Someone else's love story / Joshilyn Jackson.
"At twenty-one, Shandi Pierce is juggling finishing college, raising her delightful three-year-old genius son Natty, and keeping the peace between her eternally warring, long-divorced Catholic mother and Jewish father. She's got enough complications without getting caught in the middle of a stick-up in a gas station mini-mart and falling in love with a great wall of a man named William Ashe, who willingly steps between the armed robber and her son. Shandi doesn't know that her blond god Thor has his own complications. When he looked down the barrel of that gun he believed it was destiny: It's been one year to the day since a tragic act of physics shattered his universe. But William doesn't define destiny the way other people do. A brilliant geneticist who believes in science and numbers, destiny to him is about choice. Now, he and Shandi are about to meet their so-called destinies head on, in a funny, charming, and poignant novel about science and miracles, secrets and truths, faith and forgiveness; about a virgin birth, a sacrifice, and a resurrection; about falling in love, and learning that things aren't always what they seem-- or what we hope they will be. It's a novel about discovering what we want and ultimately finding what we need" -- from author's web page.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062105653
- ISBN: 0062105655
- ISBN: 9780062372734
- Physical Description: xiii, 300 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2013]
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- Subject:
- Life change events > Fiction.
Georgia > Fiction. - Genre:
- Romance fiction.
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- 9 of 9 copies available at NC Cardinal.
- 2 of 2 copies available at Onslow County Public Library. (Show)
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- 0 current holds with 9 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jacksonville Main Library | FIC JACKSON (Text) | 36015000311999 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Sneads Ferry Branch Library | FIC JACKSON (Text) | 36015001185012 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Albemarle Main Library | FIC Jackson (Text) | 31010000458424 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| High Point Library | FIC Jackson Joshilyn (Text) | 30519009155980 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Morganton Public Library | F JAC (Text) | 33557003962594 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Richard H. Thornton Main Library | FIC JACKSO (Text) | 42756201779334 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Valdese Public Library | F JAC (Text) | 33557003993482 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| W.C. Jones Memorial Library | MYST F JACKSON (Text) | 01011700066192 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Western Carteret | F JAC (Text) | 34208202982269 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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Summary:
"At twenty-one, Shandi Pierce is juggling finishing college, raising her delightful three-year-old genius son Natty, and keeping the peace between her eternally warring, long-divorced Catholic mother and Jewish father. She's got enough complications without getting caught in the middle of a stick-up in a gas station mini-mart and falling in love with a great wall of a man named William Ashe, who willingly steps between the armed robber and her son. Shandi doesn't know that her blond god Thor has his own complications. When he looked down the barrel of that gun he believed it was destiny: It's been one year to the day since a tragic act of physics shattered his universe. But William doesn't define destiny the way other people do. A brilliant geneticist who believes in science and numbers, destiny to him is about choice. Now, he and Shandi are about to meet their so-called destinies head on, in a funny, charming, and poignant novel about science and miracles, secrets and truths, faith and forgiveness; about a virgin birth, a sacrifice, and a resurrection; about falling in love, and learning that things aren't always what they seem-- or what we hope they will be. It's a novel about discovering what we want and ultimately finding what we need" -- from author's web page.
