Anne Rivers Siddons
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"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 of August. But when one of the Girls dies tragically, the...
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Growing up, the only place tomboy Thayer Wentworth felt at home was at her summer camp - Camp Sherwood Forest in the North Carolina Mountains. It was there that she came alive and where she met Nick Abrams, her first love ... and first heartbreak. Years later, Thayer marries Aengus, an Irish professor, and they move into her deceased grandmother's house in Atlanta, only miles from Camp Edgewood on Burnt Mountain where her father died years ago in...
3) Low country
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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.
4) Off season
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It seems like Cam and Lilly have the perfect marriage, the perfect life. When Cam dies, Lilly retreats to Maine's coast, a place where they came time and time again. As she revisits a lifetime of happy memories, she comes to a realization that will change her life.
5) Islands
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Anny Butler is a caretaker, a nurturer, first for her own brothers and sisters, and then as a director of an agency devoted to the welfare of children. What she has never had is a real family. That changes when she meets and marries Lewis Aiken, an exuberant surgeon fifteen years older than Anny. When they marry, she finds her family -- not a traditional one, but a group of Charleston childhood friends who are inseparable, who are one another's surrogate...
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
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Twelve-year-old Emily Parmenter lives on a plantation where her father raises hunting spaniels and her only friends are her dog and the housekeeper. When troubled debutante Lulu Foxworth moves in to recuperate, Emily is forced to grow up faster than she had expected.
8) Fault lines
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When her daughter runs away to her aunt in California, Merritt Fowler of Georgia takes a plane to bring her back, the trip a welcome change from a demanding husband and an equally demanding mother-in-law who is suffering from Alzheimer's. The scene is set for a steamy romance during an earthquake.
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In a wealthy suburb in Atlanta an ambitious young architect is building a dramatically contemporary house. The neighbors' easy friendship and relaxed get-togethers are marred by strange accidents and inexplicable happenings as a succession of families move into the new house.
10) Colony
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It isn't easy for sweet young Maude Gascoigne, from a moldering plantation near Charleston, to fit in when her new husband, sterling-silver Peter Chambliss takes her to the summer place. For the first few decades Maude battles it out with her insufferable, hypercritical mother-in-law, the drunken and lecherous husband of her best friend, Amy Potter, and even Peter himself--a depressive, hermetic man who just sails away whenever things get rough. Gradually,...
12) Downtown
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A smalltown girl, Smoky O'Donnell, moves to Atlanta to work for a magazine and becomes involved with three men: a rebellious photographer, a black freedom fighter, and the scion of an aristocratic Southern family. The civil rights movement serves as a background. By the author of Hill Towns.
13) Hill towns
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When Catherine Gaillard finally ends her self-imposed isolation in Tennessee for a trip to Italy, she finds that the travel transforms her, and her liberation threatens her husband.
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When her husband drops her for a younger woman, Molly Redwine of Atlanta--mother of two adult children and a woman accustomed to comfort--thinks it is the end of the world. But as she recuperates in Martha's Vineyard, Molly discovers other reasons for living--lots of people need her--and gradually she regains confidence and happiness.
16) Peachtree Road
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Lucy Bondurant Chastain Venable, a member of one of Atlanta's ffirst families, is a beautiful, independent young woman who refuses to become the demure Southern belle that her mother and society want her to be. She becomes involved in a love-hate relationship with her equally rebellious cousin Shep.
18) Fox's Earth
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It didn't take long for Ruth to replace Alicia as mistress of the mansion. For three generations, she rules with absolute evil, breaking her descendents' hearts and shattering their souls--until one woman decides to match her madness.
19) Heartbreak hotel
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In Montgomery, Alabama, Martin Luther King Jr. has organized a bus boycott. In Tuscaloosa, outrage surrounds the entrance of the state university's first black student. But at little Randolph University life remains dreamily the same. At Kapppa House, the sorority sisters talk of who has pinned whom. Even among this privileged group, pretty, popular Maggie Deloach is one of the elite...until she commits a single act of defiance and courage that forever...
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First published 20 years ago to great acclaim and now reissued in a beautifully designed new edition, 28 inspiring and heartwarming essays by bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons focus on events and emotional passages in real life. Siddon's previous books include bestsellers Peachtree Road, King's Oak, Outer Banks, and Colony.