Siddons, Anne Rivers.
Summary: Every August, four women 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. 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2014
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2014
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Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1998
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLargePrint 2004
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Summary: Rebuilding her life on a plantation after the disappearance of her mother and the death of a sibling, Emily Parmenter forges a near-mystical relationship with her beloved spaniel and finds her world changing after the arrival of a rebellious debutante.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLargePrint 2005
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Summary: Anny Butler, director of an agency devoted to child welfare, has resigned herself to being single, but she is swept off her feet by older doctor Lewis Aiken who introduces her into his clique of lifelong friends, and she soon becomes caught up in the joys, secrets, and sorrows of high-society Charleston.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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Summary: Twelve-year-old Emily Parmenter, her young life marked by the disappearance of her mother and the death of a beloved brother, has withdrawn into a world of her own making on the family's faded plantation in South Carolina where her father and brothers raise the legendary Lowcountry Boykin hunting spaniels, but everything changes when troubled debutante Lulu Foxworth comes to stay, hoping to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005