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Dr. Brady Thomasson has his hands full. Christmas is two days away, and he’s the physician in charge at Lilac’s senior living community. A mysterious illness, blizzard conditions, and a skeleton staff would be enough to keep even the most seasoned medical professional on his toes. Will the unexpected arrival of his former girlfriend distract him from his duties?

It’s a week before Christmas, and Louisa Graham is working 12-hour shifts at a bakery on Manhattan's Lower East Side. When a young cooking show assistant comes in from the rain and begs to buy all the cinnamon rolls on her tray, she doesn’t know what to do. Louisa is just the baker, and they aren't hers to sell. But the show burned the rolls they were supposed to film that day; so she agrees. The next morning, Louisa finds out that her cinnamon rolls were a hit, but the star of the show was allergic, and the whole crew is supposed to leave for London that afternoon. They want Louisa to step in for their annual Christmas Eve Dinner TV special at Claridge's.

Elemental witch Pepper McKay and former Navy SEAL Lathen Quartz have built Lobster Cove Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center on enchanted McKay land. During a romantic interlude on Halloween night, Pepper happily agrees to become Lathen’s wife. When the couple takes a much-needed break for Thanksgiving with family in Colorado, a Maine snowstorm fills the center with injured wildlife. Lathen finds himself drawn into a covert military mission while trying to deal with issues with friends and family. Pepper wants to cancel the wedding. Is she having second thoughts?

It’s Christmas in Danger Cove, and all Cassidi Conti wants is clients. A rival salon owner has come to town and stolen The Clip and Sip’s business. Her holiday hopes go south, however, after someone sexes up the sleigh display at her open house, and an incident from the past makes the paper.

No one wants to celebrate Christmas this year. Not Ella McKendrick, who, on the cusp of success as a potter, is tasked with her husband's company party on too-short notice. She gives up her first pottery sale to pitch in, but the joy of the season is diminished. Not Gertie Wycliffe, Ella's mom, a new widow who is doing everything she can to avoid her first Christmas alone. No one understands the grief and terror she feels - maybe because the craziness of a 74-year-old woman signing up for skydiving lessons is all she lets them see....

World War I Battlefield nurse Bess Crawford’s career is in jeopardy when a murder is committed on her watch, in this absorbing and atmospheric historical mystery from New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd. Home on leave, Bess Crawford is asked to accompany a wounded soldier confined...

While promoting her next novel, a Christmas love story, author Riley Reynolds is caught off guard when she’s asked during a live national television interview how she can write about romance when she still hasn’t found “the one” herself. Scrambling for an answer, she quickly answers that she has had great love in her past and that love inspired her novels. Little does she know that this one offhanded remark will turn her world upside down. Three of her ex-boyfriends see the interview, and each, believing she’s talking about him, shows up for her Christmas Camp book event.

Y por eso no es sorprendente que Meredith vaya a ir, aunque sí que lo es su propuesta. Ava no puede dejar de pensar que ahí hay algo extraño, por más que Connor intente tranquilizarla y que Lily no desconfíe porque lo único que quiere es no pensar en Tom ni Finn ni Ximena ni Jasmine, puesto que lo que ha pasado es horrible, atroz, y ¿por qué Oliver no puede limitarse a desaparecer de su vida, como parecen haberlo hecho Martha y Rex? Nate, sin embargo, diría que las personas desaparecen demasiado rápido en comparación con la huella que dejan. ¿O acaso no es así, Jordan?

Truman Capote makes whisky-soaked fruitcake in Alabama; Laurie Lee slides across a frozen pond in Gloucestershire; and Shirley Jackson is outwitted by a wily Santa Claus at the bank. Ghosts haunt the Christmases of Muriel Spark and Elizabeth Bowen, while Dostoyevsky, Daphne du Maurier and Italo Calvino take a cynical view of the season and Selma Lagerlof and Angela Carter celebrate its miracles. Ranging from Cork to Lagos to the Wild West, and from Paris to San Paolo to outer space, this is Christmas as imagined by some of the greatest short-story writers of all time.

Weihnachten ist für die meisten mit Gedanken an die eigene Kindheit verbunden: Meist sind es Erinnerungen voller Nostalgie und Wärme, die so oft in der Literatur beschrieben werden. Doch es gibt auch das "andere" Weihnachten, das Filip hier - mal komisch, mal traurig - beschreibt, beispielsweise den Kummer eines jungen Inhaftierten in einem tschechischen Gefängnis in der Weihnachtszeit oder eine junge Liebe gegen Ende des Krieges in Ostrau, dem Geburtsort des Autoren.

Rory Douglas rarely returns to his home town of Marietta, choosing instead to unleash his demons competing on the American Extreme Bull Riding Tour. But after a particularly bruising season, Rory visits Marietta with the idea of buying an investment property and planning for a future he never imagined or wanted. After 10 years as a flight attendant, Sadie Mann has turned in her wings to focus on her shabby chic business and becoming a single mom. The last thing she needs is unrequited love Rory Douglas home for the holidays.

He was her first love. But life intervened to keep them apart until fate brought them together again with help from a rescue dog named Chester. Fran is adjusting after her husband’s death when her first love comes back to town upsetting her family and leading her to an inspiration. Fran first fell in love with Michael as a teenager. When he broke her heart, she married Carl and lived a happy life for more than 30 years until Carl died tragically.

Rachel's plans to spend Christmas with her fiancé are in tatters after he is called to Italy at short notice. Rather than spend Christmas with her parents, Rachel decides to take a last-minute Canary Island cruise. Sarah, cruise ship nurse and Rachel's best friend, is only too pleased to have her along, as Sarah's parents are taking their first cruise. With her mother keen for her to settle down, she is glad of the moral support.

Experience the magical romance of a New York Christmas in this classic tale from #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs... Elaine St. James has it all—a thriving career as an elite Manhattan publicist, A-list best friends and a gorgeous, high-profile boyfriend her parents adore. But...

Mit einer Imbissbude nahe Betlehem versucht Beni Ben Baitz seine Familie durchzubringen. Mit fröhlichen Liedern und einmaligem Service lockt er seine Kunden an. Aber das Geschäft harzt und Beni ist frustriert. Da kommt ihm eine Volkszählung der Römer sehr gelegen, denn plötzlich sind viele Leute unterwegs, die auf ihren langen Reisen Hunger und Durst kriegen. Einige unter ihnen suchen aufgeregt ein ganz besonderes Kind. Sie haben keine Zeit einzukehren, und das ärgert Beni. Er hat nur Augen fürs Geschäft. Zum Glück ist da noch seine Tochter Hannah!

Christmas is fast approaching at the new Hope Farm and Bev has convinced a reluctant Molly to organise an open day to raise some much needed funds ahead of the New Year. Their nativity tableau has everything they need: anti-social sheep, alpacas munching the Baby Jesus doll and a hairdresser dressed up as Santa Claus. But on Hope Farm it's going to take more than mulled wine and Christmas lights to get everyone in the festive spirit.

Zoe becomes entangled in a complex murder case involving a dead miser, tipsy turkeys, and an eclectic cast of edacious heirs, when she agrees to help Jeremy in his temporary job at a nearby turkey farm two weeks before Thanksgiving.

In dieser schönen Geschichtensammlung, erzählt Rotraut Schöne sehr unterschiedliche Weihnachtsgeschichten. Was diese jedoch alle gemeinsam haben, ist dass das Besondere an diesen Erzählungen immer ihre Verbindung zu Schlesien ist. Die Geschichten berichten gleichermaßen von Frieden und Krieg und erzählen genauso von den "kleinen Leuten" wie auch den Fürstlichkeiten. Ein wunderbarer Weg um in das von manchen als schönstes Land Deutschlands bezeichnete Schlesien einzutauchen.

Für den Nordpol-ingenieur Garrett McCree steht ruhe an erster stelle und sein leben verläuft nach einem sorgfältig ausgearbeiteten masterplan. So war es zumindest.... Bis ihn eines tages der Weihnachtsmann fragt, ob er die gewinnerin des Nordpol-aufsatzwettbewerbs begleiten kann. Aus loyalität zum Weihnachtsmann stimmt Garrett widerwillig zu. Wie viel aufwand kann es schon sein, sich um eine einzige frau zu kümmern?

Идея создания этого произведения возникла у Эмиля Брагинского и Эльдара Рязанова после того, как им рассказали историю о человеке, который после бани зашел к приятелям, где усердно и активно повеселился, после чего чистый и довольный заснул.