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81) Jacob T. Marley

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Bennett, R. William

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Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is a holiday favorite and this new book, written in the style of Dickens, tells the story from the perspective of the character who was a ruthless taskmaster business partner who taught and influenced Scrooge and then saved him from the brink of a terrible fate.
Jacob T. Marley is to A Christmas Carol as the world-famous Wicked is to The Wizard of Oz and is a masterfully

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82) Joyeux Noel: Merry Christmas

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Based on a true event that occurred on the Western Front during World War I, German, French, and Scottish soldiers call an unauthorized truce on Christmas Eve, meeting each other in No Man's Land to peacefully celebrate.

83) Krampus: the Yule lord

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Santa Claus, my dear old friend, you are a thief, a traitor, a slanderer, a murderer, a liar, but worst of all you are a mockery of everything for which I stood. You have sung your last ho, ho, ho, for I am coming for your head... I am coming to take back what is mine, to take back Yuletide... from Krampus. The author and artist of The Child Thief returns with a modern fabulist tale of Krampus, the Lord of Yule and the dark enemy of Santa Claus. One...

84) Lakeshore Christmas

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Lakeshore chronicles volume 6

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Prim librarian Maureen Davenport lives for Christmas--and there's nothing more magical than Christmas on Willow Lake. Finally getting her chance to direct Avalon's annual holiday pageant, she's determined to make it truly spectacular. But it might just require one of those Christmas miracles she's always read about if her co-director--recovering former child star Eddie Haven--has his way. Is he trying to sabotage the performance to spite her? Or is...

85) A lawman's Christmas: a McKettricks of Texas novel

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Miller, Linda Lael

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McKettrick romances volume 14

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The sudden death of the town marshal leaves Blue River, Texas, without a lawman.and twenty-five-year-old Dara Rose Nolan without a husband. As winter approaches and her meager seamstress income dwindles, she has three options. Yet she won't give up her two young daughters, refuses to join the fallen women of the Bitter Gulch Saloon and can't fathom condemning herself to another loveless marriage. Unfortunately she must decide -- soon -- because there's...

86) Let it snow: a novel

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"Christina Antonioni is preparing for the holidays at her Nantucket toy shop, unpacking last-minute shipments and decorating for her loyal Christmas shoppers. But when her Scrooge of a landlord, Oscar Bittlesman, raises her rent, it seems nearly impossible for Christina to continue business on the wharf. Even so, Christina hopes there is a warm heart underneath Oscar's steely exterior. When she bonds with Wink, his sweet, young granddaughter who frequents...

87) The letter: Christmas box ; bk. 3

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Evans, Richard Paul

Series

Christmas box trilogy volume 2

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A bent and bereft hag is spotted crouching over the snowy grave of Andrea Parkin, David Parkin's three-year-old daughter who died twenty years prior. When the night watchman approaches the figure and tells her the cemetery is closed, she mysteriously disappears, leaving behind one red rose and a letter. When the child's mother comes to pay respect the following day, she finds the letter and its shocking news. Could David's mother be alive? The search...

88) Miracle on 34th Street

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Updated version of the 1947 Christmas classic. Six-year-old Susan has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle, Santa Claus. Her mother told her the 'secret' about Santa a long time ago, so Susan doesn't expect to receive the most important gifts on her Christmas list.

89) The mistletoe promise: Mistletoe ; bk. 1

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Evans, Richard Paul

Series

Mistletoe volume 1

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Elise Dutton dreads the arrival of another holiday season. Three years earlier, her husband cheated on her with her best friend, resulting in a bitter divorce that left her alone, broken, and distrustful. Then, one November day, a stranger approaches Elise in the mall food court. Though she recognizes the man from her building, Elise has never formally met him. Tired of spending the holidays alone, the man offers her a proposition. For the next eight...

90) The mistletoe secret: Mistletoe ; bk. 3

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Evans, Richard Paul

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Dear Universe, Is anyone out there? Thinking no one is reading, a blogger who calls herself LBH writes about her most personal feelings, especially her overwhelming loneliness. She goes from day to day showing a brave face to the world while inside she longs to know how it would feel if one person cared about her. Alex Bartlett cares. He's reading her posts in Daytona Beach, Florida. Nursing his own broken heart and trust issues, he finds himself...

91) Mr. Krueger's Christmas

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Mr. Krueger's Christmas: The true message of Christmas is shared by a widower with whomever he meets. The restoration: On a spring day in 1820 a young man approached God with a question. In answer to that humble prayer, God, our Heavenly Father, and His Son, Jesus Christ appeared. Their visit began the restoration of the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ in our time. The nativity: A re-enactment of the nativity scene of the birth of Jesus Christ...

92) My kind of Christmas: a Virgin River novel

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Virgin River volume 20

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook

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Patrick Riordan's plans for a relaxing Christmas -- a much-needed break from his work as a Navy pilot -- are complicated when he falls for Angie LeCroix, who is visiting Virgin River in order to escape her hovering mother.

93) The Noel stranger

Author

Evans, Richard Paul

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Noel collection volume 2

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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Maggie Walther feels like her world is imploding. Publicly humiliated after her husband, a local councilman, is arrested for bigamy, and her subsequent divorce, she has isolated herself from the world. When her only friend insists that Maggie climb out of her hole, and embrace the season to get her out of her funk, Maggie decides to put up a Christmas tree and heads off to buy one -- albeit reluctantly. She is immediately taken by Andrew, the kind,...

94) The nutcracker

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Tchaikovsky's musical setting of the Christmas fantasy with musical scenario revised by Peter Wright and the dancing of the Royal Ballet.

95) Once upon a Christmas

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The most wonderful time of the year: A romance blooms between Blythe Stensrude and Thane Davidson after their dogs tangle leashes in the park--until Thane assumes guardianship of his three-year-old niece. Blythe is sure motherhood is not for her, but how can she refuse Thane's request to give a neglected little girl the best Christmas ever? 'Twas the week before Christmas: Going home to her grandmother's Louisiana plantation for the holidays was...

96) One Christmas

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Set in 1930, eight-year-old Buddy must spend Christmas in New Orleans with his estranged, con-artist father.

97) Rare exports: a Christmas tale

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Young Pietari lives with his stern reindeer-herding father Rauno in arctic Finland. On the eve of Christmas, an enormous excavation at a nearby mountain disturbs the locals and captures Pietari's curiosity. When Rauno's reindeer herd is mysteriously slain and the children in town go missing, Pietari realizes that the dig has unearthed the evil Santa Claus of local lore, who no one wants coming to town.

98) A redbird Christmas

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Oswald T. Campbell abandons wintry Chicago for Alabama, where he believes he'll be spending his last Christmas. He moves to Lost River, a town with one grocery store and a resident cardinal (or redbird, as the natives call it), and becomes involved in the lives of its residents.

99) return to christmas

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100) A Rocky Mountain Christmas: yuletide stories of the West

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Monnett, John H

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Collection of rich and colorful Christmas stories from the annals of the Rocky Mountain West... (back cover).