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Keane, Mary Beth Fever 2013 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1094892. ISBN #1451693419 / 9781451693416. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Keane, Mary Beth Fever 2013 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1094892. ISBN #1451693419 / 9781451693416. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A bold, mesmerizing novel about the woman known as Typhoid Mary, the first known healthy carrier of typhoid fever in the early twentieth century by an award-winning writer chosen as one of 5 Under 35 by the National Book Foundation. Mary Beth Keane, named one of the 5 Under 35 by the National Book Foundation, has written a spectacularly bold and intriguing novel about the woman known as Typhoid Mary, the first person in America identified as a healthy carrier of Typhoid Fever. On the eve of the twentieth century, Mary Mallon emigrated from Ireland at age fifteen to make her way in New York City. Brave, headstrong, and dreaming of being a cook, she fought to climb up from the lowest rung of the domestic-service ladder. Canny and enterprising, she worked her way to the kitchen, and discovered in herself the true talent of a chef. Sought after by New York aristocracy, and with an independence rare for a woman of the time, she seemed to have achieved the life she d aimed for when she arrived in Castle Garden. Then one determined medical engineer noticed that she left a trail of disease wherever she cooked, and identified her as an asymptomatic carrier of Typhoid Fever. With this seemingly preposterous theory, he made Mallon a hunted woman. The Department of Health sent Mallon to North Brother Island, where she was kept in isolation from 1907 to 1910, then released under the condition that she never work as a cook again. Yet for Mary proud of her former status and passionate about cooking the alternatives were abhorrent. She defied the edict. Bringing early-twentieth-century New York alive the neighborhoods, the bars, the park carved out of upper Manhattan, the boat traffic, the mansions and sweatshops and emerging skyscrapers Fever is an ambitious retelling of a forgotten life. In the imagination of Mary Beth Keane, Mary Mallon becomes a fiercely compelling, dramatic, vexing, sympathetic, uncompromising, and unforgettable heroine.
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Keating, Stephanie; Keating, Barbara A Durable Fire Random House UK 2006 paperback. Inscribed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1128252. ISBN #1846550173 / 9781846550171. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Keating, Stephanie; Keating, Barbara A Durable Fire Random House UK 2006 paperback. Inscribed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1128252. ISBN #1846550173 / 9781846550171. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In the first years of Kenyan independence, three young women return to the East African highlands where they shared a carefree childhood. Hannah is struggling to preserve her heritage at Langani Farm, where a series of unexplained and violent attacks threaten her security and recent marriage. Sarah is studying elephant behavior in an area made dangerous by armed poachers, using her work as a salve for the death of her childhood sweetheart. Camilla, the international fashion icon, abandons her career in London and is drawn back to Kenya by her love for a charismatic hunter and safari guide. But there is a secret that hangs over Langani, overshadowing their efforts to establish themselves in the volatile circumstances of a new African nation. With the help of an ambitious Indian journalist, the three girls gradually uncover the truth about the murder of Sarah's fiance, and the continuing attacks on the farm and on their lives. The passions and hardships experienced by these unforgettable heroines, united again in their friendship and their love for the country of their childhood, make a magnificent, epic novel. This superb sequel to Blood Sisters confronts catastrophic loss and delirious happiness, savagery and degradation, limitless beauty, soaring hope, and redemption.
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Keener, Jessica Strangers in Budapest 2017 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1122938. ISBN #1616204974 / 9781616204976. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Keener, Jessica Strangers in Budapest 2017 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1122938. ISBN #1616204974 / 9781616204976. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Jessica Keener has written a gorgeous, lyrical, and sweeping novel about the tangled web of past and present. Suspenseful, perceptive, fast-paced, and ultimately restorative. Susan Henderson, author of Up from the Blue Budapest: gorgeous city of secrets, with ties to a shadowy, bloody past. It is to this enigmatic European capital that a young American couple, Annie and Will, move from Boston with their infant son shortly after the fall of the Communist regime. For Annie, it is an effort to escape the ghosts that haunt her past, and Will wants simply to seize the chance to build a new future for his family. Eight months after their move, their efforts to assimilate are thrown into turmoil when they receive a message from friends in the US asking that they check up on an elderly man, a fiercely independent Jewish American WWII veteran who helped free Hungarian Jews from a Nazi prison camp. They soon learn that the man, Edward Weiss, has come to Hungary to exact revenge on someone he is convinced seduced, married, and then murdered his daughter. Annie, unable to resist anyone s call for help, recklessly joins in the old man s plan to track down his former son-in-law and confront him, while Will, pragmatic and cautious by nature, insists they have nothing to do with Weiss and his vendetta. What Annie does not anticipate is that in helping Edward she will become enmeshed in a dark and deadly conflict that will end in tragedy and a stunning loss of innocence. Atmospheric and surprising, Strangers in Budapest is, as bestselling novelist Caroline Leavitt says, a dazzlingly original tale about home, loss, and the persistence of love.
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Keillor, Garrison Guy Noir and the Straight Skinny Penguin Books 2012 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Wear from use. Book #or931154. ISBN #0143120816 / 9780143120810. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Keillor, Garrison Guy Noir And The Straight Skinny 2012 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1128629. ISBN #0143120816 / 9780143120810. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Keillor, Garrison Guy Noir And The Straight Skinny 2012 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1128629. ISBN #0143120816 / 9780143120810. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Famous radio private eye Guy Noir leaps from A Prairie Home Companion to the page On the 12th floor of the Acme Building, on a cold February day in St. Paul, Guy Noir looks down the barrel of a loaded revolver in the hands of geezer gangster Joey Roast Beef who is demanding to hear what lucrative scheme Guy is cooking up with stripper-turned-women's-studies-professor Naomi Fallopian. Everyone wants to know-Joey, Lieutenant McCafferty, reporter Gene Williker, Guy s ex-girlfriend Sugar O'Toole, the despicable Larry B. Larry, the dreamboat Scarlett Anderson, Mr. Kress of the FDA and Guy faces them one by one, as he and Naomi pursue a dream of earning gazillions by selling a surefire method of dramatic weight loss. In this whirlwind caper Guy faces danger, falls in love, and faces off with the capo del capo del grande primo capo Johnny Banana.
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Keillor, Garrison Lake Wobegon Days Penguin Books 1990 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or981572. ISBN #0140131612 / 9780140131611. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Keillor, Garrison Lake Wobegon Days Penguin Books 1990 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or981572. ISBN #0140131612 / 9780140131611. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Lake Wobegon Days is about the way our beliefs, desires and fears tail off into abstractions--and get renewed from time to time. . . this book, unfolding Mr. Keillor's full design, is a genuine work of American history. The New York Times A comic anatomy of what is small and ordinary and therefore potentially profound and universal in American life Keillor s strength as a writer is to make the ordinary extraordinary. Chicago Tribune Keillor s laughs come dear, not cheap, emerging from shared virtue and good character, from reassuring us of our neighborliness and strength .His true subject is how daily life is shot with grace. Keillor writes a prose that can be turned to laughter, to tears to compassion or satire, to a hundred effects. He is a brilliant parodist. San Francisco Chronicle
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Keillor, Garrison Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 Penguin Books 2002 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or911417. ISBN #0142000930 / 9780142000939. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Keillor, Garrison Love Me Penguin Books 2004 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1121814. ISBN #0142004995 / 9780142004999. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Keillor, Garrison Love Me Penguin Books 2004 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1121814. ISBN #0142004995 / 9780142004999. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary n this charming departure from Lake Wobegon, bestselling author Garrison Keillor tells a hilarious and heartwarming tale of ambition, success and failure, and the virtues of real love. Aspiring writer Larry Wyler leads a quiet, decent life with his do-gooder wife, Iris, in St. Paul, Minnesota, but he wants more. When his literary debut becomes a hit, he departs for a Manhattan apartment, a job at the New Yorker , and three- martini lunches with the great editor, William Shawn. But when his second novel bombs and he finds himself in the grip of writer?s block, Wyler discovers that success?and the New York publishing scene?is a fickle mistress, indeed. Creatively barren, nearly destitute, and longing for Iris, he accepts a job writing ?Ask Mr. Blue,? a column doling out advice to the lovelorn. It may not be glamorous work, but through it Wyler discovers what?s really important and sets out to win back the woman he left behind.
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Keillor, Garrison Pontoon Penguin Books 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or861209. ISBN #0143114107 / 9780143114109. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Keillor, Garrison Pontoon Penguin Books 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or861209. ISBN #0143114107 / 9780143114109. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Garrison Keillor makes his long- awaited return to Lake Wobegon with this New York Times bestseller The first new Lake Wobegon novel in seven years is a cause for celebration. And Pontoon is nothing less than a spectacular return to form?replete with a bowling ball-urn, a hot-air balloon, giant duck decoys, a flying Elvis, and, most importantly, Wally?s pontoon boat. As the wedding of the decade approaches accompanied by wheels of imported cheese and giant shrimp shish kebabs , the good-loving people of Lake Wobegon do what they do best: drive each other slightly crazy.
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Keillor, Garrison WLT : A Radio Romance paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1034199. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Keillor, Garrison WLT: A Radio Romance Viking 1991 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1020743. ISBN #0670818577 / 9780670818570. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Keillor, Garrison WLT: A Radio Romance Viking 1991 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1020743. ISBN #0670818577 / 9780670818570. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The glory days of Midwest radio prove the ideal subject for old radio-hand Keillor, now writing at the height of his awesome power, which could make a homesick cat laugh. Brothers Ray and Roy Soderbjerg set up station WLT With Lettuce and Tomato in Minneapolis in 1926 to draw crowds to their wilting sandwich restaurant. The station proves a gold mine after the two reluctantly agree to allow commercials, and the brothers turn their somewhat divided attention Ray's chief vocation is sex, Roy's inventing the unnecessary to the new medium. The novel takes off on a sustained joyride as a hilarious bunch of characters are hired to fill the air with the cornball, pseudo-pious, pseudo- populist fare that held the Midwest in thrall until television offered a superior snow job. Keillor continually contrasts the smutty, lust-filled lives of the cast and crew in the studio with the wholesome, homespun drivel they broadcast.
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Keillor, Garrison WLT: A Radio Romance Penguin Books 1992 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1015337. ISBN #0140103805 / 9780140103809. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Keillor, Garrison WLT: A Radio Romance Penguin Books 1992 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1015337. ISBN #0140103805 / 9780140103809. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In the spring of 1926, the Soderbjerg brothers, Ray and Roy, plunge into radio and launch station WLT With Lettuce and Tomato to rescuer their failing restaurant and become the Sandwich Kings of South Minneapolis. For the next quarter century, the Friendly Neighbor station produces a dazzling array of shows and stars, including Leo LaValley, Dad Benson, Wingo Beals, Slim Graves and Little Buddy, chain-smoking child star Marjery Moore, and blind baseball announcer Buck Steller. Francis With, a shy young man from North Dakota, entranced by radio, gets into WLT through his uncle Art and quickly becomes the Soderbjerg's right hand. Soon Francis is a budding announcer adored by Lily Dale, the crippled nightingale of WLT kept hidden from her fans, whose firing contributes to the downfall of the station. And then comes television.
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Keillor, Garrison Wobegon Boy 1997 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1122575. ISBN #0670878073 / 9780670878079. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Keillor, Garrison Wobegon Boy 1997 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1122575. ISBN #0670878073 / 9780670878079. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary John Tollefson, the son of Byron and Mary of Lake Wobegon, leaves Minnesota for upstate New York, to manage a public radio station at a college for academically challenged children of financially gifted parents. Free from the Dark Lutherans of his hometown, he makes a pleasant bachelor life for himself in New York. He buys a new house and paints it a deep gold. He has a bright idea for a restaurant specializing in fresh produce. He falls in love with a historian named Alida Freeman. He is presented with public radio's coveted Wally Award. In the midst of plenty, it occurs to John that his life lacks nobility and grace. A consumer of fine food and wine and giver of good parties, he yet has no coherent life story. Compared to his great-grandfather John Tollefson, who finagled his way over from Norway, he feels rootless, restless, joined in no struggle, with nothing at stake. The only true magnificence in his life is Alida, who eludes his courtship and gives him an impassioned speech about the pleasures of living alone. Folded into the romance of John and Alida is the checkered saga of his ancestors - dour butcher, a playboy publisher, a medicine-show politician, Siamese-twin ballplayers, a Texas Pentacostalist, and a bank embezzler - and Lake Wobegon itself, with its bachelor farmers, its stout-hearted burghers and housewives, its simple code: Cheer up, Make yourself useful, Mind your manners, and Avoid self-pity. A useful code, as John discovers in his pursuit of magnificance, especially as the going gets tougher.
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Kelhawk, Terry Topkapi Secret 2010 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1046791. ISBN #1616142138 / 9781616142131. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kelhawk, Terry Topkapi Secret 2010 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1046791. ISBN #1616142138 / 9781616142131. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary On display within the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul lies the Topkapi Codex an ancient manuscript of the Koran involved in the murder that split Shiite from Sunni. What s the truth about the Topkapi Codex? Is there blood on it? Are its contents the same as the modern Koran s? No one knows because the Topkapi Codex is off limits to research. Mohammed Atareek is obsessed with getting his hands on this mysterious manuscript. His research has convinced him that the Koran has been changed many times, and the text of the famous codex could prove it. But other scholars are turning up dead. Did they share his conviction? Should he expose himself to their risk? Angela, a UC Berkeley English professor, married money and kept it; but lost the marriage, most of her family, and a friend under traumatic circumstances. On top of that, she makes a career move that puts her in the Middle East and in Mohammed s path. His overconfident, witty, and impulsive personality is both puzzling and refreshing to Angela. But when Mohammed tries to engage her in his quest, he finds she has an agenda of her own. Cat and mouse games, heated discussions, and sparks of romance inevitably ensue. Based on solid historical research, this exciting debut novel features a page-turning plot, a startling conclusion, and many eye-opening facts about the origins of the Koran.
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Kellan, Lynn Clear As Glass 2014 paperback. Signed by Author. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1130887. ISBN #1628305282 / 9781628305289. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kellan, Lynn Clear As Glass 2014 paperback. Signed by Author. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1130887. ISBN #1628305282 / 9781628305289. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Poised to become her overbearing father's right-hand man, Jaye Davis is tired of being a faceless drone, writing software. She d rather help real people like her clients who own a struggling glassblowing factory. While she s there, she might even discover who she really is. Mitch Blake and his father keep butting heads about expanding Blake Glassware, and now Mitch has to deal with his father s consultant, Jaye. She claims online marketing will boost sales, but Mitch insists broadening their product line will increase revenue. Arguing with this doe-eyed woman makes one thing perfectly clear: she has the power to shatter his safe but lonely life. Jaye is caught between the father counting on her to run their business in the future, an ex-boyfriend who understands her past, and the solemn glassblower who wants her now, just as she is. Is she strong enough to be honest about what she really wants?
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Kelland, Clarence Budington Little Moment Of Happiness hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1110688. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kellerman, Jesse Potboiler 2012 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1037732. ISBN #0399159037 / 9780399159039. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kellerman, Jesse Potboiler 2012 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1037732. ISBN #0399159037 / 9780399159039. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Arthur Pfefferkorn is a has-been, or perhaps a never-was: a middle-aged college professor with long-dead literary aspirations. When his oldest friend, bestselling thriller writer William de Vall e, is lost at sea, Pfefferkorn is torn between envy and grief, for de Vall e not only outshone Pfefferkorn professionally, but married the woman Pfefferkorn loved. Pfefferkorn s decision to reconnect with de Vall e s widow sets in motion a surreal chain of events, plunging him into a shadowy realm of double crosses and intrigue, a world where no one can be trusted--and nothing can be taken seriously.
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Kelly, Cathy Always and Forever Gallery Books 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1122035. ISBN #1416531580 / 9781416531586. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kelly, Cathy Always and Forever Gallery Books 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1122035. ISBN #1416531580 / 9781416531586. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary When the going gets tough... In the Irish town of Carrickwell, with its lush, endlessly rolling hills and authentic country tranquility, three women's lives are anything but calm. There's Mel, a compulsively ambitious mother publicity manager at a high-powered PR firm -- living proof that balancing motherhood and a full-time job is no walk in the park. The hot-headed, indomitable Cleo, just out of college with a degree in hotel management, would like nothing better than to modernize and revive her family's dwindling hotel -- but faces a constant battle with her old-fashioned parents. And finally, there's the stylish, sweet-tempered Daisy, a self-consciously curvy fashion buyer for an upscale clothing boutique, who has been struggling -- and longing -- to have a baby with her absolutely perfect boyfriend. Although unconnected, these three women have one thing in common: they all need a break from their stressful lives. ...these tough gals hit the nearest spa So each one sets out for a little R R at the new Clouds Hill spa, built by an American woman with her own secret turmoil. It is there that Mel, Cleo, and Daisy meet -- their worlds and troubles colliding -- forming an intimate bond that helps them to realize what matters most in life, always and forever.
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Kelly, Cathy It Started with Paris Grand Central Publishing 2015 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1095248. ISBN #1455535419 / 9781455535415. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kelly, Cathy It Started with Paris Grand Central Publishing 2015 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1095248. ISBN #1455535419 / 9781455535415. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The new novel from 1 international bestselling author Cathy Kelly. It all started with Paris. At the top of the Eiffel Tower, a young man proposes to his girlfriend. In that second, everything changes, not just for the happy couple, but for the family and friends awaiting their return in Ireland. Leila's been nursing a broken heart since her husband suddenly left her, but she's determined to put on a brave face for the bride. Vonnie, a widow, has finally dared to let love back into her life, but a curveball arises that puts another's safety at risk. And Grace, a school principal, finds that her son's impending union brings her ex-husband back into her daily life, and starts to ponder past decisions and wonder if her divorce was in fact a mistake. As these three women gather around the young couple to prepare for the wedding, they'll each have to address their own demons and find a way to move forward, whatever the cost.
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