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Mary Monroe
The new edition of a modern classic by New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Mary Monroe!
An enduring tale of the rebellious early years of Mama Ruby in 1930s…
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Includes reading group guide discussion questions.
New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe weaves a stunning portrait of a family immersed in deceit and the women whose happiness depends on the secrets they keep
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New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe returns to the 1930s era of her acclaimed novel The Upper Room with a dazzling portrait of two very different couples whose friendship…
Monroe’s Gonna Lay Down My Burdens opens with a bang when Carmen Taylor intervenes in a violent lovers’ quarrel between her friends Chester and Desiree, and Chester winds up dead…
In this moving, unforgettable novel, a successful, happily married mother suddenly finds herself feeling far from joyful. But Christmas brings an unexpected chance to rediscover herself, and what happiness really…
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Popular, generous, forty-something widow Jessie Tucker decides to make herself indispensable to recently widowed Hubert Wiggins but is disappointed when he is not everything she dreamed he would be and…
From the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of the classic, captivating, and scandalous Mama Ruby series, comes a church-going matriarch’s rags to riches Depression era story set in…
New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe returns to the Deep South Depression-era town of her scandalous Mama Ruby series, in this tale of a woman determined to have a…
The entwined stories of two lifelong friends, their secrets and lies, and a new challenge that could destroy their relationship once and for all …
A heartwarming, uplifting novel about two long-time coworkers who seem unlucky in love… until a little holiday magic changes everything.
Award-winning New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe delivers the latest thrillingly scandal-filled novel in her Depression-era saga of a church-going lady and her oh-so-upstanding husband racing to cover up…
Mary A. Monroe
“Freshman Luis Arteaga, 14, can’t stay awake in class at Sunrise High School because he’s up most nights until early morning working on graffiti drawings for his Black Book. Once…
Marvin begins his first day of eighth grade feeling like a loser – fat and depressed. After all, he wasn’t the smartest kid there ever was, and even his school…
They all called her Krazy. Fourteen-year-old Nicole Adams of South Florida awakes from a coma and finds her life changed forever. She has to testify at the trial of her…
“I love using Reader’s Theatre in my classroom,” … “When will they make a movie out of your books?” … “I love performing arts!” Comments such as these from loyal…
Mary Alice Monroe
The colorful flowers in Mama’s garden reveal a strange-looking creature. What is it? Does it sting, does it bite? Join in this photographic journey as the young girl and her…
[A] novel about one family’s summer of new beginnings in old places –
Mary Campbell Monroe
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
Set five years after the events in The Beach House, Monroe revisits the Isle of Palms, as Toy Sooner plumbs the roots of her insecurities and fears and learns to…
Includes discussion guide, questions and recipes.
I’ve taken liberties with the timing of events in the life of J.M. Barrie, but I trust he would forgive me. Throughout the story many readers may readily pick up…
Published in 2021 by arrangement with Gallery Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. –Copyright page.
Includes an excerpt from The beach house.
At her mother’s request, Caretta Rutledge travels back to the beach house she spent most of her childhood summers at, where she begins to reconnect with her estranged family.
Continuing the saga of her bestselling Beach House series, Mary Alice Monroe weaves together a tale of the struggles and triumphs of the historic Rutledge family of Charleston, South Carolina…
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This touching yet witty novel offers readers a glimpse into the events unfolding in the lives of five women who share not only an appreciation for books, but also an…
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New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe returns to her beloved Beach House series with this novel about one family’s summer of new beginnings in old places –
Mama June and Preston Blakely’s lifelong dream has been to hold on to the tract of land left from the family’s plantation. When it looks as though they might have…
Now in paperback from New York Times -bestselling author Monroe, the story of four very different women who embark on a transformational journey following the migrating monarchs across the United…
For five women whose lives are in transition, their regular book club meeting provides them a place of comfort, support, and sanctuary.
In the powerful and heartwarming conclusion to her bestselling Lowcountry Summer trilogy, New York Times author Mary Alice Monroe brings her readers back to the charm and sultry beauty of…
Monroe Mary
In this Depression-era small Alabama town, two neighbouring families let pleasantries mask increasing resentment.
Gary Monroe
As one of the original nine members of the group of entrepreneurial African American regional painters now known as the Highwaymen, and its only woman, Mary Ann Carroll’s story is…
M Rosalita
Mary Maurice
Susan Jordan awakens at her Santa Feapartment, cloudy and disoriented. Herclothing is unfamiliar. Where has shebeen? Her nose crinkles as she smells hisscent. Jack’s back! Rubber…
