Bed & Breakfast by Lois Battle
The four Taternall sisters—Josie, Cam, Lila, and Evie—come
together to celebrate the holidays and heal ten years of family secrets,
misunderstandings, and recriminations that have kept them apart.
Christmas Bliss by Mary Kay Andrews (new!)
Christmas is coming, but Savannah antique dealer Weezie
Foley is doubly distracted—both by her upcoming wedding to her longtime love,
chef Daniel Stipanek and also by the fact that her best friend and
maid-of-honor BeBe Loudermilk is due to give birth any day. Also try Blue Christmas.
The Christmas Letters by Lee Smith
Birdie, a World War II bride, writes about her
experiences of moving from a farm to the business world, and her daughter and
granddaughter add their letters about their experiences over the next 30 years.
Christmas Lights by Christine Pisera
Naman
Evoking the warmth and magic of the Christmas season, a
series of holiday vignettes journeys into the lives of seven very different
women as they deal with marriage, motherhood, illness, friendship, love, and
the wonders of the holidays.
The Christmas Pearl by Dorthea Benton
Frank
The matriarch of a family of belligerent idiots, Theodora
finds her efforts at bringing them together for a South Carolina Christmas
reunion have gone badly awry, until a very special someone uses Gullah magic
and common sense to bring about a miracle.
The Christmas Quilt by Jennifer
Chiaverini
While decorating Elm Creek Manor on Christmas Eve, Sarah
McClure discovers an incomplete Christmas quilt and sets out to uncover its
history with the help of Sylvia Bergstrom Compson, who reveals why the quilt
had never been finished.
Comfort & Joy by India Knight
It's December 23, and Clara Dunphy is running around
Oxford Street like a chicken with its head cut off. Despite the frenzy, the
twice-divorced mother of three loves Christmas and always wants to make it
perfect—a challenge when "family" means an extended network of
in-laws, out-laws, ex-stepfathers, and hangers-on totaling sixteen. Is the
madness of Christmas really worth it?
Knit the Season by Kate Jacobs
Dakota Walker—along with her father, her grandparents,
and her mother's best friend, Catherine—visits her Gran for the Christmas
holidays in Scotland, where the family members reminisce about Dakota's mother,
Georgia.
A Nantucket Christmas by Nancy Thayer (new!)
While the town might be aglow like a scene from Dickens
tale, unfortunately for newly married island newcomer Nicole Somerset, Christmas
means a dreaded visit from her stepdaughter, headstrong Kennedy. Kennedy has yet
to get over her parents' divorce, and in an attempt to reconcile her father and
mother, Kennedy sets in motion a scheme to sabotage Nicole's meticulous holiday
preparations. Also look for Thayer’s Hot
Flash Holidays.
The Snow Globe by Sheila Roberts
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, Kylie Gray relates the story to her two skeptical
friends before all three women experience miracles during the holiday season.
You might also enjoy On Strike for
Christmas.
Tis the Season by Lorna Landvik
Alienating everyone with her public misbehavior and fresh
from a stint in rehab, heiress Caroline Dixon goes into seclusion to avoid
paparazzi haunting her every move, until a correspondence with her former nanny
teaches her a valuable lesson in redemption.
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