In this coming-of-age story, Annette Goode is an overweight child with a bad case of low self-esteem. Fatherless, poor, and repeatedly raped by her mother's lodger, she suffers in silence until she makes a friend of Rhoda Nelson, who helps her speak up for herself. Set in the 1960s in a small, racially mixed Ohio town, Mary Monroe's novel is not ...
Caretta Rutledge abandoned her Southern roots and troubled family long ago. Now, as her own life takes a turn for the worse, Caretta finds herself heading back to the beach house where she spent her childhood summers. There, Caretta renews old acquaintances and reconnects with her ailing mother, learning life's most precious lessons in the process ...
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. Most of the novel is told in flashback, following Carmen and Chester's ill-fated attraction to one another.
Three sisters search for the child that one of them has given up for adoption. Along the way, they patch up old conflicts, reveal secrets from long ago, and find renewed strength in one another.
Burned out from the stress of working in an emergency room, Ella Majors a takes a job as the personal nurse of Marion Henderson, a 5-year-old who has juvenile diabetes. Through her work with Marion, Ella gets to know Harris Henderson, Marion's father, a distant single parent who hides his pain and fear over his daughter's illness by burying ...
The Blakely family, despite the tragedy that separated them, must band together to save their historical plantation, which has been in the family for generations and is the only thing that holds them all together, from being sold to developers.
In this haunting and powerful new novel, national bestselling author Mary Monroe revisits characters five years after the events in "God Don't Like Ugly," as they attempt to reestablish precariously balanced relationships.
In this sensational new novel from the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "God Don't Like Ugly" and "God Don't Play," a beautiful, resourceful woman engineers a high-stakes game of love, money, and sex--all in the name of a better future.
In this third novel in the God Dont series, Annette Goode finally seems to have the perfect life. But out of the blue, she starts to receive hostile letters and vicious phone calls. Someone won't rest until the life Annette has worked so hard to build is torn down.
From the masterful pen of "New York Times"-bestselling author Monroe comes a compelling, thoroughly entertaining novel about searching for and finding love.
"What price beauty? Mary Alice Monroe's "Girl in the Mirror" reflects the shadows and shapes of a woman's painful and illuminating journey of self-discovery, of choices, of loves."--Nora Roberts. Reissue.
The bestselling author of "God Don't Like Ugly" delivers a powerful and passionate new novel about six captivating women who share life on the streets of San Francisco and who are willing to face the worst life has to offerQand still hope for the best.
Mia Landon travels to a mountain sanctuary near Asheville, North Carolina, while she begins her recovery from breast cancer. There, she discovers the long-lost journal of a well-known fly-fisherwoman from the 1920s--an account which draws her back into the world around her.
For five women, their monthly book club meeting is a time to share their hopes, fears, and triumphs. As each woman faces transition, they embrace the challenges that come with change and hold fast to their unfailing friendship.
In this 1985 novel, a large and colorful African-American woman named Ruby Montgomery ("Mama Ruby") kidnaps her best friend's baby and takes off for Florida.
From two of the most gifted and elegant voices in African-American fiction come gripping tales of loss, redemption, and unexpected consequences. In Monroe's "Nightmare in Paradise, "a wife's indiscretion may cost her more than she ever imagined. In McGlothin's "Bad Luck Shadow," a small-time gambler must make a decision that could change his life ...
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 release them at last and live fearlessly.
In this new novel from the bestselling author of "God Don't Like Ugly," one restless young woman thinks she's found a free ride to happiness and adventure, but it's a trip that may land her in prison or worse.
A remarkable talent ("Chicago Sun-Times") delivers a powerful and provocative new page-turner about one woman's search for love in a world where secrets don't always stay hidden, and where the choices made in one rash moment can change everything.
This is a companion book to Mary Alice Monroe's novel, Swimming Lessons, the sequel to The Beach House. In the novel, the readers witness a young mother, Toy, writing a journal for her daughter, Little Lovie. This is the journal Toy is writing. Using original photographs, this scrapbook journal explains the nesting cycle of sea turtles and the ...
From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Time Is a River" comes a new lyrical and emotionally satisfying novel that intimately portrays the complex and emotional relationships shared among family and friends.
The Blakely family is broken and scattered as matriarch Mary June refuses to face the truth of her past and a legacy of tragedy. She and her husband Preston have paid the price for years of unspoken emotions - one son is lost forever, another, Morgan, has not been home in over a decade. When Morgan unexpectedly returns to help care for his sick ...
"New York Times"-bestselling author and beloved storyteller Monroe revisits the cast of characters her readers have been waiting for, in this highly anticipated new addition to the acclaimed GOD series.
Still reeling from the shock of her estranged husband's suicide, Nora MacKenzie is hit with the news of the Wall Street power broker's debts. Left only with a small farmhouse in Vermont and his secret journals, Nora begins to sort things out--until a ruggedly handsome farmhand shows up to greet her.
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 - Monty Middle - tried to hide him, with 11 other "nobodies," in Room 211 in the back of the school in a special "Drop Out Prevention" D.O.P. class. But then "miracles" begin to happen the ...
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