Mary Alice Monroe
Author
Publisher
Sylvan Dell Pub
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A scrapbook journal explains the nesting cycle of loggerhead sea turtles and how volunteers help them, and describes the natural life along the southeastern coast, including local shore birds, shells, and the sea turtle hospital.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Late August is a beautiful time on the Southern coast--the peach trees are ripe, the ocean is warm, and the sweet tea is icy. A perfect time to enjoy the rocking chairs on the porch. But beneath the calm surface bubbles a threat: it's also peak hurricane season. When a hurricane threatens the coasts of Florida and South Carolina, an eclectic group of evacuees flees for the farm of their friends Grace and Charles Phillips in North Carolina: the Phillips's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"A wounded warrior and his younger brother discover the true meaning of Christmas in this timeless story of family bonds. A poignant continuation of the Lowcountry Summer series. As far as ten-year-old Miller McClellan is concerned, it's the worst Christmas ever. His father's shrimp boat is docked, his mother is working two jobs, and with finances strained, Miller is told they can't afford the dog he desperately wants. "Your brother's return from...
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Spending the summer with his grandmother on South Carolina's Dewees Island, eleven-year-old Jake finds two friends who are also struggling with family issues and together they try to save a sea turtle nest from predators.
5) Skyward
Author
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Be moved by this emotional story from New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe, author of The Beach House series.
E.R. nurse Ella Majors has seen all the misery that she can handle. Burned-out and unsure of her next step, she accepts the temporary position as caregiver to Marion Henderson, a frightened five-year-old who suffers from juvenile diabetes.
But Ella soon realizes there is more sorrow in the isolated home than the little girl's...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2025
Language
English
Formats
Description
"1908: The Lowcountry of South Carolina is at the cusp of change. Mayfield, the grand estate held for generations by the Rivers family, is the treasured home of young Eliza. A free spirit, she refusesto be confined by societal norms and spends her days exploring the vast property, observing wildlife, and riding horses. But the Great War, coastal storms, and family turmoil bring unexpected challenges to Eliza, putting her on a collision course with...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
When Cara Rutledge rents out her quaint beach house on Isle of Palms to Heather Wyatt for the entire summer, it's a win-win by any standard: Cara's generating income necessary to keep her husband Brett's ecotourism boat business afloat, and anxiety-prone Heather, a young artist who's been given a commission to paint shorebirds for postage stamps, has a quiet space in which to work and tend to her pet canaries uninterrupted. It isn't long, however,...
Author
Series
Beach house volume 5
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
At Cara Rutledge's home on Isle of Palms, everything is comfortingly the same, yet rife with painful memories. Only through reconnecting with family, friends, and the rhythms of the lowcountry can Cara release the hold of the past and open herself to the possibility of a new love, career, and hope for the future. Meanwhile, her niece Linnea, a recent college graduate who doesn't know where her life will take her, leaves her historic home in Charleston,...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
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 Sullivans Island, South Carolina, to reveal how the pull of family bonds and true love is as strong and steady as the tides.It is summers end and Sea Breeze, the familys beloved estate on Sullivans Island, must be sold. It is an emotional time of transition as Mamaw...
10) The summer girls
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Three granddaughters. Three months. One summer house. In this trilogy set on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, the author captures the complex relationships between three half sisters scattered across the country, and a grandmother determined to help them rediscover their family bonds. Set amid ancient live oaks and palmettos, overlooking the water, historic Sea Breeze is Marietta Muir's ancestral summer home. Her granddaughters once adored vacations...
11) The summer wind
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"This heartwarming women's fiction series from beloved New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe centers on Marietta Colson Muir, a dowager of Charleston society who has retired to her historic summer home on Sullivan's Island called Conquest, and her three granddaughters Carson, Eudora, and Harper. It's summer once again on idyllic Sullivan's Island, but Eudora, or Dora as she's affectionately called by her family, is feeling anything but...