Sheila Roberts, Author . St. Martin’s Griffin $13.95 (319p) ISBN 978-0-312-37022-0
Roberts’s sweetly vengeful dig at do-nothing husbands follows a smalltown knitting club of wives who are sick and tired of toiling over elaborate Christmas preparations that their husbands don’t appreciate. As they go on strike, the...
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Sheila Roberts, Author . St. Martin’s Griffin $13.99 (335p) ISBN 978-0-312-38482-1
Roberts returns to Heart Lake, Wash., for a second beguiling visit (after Spring in Bloom
). Chocolatier Jamie Moore, her bakery-owner aunt Sarah and quilt store owner Emma Swanson take on a community project, “Have a Heart,” to...
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Sheila Roberts, Author . St. Martin's/Griffin $13.99 (340p) ISBN 978-0-312-59447-3
The three friends in Roberts's (Angel Lane
) light read are happily reminiscent of Sarah Strohmeyer's The Penny Pinchers Club
. These Heart Lake, Wash., neighbors become divas living on a dime when harsh economic times hit. Still...
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Sheila Roberts, St. Martin's, $14.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-312-59448-0
An antique snow globe brings good luck to its owners in Roberts's easygoing Christmas time killer. Kiley Gray's having a tough time: her boyfriend has just dumped her for her ditzy sister, she can't find a job, and her best friends Suzanne and...
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Sheila Roberts, Author St. Martin's Griffin $13.95 (273p) ISBN 978-0-312-37080-0
It's January, and four Seattle-area women turn their cooking club into a diet program with the goal of fitting into bikinis by summer. Predictably, each has a problem: party planner Erin can't fit into her wedding dress and, besides, she's marrying...
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Sheila Roberts. St. Martin’s, $14.99 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-0-312-59449-7
Roberts, renowned for her stocking-stuffer tales (The Snow Globe), doesn’t disappoint with this charming story of Ambrose, a matchmaking cat. After firefighter Zach Stone saves Ambrose from a vicious dog, the cat tries to repay him by moving (uninvit
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Sheila Roberts. Mira, $16.99 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-7783-8656-8
Delayed while traveling in three separate cars to meet up for Christmas, members of the Turnbull family learn lessons in forgiveness, acceptance, and faith in this patchy contemporary from Roberts (A Christmas Wish). Max and Michelle, who’ve been...
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Sheila Roberts. Mira, $18.99 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-7783-6960-8
Putting a contemporary Christmasy spin on Jane Austen’s Emma, the latest from Roberts (Mermaid Beach) sparkles with joy and humor. Fifty-year-old widow Frankie Lane, a small-town gift shop owner, has a wonderful life—but can’t bring herself to stop...
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Sheila Roberts. Mira, $16.99 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-77-830961-1
Car trouble strands CFO Guy Hightower in small Pine River, Wash., where he encounters nonprofit entrepreneur Olivia “Livi” Berg. The two of them have a history: his company has been the biggest donor to her organization since her great-grandmother...
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