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    Bet Your Bottom Dollar

    By Karin Gillespie

    3.5/5

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    About this ebook

    Welcome to the Bottom Dollar Emporium in Cayboo Creek, South Carolina, where everything from coconut mallow cookies to Clabber Girl Baking Powder costs a dollar but the coffee and gossip are free. For the Bottom Dollar gals, work time is sisterhood time.

    When news gets out that a corporate dollar store is coming to town, the women are thrown into a tizzy, hoping to save their beloved store as well as their friendships. Meanwhile the manager is canoodling with the town's wealthiest bachelor and their romance unearths some startling family secrets.

    The first in a series, Bet Your Bottom Dollar serves up a heaping portion of small town Southern life and introduces readers to a cast of eccentric characters. Pull up a wicker chair, set out a tall glass of Cheer Wine, and immerse yourself in the adventures of a group of women who the Atlanta Journal-Constitution calls, "…the kind of steel magnolias who would make Scarlett O'Hara envious."

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    BET YOUR BOTTOM DOLLAR by Karin Gillespie - A Henery Press book. If you like one, you'll probably like them all.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHenery Press
    Release dateOct 14, 2014
    ISBN9781940976747
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    • 3/5
      This is a lovely, Southern charm, "Chick-lit" book. A perfect summer diversion. I will keep reading this series.
    • 3/5
      Recently I found myself in our little local shopping mall, with an hour or more before my ride home would arrive and nothing to read (since the bookstore there closed last fall.) Fortunately there was still Big Lots, which I recalled usually has some books on a shelf near the greeting cards. Among all the cookbooks and self-help there were a very few novels, and I was fortunate to find this one, which whiled away the time quite nicely. It's set in a small town in South Carolina near the Georgia line (the big city is Augusta, GA)where the heroine, Elizabeth, is the manager and youngest employee of the local independent Dollar Store. She, the owner, Mavis, and elderly but still feisty Attalee are concerned when they hear that a big chain dollar store is coming to town. But that's not Elizabeth's only problem -- her fiance has dumped her right after their engagement party, and she's not sure about the motives of the wealthy woman who drives in from Augusta to snap up bargains and try to run Elizabeth's life. Humor, romance, and even a little mystery round out this very enjoyable story.
    • 4/5
      A perfect book for me today! I dragged alawn chair under a sycamore tree and enjoyed a big glass of cold icedtea while I read all about Elizabeth Polk, manager of the BottomDollar Emporium. Elizabeth's little Southern town is facing the worstcrisis in recent memory; a national chain, the Super Saver DollarStore, is headed into Cayboo Creek, and the town isall, "cattywampus". The plot seems to dribble away at the end, butI'd have enjoyed it just for the fresh Southern similes.
    • 1/5
      Ok, so this is a first novel which is always a dicey thing to sample, plus it's a "Southern" novel, which is usually right up my alley, but this fell flat for me. The words were all there and the story unfolded in the proper manner but it was just missing the zip that makes a book a winner for me. For one thing, it tried too hard to be Southern Hick and missed by a country mile. (I know because I AM a Southern Hick. LOL) The names were just too cutsey poo, the "hickness" too contrived, the story too pat. Besides, it really disturbs me to see a grown woman call her grandmother "Meemaw" and have everybody in town refer to her that way, too.
    • 2/5
      I realized that I just don't like chick lit. Maybe the occassional Marian Keyes book (though if you've read 2, you've read them all) but as a genre, I find the woman neither charming in their ditzyness nor would I want to be them or have them for a friend. So Bet your Bottom Dollar has a 'charming' 'ditzy' southern girl and blah, blah, blah, I started skimming at page 30 and didn't even bother going to the end. My fault. I've got to stop thinking I like this stuff.
    • 4/5
      The Super Saver Dollar Store chain is building a new outlet in Cayboo Creek, South Carolina. That news has the ?Bottom Dollar Girls? down in the mouth. Unless a miracle occurs, their new competition will doom the Bottom Dollar Emporium. Owner Mavis Loomis, manager Elizabeth Polk and assistant manager Atalee Gaines know they?ll have to come up with something to keep the evil chain store at bay or else middle-aged Mavis will end up living with her sister in South Dakota of all places.Meanwhile Elizabeth, the youngest member of the trio, has problems of her own. She learns her ex-fianc? Chip Jenkins is engaged to Jonelle Jasper, the floozie. There goes any chance of Elizabeth and Chip getting back together. Meanwhile, one of the Emporium?s customers is trying to play matchmaker between Elizabeth and her own grandson, Timothy Cunningham, a shaved-head, robe-wearing Buddhist. But will Tim?s mother approve of her son ? the new head of Hollingsworth, Inc. -- courting the daughter of ?Insane Dwayne? Polk, owner of the Bargain Bonanza?The Bottom Dollars Girls are perfect cozy heroines: plucky, a bit cynical but ready to tackle the world. Bet Your Bottom Dollar is brimming with good humor, and wall-to-wall with eccentric characters. An 80-something widow, Atalee is at the top of the list ? grey sausage curls, 1963 Buick Skylark and all.Karin Gillespie, who can?t seem to help writing ?funny,? has assembled a cast of characters and small-town setting that bode well for a long-lived series.