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Bet Your Bottom Dollar: A Bottom Dollar Girls Novel

by Karin Gillespie

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Publisher Comments:

Welcome to the Bottom Dollar Emporium of Cayboo Creek, South Carolina, where everything from coconut mallow cookies to Clabber Girl Baking Powder costs only a dollar, and coffee and gossip are free.

For Elizabeth, Mavis, and Attalee — the Bottom Dollar Girls — logging nine to five at the Bottom Dollar is not just work time, it's family time. So when news gets out that the Super Saver Dollar Store chain plans to set up shop and run the Bottom Dollar out of town, things go catawampus. Manager Elizabeth, who has a good head for business even though she flunked pin-curling in beauty school, teams up with a crew of dedicated do-gooders bent on saving the Bottom Dollar from the fate of spare change. But when Elizabeth's unlikely new love interest — who also happens to be Cayboo Creek's wealthiest bachelor — pitches woo, out come some startling revelations about her past that turn life more than a little interesting for all her friends and neighbors.

Serving up heaping portions of small-town wit and Southern cadence, Bet Your Bottom Dollar crackles with more secrets than a slumber party.

Review:

"A winner of a first novel, filled with Southern-style zingers and funny folks." Kirkus Reviews

Review:

"What a delight! Bet Your Bottom Dollar is warm and witty, a feast for the heart. This impressive debut will have readers eagerly awaiting another visit to Cayboo Creek." Jennifer Chiaverini, author of The Master Quilte

Review:

"Can the tiny, locally owned Bottom Dollar Emporium survive the arrival of the new and huge Super Saver Dollar Store in Cayboo Creek, South Carolina? Bet your bottom dollar it can. Karin Gillespie has written a funny and touching novel filled with rich, down-to-earth characters. A thoroughly enjoyable experience." Terry Ryan, author of The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio

Review:

"Use your very last bottom dollar, if you have to. Just buy this book. You will laugh yourself sick and love every minute of it." Jill Conner Browne, the Sweet Potato Queen

Synopsis:

Serving up heaping portions of small-town wit and Southern cadence, the first novel in the new "Bottom Dollar Girls" series crackles with more secrets than a slumber party.
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About the Author

Karin Gillespie has wored as a travel agent, a special education teacher, and an editor of a regional parenting magazine. She lives with her son, Brandon, in Augusta, Georgia, where she has resided for the past thirty years. Bet Your Bottom Dollar is her first novel.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780743250108
Subtitle:
A Bottom Dollar Girls Novel
Author:
Gillespie, Karin
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Young women
Subject:
South carolina
Subject:
Love stories
Subject:
Department stores
Subject:
Birthparents
Subject:
Women sales personnel.
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
Bildungsromans
Copyright:
2004
Series Volume:
3122
Publication Date:
July 1, 2004
Binding:
Hardback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
304
Dimensions:
8.84x5.84x1.07 in. .88 lbs.
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