Book Swap Event & One Big Happy Family by Susan Mallery (Triangle Book Club)
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In honor of the season of giving, we'll be sharing our books with each other. Take what you'd like to share. If any books are left over, you can either take them back home with you or I can donate them.
The meeting space has a full kitchen, so feel free to take your dinner if you'd like to eat while we chat. As always, thanks to Sally Mackie for hosting us in her office.
Please consider supporting one of the Triangle's independent bookstores:
Beow's Books & Brews
Page 158 Books
Quail Ridge Books
So & So Books
Barnes & Noble
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Recommend a book for our 2025 reading list here.
Julie Parker’s kids are her greatest gift. Still, she’s not exactly heartbroken when they ask to skip a big Christmas. Her son, Nick, is taking a belated honeymoon with his bride, Blair, while her daughter, Dana, will purge every reminder of the guy who dumped her. Again. Julie feels practically giddy for one-on-one holiday time with Heath, the (much) younger man she’s secretly dating.
But her plans go from cozy to chaotic when Nick and Dana plead for Christmas at the family cabin in memory of their late father, Julie’s ex. She can’t refuse, even though she dreads their reactions to her new man when they realize she’s been hiding him for months.
As the guest list grows in surprising ways, from Blair’s estranged mom to Heath’s precocious children, Julie’s secret is one of many to be unwrapped. Over this delightfully complicated and very funny Christmas, she’ll discover that more really is merrier, and that a big, happy family can become bigger and happier, if they let go of old hurts and open their hearts to love.