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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"The story follows Hetty "Handful" Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid. "The Invention of Wings" follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and, importantly, an abolitionist), Kidd allows herself to go...
63) Book of the dead
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta seeks to start life anew by moving to Charleston, South Carolina, and opening a private practice, but it's only a matter of time before she is investigating another string of death.
Author
Series
Henrie O mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins receives a call for help from her long-ago lover, finding herself on an island with a dead man and ten possible murderers.
65) Breaking news
Author
Series
Godmothers novels volume 5
Godmothers series) volume 5
The godmothers volume 5
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
Godmothers series) volume 5
The godmothers volume 5
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
Language
English
Description
Helping her friend launch her new line of cosmetics and dealing with her daughter's wedding preparations, Toots, in the middle of so much change, is almost too busy to notice her own unexpected romance even though she has sworn off men after eight husbands.
66) Southern ghost
Author
Series
Death on Demand mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
68) Just imagine
Author
Language
English
Description
The War Between the States may be over for the rest of the country, but not for Kit Weston. Disguised as a boy, she's come to New York City to kill Baron Cain, the man who stands between her and Risen Glory, the South Carolina home she loves. But unknown to Kit, the Yankee war hero is more than her bitterest enemy-he's also her guardian. And he'll be a lot harder to kill than she's figured on . . .
Believing that Kit's a boy, Cain offers the grubby...
69) Full speed
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
A novel brimming with nonstop action, quirky characters, sexy highjinks, and sharp humor. Welcome to Full Speed. You'll fall in love with Jamie Swift and Max Holt, one dynamic duo who can't seem to escape trouble-and an irresistible attraction-as you follow them from one adventure to another. Newspaper editor Jamie Swift likes a little predictability in her life. When she suddenly finds herself minus a fiancé and with a major case of the hots for...
70) Low country
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Language
English
Description
Caroline Venable has everything her Southern heritage promised: money, prestige, a powerful husband-and a predictable routine of country-club luncheons, cocktail parties, and dinners hosting her husband's wealthy friends, clients, and associates in his successful land-developing conglomerate. To escape her stifling routine, Caro drinks a little too much. But her true solace is the Lowcountry island her beloved Granddaddy left her-an oasis of breathtaking...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When dissension erupts in the town of Foley, South Carolina, after a baby is left on the steps of the Rock of Ages Baptist Church, eleven-year-old Randall must decide whether or not to keep secret his knowledge of who the foundling's mother is.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Dorothea Benton Frank once again takes us deep into the heart of the magical Lowcountry where three amazing middle aged women are bonded by another amazing woman's death. Through their shared loss they forge a deep friendship, asking critical questions. Who was their friend and what did her life mean? Are they living the lives they imagined for themselves? Will they ever be able to afford to retire? How will they maximize their happiness? Security?...
73) Shadowlands
Author
Series
Shadowlands (Kate Brian) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rory, a girl in witness protection, thinks the serial killer she turned in has found her and is killing people around her. But as she investigates, she discovers a dark, disturbing truth about her new hometown"--
Author
Series
Death on Demand mysteries volume 15
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mary Lynn and Jackson Scoville move to the heart of Charleston, South Carolina, carefully working their way up the social ladder in hopes of giving their three daughters the life they themselves never had, but when the long-forgotten God of Mary Lynn's childhood begins trying to get her attention in clear and unusual ways, Mary Lynn prays for Jackson to open his mind and heart to God."--From Novelist.
Author
Language
English
Description
Ricky Lam had it all -- a thriving film career, the adoration of countless fans, incredible wealth, and a cocaine and alcohol problem that was about to destroy him. Luckily, he also had a business manager -- his straight-arrow older brother Philip -- who strong-armed him into an addiction clinic. But not even the passage of fifteen years, Ricky's rehabilitation, and undreamed-of success for both men can mend the rift that erupted between the brothers...
Author
Series
Sweet magnolias series volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forty-two-year-old matrimonial attorney Helen Decatur finds her decision to have a child complicated by her two best friends, her attraction to a man who doesn't want a family, and love.
79) Stealing home
Author
Series
Sweet magnolias series volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
While dealing with a wealth of family issues, Serenity, South Carolina, resident Maddie Townsend, jobless and newly single, finds herself the talk of the town when her son's baseball coach declares his love.
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