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(((  Christmas Stories )))

Cuddle by the fire with some hot cocoa and enjoy a good book with a holiday theme. Whether you enjoy mysteries, fiction, or just a good yarn to warm your heart, here are some selections from our collection so that you can enjoy a Christmas story this holiday season!


Christmas Train book coverThe Christmas Train
By David Baldacci (also available in sound recording)
"Tom Langdon, a weary and cash-strapped journalist, is banned from flying when a particularly thorough airport security search causes him to lose his cool. Now, he must take the train if he has any chance of arriving in Los Angeles in time for Christmas with his girlfriend. To finance the trip, he sells a story about a train ride taken during the Christmas season."
 

 book coverA Christmas Carol
By Charles Dickens
A classic tale for the Holiday season. Through the intervention of four ghosts, Ebenezer Scrooge is shown the true spirit of Christmas.



 

book coverSkipping Christmas
By John Grisham
Now a major motion picture (Christmas with the Kranks). Luther and Nora Krank decide that they're going to skip the Christmas holiday altogether and go on a Caribbean cruise. But the couple discover that skipping Christmas brings consequences and isn't half as easy as they'd imagined.



book coverA Redbird Christmas
By Fannie Flagg
A novel about the holidays. 52-year-old Oswald T. Campbell leaves winter behind in Chicago, and heads to Lost River, Alabama, where he expects he will be spending his very last Christmas. As always, Flagg spins a storyline that makes you laugh and cry as you come to know the eccentrics who live in Lost River.
 

book coverMr. Ives' Christmas
By Oscar Hijuelos
The Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller author writes a story of haunted love about a man reflecting upon his life through the lens of Christmases past.



 

book coverThe Modern Magi: a Christmas Fable
By Carol Lynn Pearson
For three years waitress Annabelle Perkins works overtime to save for a trip to the Holy Land, only to give her money at the last moment to needy people. Now, too old to work overtime, she must accept her dream will not come true--until a miracle occurs.

 


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