Anne Rivers Siddons
Author
Language
English
Description
Set on the cusp of the country's great social movements - youth, women's, peace, and civil rights - in the year before the love turned to anger and the peace to militancy, Downtown is the story of Smoky O'Donnell, her career and her heart. When Smoky arrives in Atlanta in 1966, after an airless lifetime back in Savannah, she is at once thrilled and chastened by this dazzling, hectic young city on the move. Atlanta is one of the first cities to have...
Author
Language
English
Description
Molly Redwine, a loyal wife and mother. Can a person be too loyal? Perhaps, for when her husband announces that he is leaving her for a younger woman, Molly's whole life is completely and irrevocably shattered. Certainly not an unexpected reaction, except that Molly does not have anything else. She was her family. Her situation is unfortunately and intensely exacerbated by the sudden death of her mother, and she naturally begins to feel bitter and...
4) Off season
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
p2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Every summer, Thayer Wentworth, the daughter of a wealthy Middletown, Georgia family, attended Camp Greyledge on Burnt Mountain. It was there were she learned the facets of love and heartbreak with a boy named Nick Abrams. Years later, she marries Aengus, an Irish professor, and moves a few miles away from her childhood camp, much to the disapproval of her family. However, when Aengus spends a lot of time at the camp, Thayer realizes her husband might...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
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...
8) Nora, Nora
Author
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
p2000
Language
English
Description
It is 1961 and Peyton McKenzie, motherless since birth and now 13, doesn't quite know what to make of Nora Findlay. Nora smokes, swears, laughs a lot, and seems to have done everything fun there is to do in the world. When Nora takes a teaching job at the local high school, it seems she might stay on in Lytton forever, despite snide comments from some neighbors. Slowly, Peyton begins to realize that underneath Nora's feisty facade something from her...