Karen White

"When Vivien Walker left her home in the Mississippi Delta, she swore never to go back, as generations of the women in her family had. But in the spring, nine years to the day since she'd left, that's exactly what happens--Vivien returns, fleeing from a broken marriage and her lost dreams for children. What she hopes to find is solace with "Bootsie," her dear grandmother who raised her, a Walker woman with a knack for making everything all right. But instead she finds that her grandmother has died and that her estranged mother is drifting further away from her memories. Now Vivien is forced into the unexpected role of caretaker, challenging her personal quest to find the girl she herself once was. But for Vivien things change in ways she cannot imagine when a violent storm reveals the remains of a long-dead woman buried near the Walker home, not far from the cypress swamp that is soon to give up its ghosts. Vivien knows there is now only one way to rediscover herself--by uncovering the secrets of her family and breaking the cycle of loss that has haunted her them for generations"--

A long time gone

House on Prytania

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Tradd Street series comes a stunning novel about a young single mother who discovers that the nature of friendship is never what it seems.... Recently divorced, Merilee Talbot Dunlap moves with her two children to the Atlanta suburb of Sweet Apple, Georgia. It’s not her first time starting over, but her efforts at a new beginning aren’t helped by an anonymous local blog that dishes about the scandalous events that caused her marriage to fail. Merilee finds some measure of peace in the cottage she is renting from town matriarch Sugar Prescott. Though stubborn and irascible, Sugar sees something of herself in Merilee—something that allows her to open up about her own colorful past. Sugar’s stories give Merilee a different perspective on the town and its wealthy school moms in their tennis whites and shiny SUVs, and even on her new friendship with Heather Blackford. Merilee is charmed by the glamorous young mother’s seemingly perfect life and finds herself drawn into Heather's world. In a town like Sweet Apple, where sins and secrets are as likely to be found behind the walls of gated mansions as in the dark woods surrounding Merilee’s house, appearance is everything. But just how dangerous that deception can be will shock all three women....

The Night the Lights Went Out

Lauren Willig

Beatriz Williams

The Author’s Guide To Murder 

Alexandra Horowitz

What Dogs See, Smell, and Know

Inside of a Dog

A woman is haunted—both literally and figuratively—by ghosts of the past in this second novel of the Royal Street series by New York Times bestselling author Karen White. Nola Trenholm may not be psychic herself, but she’s spent enough time around people who are to know when ghosts are present, and there are definitely a few lingering spirits in her recently purchased Creole cottage in New Orleans. Something, or someone, is keeping them tethered to this world. And not all of them are benign. But with the sudden return of Sunny Ryan, Beau Ryan’s long-lost sister, Nola has plenty to distract her from her ghostly housemates. Especially when the tempting—yet firmly unavailable—Beau, wanting to mete out justice to those he blames for Sunny’s kidnapping, asks Nola for a favor that threatens to derail her hard-won recovery and send her hurtling backward. He asks her to welcome Michael Hebert back into her life, even though Michael is the reason for Nola’s bruised heart. Beau is convinced that Michael’s powerful family was behind Sunny’s disappearance and that Michael is the key to getting information the police won’t be able to ignore—if Nola is willing to risk everything for which she’s worked so hard. Torn between helping Beau and protecting herself, Nola doesn’t realize until it’s almost too late why the ghosts are haunting her house—a startling revelation that will throw her and Beau together to fight a common enemy. Assuming Nola can get Beau to listen to what the spirits are trying to tell him, because ignoring them could prove to be a fatal mistake...

The House on Prytania

Leslie Meier

Back to School Murder

Lorna Barrett

Title Wave

Lauren Elliott

Prologue to Murder

"It's been nine years since Larkin fled Georgetown, South Carolina, vowing never to go back. But when she finds out that her mother has disappeared, she knows she has no choice but to return to the place that she both loves and dreads--and to the family and friends who never stopped wishing for her to come home. Ivy, Larkin's mother, is discovered in the burned out wreckage of her family's ancestral rice plantation, badly injured and unconscious. No one knows why Ivy was there, but as Larkin digs for answers, she uncovers secrets kept for nearly 50 years. Secrets that lead back to the past, to the friendship between three girls on the brink of womanhood who swore that they would be friends forever, but who found that vow tested in heartbreaking ways."--

Dreams of falling

1945: When wounded Captain Cooper Ravenel is brought to a hospital on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Dr Kate Schuyler is drawn into a complex mystery that connects three generations of women in her family to a single extraordinary room in a Gilded Age mansion. Written by three bestselling authors, this rich, multigenerational novel spans half a century.

The Forgotten Room

Flannery O'Connor

Mark Bramhall

Bronson Pinchot

Lorna Raver

Everything That Rises Must Converge

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Tradd Street novels comes a story of one woman's journey into a secret past--and a life she never expected on the ravaged coast of Biloxi, Mississippi.... Working at an auction house in New York, Julie Holt meets a struggling artist and single mother who reminds her very much of her missing younger sister. Monica Guidry paints a vivid picture of her Southern family through stories, but never says why or how she lost contact with them. And she has another secret: a heart condition that will soon take her life. Feeling as if she's lost her sister a second time, Julie inherits from Monica an antique portrait--as well as custody of her young son. Taking him to Biloxi, Mississippi, to meet the family he's never known, Julie discovers a connection of her own. The portrait, of an old Guidry relative, was done by her great-grandfather--and unlocks a surprising family history.... READERS GUIDE INCLUDED

The Beach Trees

Gyönyörűen megírt lírai történet, mely magával sodor, mint a dagály hullámzása. A húszéves Cassie Madison elhagyja szülővárosát, a Georgia állambeli Waltont, és soha többé nem akar visszatérni. Ám amikor egy családi tragédia hazaszólítja, szakítania kell New York-i életével, hogy szembenézzen mindazzal, amit egykor maga mögött hagyott... Cassie mindent elkövet annak érdekében, hogy új életet kezdjen New Yorkban: beleveti magát a munkába, és levetkőzi déli akcentusát. Ám egy késő éjszakai telefonhívás felszínre hozza mindazt, amit megpróbált elfelejteni. Nem beszélt a húgával, Harriettel, amióta a testvére elcsábította a vőlegényét, és hozzáment feleségül. Most azonban Harriet azzal a hírrel jelentkezik, hogy az apjuk haldoklik. Cassie hazaindul, és az egyetlen dolog, amely még az édesapja halálánál is jobban megrémiszti, a találkozás Harriettel és a családjával, amely akár az övé is lehetne. Ám képtelen ellenállni az unokahúgai és az unokaöccse szeretetének, ahogy annak is, hogy otthonának tekintse a városkát, ahol az emberek egymás hogyléte felől érdeklődnek, és a kérdésükre valóban őszinte választ várnak. Miközben meg kell küzdenie egy elfelejtett baráthoz fűződő egyre meglepőbb kapcsolatával és a családot fenyegető tragédiával, Cassie rádöbben: önmagunk elől nem menekülhetünk el, és az otthonunkat nem törölhetjük ki a szívünkből.

Hazatérés

"This is a story of Dung beetles and their development before they become Christmas beetles"--Publisher.

Darcy the Dung Beetle Goes Hungry

Dreams of Falling

"Cassie Madison fugiu de Walton, Geórgia, para Nova York quando soube que sua irmã, Harriet, e seu amor, Joe, a tinham traído e iam se casar. Ao chegar em Manhattan, sua ideia era se reinventar, mergulhar de cabeça na carreira e até mesmo perder o sotaque provinciano. Tudo para apagar seu passado marcado pela traição e por uma família que não lhe tratara com o devido cuidado. Mas, numa noite, um único telefonema de sua irmã trouxe de volta tudo o que ela pretendia esquecer. Com o pai muito doente, ela foi obrigada a fazer a viagem de volta e, enquanto arrumava as malas, seus maiores medos eram que o pai morresse sem que ela pudesse estar com ele e... encontrar a família feliz que Harriet e Joe tinham construído. Já em Walton, Cassie percebeu que enfrentaria uma imensa batalha particular, porque, afinal, ela não conseguia deixar de amar seus sobrinhos - e nem deixar de se sentir em casa, naquela cidadezinha de sua infância. Enquanto se dividia entre o rancor e a esperança, velhas e queridas lembranças e uma mágoa insustentável, o destino arrumaria uma forma de aproximá-la do que realmente importa: o verdadeiro amor. "Um livro doce, altamente recomendado (...) deixará os leitores satisfeitos, mas querendo mais!" - Booklist "Extraordinário e cativante (...) uma joia rara (...) primorosamente contado, rico nas descrições e cheio de personagens multifacetados." - The Book Connection.

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