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040			_aPINCKNEY COMM. SCHOOLS - 9/12
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100			_aPedersen, Laura.
245	1	0	_aBeginner's luck / _cLaura Pedersen.
260	0		_aNew York : _bBallantine Reader's Circle, _cc2003.
300			_a336 p. ; _c21 cm.
500			_aFollett Bound Platinum.
520			_aThere could be no doubt left in anyone's mind that my life had all the makings of a country-and-western song. The second of seven children (with another on the way), Hallie Palmer has one dream: to make it to Vegas. Normally blessed with an uncanny gift for winning at games of chance, she's just hit a losing streak. She's been kicked out of the casino she frequents during school hours, lost all her money for a car on a bad bet at the track, and has been grounded by her parents. Hallie decides the time as come to cut her losses. Answering an ad in the local paper, she lands a job as yard person at the elegant home of the sixty-ish mrs. Olivia Stockton, a wonderfully eccentric rebel who scribes acclaimed poetry along with the occasional soft-core porn story. Under the same wild roof is Olivia's son, Bernand, an antiques dealer and gourmet cook who turns out mouthwatering cuisine and scathing witticisms, and Gil, Bernard's lover, whose down-to-earth sensibilities provide a perfect foil to the Stocktons' outrageous joie de vivre. Here, in this anything-goes household, Hallie has found a new family. And she's about to receive the education of her life. From a wonderful new voice in fiction comes the freshest and funniest novel to barrel down the pike since Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. In Beginner's Luck, Laura Pedersen introduces us to the endearing oddballs and eccentrics of Cosgrove County, Ohio, who burst to life and steal our hearts and none more so than Hallie Palmer, sixteen, savvy, and wise beyond her years, a young woman who knows life is a gamble.
650			_aYoung women _xFiction.
650			_aMan-woman relationships _xFiction.
650			_aGambling _xFiction.
650			_aComing of age _xFiction.
651			_aOhio _xFiction.
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