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🎄 CHRISTMAS PROLOGUES - THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS by Les Standiford
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Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors at bay. His publisher turned it down…
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🎄 CHRISTMAS PROLOGUES - AN IRISH COUNTRY CHRISTMAS by Alice Taylor
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A memoir of a County Kerry Christmas as seen through the author’s own nine-year-old eyes. A tender remembrance of a simpler, yet harder, time past. These are holidays as everyone wishes they could remember them…
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🎄 CHRISTMAS PROLOGUES - THE CHRISTMAS CHRONICLES by Jeff Guinn
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This is how it all began. One day Jeff Guinn received an urgent call from the North Pole from a man claiming to be Santa Claus. Lo and behold, it actually was Santa…
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🎄 CHRISTMAS PROLOGUES - THE HOMECOMING by Earl Hamner Jr
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Clay-Boy takes to the snowy Virginia hills in search of his father in a Christmas story told with warmth and power. Spencer’s Mountain inspired the popular television show The Waltons…
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🎄 CHRISTMAS PROLOGUES - THE HOPE OF CHRISTMAS PAST by Laura Rollins
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Belle Young has waited three years for Lord Wilkins to return from his travels abroad—and a full seven years since he first promised to marry her and carry her away from her aunt’s oppressive home. What better time of year for their reunion than Christmas?
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🎄 CHRISTMAS PROLOGUES - JACOB T. MARLEY by R. William Bennett
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"Marley was dead to begin with..." With sobriety we recall an essential player in this drama, paid homage by Scrooge after he proclaims his commitment to alter his path. What of old Jacob?
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🎄 CHRISTMAS PROLOGUES - THE LAST MAN AT THE INN by R. William Bennett
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Simon considers himself fortunate after securing the final room at the inn in Bethlehem. While eating his supper, he sees a younger man and his pregnant wife denied lodging at the door of the inn…
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🎄 CHRISTMAS PROLOGUES - THE HOUSE SITTERS CHRISTMAS by Jean C. Joachim
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Each year at Christmas, Laura Fleming lived her fantasy adventure. Paid to house-sit for the fabulously wealthy financier, C.W. Banley, while he traveled, she eagerly headed for New York City…
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🎄 CHRISTMAS PROLOGUES - A MIDNIGHT CAROL - A Novel of How Charles Dickens Saved Christmas by Patricia Davis
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1843, London. Though the approaching Christmas looks bleak at the home of the Dickens family, Charles and his pregnant wife Catherine try to maintain a good cheer for their four young children…
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🎄 CHRISTMAS PROLOGUES - THE BIG BOOK OF CHRISTMAS MYSTERIES ed Otto Penzler
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The most complete collection of Yuletide whodunits ever assembled…
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🎄 CHRISTMAS PROLOGUES - CHRISTMASVILLE by Michael Dutton
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In a town nestled between magic and deja vu, Mary Jane Higgins embarks on a series of perilous journeys, determined to resolve the riddle of Christmasville…
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🎄 CHRISTMAS PROLOGUES - THE TWELVE TOPSY-TURVY, VERY MESSY DAYS OF CHRISTMAS by James Patterson
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Every year at Christmastime, Will and Ella Sullivan, and their father, Henry, come to a family agreement: Christmas is a holiday for other people…
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🎄 CHRISTMAS PROLOGUES - A BOY CALLED CHRISTMAS by Matt Haig
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Eleven-year-old Nikolas–nicknamed "Christmas"–has received only one toy in his life: a doll carved out of a turnip. But he's happy with his turnip doll, because it came from his parents, who love him. Then one day his father goes missing, and Nikolas must travel to the North Pole to save him...
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🎄 CHRISTMAS PROLOGUES - WINTERFROST by Michelle Houts
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Christmas has come, and with it a sparkling white winterfrost over the countryside. But twelve-year-old Bettina's parents have been called away unexpectedly, to save her baby sister she must venture into the miniature world of the nisse…
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🎄 CHRISTMAS PROLOGUES - THE CHRISTMAS CLAUSE - A Cowboy Holiday Romance by Linda West
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When Ava returns home to the small town of Kissing Bridge and attends the reading of the family will and finds out that her inheritance is dependent on a clause - she must compete in and win a Christmas treasure hunt…
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🎄 CHRISTMAS PROLOGUES - KRINGLE by Tony Abbott
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A coming-of-age story about an orphan who becomes a force for good in a dark and violent time. It is a tale of fantasy, of goblins, elves, and flying reindeer…
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🎄 CHRISTMAS PROLOGUES - THE BEAR AND THE NIGHTINGALE by Katherine Arden
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Winter lasts most of the year at the edge of the Russian wilderness, and in the long nights, Vasilisa and her siblings love to gather by the fire to listen to their nurse’s fairy tales. Above all, Vasya loves the story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon...
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🎄 CHRISTMAS PROLOGUES - THE LEGEND OF HOLLY CLAUS by Brittney Ryan
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The arrival of Holly Claus is celebrated as the first child to grace the magical kingdom. But their happiness is dashed when an evil sorcerer places a spell on the infant, turning her heart to ice and freezing her kingdom in time…
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🎄 CHRISTMAS PROLOGUES - CHRISTMAS IN TIME by Peggy Webb
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When Ann's Christmas gift of wind chimes catapults Gilly back in time, she finds herself seated at the café Parisiene, having tea with her Papa and enjoying her eighteenth birthday gift – passage on the maiden voyage of the Titanic…
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🎄 CHRISTMAS PROLOGUES - AN IRISH COUNTRY CHRISTMAS by Patrick Taylor
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Barry Laverty, M.B., is looking forward to his first Christmas in the cozy village of Ballybucklebo, at least until he learns that his sweetheart, Patricia, might not be coming home for the holidays…
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🎄 CHRISTMAS PROLOGUES - CHRISTMAS SPIRITS by Jane Charles
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Mary Soares was supposed to spend Christmas, nice and warm on her family's estate in Falkirk, Scotland, tending to their whisky business. However, the English have made smuggling almost impossible…
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🎄 CHRISTMAS PROLOGUES - A CHRISTMAS GUEST by Anne Perry
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For Grandmama Ellison, Christmas is no reason to celebrate. And when her daughter and son-in-law plan a Christmas vacation to Paris sans hers truly, the cantankerous Grandmama is forced to stay elsewhere…
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🎄 CHRISTMAS PROLOGUES - A REDBIRD CHRISTMAS by Fannie Flagg
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Deep in the southernmost part of Alabama, along the banks of a lazy winding river, lies the sleepy little community known as Lost River, a place that time itself seems to have forgotten…
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🎄 CHRISTMAS PROLOGUES - IN THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS by Linda Goodnight
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Since leaving her troubled past behind, Lindsey Mitchell relished living in the small Christian community of Winding Stair, Oklahoma. But as December approached, she knew she'd need help…
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🎄 CHRISTMAS PROLOGUES - AN IRISH CHRISTMAS FEAST by John B. Keane
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This bountiful collection of more than fifty tales offers holiday charm and Gaelic humor by the Christmas stockingful. Drawing on the rich folk culture of County Kerry…
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