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Hetty "Handful" Grimké, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimké household. The Grimké's daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women. On Sarah's eleventh birthday, she is given ownership of ten year old Handful, who is to be her handmaid. Over...
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Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted black "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decides to spring them both free. They escape to Tiburon, South Carolina -- a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by an eccentric trio of...
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Death on demand volume 20
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Three deaths are linked to Broward's Rock Island's youth recreation center, and its director. When she asks Max to help clear her name, Annie is right there with her husband to help.
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2014.
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"Every August, four women would gather together to spend a week at the beach, renting a new house each year. The ritual began when they were in their twenties and their husbands were in medical school, and became a mainstay of every summer thereafter. Their only criteria was oceanfront and isolation, their only desire to strengthen their far-flung friendships. They called themselves the Girls of August. But when one of the Girls dies tragically, the...
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Death on demand volume 11
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Annie Darling, owner of the Death on Demand bookstore investigates the murder of the publisher of Mint Julep Press when he announces his plan to write a scathing book based upon Southern writers and the key suspects not only include Annie, but the five authors scheduled to receive medallions at the annual Dixie Book Festival.
7) Beach music
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Jack McCall, an American who fled to Rome with his daughter after his wife's suicide, hunts for an old classmate who went underground as a Vietnam protester and never resurfaced.
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Death on demand volume 13
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Annie's latest promotional scheme inviting people to solve a mystery described in a flyer is counterfeited by a real murderer.
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Death on demand volume 8
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Anne Darling, owner of the Death on Demand bookstore in South Carolina, must use all of her detective skills to stop a desperate killer.
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Death on demand volume 2
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Annie is asked to stage a murder for the annual spring house tour sponsored by the Historical Society of Chastain, South Carolina. Her only problem is deciding which fictional murder to stage--until a corpse turns up in the town pond.
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Death on demand volume 15
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Mystery bookstore owner Annie Darling's murder-mystery cruise runs aground when faux murder suddenly turns into real-life death.
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In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.
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Death on demand volume 22
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2012.
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Unable to volunteer at a book signing by a popular local writer, Annie Darling arrives after the event and discovers her fellow volunteer, Gretchen Burkholt, murdered after having left numerous voicemails about some scandalous news she wanted to share.
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Lowcountry tales volume 8
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With her mother dead, Caroline Wimbley Levine returns to Tall Pines Plantation in the South Carolina countryside to try to sort out old family betrayals and secrets.
18) Beautiful chaos
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2011.
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Swarms of locusts, record-breaking heat, and devastating storms ravage Gatlin as Ethan and Lena struggle to understand and control the impact of Lena's claiming, which is even causing her family members' abilities to dangerously misfire.
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Death on demand volume 17
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Bookstore owner Annie Darling goes undercover to pursue a clever killer who has framed her husband Max for murder, when Max mysteriously vanishes en route home and his car is found near the body of a beautiful young woman.
20) Book of the dead
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Scarpetta volume 15
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Kay Scarpetta's new private forensic lab is not welcomed in Charleston and it doesn't help when her investigation into the death of U.S. tennis star, Drew Martin, connects to the body of an unidentified South Carolina boy.
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