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Anne Rivers Siddons

    January 9, 1936 – September 11, 2019

    This author gained renown for her bold novels that delve into complex interpersonal relationships and societal issues. Her style is marked by keen psychological insight and compelling storytelling. Through her works, she explores themes of love, loss, and the search for identity within the dynamic American South. Her writing often reflects personal convictions and evokes strong emotions in readers.

    Anne Rivers Siddons
    Hill towns
    Up Island
    Colony
    Downtown
    Peachtree Road 10th Anniv Edition
    Homeplace
    • 2014

      The Girls of August

      • 223 pages
      • 8 hours of reading
      3.1(9902)Add rating

      Every August, four women would gather together to spend a week at the beach, renting a new house each year. The ritual began when they were in their twenties and their husbands were in medical school, and became a mainstay of every summer thereafter. Their only criteria was oceanfront and isolation, their only desire to strengthen their far-flung friendships. They called themselves the Girls of August. But when one of the Girls dies tragically, the group slowly drifts apart and their vacations together are brought to a halt. Years later, a new marriage reunites them and they decide to come together once again on a remote barrier island off the South Carolina coast. There, far from civilization, the women make startling discoveries that will change them in ways they never expected.

      The Girls of August
    • 2012

      Burnt Mountain

      • 336 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      2.8(106)Add rating

      Growing up, the only place tomboy Thayer Wentworth felt at home was at her summer camp - Camp Sherwood Forest in the North Carolina Mountains. It was there that she came alive and where she met Nick Abrams, her first love...and first heartbreak. Years later, Thayer marries Aengus, an Irish professor, and they move into her deceased grandmother's house in Atlanta, only miles from Camp Edgewood on Burnt Mountain where her father died years ago in a car accident. There, Aengus and Thayer lead quiet and happy lives until Aengus is invited up to the camp to tell old Irish tales to the campers. As Aengus spends less time at home and becomes more distant, Thayer must confront dark secrets-about her mother, her first love, and, most devastating of all, her husband.

      Burnt Mountain
    • 2010
    • 2007

      Heartbreak Hotel

      • 387 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      3.6(71)Add rating

      Novel-1956 with Eisenhower in White House, girl at southern university dealing with time of Elvis, and a changing society.

      Heartbreak Hotel
    • 2006

      In einer Männerwelt ganz auf sich selbst gestellt, wächst die zwölfjährige Emily auf der väterlichen Hundezuchtfarm auf, denn ihre Mutter hat die Familie schon vor Jahren verlassen. Allein ihr geliebter Hund Elvis gibt dem jungen Mädchen Halt. Eines Tages tritt die charismatische Lulu in ihr Leben. Emily ist zunächst eifersüchtig auf die schöne Zwanzigjährige, die alle – sogar Elvis – in ihren Bann zu ziehen scheint. Doch schon bald freunden sich die beiden unterschiedlichen Mädchen an…

      Sommer am Fluss
    • 2004

      Mit ihrem Mann Lewis und ihren Freunden, den äScrubsä, erlebt Anny wunderbare Wochenenden im gemeinsamen Strandhaus. Bis der Tod alles verändert.

      Der Preis der Liebe
    • 2003

      Bavlníkový květ

      • 358 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      3.8(10)Add rating

      Román ze současného amerického Jihu, ve kterém je hrdinka pod tíhou okolností nucena přehodnotit celý svůj dosavadní život. Hlavní hrdinka, manželka bohatého jižanského podnikatele, žije osamoceně ve zdech luxusní vily. Těžce se vyrovnává s traumatem ztráty své milované dcery. Jedinou oázou, kde se cítí volně, je malý ostrov, který zdědila po své rodině. Setkává se tu s upřímnými, prostými lidmi a cítí se zde šťastná. Ve chvíli, kdy jí manžel oznámí, že jediný způsob, jak zachránit svou existenci, je prodat ostrov za komerčními účely, se ocitá ve zlomové životní situaci. Má zachránit manželův podnik, nebo obětovat milované místo a zradit tak jeho obyvatele, kteří jí důvěřují?... celý text

      Bavlníkový květ
    • 2002

      Nora

      • 310 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
      Nora