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Mary Alice Monroe

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Mary Alice Monroe is a best-selling author known for fiction that explore the compelling parallels between nature and human nature. Many of her novels deal with environmental issues. For example, The Beach House and Swimming Lessons refer to the plight of injured sea turtles.[1][2]

Monroe currently resides in South Carolina, and many of her novels are set in the southern United States and feature "strong Southern women".[3]

Her novel Time Is a River is about breast cancer survivors in a fly-fishing group in North Carolina, and Last Light Over Carolina describes the life and times of the shrimping industry.[4]

Monroe has received numerous awards, including the 2008 Award for Writing from the South Carolina Center for the Book, 2014 South Carolina Award for Literary Excellence, 2015 SW Florida Author of Distinction Award, the RT Lifetime Achievement Award, the International Book Award for Green Fiction. Mary Alice Monroe is a 2018 inductee to the South Carolina Academy of Authors.

Bibliography

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This is a full list of novels from the author's website.[5]

Title Year Series
The Long Road Home 1995
Girl in the Mirror 1998
The Book Club 1999
Second Star to the Right 1999 Children's (as Mary Alice Kruesi)
One Summer's Night 2000 Children's (as Mary Alice Kruesi)
The Four Seasons 2001
The Beach House 2002 Beach House #1
Skyward 2003
Sweetgrass 2005
Turtle Summer 2007 Children's
Swimming Lessons 2007 Beach House #2
Time Is a River 2008
Last Light Over Carolina 2009
The Butterfly's Daughter 2011
Beach House Memories 2012 Beach House #3
The Summer Girls 2013 Lowcountry Summer #1
A Butterfly Called Hope 2013 Children's
The Summer Wind 2014 Lowcountry Summer #2
The Summer's End 2015 Lowcountry Summer #3
A Lowcountry Wedding 2016 Lowcountry Summer #4
A Lowcountry Christmas 2016 Lowcountry Summer #5
Beach House for Rent 2017 Beach House #4
Beach House Reunion 2018 Beach House #5
The Summer Guests 2019
On Ocean Boulevard 2020 Beach House #6
The Summer of Lost and Found 2021 Beach House #7
The Islanders 2021 Children's
Search for Treasure 2022 Children's
Shipwrecked 2024 Children's

Adaptations

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The Beach House (2002) was adapted as the TV movie The Beach House (2018) by the Hallmark Channel.

References

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  1. ^ "Quick Q&A With Mary Alice Monroe". All About Romance. Archived from the original on 2008-05-14. Retrieved 2008-07-04.
  2. ^ "Fresh Fiction". Retrieved 2008-07-04.
  3. ^ Review on Amazon.com. Publishers Weekly. July 2008. ISBN 978-1416544364.
  4. ^ Wilson, Craig (2008-07-07). "Author of 'Time Is a River' casts for deeper meaning". USA Today. Retrieved 2008-07-07.
  5. ^ "Books – Mary Alice Monroe". 27 February 2021.
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