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Sweet magnolias volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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When her teenage daughter ends up in the hospital after starving herself, chef Dana Sue must embrace the power of forgiveness when her cheating husband, whom she kicked out, returns home to help her deal with their self-destructive child.
63) Islands
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English
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Anny Butler is a caretaker, a nurturer, first for her own brothers and sisters, and then as a director of an agency devoted to the welfare of children. What she has never had is a real family. That changes when she meets and marries Lewis Aiken, an exuberant surgeon fifteen years older than Anny.
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John Connolly thrilled readers with his bestselling novels, "Every Dead Thing, Dark Hollow," and "The Killing Kind." Now he delivers spellbinding suspense as Charlie Parker races to unravel a brutal crime committed in the Deep South. After years of suffering unfathomable pain and guilt over the murders of his wife and daughter, private detective Charlie Parker has finally found some measure of peace. As he and his lover, Rachel, are awaiting the birth...
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PAT CONROY has created a huge, brash thunderstorm of a novel, stinging with honesty and resounding with drama. Spanning forty years, this is the story of turbulent Tom Wingo, his gifted and troubled twin sister Savannah, and their struggle to triumph over the dark and tragic legacy of the extraordinary family into which they were born. Filled with the vanishing beauty of the South Carolina low country as well as the dusty glitter of New York City,...
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Tea shop mystery volume 3
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English
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Theo is mingling with the cream of Charleston society at the engagement soiree of the season. But as they eagerly await the dazzling young couple's arrivalthe groom meets with a freak accident. The exquisite wedding ringa family heirloom from the crown of Marie Antoinetteis mysteriously missing. Theodosia suspects that trouble is brewing. But when she goes to the authorities, they treat her like she's been reading tea leavesand...
67) Capital crimes
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English
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When the deaths of several high-level politicians are linked to a single professional killer, new president Will Lee, with the help of his CIA director wife, follows leads from a quiet D.C. suburb to an island hideaway in Maine.
68) Bulls Island
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Lowcountry tales volume 6
Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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Twenty years after breaking her engagement to a prominent Southern blueblood in the wake of her mother's suspicious death, Betts Barrett returns to her home on Bulls Island to fight local developers and faces unexpected and dangerous challenges.
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"Memphis, Tennessee, 1936. The five Foss children find their lives changed forever when their parents leave them alone on the family shantyboat one stormy night. Rill Foss, just twelve years old, must protect her four younger siblings as they are wrenched from their home on the Mississippi and thrown into the care of the infamous Georgia Tann, director of the Tennessee Children's Home Society. South Carolina, Present Day. Avery Stafford has lived...
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English
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"A South Carolina family endures one life-shattering day in 1961 in a town that lies in the shadow of a nuclear bomb plant. It's November 1, 1961, in a small town in South Carolina, and nuclear war is coming. Nine-year-old Wilson Porter believes this with every fiber of his being. He prowls his neighborhood for Communists and studies fallout pamphlets and the habits of his father, a scientist at the nuclear plant in town. Meanwhile, his mother Nellie...
72) The suncatchers
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T. Nelson
Pub. Date
c1995.
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English
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A writer arrives in a South Carolina town to do an expose on a fundamentalist church. Instead of the fanatics and bigots he expected, he meets people who are normal and open minded.
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English
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"Caroline Venable has everything her Southern heritage promised: money, prestige, a rich husband-and a predictable routine of country-club luncheons and cocktail parties. When she learns that her husband must either develop the island or lose the company that he has spent his whole life building, she is devastated. The Low Country is her heritage. In fighting to save the island Caroline draws on an inner strength that forces her to reconsider her...
74) Mama Day
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Vintage
Pub. Date
1993.
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English
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Mama Day uses her ancient knowledge of herbal medicine and pits herself in mortal combat with dark forces that threaten the body and soul of her niece, Cocoa.
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Sweet magnolias volume 4
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English
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Although she feels that the holidays are a season of misery, Jeanette Brioche is pushed into working on the town's annual Christmas festival with the sexy new town manager, Tom McDonald. But with romance in the air, Jeanette and Tom take a fresh look at their painful pasts and a hopeful look into the future.
77) On Folly Beach
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Center Point
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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Janie Hamilton purchases a local book store and discovers some old love letters tucked into a used book that brings her closer to the previous owner's sister, as they uncover what may have been a possible murder from the past.
78) Maggie: a novel
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Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2006.
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English
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Dylan Styles feels like his life is finally getting back on track when his beloved wife Maggie awakens from a four-month-long coma brought on by an extended labor that ended in the death of their son, but it seems as though it is going to take a miracle for him to get back the wife he had before their devastating loss.
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Death on demand volume 26
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English
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"Annie's friend and fellow shop owner Ves Roundtree is a very wealthy woman. Her rich brother entrusted her with his estate, and upon her death, his fortune is to be divided. Several cash-strapped islanders are in line to collect life-changing inheritances. The problem is, Ves is very much alive. Ves hosts a dinner for the prospective beneficiaries and feels a chill in the air that has nothing to do with the wintry season. Not long after, she suffers...
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Death on demand volume 24
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"Annie Darling--owner of the mystery bookstore, Death on Demand--prefers fictional crimes as opposed to the real things. But in one tragic week, two acts of violence shake the island community of Broward's Rock. First, a beloved doctor is found shot dead, seemingly by his own hand. Only days later, a local artist is arrested after his wife is found murdered, bludgeoned by her husband's sculpting mallet. Convinced her brother did not commit suicide,...
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