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    Rare Gems: Ruby's Regulars, #2
    Rare Gems: Ruby's Regulars, #2
    Rare Gems: Ruby's Regulars, #2
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    Rare Gems: Ruby's Regulars, #2

    By Holly Schindler

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    The Story of Ruby's Favorite Regular—Her Best Friend, Elizabeth

     

    The best Christmas present Elizabeth Rossi ever received was given to her by a complete stranger—plucked from the folds of a desperate woman's tattered winter garment during the height of the Depression. Forty years later, the stranger is back, her face popping up outside the dress store Elizabeth owns in Sullivan, Missouri. As Elizabeth fights to track the stranger down, to find out what her sudden return means, she'll bump headlong into another miraculous Christmas gift—love, here, at her half-century mark. And during a magical Christmas Eve at Ruby's Place, Elizabeth will finally realize the true wonder of that long-ago Christmas present. 

     

    Rare Gems is one of several books that all center around the enchanting Ruby's Place supper club. 

     

    Books in the original Ruby's Place Christmas Collection:

    Christmas at Ruby's

    I Remember You

    Sentimental Journey

    The Gift That Is Ruby's Place

     

    Books in the Ruby's Regulars spinoff series:

    Ruby's Story

    Rare Gems

     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInToto Books
    Release dateSep 6, 2022
    ISBN9798215600337
    Rare Gems: Ruby's Regulars, #2
    Author

    Holly Schindler

    I'm a critically acclaimed and award winning hybrid author for readers of all ages--both the young in years and the young at heart. My work has received starred reviews from Booklist and Publishers Weekly, appeared on Booklist’s Best First Novels for Youth, PW Picks, School Library Journal’s What’s Hot in YA, and B&N’s 2016 YA Books with Irresistible Concepts and Most Anticipated May 2016 YA Books. My YA work has also won a Silver Medal in ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year and a Gold Medal in the IPPY Awards. My MG work is critically acclaimed as well, having made the master lists for several state readers’ awards, including this year’s Oklahoma Sequoyah Book Award and Missouri’s Mark Twain Readers Award, and has been chosen for inclusion in the Scholastic Book Fair.

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