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Right before Thanksgiving, a freak tornado descends on Larkspur, the small town in Pennsylvania's Allegheny Mountains where matriarch and candy magnate Loretta Cisco--affectionately called "Cisco" by her grandchildren--lives, and levels the home she's inhabited for fifty years. Then there's more bad news: Cisco's beloved triplet grandchildren, Hannah, Sara, and Sam, all newlyweds, are experiencing marital problems and they refuse to confide in their...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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In this sequel to the Christmas Shoes, Nathan Andrews is now a man and his greatest wish is to be a doctor. But beyond his studies fo medicine, Nathan realizes there are still things to be learned about faith, blessings, giving, and sacrifice.
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Five women from different walks of life have become close friends through their book club--enjoying one another's company even more than they enjoy the books. So when the leader of the book club unexpectedly passes away on the cusp of the Christmas season, the four remaining friends are stunned. When the group gathers "one last time" to open a bag Abby's husband gives them, they find Abby had made each of them an angel ornament for Christmas, crafted...
4) Finding Noel
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Macy, 21, retains little from her birthparents. She only remembers being sent away at the age of seven, a little sister, and a Christmas ornament inscribed with the word "Noel". Now an adult, she decides to begin a search for her biological sister and hopefully, get some long-contemplated questions answered about her past.
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Christmas evokes heartfelt songs of joy and devotion. Yet so often we hold back and fail to express our feelings of love and joy to the ones we hold dear. This year, the residents of Cape Light and Angel Island will learn to speak what?s in their hearts? Adele Morgan has made a few mistakes in her life. After a serious medical scare, she realizes that her greatest regret is that she sat idly by while a petty dispute tore her family apart. She has...
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Christmas volume 05
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Emily Springer, widowed mother of one, decides to leave Leavenworth, Washington, to spend Christmas with her daughter in Boston. Charles Brewster, history professor, curmudgeon and resident of Boston, wants to avoid Christmas altogether. He figures a prison town should be nice and quiet over the holidays — except he’s thinking of the wrong Leavenworth! Through an internet site, Charles and Emily arrange to swap houses for the holiday. So Emily...
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Cape Light novels volume 11
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Lucy, feeling independent after beginning her career as a nurse and considering leaving her boyfriend, takes in a lost teenager, and, as she tries to help and find out information about her, she realizes what she should do with her love life; while another resident of Cape Light, Betty, is distracted from her feelings over her ex-husband's decision to start a new family by a man she met at the Rotary Club's Christmas party.
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When his successful world is threatened by poor reviews about his latest book, writer Charles Dickens is given a one-month ultimatum by his publisher to write a successful, nostalgic Christmas book, a challenge that is complicated by worldly associates, self-doubt and the hardships of an impoverished young woman and her son.
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Cape Light novels volume 5
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The holiday season is upon the townspeople of Cape Light, and the village has a special guest. James Cameron, a minister who runs a mission in Central America, has decided to make a trip to Cape Light to work with Reverend Ben and spend some time with its warmhearted residents
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Rebecca Brandon returns with willful two-year-old Minnie, who has taken after her mother in her fierce determination and her addiction to luxury brands. When the financial crisis finally hits the Brandon family, Rebecca vows to stop shopping until she's worn everything in her closet at least three times; Luke scrambles for new business directions; and Minnie remains exceptionally difficult. Still, Rebecca wants to throw Luke a surprise birthday bash,...
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Cape Light novels volume 7
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As the citizens of Cape Light deck the halls for a Christmas to remember, the curmudgeonly Lillian Warwick has been confined to her bed with pneumonia. Cared for by her daughters, Emily and Jessica, she lets her thoughts drift back to the holiday season of 1955, to the magical time when she first met Oliver Warwick-the dashing man who would become her husband. Back then, Lillian was beautiful, spirited, and idealistic, and Oliver was a wonderful man...
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Now a wealthy man, Greg Sterling heads back east to make a name for himself. But on his first day home, he stumbles on a down-and-out young woman in desperate need of his help. Then just as quickly as she appeared, Margaret McLaren vanishes without a trace. As several days of searching come up empty-handed, old flame Alice Blair saunters into Greg's world, vying to win his heart-and his pocketbook. But will her coquettishness keep Greg from finding...
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Heartbreaker Bay novels volume 6
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Most people wouldn't think of a bad Santa case as the perfect Christmas gift. Then again, Molly Malone, office manager at Hunt Investigations, isn't most people, and she could really use a distraction from the fantasies she's been having since spending the night with her very secret crush, Lucas Knight. Nothing happened, not that Lucas knows that - but Molly just wants to enjoy being a little naughty for once. Whiskey and pain meds for almost-healed...
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"From the bestselling author of If I Were You comes a nostalgic and endearing holiday story that reminds us that sometimes, the most meaningful gifts are the ones we least expect and don't deserve. Best friends Audrey Barrett and Eve Dawson are looking forward to celebrating Christmas in postwar America, thrilled at the prospect of starting new traditions with their five-year-old sons. But when the Sears Christmas Wish Book arrives and the boys start...
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Not long after she receives the news in 1944 that her baby's father was shot down in the South Pacific, Amelia Richards loses hope. Jobless and broke, she has nowhere to turn for help but her infant's paternal grandparents. The only problem is, they don't know that she -- or their grandson -- exists. When Amelia discovers the family is wealthy and influential, dare she disclose the truth of her relationship with their son? Or could the celebration...
18) Duck the halls
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When someone rigs a cage full of skunks in the choir loft of the New Life Baptist Church, Meg Langslow must stop holiday pranksters from destroying the annual pre-Christmas concert, but when murder enters the picture, Meg must save Christmas from a vengeful killer.
19) The gift
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IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
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Nathan Hurst hates the Christmas season and all its trappings, which only remind him of the event that destroyedhis childhood, but, when a snowstorm strands him with a young mother and her special son, he witnesses the true miracles that occur during the holidays.
20) The snow globe
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Purchasing an antique snow globe and learning about how it brought comfort to a grieving widower and other owners who saw comforting images while gazing at it, Kiley Gray relates the story to her two skeptical friends before all three women experience miracles during the holiday season.
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