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Mary Monroe
A powerful, haunting and funny novel by the author of the Essence and Blackboard bestseller God Don’t Like Ugly. This is bestselling author Monroe’s first novel, set in the bayous…
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Talented, beautiful Michelle Heywood, 29, has everything going for her. She has just been promoted to Senior Account Executive for A, A & A, a Michigan-Avenue Chicago ad agency and…
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In the stunning climax Mary Monroe’s Lonely Heart, Deadly Heart series, the tension - and the heat - reach unforgettable heights as two restless women go after the ultimate satisfaction…
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…
Brutally honest about her feelings when life dealt her husband the greatest setback one can imagine-a diagnosis of Lewy body dementia and Alzheimer's-Mary Monroe lamented, "I didn't sign up for…
The entwined stories of two lifelong friends, their secrets and lies, and a new challenge that could destroy their relationship once and for all …
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…
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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
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…
For two restless women looking for satisfaction, too much of a good thing is never enough - even as a lethal passion closes in.
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 the sequel to God Don’t Like Ugly, Annette reconnects with her father and gets engaged. But everything falls apart when her checkered past comes back to haunt her, and…
Includes reading group guide discussion questions.
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…
A heartwarming, uplifting novel about two long-time coworkers who seem unlucky in love… until a little holiday magic changes everything.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 MacGregor
Pook Press celebrates the great Golden Age of Illustration in children’s literature. Many of the earliest children’s books, particularly those dating back to the 1850s and before, are now extremely…
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.
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…
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.
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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…
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…
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 –
Series information from the author’s website.
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…
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…
Includes an excerpt from The beach house.
For five women whose lives are in transition, their regular book club meeting provides them a place of comfort, support, and sanctuary.
