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The Four Seasons 21 reviews
Mary Alice Monroe
Mira, 2004
Engrossing
This book was great. The characters were well developed and I felt like they were real people. I was sad this book ended. A must read!!!
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Miracle at Monty Middle School 2 reviews
Mary A. Monroe
AuthorHouse, 2005
Realistic, contemporary fiction in the DOP
DOP: Drop Out Prevention; Miracle at Monty Middle School: a great new YA title detailing the lives of students and teachers at a Florida middle school. Marvin, the first person narrator, thinks, acts, and speaks like most DOP kids: he is down on himself and faces many academic and personal problems. He meets a great new teacher who believes in kids and knows how to translate this belief into ...
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Beach House53 reviews
Mary Alice Monroe
Mira, 2002
Reality
This was my first time to read Mary Alice Monroe. If the title says "beach", I usually give it a try. This book had a good story line and believable characters. The discriptions made you feel as if you were right there with sand in your toes and salty air blowing through your hair.
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One Summer's Night21 reviews
Mary Alice Kruesi
Avon Books, 2000
For all lovers of a modern Midsummer Night's Dream
Upon finding herself on the threshold of adulthood, 21-year-old Laurel Carrington realizes that she doesn't know anything about herself, except that she doesn't want to continue in the path laid out for her by her scientific father and long-time boyfriend. When she receives a letter from a famous painter known for her mystycism and elusiveness, she does the first impulsive action in her life and ...
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Turtle Summer: A Journal for my Daughter6 reviews
Mary Alice Monroe
Sylvan Dell Publishing, 2007
A delightful idea - scrapbooking at the seashore!
Turtle Summer, a Journal for my Daughter
This book presents a charming idea for a parent and child: to keep a nature scrapbook. Mary Alice Monroe has written and illustrated this enchanting journal of a mother and daughter's summer surveillance for loggerhead sea turtles on their beach. While watching the turtle nests, they observe and sketch nature's other offerings at the seashore. Like a ...
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Second Star to the Right11 reviews
Mary Alice Kruesi
Avon Books (Mm), 1999
A touch of pixie dust...
A gorgeous novel. Mary is a superb writer, and I love the subtle way she has extended the Peter Pan story in this absolute gem. While the original Peter Pan story revolved around Peter's attempt to delay Wendy's transition to womanhood (he took the children on her last night in the nursery), in Second Star we find Peter Pan (the Guardian of the Dead and the Lost Souls) is pivotal to the now aging ...
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The Upper Room62 reviews
Mary Monroe
Ballantine Books, 1986
Great Book! Mary Monroe's best!
I read Upper Room some time ago, but the details of the book are very fresh in my mind. It's not a book that you would forget. This began my admiration for Mary Monroe's writing style. It's a great book and I would definitely recommend it to anyone. Whether you're a reader or not, you will definitely enjoy this one.
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God Don't Like Ugly1 review
Mary Monroe
Dafina Books, 2000
Great Read!!!
This book was a great read. It has so many twists and turns... it's unpredictable. If you're looking for a novel with a surprise beginning, middle, and end... then this is the book for you. It's kind of sad at first, but I didn't regret reading it or spending my money on it. But be mindful that it does have a sequel... it may even be a trilogy
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Krazy White Girl2 reviews
Mary, A. Monroe
AuthorHouse, 2007
Teenagers love this book.
Teenagers love this book. As an intensive reading teacher I am always trying to encourage students to read independently, something that kids who hate to read practically refuse to do. I was pleasantly surprised to see the book fly through the classroom as students passed it from one to another. (Students even borrowed it for their mothers to read.) The students who never picked up a book to ...
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God Don't Like Ugly145 reviews
Mary Monroe
Kensington, 2006
God fearing?
I am a Eurasian-American female. An African friend of mine loaned me this book with a promise that I would enjoy it. What a wonderful thought provoking book, full of the problems of growing up without guidance from anyone but God. When you are poor, you make due and make decisions that will change the rest of your life or your child's. I would never of thought to read a book by and African ...
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She Had It Coming 11 reviews
Kensington, 2008
I Really Liked This Book
This book was interesting, it had so many things going on, and how LoReese could find time for another lover is beyond me. But I can say LoReese was a much better friend than Valerie and Floyd ever were... She kept Valerie's secret forever. and Floyd, he never gave her a chance, after he found out what she did.. ... How one can hold down a friend and lover, but as soon as the tables turn, how one ...
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Borrow Trouble11 reviews
Mary Monroe And Victor McGlothin
Dafina, 2006
Awstruck
Borrow Trouble was both refreshing and exciting. Mary Monroe really knows how to keep you wanting more. She took a simple vacation and turned it into something that can easily happen to anyone. Victor McGlothin on the other hand kept my attenion and painted a vivid picture. I felt as though I was there running right beside Baltimore each step of the way.
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Time Is a River95 reviews
Mary Alice Monroe
Pocket, 2009
An amazing tale of growth and healing
I was drawn in by Mia's growth through her life trials; breast cancer survivor, loses her job, and comes home from a fly fishing retreat to find her husband in bed with another woman. Mia's fly fishing instructor, Belle Watkins, offers Mia her grandmother's cabin for the summer so that she has a chance to heal her heart and begin to put the pieces of her life back together.
There was a scandal ...
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Girl In The Mirror18 reviews
Mary Monroe
Mira, 1998
Not at all what I expected
I truly loved this book and I didn't think I would. I think every woman can relate to not liking a physical feature of yourself - but the main character went through years or torment over hers. Granted, I sincerely doubt that 99.9% of us would have sooo much good fortune in our lives after altering a part of ourselves, but if you look beyond this one thing, the story itself is truly great.
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The Book Club50 reviews
Mary Alice Monroe
Wheeler Publishing, 2003
The Book Club
This book was a great read for me because the topic centered on life for middle-aged women.......All going thru different heartaches of their own, thinking they are the only ones like that.......Not sure if they can really talk about their feelings and their life....And not sure who they can really talk to about their ups and downs......I felt while reading this book, that there is hope and life ...
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Sweetgrass21 reviews
Mary Alice Monroe
Thorndike Press, 2005
Love everything this author writes!!
I really do love everything this author has written as do my daughter and Mom who have read them as well! I love the stories that Mary Alice Monroe writes and how she weaves love of and experience of nature into stories of family and relationship.
I love books from the Carolinas in the Pat Conroy tradition even though I'm from North Dakota and have lived in Houston, Texas almost 20 years. ...
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Skyward15 reviews
Mary Alice Monroe
Mira Books, 2003
An awe-inspiring novel.
As neither an outdoorswoman nor a lover of animals, particularly birds of prey, it's a testament to the remarkable talent of Mary Alice Monroe that this book fascinated me as profoundly as it did. Their struggle to be rehabilitated and their flight of freedom is such a powerfully beautiful metaphor, however the birds were not the only beings that found healing in this remarkable story. As a ...
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Swimming Lessons14 reviews
Mary Alice Monroe
Mira, 2008
Sweet, Satisfying Sequel
This absolutely wonderful sequel to "The Beach House" brings together all the "turtle ladies" whose mission it is to rescue endangered sea turtles who lumber up onto South Carolina's beaches once a year to lay their eggs in a timeless ritual. Civilization being what it is, the nests would be destroyed, purposely or not, if this dedicated band of women (and men) were not there each year to ...
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Gonna Lay Down My Burdens46 reviews
Mary Monroe
Kensington, 2002
A good read
Mary Monroe has done it again in my opinion! This book keeps you reading and wanting more!
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God Still Don't Like Ugly42 reviews
Mary Monroe
Thorndike Press, 2004
Loved It
I absolutely loved this book. The characters are so funny that I catch myself cracking up. I feel like I know each one of them personally. I can't wait to read God Don't Play.
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