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Charleston, South Carolina. Ninety-three-year-old matriarch Theodora lives in her ancestral house, where her malcontented family gathers for the holidays. Theodora…
longs for a peaceful celebration similar to the events in her 1920s childhood that the family's Gullah housekeeper Pearl created. But then Pearl's ghost returns and restores harmony. 2007.
Four Christmas stories from Jude Deveraux and Judith McNaught. Deveraux's include "Just Curious", where, in the snow-covered hills of Virginia,…
a young widow finds that miracles really do come in the least expected packages. In McNaught's "Double Exposure", a determined young woman photographs a magnificent wedding at a reclusive tycoon's Newport estate, and manages to unlock the secrets of a man's heart. Some descriptions of sex. 2001.
Min has nothing - no mother, no birth certificate, no baby pictures, not even a real birthday. After four different…
foster families, she's not surprised to be dumped back with Children's Aid the week before Christmas. Still, a small part of her can't help aching for a miracle - and now she's found an injured dog that needs one too. Some strong language. Grades 4-7. 2007.
Christmas has always been a special time for the Vinyl Cafe. The hilarious world of Dave and Morley was even…
more real--more vibrant--during the holidays. For many, the Christmas stories became beloved family traditions. Now they have been brought together in this special collection--including the classic "Dave Cooks the Turkey," as well as six never before published or aired on radio stories. From mishaps with the Turlingtons' and the tale of a young Dave's first holiday disaster in "Christmas in the Narrows," to the surprising "Christmas Ferret" and the touching sign off in "The Christmas Card," these stories are filled with humour (often at Dave's expense), and remind us what the holidays are all about. Bestseller. 2017.
With a mix of fiction and non-fiction, interesting facts, and hands-on activities, you can follow the Robertsons, a Canadian pioneer…
family, as they prepare for a special Thanksgiving in 1841. Grades 2-4. 1999.
Tonight is the most magical night of the year. Premlata loves Diwali, the Festival of Lights, when everyone decorates the…
village with thousands of tiny lamps for the great goddess Kali. But this year Premlata is desolate - her family is too poor to have lamps. Their house will be the only one left in darkness. Grades 3-6.
An exotic stranger opens a chocolate boutique in a French village at the beginning of Lent, the traditional season for…
self-denial, dividing the community and causing a conflict that escalates into a "Church not Chocolate" battle. 2000.
Le soir de Noël, Scrooge, vieil homme égoïste et solitaire, choisit de passer la soirée seul. Mais des fantômes de…
Noël lui apparaissent, l'entraînant tour à tour dans son passé, son présent et son futur, afin de lui montrer ce que sera son avenir s'il persiste à ignorer que le bonheur existe. Années 3-6.
Jimmy Trewin and his little sister are devastated by their mother's death and horrified to find themselves entrusted to the…
far from tender care of a hated neighbour, Mrs Huxtable. They hope their father will rescue them when his ship comes into port but this does not happen, and when Cyril Huxtable is seen by the children hiding 'a wad of notes' away, a wad which subsequently disappears, they realize they are in deep trouble. Cyril accuses them of theft and threatens a terrible revenge, so they decide to leave Liverpool and try to find their mother's family in Wales. 2014.
Will Henderson is a young man tortured by his father's abandonment, and Karen Yoder is the young Amish woman he…
is to marry in December. With Will jealous of an old boyfriend and worried about destroying his own future family, the wedding may be called off. Can Will forgive his father and marry the woman he loves - and can an old recipe for White Christmas pie contain the truth that sets him free? 2008.
Thirteen-year-old Joey is shipped off to stay with his aunt in Newfoundland for Christmas. His aunt is obsessed with her…
dead husband, a strange boy appears and disappears, and Joey eavesdrops on a seance that scares the pants off him. Throw in mysterious goings-on at the local lighthouse and some peculiar yuletide traditions, and Joey finds himself being drawn deeper and deeper into a world where history and mystery collide. Grades 4-7. 2003.
The Robertson family prepares for Christmas in 1841 by making gifts, cooking, playing games, caroling, and decorating. They are also…
expecting visitors, but then a winter storm begins. A companion book to "A Pioneer Thanksgiving". Activities are included, as is a Christmas carol in Braille music notation. Grades 3-6. 2003.
Jason Chercher is not doing well in love or life. Just two weeks after his wife leaves him he receives…
a phone call that his estranged mother has passed away, days before Christmas--leaving her home and all her belongings to him. He would like to see everything just burned, but curiosity about his past and anxiety about his future fuels him to make the drive from Salt Lake City to her home in Oregon. Maybe cleaning out her house will be slightly less depressing than spending the holidays alone. While going through her things Jason comes upon her diary and the record of his childhood. He learns that his mother suffered from severe depression and during that time he was taken care of by a young, unwed mother who was living with his family. The only clue he has to the woman's identity is her name: Noel, which is an eerily fitting discovery on Christmas Eve. As Jason reads the diary he begins to uncover the source of his pain in relationships and understand that what he believed to be the truth of his past was actually a lie. That's when he begins a journey to find Noel, wondering if she might hold the truth he needs to bring him peace and love. Bestseller. 2017.
Elise Dutton dreads the arrival of another holiday season. Three years earlier, her husband cheated on her with her best…
friend, resulting in a bitter divorce that left her alone, broken, and distrustful. Then, one November day, a stranger approaches Elise in the mall food court offering her a proposition: for the next eight weeks—until the evening of December 24—he suggests that they pretend to be a couple. The lonely Elise surprises herself by agreeing to the idea. The safety of her fake relationship begins to mend her broken heart. But just as she begins to find joy again, her long-held secret threatens to unravel the emerging relationship. But she might not be the only one with secrets. 2014.
Annalise the witch, Ernie the Ghost, and Milton the Skeleton emerge from their haunted house to join the Hallowe'en festivities,…
but their costumes don't get the reactions they had expected! Grades 2-4.
Retelling of the classic Quebec folklore "La chasse-galerie". On New Year's Eve, 1846, 11-year-old Baptiste finds himself far from his…
friends and family and has come to the woods of Ottawa Valley to live and work among some lumberjacks. As the New Year approaches, they grow more and more homesick. Grades 3-6. 2004. Uniform title: Chasse-galerie.
The class is putting on The Nutcracker for the holiday and Jane Peeler's in charge. Things are going badly -…
she can't use the gym for rehearsals, she may be losing her best friend, and her father's sick and her chain smoking, irritable non-cooking Grandma is taking care of the family. Jane wonders if she can pull together the play and get through the next few weeks. Sequel to "The way to Schenectady". Grades 4-7. 2001.
Two novellas. In Can This Be Christmas? passengers create an impromptu celebration at a New Hampshire depot when their train…
is stranded by a blizzard on Christmas Eve. In Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy three hapless angels reform an aging man. 1998.
Seattle medical transcriptionist and ghostwriter Katherine "K.O." O'Connor meets prominent child psychologist Wynn Jeffries, whose parenting principles her sister has…
adopted. K.O. disagrees with Wynn's theories that she claims have turned her twin nieces into little monsters, but falls in love with the attractive doctor. 2006.
Small town reporter Emma Collins's first major assignment for the Puyallup, Washington, newspaper is to interview finalists in a fruitcake…
competition. Local pilot Oliver Hamilton flies Emma around the state to visit the three very wise women bakers, and he and Emma end up falling in love. Includes recipes. 2005.