The 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."
A 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.
Skipping 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.
A 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.
Mr. 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.
The
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.
More suggestions of holiday fiction held by the library:
View past Genres of
the Month
Escondido Public Library.
Revised:
07/03/08.
