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1) Tribute
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Former child star Cilla McGowan returns to the Blue Ridge Mountain area to restore her grandmother's farmhouse, which began to fall into ruin after the woman's death; but after Cilla discovers a secret pile of unsigned letters in the attic leads, she encounters a series of personal attacks.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After Bill Warrington learns he has Alzheimer's disease he takes his fifteen-year-old granddaughter on a road trip out to California to help her pursue her dreams of stardom, unbeknownst to her mother, and leaves clues along the way with the hope that his estranged adult children will follow the trail.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A move into an old folks' home marks a new stage of life for both grandmother and granddaughter.
On one side of the Atlantic, Sophia Moore, an emotionally guarded film editor-troubled by her mother's long-ago suicide and her father's abandonment-overworks, incessantly contemplates her past, and continues an unfulfilling affair with the famous director of her latest movie.
But when she travels to the other side of the Atlantic to help her octogenarian...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Dixie Hemingway, a pet sitter in Sarasota, Florida, becomes caught up in a dangerous situation when she is kidnapped from the home of Mr. Stern, a new client, by thugs who mistake her for Stern's granddaughter Ruby, a young mother who is planning to impress her husband by revealing what she knows about a group of wealthy locals who have cheated innocent investors out of their money.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An elderly couple are worried about their granddaughter. They know she's been smuggling drugs, and now she's gone missing. Looking for help, they turn to Konrad, a former policeman whose reputation precedes him. Always absent-minded, he constantly ruminates on the fate of his father, who was stabbed to death decades ago. But digging into the past reveals much more than anyone set out to discover, and a little girl who drowned in the Reykjavik city...
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Working late is nothing new for tycoon Alex and it's the perfect excuse to get close to office cleaner Rosie Gray. He promised his ailing godfather he'd discover whether his long-lost granddaughter is a worthy heir. Intoxicated by the after-hours attentions of the mysterious, suave businessman, Rosie's dreams are destroyed with the slamming of the bedroom door on their one-night stand. Discovering she's pregnant, she goes to confront him, but no one...
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...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Rose Dennis wakes up in a hospital gown, her brain in a fog, only to discover that she's been committed to an Alzheimer's Unit in a nursing home. With no memory of how she ended up in this position, Rose is sure that something is very wrong. When she overhears one of the administrators saying about her that she's "not making it through the week," Rose is convinced that if she's to survive, she has to get out of the nursing home. She avoids taking...
10) The summer's end
Author
Series
Lowcountry summer trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In the powerful and heartwarming conclusion to her bestselling Lowcountry Summer trilogy, New York Times author Mary Alice Monroe brings her readers back to the charm and sultry beauty of Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, to reveal how the pull of family bonds and true love is as strong and steady as the tides" --
"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...
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