The Handmaid and the Carpenter (12 page)

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2006
by Elizabeth Berg

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Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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Berg, Elizabeth.

The handmaid and the carpenter: a novel / Elizabeth Berg.

p. cm.

1. Christmas stories. I. Title.

PS3552.E6996H33 2006

813'.54—dc22                           2005057408

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eISBN: 978-1-58836-551-4

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