Holly Schindler
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Fifteen-year-old Aura Ambrose has been hiding a secret. Her mother, a talented artist and art teacher, is slowly being consumed by schizophrenia, and Aura has been her primary caretaker ever since Aura's dad left them. Convinced that creative expression is behind her mother's deteriorating condition, Aura shuns her own artistic talent. But as her mother sinks still deeper into the darkness of her disorder, the hunger for a creative outlet draws Aura...
3) Rare Gems
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The Story of Ruby's Favorite Regular-Her Best Friend, Elizabeth The best Christmas present Elizabeth Rossi ever received was given to her by a complete stranger-plucked from the folds of a desperate woman's tattered winter garment during the height of the Depression. Forty years later, the stranger is back, her face popping up outside the dress store Elizabeth owns in Sullivan, Missouri. As Elizabeth fights to track the stranger down, to find out...
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All They Needed Was a Little Luck It's a story just itching to be told-and you're going to hear it. What choice do you have, really? Your car's overheated, and you're fortunate enough to have coasted in here-Lucky Lou's Earnest Service, an ancient filling station off the highway. Bill, the mechanic, wants to tell you all about the day nearly a year ago-the day of the big lottery draw. A day when the unluckiest bunch of folks you ever did meet may...
5) Tinsel Town
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It's Christmas Eve, the night of the grand reopening of Ruby's Place. But the Christmas spirit is nowhere to be found. Anticipation should be soaring as Ruby's Place, the beloved supper club, prepares for its grand reopening. Carols should be ringing, glasses clinking, and joy filling the air. But the tinsel is looking tarnished and trampled-on to everyone in the town of Sullivan. No one seems to be in the mood to celebrate at Ruby's. Walter, the...
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~ Holly Schindler is a critically acclaimed author: Starred reviews from Booklist and Publishers Weekly, silver medal recipient in Foreword INDIES Book of the Year, IPPY Awards gold medal winner. ~ Four years after their unexpected summer romance, the compass that guided Chelsea and Clint to safety is still pointing north, toward everything Chelsea left behind. But can something that rescued you once rescue you a second time? It's late spring at the...
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Welcome to the Grand Reopening of Ruby's PlaceRob & Geena 4Ever 1987 – words carved into a sidewalk square in Sullivan, Missouri. Today, Rob and Geena have become little more than hazily remembered small-town gossip, a sweet story of first love between the high school bad boy and the smartest girl in the class. At least, until Professor Geena Barister returns home after her father's heart attack. Now, with so much time and distance having passed...
9) Ruby's Story
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How Ruby returned to Sullivan, opening the supper club that became the stuff of Christmas Eve legends. On Christmas Eve, Ruby Westbrook finds herself alone in an empty train car, no longer the wide-eyed, ready-to-take-on-the-big-city dancer she'd once been. On a whim, she arrives back in her girlhood hometown of tiny Sullivan, Missouri. Against the backdrop of a city navigating mid-century social and technological upheavals, Ruby begins to relive...
10) Playing Hurt
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~ Holly Schindler is a critically acclaimed author: Starred reviews from Booklist and Publishers Weekly, silver medal recipient in Foreword INDIES Book of the Year, IPPY Awards gold medal winner. ~ It's hard to get back in the game-of life or love-when you're still playing hurt. Once, she was a small-town celebrity. One of the most talented high school basketball players her hometown had ever seen. Bound for something far bigger beyond the city limits...
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What is the true story of Ruby's Place? For years, gossip has swirled throughout the small Missouri town of Sullivan. "Something strange going on out there at Ruby's," they say. Ruby's Place is no mere bar. Why? The ghosts of Christmases past are all still inside. Ruby's still there, too, decades after her own passing. Nobody ever ran that bar quite like Ruby, after all. And nobody-not even Angela, the bar's current owner-would be able to bring the...
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Once upon a time, in a land far, far away… you were a child. And fairy tales were delightful stories that insisted life wasn't scary and overwhelming, but magical and sweet. Oh, there were happy endings galore-not to mention plenty of helpful godmothers and wands locked and loaded with life-changing sparkles. Come on-admit it! That was pretty great. Now, you're an adult. And let's admit this: adulthood isn't quite as swell as you'd once hoped it...
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~ Holly Schindler is a critically acclaimed author: Starred reviews from Booklist and Publishers Weekly, silver medal recipient in Foreword INDIES Book of the Year, IPPY Awards gold medal winner. ~ Christmas at Ruby's is a novella that inspired an ongoing holiday series. Welcome to Ruby's, where the Christmas spirit is alive and well. Ruby's Place (the classy family-friendly nightspot that once lit the night sky in the tiny fictional town of Sullivan,...