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Ladies of Covington volume 8
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Interwoven with the continued stories of Grace, Amelia, and their friends in Covington, is the tale of Hannah and Max, now happily married and tending the parkland they saved from developers. Their peace is shattered when Max's estranged son, Zachary, returns from India with his pregnant wife, Sarina. Will this homecoming cause more heartache than joy?
44) Friendship cake
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Pub. Date
2000.
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Five women, working together to create a church cookbook, share their passions, loves, and losses: including pastor Charlotte Stewart, who is suffering a crisis in faith; widow Margaret, the town confidante; and Jessie, the only African-American in an all-white church.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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"Irene, a lonely nineteen-year-old in rural North Carolina, works long nights at the local pool hall, serving pitchers and dodging drunks. One evening, her hilarious, magnetic coworker Luce invites her on a joy ride through the mountains to take revenge on a particularly creepy customer. Their adventure not only spells the beginning of a dazzling friendship, it seduces both girls into the mysterious world of pills and the endless hustles needed to...
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Sisterhood volume 10
Pub. Date
c2008
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Back in the United States and ensconced in a new home on Big Pine Mountain in North Carolina, Myra, Kathryn, Annie, Alexis, Isabelle, Yoko, and Nikki of the Sisterhood are meeting their new employers, who have a dangerous new assignment in mind.
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Ladies of Covington volume 2
Pub. Date
2001.
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The continuing stories of Hannah, Amelia, and Grace in the small town of Covington.
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Ladies of Covington volume 7
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"Widowed Amelia always portrayed her marriage to Thomas Declose as complete perfection. They lived in Paris and entertained widely for a glittering crowd; only the tragic loss of their little girl marred what appeared an ideal existence. So when Miriam Smith arrives with her daughter Sadie on Amelia's doorstep in a snowstorm, claiming to be the illegitimate child of the long-dead Thomas, Amelia reacts with shock and fury. Could Thomas possibly have...
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Ladies of Covington volume 5
Pub. Date
[2004]
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While Grace struggles with diabetes and grieves the loss of her son's partner, Hannah receives a mysterious diary that reveals past secrets, and Amelia encourages them all to go on a Caribbean cruise.
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Ladies of Covington volume 9
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2009.
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After being moved by the letters of two Civil War soldiers--one Union and the other Confederate--Grace, Hannah, and Amelia track down the soldiers' descendants and invite them to a Christmas reunion in Covington, where the letters will serve as holiday gifts.
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Shenandoah sisters volume 2
Pub. Date
c2003
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Two very different girls, one the daughter of a slave, the other the daughter of a plantation owner, must fight to stay alive - and together - after being orphaned by the Civil War.
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Shenandoah sisters volume 1
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Two young Southern girls, one the daughter of a plantation owner and one the daughter of a slave, barely survive the onset of the Civil War and the loss of both their families. When these tragic circumstances bring them together, they join forces to discover if they can make a life for themselves. As their preconceptions give way to experience, they gradually learn to value their contrasting and complementing strengths and skills as they face the...
53) We ate the dark
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Pub. Date
[2024]
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"Four women investigating the haunting murder of their friend discover more than they ever imagined in a terrifying novel about good and evil, love and death, and the spaces between. Five years after Sofia Lyon disappeared, her remains are found stuffed into the hollow of a tree bursting through the floorboards of an abandoned house in the woods. The women who loved her flock home to the North Carolina hills to face their grief. Frankie, Sofia's twin,...
54) Circle of grace
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Pub. Date
2004
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"Thirty years ago, Grace Benedict and her college roommates - Liz, Tess, and lovely Lovey - made a solemn vow: to hold on to their friendship, to support one another, to keep in touch through a circle journal that would make the rounds among them. And they promised always to tell one another the truth." "For three decades that journal has been circulating, carrying stories of Liz's social justice activism in Atlanta and D.C.; of Tess's fulfilling...
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Shenandoah sisters volume 3
Pub. Date
c2004
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Katie, the daughter of a plantation owner, and Mayme, the daughter of a slave, must save the plantation from foreclosure, while trying to solve the mysterious appearance and then disappearance of a long-lost relative.
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Pub. Date
c2003
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Mayme and Katie have become friends--which is unusual given that their friendship has sprouted at ethe end of the Civil War and that Mayme is a former slave, while Katie is the daughter of a plantation owner. Both girls have been orphaned by the war, left alone on Katie's family plantation. The land is the one thing they still share, and they don't want to leave it.
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Shenandoah sisters volume 3
Pub. Date
c2004
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Book 3 of bestselling Shenandoah Sisters. Katie, the daughter of a plantation owner, and Mayme, the daughter of a slave, find themselves with only each other after the Civil War. They devise a scheme to keep Katie's plantation going, disguising the fact they are all alone. Now in book three, the girls face new threats to their security. A long-lost uncle appears and then disappears as suddenly, taking their secret with them. Then a flood threatens...
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Pub. Date
2018.
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"A debut novel that pulses with humor and empathy and explores the heart's capacity for forgiveness... Zadie Anson and Emma Colley have been best friends since their early twenties, when they first began navigating serious romantic relationships amid the intensity of medical school. Now they're happily married wives and mothers with successful careers--Zadie as a pediatric cardiologist and Emma as a trauma surgeon. Their lives in Charlotte, North...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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"It's summertime on the North Carolina coast and the livin' is easy. Unless, that is, you've just lost your mother to cancer, your sister to her extremist husband, and your husband to his executive assistant. Meet Gray Howard. Right when Gray could use a serious infusion of good karma in her life, she inadvertently gets a stranger, Diana Harrington, fired from her job at the local pharmacy. Diana Harrington's summer isn't off to the greatest start...