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Big Stone Gap a novel

Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, the tiny town of Big Stone Gap is home to some of the most charming eccentrics in the state. Ave Maria Mulligan is the town's self-proclaimed spinster, a thirty-five year old pharmacist with a "mountain girl's body and a flat behind." She lives an amiable life with good friends and lots of hobbies until the fateful day in 1978 when she suddenly discovers that she's not who she always thought she was. Before she can blink, Ave's fielding marriage proposals, fighting off greedy family members, organizing a celebration for visiting celebrities, and planning the trip of a lifetime?a trip that could change her view of the world and her own place in it forever. Brimming with humor and wise notions of small-town life, Big Stone Gap is a gem of a book with a giant heart. . . .From the Trade Paperback edition.

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  • "Big Stone Gap"@it
  • "Big Stone Gap"@pl
  • "Big Stone Gap"

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  • "Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, the tiny town of Big Stone Gap is home to some of the most charming eccentrics in the state. Ave Maria Mulligan is the town's self-proclaimed spinster, a thirty-five year old pharmacist with a "mountain girl's body and a flat behind." She lives an amiable life with good friends and lots of hobbies until the fateful day in 1978 when she suddenly discovers that she's not who she always thought she was. Before she can blink, Ave's fielding marriage proposals, fighting off greedy family members, organizing a celebration for visiting celebrities, and planning the trip of a lifetime?a trip that could change her view of the world and her own place in it forever. Brimming with humor and wise notions of small-town life, Big Stone Gap is a gem of a book with a giant heart. . . .From the Trade Paperback edition."@en
  • "A small town spinster finds her life changing after receiving two marriage proposals."@en
  • "Town pharmacist and local spinster Ave Maria has been keeping the secrets of Big Stone Gap for a long time, but now a skeleton is about to tumble from her own family closet."@en
  • "Town pharmacist and local spinster Ave Maria Mulligan has been keeping the secrets of Stone Gap for a long time, but now a skeleton is about to tumble from her own family closet."@en
  • "It's 1978 and Ave Maria Mulligan is the 35 year old, self- proclaimed spinster of Big Stone Gap, a sleepy hamlet in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. She's also the local pharmacist, the co-captain of the Rescue Squad, and the director of The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, the town's long-running Outdoor Drama. Ave Maria is happy with her life of errands and small details -- until she discovers a skeleton in her family's formerly tidy closet that completely unravels her quiet, conventional life."@en
  • "Ave Maria Mulligan, a thirty-five-year-old spinster in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, is jolted out of her rut when her mother reveals a shocking secret, and things become even more exciting when Elizabeth Taylor announces plans to visit the sleepy town."@en
  • "Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, the tiny town of Big Stone Gap is home to some of the most charming eccentrics in the state. Ave Maria Mulligan is the town's self-proclaimed spinster, a thirty-five year old pharmacist with a "mountain girl's body and a flat behind." She lives an amiable life with good friends and lots of hobbies until the fateful day in 1978 when she suddenly discovers that she's not who she always thought she was. Before she can blink, Ave's fielding marriage proposals, fighting off greedy family members, organizing a celebration for visiting celebrities, and planning the trip of a lifetime--a trip that could change her view of the world and her own place in it forever. Brimming with humor and wise notions of small-town life, Big Stone Gap is a gem of a book with a giant heart. ..."@en
  • "Een ongehuwde apothekeres van vijfendertig jaar ontdekt dat ze een Italiaanse vader heeft en krijgt twee huwelijksaanzoeken."
  • "It's 1978, and 35-year-old Ave Maria Mulligan is about to discover a skeleton in her own family's tidy closet that will blow the lid right off her quiet, uneventful life."
  • "It's 1978, and 35-year-old Ave Maria Mulligan is about to discover a skeleton in her own family's tidy closet that will blow the lid right off her quiet, uneventful life."@en
  • "Ask librarian for help in locating."@en
  • "The warm and very funny story of a small town is told by Ave Maria Mulligan, a 35-year-old self-proclaimed spinster, whose comfortable routine is about to be disrupted forever. "Funny, charming, and original".--Fannie Flagg."@en
  • "Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, the tiny town of Big Stone Gap is home to some of the most charming eccentrics in the state. Ave Maria Mulligan is the town's self-proclaimed spinster, a thirty-five-year-old pharmacist with a "mountain girl's body and a flat behind." She lives an amiable life with good friends and lots of hobbies until the fateful day in 1978 when she suddenly discovers that she's not who she always thought she was. Before she can blink, Ave's fielding marriage proposals, fighting off greedy family members, organizing a celebration for visiting celebrities, and planning the trip of a lifetime - a trip that could shange her view of the world and her own places in it forever. Brimming with humor and wise notions of small-town life, Big Stone Gap is a gem of a book with a giant heart."@en
  • "Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountainsof Virginia, the tiny town of Big Stone Gap is home to some of the most charming eccentrics in the state. Ave Maria Mulligan is the town's self-proclaimed spinster, a thirty-five-year-old pharmacist with a 'mountain girl's body and a flat behind'. She lives an amiable life with good friends and lots of hobbies until the fateful day in 1978 when she suddenly discovers that she's not who she always thought she was. Before she can blink, Ave's fielding marriage proposals, fighting off greedy family members, organizing a celebration of visiting celebrities, and planning the trip of a lifetime - a trip that could change her view of the world and her own place in it forever."
  • "In 1978, Ave Maria Mulligan has her life in the Blue Ridge town of Big Stone Gap, Virginia, turned upside-down by an old family secret."
  • ""Big Stone Gap, Virginia, is the sort of sleepy hamlet in the Blue Ridge Mountains where kids get married and start families at eighteen, and stay forever. So thirty-five-year-old Ave Maria Mulligan is something of an oddity. A self-proclaimed spinster, as the local pharmacist she's been keeping the townsfolk's secrets for years. Now Ave maria is about to discover a scandal in her own family's past that will blow the lid right off her quiet, uneventful life. Soon she's juggling two unexpected marriage proposals and conducting a no-holds-barred family feud."--Page 4 of cover."@en

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  • "Italian language materials"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Spanish language materials"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Readers"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Humorous stories"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Love stories"
  • "Love stories"@en
  • "Humorous fiction"@en
  • "Humorous fiction"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl

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  • "Ē megalē stigmē"
  • "Big Stone Gap a novel"
  • "Big Stone Gap a novel"@en
  • "Bienvenue aa Big Stone Gap : roman"
  • "Der beste Sommer unseres Lebens Roman"
  • "En liten by i bergen"@en
  • "En liten by i bergen"
  • "En liten by i bergen"@sv
  • "Big stone gap : a novel"
  • "Big stame gap"
  • "Der beste Sommer unseres Lebens : Roman"
  • "Big Stone Gap : a novel"
  • "Big Stone Gap : a novel"@en
  • "Bienvenue à Big Stone Gap : roman"
  • "Big stone gap"@en
  • "Big stone gap"
  • "Laatbloeiers : het leven in Big Stone Gap"
  • "Todo empezó aquel verano"
  • "Todo empezó aquel verano"@es
  • "Der beste Sommer unseres Lebens"
  • "Una stagione d'amore = A big stone gap"
  • "Big Stone Gap"@en
  • "Big Stone Gap"
  • "Una stagione d'amore a Big Stone Gap"
  • "Una stagione d'amore a Big Stone Gap"@it
  • "Big Stone Gap : & Big Cherry Holler"@en
  • "Életünk legszebb nyara"
  • "Életünk legszebb nyara"@hu
  • "Pula szczęścia"@pl
  • "Pula szczęścia"
  • "Big Stone Gap : Big stone gap, #1"@en

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