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Darton Longman Todd
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When Alice's Uncle Sam brings home a mysterious calendar that's short on chocolate but big on surprises, she is thrown into an advent she never dreamed of. Codes arrive by text message and open the doors in the calendar, drawing Alice and Sam into fantastical new worlds that are wondrous, frightening and beautiful - and strangely familiar. Packed with codes and secrets, and inviting us to explore the deeper meanings of Christmas, this enthralling
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Apple Cart County Christmas volume 2
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Crazy Rich Asians meets Sweet Home Alabama when a big-city film director falls for a small-town guy in this redneck romantic comedy.
Not another Hallmark movie.
I refuse to spend another holiday season in freezing temperatures, directing a small-town baker stuck in a love triangle with a single dad and a corporate executive in a sweater vest.
When I told my agent that, his solution was to send me to the Deep South to direct a reality TV special...
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Apple Cart County Christmas volume 3
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Son in Law meets Sweet Home Alabama as cultures collide when college friends enter a marriage of convenience to get what they need without help from their parents.
I need a green light on a green card ASAP.
If not, I'll forfeit my new job in Alabama and have to move back to Oval Island.
Sure, it has perfect weather, beautiful beaches, and all my family. But it also has my ex-a lawyer, pilot, and the governor's son, who the whole island is in love...
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Christmas volume 5
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19uu
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Emma Collins wants to write a story for her newspaper that will make people stand up and take notice of her talent. Writing obituaries is not going to be something she wants to work on for the rest of her career. But, when she's given a chance to write a "human interest" piece she is excited until she finds out that it will envolve two things she can't stand. Flying and fruitcake.
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"When A Christmas Carol was first published in 1843 it was an overnight success, and set a precedent that was to be followed by other Christmas books, including The Chimes (1844) and The Cricket (1845). Each book was published at the same time of year, in the same format, and extolled similar values about the virtues of love, charity and the family unit. But none would achieve the cult status of A Christmas Carol, a book so popular it has become part...
7) The letter
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Christmas box trilogy volume 2
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Simon & Schuster
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A letter left on his daughter's grave sends a man searching for his mother who abandoned him in childhood. For David Parkins, it's a chance at happiness, his wife having just left him. A sentimental tale set in 1930s Salt Lake City.
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Christmas hope series volume 1
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Sometimes the things that can change your life will cross your path in one instance - and then, in a fleeting moment, they're gone. But if you open your eyes and watch carefully, you will believe...
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A tranquil weekend party at an English country manor is shattered by a suspicious death. Taking a leading role in the ensuing investigation is one of the most beloved characters from Anne Perry's Thomas Pitt series: Lady Vespasia Cumming-Gould.
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Judah Dreghorn was a very well thought of Justice of the Peace. And yet, just before his tragic accidental death, he was accused by Ashton Gower of being corrupt and venal. Eleven years ago, Ashton Gower's ownership of his estate was questioned by his cousin, Peter Colgrave. It was Colgrave's contention that Gower had forged the deeds and that the estate rightfully belonged to him, Peter Colgrave.
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Christmas volume 4
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Widow Emily is looking forward to Christmas, when her daughter, Heather, comes home from Harvard to Leavenworth, Washington, an idyllic small town that goes all out for the holiday. When Emily finds out that Heather has no intention of spending Christmas with her, she calls her friend, Faith, for sympathy, then decides to surprise her daughter in Boston. Emily trades her house for two weeks with an absentminded professor who hates Christmas and is...
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For Grandmama Ellison, Christmas is no reason to celebrate. And when her daughter and son-in-law plan a Christmas vacation to Paris sans hers truly, the cantankerous Grandmama is forced to stay elsewhere and travels to the chilly, windswept Romney Marshes to spend the holiday with Charlotte Pitt's parents, Caroline and Joshua Fielding. When Maude is found lifeless in bed, Grandmama senses foul play and takes it upon herself to assume the role of...
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Christmas hope series volume 3
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Meeting a troubled five-year-old girl during the holiday season, social worker Patricia Addison and her husband, Mark, find themselves working through past sorrows and reevaluating their faith
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Dominic and Clarice Corde, who met and fell in love in Brunswick Gardens, journey to a quaint hamlet to replace the local vicar who is away on holiday. The holiday takes a nasty turn when the vicar is discovered not to be away at all, but brutally murdered and stashed in the cellar. So instead of fulfilling the vicar's duties, the Cordes are charged with solving his murder. All the while, the picturesque village is becoming increasingly and dangerously...
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Ballantine Books
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c2007
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English
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Spending his Christmas holidays on the remote island of Anglesey, off the north coast of Wales, Superintendent Runcorn is called in to investigate when the sister of the local vicar is found murdered and draped over a gravestone in her brother's churchyard.
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Spending his Christmas holidays on the remote island of Anglesey, off the north coast of Wales, Superintendent Runcorn is called in to investigate when the sister of the local vicar is found murdered and draped over a gravestone in her brother's churchyard.
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Christmas hope series volume 4
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Van Liere's seasonal confection (following The Christmas Hope) finds 60-year-old Gloria Bailey doing informal good works for needy cases seven years after her husband died, and her youngest son, Matthew, disappeared without a trace at age 17. With infinite good nature, Gloria fends off the complaints of her crabby widow neighbor, Miriam, annoyed by the constant riffraff at Gloria's house, while Gloria still sadly hopes that wayward Matthew will somehow...
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With Christmas just around the corner, Thomas Pitt's sister-in-law, Emily Radley, is suddenly called from London to be with her dying aunt. Leaving her husband and two children behind, Emily makes the long journey to an all-but-forgotten town in the county of Connemara, on the western coast of Ireland. She soon discovers that a tragic legacy haunts the once close-knit community.
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Thirteen-year-old Gracie Phipps encounters eight-year-old Minnie Maude Mudway, who is out alone and trying to find her murdered Uncle Alf's donkey, Charlie. Uncertain where he may be, the children are drawn into an adult world far beyond their imaginings.
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Christmas hope series volume 5
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When a young single mother saves the life of an elderly woman, she sets into motion a series of events that will test her strength and loyalty, while putting her on a path to find true love.