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Title details for Miss Julia Stands Her Ground by Ann B. Ross - Available

Miss Julia Stands Her Ground

#7 in series

by Ann B. Ross
Cynthia Darlow
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Popular author Ann B. Ross' fan base grows with the publication of each novel in her Miss Julia series, which has cracked the New York Times extended best-seller list. In this episode, the graceful Southern lady's impeccable manners are pushed to the brink. When she learned her philandering (and late) husband left behind a lover and illegitimate son, Miss Julia could have gotten nasty. Instead, she kept her cool, adding Hazel Marie and Little Lloyd to her makeshift family. But now rumors are surfacing that call Little Lloyd's patrilineage into question. Has Miss Julia been duped? The only way to know for sure might be to exhume Wesley Lloyd Springer's body for a DNA test. Fresh, funny, and full of Southern charm, Miss Julia Stands Her Ground is as appealing as a cold glass of lemonade and an empty rocking chair in the shade.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Miss Julia

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    March 21, 2006

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781449895815
      • File size: 264341 KB
      • Duration: 09:10:42

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 3, 2006
      Ross, reminiscent of Jan Karon and Fannie Flagg, reintroduces the popular Miss Julia, a plucky busybody "of a certain age," in this seventh novel (after Miss Julia's School of Beauty) in her ongoing series. Miss Julia again stands tall in a quaint, narrow-minded Southern city in the western North Carolina mountains, this time facing a paternity dispute over her beloved Little Lloyd, who may be her philandering, deceased former husband's son by another woman, Hazel Marie. To prove Little Lloyd's lineage without actually exhuming a corpse, Miss Julia's new husband Sam Murdoch suggests they retrieve a specimen of her late hubby's DNA, launching a search to find an appropriately personal item-a hairbrush comes to mind, as do the dead man's gallstones. As if that isn't enough to keep her busy, Miss Julia discovers the women of her church have circulated a petition nominating her to run for the board of elders, and the woman claiming Little Lloyd as her own volunteers Miss Julia's home for a wildly inappropriate party. Enjoyable but formulaic, it's light beach reading that should fulfill fans' expectations.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Miss Julia and her many zany predicaments are made even more hilarious by the strong performance of Cynthia Darlow. Darlow has the impressive ability to impersonate the characters of a young boy, a high-strung elderly woman, a calm, mild-mannered old man, and many others. Miss Julia's main concern in this book is trying to prove the paternity of Little Lloyd, the young boy living in her house who has won her heart. Author Ann Ross has cleverly woven this story of mishaps, misunderstandings, and just plain craziness with tongue-in-cheek humor. The story and Cynthia Darlow's performance will have listeners laughing out loud. N.L. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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