In the Land of Second Chances

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"A folksy, wise and gently amusing look at the importance of living life to the fullest and not only trusting in chance, but embracing uncertainty as the spice of life." —Rocky Mountain News
ngs are pretty much as they were fifty years ago, and that's just the way folks like it. Plucky Wilma Porter is the proprietress of Ebb's only bed-and-breakfast, and she knows everything there is to know in town: the mental state of Clara Tucker Booth Yune, a rich recluse who says only two words at a time; the gossip at Loretta Parson's Bold Cut Beauty Salon; and the sad series of events that have led poor Calvin Millet to the edge of desperation. Calvin is the owner of Millet's Department Store, a village mainstay for generations, but many fear that it—and the downtown —^won't survive his terrible run of bad luck.
Wilma prays for a miracle to save Ebb's special way of life, but she's surprised when it arrives in the form of a traveling salesman—if that's really what he is. Vernon L. Moore... Tovább

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"A folksy, wise and gently amusing look at the importance of living life to the fullest and not only trusting in chance, but embracing uncertainty as the spice of life." —Rocky Mountain News
ngs are pretty much as they were fifty years ago, and that's just the way folks like it. Plucky Wilma Porter is the proprietress of Ebb's only bed-and-breakfast, and she knows everything there is to know in town: the mental state of Clara Tucker Booth Yune, a rich recluse who says only two words at a time; the gossip at Loretta Parson's Bold Cut Beauty Salon; and the sad series of events that have led poor Calvin Millet to the edge of desperation. Calvin is the owner of Millet's Department Store, a village mainstay for generations, but many fear that it—and the downtown —^won't survive his terrible run of bad luck.
Wilma prays for a miracle to save Ebb's special way of life, but she's surprised when it arrives in the form of a traveling salesman—if that's really what he is. Vernon L. Moore claims to peddle games of chance, but he sticks his nose in odd places and says things like "Uncertainty is the spice of life." He is welcomed, nonetheless, because he seems to have the power to change minds, save fortunes, and fix broken hearts.
"By the end of the stranger's six-day visit Chances morphs from Fried Green Tomatoes into a wisecracking It's a Wonderful Life." —Entertainment Weekly
"An accessible, engaging story peppered with characters who are eccentric, conflicted, tragic and humorous." —Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"Just what the doctor ordered." —Detroit Free Press Vissza