The Tender Mercy of Roses
10 best books like The Tender Mercy of Roses (Anna Michaels): The Sweetness of Tears, Zero at the Bone, This One and Magic Life: A Novel of a Southern Family, Sufficient Grace, Summer in the South, Where the Souls Go, Bed & Breakfast, Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society, Miracle on I-40, You Believers
| Author | Nafisa Haji |
| ISBN | 0061780103 |
From Nafisa Haji, author of the critically acclaimed novel, The Writing on My Forehead, comes The Sweetness of Tears, an emotional, deeply layered story that explores the far reaching effects of cultural prejudice, forbidden love, and hidden histories on a young woman and her family. A paperback...
| Author | Mary Willis Walker |
| ISBN | 0553575058 |
Katherine Driscoll is just three weeks away from disaster: foreclosure on her home and business, even the sale of her beloved dog. She has no hope of raising the $91,000 she so desperately needs--until the father she hasn't seen for thirty years writes to her, offering her enough money to solve her...
| Author | Anne 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...
| Author | Darnell Arnoult |
| ISBN | 0743284488 |
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...
| 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...
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....
| Author | Lois Battle |
| ISBN | 0786209720 |
Ten years of family secrets, misunderstandings, and recriminations have kept the Tatternalls apart - until Josie, a military widow suddenly alerted to mortality when one of her best friends keels over during a bridge game, impulsively invites her three grown daughters home for the holidays at 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 | Curtiss Ann Matlock |
| ISBN | 0778322238 |
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...
| Author | Jane Bradley |
| ISBN | 1609530462 |
You Believers is a powerful, cathartic story of casual evil and of how the worst things can be faced so that we might not only survive, but grow. A young woman goes missing, and her mother uproots her life to find her daughter. But it is not just the heartbreak or the deep mystery of the hunt for lost loved ones...
The Incredible Origins of the Onyx Sun
| Author | Christopher Mahoney |
This page refers to the Advance Review Copy that was distributed in 2008 in limited quantities to members of the press and online reviewers. The following description is from the final book (isbn13: 9780979520259), published May 2, 2009.
The Incredible Origins of the Onyx Sun is an award-winning...
| Author | Patti Callahan Henry |
| ISBN | 0312610394 |
On the coast of Alabama, there is a house cloaked in mystery, a place that reveals the truth and changes lives...
Ellie Calvin is caught in a dying marriage, and she knows this. With her beloved daughter away at college and a growing gap between her and her husband – between her reality and the...
| Author | Maryann McFadden |
| ISBN | 1401322700 |
Sometimes you have to leave your life to find yourself again . . .
After more than a dozen moves in twenty-five years of marriage, Joanna Harrison is lonely and tired of being a corporate wife. Her children are grown and gone, her husband is more married to his job than to her, and now they're about to pack...
| Author | Nanci Kincaid |
| ISBN | 0425191710 |
When Bobby died in a car wreck with another woman at his side, Bena was left with five kids, a small house, and a big empty place in her heart. Five years later, she's got two daughters who've run off with no-good men, a backyard full of marijuana plants none of her kids will own up to, and a semi-personal relationship...
| Author | Heidi Jon Schmidt |
| ISBN | 0451229924 |
Sensitive but practical, Charlotte Tradescome has come to accept the reticence of her older, work-obsessed husband Henry. Still, she hopes to create a life for their three-year-old daughter. So when Henry inherits a home on Cape Cod, she, Henry, and little Fiona move from their Manhattan apartment...
| Author | Goldie Goldbloom |
| ISBN | 0312674503 |
Set in 1940s Australia, The Paperbark Shoe is a remarkable novel about the far-reaching repercussions of war, the subtle violence of displacement, and what it means to live as a captive - in enemy country, and in one's own skin.
From 1941 to 1947, eighteen thousand Italian prisoners of war were...
| Author | Mary Kay McComas |
| ISBN | 0062084801 |
Answering a call that summons her to a stranger's deathbed, a reluctant Sophie Shepard is too late to hear what he was so anxious to tell her. What was so important that a dying man would think of her in his final moments? With the help of Dr. Drew McCarren, Sophie begins to dig into her past, setting off a chain...
| Author | Karen Viggers |
| ISBN | 9781743317 |
A moving and captivating story of displacement and belonging, love and forgiveness from the bestselling author of The Lightkeeper’s Wife.
The daughter of a pastoralist, Daphne grew up in a remote valley of the Brindabella Ranges where she raised her family with her husband, Doug, in a world...
| Author | Marcia Muller |
| ISBN | 0373260083 |
Frans Hals's painting The Cavalier in White disappears from a San Francisco gallery. Art security expert Joanna Stark returns from self-imposed retirement to solve the crime from a building she had made burglarproof. But art theft leads to murder, friends become strangers and the past stalks the...
It’s 1933, and the political landscape of Europe is darkening.
Eric Campbell, the man who would be Australia’s Führer, is on a fascist tour of the Continent, meeting dictators over cocktails and seeking allegiances in a common cause. Yet the Australian way of life is not undefended....
| Author | Mindy Friddle |
| ISBN | 0312424965 |
In Sans Souci, South Carolina, talk is cheap, real estate even more so. No one knows this better than Cutter Johanson, a gruff tomboy who waits tables, writes obits, and makes every effort, however comical and in the face of her mercenary relatives, to avert the sale of the dilapidated ancestral home....
| Author | Sara MacDonald |
| ISBN | 0743482123 |
A beautifully written novel with great emotional appeal, of family secrets and wartime heritage, set in Cornwall, London and Warsaw. The house and the cottage overlooking the sea, on the corner of the big estate, was home to three generations of the Tremain family. Fred Tremain, the country doctor...
| Author | Mandi Tucker Slack |
| ISBN | 1462111076 |
Kadence Reynold’s favorite pastime is exploring old ghost towns. When she and her sister, Maysha stumble across an old journal and cheap pendant hidden in the depths of a crumbling foundation near Eureka, Utah, their world is suddenly turned upside down. Immediately, strange dreams and premonitions...
| Author | Lisa Patton |
| ISBN | 0312556934 |
A charmingly funny testament to second chances in life and love from the acclaimed author of Whistlin’ Dixie in a Nor’easter
Lisa Patton won the hearts of readers last year, her book Whistlin’ Dixie in a Nor’easter became a sleeper-success. Building on a smashing debut, Lisa’s...
