Download or read book That One Time on Christmas Eve written by L.P. Dover and published by Books by L.P. Dover, LLC. This book was released on 2024-10-29 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author L.P. Dover comes a heartwarming holiday tale filled with love, laughter, and a touch of Christmas magic. Lydia Scott has always put love on the back burner while she focuses on running her family’s art gallery and caring for others. But as she sees everyone around her moving on to the next chapter in their lives, Lydia can’t help but feel left behind. With Christmas approaching, all she wants is to find love and start her own happily ever after. Little does she know, her wish is about to come true in the most extraordinary way. Transported back in time to two different Christmas Eves, Lydia meets two men who are inexplicably connected to her life. With mistletoe and holiday magic at play, anything is possible for Lydia. But when it's all said and done, she must make the ultimate decision - which man truly holds her heart? Will this choice change the course of her future forever? Find out in this heartwarming holiday tale filled with love, laughter, and a touch of Christmas magic.

Download or read book On Christmas Eve written by Ann M. Martin and published by Paw Prints. This book was released on 2009-04-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Determined to see Santa this year and experience Christmas magic, Tess McAlister eagerly awaits his arrival while hoping for the quick recovery of her best friend's father, in a magical tale filled with hope, dreams, and holiday spirit. Reprint.

Download or read book The Christmas Eve Letter written by Elyse Douglas and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 30-year-old Eve Sharland is browsing a Pennsylvania antiques store when she discovers an old brass lantern tucked away on a shelf. She lifts it and sees something behind one of the sooty glass panes. To her surprise, she finds an unopened letter stuck inside. The letter is postmarked December 24, 1885, and it is addressed to Evelyn Sharland in New York City. Eve gasps and drops the letter. That's her name! The letter is addressed to someone with her name in 1885: Evelyn Sharland. Eve purchases the lantern and the letter, and returns to her New York City apartment. Later that evening, she opens the letter and reads it, astounded by its contents. She stares at the lantern in wonder and alarm, deeply moved by the story of a tragic romance. A few days later, following a request in the letter, Eve cautiously lights the lantern. To her utter shock, she finds herself in the past-in 1885 New York City. Eve is thrown into a life far beyond what she could have ever imagined, as she gets involved with one of the richest families in New York City, and meets the handsome Patrick Gantly. She must struggle to survive and return to her own time, even as her destiny is changed forever.

Download or read book On Christmas Eve written by Margaret Wise Brown and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unable to sleep on Christmas eve, four children creep downstairs to see the tree, their stockings, their wrapped gifts, and to hear the singing of the carolers.

Download or read book Life on Christmas Eve written by Nathan Nipper and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After watching It’s a Wonderful Life for the first time, thirty-one-year-old Julie Shelly’s predictable small-town life turns anything but as she begins experiencing uncanny parallels between her life and the fictional George Bailey’s. Initially intrigued by the way her life seems to imitate the classic movie, Julie secretly hopes the strange similarities bear some kind of deeper existential significance. But real life soon brings her back down to earth and she dismisses the episodes as mere coincidence and the wishful thinking of her restless spirit. Julie decides to put the Wonderful Life foolishness behind her…until a tragedy puts her faith to the test and forces her to view the odd movie coincidences in a completely different light. Her epiphany ultimately spurs her toward an extraordinary, life-changing encounter with a vulnerable stranger on Christmas Eve.

Download or read book Who s That Knocking on Christmas Eve written by Jan Brett and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-09-23 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year, trolls knock down Kyri's door and gobble up her Christmas feast. But this year, the trolls are in for a surprise: a boy and his pet ice bear on their way to Oslo have come in from the cold. And once the ice bear is finished with the trolls, you can bet they won't come knocking next Christmas Eve! Once again, Jan Brett creates an original Christmas story full of warmth and magic. Featuring beautiful borders, intricate illustrations, and a stunning display of the Northern Lights, Who's That Knocking on Christmas Eve? will rightfully take its place among Jan's Christmas favorites with the whole family.

Download or read book Time For Me to Come Home written by Dorothy Shackleford and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW THE HALLMARK MOVIES & MYSTERIES ORIGINAL TIME FOR ME TO COME HOME FOR CHRISTMAS! The fireplace is lit, the snow is falling, and sleigh bells echo in the distance—it’s Christmas, and it’s time to come home in this charming holiday novel based on Dorothy Shackleford and Blake Shelton’s hit song. Thirty-five-year-old Heath Sawyer has finally made it to the big-time as a country music star. After a year full of the kind of success he could only dream of, it’s December 23, and he’s headlining a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden. It’s only as the lights on the stage go down and the Christmas lights outside come on that Heath realizes there’s just one place he wants to be for the holidays: back home in Okmulgee, Oklahoma. But journeying anywhere on Christmas Eve is never easy, and with flight delays, inclement weather, and the unexpected company of a feisty young woman who’s about to become his traveling companion, Heath will need a Christmas miracle to make his way home in time to open presents. Filled with touching anecdotes inspired by the real holiday memories of Blake Shelton and Dorothy Shackelford, Time for Me to Come Home is a sweet and funny story that celebrates the spirit of Christmas and the true meaning of finding your way back home. “It’s funny how going back can get you back to where you belong. It’s the difference between just a melody and my favorite Christmas song.”

Download or read book Christmas Eve with Mrs Claus written by M. P. Hueston and published by Sterling Children's Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas Eve is a busy time in Santa's headquarters--for Mrs. Claus, too. She's baking treats for everyone in this merry, lift-the-flap picture book. Kids will have happy holiday fun helping her find missing items to make yummy biscuits, scrumptious gingerbread, and a tasty snack for Santa's trip around the world. At the end, a sweet surprise awaits Mrs. Claus! Each spread features four flaps with festive items to discover under each one.

Download or read book The Christmas Eve Tree written by Delia Huddy and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A homeless boy's rescue of a scrawny Christmas tree sparks a glimmer of hope that has far-reaching effects.

Download or read book The Most Beloved Animal Tales for Christmas Eve written by Beatrix Potter and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 1450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This holiday, Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas classics and the most beloved animal tales to warm up your heart and rekindle your holiday sparkle: The Tailor of Gloucester (Beatrix Potter) The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter) Black Beauty (Anna Sewell) The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (L. Frank Baum) The Adventures of Reddy Fox (Thornton Burgess) The Adventures of Johnny Chuck (Thornton Burgess) The Adventures of Peter Cottontail (Thornton Burgess) The Old Mother West Wind (Thornton Burgess) The Story of Doctor Dolittle (Hugh Lofting) The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (Hugh Lofting) The Story of a Nodding Donkey (Laura Lee Hope) Little Bun Rabbit (L. Frank Baum) The Velveteen Rabbit (Margery Williams) The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (E. T. A. Hoffmann) The Story of a Stuffed Elephant (Laura Lee Hope) Peace on Earth, Good-Will to Dogs (Eleanor Hallowell Abbott) Kittyboy's Christmas (Amy Ella Blanchard) The Naughty Reindeer (Amelia C. Houghton) Miss Muffet's Christmas Party (Samuel McChord Crothers) The Animals' Christmas Tree (John Punnett Peters) The Mouse and the Moonbeam (Eugene Field) The Cricket on the Hearth (Charles Dickens) The Christmas Cuckoo (Frances Browne) The Silver Hen (Mary E. Wilkins Freeman) The Sparrow and the Fairy (Georgianna M. Bishop) The Wonderful Bird (Georgianna M. Bishop) The Little Mud-Sparrows (Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward) The Little Gray Lamb (Archibald Beresford Sullivan) How Freckle Frog Made Herself Pretty (Charlotte B. Herr) Cat and Dog Stories (Walter Crane)

Download or read book The Gorges Motel written by Gretchen Cryer and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lives intersect in comic and dramatic fashion in a motel that has seen better days in Watkins Glen, New York. Break-ups and a wedding, a rapping reverend and a drone attack, the ridiculous and the sublime all come together in one unlikely place. THE GORGES MOTEL is comprised of the short plays MISSING by James Hindman, KISSING COUSINS by Craig Pospisil, WHAT LOLA SAW by Isaac Himmelman, REVEREND and SECOND CHANCE by Lynne Halliday, BRECKENRIDGE by Gretchen Cryer, and HERE COMES THE DRONE by Arlene Hutton.

Download or read book Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk written by Frank Cowper and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading a ghost story on Christmas Eve was once as much a part of traditional Christmas celebrations as turkey, eggnog, and Santa Claus. When he finds an abandoned duck punt on Christmas Eve, a hunter rows out into the marsh and comes across a shipwreck. He climbs aboard to explore—and finds himself trapped when a surge snaps the mooring line and his punt floats away. Sleep eludes him, and soon he discovers that he's not the only one trapped on the derelict ship.

Download or read book A Christmas Story written by Jean Shepherd and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-10-27 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beloved, bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana—the book that inspired the equally classic Yuletide film and the live musical on Fox. The holiday film A Christmas Story, first released in 1983, has become a bona fide Christmas perennial, gaining in stature and fame with each succeeding year. Its affectionate, wacky, and wryly realistic portrayal of an American family’s typical Christmas joys and travails in small-town Depression-era Indiana has entered our imagination and our hearts with a force equal to It’s a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street. This edition of A Christmas Story gathers together in one hilarious volume the gems of autobiographical humor that Jean Shepherd drew upon to create this enduring film. Here is young Ralphie Parker’s shocking discovery that his decoder ring is really a device to promote Ovaltine; his mother and father’s pitched battle over the fate of a lascivious leg lamp; the unleashed and unnerving savagery of Ralphie’s duel in the show with the odious bullies Scut Farkas and Grover Dill; and, most crucially, Ralphie’s unstoppable campaign to get Santa—or anyone else—to give him a Red Ryder carbine action 200-shot range model air rifle. Who cares that the whole adult world is telling him, “You’ll shoot your eye out, kid”? The pieces that comprise A Christmas Story, previously published in the larger collections In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash and Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories, coalesce in a magical fashion to become an irresistible piece of Americana, quite the equal of the film in its ability to warm the heart and tickle the funny bone.

Download or read book The Greatest Animal Stories for a Warm Christmas Eve written by Charles Dickens and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-18 with total page 1422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This holiday, we present this unique collection of the greatest Christmas classics and the most beloved animal tales to warm up your heart and rekindle your holiday sparkle: _x000D_ The Tailor of Gloucester (Beatrix Potter)_x000D_ The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter)_x000D_ Black Beauty (Anna Sewell)_x000D_ The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame)_x000D_ The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (L. Frank Baum)_x000D_ The Adventures of Reddy Fox (Thornton Burgess)_x000D_ The Adventures of Johnny Chuck (Thornton Burgess)_x000D_ The Adventures of Peter Cottontail (Thornton Burgess)_x000D_ The Old Mother West Wind (Thornton Burgess)_x000D_ The Story of Doctor Dolittle (Hugh Lofting)_x000D_ The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (Hugh Lofting)_x000D_ The Story of a Nodding Donkey (Laura Lee Hope)_x000D_ Little Bun Rabbit (L. Frank Baum)_x000D_ The Velveteen Rabbit (Margery Williams)_x000D_ The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (E. T. A. Hoffmann)_x000D_ The Story of a Stuffed Elephant (Laura Lee Hope) _x000D_ Peace on Earth, Good-Will to Dogs (Eleanor Hallowell Abbott)_x000D_ Kittyboy's Christmas (Amy Ella Blanchard)_x000D_ The Naughty Reindeer (Amelia C. Houghton)_x000D_ Miss Muffet's Christmas Party (Samuel McChord Crothers)_x000D_ The Animals' Christmas Tree (John Punnett Peters)_x000D_ The Mouse and the Moonbeam (Eugene Field)_x000D_ The Cricket on the Hearth (Charles Dickens)_x000D_ The Christmas Cuckoo (Frances Browne)_x000D_ The Silver Hen (Mary E. Wilkins Freeman)_x000D_ The Sparrow and the Fairy (Georgianna M. Bishop)_x000D_ The Wonderful Bird (Georgianna M. Bishop)_x000D_ The Little Mud-Sparrows (Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward)_x000D_ The Little Gray Lamb (Archibald Beresford Sullivan)_x000D_ How Freckle Frog Made Herself Pretty (Charlotte B. Herr)_x000D_ Cat and Dog Stories (Walter Crane)

Download or read book On Christmas Eve written by Thomas Kinkade and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cape Light a troubled marriage is healed by a runaway teenager and a divorced woman finds happiness with a struggling magazine writer who dresses up as Santa Claus.

Download or read book Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor written by Lisa Kleypas and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three lonely people, three lives at crossroads, three people who are about to discover that Christmas is a time when anything is possible and when wishes can come true.

Download or read book Rice Paddy Recon written by Andrew R. Finlayson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young U.S. Marine officer recounts his experiences of the Vietnam War over a nineteen month period. He graphically describes what it was like to perform three distinct combat missions: long-range ground reconnaissance in the Annamite Mountains of I Corps, infantry operations in the rice paddies and mountains of Quang Nam Province and special police operations for the CIA in Tay Ninh Province. Using Marine Corps official unit histories, CIA documents, and his weekly letters home, the author relies almost exclusively on primary sources in providing an accurate and honest account of combat at the small unit level. Of particular interest is his description of his assignment to the CIA as a Provincial Reconnaissance Unit (PRU) advisor in Tay Ninh Province, where he participated in several secret missions as part of the controversial Phoenix Program. The name and contribution of the CIA's most valuable spy during the war, the famous "Tay Ninh Source," is revealed.