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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Alison has never been a fan of Christmas. But with it right around the corner and her husband busily decorating their cozy Vermont home, she has no choice but to face it. Then she gets the call. Mavis, Alison's estranged mother, has been diagnosed with cancer and has only weeks to live. She wants to spend her remaining days with her daughter, son-in-law, and two granddaughters. But Alison grew up with her mother's alcoholism and violent abuse and...
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Language
English
Description
A best-selling classic features six additional works on the joys and embarrassments of favorite holidays, in a volume that includes tales of tardy trick-or-treaters, the difficulties of explaining the Easter Bunny to another culture, and a barnyard Secret Santa scheme gone awry.
Author
Series
Lakeshore chronicles volume 6
Language
English
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Prim librarian Maureen Davenport is finally getting her chance to direct Avalon's annual holiday pageant, and she's determined to make it truly spectacular. But it just might require one of those Christmas miracles she's always read about.
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Language
English
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A journalist happens upon a human interest story that winds up teaching her lessons about love and forgiveness and renewing her own faith in human kindness. On Christmas Eve, twenty-something Hope Jensen is quietly grieving the recent loss of her adoptive mother when her apartment is robbed. The one bright spot in the midst of Hope's despair is a small jar full of money someone has anonymously left on her doorstep. Eager to learn the source of this...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
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Description
Ttown mayor Emily receives an unexpected and precious Christmas gift on her doorstep: a baby girl. As the police search for the mother who abandoned the infant, Emily gains temporary custody of infant Jane and begins to wrestle with her yearnings to raise the child herself. Her husband, Dan, struggles with his own mixed feelings about the adoption.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Meet The Adults. Claire and Matt are no longer together but decide what's best for their daughter Scarlett is to have a "normal" family Christmas. They can't agree on whose idea it was to go to the Happy Forest Holiday park, or who said they should bring their new partners. But someone did--and it's too late to pull the plug. Claire brings her new boyfriend Patrick (never Pat), a seemingly sensible, eligible from a distance, Iron-Man-in-Waiting....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
Collected in this book are four murder mystery short stories by P.D. James, all centered around Christmas and two of which feature the young poet-detective Adam Dalgliesh. In the title story, a bestselling crime novelist describes the crime she herself was involved in fifty years earlier. In "A Very Commonplace Murder," a "pedantic, respectable, censorious" clerk's secret taste for pornography is only the first reason he finds for not coming forward...
Author
Series
Lakeshore chronicles volume 10
Language
English
Description
As single father Logan O'Donnell prepares to give his son, Charlie, the best Christmas ever on the shores of Willow Lake, he just may be in for a Christmas surprise himself, in the form of sharp-witted and independent Darcy Fitzgerald.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"With only one sleep left before Christmas Eve, Dasher can't contain her excitement for her favorite holiday. With the sound of Christmas carols on the breeze and twinkling lights radiating from a nearby city, she sneaks off to visit the festivities. As night deepens and snow starts falling, Dasher realizes she can no longer spot the North Star in the sky to help guide her home. But thanks to a child, some Christmas spirit, and a special gift, she...
Author
Series
Are the worst volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Gilbert the Goblin is positive he can work harder than any elf, and so, in his best elf disguise, he infiltrates Santa's workshop to prove it.
Author
Series
Cookies (Amy Krouse Rosenthal) volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Presents vocabulary words and holiday lessons using Christmas cookies as the theme of the book.
Author
Series
Chesapeake Shores novels volume 10
Language
English
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Description
As the only child of a single mom, Jenny Collins wanted nothing more than to be part of a large, rambunctious family like the O'Briens. Ironically, though, when her mother married into that family, Jenny found herself feeling more like an outsider than ever. Now, after years in Nashville as an established songwriter, Jenny's drawn back to Chesapeake Shores to collaborate on a Christmas production ... and to make peace with the past. As if that's not...
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