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    <title>Where the rivers merge</title>
    <subTitle>a novel</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Monroe, Mary Alice</namePart>
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  <genre authority="lcgft">Domestic fiction.</genre>
  <genre authority="lcgft">Bildungsromans.</genre>
  <genre authority="lcgft">Novels.</genre>
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    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2025</dateIssued>
    <edition>First edition.</edition>
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    <extent>340 pages ; 24 cm</extent>
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  <abstract>Spanning eight decades in South Carolina's Lowcountry, Eliza Rivers fights against societal constraints, war, and family strife to protect her beloved estate, Mayfield, but as she nears the end of her life, she must make one final stand to secure its future.</abstract>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Mary Alice Monroe.</note>
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    <topic>Families</topic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Conservation easements</topic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>South Carolina</geographic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">PS3563.O529 W47 2025</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc" edition="23/eng/20240924">813/.54</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780063249424</identifier>
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