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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
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In this hilarious look at the chaos and frenzy that have become part of our holiday tradition, a weary couple is about to discover skipping Christmas brings enormous consequences and isn't half as easy as they had imagined.
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Angelic intervention volume 5
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Left alone and lonely at Christmas, sixty-year-old Greg Bennett wanders the streets of San Francisco, regretting his past and mourning his future, until a chance prayer in a small church leads a trio of charming angels--Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy--to create a miracle for him.
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"Her boyfriend has left her for his personal trainer, her mother has absconded with her latest husband for the holidays, and--adding insult to (literal) injury--her London apartment has just been destroyed by a gas leak. Single, mildly concussed and temporarily homeless, Charlie realizes there's only one place to go: Cozy Canine Cottages, where she'll spend the season looking after her cousin Jez's doggy day care center. And if she's not exactly a...
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"Raised in a Pennsylvania Amish community, young mother Rachel Yoder has led a simple life within her close-knit family. Widowed three years ago, she has moved back in with her parents, attempting to raise her daughter, Katie, without further emotional upheaval. Meanwhile, four hours and a whole world away in New York City, Ellie Lawrence is laser-focused on a high-powered public relations career, with too little time for her family, her friends,...
10) Christmas wishes
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Christmas letters: "Katherine O'Connor (known as K.O.) adores her five-year-old twin nieces -- and objects to her sister's plans to dispense with Christmas. Zelda is following the theories of child psychologist Wynn Jeffries, author of The Free Child (and, as it happens, K.O.'s neighbor). K.O. is particularly horrified by his edict to 'bury Santa under the sleigh, ' and she's out to prove that Wynn and his ideas are full of ... snow. He's not going...
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The Holly Wreath Man is a modern Christmas classic. Originally published as a serial in newspapers, this fantastic Christmas story is now collected in the book.
Handmade Christmas wreaths used to be a cottage industry in the United States. City dwellers would order them every year to add a touch of the forest to their holiday decorating. Farmers living hand to mouth would make and sell the wreaths every December in order to afford a Christmas
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Troubleshooters volume 12
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English
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An insane celebrity stalker believes Jules, Robin and their mutual ex, Adam, need to be eliminated.
It's Christmastime in Boston, and this year the silver bells will be wedding bells as FBI agent Jules Cassidy ties the knot with the man of his dreams, Hollywood heartthrob Robin Chadwick. The pair plan a quiet, intimate ceremony, to be witnessed by family and close friends from the FBI, SEAL Team Sixteen, and Troubleshooters, Incorporated, including...
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Three delightful angels come down to earth—just in time for Christmas!
Shirley, Goodness and Mercy: three well-intentioned angels who are occasionally allowed to intervene (or—perhaps more accurately—interfere!) in human affairs. Despite their frequent misadventures, despite the chaos they often cause, things always seem to turn out right.
Their latest prayer request comes from the Seattle area. Anne Fletcher...
Shirley, Goodness and Mercy: three well-intentioned angels who are occasionally allowed to intervene (or—perhaps more accurately—interfere!) in human affairs. Despite their frequent misadventures, despite the chaos they often cause, things always seem to turn out right.
Their latest prayer request comes from the Seattle area. Anne Fletcher...
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Christmas box trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Since it was first published, more than seven million people have been touched by the magic of The Christmas Box When Richard Paul Evans wrote The Christmas Box As Evans began to write, he was amazed at the inspiration that flowed into his mind and heart. He completed the moving story of a widow and the young family who comes to live with her in less than six weeks, and bound twenty copies to give as Christmas presents to family and friends. In the...
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2015.
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"How did Arlene Santana -- happy wife, successful business owner, young grandmother -- get here, a rehabilitation center surrounded by old people? Her new friends make her laugh, and the days speed by, marked by holidays on which her two sons and their wives come to visit her. But when will her husband, whose love she feels every moment of every day, come to see her? Then one Christmas the confusing pieces of Arlene's life start to click into place,...
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2008
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Anna and Michael have been trying for years without success to have a baby. Now in her late thirties, Anna has given up on the hope of motherhood after heartbreaking miscarriages and shattered dreams. As Christmas nears, she has to consider the possibility that it might be time to empty out the nursery and convert it to a guest room. Amidst her heartache, Anna secretly struggles with strange health problems that have her very worried. But, as often...