Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story by Paul
Auster
In an unsentimental but affecting fable, Auster relates the
holiday tale of a colorful cigar shop owner whose life is altered by a lost
wallet, a blind woman, and an unconventional Christmas dinner.
A Big Sky Christmas by William W. and
J.A. Johnstone (new!)
When an 1873 wagon train of immigrants is battered by
harsh storms, outlaws, and Indians, Smoke Jensen and an old mountain man known
as the Preacher come to their aid and promise to get them to Montana Territory
by Christmas. A holiday western!
A Blue and Gray Christmas by Joan
Medlicott
After being moved by the letters of two Civil War
soldiers--one Union and the other Confederate--three friends track down the
soldiers' descendants and invite them to a Christmas reunion in Covington,
where the letters will serve as holiday gifts. For more Christmas memories with
the ladies of Covington, also read A
Covington Christmas.
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
It’s not Christmas without this classic by Dickens. Miserly
Ebeneezer Scrooge learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly
visitors review his past and foretell his future. For something different, also
try Dickens’s The Christmas Books,
which includes The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man.
Christmas in Cornwall by Marcia Willett
Moving to Cornwall in an effort to strengthen familial
ties, Clem and his five-year-old son, Jakey, establish unconventional bonds
with the jovial nuns at a local convent until an unexpected event threatens to
end the nuns' way of life.
The Christmas Pig by Kinky Friedman
In an unconventional holiday tale set in a kingdom two
hundred years in the past, 10-year-old Benjamin, a mute autistic savant, is
commissioned to paint a nativity scene for midnight mass and meets a talented
pig who helps him to find his voice.
Christmas, Present by Jacquelyn Mitchard
When Eliot and Laura Banner learn that Laura has a
terminal condition, they gather their children and family around themselves
during the holiday season to convey her blessings to them for the future and
remember their shared history.
The Christmas Train by David Baldacci
Tom Langdon, a weary and cash-strapped journalist, is
banned from flying when a particularly thorough airport security search causes
him to lose his cool. Now, he must take the train if he has any chance of
arriving in Los Angeles in time for Christmas with his girlfriend.
Daniel Plainway by Van Reid
During the Christmas holidays in 19th century
Maine, Tobias Walton and his fellow companions in the Moosepath League become
caught up in the lives of colorful associates of country lawyer Daniel
Plainway.
More fictional holiday stories to come on December 19!
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