Fiction - Holidays

Would you share a bed with your enemy to save Christmas?Down with a bad case of writer's block, Riven has escaped to a mountain cabin for a prolonged writing retreat. The last thing he needs this Christmas is for his family to invade his...

'Entangled Qissa' is a riveting saga spanning decades. Stories of individuals, unknown to one another at first, are irrevocably entwined. Events play themselves out to what almost seems the inevitable and only conclusion. Phulki and Chitu...playmates and best friends; Mini and Tussar... a swift,...

This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural...

A heartwarming cozy mystery series about losing everything, taking a chance, and starting again. After suffering a personal tragedy Abby Sullivan buys a huge old seaside mansion she has never even seen, packs up her life in San Francisco, and moves to Holiday Bay...

Love in the French Alps. The successful actor, Matt Peterson is living the life every guy dreams of. He's got it all, except the woman he has craved secretly for years, his assistant Kayla. A few days before New Year's Eve Kayla disappears in...

A Purple Heart Christmas is based on one little girl's wish to spend Christmas with her Great Grandfather, who was a WWII Veteran. This book is for anyone who believes in the magic of Christmas.Author: Taylor SalernoISBN-10: 8355858441ISBN-13: 9798355858445Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/02/2022Pages: 38Format:...

Twenty-three years and counting... that's how long Kerry has been holding onto a secret that changed her life forever. Now, after a seventeen-year marriage, two grown daughters and toeing the line, it's time to do things differently, on her own terms, even if that...

When superhero, Glint's, aka Henry Nichols's, powers go on the fritz after a supervillain attack, he finds himself rethinking his priorities. Years of devotion to public service have left him with little for himself, and with forty swiftly approaching, he finds himself longing for...

Hollie Craft has a problem. After casting a spell on Lucas Dayton, Hollie believes she is truly a witch when certain types of events start to happen to Lucas. Is it just a bit of hocus pocus, or is it fate? To Make a...

LOSING EVERYTHING MAY JUST BE THE GREATEST GIFT OF ALL. James sells toys. He's a workaholic and he's made a very good living, even if his wife and four children don't appreciate it. Truth is, his marriage is falling apart and he barely recognizes...

Christmases everywhere should be filled with gifts and good cheer. But in Australia Christmas may also feature fires, snakes, droughts, injuries, epic journeys and all kinds of challenges for children and adults alike. Master story-teller Mary Grant Bruce has 17 of her tales here...

The landmark new novel from award-winning author Claire Keegan It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man, faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order...

Elizabeth Bennet merely wanted to accompany her sister when she went to meet a young man she had met just the day before. Jane had only one fault, that being that she was all-trusting of everyone, so Elizabeth wanted to make sure Charles Bingley...

"A Christmas on the spectrum" is a look into a child's thoughts and reactions to his twin cousins with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). When a family lives with ASD, the challenges can be significant for both caretakers and the person diagnosed alike. However, sometimes...

Spend Halloween witch hunting with the gang in quaint and cozy Holiday Bay.Shelby Morris decided to come to Holiday Bay after receiving a huge inheritance from a woman she'd never met.The Bistro, which consists of a restaurant, bar, and live music platform, was exactly...

What could be more fun than spending a week in Hawaii right before the holidays?I'll tell you.Inviting the grumpiest stranger I've never met to join me.She is Tenley Shay, the voice behind TJ ON PAR, a podcast for Practical Adult Relationships, who spends her...

It's December 2020, and the Michaels family is a disaster. The marriage is in shambles, the kids are a mess, it's two weeks until Christmas, and the family has just been given a fourteen-day quarantine order after positive Covid tests. Being stuck in the...

If you love Jill Shalvis and Lori Wilde, then you won't want to miss this new novel--and start of a new series, The Snowflake Sisters--by USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Greene, who returns with a poignantly emotional story about the joys--and frustrations--of family, sisters,...

New York Times bestselling author Lori Wilde returns to Twilight, Texas, with a delicious love story about a sexy cowboy and a love-shy nurse determined to win the Christmas Cookie Bake-off challenge. He's sexy, single, and he can bake!Roan Sullivan is the answer to...

From New York Times bestselling author Courtney Cole, the Magic of the Christmas Season sends a woman back in time to the 1940s where she meets her own grandmother and learns the true meaning of family and the holiday.Piper McCaulley doesn't know which way...

The follow-up to Erin Sterling's New York Times bestselling hit The Ex Hex features fan favorite Gwyn and the spine-tinglingly handsome Wells Penhallow as they battle a new band of witches and their own magical chemistry.Gwyn Jones is perfectly happy with her life in...

Cowritten by #1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Murphy and USA Today bestselling author Sierra Simone--a steamy plus-size holiday rom-com about an adult film star who is semi-accidentally cast as a lead in a family-friendly Christmas movie, and the former bad-boy pop star...

The second book in the Glorious Summer series from CP Ward, author of the Delightful Christmas series. When worryingly-close-to-forty Jane Bennett wins a tent in an employee of the month competition, her best friend Annabel suggests they take the unremarkable prize and head for...

Should some secrets be left buried forever? Three girls, three lives connected since the eighties, three husbands, three love stories ... some life-changing secrets and one momentous holiday. In 2019, three couples go on a sun-soaked holiday to the Mediterranean. It was meant to...

Shakespeare's Christmas and Other Stories is a collection of historical adventure tales: Shakespeare's Christmas Ye Sexes, Give Ear! Captain Wyvern's Adventures Frenchman's Creek The Man Behind the Curtain Rain of Dollars The Lamp and the GuitarAuthor: Arthur Quiller-CouchISBN-10: 8027343615ISBN-13: 9788027343614Publisher: E-ArtnowLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/03/2022Pages: 120Format:...

The title story concerns the change of heart of Mr Chase, and insurance clerk who falls in love with the same mansion that he is earlier to sell off. Other stories in the collection are also unique and testimony of Vita's skill as a...

Christmas Charity Contest leads to Murder!Amateur baker Poppy Wilkinson agrees to be a celebrity contestant in a charity gingerbread house competition in Bath, England. She can support a good cause while promoting the long running TV reality show in which she's a contestant-The Great...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A special holiday wish list brings about hope, love, and second chances in this nostalgic novel from the queen of Christmas stories, Debbie Macomber. Lindy Carmichael isn't feeling particularly joyful when she returns home to Wenatchee, Washington, for Christmas....

In this sexy installment of the Miles High Club series from bestselling author T L Swan, a billionaire playboy goes incognito on a backpacking trip in Europe. But how long can he hide from love?I'm wealthy, powerful, and able to get any woman I...

Christmas magic, mystery, and matchmaking.Although my recipes are a perfect fit for the town Santa next door, without a budget for ads, I'm counting on word of mouth to drive business during my first Christmas as a bakery owner.But as things around town start...

A snowstorm. A stranger. A spark. It should be the perfect start to the perfect love story. But real life is far messier and more complicated than in the pages of the books in Megan Taylor's family bookshop - the last few years have...

Escape to the cosy little village of Appledore for an absolutely hilarious second chance at love. Will this Christmas prove that miracles really can happen when you least expect them?A year after she separated from her husband, Gianni, on Christmas day, Chloe's heart is...

New York Times best-selling and Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi gift-wraps 15 short takes on the holiday season - interviews with holiday notables, "informational" articles about TV specials and Christmas carols, short stories and poems, and even a couple of nods to Thanksgiving and...

"A tantalizing mystery full of humor and eccentric characters." --BooklistFuneral director and part-time sheriff Barry Clayton finds Archie Donovan's request absurd until he learns the casket will be the centerpiece of the Jaycees' haunted house, with all proceeds going to the children's hospital.But when...

It began with a quarrel over which newborn should be the baby Jesus in the town's Christmas pageant. Decades later, two scientists arrive to study small-town genetic patterns, only to run up against the invisible walls that split the leading citizens into two congregations...

An inspirational and heartwarming novel for fans of Mitch Albom, blending elements of It's a Wonderful Life and Field of Dreams into a moving story all its own. Four rounds. Four heroes. Four life-changing lessons. On the morning of his 40th birthday, Randy Clark...

You're never too old to believe...Tim Blake waits for his sixteen-year-old daughter, Sylvia, to arrive home on Christmas Eve. Snow is falling and he's worried about her new driving skills. Sylvia is a bright girl and he is confident in her judgment, so he...

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...

Few things in life are as picture perfect as Christmas in Maine--until murder dampens the holiday spirit. It must be something in the eggnog . . . EGGNOG MURDER by LESLIE MEIER When a gift-wrapped bottle of eggnog--allegedly from the Real Beard Santa Club--proves...

"When a young woman finds herself lost and at a crossroads, one last gift from her brother just might give her another chance at life and at love in this epic holiday romance from the author of Always, in December Sometimes the best gifts...

They're coziest of wintertime accessories...unless, of course, they become accessories to murder! USA Today bestselling author Carlene O'Connor teams up with Maddie Day and Peggy Ehrhart for a holly jolly Christmas collection of seasonal stories, as their beloved series sleuths each solve cases revolving...

Have you ever wondered what a Jack-o-lantern talks to its therapist about? Or how to make Ghost Pie? Or the warning signs that a Were-Taco may be lurking near? The Halloween Compendium is a collection of short stories and poems that answers these questions...

Christmas Surprise- Three formerly individual novellas. Rose-Colored ChristmasYoung widow Emilee Arnold enjoys web design, teaching Sunday school and Christmas.She rescues Gabe King from a burning plane and is snowed in with her very own scrooge.Will Emilee help Gabe realize Christmas is special? A special...

If the weather outside is frightful, draw up a chair to the fire, get the chestnuts roasting, and find an echo to every mood in this anthology of funny, surprising, moving, and magical festive stories from some of the greatest authors in the Vintage...

Beaune [bōn] noun: a red Burgundy wine from the Ce de Beaune region of France.Christmas morning 1902, London, England. A bottle of fine French wine from the Ce de Beaune region of France, intended as a gift from Mr. Sherlock Holmes to his old...

The Big Festival of Lights: Stories and Plays for Hanukkah is a collection of short fiction and plays by nine prominent Jewish figures of the early twentieth-century meant to capture and celebrate the spirit of the holiday. In, "By the Light of Hanukkah: A...

Those who enjoy the holiday stories that air on TV and other media leading up to Christmas will love this collection of similar original short holiday vignettes. Each story or chapter is told by Shanice and Margaret who are spending a winter evening drinking...

Every person has that one thing they're known for, and it doesn't matter what you do, that one thing-whether good or bad-follows you around like a bloodhound for the rest of your life. For me it's a story I wrote when I was fifteen....

Celebrate! I love writing Christmas stories because they include three of my favorite things-tradition, lots of emotion, and a guaranteed happy ending. That's why I'm delighted to reissue this holiday collection which includes four of my classic historical novellas, plus my only contemporary novella....

Cleo Xavier just can't catch a break. Losing her home and business just before Christmas, Cleo has only one thing left going for her - she's been left a gingerbread-style house by her late great-uncle.There's just one great big problem - the gingerbread house...