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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorChristmas at the Comfort Food Cafe
Debbie Johnson · 208 pages
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
Christmas at the Little Village Bakery
Tilly Tennant
Garden Spells
Sarah Addison Allen · 290 pages
A successful caterer in Bascomb, North Carolina, Claire has always remained tied to the legacy of the Waverley family, until her peaceful life is transformed by Tyler Hughes, an art teacher and new next-door neighbor, and by the return of her prodigal sister, Sydney.
The Beekeeper's Ball
Susan Wiggs · 400 pages
Isabel Johansen, a celebrated chef who grew up in the sleepy Sonoma town of Archangel, is transforming her childhood home into a destination cooking school - a unique place for other dreamers to come and learn the culinary arts. Bella Vista's rambling mission-style hacienda, with its working apple orchards, bountiful gardens and beehives, is the idyllic venue for Isabel's project...and the perfect
The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop & Cafe
Mary Simses · 352 pages
In this novel a high-powered Manhattan attorney finds love, purpose, and the promise of a simpler life in her grandmother's hometown. Ellen Branford is going to fulfill her grandmother's dying wish, to find the hometown boy she once loved, and give him her last letter. Ellen leaves Manhattan and her Kennedy-esque fiancé for Beacon, Maine. What should be a one-day trip is quickly complicated when
Sweet Expectations
Mary Ellen Taylor · 345 pages
"Daisy McCrae knows that change can be sudden-and devastating. And while it doesn't have to be a bad thing, change has the power to turn your whole world upside down.... Running the family bakery and living in the store's attic might not be Daisy's dream life, but she's beginning to understand what being content feels like. And then she gets some unexpected news. In one moment, Daisy's calm existe
A Pinch of Love: A Novel
Alicia Bessette · 311 pages
After she joins a baking contest to try to shake off the lingering grief from her husband's death, Zell Carmichael Roy befriends her nine-year-old next-door neighbor, a motherless girl who joins Zell's quest for dessert-competition glory.
The Way Life Should Be
Christina Baker Kline · 274 pages
Feeling stuck in her personal life and career, thirty-three-year-old Angela pursues a seemingly idyllic online relationship with a sailing instructor from Maine, relocates there, and learns important truths about understanding her own heart in finding happiness.
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.
Julia's Chocolates
Cathy Lamb · 439 pages
“I left my wedding dress hanging in a tree somewhere in North Dakota. I don’t know why that particular tree appealed to me. Perhaps it was because it looked as if it had given up and died years ago and was still standing because it didn’t know what else to do…”In her deliciously funny, heartfelt, and moving debut, Cathy Lamb introduces some of the most wonderfully eccentric women since The Divine
Chocolate Wishes
Trisha Ashley · 379 pages
"Life is sweet for chocolate maker Chloe Lyon ... In the picture-perfect Lancashire village of Sticklepond, Confectioner Chloe dispenses inspirational sweet treats containing a prediction for each customer. If only her own life was as easy to forecast - perhaps Chloe could have foreseen being jilted at the altar ... But when a new Vicar arrives in the village, the rumour mill goes into overdrive.
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
The Potluck Club
Linda Evans Shepherd, Eva Marie Everson · 384 pages
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.
A Redbird Christmas
Fannie Flagg · 224 pages
Christmas story about the townsfolk on a small river town in Alabama. A bunch of "misfits" become a close-knit family. The red bird's name is Jack. Bonus* - the main character becomes a painter!
Angels at the Table: A Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy Christmas Story
Debbie Macomber · 272 pages
Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy know that an angel’s work is never done, especially during a time as wondrous as New Year’s Eve. With an apprentice angel, Will, under their wings, they descend upon Times Square in New York City eager to join in the festivities. And when Will spies two lonely strangers in the crowd, he decides midnight is the perfect time to lend a heavenly helping hand. Lu
Merry Ex-Mas
Sheila Roberts · 331 pages
"Cass Wilkes has been looking forward to her daughter Danielle's Christmas wedding--until Dani announces that she wants her father, Cass's ex, to walk her down the aisle. Seriously? Even worse, it seems that he, his trophy wife and their yappy little dog will be staying with Cass ... . Her friend Charlene Albach arrives at their weekly chick-flick night in shock. She's just seen the ghost of Chris
The Undomestic Goddess
Sophie Kinsella · 416 pages
The Little Christmas Kitchen
Jenny Oliver · 290 pages
"Christmas at the Davenports' house was always about one thing: food! Bur when sisters Ella and Maddy were split up, Ella to live in London with their Dad, and Maddy staying in Greece with their Mum, mince pies lost their magic. Now, a cheating husband has thrown Ella a curved snowball ... and for the first time in years, all she wants is her mum. So she heads back to Greece, where her family's ta
The Christmas Town
Donna VanLiere · 228 pages
"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 sh