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Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Available for the first time in a single volume are the three holiday stories that Truman Capote regarded as among his greatest works of short fiction. Two of these childhood memoirs - "A Christmas Memory" and "The Thanksgiving Visitor"--Center on the author's early years with a family of distant relatives in rural Alabama. Both pay loving tribute to an eccentric old-maid cousin, Miss Sook Faulk, who became his best friend. In "A Christmas Memory,"...
Language
English
Formats
Description
"CHRISTMAS COCOA MURDER by CARLENE O'CONNOR Siobhan O'Sullivan's hopes for a quiet Irish Christmas are dashed when the local Santa turns up dead in a carnival dunk tank of hot cocoa. Now instead of hunting down holiday gifts, she's pursuing a heartless killer. Seems the dead Santa was no angel either, stealing neighborhood dogs to guide his sleigh. But was it his holiday antics-or worse-that led to his death by chocolate? CHRISTMAS COCOA AND A CORPSE...
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Four charming romances are connected by an heirloom brooch passed down for over 200 years. The stories range from 1820s Regency England to present day Washington state, as the multigenerational saga deals with a family legend. The brooch offers love and second chances as each woman wears it.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
For Lucy Stone, Christmas in Tinker's Cove, Maine isn't just about the gift of giving. Sometimes it's also about solving a crime or two.
Mistletoe murder: As if baking holiday cookies, knitting a sweater for her husband's gift, and making her daughter's angel costume for the church pageant weren't enough things for Lucy Stone's busy Christmas schedule, she's also working nights at the famous mail-order company Country Cousins. But when she discovers...
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A Christmas layover: When Navy SEAL Captain Noah Crawford and elementary school teacher Sierra Nelson meet on a plane headed east from San Diego, they're glad to pass the time in friendly conversation. But when a freak storm grounds them, Sierra offers Noah a place to spend the night-with her extended family, all of whom assume they're a couple. And as the holiday spirit infuses every moment they spend together, they both begin to wonder if a relationship...
Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
2010.
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
Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, a Cengage company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"CHRISTMAS SCARF MURDER by CARLENE O'CONNOR When grinchy thefts steal the good cheer at a local nursing home, Siobhan O'Sullivan manages to identify one missing item before Kilbane, Ireland's Christmas tractor parade-a hideous shamrock scarf wrapped around a very dead body. Now, with her holiday farmhouse bash approaching, Siobhan must dash to stop a deadly Secret Santa from gifting another unwanted surprise. THE UNFINISHED SCARF by MADDIE DAY It's...
12) Eggnog murder
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
An omnibus of novels by Lee Hollis, Leslie Meier and Barbara Ross. With the fireplace crackling, the tree twinkling, and the carols humming, few things in life are as picture perfect as Christmas in Maine - until murder dampens the holiday spirit. It must be something in the eggnog . . .
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Evergreen Love by Amy Clipston Ryan Lapp had promised to marry Lorene Bontrager as soon as he was able to build them a house, but the day never came. Ryan moved away. Five years later, Lorene has settled in to her old maid role, and she's shocked when her younger sister announces her quick engagement to Ryan's younger brother. As they rush to plan the wedding, Lorene is constantly around the family she almost joined. Worse, she's forced to face Ryan...
Series
Irish village mystery volume 8.5
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"They're coziest of wintertime accessories ... unless, of course, they become accessories to murder! USA Today bestselling author Carlene O'Connor teams up with Maddie Day and Peggy Ehrhart for a holly jolly Christmas collection of seasonal stories, as their beloved series sleuths each solve cases revolving around handknit Christmas scarves"--
Language
English
Formats
Description
Starry night: As the host of a radio program for the lovelorn, Jessie Richmond is surprisingly lonely, especially with the holidays approaching. So she decides to make the trek to her uncle's bookstore in rural New York state and hold a speed dating event--only to find herself snowed in--with one very special single ...
Mistletoe and mimosas: After years of hard work, real estate agent Layla Gentry has her dream home on Pine Cove Island. She's perfectly...
17) Santa Bear
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Christmas is in the air! Join Brother and Sister as they meet Santa Bear and celebrate the holiday season."--Back cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Callaway
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"It's Christmas Eve and Little Miss Spider is lonely--she doesn't have a little brother or sister to help build snowy creatures and join in her holiday games. Just when Little Miss Spider is wishing her hardest for a friend, she gets whopped with a snowball and discovers Asparagus Beetle ..."
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
'A Texas Christmas Carol,' where a town's wealthy bachelor finds his world invaded by a woman set on earning his donation for helping the local poor. It also includes 'An Archer Family Christmas.' When the Archers gather for the holiday, they encounter a request for help that will require all their effort and a Christmas miracle. In 'Gift of the Heart,' a widow uses the family brooch as collateral for a loan from the local resort owner. The more she...
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Presents stories about three different Amish couples, including "Their Second Chance, " where Amish nanny Hannah Eicher falls for English fireman Rob Prince, but does not believe their love can overcome her family's objections.
Their second chance: Amish nanny Hannah Eicher never thought she'd ever see Rob Prince again. There was no way a relationship between her and the handsome English fireman could overcome her family's objections -- and their...
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