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Booksellers and bookselling Fiction Darling, Annie Laurance (Fictitious character) Fiction Darling, Max (Fictitious character) Fiction Islands Fiction Large type books South Carolina South Carolina Fiction Vacation homes South Carolina Fiction Women detectives South Carolina Fiction Women South Carolina FictionSiddons, 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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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SIDSiddons, 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 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MONHoward, Greg (Gregory Steven)
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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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILSiddons, 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: Grand Central Publishing 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SIDRivers, Susan
Summary: "When Major Gryffth Hockaday is called to the front lines of the Civil War, his new bride is left to care for her husband's three-hundred-acre farm and infant son. Placidia, a mere teenager herself living far from her family and completely unprepared to run a farm or raise a child, must endure the darkest days of the war on her own. By the time Major Hockaday returns two years later, Placidia...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Rivers 2017Fad, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: River Groove Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FADMonroe, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONKidd, 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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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, Call number: FIC FRACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION FRASummary: 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 2006Curtis, Christopher Paul
Summary: When his poor sharecropper father is killed in an accident and leaves the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie agrees to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit of people who have stolen from him; Cap'n Buck tells Little Charlie that his father's debt will be cleared when the fugitives are captured, which seems like a good deal until Little Charlie comes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Curtis 2018Monroe, 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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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MONHart, 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.
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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: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHart, 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 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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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 HARSt. James, Dorothy
Summary: "Trudell Becket, book-loving librarian, finds herself in a bind when the library where she works is turned into a state-of-the-art bookless library. In a rare move of rebellion, Trudell rescues hundreds of her library's beloved books slated for the recycle center. She sets up a secret book room in the library's basement and opens it to anyone who shares her love of the printed book. When the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ST. JFrank, 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