War.
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Feb 11, 2024 | 
postandcourier.com | Jonathan Haupt
THE CARETAKER: A Novel. By Ron Rash. Doubleday. 272 pages. $28. To the late Pat Conroy, multitalented writer Ron Rash was always “Mr. Big,” a term of jocular endearment equally evocative of Conroy’s habit of being playfully competitive with fellow male writers as well as Conroy’s genuine, heartfelt belief that Rash deserved to be widely celebrated as a major American author.
