Mary Alice Monroe
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author of the Lowcountry Summer series, returns to her beloved Beach House series with the highly anticipated follow-up to Beach House Memories and The Beach House!"--
Author
Series
Beach house volume 7
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"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, turns up from California and is quarantining next door. She...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 life will take her, leaves her historic home in Charleston,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Appears on list
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Description
"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. Cara's niece Linnea returns to Sullivan's Island to begin a new career and an...
Author
Series
Lowcountry summer trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"This heartwarming women's fiction series from beloved New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe centers on Marietta Colson Muir, a dowager of Charleston society who has retired to her historic summer home on Sullivan's Island called Conquest, and her three granddaughters Carson, Eudora, and Harper. It's summer once again on idyllic Sullivan's Island, but Eudora, or Dora as she's affectionately called by her family, is feeling anything but...
7) Sweetgrass
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Beach House volume 3
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Gallery Books hardcover ed.
Language
English
Description
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.
10) The book club
Author
Language
English
Description
Mary Alice Monroe invites you to meet five remarkable characters as she explores the power of friendship with tenderness, honesty and understanding. On the surface, it is a monthly book club. But for five women, it is so much more. For Eve Porter, whose husband's sudden death cheats her of every security she had planned on, the club is a place of sanctuary. For Annie Blake, a brilliant attorney intent on starting a family late in life, it is the chance...
Author
Series
Lowcountry summer volume 4
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First Gallery Books trade paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
"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 dripping moss, a storied ballroom, a sand dune at sunset......
Author
Series
Lowcountry summer volume 5
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"A wounded warrior and his younger brother discover the true meaning of Christmas in this timeless story of family bonds. A poignant continuation of the Lowcountry Summer series. As far as ten-year-old Miller McClellan is concerned, it's the worst Christmas ever. His father's shrimp boat is docked, his mother is working two jobs, and with finances strained, Miller is told they can't afford the dog he desperately wants. "Your brother's return from...
13) The summer girls
Author
Series
Lowcountry summer volume 1
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First Gallery Books trade paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
Summoned by their grandmother to a historic family home on Sullivan's Island, estranged sisters Carson, Eudora, and Harper share a summer of healing and forgiveness while exploring the tenacious complexities of sisterhood and friendship.
15) The beach house
Author
Series
Beach House volume 1
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
471 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
At her mother's request, Caretta Rutledge travels back to the beach house she spent most of her childhood summers at, where she begins to reconnect with her estranged family.
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Revisit an emotional and captivating tale from New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe. Charlotte Godowski was used to the horrified stares she received from strangers. She'd learned to accept her facial deformity, until one cruel incident compelled her to have the surgery that changed her life forever. Charlotte Godfrey is beautiful beyond compare. In Hollywood, where such beauty is power, her rise is meteoric. Suddenly she has everything...
17) Swimming lessons
Author
Series
Beach house volume 2
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
429 p.
Language
English
Description
Sequel to: The beach house.
18) The islanders
Author
Series
The Islanders volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Spending the summer with his grandmother on South Carolina's Dewees Island, eleven-year-old Jake finds two friends who are also struggling with family issues and together they try to save a sea turtle nest from predators.
Author
Series
The Islanders volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
259 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jake Potter is back on Dewees Island for another summer with his beloved grandmother, Honey. This time, Jake is excited that his dad will be there as he continues to recover from his injuries sustained in Afghanistan. But Jake also knows they both need get used to a new normal, which isn't easy. Jake also discovers that his two best friends, Macon and Lovie, are struggling as well. Macon is adjusting to being a big brother, while Lovie is navigating...
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 audio media player : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
Sometimes fairy tales do come true As a single mother of two, Faye ONeill has no time for fairy tales. Shes not even certain she believes in luck. Practical, smart, and desperate to escape a shadowy past, Faye takes a job at a top advertising firm in London where she hopes she and her children can find a fresh start. When she finds the beautiful two-story flat for rent in a stately old Victorian complete with a neglected but tumbling English garden,...