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Beaches South Carolina Fiction Booksellers and bookselling Fiction Darling, Annie Laurance (Fictitious character) Fiction Darling, Max (Fictitious character) Fiction Islands Fiction South Carolina South Carolina Fiction South Carolina Juvenile fiction Vacation homes South Carolina Fiction Women detectives South Carolina FictionSiddons, Anne Rivers
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: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIDCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Siddons 2014Siddons, 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2014
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SIDMonroe, Mary Alice.
Summary: The Blakely family, despite the tragedy that separated them, must band together to save their historical plantation, which has been in the family for generations and is the only thing that holds them all together, from being sold to developers.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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Summary: "Eleven-year-old Riley's mom has disappeared and Riley knows that if he leaves tributes for the whispers, magical fairies that grant wishes, his mom will come back to him"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION HOWSiddons, Anne Rivers.
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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SIDWilder, Effie Leland.
Summary: Old age through the eyes of Hattie McNair a resident of a retirement home, chronicling the daily activities, relationships and ailments. By the author of Out to Pasture.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILFad, Scott.
Summary: After twenty years of self-imposed exile, Boo Taylor finds he must return to Sweetpatch Island, South Carolina, following his father's mysterious death.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: River Groove Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FADFrank, Dorothea Benton
Summary: What happens when a young sophisticated Chicagoan falls for the owner of a farm on Johns Island, a lush Lowcountry paradise off the coast of South Carolina -- trading the bustle of a cosmopolitan city for the vagaries of a small southern town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FRACopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION FRAKidd, Sue Monk
Summary: This is the Spanish text edition of the New York Times best selling novel, "The Secret Life of Bees". It is a beautifully written, coming of age story, set in rural South Carolina in 1964 against the back drop of the civil rights movement. It is the touching story of a young white girl, fourteen year old Lily Owens, whose mother died in a tragic accident when Lily was about four. Lily lives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2005
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH KIDSummary: A young, idealistic, white teacher, confronts all the prejudices of the Deep South when he teaches African Americans at Yamacraw School on an island off the coast of South Carolina.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Water 2006Hart, Carolyn G.
Summary: When her husband's latest case takes them to a remote private island, Annie's initial delight turns to horror when she realizes that they have been marooned along with numerous suspects from the case her husband is investigating.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M HARConnolly, John
Summary: Private detective Charlie Parker returns in this story of assassins who have targeted one of their own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CONFrank, Dorothea Benton.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FRAHart, Carolyn G.
Summary: A wealthy widowed art patron announces her engagement to a handsome, much younger man at the gala opening of gallery, but murder disrupts the grand celebration.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M HARHart, Carolyn G.
Summary: When all are gathered at Marguerite Dumaney Ladson's gala combination Xmas/birthday bash, she announces that she's leaving her fortune to Dr. Emory Swanson and his Evermore Foundation. The subsequent murder is attributed to Annie Darling's errant father who's just shown up after a twenty-five year absence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS HARHart, Carolyn G.
Summary: "Summer is a hectic time of the year for Annie Darling. Sun and scorching temperatures never fail to bring swarms of tourists to her mystery bookstore, Death on Demand, for the latest beach reads. But Annie still finds time to enjoy herself. The Broward's Rock Fourth of July dance is just around the corner, and the island is buzzing with excitement--Shell Hurst included... Shell is the kind of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHart, Carolyn G.
Summary: When Annie Darling, the popular proprietess of the Death on Demand bookstore, throws a cruise-party with guests dressing up as their favorite fictional sleuths, it's a success until one of the revelers falls overboard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M HARHart, Carolyn G.
Summary: Pleased with the success of her murder-mystery cruise, Annie Darling and her husband, Max, are suddenly on the hunt for a killer when one of the cruise participants falls overboard, the first in a series of suspicious deaths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARFrank, Dorothea Benton.
Summary: Caroline Wimbley Levine returns to her childhood home of Tall Pines Plantation in South Carolina to help her brother deal with their eccentric and headstrong mother, Miss Lavinia, in a story of family bonds, secrets, betrayal, and understanding.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove Books 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FRAHart, Carolyn G.
Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARKennedy, Elle
Summary: Mackenzie Cabot has spent most of her twenty years pleasing the other people around her so she is going to Garnet College in the expensive beachside town of Avalon Bay in South Carolina when she would really rather focus on her growing internet business; Cooper Hartley is a local boy who usually tends bar and disdains the rich, spoiled college kids he sees every day--but MacKenzie and Cooper...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2022
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Summary: The Discover Cryptids film crew travel to South Carolina to investigate reports of a Swamp lizard man, which they are convinced is a hoax, just like all the other monsters--but Gabe is not so sure.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon 2016
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC FIEFrank, Dorothea Benton.
Summary: When Caroline Wimbley Levine returned to Tall Pines Plantation, she never expected to make peace with long-buried truths about herself and her family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FRACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction FraCrosby, Tanya Anne.
Summary: Caroline Aldridge was surprised by the number of mourners at her mother's funeral. Evidently the newspaper heiress who had caused her children so much pain was well-loved by everyone else in Charleston. Now she was gone, leaving behind countless secrets-and a few demands: Caroline and her sisters must live together for one year or lose their inheritance. And Caroline must take over The Tribune....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audible Studios on Brilliance audio 2017