This was a nice quick summer vacation read. Especially fun if you like to ride motorcycles! Miss Julia is a character in many of Ann B. Ross's novels. Lots of fun!

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Miss Julia is at it again, in her most perfectly starched, Southern manner. This time she nearly looses her beautiful house to defend her friend and housekeeper, Lillian. Southern manners with a great, big smile!

Can you picture your mother or grandmother on a Harley? Whether you can or can't, you're going to love this book.

I really love the Miss Julia series. Ann B. Ross is able to paint a word picture of this southern lady that you can't help but laugh at.

Fourth in a popular series about a Southern widow with perfect manners and a taste for trouble, Ross's latest will bring a chorus of "Thank you, Lord"s from faithful readers. Newcomers may need a moment to figure out who's who in the cast-for instance, that Little Lloyd is the son of Julia's late husband, Wesley Lloyd Springer, and his "paramour," Hazel Marie, both of whom Julia has embraced as family. Ross's heroine may set a premium on appearances, like any traditional Southern lady, but what she really loves is problem solving and gracefully doing good. This time out, she finds herself championing her longtime housekeeper, Lillian. A greedy landowner is about to raze Lillian's home-in fact, the entire Willow Lane neighborhood, which houses low-income blacks. In order to save them, Julia gambles her own home and flouts her sense of propriety by donning Hazel Marie's leather pants and participating in a high-stakes motorcycle marathon and poker game, along with the Presbyterian minister's previously stodgy wife. And if that sounds improbable, factor in a spring whose water has an awesome effect on garden shrubbery and men's anatomy, furnishing oodles of delicious scandal. Series fans take note: Binkie and Coleman have a baby, and things look mighty promising between Julia and lawyer Sam Murdoch at the end of the book.

Just super! Cannot wait to read the next issue! Very enjoyable

Not the kind of book I usually read....didn't really care for it.

Great Book

Another fun adventure with Miss Julia.

Miss Julia on a Harley? Well, not normally -- but it's all for a good cause as she battles to save her housekeeper's neighborhood.

Miss Julia-that Southern spitfire of a certain age who is never less than charming, even when she's at her most opinionated-has been praised by Fannie Flagg as “one of the most delightful characters to come along in years.” In Miss Julia Hits the Road, she is becoming increasingly concerned about her gentleman friend, Sam, who has suddenly started wearing cowboy boots, sending her flowers, and writing bad poetry. And when he shows up on a Harley-Davidson Road King and asks her to hop on, she's convinced he's lost his mind. Meanwhile, her invaluable housekeeper, Lillian, has been evicted from her home by her greedy landlord. Deciding that Lillian's need is greater than her own fear (not to mention loss of dignity), Miss Julia takes Sam up on his offer and sets off on a motorcycle Poker Run to raise some fast cash. She's ready to risk life and limb in Sam's sidecar to save Lillian's home from the bulldozer, but will Miss Julia's scheme work?

Author Biography: Ann B. Ross is the author of some of the most popular Southern novels in years, including Miss Julia Takes Over and Miss Julia Throws a Wedding.

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