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It's been nine years since Larkin fled Georgetown, South Carolina, vowing never to go back. Then Ivy, Larkin's mother, disappears and lis later discovered in the burned out wreckage of her family's ancestral rice plantation, badly injured and unconscious. As Larkin digs for answers, she uncovers secrets that lead back fifty years, to the friendship between three girls on the brink of womanhood who swore that they would be friends forever, but who...
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It has been two years since the death of Merritt Heyward's husband Cal, when she receives unexpected news--Cal's family home in Beaufort, South Carolina, bequeathed by Cal's reclusive grandmother, now belongs to Merritt. Charting the course of an uncertain life--and feeling guilt from her husband's tragic death--Merritt travels from her home in Maine to Beaufort, where the secrets of Cals unspoken-of past reside among the pluff mud and jasmine of...
3) Sea change
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New American Library
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[2012]
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English
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A lonely woman with a life-long feeling of not quite belonging elopes with a child psychologist she met at a conference and discovers how difficult it is to actually escape her past.
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"When Vivien Walker left her home in the Mississippi Delta, she swore never to go back, as generations of the women in her family had. But in the spring, nine years to the day since she'd left, that's exactly what happens--Vivien returns, fleeing from a broken marriage and her lost dreams for children. What she hopes to find is solace with "Bootsie," her dear grandmother who raised her, a Walker woman with a knack for making everything all right....
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2016
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"A multi-generational novel of love and loss that spans over half a century"--
1945. When critically wounded Captain Cooper Ravenal is brought to a private hospital on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Dr. Kate Schuyler discovers that three generations of women in her family are connected to a single extraordinary room in a Gilded Age mansion. Who is the woman in Captain Ravenel's portrait miniature who looks so much like Kate? And why is she wearing...
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