Looking for Me
10 best books like Looking for Me (Beth Hoffman): The Time Between, The Funeral Dress, Whistling Past the Graveyard, And Then I Found You, The Rock Orchard, The Lost Saints of Tennessee, The Tender Mercy of Roses, Summer in the South, Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society, Time Flies
| Author | Karen White |
| ISBN | 0451239865 |
A stunning new novel of betrayal and forgiveness from The New York Times bestselling author.
Thirty-four-year-old Eleanor Murray is consumed with guilt for causing the accident that paralyzed her sister—and for falling in love with her sister’s husband. But when her boss offers her...
| Author | Susan Gregg Gilmore |
| ISBN | 0307886212 |
A deeply touching Southern story filled with struggle and hope.
Emmalee Bullard and her new baby are on their own. Or so she thinks, until Leona Lane, the older seamstress who sat by her side at the local shirt factory where both women worked as collar makers, insists Emmalee come and...
| Author | Susan Crandall |
| ISBN | 1476707723 |
The summer of 1963 begins like any other for nine-year-old Starla Claudelle. Born to teenage parents in Mississippi, Starla is being raised by a strict paternal grandmother, Mamie, whose worst fear is that Starla will turn out like her mother. Starla hasn’t seen her momma since she was three, but...
| Author | Patti Callahan Henry |
| ISBN | 0312610769 |
Kate Vaughan is no stranger to tough choices.
She's made them before. Now it's time to do it again.
Kate has a secret, something tucked away in her past. And she's getting on with her life. Her business is thriving. She has a strong relationship with her family, and a devoted boyfriend...
| Author | Paula Wall |
| ISBN | 0743496205 |
"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...
| Author | Amy Franklin-Willis |
| ISBN | 0802120059 |
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...
| Author | Anna Michaels |
| ISBN | 1439180997 |
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...
| Author | Cathy Holton |
| ISBN | 0345506014 |
Cathy Holton, author of the popular Beach Trip, returns with an intriguing and mysterious tale of dark deeds and family secrets in a small Southern town.
After a personal tragedy, Chicago writer Ava Dabrowski quits her job to spend the summer in Woodburn, Tennessee, at the invitation of her...
Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society
| Author | Amy Hill Hearth |
| ISBN | 1451675232 |
A brilliant debut novel from a New York Times bestselling author about a transplanted wife from Boston who arrives in Florida in the 1960s, starts a literary salon, and shakes up the status quo.
In 1962, Jackie Hart moved to Naples, Florida, from Boston with her husband and children. Wanting...
| Author | Claire Cook |
| ISBN | 1451673671 |
In this heartwarming novel from the bestselling author of Must Love Dogs and Wallflower in Bloom, a recently separated woman faces her highway driving phobia and takes a road trip with her best friend to their high school reunion.
Years ago, Melanie followed her husband, Kurt, from the New...
| Author | Alison Caiola |
| ISBN | 1481159623 |
Sarah Jessica Parker has said about this book: "What a great story!"
From the outside looking in, Lily Lockwood--popular star of the hit TV show "St. Joes"--seems to have it all. She has recently been nominated for an Emmy and her star is on the rise. Lily shares her beachfront Malibu home with...
| Author | Katherine Center |
| ISBN | 0345507940 |
"Dear Libby, It occurs to me that you and your two children have been living with your mother for -- Dear Lord! -- two whole years, and I'm writing to see if you'd like to be rescued." The letter comes out of the blue, and just in time for Libby Moran, who, after the sudden death of her husband, Danny, went to...
| Author | Meg Waite Clayton |
| ISBN | 0345530284 |
Meg Waite Clayton, nationally bestselling author of The Wednesday Sisters, returns with a compassionate, wise, and enthralling new novel of mothers and daughters, best friends who become family, and secrets and dreams passed down through the generations.
It is early evening when Hope...
| Author | Lynne Bryant |
| ISBN | 0451235789 |
As a pregnant teenager, Avery Pritchett found refuge in Colorado, but now, ten years later, her brother's wedding--and some burning questions--bring her back home to her small Southern town. But will introducing her mixed-race daughter to her independent-minded grandmother bring solace or sorrow?...
| Author | Shelley Noble |
| ISBN | 0062258346 |
Shelley Noble's Stargazey Point is a beautiful story of love, heartbreak, friendship, and new beginnings.
Devastated by tragedy during her last project, documentarian Abbie Sinclair seeks refuge with three octogenarian siblings, who live in a looming plantation house at the edge of the...
| Author | Denise Hildreth Jones |
| ISBN | 1414366841 |
Secrets can be funny things. We think they keep us safe, but more often than not, they spill out when we least expect and make a mess out of everything. It's a truth Scarlett Jo Newberry knows all too well--a truth Grace Shepherd and Zach Craig are about to learn the hard way. As the lives of this boisterous...
| Author | Mary Ellen Taylor |
| ISBN | 0425259692 |
Life can turn on a dime. It’s a common cliché, and I’d heard it often enough. People die or move away. Investments go south. Affairs end. Loved ones betray us...Stuff happens.
Daisy McCrae’s life is in tatters. She’s lost her job, broken up with her boyfriend, and has been reduced to...
| Author | Emilie Richards |
| ISBN | 0778313557 |
With nothing but brains, ambition and sheer nerve, Charlotte Hale built a career as a tough, do-anything-to-succeed real-estate developer. She's at the top of that mountain…but her life is empty. Her friends are as grasping and insincere as she has become. Far worse, she's alienated her family...
| Author | Barbara O'Neal |
| ISBN | 0553386786 |
From Barbara O’Neal, beloved author of How to Bake a Perfect Life and The Lost Recipe for Happiness, comes another magical, heartfelt novel—perfect for fans of Kristin Hannah and Susan Wiggs.
After tragedy shatters her small community in Seattle, the Reverend Elsa Montgomery has...
| Author | Lisa Van Allen |
| ISBN | 0345538552 |
For fans of Jennifer Chiaverini and Sarah Addison Allen, The Wishing Thread is an enchanting novel about the bonds between sisters, the indelible pull of the past, and the transformational power of love.
The Van Ripper women have been the talk of Tarrytown, New York, for centuries. Some...
| Author | Tara Heavey |
| ISBN | 1439177937 |
In the heart of bustling modern Dublin is a littered, overgrown garden of tangled weeds and a stagnant, hidden pond. Belonging to an iron-willed elderly lady named Mrs. Prendergast, who is rumored to have murdered and buried her husband there, the garden draws Eva Madigan, a young mother struggling...
| Author | Donna Ball |
| ISBN | 0425229785 |
From the award-winning author of A Year on Ladybug Farm comes the continuing story of three women who learn what it takes to turn a house into a home.
A year after taking the chance of a lifetime, Cici, Lindsay, and Bridget are still trying to make a home for themselves on the newly-renovated Ladybug...
