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Recipes for Easy Living

Valentine seriesbook 5 of 7Next:Sweet Dreams at the Goodnight Motel(2004) →

Curtiss Ann Matlock takes readers back to Valentine, Oklahoma, to see Christmas through the eyes of thirteen-year-old Corrine, a girl who has everything she wants, including a happy life with her aunt Marilee and "Papa" Tate, her beloved horses and an "almost boyfriend, Ricky Dale. But her birth mother, Anita—who abandoned Corrine—is back in town and determined to rebuild her relationship with her daughter. Will Corrine's heart be broken all over again, or will it be the best Christmas ever?

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 395 pages

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