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"Sunny, Arianna and Molly are having three very different but equally terrible Christmases. Sunny is a newlywed with two new stepkids who want nothing to do with her; Arianna is newly divorced and hates having to send her daughter off to spend the holiday with her dad; for Molly, nothing is new, but her job at the post office is getting very, very old. The whole Christmas season has been a bust all around. But Sunny and Arianna have a wild idea: What...
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Pour yourself a mug of hot chocolate and settle down in front of the fire with this perfect, uplifting festive read! 'Wow, just the most perfect fabulous festive read, heart-warming, charming, a real tonic to add cheer and love to your day!… I really didn't want it to end' NetGalley review⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ She's planned the perfect Christmas. But fate might have other ideas… Krystle didn't have a normal childhood and longed for warm family Christmases...
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What is most important is that I hope you were inspirited by the story. There is way too much negativity in the air these days, and it is my hope and prayer that the story spoke to you in a positive way. If every day were like Christmas, “what a wonderful world this would be!”
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Our once homeless people have jobs and a place to live.
Our veterans and elderly are being cared for as they should be.
Our streets and schools would be safe for...
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A Rekindled Romance was previously published in Our Christmas Nook Anthology (released November 14, 2019). The Egg was previously published in The Unlimited Tails Series: Bunny Tails Anthology (released March 19, 2020). Both were charity anthologies for the Independent Cat Society located in Westville, Indiana. Both are no longer in print. The remaining three short stories have never been published. Angels Never Leave ~ Four years ago, a man lost...
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When a blizzard strands grinchy pararescueman, Jensen Hartley at the festive home of Holly Conroy. He isn't prepared for the overwhelming holiday spirit the Conroy family pours on him. He doesn't do holidays, but something about the Conroys make him long for things he vowed never to want again.
Holly Conroy loves the holidays. Christmas, especially. This year, she gets more than she asked for when a handsome stranger shows up at her door in the middle...
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Sam felt fortunate that the police would notify the next of kin.Weekend night shift was a mixed bag. The police would always bring in a few college students who had tried to poison themselves with alcohol. She rarely saw the same students twice, a stomach pump seemed to make an impression on even the most inebriated young person. Then there were the traffic accidents. There were over twenty thousand students at the various centers of higher education...
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Thirty miles northeast of Boston, Edward Marley meets a tragic demise on Christmas Eve that leaves his law firm partner, the miserly Henry Rutherford, seemingly untouched. Rutherford's cold existence, shrouded in bitterness and frugality, unfolds against the backdrop of a dilapidated mansion and Boston's lively taverns. Exactly seven years after Marley's death, Rutherford's icy exterior is put to the test. As festivities fill the city, Rutherford's...
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Shay was happy to sell Christmas trees this winter. What she wasn't happy about was having to leave her home and her town.
Ryan wasn't happy to be in town. He'd just lost his father and had been saddled with a failing museum. He was adamant the only option was for it to close, and for him to return to his life.
Shay and Ryan meet and passion swiftly follows, but there's no real future for them if they're both leaving town.
When Shay discovers some...
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Get ready for an adventure like no other with "Talking Dogs: Phil's Big Adventure." Join Phil, a lovable talking dog, as he sets out on a journey through a holiday-themed wonderland full of love, happiness, and joy. His destination is a big, beautiful city where he hopes to experience new adventures and make new friends.Along the way, Phil meets George, a curious turtle, who is also on a mission of his own. The two unlikely companions join forces...
10) Exiles of Tabat
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Return to a beautifully wrought and immersive world where intelligent magical creatures fight for their right to be free.
Revolution.
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Enslaved magical creatures and an exiled, reluctant hero.
Bella Kanto finds herself aboard a hostile ship bound for a frontier town. When she encounters an old lover along the way, she has a chance to escape-but does she really want to take it?
Meanwhile apprentice Lucy and her friend Maz have been...
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In the rhyme and meter of Clark Clement Moore's classic Christmas poem, Sherlock Holmes tracks clues through his familiar haunts to "eliminate the impossible." When he discovers the jolly old gent with the white beard dipping his hand into a bag full of toys, Sherlock surmises that "whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." Or is it? This little holiday mystery will delight Sherlock fans of all ages.
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One blizzard. Two opposites. And some time under the mistletoe. Josh Carson has a secret. As a firefighter he's comfortable being sent in to save forests and wildlife, but in his spare time he creates delicate hair ribbons that are anything but masculine. When he finds Simone snowed in on Nymph Island--and she'd rather freeze than be saved by Mr. Tough Guy--he realizes that the only way to win her over and get her to safety is to take a risk and reveal...
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Cantankerous old Viet Nam Vet buries his wife then reluctantly moves in with his daughter and her family. What follows is a clumsy attempt to reconcile and reunite the Burkhart and Howe families. Unforeseen tragedy follows. Maybe Christmas will prove to be the saving grace?
A Christmas for the Heart is not your conventional holiday anecdote. It will tug at your heartstrings and remind the ordinary reader what Christmas really means. Suddenly, unexpected...
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In clever rhyme, this fully illustrated mash-up of Dickens' A Christmas Carol and Moore's The Night Before Christmas typifies the subtle wittiness of British humor. The poem begins, "Twas the day before Christmas and Marley was dead-As dead as a door nail, so the old simile read." Once we know the backstory of Scrooge's nasty temper, we meet in succession the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, along with the nephew Fred, Cratchits and...
15) Christmas
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We put together a very wide variety of 112 Articles about Christmas for your enjoyment.
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Five short novels by five masters of military science fiction. NO SURRENDER The best action-packed military science fiction-FIVE BY FIVE showcases work by bestselling, award-winning authors: Five novellas covering battlefields across the galaxy. It's a war out there!
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'Fun, festive and fabulous. A story that sparkles like Christmas snow.' MILLY JOHNSON 'A page-turner' – Woman's Weekly When Sky Terran returns to the village of Middledip after losing the job she loves, she anticipates a quiet Christmas getting used to her new life. However, the annual street decoration competition is coming up and this year, the residents of Winter Street are determined to win. As she is pulled into the preparations, Sky quickly...
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'A sparkling Christmas read. Cosy, comforting and liberally sprinkled with magic, it's absolutely delicious!' RUTH HOGAN 'A wonderfully written story of family, friends and food. Christmas has come early with this cosy, heartwarming read – a real treat!' SAMANTHA TONGE 'Light the fire, pour yourself a glass of mulled wine and settle down with this gorgeous festive treat. A delightful Christmas read about family, loss and the magic of old recipe...
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Clement Clarke Moore's Christmas classic meets Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice when Mr. Darcy gets his own visit from St. Nicholas. In this parody of the beloved original poem, Santa teaches Darcy the true meaning of the holiday and helps him get what he's always wanted-a wife!
JULIE PETERSEN has fond memories of hiding under her covers at night with a flashlight just so she could finish whatever chapter she was on and a few more after that. When...
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When a thunderstorm grounds all flights following a huge Muslim convention, four unlikely kids are thrown together. Feek is stuck babysitting his younger sister, but he's rather be writing a poem that's good enough for his dad, a famous poet and rapper. Hanna is intent on finding a lost cat in the airport--and also on avoiding a conversation with her dad about him possibly remarrying. Sami is struggling with his anxiety and worried that he'll miss...