Christmas category: 982 books

IT’S LAURIE NOTARO’S HOLIDAY HANDBOOK. PREPARE TO LAUGH YOUR TINSEL OFF.It’s the most wonderful–and most dreadful–season of the year, when boxes of truffles attack your thighs, drunken holiday revelers stay long past their welcome, and your grandmother has conniptions at the department store...

MacMillan’s Christmas Shoppe has held a special magic for Sophia Ward ever since her mother first took her there as a child.  Now Sophia’s alone, and she can’t help but wonder.  Will the magic be gone, or will this year’s love be even stronger?  Brew a cup of tea, grab a Christmas cookie, and prepare for a treat.  You won’t want to miss this one!

A stay-at-home mom, Ruth has been busy steering her family towards Christmas.  All of this comes to a screeching halt, though, when she hears words she would never have thought possible coming over her phone.  A warm-hearted story of love, family and a Christmas season well spent from celebrated author Annie Acorn.  You won’t want to miss this one!

    The Christmas tree twinkled from a corner of the room, the cookies were all baked, and a Nativity held pride of place on the credenza, but then the phone rang and everything that had been so eagerly anticipated began a slow but steady downward spiral.  A new plan was hatched,...

"Table of Contents A celebration of holiday poetry, fiction, essays, recipes, and songs by more than sixty of the Bluegrass state's finest writers. Gathered here are writings from some of the legendary voices of Kentucky -- and the nation -- as well as original Christmas stories and poetry from...

Readers will look back with fondness to their own favorite moments surrounding the Christmas season as they catch a glimpse into the humorous, lighthearted, and spiritually poignant memories of some of their favorite Christian personalities from all walks of life, including actors, athletes, musicians,...

A perfect Christmas gift for music lovers, Pretty Paper is Willie Nelson’s inspiring Christmas fable, based on his holiday classic “Pretty Paper.”   More than fifty years ago, Willie Nelson’s beloved Christmas song “Pretty Paper” first hit the airwaves. And for all these years, Willie...

From pastor and New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller comes the perfect gift for the Christmas holiday—a profoundly moving and intellectually provocative examination of the nativity story Even people who are not practicing Christians think they are familiar with the story of the...

It is December of 1932, just one year after the Worthams and the Hammonds lost Wilametta Hammond and Emma Graham in one terrible night. The Christmas spirit seems largely absent again this year. George Hammond has disappeared, and Julia Wortham's house is filled to overflowing with the Hammond children,...

Ready-to-use worship and preaching resources for the four Sundays in Advent including Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Includes biblically-based sermon briefs, suggested Scriptures, hymns, prayers, and litanies for lighting the Advent Wreath. To help pastors minister more effectively during this important...

Christmas Cookies! A delightful part of the holiday season.  December is filled with sweet smells and tasty treats. Enjoy a dozen spiritual “cookies” to feed your soul and lift your spirit and a dozen delicious Christmas cookie recipes to create your own edible treats to nibble on.  

Evie Sternberg isn't thrilled that it's almost Christmas. It's a time for family, and hers has been estranged for a long time. So instead of moping around during the season, she decides to work on assignment writing an article on Amish traditions in Michigan. It's the 11th day of Christmas and a snow...

Pope Francis considers Advent and Christmas to be the first sign of hope in the flesh. We know that through the resurrection of Christ, our hope of salvation is confirmed, and the Church looks forward to the time when Christ will return in glory. Christmas is where, for all the darkness in our lives,...

Here’s some quiet encouragement for the always-busy holiday season: Prayers and Promises for Christmas, a collection of more than 140 prayer starters with scripture. Addressing 24 relevant topics—from Advent, Blessings, and Busyness, through Gifts, God the Father, and Goodwill, to Jesus, Love,...