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Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2013
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Poppy is trying to make sure her children have the perfect Christmas. The fields are sparkling with snow, the turkey is roasting, and the tree is groaning with presents. But Poppy's beloved husband is fighting in Afghanistan, and the kids are missing their Dad. Can all their wishes come true without him? Or will they have the perfect Christmas after all?.
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Series
Coronation Street volume 1
Pub. Date
2017
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Elsie Grimshaw lives in one of the worst streets in Weatherfield and is desperate to escape from life at home with a brutal father and the drudgery of working at the local mill. Grabbing at the slim chances that come her way, Elsie emerges from the heartbreak of first love and her marriage to bad boy, Arnold Tanner at only sixteen years old, if not much older, then certainly wiser.Going under her married name of Elsie Tanner, she and Arnold move in...
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Publisher
HarperImpulse
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Tilly Hunter has fabulous friends, her dream job as a make-up artist with a prestigious opera company and Felix, her kind and caring husband to be. It looks set to be the most perfect Christmas yet! But when a monumental blunder forces her to work closely with new IT director Marcus Walker, it's not only the roast chestnut stalls on the cobbles of her beloved Covent Garden that cause sparks to fly... Super serious and brooding, Marcus hasn?t got a...
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Series
Whispers Wood volume 2
Publisher
HarperImpulse
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Welcome back to the village of Whispers Wood where Christmas magic is in the air... After giving his heart last year only to have it given away the very next day, Jake Knightley is opting out of Christmas-permanently! But then a beautiful new village arrival sets mayhem in motion, upsetting all his carefully laid plans. Emma Danes has said goodbye to Hollywood and will do anything to help make the clock house a success, even working closely with the...
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Pub. Date
2023
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Snowed in for the holidays . . . It?s three days before Christmas and starting to snow when high-flier Libby and her new boyfriend reluctantly attend her university reunion on the way back from a wedding in Yorkshire. Hosted by Archie Templeton - the heartbreaker of their group - at his grand family estate, the night is a great success until they go to leave: the road is now impassable and they?re given a bed for the night. At first, being snowed...
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Pub. Date
2017
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Autumn 1939 and London prepares to evacuate its young. In No 5 Jubilee Street, Bermondsey, nine-year-old Connie is determined to show her parents that she?s a brave girl and can look after her twin brother, Jesse. She won?t cry, not while anyone?s watching.Far from home, in the crisp Yorkshire Dales, Connie and Jesse are billeted to the rambling house of a village curate. Kindly but chaotic, the Reverend Braithwaite is determined to keep his London...
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Avon
Pub. Date
2015
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Lucy is so excited to announce she?s getting married this Christmas. She?s picturing a small, simple wedding in the village hall. Her dream is to stand in her vintage dress next to a great, big Christmas tree with all her close friends and relatives?But Lucy?s mother thinks differently! She?s been saving all her life for her little girl?s big day. And she wants to see it done properly. But Christmas is far too soon?the list on her clipboard can?t...
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Series
From Manhattan with Love volume 3
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
2016
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?Morgan excels in balancing the sweet and sexy to create the perfect blend.?-Booklist Hopeless romantic Eva Jordan loves everything about Christmas. Even if she is spending it alone housesitting a spectacular Fifth Avenue apartment. What she didn?t expect was to find the penthouse still occupied by its gorgeous-and mysterious-owner. Bestselling crime writer Lucas Blade is having the nightmare before Christmas. With a deadline and the anniversary of...
10) Christmas angels
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Series
Lovely Lane volume 4
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2017
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1950s Liverpool. Christmas is the most harrowing time of year for the nurses of St Angelus Hospital. A brilliant nurse secretly battling a fatal illness over Christmas... A starving baby boy abandoned in the freezing cold... A cruel, controlling mother, determined to block her daughter's nursing career at all costs... In the run up to Christmas, nurses Pammy and Beth are aiming to win the coveted national decorating competition for the St Angelus...
11) Mrs. Miracle
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Series
Angels volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins e-books
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Seth Webster's heart never healed after he lost his adored wife. Now, with Christmas approaching, wild twin boys to raise alone, a home in chaos, and the latest in a long line of exasperated housekeepers quitting in disgust, Seth needs more than help to keep his family togethe...he needs a miracle. And then a miracle arrives on his doorstep. Her name is Mrs. Merkle, but the kids call her ?Mrs. Miracle?-and from the moment the warm, knowing, and very...
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Wartime Bakery volume 1
Pub. Date
2017
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December, 1940: All that Audrey Barton wants is her family together for Christmas. But the war changes everything ? The Barton family bakery in Bournemouth has been at the heart of the town for generations: Audrey and Charlie Barton have never been rich, but their bread and cakes - and their love and advice - have enriched the lives of others in the town for many years. When war breaks out, it doesn?t take long for trouble to arrive on the bakery...
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Publisher
HQ DIgital
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Can Eva find love this Christmas?Eva Harris has her hands full juggling a young son, a disobedient dog and running her thriving seaside guesthouse, so really the last thing she needs is to be distracted by her new neighbour, ridiculously handsome but arrogant Ben Matthews.For one thing, she?s got nothing in common with the man, Ben?s a high flying lecturer at the town?s university while she barely scraped through high school, for another he?s fresh...
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Trash 'n' Treasures volume 6
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Ho Ho Homicide The Christmas rush is on as Brandy Borne and her quaintly quirky mother, Vivian,�sniff out plum collectibles for resale,�only to find�the owner of a Santa's workshop worth of treasures has received some deadly tidings. It's beginning to look a lot like murder. . .but who wanted the deceased closed for the holidays-permanently? Maybe a rival antiques dealer,�a Grinch who collects Christmas? Or the victim's suspiciously frosty...
15) Wish upon a star
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Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2013
Description
She?s resigned to the fact that the only romance she?s going to get is from the rom-coms she watches and with her busy job and her daughter; she doesn?t have time to even think about love. But when Stella gets sick, and Cally is forced to move in with her mother in the remote village of Sticklepond, to save money for Stella?s operation, Cally realizes how tough it can be to go it alone. Still, the last thing Cally wants to do is fall in love. All...
16) The snow angel
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Publisher
Zephyr
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Growing up in vibrant, crowded Nairobi, Makena has only one dream: to climb Mount Kenya like her hero, her mountain guide father. But when her beautiful world is shattered, she finds that in the city's dark places there are a thousand ways to fall, each more deadly than any crevasse. In a world of strangers, does she dare trust Snow, whose ballet dreams are haunted by a past she's still running from? And is the sparkling fox friend or foe? After a...
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Series
Comfort Food Cafe volume 2
Publisher
HarperImpulse
Pub. Date
2016
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Becca Fletcher has always hated Christmas but she has her reasons for being Little Miss Grinch. Now, though, she can?t avoid her version of ho-ho-hell - because she?s travelling to the Comfort Food Cafe to spend the festive season with her sister Laura and her family. She?s expecting mulled wine, 24-hour Christmas movie marathons and all kinds of very merry torture. Little does Becca know that the Comfort Food Cafe is like no other place on earth....
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The Penwith Trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Maze
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Christmas will be slightly less turbulent than summer, won?t it? Demi certainly hopes so. She and Cal are keeping their fledgling relationship under wraps for now. But then Kit Bannen, a hunky, blond - and somewhat mysterious - writer arrives at Kilhallon Resort, and not everyone is charmed. Cal is sure that Kit is hiding something. But is he the only one guarding a secret? Demi is busy baking festive treats for the newly opened Demelza?s cafe, but...
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Hamish Macbeth volume 16
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In dark, wintry Lochdubh, Christmas Cheer is about as welcome as a flat tyre on a deserted road. The Calvinist element in town has always resisted what they view as secular frivolity, so for most of the townsfolk there'll be no carols, feasting, gifts - or even whisky on Christmas Day! And for PC Hamish Macbeth there's no holiday from crime - he finds himself hunting for a missing cat belonging to a lonely spinster. Curt and unfriendly, the woman...
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The East End ration book volume 2
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With Christmas approaching, the Brogan family of London's East End are braving the horrors of the Blitz. With the men away fighting for King and Country and the ever-present dangers of the German Luftwaffe's nightly reign of death and destruction, the family must do all they can to keep a stiff upper lip. For Jo, the youngest of the Brogan sisters, the perils of war also offer a new-found freedom. Jo falls in love with Tommy, a man known for his dangerous...
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