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A Christmas Carol : Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
by Charles Dickens
First published on December 19, 1843, A Christmas Carol was an instant classic: Londoners thronged to hear Dickens read it in person and bought out the first printing in days. Even today, its characters, from Scrooge to Tiny Tim, are forever inscribed in our hearts and minds.
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The gift of the Magi
by O. Henry
A husband and wife sacrifice treasured possessions in order to buy each other Christmas presents.
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The greatest gift : a Christmas tale
by Philip Van Doren Stern
George Pratt, depressed and contemplating ending it all, is allowed to see what his community would have been like if he had never been born, in a hardcover reissue of the story that inspired the film It's a Wonderful Life.
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The 13th gift : a true story of a Christmas miracle
by Joanne Huist Smith
Traces how the unexpected death of her husband posed painful challenges to the author and her three children, who received anonymous holiday gifts on their doorstep in random acts of kindness that helped them find strength and healing. Simultaneous.
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The Thanksgiving Visitor : One Christmas & a Christmas Memory
by Truman Capote
Inspired by the author's memories of his boyhood in rural Alabama, a trio of holiday stories--"A Christmas Memory," "The Thanksgiving Visitor," and "One Christmas--describes a boy's relationship with his elderly cousin and alcoholic father and the indelible holiday memories they provided him, in a new gift edition of the holiday classic.
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A Redbird Christmas
by Fannie Flagg
In a tiny and remote Alabama town, an unexpected, unusual, and life-transforming event that occurs on one Christmas morning changes a family and a town forever, in a heartwarming holiday novel by the author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.
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Christmas bells : a novel
by Jennifer Chiaverini
A holiday tale inspired by Longfellow's classic poem follows the experiences of a dedicated Boston teacher who, in the face of a somber season, finds inspiration and renewal at the church where she volunteers. By the New York Times best-selling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker.
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A Christmas story
by Jean Shepherd
The classic story that inspired the popular Yuletide film chronicles the lives of an American family's Christmas trials and joys in a small town in Depression-era Indiana, capturing Ralphie Parker's campaign to get a Red Ryder air rifle for Christmas, his duel with bullies Scut Farkas and Grover Dill, his parents' battle over a suggestive leg lamp, and more.
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Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
Grown-up Meg, tomboyish Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. The four March sisters couldn't be more different. But with their father away at war, and their mother working to support the family, they have to rely on one another. Whether they're putting on a play, forming a secret society, or celebrating Christmas, there's one thing they can't help wondering: Will Father return home safely?
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The autobiography of Santa Claus
by Jeff Guinn
Combining historical fact with wonderful legend, this revised edition of the Christmas classic presents the real story of Santa Claus for the first time as Nicholas himself leads us through 17 centuries of Christmas magic.
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The Christmas spirit : a novel
by Debbie Macomber
When Pete, a local pastor, and his best friend, Hank, a bartender, decide to switch jobs until Christmas Eve, they begin to see each other's lives in a new light as they each discover a new love to cherish, forever changing their lives. (romance). Simultaneous.
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Bright lights, big Christmas : a novel
by Mary Kay Andrews
Freshly single and unemployed, Kerry agrees to help her brother sell Christmas trees in New York and make a new start in the new novel by the New York Times best-selling author of The Santa Suit. Simultaneous.
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Royal holiday
by Jasmine Guillory
Accompanying her daughter to England to help style a royal family member during the Christmas season, Vivian finds herself in an unexpected holiday romance with the queen's charming private secretary. By the best-selling author of The Wedding Date.
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The matzah ball
by Jean Meltzer
When her publisher insists that she write a Hanukkah romance, Rachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt, a Jewish woman with a secret career as a Christmas romance novelist, unexpectedly finds inspiration when she encounters a childhood acquaintance at the Matzah Ball, a Jewish music celebration on the last night of Hanukkah
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The wake-up call
by Beth O'Leary
When hotel receptionists and enemies, Izzy and Lucas, find a collection of old wedding rings, they compete to return them to their owners as a way to save the hotel and their jobs but find their bitter rivalry turning into something much more complicated.
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A holly jolly Diwali
by Sonya Lalli
A very practical, straightlaced twenty-eight-year-old, Niki Randhawa, attends a friend's wedding in India where she arrives in time to celebrate Diwali and meets a free-spirited London musician who helps her get in touch with her passionate and creative side.
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Three holidays and a wedding
by Uzma Jalaluddin
Strangers and seatmates Maryam and Anna, confessing their deepest hopes and fears to one another during severe turbulence, find themselves, after an emergency landing, snowbound in a picture-perfect town where Christmas magic and newfound love make these unlikely friends realize there's no place they'd rather be for the holidays.
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10 things that never happened
by Alexis J. Hall
A chain-store owner attempts to fire the manager of the Leeds location, who bumps his head and appears to be faking amnesia, in the first novel of the new series by the author of Husband Material.
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Kiss her once for me : a novel
by Alison Cochrun
"The author of the "swoon-worthy debut" (Harper's Bazaar) The Charm Offensive returns with a festive romantic comedy about a woman who fakes an engagement with her landlord...only to fall for his sister. Perfect for fans of Written in the Stars and One Day in December, Kiss Her Once for Me is the queer holiday rom-com that you'll want to cozy up with next to the fire".
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A December to remember : a novel
by Jenny Bayliss
Unexpectedly reunited at the reading of their eccentric father's will, estranged half-sisters Maggie, Simone and Star discover they must compete in a series of wacky challenges to access their inheritance, which results in hilarious goose chases, community chaos and one heart-warming winter solstice celebration.
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