Local Loves - Charleston, SC

The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires

By: Grady Hendrix
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 13 hours 48 minutes

“A book club of women set in a boring, small Southern town but all things change when one of the book club member's gets viciously attacked by an elder neighbor! 'Steel Magnolia meets Dracula' is the best way to describe this book! Read more

The Invention of Wings

A Novel

By: Sue Monk Kidd
Narrated by: Jenna Lamia, Adepero Oduye & Sue Monk Kidd
Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

“This poignant novel delves deep into the harrowing experiences of slaves in the 19th-century South, presenting a heart-wrenching narrative. The author skillfully breathes life into historical figures, particularly the Grimke family, shedding light on their significant but often overlooked role in history. While fictionalized, the story maintains... Read more

The House on Tradd Street

Tradd Street: Book #1

By: Karen White
Narrated by: Aimée Bruneau
Length: 13 hours 10 minutes

The brilliant, chilling debut of Karen White's New York Times bestselling Tradd Street series, featuring a Charleston real estate agent who loves old houses—and the secret histories inside them.

Practical Melanie Middleton hates to admit she can see ghosts. But she's going to have to accept it. An old man she recently met has died, leaving her... Read more

The Art of Keeping Secrets

A Novel

By: Patti Callahan Henry
Narrated by: Janet Metzger & Shannon McManus
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

New York Times bestselling author Patti Callahan Henry transports readers to the Lowcountry of South Carolina, where a tragedy unites two women—and forces them to face the dark secrets of their past... Since a solo plane crash killed her husband two years ago, Annabelle Murphy has found solace in raising her two children. Just when she thinks... Read more

Swimming Lessons

By: Mary Alice Monroe
Narrated by: Mary Alice Monroe
Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Toy Sooner has dealt with enough rough waves in her troubled past. It's only been through the enduring love of a close-knit group of women on this tiny island that she's finally started to find her footing. But as new challenges in her career arise for this young single mother, the choices and demons of her past will catch up to her. Soon Toy... Read more

Return to Sullivans Island

A Sullivans Island Sequel

By: Dorothea Benton Frank
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

“Her books are funny, sexy, and usually damp with seawater.”—Pat Conroy, author of The Prince of Tides In Return to Sullivans Island, Dorothea Benton Frank revisits the enchanted landscape of South Carolina’s Lowcountry made famous in her beloved New York Times bestseller Sullivans Island. Frank focuses on the next generation of Hamiltons and... Read more

The Restoration of Celia Fairchild

A Novel

By: Marie Bostwick
Narrated by: Sarah Naughton
Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

“The Restoration of Celia Fairchild is wise, witty, and utterly compelling.” —Jane Green, New York Times bestselling author of The Friends We KeepEvvie Drake Starts Over meets The Friday Night Knitting Club in this wise and witty novel about a fired advice columnist who discovers lost and found family members in Charleston, by the New York Times... Read more

Girls in Trucks

By: Katie Crouch
Narrated by: Joshua Ferris
Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Sarah Walters is a less-than-perfect debutante. She tries hard to follow the time-honored customs of the Charleston Camellia Society, as her mother and grandmother did, standing up straight in cotillion class and attending lectures about all the things that Camellias don't do. (Like ride with boys in pickup trucks.)

But Sarah can't quite ignore... Read more