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The wishing bridge / Viola Shipman.

Shipman, Viola, (author.). Shipman, Viola. Container of (work): Christmas angels. (Added Author).

Summary:

Workaholic Henrietta Wegner can feel her edge beginning to dull in middle age. Once the company's hottest mergers and acquisitions executive, Henri can see the ambitious and impossibly young up-and-comers gunning for her job. When her boss makes it clear she'll be starting the New Year unemployed unless she can close a big deal before the holidays, Henri impulsively tells him that she can convince her aging parents to sell Wegner's, their iconic Frankenmuth, Michigan, Christmas store, to a massive, soulless corporation. It's the kind of deal cool corporate Henri has built her career on. Home for the holidays has typically meant a perfunctory twenty-four-hour visit for Henri, then back to Detroit as fast as her car will drive her. So turning up at the Wegner's offices in early December raises some eyebrows: from her delighted, if puzzled, parents to her suspicious brother and curious childhood friends. But as Henri fields impatient texts from her boss while reconnecting with the magic of the store and warmth of her hometown, what sounded great in the boardroom begins to lose its luster in real life. She's running out of time to pull the trigger on what could be the greatest success of her career ... or the most awkward family holiday of her life.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781525812002
  • ISBN: 1525812009
  • ISBN: 1525804863
  • Physical Description: 362 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Graydon House, [2023]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"The Wishing Bridge Copyright © 2023 by Viola Shipman ... Christmas Angels First published in 2016 by St. Martin's Press. This edition published in 2023. Copyright © 2016 by Viola Shipman"--verso.
Includes bonus novella: Christmas angels.
Includes discussion questions (pages [309-311]).
Formatted Contents Note:
The wishing bridge -- Christmas angels.
Subject:
Consolidation and merger of corporations > Fiction.
Family-owned business enterprises > Fiction.
Middle-aged women > Fiction.
Women executives > Fiction.
Stores, Retail > Fiction.
Homecoming > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Frankenmuth (Mich.) > Fiction.
Michigan > Fiction.
Genre:
Christmas fiction.
Romance fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Novellas.

Available copies

  • 63 of 64 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 2 of 2 copies available at Onslow County Public Library.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 64 total copies.
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Jacksonville Main Library FIC SHIPMAN (Text) 36015001893110 Adult Fiction Available -
Richlands Branch Library FIC SHIPMAN (Text) 36015001893128 Adult Fiction Available -

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