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Read [Dorothea Benton Frank Book] * The Christmas Pearl Online ! PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. The Christmas Pearl Theodora is the matriarch of a family that has grown into a bunch of truculent knuckleheads. While she's finally gotten them all together in South Carolina to celebrate, this Christmas looks nothing like the extravagant, homey holidays of her childhood.What happened to the days when Christmas meant tables groaning with home-cooked goodies, over-the-top decorations, and long chats in front of the fire with Pearl, her grandmother's beloved housekeeper and closest confidante?Luckily for Theodora, a
| Title | : | The Christmas Pearl |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.41 (514 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0061668176 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-19 |
| Language | : | English |
All rights reserved. Frank (The Land of Mango Sunsets) includes homegrown recipes that further sweeten this Lowcountry holiday confection. From Publishers Weekly With her truculent family gathered at her stately Charleston mansion for Christmas, 93-year-old matriarch Theodora is having a hard time tolerating the lot of them. Theodora hankers for her 1920s childhood, when Pearl, the family's stern black maid, enforced strict houshold discipline and took no guff while working hard at Christmas, all the while singing gospel favorites such as Come en Go wid Me. When Theodora's usual maid is called away, Pearl herself (as a ghost) blows in, ready to set the house in order, She unearths the antique crèche and other Christmas heirlooms long buried, and altering the family's general bad temper. (Nov.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.
She resides in the New York area with her husband.. New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank was born and raised on Sullivans Island, South Carolina
"Fun read for the holidays!" according to I Buy Lots of Books. I admit that I purchase most of my books from Amazon.com but this one I happened to pick up in an airport bookstore during the holidays. I was stuck in the Atlanta airport with nothing to read and I was grumpy about my forced business travel during the holidays. Well, "The Christmas Pearl" made me laugh and tossed me out of my funky mood. Dorothea Benton Frank's whimsical tale of a low country, slightly dysfunctional, family and the magical influence of "Pearl" to straighten things out will make you smile. It's . "Loved this story" according to Oljack. Loved this story! My book club did too! Left us all wishing for our very own "Pearl"Dorothea Benton Frank never disappoints and little book is a perfect read particularly during the hectic holiday season!. "Christmas at its best" according to HolidayGal. Truly a Wonderful light hearted holiday story of a disenfranchised four generation family brought together by love over Christmas season.
Theodora is the matriarch of a family that has grown into a bunch of truculent knuckleheads. While she's finally gotten them all together in South Carolina to celebrate, this Christmas looks nothing like the extravagant, homey holidays of her childhood.What happened to the days when Christmas meant tables groaning with home-cooked goodies, over-the-top decorations, and long chats in front of the fire with Pearl, her grandmother's beloved housekeeper and closest confidante?Luckily for Theodora, a special someone who heard her plea for help arrives, with pockets full of enough Gullah magic and common sense to make Theodora's Christmas the love-filled miracle it's meant to b
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