Download or read book Faces of Christmas Past written by Bill Holm and published by Afton Historical Society Press. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FACES OF CHRISTMAS PAST is an engaging, middle-aged look at the perils of Christmas, our own self-imposed burdens of ritual duty (like the newsy Christmas Xerox), and the more unsettling fact that successive Christmases, more even than New Year's, mark the passing of our life from childhood to death. "Old Christmas card photos show us how we've aged," says author Bill Holm, "reminding us that, though time may curve in Einstein's physics, in our small life it is a straight line to white hair and bifocals."
Download or read book Faces of Christmas Past written by Bill Holm and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Christmas ritual marks our passage through life, the ritual of music may be the surest source of comfort on our journey to "white hair and bifocals."
Download or read book A Christmas Carol written by Charles Dickens and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
Download or read book The Shadows of Christmas Past written by Christine Feehan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "New York Times" bestselling author Feehan and award-winning author Sizemore craft two passionate paranormal holiday novellas for this two-in-one collection. Original.
Download or read book Pleasures of Christmas Past written by Lexi Post and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When present day American social worker Jessica Thomas is assigned her first case as a spirit guide, she's excited to serve as the Spirit of Christmas Past for her client and prove she knows her profession well. Unfortunately, her mentor, the very hot, very single, and very Scottish Duncan Montgomerie has little faith in her ability and plans to catch her when she falls. As far as she's concerned, he's going to be waiting a very long time. Bachelor Duncan Montgomerie hails from late 18th century Scotland where he enjoyed life to its fullest, something he continues in death. Having been dead a while, he is well equipped to handle the afterlife where time doesn't exist and phasing is the norm. What has him stymied is his connection to the uptight Jessica and the strange feelings he's experiencing being around her, even though she refuses to listen to his advice. Duncan needs to figure out what it all means and fast because the rules change after death and the path Jessica is headed down could cost her her soul.
Download or read book The Ghost of Christmas Past written by Angie Fox and published by Angie Fox. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From NY Times Bestselling Author, Angie Fox, a hauntingly fun holiday addition to the USA TODAY bestselling Southern Ghost Hunter series Southern girl Verity Long needs a Christmas miracle... Verity is ready to deck the halls, jingle some bells, and maybe, just maybe have a merry Christmas with her boyfriend’s stuffy family. Truly, if she doesn’t extend the proverbial olive branch to the overbearing Wydells, she’s afraid she’ll hit them over the head with it. But when her boyfriend’s mother pulls a shocking stunt, Verity finds herself with a big decision to make. And if that’s not enough, there’s an unexpected guest at her door. It’s the ghost of the woman who helped rescue Verity’s pet skunk three years ago that very night. And now she’s there to change Verity’s life as well. *A "between the books" stand-alone holiday story you don't want to miss!
Download or read book Nora Bonesteel s Christmas Past written by Sharyn McCrumb and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When someone buys the old Honeycutt house, Nora Bonesteel is glad to see some life brought back to the old mansion, even if it is by summer people. But when they decide to stay through Christmas, they find more than old memories in the walls. On Christmas Eve, Sheriff Spencer Arrowood and Deputy Joe LeDonne find themselves on an unwelcome call to arrest an elderly man for a minor offense. As they attempt to do their duty, while doing the right thing for a neighbor, it begins to look like they may all spend Christmas away from home. In a story of spirits, memories, and angels unaware, Sharyn McCrumb revisits her most loved characters who know there is more to this world than the eye can see, especially at Christmastime.
Download or read book Ghosts of Christmas Past written by Neil Gaiman and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A present contains a monstrous secret. An uninvited guest haunts a Christmas party. A shadow slips across the floor by firelight. A festive entertainment ends in darkness and screams. Who knows what haunts the night at the dark point of the year? This collection of seasonal chillers looks beneath Christmas cheer to a world of ghosts and horrors, mixing terrifying modern fiction with classic stories by masters of the macabre. From Neil Gaiman and M. R. James to Muriel Spark and E. Nesbit, there are stories here to make the hardiest soul quail - so find a comfy chair, lock the door, ignore the cold breath on your neck and get ready to welcome in the real spirits of Christmas.
Download or read book The Cowboy From Christmas Past written by Tina Leonard and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dillinger Kent is getting ready for a lonely Christmas on his Texas ranch. All that changes the night the widowed gunslinger hears an infant's wails...and is swept into a time and town definitely not his own. After ditching her fiancé at the altar, Auburn McGinnis is on the run, trying to figure out how to hold on to her family's perfume company. The rough–and–tumble stranger who just showed up with a baby girl in tow could be the hired gun; and protector; she needs. At first, all Dillinger wanted was to get back to his ranch. But with the resourceful, enchanting Auburn in his life, the twenty–first century is looking better and better. Have they both found what they're looking for? A love that transcends time?
Download or read book The Ghost of Christmas Past written by Rhys Bowen and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Rhys Bowen, the author of In Farleigh Field, comes the next Molly Murphy mystery: The Ghost of Christmas Past. Semi-retired private detective Molly Murphy Sullivan is suffering from depression after a miscarriage following her adventure in San Francisco during the earthquake of 1906. She and her husband, Daniel, are invited for Christmas at a mansion on the Hudson, and they gratefully accept, expecting a peaceful and relaxing holiday season. Not long after they arrive, however, they start to feel the tension in the house’s atmosphere. Then they learn that the host couple's young daughter wandered out into the snow ten years ago and was never seen again. Molly can identify with the mother's pain at never knowing what happened to her child and wants to help, but there is so little to go on. No ransom note. No body ever found. But Molly slowly begins to suspect that the occupants of the house know more than they are letting on. Then, on Christmas Eve, there is a knock at the door and a young girl stands there. "I'm Charlotte," she says. "I've come home."
Download or read book Disney s A Christmas Carol The Movie Storybook written by T.T. Sutherland and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The timeless tale of an old miser who must face Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet-to-Come, is re-imagined by cinematic visionary Robert Zemeckis. The three Ghosts remind Scrooge of the man he once used to be, the cold truth of who he is today, and what will happen if Scrooge does not strive to be a better man for tomorrow!
Download or read book Ghosts of Christmas Past written by Laura Briggs and published by Pelican Ventures Book Group. This book was released on 2012-12-08 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven Christmas Eves ago, young Libby Taylor said goodbye to her newborn son. With only her music dreams to keep her going, she vowed to someday make a life he could be part of. With a recording contract on the horizon, now seems like the perfect time, but an accident on an icy road sends Libby on a strange detour. Badly injured and alone, she finds herself guided on a spiritual journey of discovery by the imagined ghosts of idolized music legends whose own mistakes mirror her personal choices. Forced to examine the consequences of her past, present, and even her future, will Libby learn from the mistakes of the past before it's too late, or will she survive only to lose everything that truly matters—including a chance for love?
Download or read book Christmas Past written by Bill Duncliffe and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-06-28 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas time during the 1960's. Dave McNeil, a typically self-focused teenager of the era, is fixated on the gift of his dreams-the genuine, official, autographed model, All-Star, Triple Crown, Carl Yastrzemski fielder's glove.But young Dave must cope with more than whether or not he receives his dream gift. He and his five brothers and sisters are forced to endure the suspense of his father's job being in immediate peril as the newspaper he works for faces sale or closure at what normally is for the McNeils a raucously festive time.Loving, funny, touching, sad. You will long treasure this fondly nostalgic remembrance of the Irish Catholic McNeil brood in all of their glory.
Download or read book Christmas Past written by Thomas Ruys Smith and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the modern celebration of Christmas took shape across the nineteenth century, American writers gave it new meaning in the pages of countless books and magazines. Now, for the first time, this rich anthology brings together some of the most significant of those seasonal stories to retell a forgotten tale of Christmases past. From the authors who helped define a national literary culture, to the popular sentimentalists who negotiated Christmas’s position at the center of family life, to the realists who looked to reshape American letters in the wake of the Civil War, and beyond: all varieties of American writers turned to Christmas as an inevitable and potent subject during this deeply formative period in the history of American literature. In Christmas Past, Thomas Ruys Smith brings together a diverse range of voices to showcase the many ways in which Christmas was imagined across the nineteenth century, offering images that echo down to the present. The introduction that frames the anthology provides a new literary history of Christmas, contextualizing the selections and making clear the links both between them and to the wider trajectory of American literature.
Download or read book A Christmas Carol written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Christmas Carol written by Israel Horovitz and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1979-10 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Famous the world over, the often bizarre and ultimately heart-warming story of Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and the others needs no detailing here. Mr. Horovitz's adaptation follows the Dickens original scrupulously but, in bringing i
Download or read book The House of Many Faces written by Konstantina Dimitra Mahlia and published by Mahlia Collection. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An autobiography written by the author using third person style. Rooms in her home are means for recalling and describing her eventual escape from an unhappy marriage and the expectations of multicultural traditions.
