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Blueberry Harvest By Ivey Hayes

This month we are all about blueberries (yum) and in keeping with that theme we’d like to feature this print “The Blueberry Harvest” by North Carolina’s own renowned local artist Ivey Hayes.

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Prints are available in several sizes – all fit standard frame sizes!

About Ivey Hayes:

Prolific artist, Ivey Hayes, inspired many with his use of vibrant colors and exaggerated depictions of the human form.

Hayes believed his artistic skill and talents were true gifts from God. He never failed to recognize his Creator. In fact, Hayes once said, “You know how I paint? It’s the spirit of God working through my fingertips.”

He was gifted with the ability to create awe-inspiring images despite suffering from a debilitating condition, rheumatoid arthritis.

Ivey passed away in 2012, but his legendary artwork will live on forever.

Click here to read our full article on the life and art of Ivey Hayes with video interviews here!

Ultimate Guide to Sea Glass

The Ultimate Guide to Sea Glass: Finding, Collecting, Identifying, and Using the Ocean’s Most Beautiful Stones

As the owner of one of the world’s most elaborate sea glass collections, Mary Beth Beuke gets to talk about these prized ocean gems on a daily basis. Unfortunately, with each passing day, sea glass becomes more and more difficult to find, making the hunt more of a challenge to the seeker–especially one with limited experience in sea glass hunting.

There are several reasons why the hunt is so important to the sea glass seeker. Some find their Zen moments in the solitude and beauty of the hunt. Some collect to add color to their life. The history, mystery, and discovery of sea glass are also strong forces that draw collectors to shorelines around the world, looking for these pieces of physically and chemically weathered frosted glass.

Whatever your reason for wanting to learn about and start your own collection of sea glass, the window for doing so is closing as pieces are becoming more elusive due to a growth in sea glass popularity and a decrease in recent glass bottle production.

In The Ultimate Guide to Sea Glass, Beuke provides information that will help first-time seekers start new collections and veteran hunters learn more about their current sets. Beuke shares her experiences in gathering her own collection via photographs of vibrant and rare pieces, as well.

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Island Life NC Summer Book Guide

This summer your usual activities might be a little different than other years, but no matter what it’s always a good time to pick up a great book. We’ve rounded up a few to entertain you while you’re stuck inside.

On Ocean Boulevard by Mary Alice Monroe

$26.99

The New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Guests returns at long last to her beloved Beach House series in this breathtaking novel about one family’s summer of forging new beginnings against the enduring beauty and resilience of the natural world.

It’s been sixteen years since Caretta “Cara” Rutledge has returned home to the beautiful shores of Charleston, South Carolina. Over those years, she has weathered the tides of deaths and births, struggles and joys. And now, as Cara prepares for her second wedding, her life is about to change yet again.

Meanwhile, the rest of the storied Rutledge family is also in flux. Cara’s niece Linnea returns to Sullivan’s Island to begin a new career and an unexpected relationship. Linnea’s parents, having survived bankruptcy, pin their hopes and futures on the construction of a new home on Ocean Boulevard.

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Feels Like Falling by Kristy Woodson Harvey

$16.99

It’s summertime on the North Carolina coast and the livin’ is easy.

Unless, that is, you’ve just lost your mother to cancer, your sister to her extremist husband, and your husband to his executive assistant. Meet Gray Howard. Right when Gray could use a serious infusion of good karma in her life, she inadvertently gets a stranger, Diana Harrington, fired from her job at the local pharmacy.

Diana Harrington’s summer isn’t off to the greatest start either: Hours before losing her job, she broke up with her boyfriend and moved out of their shared house with only a worn-out Impala for a bed. Lucky for her, Gray has an empty guest house and a very guilty conscience.

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Queen Bee by Dorthea Benton Frank

Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank’s Carolina Lowcountry in this evocative tale that returns at long last to her beloved Sullivans Island.

$27.99

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Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

New York Times bestselling book of 2019, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She’s barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark. But Kya is not what they say.

$26.00

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Every Breath by Nicholas Sparks

Hope Anderson is at a crossroads. At thirty-six, she’s been dating her boyfriend, an orthopedic surgeon, for six years. With no wedding plans in sight, and her father recently diagnosed with ALS, she decides to use a week at her family’s cottage in Sunset Beach, North Carolina, to ready the house for sale and mull over some difficult decisions about her future.

$15.99

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The Beachcomber’s Companion: An Illustrated
Guide to Collecting and Identifying Beach Treasures

Breezy, inviting, and delightful–just like a day at the beach– The Beachcomber’s Companion is a charming illustrated guide to collecting and identifying shells and other coastal treasures. Each of the entries includes fascinating descriptions, fun tidbits, and detailed artwork that makes it easy for readers to identify their own beach discoveries.

$16.95

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You Can’t Drink All Day If You Don’t Start in the Morning by Celia Rivenbark

From the author of the bestselling classics We’re Just Like You, Only Prettier, and Bless Your Heart, Tramp, comes a collection of essays so funny, you’ll shoot co’cola out of your nose. Topics include such gems as: Why Miss North Carolina is too nice to hate, How Gwyneth Paltrow wants to improve your pathetic life, Airlines serving up one hot mess, and more!

$16.99

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The Favorite Daughter by Patti Callahan Henry

$16.99

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Bookshop at Water’s End, here is a lush, heart-wrenching novel about the power of memory, the meaning of family, and learning to forgive.

Ten years ago, Lena Donohue experienced a wedding-day betrayal so painful that she fled the small town of Watersend, South Carolina, and reinvented herself in New York City. Though now a freelance travel writer, the one place she rarely goes is home—until she learns of her dad’s failing health.

Returning to Watersend means seeing the sister she has avoided for a decade and the brother who runs the family’s Irish pub and has borne the burden of his sisters’ rift. While Alzheimer’s slowly steals their father’s memories, the siblings rush to preserve his life in stories and in photographs.

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The Sound of Glass by Karen White

$15.00

Two years after the death of her husband, Merritt Heyward receives unexpected news—Cal’s family home in Beaufort, South Carolina, bequeathed by his reclusive grandmother, now belongs to Merritt.

In Beaufort, the secrets of Cal’s unspoken-of past reside among the pluff mud and jasmine of the ancestral Heyward home on the Bluff. This unknown legacy, now Merritt’s, will change and define her as she navigates her new life—a life complicated by the arrival of her too young stepmother and ten-year-old half brother.

Soon, in this house of strangers, Merritt is forced into unraveling the Heyward family past as she faces her own fears and finds the healing she needs in the salt air of the Lowcountry.

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The Beachcomber’s Companion

The Beachcomber’s Companion is an “Illustrated Guide to Collecting and Identifying Beach Treasures”.

Breezy, inviting, and delightful–just like a day at the beach– The Beachcomber’s Companion is a charming illustrated guide to collecting and identifying shells and other coastal treasures.

Each of the entries includes fascinating descriptions, fun tidbits, and detailed artwork that makes it easy for readers to identify their own beach discoveries.

A handy resource section offers tips on how to prepare before setting out on a shoreline adventure: from the beachcomber’s commandments to must-have items for every beachcombing toolkit and advice on preserving shells.

Awash with information and gorgeous watercolor illustrations, this is an essential companion for all who love the ocean’s shore.

The Beachcomber’s Companion is an illustrated guide to collecting shells and other beach objects and includes basic tips and fun tidbits for shell collectors: how to clean shells, beachcombing commandments, the beachcomber’s toolkit, and an identification guide for 40 shells and beach treasures

Blueberry Harvest By Ivey Hayes

Click here to read our full article on the life and art of Ivey Hayes with video interviews here!