River S Edge: 25 books

Nine-year-old Thelonious Monk DeCay lives in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward with his grandmother. His mother dead and his father missing, Monk is determined to find his father. With their harmonicas and bottle-cap taps, Monk and his best friend entertain the tourists in Jackson Square under...

Legendary singer/songwriter Radney Foster found commercial success and critical acclaim due in large part to his literary approach to country music.  Known for penning dozens of Top Forty, Top Twenty, Top Ten hits for both himself and Nashville's elite, he felt driven to tell stories longer than...

“Dear Violet, I am about to die.” Thus begins a series of letters to noted Palm Beach astrologist Violet Day, self-written epitaphs from elderly women later found brutally murdered. As the letters and murders make headlines, Violet’s daughter Lorraine Day contacts her old friend, former...

A four-year-old boy with a rare glandular malfunction, a genius IQ and telepathic power is the catalyst of this compulsively readable novel of dual personality and psychological possession. What is at the core of young Damon’s unusual affliction? Damon is a “once in a lifetime case” for psychiatrist...

“Sometimes I wish they could lie to me.” But no one can lie to David Morgan. No one can hide from him even the intimate or most treacherous secret. Not his unsuspecting wife, to whom he is the “perfect” husband, nor his university colleagues, to whom he is self-effacing but capable professor....

Pamela, like her brilliant father, German emigrant Russell Roth, exhibits from childhood a cool composure and a rare intellect. Although only a teenager, she in increasingly absorbed by the truth of her father’s early life in wartime Germany. It is a past Russell never discuses. As Pamela immerses...

“Tell Bo Taylor I’m coming.” That was only the first threat the voice on the phone made after reciting a chilling poem of hate. But Bo Taylor was dead. The respected sheriff of Thomas County had been mourned by everyone in the Georgia town where his son Brad had agreed to come and take over...

Every family has its shameful secrets, but none more so than those of the Lee family. Aramenta Lee escaped her controlling mother by moving to Paris thirty years ago. Her quiet life there is shattered by a terse wire: AM DYING - COME HOME - MOTHER. Aramenta arrives in Mobile, Alabama just...

How can you make up for something that you did as a kid that was both so stupid and so terrible, forty years later it still follows you like a pack of lost dogs? For Billie Warren, it means piling up more and more responsibilities, doing good for the community as the police chief of her Lowcountry...

A complex and gripping novel about a boy growing up under daunting conditions in post-World War II America, Too Blue to Fly touches on the culture of the South, the dangers of the Florida swamps, the cracks in our social-support systems, and the need for human connection. Eleven-year-old Wally...

Seminole Summer is the eagerly awaited sequel to Judith Richards’s international best-seller Summer Lightning. Redheaded, freckle-faced Terry Calder has returned to the swamps of the Everglades where
he lives in a migratory work camp with his mother and younger sister. While his father investigates...