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Author
Series
Alvirah and Willy volume Novel
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Alvirah, an amateur detective, and her husband Willy investigate when an after-school shelter for neighborhood kids is prevented from moving into a neighboring building by a couple living there who claim to have inherited it
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews returns with another Meg Langslow mystery written "firmly in the grand tradition of Agatha Christie's Christmas books" (Toronto Globe and Mail). The 26th book and the sixth Christmas mystery in the Meg Lansglow series, Owl Be Home for Christmas is yet another wonderfully merry and funny book from New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews. It's a few days before Christmas, and Meg's grandfather...
63) Christmas bliss
Author
Series
Southern volume 4
Language
English
Description
"Christmas is coming, but Savannah antique dealer Weezie Foley is doubly distracted--both by her upcoming wedding to her longtime love, chef Daniel Stipanek and also by the fact that her best friend and maid-of-honor BeBe Loudermilk is due to give birth any day--and is still adamantly refusing to marry her live-in-love Harry. Readers have come to love these characters in Mary Kay Andrews' three previous Savannah novels: Savannah Blues, Savannah Breeze,...
Author
Publisher
Canary Street Press
Language
English
Description
"Come home to Shelter Springs this Christmas, where hearts are warm and hopes are bright...Growing up at the Shelter Inn hotel, Natalie Shepherd envied guests who could come and go as they pleased. So when it was time to finally leave for college and put the lush green mountains around Shelter Springs--along with the cloud of loss that seemed to follow her family--behind her, she swore she'd never come back. But now her sister McKenna needs a favor....
Author
Series
Tales from Ivy Hill volume 5
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
212 pages : illustration ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the late 1800s, haunted by an old secret, Richard Brockwell prefers to stay away from Ivy Hill-until his mother threatens to stop funding his carefree life unless he returns for Christmas. Will Christmastime in Ivy Hill, with all of its divine hope, surprises, and romance, work its magic?"--
Author
Series
The Carsons of Mustang Creek volume 4
Language
English
Description
Content with her quiet life in Mustang Creek, graphic designer and single mom Raine McCall is challenged by her opposites-attract fling with a Hollywood executive during his short visit.
Author
Series
Seasons of Sugarcreek volume 4
Publisher
Avon Inspire
Language
English
Description
As the holidays approach, dutiful daughter Judith Graber, feeling overwhelmed, overworked and under appreciated, is attracted to her father's new employee, Ben Knox, Sugarcreek's own "bad boy", but refuses to be another one of his conquests.
Author
Series
Meg Langslow volume 24
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's Christmastime and Meg, full of holiday spirit, is helping out with the nativity pageant. To her surprise, she discovers a live baby in the manger with a note. It says that it's time for the baby's father to take care of the infant, and it implicates who the father is to Meg's astonishment.
69) Family blessings
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
A holiday novella continues the story of matriarch Loretta Cisco and her three newlywed grandchildren, who in the aftermath of a freak tornado experience a range of marital problems, including an unwanted pregnancy and fears of infidelity.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Description
As a first-year law associate, Sydney Batson knows she will be updating her resume by New Year's if she loses her current court case. So when her grandmother gets inexplicably ill while she's in court, Sydney arranges for a cab to get her to the clinic. The last thing cab driver Finn Parrish wants is to be saddled with a wheelchair-bound old lady with dementia. But because Miss Callie reminds him of his own mother, whom he failed miserably in her...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"As the calendar counts down to Christmas, Felicia heads to Nantucket to marry the love of her life, Archie. The twinkling lights that beckon from every window, the snow dusting the beautiful streets, the gorgeous red and white satin dress -- every detail is picture-perfect for a dream wedding. The only problem is, this is not Felicia's dream. Happier hiking in shorts than tending to hearth and home like her more traditional sister Lauren, Felicia...
Author
Series
Lowcountry summer volume 5
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"A wounded warrior and his younger brother discover the true meaning of Christmas in this timeless story of family bonds. A poignant continuation of the Lowcountry Summer series. As far as ten-year-old Miller McClellan is concerned, it's the worst Christmas ever. His father's shrimp boat is docked, his mother is working two jobs, and with finances strained, Miller is told they can't afford the dog he desperately wants. "Your brother's return from...
Author
Series
Aunt Dimity volume 5
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Lori Shepard's well-laid plans for holiday bliss are shattered when a mysterious stranger collapses in the driveway of her English cottage before Christmas and she teams up with a handsome Roman Catholic priest to solve the riddle of this John Doe's identity.
Author
Series
Christmas hope volume 1
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Threshold Editions hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
x, 284 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
A holiday tale relates the story of a thirteen-year-old boy whose final gift from his mother, a sweater, is scorned in favor of more expensive gifts before a tragic car accident ends the mother's life.
Author
Series
Chesapeake shores volume 4
Language
English
Description
When Mick and Megan O'Brien decide to get remarried after years apart, most of their grown children are excited about their rekindled romance with the exception of their son Connor, a divorce attorney, who, believing that Megan had abandoned the family, refuses to give his blessing.
Author
Series
Christmas hope volume 9
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Lauren Gabriel spent many years of her childhood in foster homes, wishing her mother would come back for her and be the family she needs. Now twenty-years-old, she still longs for a place that she can truly call home. Her work as a cashier is unfulfilling, and at Christmas it's unbearable with the songs and carols and chatter of Christmas that she hears throughout the day. When Lauren ends her shift one night, she finds herself driving aimlessly...
80) Remembrance
Author
Publisher
Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Volunteering at a soup kitchen during the Christmas season to navigate midlife doubts, Beatrice Powell finds unexpected comfort in a relationship with a homeless man, Charles Davenport, who was driven to a life on the streets after the devastating loss of his family.