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October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβ€”discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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A poisoned cousin, a five-year-old's life, and a family with too many secrets.


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Supernatural sparks fly
between a bookseller
& her hard-boiled ghost.


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If Her Highness thinks I’ll let another man claim her and my child, she’s lost her royal mind. Sophaya’s mine.


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She found a body. Then she started asking the wrong questions.


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He ghosted her ten years ago. Now she’s stuck with him for Christmas.


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She’s the lady everyone overlooks. He’s the prince who can’t look away.

Bless Your Heart, Tramp by Celia Rivenbark

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Also by Celia Rivenbark:

Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank, September 2007
Paperback
We're Just Like You, Only Prettier, January 2004
Hardcover
Bless Your Heart, Tramp, November 2000
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BLESS YOUR HEART, TRAMP
By: Celia Rivenbark

Coastal Carolina Press
November 2000
204 pages
ISBN: 1928556221
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Contemporary

What’s the Southern woman’s favorite brand of mayo? Why do we have to keep a β€œfuneral casserole” in the freezer? Why do Southern men call their fathers β€œDeddy” no matter how big and powerful they’ve become? Step into the wacky world of β€œwomanless wedding” fund- raisers, in which Bubbas wear boas. Meet two sisters who fight rural boredom by washing Budweiser cans and cutting them into pieces to make clothing. Learn why the word β€œsnow” sends any right-thinking Southerner careening to the Food Lion for extra loaves of bread and little else.

What’s the Southern woman’s take on Wonderbras, fried turkeys and β€˜tater guns, Barbie and Ken (tip: she’s a ho), politicians (tip: they’re all hos) and marital success (if you can’t agree on a perfect pizza ratio, y’all are doomed)?

Humor columnist and slightly crazed belle-by-birth Celia Rivenbark tackles these and other lard-laden subjects in Bless Your Heart, Tramp, a hilarious look at Southern – and just plain human – foibles, up-close and personal.

So pour yourself a glass of sweet tea and curl up on the pie-azza with Bless Your Heart, Tramp.

If you’re a Southerner, you’ll understand. If you’re not – well, God help you.