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13 Christmas stories by Charles Dickens:A Christmas CarolA Christmas TreeWhat Christmas is as we Grow OlderThe Poor Relation's StoryThe Child's StoryThe Schoolboy's StoryNobody's StoryThe ChimesMrs. Lirriper's LegacySomebody's LuggageGoing into SocietyMrs. Lirriper's LodgingsThe Christmas Goblins

     Neither rain nor snow nor sleet nor hail can keep four sisters from returning to their childhood home to spend one last Christmas with Mom and Dad.  Despite the best efforts, though, none of them can predict the future.  This story surrounds you with the sights and sounds of Christmas as well as a surprise ending. Enjoy!

     The magic of MacMillan’s Christmas Shoppe has brought Sophia Ward the greatest gift of all, her new fiancé Joe MacMillan.  The only problem now is that he lives in Seattle and she is rooted on the East Coast.  Can their new found love survive the choices...

     Children aren’t the same as kittens, as Miss Mary Mason is reminded when she volunteers to keep two orphans in her home through Christmas.  Ragged and dirty, their manners leave much to be desired.  Still, Mary perseveres, not willing to return them to a system...

     A dutiful daughter finds herself full of anger as Christmas approaches, and she travels to visit her ailing mother.  A special Christmas present awaits her, though, as help given to another months before bears fruit in a very meaningful way and love sets her free.  Another Christmas classic from internationally read author Annie Acorn.  Enjoy!

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Where can you find all of the scents and sounds and joys of Christmas?  Where do little boys come of age, old women bring joy, and angels watch over us?  Where do the things that matter take precedence over worldly concerns?  Within the carefully crafted stories gathered for your enjoyment...

Christmas is fast approaching in Captain’s Point, and handsome Liam O’Brien, Head Cook at Chester’s crab shack, finds it hard to get into the spirit, as memories of the girl who was spirited away from him in the dead of night twelve years before fill his mind. But then, a newcomer to...

Drawn to the lakes and peaks of the Cumberland Mountains of East Tennessee by the need to recover from the blow life has dealt her, Samantha Hill seeks to set her new priorities now that she has been denied what could’ve been and certainly should’ve been.  All Matt Landry wants is...

Christmas is fast approaching in Captain’s Point, and Bill Graham, manager of Chester’s crab shack, finds it hard to get into the spirit, especially since the woman he loves barely knows he exists.  Sissy Stanton, a baker who supplies Chester’s, is too busy dealing with a crisis in her...

Betsy Seymour finds she isn’t quite up to gay chatter and a staff full of holiday cheer as Christmas approaches, but duty calls at the cemetery where she works.  Then she experiences a strange sighting amongst the fog-shrouded graves, and a few minutes later, she lies injured upon the ground, alone and unsure, only a few feet away from her husband’s grave.  Can love save her?

A veteran Santa reveals heartwarming true stories and lessons from his twenty-year career spreading Christmas magic. With the holiday shopping season beginning earlier each year, more than ever.  Americans are struggling to remember the true meaning of Christmas. And who better to deliver...

Take this season to listen and look for Christ's presence in your life. Lent is a time of new life and fresh beginnings. In this unique daily email subscription for the season of Lent, short readings from extraordinary Christians will open windows on your spiritual life, allowing fresh air to burst in....

La Navidad en las Montanas which translates 'Christmas in the mountains' is written by Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, With Introduction, Notes, And Vocabulary. The text of this story is taken from the Fifth Edition, in the Biblioteca de la Europa y América, Paris, 1891. As the author himself says in...