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A tale exploring themes of class, women's rights and domestic abuse in the 1970s American South shares the story of The Beach House's Lovie Rutledge, who reflects on a summer during which a beach vacation to escape her unfaithful, disdainful husband culminates in a fateful romance with a handsome biologist.
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FBI thrillers. Last series volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Last Chance romances volume 8
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English
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"Mike Taggart has always been willing to take a gamble. But these stakes are just way too high - there's no way he's prepared to become a legal guardian to his five-year-old niece. His only option is to head from Las Vegas to Last Chance to sort things out as quickly as possible. Problem is, he arrives to find an inconsolable little girl, her sick cat, and a gorgeous veterinarian he can't get out of his mind. Charlene Polk has two talents: healing...
84) Full blast
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English
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From bestselling authors Janet Evanovich and Charlotte Hughes
The next in the hot new Full series featuring Max Holt and Jamie Swift—filled with even more fast-paced action, crazy characters, steamy sex, suspense, and non-stop hilarity
This time the town of Beaumont, South Carolina, is going to hell in a hand basket. It all starts when Jamie decides to increase revenues for her newspaper by starting a personal ads
...85) The broken spine
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"When small-town assistant librarian Tru Beckett sets up a secret book room in her newly modernized library, she discovers that protecting the printed word is harder than she'd ever imagined. In fact, it's murder. Trudell Becket, known to her friends as Tru, finds herself in a bind when her library in lovely Cypress, South Carolina, is turned into a state-of-the-art bookless "technological center." A library with no books breaks Tru's book-loving...
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Avon Twilight
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
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Harlequin Special Edition volume 2905
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Author
Series
Augusta Goodnight mysteries volume 6
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
93) The summer's end
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Series
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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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. During this remarkable summer, free from her mother's tyranny...
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Last Chance romances volume 4
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Lark is in Last Chance to bury her father and dig up his past and inadvertently stirs up a whole mess of trouble.
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Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"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 granddaughter, Evelyn Lester, shows up on Beatrice's doorstep...
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The University of South Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"Set in early 1950s rural South Carolina, One Good Mama Bone chronicles Sarah Creamer's quest to find her "mama bone" after she is left to care for a boy who is not her own but instead is the product of an affair between her husband and her best friend and neighbor, a woman she calls "Sister." When her husband drinks himself to death, Sarah, a dirt-poor homemaker with no family to rely on and the note on the farm long past due, must find a way for...
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Series
Sweet magnolias series volume 11
Publisher
Harlequin MIRA
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Single mom and fashion boutique manager Adelia hopes to make a new life for herself in Swan Point, and the restless Gabe just may be the man to help her, if he can make amends for his past mistakes and settle down.
100) The hunt club
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Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A 15-year-old teenager divides his time between caring for his blind uncle and spending weekends at the Hunt Club, but when a body is found at the club, he must struggle to stay alive and protect his beliefs.
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