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10 best books like A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty (Joshilyn Jackson): Where'd You Go, Bernadette, Looking for Me, Bloodroot, The Violets of March, On Folly Beach, One Breath Away, One Mississippi, The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove, This One and Magic Life: A Novel of a Southern Family, The Rock Orchard

Where'd You Go, Bernadette
AuthorMaria Semple
ISBN0316204277
Bernadette Fox has vanished.

When her daughter Bee claims a family trip to Antarctica as a reward for perfect grades, Bernadette, a fiercely intelligent shut-in, throws herself into preparations for the trip. But worn down by years of trying to live the Seattle life she never wanted, Ms. Fox...
Looking for Me
AuthorBeth Hoffman
ISBN0670025836
A Southern novel of family and antiques from the bestselling author of the beloved Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

Beth Hoffman’s bestselling debut, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt, won admirers and acclaim with its heartwarming story and cast of unforgettable characters. Now her unique flair for...
Bloodroot
AuthorAmy Greene
ISBN0307269868
Named for a flower whose blood-red sap possesses the power both to heal and poison, Bloodroot is a stunning fiction debut about the legacies—of magic and madness, faith and secrets, passion and loss—that haunt one family across the generations, from the Great Depression to today.

The...
The Violets of March
AuthorSarah Jio
ISBN0452297036
A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2011

A heartbroken woman stumbled upon a diary and steps into the life of its anonymous author.

In her twenties, Emily Wilson was on top of the world: she had a bestselling novel, a husband plucked from the pages of GQ, and a one-way ticket to happily ever...
On Folly Beach
AuthorKaren White
ISBN0451229215
Folly Beach, South Carolina, has survived despite hurricanes and war. But it's the personal battles of Folly Beach's residents that have left the most scars, and why a young widow has been beckoned there to heal her own...

To most people, Folly Beach is simply the last barrier island before...
One Breath Away
AuthorHeather Gudenkauf
ISBN0778313654
In her most emotionally charged novel to date, New York Times bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf explores the unspoken events that shape a community, the ties between parents and their children and how the fragile normalcy of our everyday life is so easily shattered.

In the midst of a sudden...
One Mississippi
AuthorMark Childress
ISBN0316012114
This exuberantly acclaimed novel by the author of the bestselling Crazy in Alabama tells an uproarious and moving story about family, best friends, first love, and surviving the scariest years of your life.You need only one best friend, Daniel Musgrove figures, to make it through high school alive....
The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove
AuthorSusan Gregg Gilmore
ISBN0307395030
Nobody in Nashville has a bigger name to live up to than Bezellia Grove.  As a Grove, she belongs to one of city’s most prominent families and is expected to embrace her position in high society.  That means speaking fluent French, dancing at cotillions with boys from other important families, and...
This One and Magic Life: A Novel of a Southern Family
AuthorAnne Carroll George
In the deep South, where love and hatred run deep and close, dissension often summers just beneath the surface.When a family gathers for a funeral as its old homestead above the waters of Mobile Bay, it must carry out the last wish of the aunt and sister whom it has come to mourn. It is a wish that will unearth...
The Rock Orchard
AuthorPaula Wall
ISBN0743496205
"It is common knowledge that Belle Women make hard men melt like butter in a pan," writes novelist Wall, adding, "They are equally adept at reversing the process." If you find such sentiments appealing, then spirit yourself away to Leaper's Fork, Tennessee, and immerse yourself in the very southern...
The Lost Saints of Tennessee
AuthorAmy Franklin-Willis
ISBN0802120059
With enormous heart and dazzling agility, Amy Franklin-Willis expertly mines the fault lines in one Southern working-class family. Driven by the soulful voices of forty-two-year-old Ezekiel Cooper and his mother, Lillian, The Lost Saints of Tennessee journeys from the 1940s to 1980s as it follows...
The Tender Mercy of Roses
AuthorAnna Michaels
ISBN1439180997
While the body of rodeo star Pony Jones lies motionless in the northern Alabama woods, her spirit is on a mission to find her killer. Invisible to the eye but not to the sixth sense, the only thing Pony can do is guide the living to the truth. Her grief-stricken father, Titus, wants nothing more than retribution...
A Teeny Bit of Trouble
AuthorMichael Lee West
ISBN0312571232
In this hilarious follow-up to GONE WITH A HANDSOMER MAN, Charleston pastry chef Teeny Templeton witnesses a murder and discovers that her laywer-boyfriend, Coop O'Malley, has been keeping secrets. It’s not every day that I bake a dozen Red Velvet cakes, learn my boyfriend may have a love...
Objects of My Affection
AuthorJill Smolinski
ISBN1451660758
In the humorous, heartfelt new novel by the author of The Next Thing on My List, a personal organizer must somehow convince a reclusive artist to give up her hoarding ways and let go of the stuff she’s hung on to for decades.

Lucy Bloom is broke, freshly dumped by her boyfriend, and forced to sell...
What Happened to Hannah
AuthorMary Kay McComas
As a teenager, Hannah Benson ran away from home in order to save herself. Now, twenty years later, the past comes calling and delivers life-changing news: her mother and sister have passed away, leaving Hannah the guardian of her fifteen-year-old niece.

Returning home to bitter memories...
The Gilly Salt Sisters
AuthorTiffany Baker
ISBN0446194239
The author of the New York Times bestselling The Little Giant of Aberdeen County returns with a magic-tinged tale of dreams, family secrets, and betrayals on a New England salt farm.

In the isolated Cape Cod village of Prospect, the Gilly sisters are as different as can be. Jo, a fierce and quiet...
Bound South
AuthorSusan Rebecca White
ISBN1416558675
From the award winning author of A Soft Place to Land and A Place at the Table comes a tale of three vibrant and unique Southern women—Louise, Caroline, and Missy—as their lives intersect in unexpected and extraordinary ways.

From the outside, Louise Parker seems like a proper Southern...
One Good Friend Deserves Another
AuthorLisa Verge Higgins
ISBN1455500305
How Many of These Dating Rules Have You Broken?

1. Choose Your Own Man
2. Make Sure Your Friends Approve
3. No One-Night Stands
4. Trust Your Instincts
5. Never Make the Same Mistake Twice
6. After a Break-Up, Wait Six Months Before Dating Again.

Dhara, Kelly,...
A Life of Bright Ideas
AuthorSandra Kring
ISBN0553386824
A secret tore best friends Evelyn “Button” Peters and Winnalee Malone apart. Now, nearly a decade later, a secret brings them back together.
 
Nine years ago Button and Winnalee began recording observations in their Book of Bright Ideas, a tome they believed would solve the mystery of...
Driving Sideways
AuthorJess Riley
ISBN0345501101
Leigh Fielding wants a life. Seriously. Having spent the past five years on dialysis, she has one simple wish: to make it to her thirtieth birthday. Now, thanks to the generosity of the late Larry Resnick and his transplanted kidney, it looks like her wish may come true.

With her newfound vitality...
The River Witch
AuthorKimberly Brock
ISBN1611941237
Just like the riverbanks' magical tales and songs, Kimberly Brock weaves prose into a mesmerizing tale of healing for Roslyn Byrne, whose future is shattered after a devastating accident and miscarriage. When Roslyn seeks respite and recovery on Manny's Island, Georgia--where "time seemed to slip...
Keepsake
AuthorKristina Riggle
ISBN0062003070
"This story of two sisters, each broken in her own way, is as unflinching as it is compassionate. I was pulled in from the first page."
--Marisa de los Santos, New York Times bestselling author of Falling Together

For her previous novels (Things We Didn't Say, The Life You've Imagined, Real...
Catching Genius
AuthorKristy Kiernan
ISBN0425214354
As children, Connie and Estella were best friends-until Estella was discovered to be a math prodigy, which led to the sisters' estrangement. Now, years later, they are forced to reunite on the Gulf Coast of Florida as they pack up their childhood home and ready it for sale. The reunion comes at a time when...
Secret Keepers
AuthorMindy Friddle
ISBN0312537026
At age seventy-two, Emma Hanley plans to escape small-town Palmetto, South Carolina, and travel the globe. But when her fickle husband dies in undignified circumstances, Emma finds herself juggling the needs of her adult children. Her once free-spirited daughter Dora turns to compulsive shopping...
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