{"product_id":"by-rainbow-rowell-trade-paperback","title":"Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell (Trade Paperback) 2024!","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" data-expanded=\"false\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-bottom: 24px;\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" data-expanded=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAN INSTANT \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBESTSELLER\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom #1 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ebestselling author Rainbow Rowell comes \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSlow Dance—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eher smartest, funniest, most \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003epowerful\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e contemporary romance novel yet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShiloh Butler was supposed to get out of north Omaha.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe used to sit out on the front porch with her best friend, Cary, and plot their escape. Shiloh was going to be an actress – she had a scholarship to a good school – and Cary was laser-focused on the Navy. Sharp, stoic, golden-eyed Cary . . . thin as a stick of gum and poor as dirt. He was probably the most decent person Shiloh has ever known. She hasn’t spoken to him in fourteen years.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen Shiloh gets an invitation to a high school friend’s wedding, Cary is the first and only thing on her mind.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe desperately wants to see him again, but she doesn’t know if she can bear being seen \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eby\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e him. What would Cary think of Shiloh at thirty-three? A divorced mom living in the same house she grew up in. Someone who works behind a desk, not onstage.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWould Cary even \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ewant\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e to see Shiloh after all this time? After \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eeverything\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe answer, it turns out, is yes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn her triumphant return to adult fiction, Rainbow Rowell has written a second chance romance so honest and human – so \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ecathartic\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e – you’ll feel it in your bones. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSlow Dance\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is as sharp and compassionate as you’d expect from Rowell. Deeply, profoundly romantic, it’s a power ballad of a book—a modern-day Persuasion retelling that will stay with you.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Friends of the St Mary's County Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47430885572857,"sku":null,"price":2.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0475\/5806\/6334\/files\/101_7239.jpg?v=1771504389","url":"https:\/\/folstmarys.com\/products\/by-rainbow-rowell-trade-paperback","provider":"Friends of the St Mary's County Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}