The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century.

Returning to her hometown after an eight-year absence to investigate the murders of two girls, reporter Camille Preaker is reunited with her neurotic mother and enigmatic, thirteen-year-old half-sister as she works to uncover the truth about the killings.

Lordor Nordstrom created, in his wisdom, not only a lively town and a prosperous legacy for himself but also a beautiful final resting place for his family, friends, and neighbors yet to come. "Resting place" turns out to be a bit of a misnomer, however. Odd things begin to happen, and it starts the whole town talking. With her wild imagination, great storytelling, and deep understanding of folly and the human heart, the beloved Fannie Flagg tells...

"It all started as a supper club, a group gathering monthly to share homemade dinners, until the night one woman made a startling revelation. After that, the "Confession Club" decided to meet weekly to feast not only on dinner, but on admissions of misdeeds, embarrassments, and insecurities.When Iris Winters and Maddy Harris are invited to the club, they find that it's just what each of them needs. Iris hasn't yet told anyone about the unlikely man...

The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteeenth century.

When Kate and her husband and baby son move to her grandmother's Missouri farm in an effort to influence the grandmother to move to a nursing home, Kate is helped by the discovery of her grandmother's journal.

When pretty April Asbury arrives in Fertile, Missouri, to take her place as Dr. Forbes's new nurse, she's looking forward to life in this picturesque town. And it doesn't disappoint. Even the driving rain can't dim its charm. But while Fertile might seem as pristine as April's starched white uniforms, it's anything but. Soon the spunky blonde will need all the strength she can muster to fight her powerful attraction to Joe Jones, a man who has "heartbreaker"...

Two half brothers look so similar as infants that no one can tell them apart. One, the legitimate son of a rich man, is destined for a life of comfort, while the other is condemned to be a slave because he is part black. The mother of the would-be slave is also the nurse of the other; to give her son the best life possible, she switches the babies. Soon the boy who is given every advantage becomes spoiled and cruel. He takes sadistic pleasure in tormenting...

When Natalie Carmichael gets a call from the hospital saying her husband Raymond has been in an accident, she rushes to be by his side. But when she arrives, she discovers his two other wives. Raymond dies, apparently of the shock of being rumbled as a bigamist, but an autopsy reveals it is murder. And so begins an hilarious murder hunt - the police have reason to suspect all three women, and indeed they all certainly have means and motive. But they...

Tanya Lassiter struggles to raise her son alone after her husband abandons her and the boy to take a job overseas, and when Jake Lassiter returns, they must try to mend their differences for the sake of their son. Her supposed honesty was the one thing he admired about her ... she couldn't possibly tell him the truth now ...