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Let Them Eat Fruitcake

Melody Carlson · 302 pages

"It's the holiday season, and each of the roommates at 86 Bloomberg Place is a little blue. Megan has a difficult boss, and now her mom is going on vacation to Mexico, leaving Megan alone for Christmas for the first time ever. Lelani can't afford to fly home to Hawaii and isn't sure she'd be welcomed anyway, not that she can admit that to anyone. Anna's old boyfriend--the one who cheated on her--h

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A Quilter's Holiday

Jennifer Chiaverini

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The Christmas Cookie Club

Ann Pearlman · 324 pages

This riveting debut novel follows the rich and complicated friendships among thirteen women who meet for a cookie exchange every year on the first Monday of December. Everyone has to bring a dish, a bottle of wine, and their stories. This year, the stories are especially important.

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Hot Flash Holidays

Nancy Thayer · 299 pages

When the Hot Flash friends gather at the spa to trim the Christmas tree, they share steaming mugs of hot chocolate, a few laughs, and a vow to make this holiday one to remember.

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Christmas on Ladybug Farm

Donna Ball · 239 pages

It's Christmas Eve, and Cici, Bridget and Lindsay are busy preparing for their annual holiday party. The tree is sparkling, the turkey is roasting, the stockings are hung and the eggnog is chilled ... but the entire state is in the midst of a heat wave. No one can find any mistletoe. The Christmas tree lights keep exploding, and, perhaps worst of all, something has gone terribly wrong with Ida Mae

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Knit the Season

Kate Jacobs · 260 pages

Dakota Walker spends the Christmas holidays with her Gran in Scotland--accompanied by her father, her grandparents, and her mother's best friend, Catherine. Join them as they share a trove of happy memories about Christmases past with Dakota's mom, Georgia Walker--from Georgia's childhood to her blissful time as a doting new mom.

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The Sweetgum Knit Lit Society

Beth Pattillo · 342 pages

Sometimes life has to unravel before you can knit it together...On the third Friday of each month, Eugenie, Ruth, Esther, Merry, and Camille meet at the Sweetgum Christian Church to enjoy the two things that connect them: a love of knitting and a passion for books. Their camaraderie remains unthreatened until Eugenie, the town librarian, introduces an angry teenager into their midst. Eugenie also

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On Strike for Christmas: A Novel

Sheila Roberts · 352 pages

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The Potluck Club

Linda Evans Shepherd, Eva Marie Everson · 384 pages

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One Big Happy Family

Susan Mallery · 352 pages

Susan Mallery, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boardwalk Bookshop, returns with the joyful and utterly irresistible story of a mother who couldn't love her kids more but hopes that, just this once, they please don't come home for Christmas. Perfect for fans of Mary Kay Andrews and Julie Murphy! Julie Parker’s kids are her greatest gift. Still, she’s not exactly heartbroken when the

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The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Real

Neta Jackson · 406 pages

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Welcome to Serenity

Sherryl Woods · 408 pages

When Jeanette Brioche helped launch The Corner Spa in Serenity, South Carolina, she found a whole lot more than professional satisfaction. She discovered the deep and loyal friendships that had been missing from her life. But even the Sweet Magnolias can't mend the terrible rift between Jeanette and her family or persuade her that the holidays are anything more than a season of misery.Pushed into

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A Sweethaven Christmas

Courtney Walsh · 320 pages

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Blue Dahlia

Nora Roberts · 375 pages

A Harper has always lived at Harper House, the centuries- old mansion just outside of Memphis. And for as long as anyone alive remembers, the ghostly Harper Bride has walked the halls, singing lullabies at night... Trying to escape the ghosts of the past, young widow Stella Rothchild, along with her two energetic little boys, has moved back to her roots in southern Tennessee--and into her new

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A Merry Little Christmas

Julia Williams · 372 pages

With four children, a Christmas cookbook to write, and her mum suffering from dementia, Cat Tinsall has plenty to juggle. When her eldest daughter, Mel, starts going off the rails, Cat has even more on her plate. Pippa Holliday adores her family, although often finds her hands full. When Dan is involved in a terrible accident, Pippa's world is suddenly turned upside down. Balancing her job as a sc

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Winter Solstice

Rosamunde Pilcher · 563 pages

Elfrida Phipps, once on the London stage and retired at 62, never anticipates going off with a man. But after a devastating tragedy, church organist Oscar Blundell asks for her companionship. So with her brown-and-white dog in tow, Elfrida begins her journey, not knowing that joining her and Oscar at a rundown Victorian house in Scotland will be a young woman nursing a broken heart, a teenager esc

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Ladies Who Launch

Milly Johnson · 100 pages

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The Bean Trees

Barbara Kingsolver · 240 pages

Taylor, a poor Kentuckian making her way west with an abandoned baby girl, stops in Tucson where she finds friends and discovers resources in apparently empty places.

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A Nightingale Christmas Wish

Donna Douglas · 410 pages

As Christmas 1938 approaches, the staff at the Nightingale Hospital have their own wishes for the festive season. Ward sister Frannie Wallace is hoping she won't have to live through another war like the one that claimed her beloved fiance. But with bomb defences going up all around London, it seems as if her hopes are in vain. Staff Nurse Helen Dawson wants to find happiness again after the death

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Winter Solstice

Elin Hilderbrand · 297 pages

It's been too long since the entire Quinn family has been able to celebrate the holidays under the same roof, but that's about to change. With Bart back safe and sound from Afghanistan, the Quinns are preparing for a holiday more joyous than any they've experienced in years. And Bart's safe return isn't the family's only good news: Kevin is enjoying married life with Isabelle; Patrick is getting b

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Always And Forever

Cathy Kelly · 512 pages

In the beautiful town of Carrickwell lived three women. Three women who thought they had life pretty much mapped out. Ambitious Mel had a high-flying career, caring Daisy wanted a child with the boyfriend who was everything to her, and hot-headed Cleo was ready to step into the family business once she'd finished her hotel management degree. Until the landscape shifted and it all came tumbling dow

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The Avalon Ladies Scrapbooking Society

Darien Gee · 426 pages

"At Madeline's Tea Salon, the cozy hub of the Avalon community, local residents scrapbook their memories and make new ones. But across town, other Avalonians are struggling to free themselves of the past ... Enter Bettie Shelton, the irascible founder of the Avalon Ladies Scrapbooking Society. Under Bettie's guidance, even the most reluctant of Avalon's residents come to terms with their past and

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My Husband's Wives

Faith Hogan · 352 pages

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The Christmas Surprise

Jenny Colgan · 432 pages

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