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10 best books like The Rock Orchard (Paula Wall): When Autumn Leaves, Saffron Skies, A Year on Ladybug Farm, Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in Counter-Culture, Sweet Hush, This One and Magic Life: A Novel of a Southern Family, The Lost Saints of Tennessee, The Tender Mercy of Roses, In My Dreams, The Book of Peach

When Autumn Leaves
AuthorAmy S. Foster
ISBN1590202554
This is a town where the shoes in the window always fit, where you can buy a love potion at the corner shop, and where the woods at the outskirts of town just might be the door to another world. And, of course, there's Autumn, Avening's beloved resident witch. From what's known of its mythical founding, Avening...
Saffron Skies
AuthorLesley Lokko
ISBN1582881596
This is one of those books that I really wanted to finish reading..not because I wanted it to end, but because I felt like I really KNEW the main characters, and I wanted to be a part of their lives. When I was busy doing something else (like working..) my mind would often wander to this book. To me, that's the...
A Year on Ladybug Farm
AuthorDonna Ball
ISBN0425225879
Their husbands were gone, their families were grown, and the future stretched out before them like an unfulfilled promise...

Tired of always dreaming and never doing, Cici, Lindsay, and Bridget make a life-altering decision. Uprooting themselves from their comfortable lives in the suburbs,...
Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in Counter-Culture
AuthorPaul Krassner
ISBN0671898434
The author is a standup comic, a long-time writer and editor of a provocative periodical called "The Realist," and an associate of Lenny Bruce, Abby Hoffman, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey, Charles Manson, Squeaky Fromme, Larry Flynt, and other famous fringe folk from the sixties and beyond....
Sweet Hush
AuthorDeborah Smith
ISBN0446611409
This isn't the type of book I usually read but I've been breaking out of my comfort zone lately and am glad of it. I'd say this book was about family -- the lies we tell, the secrets we keep, and the love we share. It's got a romance subplot running through it, but I wouldn't classify this as romance.

Basic...
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 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...
In My Dreams
AuthorSarah Addison Allen
A series of short stories about the small town of Clementine. Following mostly the family of Louise, her mother and her great Aunt Sophie. Some of the stories that revolve around Louise show how she is faced with the death of her father, the re-marriage of her mother, and then there are stories about life...
The Book of Peach
AuthorPenelope J. Stokes
ISBN0425234495
For fans of Fannie Flagg-the acclaimed author of Heartbreak Cafe delivers a heartwarming, hilarious new novel.

Twenty-three years ago, beauty queen Peach Rondell left Mississippi and vowed never to return. Now she's back, divorced and heartbroken, trying to figure out how her life went...
Sufficient Grace
AuthorDarnell Arnoult
ISBN0743284488
Set against the backdrop of two neighboring Southern towns, Sufficient Grace is the powerful, affecting story of two families over the course of a year, from one Easter season to the next. One quiet spring day, Gracie Hollaman hears voices in her head that tell her to get in her car and leave her entire...
Summer in the South
AuthorCathy Holton
ISBN0345506014
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...
Where the Souls Go
AuthorAnn Hite
At the age of ten, Annie Todd finds not only is her mother quite mad but that Annie has inherited an unusual legacy. The ghost of a young girl visits Annie in her new home deep in the mountains of Western North Carolina, where Annie’s mother, Grace Jean, has hidden them away from the life they used to know....
Miracle on I-40
AuthorCurtiss Ann Matlock
ISBN0778322238
To reconcile with her folks back East and give her kids grandparents for Christmas, truck stop waitress Lacey Bryant arranged transportation with her steadiest customer. Little did she know she'd hitched a ride with Scrooge! Eighteen hundred miles confined with scowling Barry Cooper would feel...
A Southern Exposure
AuthorAlice Adams
ISBN0449911136
"A work that will be for many readers as memorable as the last decade's Superior Women, and her exquisite novel from the 1970s, Listening to Billie."
--San Francisco Chronicle
It is 1939, a brief, hopeful moment between the Depression and war. The Baird family--Harry, Cynthia, and their precocious...
Truelove & Homegrown Tomatoes
AuthorJulie L. Cannon
ISBN0743245881
First in the Homegrown series

Imogene loses her husband of 40 something years to cancer. While at first she just wants to give up, after some time, she turns to her beloved gardening. That's when her niece Lou who lives with her knows she's come back to life. As they're working together in the garden,...
Salting Roses
AuthorLorelle Marinello
ISBN0061443743
“A Southern Cinderella story with heart, soul, and humor. As sweet and tart as summer lemonade.”—Christie Ridgway, USA Today bestselling author

A delightful new voice in Southern fiction, Lorelle Marinello makes a truly dazzling debut with Salting Roses—a novel that immediately...
How Sweet It Is
AuthorAlice J. Wisler
ISBN0764204785
Oh this one touched close to home. Deena Livingston and her boyfriend are involved in an accident. He doesn’t bother to come see her, he just sends her flowers. When I read this I thought about my cousin. The night she became engaged she and her fiancé were involved in an accident. After emerging from...
Sea Escape
AuthorLynne Griffin
ISBN1439180601
Acclaimed novelist and nationally recognized family expert Lynne Griffin returns with Sea Escape—an emotional, beautifully imagined story inspired by the author’s family letters about the ties that bind mothers and daughters.

Laura Martinez is wedged in the middle place, grappling...
Prospect Street
AuthorEmilie Richards
ISBN1551666936
I started reading Emilie Richards' romance novels because I loved her mysteries. I was delighted to find that her romances actually had more plot and characterization than I expected -- I'm not surprised that her recent books are on the mainstream fiction shelves. Prospect Street delivers all that...
The Southern Belle's Handbook: Sissy LeBlanc's Rules to Live By
AuthorLoraine Despres
ISBN0060540893
Learn how to navigate life with the effortless savior faire of a true daughter of the South with The Southern Belle's Handbook.

Sissy LeBlanc's rules to live by will teach you how to hook, hold on to, and handle any man as well as conquer any personal situation with the poise and confidence of a...
The Secret of Everything
AuthorBarbara O'Neal
ISBN0553385526
In this spectacular new novel, Barbara O’Neal delivers a generous helping of the best in life–family, food, and love–in the story of a woman’s search for the one thing worth more than anything.

At thirty-seven, Tessa Harlow is still working her way down her list of goals to “fall...
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