Anne Rivers Siddons
All Books By Anne Rivers Siddons
Burnt Mountain
- By: Anne Rivers Siddons
- Narrator: Kate Reading
- Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: July 19, 2011
- Language: English
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2.95(4738 ratings)
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.
Colony
- By: Anne Rivers Siddons
- Narrator: Judith Ivey
- Length: 3 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: February 28, 2006
- Language: English
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4.08(10528 ratings)
“An outstanding multigenerational novel…We are hooked from the moment we meet Maude.” —New York Times
An unforgettable story of love, acceptance, and tradition from New York Times bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons.
When Maude Chambliss first arrives at Retreat, the seasonal home of her husband’s aristocratic family, she is a nineteen-year-old bride fresh from South Carolina’s Low Country. Among the patrician men and women who reside in the summer colony on the coast of Maine, her gypsy-like beauty and impulsive behavior immediately brand her an outsider. She, as well as everyone else, is certain she will never fit in. And of course, she doesn’t…at first.
But over the many summers she spends there, Maude comes to cherish life in the colony, as she does the people who share it with her. There is her husband Peter, consumed with a darkness of spirit; her adored but dangerously fragile children; her domineering mother-in-law, who teaches her that it is the women who possess the strength to keep the colony intact; and Maine native Micah Willis, who is ultimately Maude’s truest friend.
This brilliant novel, rich with emotion, is filled with appealing, intense, and indomitable characters. Anne Rivers Siddons paints a portrait of a woman determined to preserve the spirit of past generations–and the future of a place where she became who she is…a place called Colony.
... Read moreDOWNTOWN
- By: Anne Rivers Siddons
- Narrator: Kate Burton
- Length: 5 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: September 27, 2005
- Language: English
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3.81(2860 ratings)
The year is 1966, a time of innocence, possibility,and freedom. And for Atlanta, the country, and one woman making her way in a changing world, nothing will be the same …
After an airless childhood in Savannah, Smoky O’Donnell arrives in Atlanta, dazzled and chastened by this hectic young city on the rise. Her new job as a writer with the city’s Downtown magazine introduces her to many unforgettable people and propels her into the center of momentous events that will irrevocably alter her heart, her career, and her world.
... Read moreFault Lines
- By: Anne Rivers Siddons
- Narrator: Kate Burton
- Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: November 01, 2005
- Language: English
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3.67(2034 ratings)
“A literary meteor shower….One great read.”
—Detroit News
A classic from New York Times bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons, Fault Lines is the powerful and deeply moving story of three women on a life-changing road trip up the California coast. Pat Conroy (The Prince of Tides) says that Siddons, “ranks among the best of us and delivers the goods–the whole fabulous package–with every book she writes.” Fault Lines is one of her finest, a truly stunning read from a novelist acclaimed for her wondrous array of literary masterworks–from Sweetwater Creek to Up Island through Low Country and Nora Nora.
... Read moreFox’s Earth
- By: Anne Rivers Siddons
- Narrator: Anne Rivers Siddons
- Length: 19 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: April 10, 2009
- Language: English
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3.71(1471 ratings)
A best-selling author spins one of the most breathtaking stories of her career: a Gothic saga of lust, greed, and betrayal. When beautiful, dirt-poor Ruth Yancey rises to become mistress of Sparta, Georgia’s finest mansion, she reveals a heart of pure evil. For three generations, she rules the mansion through cruel manipulation and insinuation, breaking hearts and shattering souls-until one courageous woman decides to match her madness.
... Read moreHILL TOWNS
- By: Anne Rivers Siddons
- Narrator: Marcia Gay Harden
- Length: 2 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: September 27, 2005
- Language: English
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3.79(3898 ratings)
Hill Towns is a classic novel of remarkable emotional power, insight, and sensitivity from Anne Rivers Siddons, whose books live on the New York Times bestseller list and in the hearts of millions of her adoring fans. One of the acknowledged masters of contemporary Southern fiction–the author of such phenomenally popular works as Nora, Nora; Outer Banks, Islands; and Sweetwater Creek–Siddons carries the reader from the mountains of Tennessee to the breathtaking Tuscany countryside as she brilliantly chronicles the unraveling of a marriage. Pat Conroy (The Prince of Tides) says, “She ranks among the best of us,” and Hill Towns is the proof.
... Read moreJOHN CHANCELLOR MAKES ME CRY
- By: Anne Rivers Siddons
- Narrator: Dana Ivey
- Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: September 27, 2005
- Language: English
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3.62(352 ratings)
In this collection of heartfelt and involving vignettes, Anne Rivers Siddons, the beloved best-selling author of Downtown, Hill Towns, and Colony, offers a stirring and insightful look at our everyday world and how one woman has chosen to live in it. Moving from memories of her gentle grandfather to her uncanny ability to attract stray animals, Siddons’ intimate stories of her family are graced with the same poetic lilt and vibrant detail that have so wonderfully served her novels. For all those who know and love her works of fiction, John Chancellor Makes Me Cry is a glorious and thoroughly entertaining treat.
... Read moreKing’s Oak
- By: Anne Rivers Siddons
- Narrator: Hume Cronyn
- Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: September 27, 2005
- Language: English
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3.9(1855 ratings)
Low Country
- By: Anne Rivers Siddons
- Narrator: Debra Monk
- Length: 5 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: September 27, 2005
- Language: English
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3.98(17880 ratings)
Caroline Venable has everything her Southern heritage promised: money, prestige, a rich husband. If she drinks a little too much and her 20-year marriage to successful land developer, Clay, seems a little empty, well, she’s doing what she was born to do: be the chatelaine of a magnificent home and hostess to her husband’s friends and prospective clients.
Her numbing routine of country-club luncheons, cocktail parties, and increasing isolation is interrupted, however, when Caro finds out that her tycoon husband plans to build a resort on a beautiful untouched island in South Carolina’s low country. The island is a quiet haven, rich in lowcountry history and meaningful memories from Caro’s youth. But most important to her, his plans will mean the devastation of a band of wild ponies that roam freely across the island. Spurred to action and inspired with new purpose, Caro must confront the life she has been leading and reach deep within herself to save this special place out of her past and, ultimately, make a meaningful life for herself.
... Read moreLow Country
- By: Anne Rivers Siddons
- Narrator: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis
- Length: 11 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: August 09, 2016
- Language: English
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3.98(17880 ratings)
Caroline Venable has everything her Southern heritage promised: money, prestige, a powerful husband–and a predictable routine of country-club luncheons, cocktail parties, and dinners hosting her husband’s wealthy friends, clients, and associates in his successful land-developing conglomerate.
To escape her stifling routine, Caro drinks a little too much. But her true solace is the Lowcountry island her beloved Granddaddy left her–an oasis of breathtaking beauty that is home to a band of wild ponies. When Caro learns that her husband must develop the island or lose the business, she is devastated. The Lowcountry is her heritage–and what will happen to the ponies whose spirit and freedom have captivated her since childhood?
Saving the island could cost Caroline more than she ever imagined. To succeed, she must confront the part of herself numbed by alcohol and careful avoidance–and shatter long-held ideals about her role in society, her marriage, and ultimately, herself.
... Read moreNora, Nora
- By: Anne Rivers Siddons
- Narrator: Kate Reading
- Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: September 27, 2005
- Language: English
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3.6(2640 ratings)
Twelve-year-old Peyton McKenzie isn’t ready to share her widowed father with anyone–certainly not with her cigarette-smoking redheaded cousin Nora, who just rolled into sleepy Lytton, Georgia, this summer behind the wheel of a pink Thunderbird. But her father seems to like Nora, and prim Aunt Augusta hates her, which means she can’t be all bad. And when Nora takes a job teaching the first integrated honors class at the local high school, it appears she might be staying forever.
But there’s something troubling Peyton’s unorthodox cousin, something more than the outspoken town gossips’ complaints about Nora’s “unsouthern ways.” When the truth comes to light, it will rock the segregated small community–and teach Peyton an unforgettable lesson about the enormous cost of love.
... Read moreOff Season
- By: Anne Rivers Siddons
- Narrator: Jane Alexander
- Length: 11 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: August 13, 2008
- Language: English
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3.53(5646 ratings)
Acclaimed novelist Anne Rivers Siddons’s new novel is a stunning tale of love and loss.
For as long as she can remember, they were Cam and Lilly–happily married, totally in love with each other, parents of a beautiful family, and partners in life. Then, after decades of marriage, it ended as every great love story does…in loss. After Cam’s death, Lilly takes a lone road trip to her and Cam’s favorite spot on the remote coast of Maine, the place where they fell in love over and over again, where their ghosts still dance. There, she looks hard to her past–to a first love that ended in tragedy; to falling in love with Cam; to a marriage filled with exuberance, sheer life, and safety– to try to figure out her future.
It is a journey begun with tender memories and culminating in a revelation that will make Lilly re-evaluate everything she thought was true about her husband and her marriage.
... Read moreOuter Banks
- By: Anne Rivers Siddons
- Narrator: Kate Nelligan
- Length: 3 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: September 27, 2005
- Language: English
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3.92(8323 ratings)
In the uncertain ’60s, four young women came together as sorority sisters on a Southern campus: elegant Kate; sensitive, sensible Cecie; sexy, vibrant, and richer-than-sin Ginger; and poor, hopeless, brilliant Fig. At Nag’s Head, North Carolina, over the course of two idyllic spring breaks, their bonds of friendship were strengthened into something rare and powerfully binding. Now, decades later, they are returning to this isolated strip of barrier islands, hoping to recapture what has been lost–the love, the enthusiasm, the passion–and to finally understand what pulled them apart and cast them adrift.
In her magnificent classic Outer Banks, acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons brilliantly recalls a lost time of hope and dreams–of comradeship, love, secrets, and betrayal–and creates characters brimming with life who will live in the heart forever.
... Read moreOuter Banks
- By: Anne Rivers Siddons
- Narrator: C. J. Critt
- Length: 15 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: August 09, 2016
- Language: English
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3.92(8323 ratings)
“Captures the richness and complication of female friendships in a way few writers have done. . . incredibly rich characterizations and a profound sense of place.” — Cosmopolitan
In her magnificent classic Outer Banks, acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons brilliantly recalls a lost time of hope and dreams–of comradeship, love, secrets, and betrayal–and creates characters brimming with life who will live in the heart forever.
In the uncertain ’60s, four young women came together as sorority sisters on a Southern campus: elegant Kate; sensitive, sensible Cecie; sexy, vibrant and richer-than-sin Ginger; and poor, hopeless, brilliant Fig. At Nag’s Head, North Carolina, over the course of two idyllic spring breaks, their bonds of friendship were strengthened into something rare and powerfully binding. Now, thirty years later, they are returning to the isolated strip of barrier islands, hoping to recapture what has been lost–the love, the enthusiasm, the passion–and to finally understand what pulled them apart and cast them adrift.
... Read moreThe Girls of August
- By: Anne Rivers Siddons
- Narrator: Kate Reading
- Length: 6 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: July 08, 2014
- Language: English
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3.13(9071 ratings)
For fifteen years, four “girls of August” would gather together to spend a week at the beach, until tragedy interrupts their ritual. Now they reunite for a startling week of discoveries.
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 uncover secrets that will change them in ways they never expected.
Up Island
- By: Anne Rivers Siddons
- Narrator: Dana Ivey
- Length: 6 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: September 27, 2005
- Language: English
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3.89(5710 ratings)
“A wonderful story. . . .Siddons has returned to what she does best: gives us a book full of laughter and adventure that has enough soul to leave us with something to think about after we finish reading.” — Detroit News/Free Press
From childhood, Molly Bell Redwine was taught by her charismatic, domineering mother that “family is everything.” But no one warned Molly that family can change unexpectedly. In rapid succession, her husband of more than twenty years abandons her for a younger woman, her mother dies, and her Atlanta clan scatters to the four winds. Molly is set adrift in a heartbeat.
With her old world crumbling, Molly takes refuge with a friend on Martha’s Vineyard, hoping to come to terms with who she truly is. When the summer season ends, Molly decides to stay on, renting a small cottage on a remote up-island pond–becoming part of an odd, new, very real family that taxes her old outworn notions. And as the long Vineyard winter approaches, Molly braces herself for the arduous task she must undertake: a search for renewal and identity, and the strength to carry her through to the warm and healing spring.
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