Haywood Smith
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Cruel, small-town banker Howell Whittington has a stroke sitting up in church, and when he wakes up, he's transformed and wants nothing more than to be a real husband, which scares his proper, repressed wife Elizabeth to death. Setting out to right past wrongs, he blackmails the town's baddies into doing the right thing by threatening to foreclose on their mortgages. A hilarious story of marriage and love and second chances.
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Sisters Dahlia, Iris, Violet, and Rose-all with grown children of their own-have a complicated relationship, so when their grand - mothers will requires them to spend the whole summer-without friends or family-"camping in" at her run-down lodge on re mote Lake Clare in order to inherit the valuable land, old rivalries and new understanding emerge, with plenty of laughs along the way. Desperate to save her Buckhead home from foreclosure after being...
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"If you have anything weird wrong with you in this country, you'd better be Canadian." So say widowed Casie Jones when, after being written off by countless doctors, she finally finds one who diagnoses her with a rare genetic form of arthritis. The condidtion is manageable, but not curable, and since it's a new diagnosis, her health insuance refuses to pay for most of her expensive medications and treatment. So widowed Cassie, still grieving for the...
6) Wife-in-law
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Sharing a decades-long friendship in spite of disparate personalities, prim conservative Betsy and irreverent hippie Kat struggle to retain their bond when Kat marries Betsy's ex-husband, whose philandering becomes a shared grievance for both women.
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"Southern housewife Linwood Breedlove Scott was happily content in her comfortable, complacent, thirty-year marriage, but when her husband cleans out their bank accounts and runs off with a stripper, her life takes a hilarious, yet touching, right turn into reality.
With no place to go but home, she's forced back to her insular hometown and the "eccentric" family she escaped by marrying at nineteen: her senile father, her loving yet controlling mother,...
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It's been ten years since Linwood Scott had to move back home to Mimosa Branch, Georgia, the first time. Now, with her work in real estate at a stand-still because of the economy, and her ex-husband and his alimony payments (and his former stripper-current wife) nowhere to be seen, Linwood finds herself back in the place she'd never thought she'd be-- the garage apartment next to her mother Mamie's mansion. But this time around things are different....
10) Wife-in-law
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Neighbors Betsy Callison and Kat Rutledge were like oil and water when they met thirty-five years ago. Betsy was a prim, neat-freak, Republican wife, and Kat was a wild, irreverent, hippie Democrat. But they soon discovered that common ground can create a bond that lasts - until Betsy's husband leaves her for his secretary, then comes sniffing back around two years later and convinces newly widowed Kat to marry him! It's not that Betsy wants him back,...