Welcome to the World Baby Girl by: Fannie Flagg (LSm)                  

The Diary of Mattie Spencer by: Sandra Dallas (LSm)

Mama Flora's Family by: Alex Haley (LSm)

Eyes of Prey (including the entire series) by: John Sandford (LSm)

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by: Rebecca Wells (LSm)

Walking Across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton (SJ)

Lucky Man by Michael J. Fox (SJ)

At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon (1st book in Mitford series) (SJ)

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain (SJ)

Topaz by Leon Uris (SJ)

Lonesome Dove by Larry McCurty (SJ)

The Lemon Jelly Cake by Madeline Babcock Smith: Story of the "remarkable" summer of 1900 in the small town of Tory, Illinois. Narrated by a precocious 11-year-old, Helene, who is also the daughter of the town doctor. (SD)

Mrs. Whaley and her Charleston Garden by Emily Whaley: Mrs. Whaley's tiny walled garden is said to be the most visited private garden in America. Each year since 1940, Mrs. Whaley has made her garden new again and herself through it. She yanks out annuals and perennials alike. (SD)

Miss Read-Summer at Fairacre by Jan Karon: One of the Miss Read novels in a series that Jan Karon created. Story of the fictional English village of Fairacre in an idealized mid-twentieth-century hamlet. (SD)

The Invisible Garden by Dorothy Sucher: Sucher, a Maryland psychotherapist, while visiting Vermont sees an old farmhouse with a stream on the property and buys it without hesitation. She and her husband spend summers there and over the years she becomes a gardener, telling war stories of her struggle to tame the stream. (SD)

A Week At The Lake by Grace Butterfield: In the fall of 1932, 26-year-old Grace and her husband, Francis, celebrate their first wedding anniversary with a trip to Witipitlock, Maine camping. A Week At The Lake is the diary she kept of their short, but treasured, stay in the wilderness. (SD)

The Beach House by Mary Alice Monroe: Cara returns to her childhood summers in South Carolina's Low country - repairs the family beach house and becomes the bona fide "turtle lady" to save the sea turtles. (SD)

Garden of Faith by Lynne Hinton: Trilogy-awesome! Set in Hope Springs, North Carolina, 5 women realize that true friendship, like faith itself, is a garden that needs to be tended and nurtured. These 5 women's lives are chronicled with the Hope Springs Community Garden Club Newsletter. (SD)