Classics, Contemporary 

A special note and offer to readers from Dorothea Benton Frank! "If you'd like a signed bookplate for any of my books, just send me your name and address and how you would like it inscribed (send your email to bookplate@dotfrank.com). I'll send it right out to you in the mail." About Isle of Palms: Anna Lutz Abbot thinks she has her independence, and therefore her happiness, intact. She is a capable woman, a sensible woman, not someone given to risky living. This all seems to be true enough until her lovely daughter returns from college for the summer a very different person, her wild and wonderful ex-husband arrives, and her flamboyant new best friend takes up with her daddy, turning a hot summer into a steaming one—only to be cranked up another ten degrees by Anna's own fling with Arthur, who is, heaven help us, a Yankee. All the action unfolds under the watchful eyes of Miss Mavis and Miss Angel, her next-door neighbors of a certain age, who have plenty to say about Anna's past, present, and future - from Amzon