Mary Monroe
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Series
Lowcountry summer novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
Young Miller McClellan struggles with his older brother's return from the war with PTSD and his family's financial difficulties, a situation that escalates over the holiday season when Miller becomes lost in the woods at the side of his brother's service dog.
Author
Series
Lowcountry summer novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The Muir sisters are planning their summer weddings, but when a stranger arrives, he reveals a long-held secret that threatens to hurt family ties and derail the weddings.
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Series
Neighbors (Mary Monroe) volume 1
Language
English
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Longing to live a little on the wild side, Joyce and Odell Watson engage in a friendship with their new neighbors Yvonne and Milton Hamilton.
5) Mrs. Wiggins
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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A tale set in Depression-era Alabama follows the experiences of a woman from an at-risk family who marries the son of a respected preacher to establish a safer life before discovering her husband's desperate secret.
Author
Series
Neighbors (Mary Monroe) volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Tensions between the bootlegging Hamiltons and the respectable Watson families in Depression-era Alabama reach a boiling point that leads to lies, deceit and violence.
10) The summer wind
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Series
Language
English
Description
Raising her autistic child alone after being abandoned by her husband, Dora, who for years played the role of a perfect wife in a loveless marriage, spends a stormy summer of healing and self-discovery with her half-sisters and grandmother.
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Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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With her family, finances, emotions, relationships and health teetering on the brink, Linnea Rutledge finds her life further complicated by her feelings for John, an old flame who turns up from California and is quarantining next door.
14) The summer's end
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Series
Language
English
Description
A conclusion to the trilogy that includes The Summer Wind finds Mamaw and the three sisters confronting loss and transition after realizing that they will have to sell their beloved Sullivan's Island estate.
15) The summer girls
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Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Summoned by their grandmother to a historic family home on Sullivan's Island, estranged sisters Carson, Eudora, and Harper share a summer of healing and forgiveness while exploring the tenacious complexities of sisterhood and friendship.
16) The Upper Room
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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The "magnificent, funny, and terrifying" debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of God Don't Like Ugly (The San Francisco Chronicle).
Mama Ruby's known for taking things that aren't rightfully hers, like her best friend's stillborn infant, who she brought back to life and christened Maureen. She's also rumored to have done away with her husband. Some fear her, others try their best to avoid...
Mama Ruby's known for taking things that aren't rightfully hers, like her best friend's stillborn infant, who she brought back to life and christened Maureen. She's also rumored to have done away with her husband. Some fear her, others try their best to avoid...
17) Right beside you
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Refusing to act on their secret attraction to one another, a career woman who longs for a family, and her boss, an overworked widower with two teen daughters, risk opening their hearts to one another during a chaotic snow day.
18) The Book Club
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Publisher
MIRA
Language
English
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Mary Alice Monroe invites you to meet five remarkable characters as she explores the power of friendship with tenderness, honesty and understanding.
On the surface, it is a monthly book club. But for five women, it is so much more. For Eve Porter, whose husband's sudden death cheats her of every security she had planned on, the club is a place of sanctuary. For Annie Blake, a brilliant attorney intent on starting a family late in life,
...19) Swimming lessons
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Publisher
MIRA
Language
English
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Toy Sooner has dealt with enough rough waves in her troubled past. It's only been through the enduring love of a close-knit group of women on this tiny island that she's finally started to find her footing. But as new challenges in her career arise for this young single mother, the choices and demons of her past will catch up to her. Soon Toy will learn that, like the steadfast sea turtles she cares for, a mother must find the strength within...
20) The beach house
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Publisher
MIRA Books
Language
English
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Returning to the Lowcountry at the request of her mother, Caretta Rutledge, who had thought she had forever buried her Southern roots and her troubled family, unexpectedly begins to reconnect with her friends and family while fixing up the family beach house, learning that in order to live life to the fullest, she must forgive and forget the past.