Download or read book A Christmas Return written by Anne Perry and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A festive Christmas package left on Mariah Ellison's doorstep contains an ominous present, sparking memories of a twenty-year-old murder that shattered her friendship with the victim's widow. In the spirit of the season Mariah travels to Surrey in hopes of reconciling with her estranged friend and solving the crime that drove them apart"--

Download or read book A Christmas Return Christmas Novella 15 written by Anne Perry and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A CHRISTMAS RETURN is the 15th novella in the festive series by Anne Perry, the queen of Victorian crime. As the festive season approaches, Charlotte Pitt's grandmamma, Mariah Ellison, is facing Christmas alone. When she receives an unexpected gift, memories are sparked of a Christmas in Haslemere long ago, when her beloved friend Cullen Wesley died and a local villager was brutally murdered, with no killer brought to justice. The unsolved case has resurfaced and Cullen's grandson, Peter, begs for Mariah's help to solve the crime that led to his grandfather's death. Mariah can't resist a friend in need and she returns to Haslemere to investigate the murder and heal old wounds. But evil still lurks in the picturesque village and she'll need all her wits about her to see that justice is done. A Christmas Return is the enthralling new festive tale from the pen of Anne Perry, the master of Victorian crime.

Download or read book A Return to Christmas written by Chris Heimerdinger and published by Ivy Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until he was three years old, Artemus Holiday and his twin brother, Andrew, had shared the adventures of life together. But when young Artemus lost his brother in a terrible tragedy on Christmas day, the miracle of the Christmas season seemed forever shrouded by a cloud of sadness and despair. But miracles have been known to happen during this time of year. This heartwarming Christmas story follows the lives of two eleven-year-old heroes--the weary and cynical Artemus and an outcast named Chess, a homeless con artist with a heart of gold. Through a simple twist of fate, these boys will find themselves swept into the adventure of a lifetime--one that takes them beyond their wildest imaginings. . . .

Download or read book A Christmas Carol 2 written by Robert Elisberg and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A #2 best-seller on Amazon's Hot New Releases for Humor Parody. "A Christmas Carol 2: The Return of Scrooge" is a continuation of the beloved Christmas tale, that quickly goes flying off in its own comic direction. It begins five years after dear old Ebenezer Scrooge has passed away and left his thriving firm to his former clerk, Bob Cratchit. However, Bob's overly-generous benevolence with lending and charity-giving has driven the company into the ground, on the verge of bankruptcy. And so the ghost of Scrooge returns one Christmas Eve to teach Cratchit the true meaning of money. Making the swirling journey through Christmases past, present, and yet-to-be all the more of a chaotic ride for Cratchit are the dozens of characters from other Dickens novels woven throughout the story, together for the first time. God bless them, most everyone.

Download or read book Somewhere In Time written by Richard Matheson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Richard Collier, a dying screenwriter, becomes infatuated with Elise McKenna, a celebrated actress at the turn of the century, his love proves strong enough to bring him through time to her side.

Download or read book Cupcakes for Christmas written by Kate Hewitt and published by Tule Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome back to Willoughby Close, with four new residents and happy endings to deliver… Olivia James has always been happy running a tea shop and bakery in the Cotswold village of Wychwood-on-Lea, and helping her friends find their happily-ever-afters, topped by the perfect wedding cake. But as Christmas approaches, Olivia is home alone and questioning her choices while eating too many of her own specialty confections. When Simon Blacklock, a handsome, whimsical stranger, breezes into her shop and buys a cupcake and then returns the next day and the day after, Olivia begins to dream. Can romance blossom amidst the sugar and flour? And after a lifetime of living on the side lines, is she brave enough to star in her own story? Simon may be hiding a painful secret, but Olivia harbors secrets of her own. If they can dare to risk their hearts, this Christmas might be the most magical yet!

Download or read book Lost December written by Richard Paul Evans and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-11-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As heir to the Crisp Copy Center fortune, Luke has it made--until he burns through his entire inheritance in just one year of partying. Ashamed to ask his famous father for help, he finds employment--and romance--as an entry-level clerk. Can his new love get him back on track?

Download or read book The Exiles Return written by Elisabeth de Waal and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally published in Great Britain by Persephone Books"--Title page verso.

Download or read book Christmas at Willoughby Close written by Kate Hewitt and published by Tule Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome back to Willoughby Close, with four new residents and happy endings to deliver… Belinda ‘Lindy’ Jamison has moved to the Cotswolds for a fresh start and to open a dancing school—her lifelong dream. Pushing forty and still looking for Mr. Right, Lindy is determined to no longer wait for happiness but to reach for it with both hands. So she packs up her life and heads south to Wychwood-on-Lea to start up her school. Soon Lindy has a motley crew of would-be dancers. But her most intriguing pupil is Roger Wentworth, a fortysomething bachelor with a shy and awkward manner, but a heart of blazing gold. When Lindy decides to showcase her pupils in a Christmas show, Roger is deeply reluctant but finally agrees. Lindy longs to bring Roger out of his shell—but she didn't expect to fall in love with him in the process. Soon it is Roger teaching her how two lonely hearts might be able to embrace a second chance this Christmas...if they can just believe they're both worthy of love.

Download or read book Christmas in America written by Penne L. Restad and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-12-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The manger or Macy's? Americans might well wonder which is the real shrine of Christmas, as they take part each year in a mix of churchgoing, shopping, and family togetherness. But the history of Christmas cannot be summed up so easily as the commercialization of a sacred day. As Penne Restad reveals in this marvelous new book, it has always been an ambiguous meld of sacred thoughts and worldly actions-- as well as a fascinating reflection of our changing society. In Christmas in America, Restad brilliantly captures the rise and transformation of our most universal national holiday. In colonial times, it was celebrated either as an utterly solemn or a wildly social event--if it was celebrated at all. Virginians hunted, danced, and feasted. City dwellers flooded the streets in raucous demonstrations. Puritan New Englanders denounced the whole affair. Restad shows that as times changed, Christmas changed--and grew in popularity. In the early 1800s, New York served as an epicenter of the newly emerging holiday, drawing on its roots as a Dutch colony (St. Nicholas was particularly popular in the Netherlands, even after the Reformation), and aided by such men as Washington Irving. In 1822, another New Yorker named Clement Clarke Moore penned a poem now known as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas," virtually inventing the modern Santa Claus. Well-to-do townspeople displayed a German novelty, the decorated fir tree, in their parlors; an enterprising printer discovered the money to be made from Christmas cards; and a hodgepodge of year-end celebrations began to coalesce around December 25 and the figure of Santa. The homecoming significance of the holiday increased with the Civil War, and by the end of the nineteenth century a full- fledged national holiday had materialized, forged out of borrowed and invented custom alike, and driven by a passion for gift-giving. In the twentieth century, Christmas seeped into every niche of our conscious and unconscious lives to become a festival of epic proportions. Indeed, Restad carries the story through to our own time, unwrapping the messages hidden inside countless movies, books, and television shows, revealing the inescapable presence--and ambiguous meaning--of Christmas in contemporary culture. Filled with colorful detail and shining insight, Christmas in America reveals not only much about the emergence of the holiday, but also what our celebrations tell us about ourselves. From drunken revelry along colonial curbstones to family rituals around the tree, from Thomas Nast drawing the semiofficial portrait of St. Nick to the making of the film Home Alone, Restad's sparkling account offers much to amuse and ponder.

Download or read book That Christmas written by Richard Curtis and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From international film phenomenon, Richard Curtis, and awardwinnning illustrator, Rebecca Cobb, comes a heartwarming tale of a magical, unconventional Christmas. Christmas is the same every year, isn't it? Same food, same routine, same visiting the neighbours and going for a walk. Except for the year of That Christmas... Find out what happens when traditions are upturned, when chaos reigns, and what's really important when people come together... Richard Curtis is an award-winning and international film-director and script writer, and the creator of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Love Actually, Notting Hill, Yesterday and Mr Bean. Rebecca Cobb has collaborated with the Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson and Orange-Prize-winner Helen Dunmore, has been shortlisted for the Waterstones Prize and the prestigious Kate Greenaway Award multiple times.

Download or read book A Country Christmas written by Debbie Macomber and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buffalo Valley. Army vet Vaughn Kyle visits the farming community of Buffalo Valley, North Dakota, and meets a young woman who makes him question his feelings for his fiancaee.

Download or read book Return to Virgin River written by Robyn Carr and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr returns to the beloved town of Virgin River with a brand-new story about fresh starts and new friends. Now a Netflix Original Series! Kaylee Sloan’s home in Southern California is full of wonderful memories of the woman who raised her. But the memories are prolonging her grief over her mother’s recent death. A successful author, Kaylee hoped she could pour herself into her work. Instead she has terrible writer’s block and a looming deadline. Determined to escape distractions and avoid the holiday season, Kaylee borrows a cabin in Virgin River. She knows the isolation will help her writing, and as she drives north through the mountains and the majestic redwoods, she immediately feels inspired. Until she arrives at a building that has just gone up in flames. Devastated, she heads to Jack’s Bar to plan her next steps. The local watering hole is the heart of the town, and once she crosses the threshold, she’s surprised to be embraced by people who are more than willing to help a friend—or a stranger—in need. Kaylee’s world is expanding in ways she never dreamed possible. And when she rescues a kitten followed by a dog with a litter of puppies, she finds her heart opening up to the animals who need her. And then there’s the dog trainer who knows exactly how to help her. As the holidays approach, Kaylee’s dread turns to wonder. Because there’s no better place to spend Christmas than Virgin River. Don't miss Robyn Carr's next uplifting novel, The Friendship Club, where four women come together at a tumultuous time in their lives, forging an unbreakable bond that will leave them all forever changed—available January 2024! Read the Virgin River Series by Robyn Carr: Book One: Virgin River Book Two: Shelter Mountain Book Three: Whispering Rock Book Four: A Virgin River Christmas Book Five: Second Chance Pass Book Six: Temptation Ridge Book Seven: Paradise Valley Book Eight: Forbidden Falls Book Nine: Angel’s Peak Book Ten: Moonlight Road Book Eleven: Promise Canyon Book Twelve: Wild Man Creek Book Thirteen: Harvest Moon Book Fourteen: Bring Me Home for Christmas Book Fifteen: Hidden Summit Book Sixteen: Redwood Bend Book Seventeen: Sunrise Point Book Eighteen: My Kind of Christmas Book Nineteen: Return to Virgin River

Download or read book Montana Mistletoe written by Lena Nelson Dooley and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dooley is joined by Lisa Harris, Debby Mayne, and Kim Vogel Sawyer in this gift package that has four girlfriends looking for love in all the wrong packages--in a town that has lost its Christmas spirit.

Download or read book Small Town Christmas written by Debbie Macomber and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Christmas Street written by Jonathan Emmett and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This spectacular lift-the-flap Christmas alphabet story is a book, a fold-out play-scene, and a beautiful festive frieze to decorate your room—the perfect Christmas gift! Everyone is busy on Christmas Street! Who is baking gingerbread? Who is wrapping presents? And who's that coming down the chimney? Find out in this follow-up to Alphabet Street. And after you read the rhyming story, lift the flaps to learn the letters of the alphabet and seasonal words. Then flip the book and have fun with the giant snowy concertina play-scene on the reverse! With two large, sturdy flaps on every spread; bright, cheerful artwork from Ingela P. Arrhenius, illustrator of the best-selling series of lift-the-felt-flap board books and the Peekaboo board book series; and a clever rhyming text from Jonathan Emmett, this is a charming Christmas alphabet book that little ones will return to again and again.

Download or read book Earth Day written by Melissa Ferguson and published by Raintree. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earth Day celebrates our beautiful planet and calls us to act on its behalf. Some people spend the day planting flowers or trees. Others organize neighborhood clean-ups, go on nature walks or make recycled crafts. Readers will discover how a shared holiday can have multiple traditions and be celebrated in all sorts of ways.