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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
During the summer of 1964 in rural South Carolina, a young girl is given a home by three black, beekeeping sisters. As she enters their mesmerizing secret world of bees and honey, she discovers a place where she can find the single thing her heart longs for most.
Author
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
159 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The townsfolk in Pleasant Cross, North Carolina, carry a healthy suspicion of the three generations of Ivy women. Each Ivy woman has been blessed with the gift of Knowing, but it's eighteen-year-old Tessa and her unique powers that cause folks to raise their eyebrows. When Rev. Renfrow and his son, Sterling, roll into town with their Airstream trailer and special brand of faith, things will never be the same, as a tragic secret is uncovered and the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke’s daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women. Things are set in motion on Sarah’s eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership of ten year old Handful,...
4) Other birds
Author
Language
English
Description
"Right off the coast of South Carolina, on Mallow Island, The Dellawisp sits--a stunning cobblestone building shaped like a horeshoe and named after the tiny turquoise birds who, alongside [their] human tenants, inhabit an air of magical secrecy. When Zoey comes to claim her deceased mother's apartment on Mallow Island, she meets her quirky and secretive neighbors, including a girl on the run, two estranged middle-aged sisters, a lonely chef, a legendary...
5) Terminal
Author
Series
Virals novels volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Tory and her comrades must track a new pack of rogue Virals who have brought on the attention of a shadowy government organization intent on learning the secret to their powers"--
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"On the banks of the North Santee River stands a moss-draped oak that was once entrusted with the dreams of three young girls. Into the tree's trunk, they placed their greatest hopes, written on ribbons, for safekeeping--including the most important one: Friends forever, come what may. But life can waylay the best of intentions"--Amazon.com.
7) Exposure
Author
Series
Virals novels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Tory and her "viral" friends, who contracted heightened, wolf-like senses during an experiment gone wrong, investigate an abduction case and make some troubling new discoveries about their powers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Physical Desc
503 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
In South Carolina, a young black man faces the death penalty for the rape and murder of Marianne Larousse, daughter of one of the wealthiest men in the state. It's a case that nobody wants to touch, deeply rooted in old evil -- and old evil is Charlie Parker's specialty. He's about to enter a living nightmare, a dreamscape of sorrow haunted by the murderous specter of a hooded woman, by a black car waiting for a passenger that never comes, and by...
Author
Series
Death on Demand mysteries volume 19
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
292 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A mysterious young woman returns to the island to make amends, but a ruthless killer fears she will recall one long ago, foggy night.
10) Islands: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Finding the family she has always longed for through her marriage, Anny vows with her new friends that they will live together in old age, a promise that is tested in the wake of painful challenges.
Author
Language
English
Description
On the night their mother drowns, sisters Marnie and Diana Maitland discover there is more than one kind of death. There is the death of innocence, of love, and of hope. Each sister harbors a secret about that night-secrets that will erode their lives as they grow into adulthood. After ten years of silence between the sisters, Marnie is called back to the South Carolina Lowcountry by Diana's ex-husband, Quinn. His young son has returned from a sailing...
12) Carolina moon
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Returning as an adult to her hometown of Progress, South Carolina, Tory Bodeen plans to put the past behind her and open a stylish home-design shop. Following her friend, Hope's, brutal murder--unsolved to this day--she is determined to find a measure of peace and free herself from the haunting visions of that terrible night. But her return will be more difficult and frightening than she ever expected because Hope's killer is nearby as well.
14) One summer
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's almost Christmas, but there is no joy in the house of terminally ill Jack and his family. With only a short time left to live, he spends his last days preparing to say goodbye to his devoted wife, Lizzie, and their three children. Then, unthinkably, tragedy strikes again: Lizzie is killed in a car accident. With no one able to care for them, the children are separated from each other and sent to live with family members around the country. Just...
15) The ideal man
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dr. Ellie Sullivan has just completed her residency at a large urban hospital. While jogging in a park nearby, she witnesses the shooting of an FBI agent in pursuit of wanted criminals, a couple identified as the Landrys. The only person to see the shooter's face, Ellie is suddenly at the center of a criminal investigation. Agent Max Daniels takes over the Landry case. A no-nonsense lawman, he's definitely not the ideal man that Ellie has always imagined,...
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
Newspaper publisher Jamie Swift and millionaire playboy Max Holt pose as husband and wife to track down the story of a lifetime. They become involved with a corrupt minister, a gang of mobsters on the loose, a hound dog named Fleas, and a wise-cracking computer whiz.
17) Porch lights
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Jimmy McMullen, a fireman with the NYFD, is killed in the line of duty, his wife, Jackie, and ten-year-old son, Charlie, are devastated. Trusting in the healing power of family, Jackie decides to return to her childhood home on Sullivans Island. -- Publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on tiny Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion. Jessie Sullivan's conventional life has been "molded to the smallest space possible." So when she is called home to cope with her mother's startling and enigmatic act of violence, Jessie finds herself...
19) All summer long
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is a story of people whose lives are changing - a southern gentleman returning home to lead a more peaceful life and his talented New York wife who is not quite sure she is ready to make the transition. They are moving north to south, fast pace versus slow pace, downsizing. And while they are doing this, they are getting glimpses into other people's lives over the course of a summer, holidays that will amuse, shock and transform them.
Author
Series
Sally Baynard novels volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
303 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Agreeing to represent Beatrice, a black cat who's the beneficiary of a multi-million dollar trust and a plantation, Sally Baynard must put her wit, charm, and brains to the test, choosing among three colorful potential caregivers while dodging the former owner's angry son"--
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