The Sweet By and By
10 best books like The Sweet By and By (Todd Johnson): Velva Jean Learns to Drive, The Lost Recipe for Happiness, Crazy Ladies, The Three Miss Margarets, Summer in the South, Magnolia Wednesdays, Liar's Bench, All You Could Ask For, The Favorite Daughter, Growing Season
Velva Jean Learns to Drive
| Author | Jennifer Niven |
| ISBN | 0452289459 |
In this spellbinding debut, Velva Jean Hart finds true love-and then risks everything to follow her dreams.
Set in Appalachia in the years before World War II, Velva Jean Learns to Drive is a poignant story of a spirited young girl growing up in the gold-mining and moonshining South.
Before...
The Lost Recipe for Happiness
| Author | Barbara O'Neal |
| ISBN | 0553385518 |
In this sumptuous new novel, Barbara O’Neal offers readers a celebration of food, family, and love as a woman searches for the elusive ingredient we’re all hoping to find….
It’s the opportunity Elena Alvarez has been waiting for–the challenge of running her own kitchen in a world-class...
| Author | Michael Lee West |
| ISBN | 0060977744 |
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.
From the author of Mad Girls in Love comes this lively multigenerational tale of six charming, unforgettable Southern women -- a novel of love and laughter, pain and redemption.
Though she was born in Tennessee,...
| Author | Louise Shaffer |
| ISBN | 0375760881 |
Miss Peggy, Dr. Maggie, and Miss Li’l Bit, friends and confidantes for nearly a lifetime, find it funny and bewildering that they have become icons in Charles Valley, Georgia. Little does the rest of the town know that beneath the irreproachable façades of its three doyennes lies an explosive decades-old...
| 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...
| Author | Wendy Wax |
| ISBN | 0425232352 |
From the author of The Accidental Bestseller comes a wonderfully entertaining book about what to do when life comes at you full swing.
At forty-one, Vivian Armstrong Gray's life as an investigative journalist is crumbling. Humiliated after taking a bullet in her backside during an exposé,...
| Author | Kim Michele Richardson |
In 1972, on Mudas Summers' seventeenth birthday, her beloved Mama, Ella, is found hanging from the rafters of their home. Most people in Peckinpaw, Kentucky, assume that Ella's no-good husband did the deed. Others think Ella grew tired of his abuse and did it herself. Muddy is determined to find out...
| Author | Mike Greenberg |
| ISBN | 0062220756 |
All You Could Ask For, debut novel by Mike Greenberg, cohost of ESPN's Mike and Mike in the Morning, is a tender and insightful story of friendship and love, heartbreak and renewal, played out in the lives of three unforgettable women.
Brooke has been happily married to her college sweetheart...
| Author | Patti Callahan Henry |
| ISBN | 0399583130 |
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Bookshop at Water's End, here is a lush, heart-wrenching novel about the power of memory, the meaning of family, and learning to forgive.
Ten years ago, Lena Donohue experienced a wedding-day betrayal so painful that she fled the small town...
| Author | Melanie Lageschulte |
Enjoy the first novel in a heartwarming rural fiction series! Melinda Foster is already at a turning point when the "for rent" sign beckons her down a dusty gravel road. Facing forty and downsized from her copywriting job at a Twin Cities ad agency, Melinda is struggling to find her way forward when a phone...
