Siddons, 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 SIDMonroe, 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 MONSt. 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. JSummary: "Inspired by the title Dorothea Benton Frank planned for her next book--Reunion Beach--these close friends and colleagues channeled their creativity, admiration, and grief into stories and poems that celebrate this ... woman and her abiding love for the Lowcountry of her native South Carolina--a land of beauty, history, charm, and Gullah magic she ... brought to life in her acclaimed novels"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: LP FIC REUSt. James, Dorothy
Summary: "When a member of an exclusive book club is poisoned, spunky librarian Trudell Beckett must sort fact from fiction to solve the murder. The Cypress Arete Society is the town's oldest and most exclusive book club. When Trudell Beckett, the town's spunky assistant librarian, is invited to speak to the club about the library, its modernization, and her efforts to bring printed books to the reading...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Summary: To most people, Folly Beach, South Carolina, is simply the last barrier island before the Atlantic Ocean. To some, it's a sanctuary, which is why Emmy Hamilton's mother encourages her to buy the local bookstore, Folly's finds, hoping it will distract Emmy from the loss of her husband in Afghanistan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WHIGillespie, Karin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GILPhillips, Susan Elizabeth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PHIChilds, Laura
Summary: "Tea maven Theodosia Browning and her tea sommelier, Drayton Conneley, are catering a Victorian Christmas party at a swanky mansion in downtown Charleston. Drucilla Heyward, the hostess, is one of the wealthiest women in town. As the champagne flows and the tea steeps, Drucilla is so pleased with the reception by her partygoers that she reveals her secret plan to Theodosia. The Grande Dame has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC CHIReichs, Kathy
Summary: "On the way to Isle of Palms off the South Carolina coast, Tempe receives a call about two decomposed bodies wrapped in plastic sheeting and bound with electrical wire. The details are identical to those of an unsolved case Tempe handled in Quebec years earlier. She travels to Montreal to gather evidence, while health authorities in South Carolina become increasingly alarmed as a flesh-eating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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Summary: "The story follows Hetty 'Handful' Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid. "The Invention of Wings" follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2014
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2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KIDFrank, Dorothea Benton.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FRAHenry, Patti Callahan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HENMichaels, Fern.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MICLowe, T. I. (Tonya)
Summary: "When a damaged young woman is given a chance to reclaim her life in a small South Carolina town, she must reckon with the dark secrets she left behind in order to accept the love she deserves. On the run from a violent past, Leah Allen arrived in tiny Rivertown, South Carolina, battered and broken, but ready to reinvent herself. By a stroke of fate, Leah is drawn to the Southern hospitality of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Pearson, 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
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC PEACasey, Elizabeth Lynn
Summary: In Sweet Briar, South Carolina, high school football stars Jake Davis and Noah Madden were fierce rivals. Twenty years later the dueling quarterbacks haven't lost their luster. So townsfolk are surprised when Jake and Noah team up for a business venture ... and there's only one suspect when Noah turns up murdered. Margaret Louise, Jake's mother and one of the founding members of the sewing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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Summary: "Summer Valentine returns to Moonlight, South Carolina, so her son, David, can have a relationship with his father, Hunter "Hunt" McCroy. Rhett Bryan, the golden boy of Hollywood, is also back in town taking stock of his own life after a tragic accident. Summer must reconcile the painful history that ties her to both men"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Talley 2018Allen, 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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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction AllenRamsay, Hope
Summary: "An unexpected inheritance and the chance to meet relatives she never knew existed has Jenna Fossey heading to the charming little town of Magnolia Harbor. But long-buried family secrets lead to even more questions, and the only person who can help her find the answers is her sexy-as-sin sailing instructor"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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Summary: "It's been nine years since Larkin fled Georgetown, South Carolina, vowing never to go back. But when she finds out that her mother has disappeared, she knows she has no choice but to return to the place that she both loves and dreads--and to the family and friends who never stopped wishing for her to come home. Ivy, Larkin's mother, is discovered in the burned out wreckage of her family's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction White 2018Coble, Colleen
Summary: Alanna has been plagued by tragedy. So it should come as no surprise that in the beauty that surrounds Charleston, all is not as it seems. When her husband is killed by a car bomb while their band is on tour in Charleston, Alanna doesn't know where to turn. Her father-in-law is threatening to take custody of the baby she carries, but the one thing she knows for sure is that she can't lose the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press Large Print 2017
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Summary: When Cara Rutledge rents out her quaint beach house on Isle of Palms to Heather Wyatt for the entire summer, it’s a win-win by any standard: Cara’s generating income necessary to keep husband Brett’s ecotourism boat business afloat, and anxiety-prone Heather, an young artist who’s been given a commission to paint birds on postage stamps, has a quiet space in which to work and tend to her pet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2005