Fiction - Holidays

On a cold, lonely Christmas Eve, 15-year-old Dovie Ellis gives birth to a baby girl she names Christmas. Lost and afraid in the world, Dovie flees, abandoning her child that very same night. Raised by kindly great-grandparents, Chrissie spends her childhood frolicking in the...

After my boyfriend has a not-so-little accident with his new female best friend, I jump at the opportunity to take a small vacation with my brother to Salem for Halloween. He's annoyed, but his two best friends? Not so much. Halloween and Salem speak...

Love at Christmastide is wonderful... if the couple in question believes in the magic. Alistair Forsythe, the 12th Earl of Reardon, is the most sought-after man in the ton this Christmastide season. Handsome, of good character, and possessing a large fortune, he finally intends...

​​When the fulfillment of a long overdue promise brings Elizabeth Bennet to Derbyshire, she is overwhelmed by the beauty of the countryside. After a few diverting weeks away from the chaos of Longbourn, Elizabeth begins to relax and feel more like herself again. But...

A small town story of one woman's hilarious effort to save ChristmasMarianne Wallace dreads the empty nest. She loves her husband, but she's thrived on being a mother, and nothing will stop her from having a final epic Christmas before her youngest son leaves...

Every woman in the world hates me. No seriously, it's true.When I decided to break up with my girlfriend, she went on to write a chart-topping album about how I broke her heart.And everyone's on her side.I get hate mail.Death threats.Now, I'm hiding out...

The Greymore Genealogy Research Site's family historians are back with a new adventure. It's Christmastime in Oakhurst and after some shenanigans with the tree, everyone settles down for a lovely holiday dinner during a massive blizzard. When a tall American stranger turns up at...

The Greymore Genealogy Research Site's family historians are back with a new adventure. It's Christmastime in Oakhurst and after some shenanigans with the tree, everyone settles down for a lovely holiday dinner during a massive blizzard. When a tall American stranger turns up at...

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...

The next purrfect read from Rachel Wells - a true festive treat!Christmas is around the corner, and Alfie and George can't wait. This year, the residents of Edgar road have come together to put on a festive show and raise money for a local...

With echoes of classic Hollywood love stories like Serendipity and An Affair to Remember, Viola Shipman's latest winter charmer following the USA TODAY bestseller The Secret of Snow is sure to tug on heartstrings and delight readers who love books about books, missed connections...

Clara loves Christmas and has created a career around decorating for the holidays. Her family tolerates her obsession but has chosen something different this year.An exciting new romance with Clay, an old friend, is making up for the disappointment, but is threatened when a...

A Promise, A Blizzard, and a Secret Wish... Aiylin Miller finds contentment in her father's workshop, secretly composing melodies that fill her heart with joy. Little does she know that the Lord has other plans, and this Christmas will lead her on a journey...

Welcome back to the small town of Celebration Bay--where the Halloween festivities are full of more tricks than treats... This October in Celebration Bay, you can't swing a black cat without hitting a haunted house. There are three finalists in the contest for the...

In this Pennyfoot Hotel Christmas mystery, the head count is down--but the body count is up this holiday season... With one of her housemaids leaving to get married, Cecily Sinclair Baxter wants nothing more for Christmas than some good help. Instead of visions of...

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me the reason your husband had to die.Anna Greenan finds the cryptic lyric shoved against her front door. Each day of Christmas brings Anna a new stanza with a new clue. Will this...

A magical holiday love story set at the glamorous Plaza Hotel in New York City.It's Christmas week when twenty-six-year-old Sabrina Post knocks on the door of the Vanderbilt suite at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, ready to accept the ghostwriting position for...

When the opportunity to oversee her company's acquisition of Green River Cove's local bottling company, Avery jumps at the chance to visit with her family and reconnect with her best friends from high school, Paige and Brooke. What she did not expect was to...

"Sweet, romantic, and suspenseful, Manchester Christmas is an unexpected gift." --Richard Paul Evans #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of The Christmas Box A young writer is drawn to a small New England town in search of meaning for her life. Soon, she encounters...

From Charlaine Harris, the #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author behind HBO's hit series True Blood and NBC's Midnight, Texas, the third in a series that proves death never takes a holiday... For Lily Bard, the idea of "going home for...

Find out what happens in the sequel to "The Lost Christmas Ornament" when Zid is put away after Christmas only to find himself in the box of Halloween decorations, rather than the box of Christmas decorations! Will he ever see his Christmas ornament friends...

The seven days of Kwanzaa from December twenty- sixth to January first showing the reader how to celebrate and why it's important, to celebrate family, culture & heritage.Author: Deanna BrownISBN-10: 8769897352ISBN-13: 9798769897351Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/18/2021Pages: 32Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 8.50h x 8.50w x 0.08d

When a deal for a custom bike might go up in smoke, Holly steps in to hopefully save the day. What else is the best secretary supposed to do? While Holly dives head first into the holiday season, Rook finally sees what is right...

This year, Christmas in Esther and Sophie's beach town is anything but jolly. Despite enjoying the Parade of Lights, cutting fresh Christmas trees, and eating delicious treats, murder has darkened the Christmas spirit in Necanicum. With all the strange goings on, Sophie and Esther...

It had been one year and Roland Hope had not learned a damn thing. Now, the week before Christmas, his world as a high-powered labour negotiator is falling apart. His wife Jodi wants a divorce. His homeless, alcoholic father shows up unexpectedly, with a...

"A beautiful, poignant read . . . straight from the heart . . . heart breaking and heart-warming in equal measure. Once I had started reading it I couldn't put it down . . . beautiful." --Amazon reviewer, five stars A heartfelt novel of...

'A warm, funny, uplifting writer to celebrate!' KATIE FFORDE If you love Lucy Diamond, Phillipa Ashley, Sue Moorcroft and Holly Martin, you'll LOVE Erin Green's novels of love, life and laughter! 'A lovely, heart-warming story of three very different women trying to change their...

There's something about those Wyoming men... New York Times bestselling author Diana Palmer returns to the Cowboy State with a brand-new tale of desire and deception Cultivating his vast Wyoming ranch is all security expert J. C. Calhoun wants. His land is the only...

Fans of Debbie Macomber and Danielle Steel won't want to miss this enchanting, humorous, and heartwarming novel that takes you on a singles cruise with four lifelong friends who might just find the gift of love this Christmas... At Ridgewood High, Amy, Frankie, Rachael,...

Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, anything can happen.In this glittering and heartwarming collection, three of today's bestselling sweet romance novelists offer up the gift of cheer for the winter holiday season.A Christmas Do-Over by Sheila RobertsDarby doesn't want to go home for the holidays, but...

The new festive, feel-good Christmas read from the Sunday Times and multi-million-copy bestseller'Full of fabulously festive fun!' ERICA JAMESIT'S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR . . . Christmas is fast approaching at the new Hope Farm. Owner Molly Baker has been convinced...

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. This is a collection of short stories by well-known Australian author,...

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. This is a collection of short stories by well-known Australian author,...

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,...

Lizzy Chesterfield hasn't had time for love, not since a disastrous break up with her high school boyfriend left her eating ice cream out the tub. That is, until a mysterious letter arrives at the café where she works, a declaration of love from...

Author: Holly MartinISBN-10: 1910751456ISBN-13: 9781910751459Publisher: BookoutureLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/25/2015Pages: 350Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.73d

A stunning Scottish castle, a tall dark stranger, and a vow to stay single happily ever after... What could go wrong? Nora Brown is totally happy single. The men in her life have all been selfish, cheating liars and being alone is far easier...

Escape to the flower-filled fields and hedgerows of the Cotswold countryside, to a tiny cottage and a summer that could change everything.... Amelie has lived in Cornflower Cottage since she was born. She did her homework at the scrubbed kitchen table and helped her...

Lucy Clark has just bought a house with her worst enemy. From the moment Lucy - Miss 'my self-worth comes from setting myself impossible standards of perfection' - meets Zack - Mr 'I'm your infuriatingly laidback yet impossibly ripped new yoga teacher' - it's...

Thea placed her hands on the soft, aged leather of her grandmother's suitcase, the one the slight old woman never let out of her sight. The thunk of the lock sounded very loud in the stillness of the cottage and Thea froze, her eyes...

Author: Holly MartinISBN-10: 1786810719ISBN-13: 9781786810717Publisher: BookoutureLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/22/2016Pages: 324Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.68d

Four heartwarming and poignant Christmas stories: A Calico Christmas, Christmas Present, A Kiss for Christmas, and A Christmas Homecoming. (No part of this work is AI generated.)Author: Linda RettstattISBN-10: 8362912278ISBN-13: 9798362912277Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/09/2022Pages: 154Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.36d

Elizabeth's mother has lied. Now the horrible Thorpes have come for Christmas!No matter that the fib is an old one, Elizabeth Bennet's cousins are certain that she is an heiress. Is not the Bennet's prosperous estate evidence enough? There is a fortune to be...

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...

Each holiday season is unique in the small Montana town of Timberton. New and returning guests bring their dreams, cares, and worries, and always leave with lighter hearts and renewed hope for the future. But no season has ever been as special as this...

CONTENTSA Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens - The Christmas Babe by Margaret E. Sangster - A Western Christmas by Mrs. W.H. Corning - Joe's Search for Santa Claus by Irving Bacheller - Angela's Christmas by Julia Schayer - The First Puritan Christmas Tree by...

CONTENTS A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens - The Christmas Babe by Margaret E. Sangster - A Western Christmas by Mrs. W.H. Corning - Joe's Search for Santa Claus by Irving Bacheller - Angela's Christmas by Julia Schayer - The First Puritan Christmas Tree...

A Christmas Classic Your Children Will Read to Their OwnDestined to be a Christmas classic, The Last Magi is the story of Artaban, the fourth Wise Man, who leaves his betrothed, the beautiful Rasha, to follow his fellow Magi to Bethlehem. Arriving too late,...

A penniless widowed countess with trade in her blood descends upon the country manor of her sons' negligent guardian, intent on confronting him about her boys' futures. Instead, she finds his younger brother, a business-minded aristocrat with a penchant for widows and a distaste...

Can a gentleman be too charming? The ladies of Upper Upton think so. And it's almost Leap Day, when a man who refuses a lady's proposal of marriage must offer a forfeit.When the single ladies of the village conspire to teach their charmer a...