Monroe, Mary
Summary: Bootlegging was Milton and Yvonne Hamilton's ticket out of poverty, prison time, and plain bad luck. Now they've moved on--to a bigger, richer pool of clientele--right in their own respectable new middle-class backyard. And their growing friendship with seemingly-perfect couple Joyce and Odell Watson is proving golden in more ways than one. As Milton soon learns, Odell is hiding an outside...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina Books, Kensington Books 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONMonroe, Mary
Summary: "For best friends Lola Poole and Joan Proctor-Riley, there's never too much when it comes to online-dating rich, no-commitments lovers. It's a fantasy come true that makes their unhappy lives bearable. But there's no escape when Lola's vicious relatives cheat her out of everything that's hers, and Joan's husband pulls a devastating betrayal. With nothing to lose, the two will do everything and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina Books 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONMonroe, Mary
Summary: "The latest twist-filled novel in award-winning New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe's Depression-era Alabama saga tells the riveting tale of identical twin sisters with a talent for switching lives and hiding the scandalous results - until one risk too many changes the game forever . . . Since childhood, identical twins Leona and Fiona Dunbar have been getting in - and out - of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONMonroe, Mary
Summary: Popular, generous, forty-something widow Jessie Tucker decides to make herself indispensable to recently widowed Hubert Wiggins but is disappointed when he is not everything she dreamed he would be and instead turns her attentions to a much younger man.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONMonroe, Mary
Summary: "With mysterious serial murders putting peaceful Lexington, Alabama, on edge, Jessie and Hubert Wiggins' steadfast calm and devotion to each other reassures everyone that faith will see them through. But Jessie and Hubert have paid a terrible hidden cost to maintain their devout facade and respectable standing. Nothing can allay the guilt they feel--or stop the growing distrust between them ..."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONMonroe, Mary
Summary: "From acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe comes the captivating and heartfelt tale of a couple who has everything--except the dream they long for most. But this Christmas, a reunion with someone from the past could gift them a once-in-a-lifetime last chance. Successful, secure, and still very much in love, middle-aged couple Eugene and Rosemary Johnson have never given up on...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina Books/Kensington Publishing Corp. 2020
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC MONMonroe, Mary
Summary: Volunteering at a soup kitchen during the Christmas season to navigate midlife doubts, Beatrice Powell finds unexpected comfort in a relationship with a homeless man, Charles Davenport, who was driven to a life on the streets after the devastating loss of his family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONMonroe, Mary.
Summary: Longing to break free from her dead-end marriage, Christine Thurman, who has escaped her upbringing on the wrong side of the tracks, is drawn back into her old life when she has a torrid affair with a bad boy from her past.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONMonroe, Mary
Summary: Two best friends embark on online dating adventures trying to make up for lost time and failed marriages, only to become involved in a deadly game.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina Books 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONMonroe, Mary
Summary: "The daughter of a prostitute mother and an alcoholic father, Maggie Franklin knew her only way out was to marry someone upstanding and church-going. Someone like Hubert Wiggins, the most eligible man in Lexington, Alabama--and the son of its most revered preacher. Proper and prosperous, Hubert is glad to finally have a wife, even one with Maggie's background. For Hubert has a secret he...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina 2021
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONMonroe, Mary
Summary: A solid marriage, a thriving business, and the esteem of their close-knit Alabama community--Joyce and Odell Watson have every reason to count their blessings. Their marriage has given well-off Joyce a chance at the family she's always wanted--and granted Odell a once-in-a-lifetime shot to escape grinding poverty. But all that respectability and status comes at a cost. Just once, Joyce and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina Books, Kensington Books 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONMonroe, Mary
Summary: Felicia Hawkins has a successful career, money in the bank, a solid future... and is hopelessly in love with her co-worker, widower Richard Grimes. Richard has his hands full juggling pre-Christmas work demands and raising two teen daughters. He is drawn to Felicia's calm spirit and determination, and everything they have in common. With messy, well-meaning matchmaking from family and friends,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONMonroe, Mary Alice
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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONMonroe, Mary Alice
Summary: Jake has a 'new' boat, but when Jake, Macon, and Lovie, go fishing the engine dies, and they end up shipwrecked on a small, uninhabited island far from Dewees, struggling to survive while hoping for rescue.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2024
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MONMonroe, Mary Alice
Summary: "The coming of Spring usually means renewal, but for Linnea Rutledge, Spring 2020 threatens stagnation. Linnea faces another layoff, this time from the aquarium she adores. For her - and her family - finances, emotions, and health teeter at the brink. To complicate matters, her new love interest, Gordon, struggles to return to the Isle of Palms from England. Meanwhile, her old flame, John,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MONCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONMonroe, Mary Alice.
Summary: Following the migrating monarchs across the United States to Mexico, Luz Avila arrives in San Antonio to find her aunt and meets her mother, who she had always believed dead. Now Luz must face her mother's reappearance in her life and get her grandmother's ashes to Mexico for the Day of the Dead.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2011
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Monroe, Mary Alice.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2003
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MONMonroe, Mary Alice.
Summary: "It is summer's end and Sea Breeze, the family's beloved estate on Sullivan's Island, must be sold. It is an emotional time of transition as Mamaw and the three sisters each must face loss and find a new place in the world. Harper, the youngest sister, arrived at Sea Breeze intending to stay only a weekend, but a rift with her wealthy, influential mother left her without direction or a home....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONMonroe, Mary Alice
Summary: At Cara Rutledge's home on Isle of Palms, everything is comfortingly the same, yet rife with painful memories. Only through reconnecting with family, friends, and the rhythms of the lowcountry can Cara release the hold of the past and open herself to the possibility of a new love, career, and hope for the future. Meanwhile, her niece Linnea, a recent college graduate who doesn't know where her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MONMonroe, Mary Alice
Summary: It's been sixteen years since Caretta "Cara" Rutledge has returned home to the beautiful shores of Charleston, South Carolina. Over those years, she has weathered the tides of deaths and births, struggles and joys. And now, as Cara prepares for her second wedding, her life is about to change yet again. Meanwhile, the rest of the storied Rutledge family is also in flux. But as excitement over...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MONMonroe, Mary Alice
Summary: Late August is a beautiful time on the Southern coast--the peach trees are ripe, the ocean is warm, and the sweet tea is icy. A perfect time to enjoy the rocking chairs on the porch. But beneath the calm surface bubbles a threat: it's also peak hurricane season. When a hurricane threatens the coasts of Florida and South Carolina, an eclectic group of evacuees flees for the farm of their friends...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2019
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MONCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONMonroe, Mary Alice
Summary: "The coming of Spring usually means renewal, but for Linnea Rutledge, Spring 2020 threatens stagnation. Linnea faces another layoff, this time from the aquarium she adores. For her - and her family - finances, emotions, and health teeter at the brink. To complicate matters, her new love interest, Gordon, struggles to return to the Isle of Palms from England. Meanwhile, her old flame, John,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MONMonroe, Mary Alice.
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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MONMonroe, Mary Alice.
Summary: In this tale that explores the themes of class, women's rights and domestic abuse in the 1970s American South, the author returns to her classic Southern setting in the Isle of Palms with the sequel to her novel The Beach House. She weaves together issues of class, women's rights, and domestic abuse set in the tumultuous South during the 1970s as she tells the story of Olivia, "Lovie" Rutledge,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2012