Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 20 December 2011
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The Perfect Christmas
What would make your Christmas perfect? For Cassie Beaumont, it's meeting her perfect match. Cassie, at thirty-three, wants a husband and kids, and so far, nothing's worked. Not blind dates, not the internet and certainly not leaving love to chance.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 20 December 2011
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Twas the Bite Before Christmas
The maid for a wealthy couple who lives in a mansion along the Maine coast, is found dead at the bottom of the main staircase a few weeks before Christmas. The couple claims that the maid's ex–boyfriend ran out of the house just as they arrived home, but there are no footprints in the snow, and the guard at the front gate didn't see anyone leaving the property. Jack and his fiancée, local medical examiner Dr. Jamie Cutter, reluctantly leave their eggnog and tinsel when they are called in to help catch the killer.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 20 December 2011
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The Christmas Cookie Killer
Phyllis Newsom stands a good chance in the Christmas cookie contest with her snowflake-shaped lime sugar cookies. But Mrs. Simmons’ gingerdoodles might give her a run for her money—until she’s found strangled in a pile of cookies. With many on Santa’s naughty suspect list, this case is a cookie Phyllis means to crumble…
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 18 December 2011
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1225 Christmas Tree Lane
The people of Cedar Cove know how to celebrate Christmas. Like Grace and Olivia and everyone else, Beth Morehouse expects this Christmas to be one of her best. Her small Christmas-tree farm is prospering, her daughters and her dogs are happy and well, and her new relationship with local vet Ted Reynolds is showing plenty of romantic promise.But?someone recently left a basket filled with puppies on her doorstep, puppies she's determined to place in good homes.
First published in 1956, this much sought-after short story and autobiographical recollection of Truman Capote's rural Alabama boyhood has become a modern-day classic. We are proud to be reprinting this warm and delicately illustrated edition of A Christmas Memory--"a tiny gem of a holiday story". Seven-year-old Buddy inaugurates the Christmas season by crying out to his cousin, Miss Sook Falk: "It's fruitcake weather!" Thus begins an unforgettable portrait of an odd but enduring friendship between two innocent souls--one young and one old--and the memories they share of beloved holiday rituals.
