Green Altar Books
SOUTHERN LITERATURE is the glory of American culture. Faulkner, O’Connor, Warren, Lytle, Davidson, Gordon, Percy, Chappell, Berry will be known as long as Western civilization survives and long after today’s politicians, “experts,” and celebrity writers are forgotten. Another of the greats, George Garrett, wrote that “all signs indicate that Southern literature, far from being on its last legs and far from representing a falling off from earlier and better days, seems very much alive.” We support Garrett’s witness by launching Green Altar Books—a collection of Southern fiction and poetry.
Tiller
By James Everett Kibler (12/2016)
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TILLER IS SET IN UPCOUNTRY South Carolina in the year 2008. Its chief character, who has just turned sixty, is doing what he can to maintain a sane life in and for his farm community in a time that is seriously out of joint. After the tragic loss of his wife two decades ago, Chauncey still lives alone on his family farm, but has slowly rejoined the world. It is his ties to the land and the members of his community that aid in the healing process.
Tiller can be read alone, but achieves richness and complexity from its three predecessors in the Clay Bank County Series. It thus forms the cap and final volume of a full tetralogy.The three previous novels are set in this same community: Memory’s Keep (which takes place in 1975), Walking Toward Home (set in 2003), and The Education of Chauncey Doolittle (set the year before in 2007).... READ MORE
By James Everett Kibler (12/2016)
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TILLER IS SET IN UPCOUNTRY South Carolina in the year 2008. Its chief character, who has just turned sixty, is doing what he can to maintain a sane life in and for his farm community in a time that is seriously out of joint. After the tragic loss of his wife two decades ago, Chauncey still lives alone on his family farm, but has slowly rejoined the world. It is his ties to the land and the members of his community that aid in the healing process.
Tiller can be read alone, but achieves richness and complexity from its three predecessors in the Clay Bank County Series. It thus forms the cap and final volume of a full tetralogy.The three previous novels are set in this same community: Memory’s Keep (which takes place in 1975), Walking Toward Home (set in 2003), and The Education of Chauncey Doolittle (set the year before in 2007).... READ MORE
A New England Romance
and Other SOUTHERN Stories
By Randall Ivey (09/2016)
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DON’T LET THE TITLE of this book fool you, this collection of short stories by Randall Ivey is Southern through and through.
Set in the upcountry of South Carolina in the fictitious County of Compton, Ivey’s stories introduce us to a cast of memorable characters. From the bookish and idealistic Jane Poage who falls for a handsome New England thespian, to the eleven-year-old minister and faith-healer Reverend Benny Troy Hoyt, to the peculiar, yet misunderstood Yankee high school chorus teacher, Mrs. Stratton, Ivey’s stories are certain to shock, entertain, and perhaps even move one to tears... READ MORE
and Other SOUTHERN Stories
By Randall Ivey (09/2016)
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DON’T LET THE TITLE of this book fool you, this collection of short stories by Randall Ivey is Southern through and through.
Set in the upcountry of South Carolina in the fictitious County of Compton, Ivey’s stories introduce us to a cast of memorable characters. From the bookish and idealistic Jane Poage who falls for a handsome New England thespian, to the eleven-year-old minister and faith-healer Reverend Benny Troy Hoyt, to the peculiar, yet misunderstood Yankee high school chorus teacher, Mrs. Stratton, Ivey’s stories are certain to shock, entertain, and perhaps even move one to tears... READ MORE
Gold-Bug Mysteries
Shotwell Publishing mysteries appear under the imprint name "Gold-Bug Mysteries.” The first detective story, “The Gold-Bug’ was written by the great Southerner Edgar Allan Poe and set near Charleston, South Carolina.
To Jekyll and Hide
By Martin L. Wilson (05/2017)
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WINTER, 1942—THE U.S. HAS JUST ENTERED WORLD WAR II. Clarke Deveau, betrayed by his wife and dismissed in disgrace by the U.S. Justice Department, returns home to the little piece that is left of his family plantation near Jekyll Island on the Georgia Coast.
Taking on a case involving a questionable death by accident, he finds himself unwittingly drawn into a tangle of deception, murder, and treason—including a beautiful French refugee, killer horses, traitorous industrialists, Nazi and Communist agents, New Jersey thugs, and even a German U-Boat.... READ MORE
By Martin L. Wilson (05/2017)
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WINTER, 1942—THE U.S. HAS JUST ENTERED WORLD WAR II. Clarke Deveau, betrayed by his wife and dismissed in disgrace by the U.S. Justice Department, returns home to the little piece that is left of his family plantation near Jekyll Island on the Georgia Coast.
Taking on a case involving a questionable death by accident, he finds himself unwittingly drawn into a tangle of deception, murder, and treason—including a beautiful French refugee, killer horses, traitorous industrialists, Nazi and Communist agents, New Jersey thugs, and even a German U-Boat.... READ MORE
