Karin Gillespie Books In Order

Bet Your Bottom Dollar

Welcome to the Bottom Dollar Emporium, where everything from coconut mallow cookies to Clabber Girl Baking Powder costs only a dollar, and coffee and gossip are free.

For Elizabeth, Mavis, and Attalee, logging nine to five at the Bottom Dollar is not just work time, it’s family time. So when news gets out that the Super Saver Dollar Store chain plans to set up shop and run the Bottom Dollar out of town, things go catawampus. Manager Elizabeth, who has a good head for business even though she flunked pin curling in beauty school, teams up with a crew of dedicated do gooders bent on saving the Bottom Dollar from the fate of spare change. But when Elizabeth’s unlikely new love interest who also happens to be Cayboo Creek’s wealthiest bachelor pitches woo, out come some startling revelations about her past that turn life more than a little interesting for all her friends and neighbors.

A Dollar Short

It isn t every day a movie star steals your husband. When that day comes for Chiffon Butrell of Cayboo Creek, South Carolina, she looks to the Bottom Dollar Girls to help her out of one fine mess. With three kids to feed and Lonnie’s paycheck from the Nutra Sweet plant being forwarded to a California address, Chiffon is coming up more than A Dollar Short. There s just one thing to be done call on her estranged older sister, Chenille. As crisis reigns, Chenille is welcomed by the Bottom Dollar Girls for her cool head and quick thinking. And when Chenille runs into a little trouble of her own, she begins to see the future in friendship. A rollicking, hilarious novel about two sisters who are each one of a kind, A Dollar Short is a delicious page turner worth every last cent.

Dollar Daze

Third in the popular series about the Bottom Dollar Girls from Cayboo Creek, Dollar Daze finds their love in bloom. Though every rose must have its thorn, it’s up to the Bottom Dollar Girls to follow their hearts. Leading the way is Attalee, soda jerk at the Bottom Dollar Emporium, who s so hot and heavy with her beau Dooley that the pair seems headed for the altar via Thrill Hill. But Elizabeth is pining for her newlywed days when she felt more like a wife than a mother, while widowed Mavis has been up nights nursing a case of loneliness. Traveling love s rocky road keeps the Bottom Dollar Girls busy, and these best friends discover the joys and heartbreak of romance though laughter and tears.

The Sweet Potato Queens’ First Big-Ass Novel

I have no pride. I tell anything, Jill Conner Browne is fond of saying. As Her Royal Highness, Boss Queen of the Sweet Potato Queens, she has told legions of fans, known as SPQ Wannabes, her delectable secrets to living, loving and eating like a queen. In her words, More is more.

How much more? The 1 New York Times bestselling author of five works of nonfiction now serves up The Sweet Potato Queens First Big Ass Novel: Stuff We Didn t Actually Do, But Could Have, and May Yet. The humor in this uproarious coming of queen novel is more delicious than a favorite dessert the Queens favor Chocolate Stuff, of course.

In Jackson, Mississippi, Mary Bennett, Patsy, Gerald, and Jill are high school classmates whose daily routine is paced like a shuffle through the local red dirt until the arrival of a redheaded newcomer banishes monotony forever. With her luxurious mane and voluptuous figure, Tammy Myers aspires to join the silver spooners, who make things happen in their lives. When Jill convinces Tammy and the others that money might buy a certain kind of good time and that true friendship has no price tag, the Sweet Potato Queens are born. If it ain t fun, we ain t doin it, runs their official club motto, and the Queens are true to their word.

Together, the Queens laugh out loud as they step down the long and not altogether pretty road toward making their very own queen dust, the sparkle that comes from livin and lovin their own lives. The Sweet Potato Queens First Big Ass Novel: Stuff We Didn t Actually Do, But Could Have, and May Yet reveals that the journey isn t always easy, but in the company of the Queens, you can sparkle, too.

Earthly Pleasures

When Skye Sebring, a hospitality greeter inside the pearly gates of Heaven, meets lawyer Ryan Blaine during his brush with death after a motorcycle accident, she falls so deeply in love that she follows him back to Earth, a world with strange customs she knows nothing about until she discovers that all of life’s lessons can be learned from the lyrics of five Beatles songs.