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Author
Series
Bear and Mouse volume 6
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Celebrating Christmas for the first time, Bear and his friend Mouse have a party, but whenever Bear comes back from the kitchen with more treats Mouse has vanished in search of a present.
Author
Language
English
Description
After their mother's death on Christmas Day five years ago, Will and Ella Sullivan, and their father, Henry, come to a family agreement: Christmas is a holiday for other people. At their brownstone in Harlem, stockings go unstuffed, tinsel unstrewn, gifts unbought, mistletoe unhung, chestnuts unroasted, carols unplayed, cookies uncooked, a tree un-visible, and guests uninvited. Until this year. Until guests start arriving anyway. In pairs and sixes,...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an accidental mix-up puts the marriage of Brian, her most prized client, in danger, Marnie Fairchild, the brains and talent behind a personalized gift-buying service, must choose between her head and heart when Brian's gorgeous son Luke enters her life.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Light and dark-this is the cursed birthright placed upon Clara and Natasha by their godfather, Drosselmeyer, whose power and greed hold an entire city in his sway. Charming Clara, the favorite, grows into a life of beauty and ease, while Natasha is relegated to her sister's shadow, ignored and unloved. But Natasha seizes the opportunity for revenge one Christmas Eve, when Drosselmeyer arrives at the family gala with the Nutcracker, an enchanted gift...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Born in the midst of the hardships of The Great Depression, Rose grew up in Berlin, Ohio, in the arms of a loving Amish family. But as she prepares to marry, she's thrown into confusion when she learns the truth of her birth. She was born Englisch and abandoned when the family moved on in search of work. Was she meant to be Amish or would she have been better off growing up with her own kind--Englischers? And was her intended's gift of discovering...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"When prestigious plantation owner Cornelius Allen gives his daughter Clarissa's hand in marriage, she takes with her a gift: Sarah, her slave and her half-sister. Raised by an educated mother, Clarissa is not the proper Southern belle she appears to be--with ambitions of loving whom she chooses--and Sarah equally hides behind the facade of being a docile house slave as she plots to escape. Both women bring these tumultuous secrets and desires with...
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Squirrel and Hare are finishing preparations on Christmas Eve when Mouse, seeking a last-minute gift, finds a sick swallow, and by helping her the friends find the true spirit of Christmas.
10) White elephant
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A crackling Christmas mystery that combines murder and blackmail at a holiday office party,"--
11) The perfect gift
Author
Series
Publisher
Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mei's little brother is turning 100 days old and there will be a big party to celebrate. Mei and her friends try to find the perfect gift for him.
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Christmas should be celebrated with family, but for Vera Swanson, that's not an option this year. Widowed and recently relocated, she is lonely in her condo-for-one--until little Fiona Albright knocks on her door needing help. With her mother seriously ill and her father out of town Fiona enlists Vera's aid, and when she finds out her new neighbor is a quilter, she has special request--a Christmas quilt for Mama. Vera will have to get a ragtag group...
Author
Series
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lonely and longing for a date, pretty teacher Amy Mckinney wishes her secret admirer would reveal himself, and when he does, she is not sure what to think until gruff, intimidating Caleb Watson crashes her Christmas date, insisting that she's got it all wrong.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Best friends Audrey Barrett and Eve Dawson are looking forward to celebrating Christmas in postwar America, thrilled at the prospect of starting new traditions with their five-year-old sons. But when the Sears Christmas Wish Book arrives and the boys start obsessing over every toy in it, Audrey and Eve realize they must first teach them the true significance of the holiday. They begin by helping Bobby and Harry plan gifts of encouragement and service...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 326 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Martin's grandfather Walter was a toy-making genius, but he was a terrible businessman. Now Martin has returned to Cape Light to fulfill the unusual terms of his will. In order to collect his inheritance, Martin must spread joy throughout the town with anonymous gifts. A shy man who doesn't make friends easily, Martin is stumped by his new role as Secret Santa. But as a pretty police officer named Louisa Tully shows him, 'A stranger is just a friend...
16) Blood red
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
400 pages : map ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
When she receives an anonymous gift that is linked to a century-old string of gruesome unsolved murders--and her own troubled past--Rowan soon discovers that the town's violent history was only the beginning as a twisted killer sets out to make sure everyone pays for their sins--in blood.
Author
Series
Aunties (Jesse Q Sutanto) volume 3
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
While in Jakarta to spend Chinese New Year with her family, newlywed Meddy Chan is unwittingly drawn into a decades-long war between Jakarta's most powerful business factions along with her Aunties and must come with a plan to save them all.
19) Nana's gift
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nana's Gift (1996) : The gift had its own story because of the one who had given it to her and because of how long he had scrimped and saved to make it hers. And then, years later, it had become a family treasure, a legacy. Now a beloved great-granddaughter is facing the best and worst life could send her way. Maybe the gift will help her with her special need.
The red geranium (1995) : A very different gift but no less valued from a little boy to...
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