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Author
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
Join Ebenezer Scrooge--a cold-hearted, lonely old man--one Christmas eve as he is visited by the Ghost of Jacob Marley, his sole friend and former business partner. The troubled phantom has come to tell Scrooge that in order for him to avoid Marley's horrible fate, Scrooge must heed the warnings of Three Spirits who will haunt him that very night.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Claudine Burroughs--who works with William Monk's wife Hester at the women's clinic--expects nothing but an unbearably boring several hours from a Christmas party she attends with her husband. However, when an endearingly romantic poet has his prostitute companion crash the glittering event--and the woman winds up dead--Claudine has more on her hands than she bargained for. Feeling sorry for the poet, she sets out to uncover the truth about what...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 30 cm
Language
English
Description
Following Mary and Joseph's humble journey, this story depicts the miraculous birth of Jesus Christ as well as the angelic appearances witnessed by the shepherds and the three wise men.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Old loves rekindled, new loves found, and family bonds strengthened are the themes of these stories from the beloved, multiple-award winning author Mary Balogh. They are love stories in which Christmas is shown to have the power to heal all the wounds of the human heart.
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
395 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Christmas Stories is a treasury of short fiction by great writers of the past two centuries - from Dickens and Tolstoy to John Updike and Alice Munro. As a literary subject, Christmas has inspired everything from intimate domestic dramas to fanciful flights of the imagination, and the full range of its expression is represented in this wonderfully engaging anthology. Goblins frolic in the graveyard of an early Dickens tale and a love-struck ghost...
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
v, 314 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"During the hectic Christmas season, slow down with these heartwarming stories from some of literature's most beloved writers. In this collection, readers will discover lesser-known but tender stories and poems from classic authors they know and love. Each selection celebrates the beauty, mystery, and joy found in the season that commemorates Christ's birth. A Vintage Christmas includes stories from Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne,...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Charles Dickens is known for writing the greatest of all Christmas stories...A Christmas Carol, but few know that he wrote a number of other short stories for that holiday season. Here in one wonderful audio collection are six short stories about Christmas—A Christmas Tree, What Christmas is as We Grow Older, The Poor Relation's Story, The Child's Story, The Schoolboy's Story and Nobody's Story.
Publisher
New Vessel Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
160 pages ; 25cm
Language
English
Description
"This collection transports readers to the Emerald Isle with stories and poems sure to bring holiday cheer. This anthology is packed with beloved classics, forgotten treasures, and modern masterpieces. Youll find wondrous works by James Joyce, W. B. Yeats, Elizabeth Bowen, Anne Enright, William Trevor, Colm T̤i̕bn, Bernard MacLaverty and many more. See how Christmas is done in snowy Dublin and on the mean streets of Belfast, from west coast to east,...
Author
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Physical Desc
1 audio disc : CD audio ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Ebenezer Scrooge hates Christmas. Follow along as Scrooge is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve and learns what Christmas is really all about. Based on Disney's hit film Mickey's Christmas Carol.