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Molly's Surprise: A Christmas Story

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Kirsten's Surprise: A Christmas Story

Janet Beeler Shaw · 62 pages

Kirsten and her family celebrate their first Christmas in their new home on Uncle Olav's farm in mid-nineteenth-century Minnesota.

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Samantha's Surprise: A Christmas Story

Maxine Rose Schur · 66 pages

The two weeks before Christmas are filled with activity as Samantha finishes her homemade presents and makes preparations for visiting relatives.

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The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips

Michael Morpurgo · 192 pages

When Boowie reads the diary that his grandmother sends him, he learns of her childhood in World War II England when American and British soldiers practiced for D-Day's invasion in the area of her home, and about her beloved cat, Adolphus Tip, and the cat's namesake.

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Molly Story Collection

Valerie Tripp, Nick Backes, Keith Skeen

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Addy's Surprise: A Christmas Story

Connie Rose Porter · 65 pages

Addy knows that Christmas will be hard without Poppa, Sam, and Esther. When Addy spots a beautiful red scarf in a secondhand shop, she’s determined to save her money and buy it for Momma to brighten her holiday. But when Addy sees the plight of newly freed slaves, she’s torn. Can she help them and still save money for Momma’s scarf? In the end, Addy’s Christmas surprise for Momma is different from

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Home for the Holidays

Heather Vogel Frederick

A group of teenagers decide to start reading the Betsy Tacy series in their mother daughter book club. They decide to exchange presents but they get switched! Who sent what??

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Party Shoes

Noel Streatfeild · 294 pages

Set during and after the second World War, this classic novel tells the story of Selina, who has been sent to live with her aunt, uncle, and cousins in the country. When Selina receives a parcel from her godmother in America it causes much excitement among her and her cousins, and, to Selina's delight, the parcel contains a beautiful party dress and a pair of party shoes. But delight turns to dism

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Candlelight for Rebecca

Jacqueline Dembar Greene · 85 pages

While Rebecca Rubin helps her building's ailing superintendent take care of his homing pigeons, she puzzles over what to do with the Christmas centerpiece her teacher insisted she make but which has no place in her Jewish home.

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The Unfinished Gift

Dan Walsh · 256 pages

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Sleigh Bells in the Snow

Sarah Morgan · 384 pages

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The Autobiography of Santa Claus

Jeff Guinn · 290 pages

This enchanting Christmas Chronicles classic combines solid historical fact with glorious legend to deliver the definitive story of Santa Claus. For anyone who has ever wondered ... you're right to believe in him!In The Autobiography of Santa Claus, Santa reveals his story for the first time. Nicholas (his real name) was born in the Middle Eastern country of Lycia to wealthy parents who died when

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The Dragonfly Pool

Eva Ibbotson · 398 pages

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The Shell Seekers

Rosamunde Pilcher · 582 pages

The Shell Seekers is a novel of connection: of one family, and of the passions and heartbreak that have held them together for three generations. The Shell Seekers is filled with real people--mothers and daughters, husband and lovers--inspired with real values. The Shell Seekers centers on Penelope Keeling--a woman you'll always remember in world you'll never forget. The Shell Seekers is a magical

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The Christmas Quilt

Jennifer Chiaverini · 240 pages

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Way Down Deep

Ruth White · 197 pages

In the West Virginia town of Way Down Deep in the 1950s, a foundling called Ruby June is happily living with Miss Arbutus at the local boarding house when suddenly, after the arrival of a family of outsiders, the mystery of Ruby's past begins to unravel

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Christmas in Good Hope

Cindy Kirk · 291 pages

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Coming Home for Christmas

Jenny Hale

"Alice Richfield loves Christmas, so when she lands a job as House Manager for the amazing Ashford Estate -- which includes organizing the Marley family festivities -- she is in her element. With a budget bigger than her life savings and a team of staff, how hard can it be? As on-by-one she meets the Marleys, she's about to find out ..."--Back cover.

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Kitten in the Cold

Ben M. Baglio · 150 pages

At Christmas, the village of Welford is raising money to send a sick child to an American hospital. When the child's precious cat mysteriously vanishes, Mandy and James try to find her in time.

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The Great Christmas Knit-Off

Alexandra Brown · 378 pages

Sybil has always taken comfort in her passion for knitting, creating beautiful knits stitch by stitch. But her world suddenly unravels when her fiance ditches her for her identical twin sister at her Star Wars-themed wedding, leaving her sporting a Princess Leia do. Then things go from bad to worse when an incident at work jeopardizes her job. Hoping to escape her woes and forget that she'll be al

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Christmas at Lilac Cottage

Holly Martin · 348 pages

Welcome to the charming seaside town of White Cliff Bay, where Christmas is magical and love is in the air...Penny Meadows loves her home – a cosy cottage decorated with pretty twinkling fairy lights and stunning views over the town of White Cliff Bay. She also loves her job as an ice-carver, creating breathtaking sculptures. Yet her ...

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The Christmas Candle

Max Lucado · 208 pages

When an angel visits the home of candle maker Edward Haddington and touches one of his candles on Christmas, it bestows a miracle on every person who receives it, and Edward hopes that the angel will visit since it has been twenty-four years since the last one.

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