Frank, Dorothea Benton
Summary: A chance meeting on the Isle of Palms, one of Charleston's most stunning barrier islands, brings former sweethearts Adam Stanley and Eve Landers together again. Their respective spouses, Eliza and Carl, fight sparks of jealousy flaring from their imagined rekindling of old flames. As Adam and Eve get caught up on their lives, their partners strike up a deep friendship -- and flirt with an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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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 KIDMonroe, Mary Alice.
Summary: Three granddaughters. Three months. One summer house. In this trilogy set on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, the author captures the complex relationships between three half sisters scattered across the country, and a grandmother determined to help them rediscover their family bonds. Set amid ancient live oaks and palmettos, overlooking the water, historic Sea Breeze is Marietta Muir's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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Summary: A Sullivan's Island beekeeper navigates her demanding hypochondriac mother and flamboyant rival sister while immersing herself in the lives of two young neighbor boys and their widowed father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRAFrank, Victoria Benton
Summary: In this gripping tale of self-discovery, Victoria Benton Frank introduces us to Maggie, a South Carolina transplant in New York City struggling to find her place in the world. When she receives a phone call from her troubled sister, Violet, Maggie must return to her hometown of Sullivan's Island, where she uncovers shocking secrets about her family's past. Upon her arrival, Maggie is confronted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: Newly graduated from college and an aspiring writer, Beth Hayes craves independence and has a world to conquer. But her notions of travel, graduate study, and writing the great American novel will have to be postponed. With her mother leaving to fulfill her own dreams in Paris and her aunt, uncle, and stepfather moving to California, Beth is elected by her elders to house-sit the Island Gamble.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2009
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Summary: "Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank's Carolina Lowcountry in this evocative tale that returns at long last to her beloved Sullivan's Island. Beekeeper Holly McNee Kensen quietly lives in a world of her own on Sullivan's Island, tending her hives and working at the local island library. Holly calls her mother The Queen Bee because...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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Summary: Newly graduated from college and an aspiring writer, Beth Hayes craves independence and has a world to conquer. But notions of travel, graduate study, and writing the great American novel will have to be postponed. Beth is elected by her elders to house-sit the Island Gamble. Surrounded by the shimmering blue waters of the Atlantic, the white clapboards, silver tin roof, and confessional porch...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harperluxe 2009
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Summary: Three granddaughters. Three months. One summer house. In this trilogy set on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, the author captures the complex relationships between three half sisters scattered across the country, and a grandmother determined to help them rediscover their family bonds. Set amid ancient live oaks and palmettos, overlooking the water, historic Sea Breeze is Marietta Muir's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONSiddons, Anne Rivers.
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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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, Call number: Fiction Siddons 2014Monroe, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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Summary: "Wedding season has arrived in New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe's next novel in the "distinct, complex, and endearing" (Charleston Magazine) Lowcountry Summer series, set against the romantic, charming Charleston Lowcountry. Nothing could be more enchanting than a summer wedding--or two!--in Charleston's fabled lowcountry. A centuries-old plantation, an avenue of ancient oaks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P MONFowler, Therese
Summary: "A gripping contemporary novel that examines the American dream through the lens of two families living side by side in an idyllic neighborhood, and the one summer that changes their lives irrevocably"-- Oak Knoll, a tight-knit North Carolina neighborhood. Professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son, Xavier, who is headed to college in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Fowler 2020Gibbons, Kaye
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2004
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Summary: Joey Green returns home to care for his ailing father, who is succumbing to dementia. Although his fathers short-term memory is fading, his oldest memories begin to reveal secrets and scandals long forgotten.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: For fourteen-year-old Wallis Ann Stamper and her family, life in the Appalachian Mountains is simple and satisfying, though not for the tenderhearted. While her older sister, Laci--a mute, musically gifted savant--is constantly watched over and protected, Wallis Ann is as practical and sturdy as her name. When the Tuckasegee River bursts its banks, forcing them to flee in the middle of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018
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Summary: Caretta Rutledge returns to repair the family beach house on the Isle of Palms as she tries to rebuild her life and her family relationships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction FraAllen, Sarah Addison
Summary: "Down a narrow alley in the small coastal town of Mallow Island, South Carolina, lies a stunning cobblestone building comprised of five apartments. It's called The Dellawisp and it is named after the tiny turquoise birds who inhabit the building, alongside the human tenants, and imbue it with an air of magical secrecy. When Zoey Hennessey comes to claim her deceased mother's apartment at The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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Summary: "The four teen Singh sisters navigate romance, coming of age, and chasing their dreams over the course of one windy November day"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2023
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Summary: "It's 1924 South Carolina and the region is still recovering from the infamous boll weevil infestation that devastated the land and the economy. Gertrude, a mother of four, must make an unconscionable decision to save her daughters from starvation or die at the hands of an abusive husband. Retta is navigating a harsh world as a first-generation freed slave, still employed by the Coles,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPEPearson, Robin W.
Summary: "To hear Beatrice Agnew tell it, she entered the world with her mouth tightly shut. Just because she finds out she's dying doesn't mean she can't keep it that way. If any of her children have questions about their daddy and the choices she made after he abandoned them, they'd best take it up with Jesus. There's no room in Granny B's house for regrets or hand-holding. Or so she thinks. Her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020