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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...
2) Low country
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An ecologically aware woman battles her land-developer husband over the future of the island she inherited off South Carolina. He wants to build houses, she wants to preserve the island's habitat with its marshes, ponies and Gullah communities of former slaves.
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Lowcountry tales volume 8
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When Caroline Wimbley Levine returned to Tall Pines Plantation, she never expected to make peace with long-buried truths about herself and her family. In the lush South Carolina countryside, old hurts, betrayals, and dark secrets will surface, and a new generation will rise along the banks of the mighty Edisto River.
4) Superstition
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A story on a grisly series of fifteen-year-old unsolved crimes and a television show featuring a renowned psychic draw beautiful reporter Nicole Sullivan and police chief Joe Franconi into a perilous search for a murderer when the killer returns, intent on claiming three more lives, including that of Nicole.
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A cadet encounters hazing and racism at an elite military academy in this novel from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Prince of Tides.
As Will McLean begins his studies at the Carolina Military Institute, the American South is in turmoil over desegregation. An outsider to the harsh authoritarianism of the military, Will survives the school's notorious freshman hazing, and avoids attention from its fabled...
As Will McLean begins his studies at the Carolina Military Institute, the American South is in turmoil over desegregation. An outsider to the harsh authoritarianism of the military, Will survives the school's notorious freshman hazing, and avoids attention from its fabled...
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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 herself...
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There's nothing calm or peaceful about Maddie Townsend's life since her marriage broke up. She is a tad on edge with everything on her plate, but it's nothing compared to the chaos that ensues when she discovers that Cal Maddox, her son's baseball coach, has feelings for her and the whole town disapproves. She's faced a lot of challenges lately with strength and resolve, but he may turn out to be more than she can handle.
8) Yesterday
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A tragic accident on the eve of her wedding to a wealthy businessman leaves Callie Parker in a coma and three childhood friends trying to sort out the clusters of secrets and lies the event has uncovered.
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For generations the Windsors have lived on their estate in Crestwood, South Carolina. On the anniversary of her daughter Emily's death, Sarabess Windsor believes she may be the last of the family, unless she can find her second daughter, Trinity, who disappeared fifteen years ago. She grew up as Trinity Henderson, adopted by the Windsor foreman and his wife. Trinity was conceived out of Sarabess's desperate attempt to provide a bone marrow donor for...
10) The kingdom
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Amelia Grey has been commissioned to restore and old cemetery in Asher Falls, South Carolina, but she soon discovers she has another purpose there.
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Caroline serves others with little time to enjoy the sweeter parts of life. Until her old boyfriend returns to town—and she's given a second chance at first love.
Life hasn't always been so sweet for Caroline Sweeny.
She's sacrifice her desires for others—unlike her mother who abandoned their family years ago. But when a friend challenges her to accept an exciting job adventure in Spain, Caroline says "yes"
...12) The witness
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"Kendall Deaton pulls herself and her baby out of a wrecked car, and a mixture of courage and fear gets her to the top of a ravine, where she flags down help. But she doesn't dare reveal her true identity to the authorities. Instead, she plans her immediate escape. Her perilous flight begins. The best public defender in Prosper, South Carolina, Kendall had stumbled upon the town's chilling secret, turning her marriage to one of the town's most powerful...
13) Vanished
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Seven years after her five-year-old daughter disappears without a trace, Sarah Mason receives a phone call from a child with her daughter's five-year-old voice, causing Sarah to turn in desperation to private investigator Jake Hogan.
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"During a cold Massachusetts winter, a tragic car accident leaves a mother childless and her daughter-in-law a widow. Naomi and Ruth are now each other's only comfort. Naomi lost her own husband eight years ago, and now she has lost her son. Carrying a deep secret in her soul, Naomi decides to return to her childhood home in coastal South Carolina. When she tells Ruth her plan, she receives an unexpected reply: 'Where you go, I will go.' So the two...
15) The beach house
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Known for her moving characters and emotional honesty, Mary Alice Monroe brings readers a beautifully rendered story that explores the fragile yet enduring bond between mothers and daughters. Caretta Rutledge thought she'd left her Southern roots and troubled family far behind. But an unusual request from her mother--coming just as her own life is spinning out of control--has Cara heading back to the scenic Lowcountry of her childhood summers. Before...
16) Carolina moon
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Tory Bodeen grew up in a small, rundown house where her father ruled with an iron fist and a leather belt--and where her dreams and talents had no room to flourish. But she had Hope--who lived in the big house, just a short skip away, and whose friendship allowed Tory to be something she wasn't allowed to be at home: a child.
17) Just imagine
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Two hard-headed, passionate people . . . Two stubborn opponents with tender souls . . . Sometimes wars of the heart can only be won through the sweetest of surrenders.
The War Between the States may be over for the rest of the country, but not for Kit Weston. Disguised as a boy, she's come to New York City to kill Baron Cain, the man who stands between her and Risen Glory, the South Carolina home she loves. But unknown to
...18) Swan Point
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"Determined to build a new life for her family after her divorce, Adelia Hernandez has bought a home in the historic Swan Point neighborhood of Serenity. Promoted to manager of Main Street's most fashionable boutique, she feels revitalized and ready for a fresh start as a single mom. But barely into this new independent phase, she crosses paths with a man who will change everything. Gabe Franklin, back in town to make amends for past mistakes, has...
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Winnie years volume 4
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As Winnie and her friends count the days until the beginning of high school, they attend a summer camp where they learn about sea turtles--as well as human relationships.
20) Darby
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In 1926, nine-year-old Darby Carmichael stirs up trouble in Marlboro County, South Carolina, when she writes a story for the local newspaper promoting racial equality.
