The Christmas pearl / Dorothea Benton Frank.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : HarperLuxe, ©2007.Edition: 1st HarperLuxe edDescription: viii, 167 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780061668173
- 0061668176
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Large Print Book | Main Library | Large Print Fiction | Frank, Dorothea | Available | 33111009569753 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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 be.
With her ill-tempered family gathered at her stately Charleston mansion for Christmas, 93-year-old Theodora yearns for her 1920s childhood when Pearl, her grandmother's beloved housekeeper and closest confidante, enforced strict household discipline.