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An Amish Christmas Quilt
Lopsided Christmas Cake By Wanda Brunstetter
The happily unmarried, thirtytwo-year-old Amish Hochstetler With all the warmth of a cozy quilt, three authors stitch together twins decide to bake a cake in person at a charity event, but Amish tales of hearts joined, friendships patched, and the bright when they are asked to do so on stage, their charmingly nervous joys of Christmas tradition. ROM performance attracts the attention The Amish Christmas Sleigh of a pair of bachelors. INSP By Charlotte Hubbard and others
By Kelly Long and others
Through the snowy nights, silver bells ring cheerfully, heralding a season of secret gifts, unexpected chances, and love’s sweetest journeys. ROM
The Christmas Cat By Melody Carlson
Returning home at Christmas, a young man receives an inheritance he never expected--six cats in need of homes. Can he match the cats with the perfect owners? And is it possible that he might meet his own match along the way? ROM
Marry Me at Christmas
Socks for Christmas
By Andy Andrews
For ten-year-old Andy, Christmas was about fun, food, and who gets bragging rights to the most loot under the tree. But, something would happen that one Christmas that would change Andy forever. He would learn how to have a grateful heart… even for a simple pair of socks. BIO
By Susan Mallery
Small town boutique owner Madeline Krug tries to resist falling for movie star Jonny Blaze while working closely with him to organize his sister’s wedding. ROM
Mini Christmas Crochet By Val Pierce
Festive novelty knitters will love this collection of small Christmas crochet projects to decorate the home for the season. Simple photographs accompany each step-by-step project and provide knitters with an easy reference to the finished piece. ARC
KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS ARC..........Arts & Crafts BIO...........Biography FIC............Fiction INSP.........Inspirational Fiction MYS..........Mystery ROM.........Romance
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The Christmas Wedding By James Patterson
The tree is decorated, the cookies are baked, and the packages By Karen Kingsbury Ryan Kelly spends plenty of time at are wrapped, but the biggest The Bridge--the oldest bookstore celebration this Christmas is Gaby Summerhill’s wedding to a groom in historic downtown Franklin, whose identity remains a surprise Tennessee--remembering the to her four children. FIC times he and Molly Allen--who moved to Portland--once spent there, and now, with the bookstore The Crossing By Michael Connelly in deep financial trouble, it will Detective Harry Bosch has retired take a miracle to keep tragedy from the LAPD, but his halffrom unfolding. INSP brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, needs his help proving a Christmas in Sugarcreek murder charge against his client By Shelley Shepard Gray As the holidays approach, dutiful is a setup. Bosch reluctantly takes the case and makes daughter Judith Graber, feeling himself a target. FIC overwhelmed, overworked and under appreciated, is attracted to Dashing Through the her father’s new employee, Ben Knox, Sugarcreek’s own “bad boy”, Snow By Debbie Macomber but refuses to be another one of Forced to share a rental car in his conquests. INSP order to make it to Seattle for Christmas, Ashley Davison The Christmas Light and Dashiell Sutherland find By Donna VanLiere In the small town of Grandon, five themselves attracted to one very different people discover the another. ROM true meaning of Christmas when Falling Like Snowflakes they are brought together for a By Denise Hunter rather unconventional church When the Christmas season finds Nativity. INSP Eden in Summer Harbor, Maine,
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she’s on the run from trouble. Romance is the last thing on her mind. INSP
The Guilty By David Baldacci
When his father is charged with murder and refuses to do anything to prove his innocence, Will Robie returns as an outsider to his hometown of Cantrell, Mississippi--where is he is met with distrust--to conduct his own investigation. FIC
Foreign Affairs By Stuart Woods
Traveling to Rome to attend a mandatory meeting abroad, Stone Barrington finds his hopes for turning the trip into a vacation dashed in the wake of more trouble than he anticipated. MYS
Hunted By Karen Robards
On Christmas Eve, New Orleans PD top hostage negotiator, Caroline Wallace, must bargain with a former police officer and coworker who has taken the chief of police and the mayor hostage. FIC
A Merry Little Christmas By Anita Higman
Franny Martin is an Oklahoma
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farm girl who’s preparing to spend the holidays alone . . . again. Then Charlie Landau shows up one day, all wealth and polish, and offers to buy Franny’s farm. ROM
The Murder House By James Patterson
Returning to the luxurious Hamptons of her youth to investigate the murders of a Hollywood power broker and his mistress, detective Jenna Murphy uncovers links between the case and a series of unsolved killings. FIC
Promise Me By Richard Paul Evans
Rogue Lawyer By John Grisham
A nomadic lawyer because of frequent death threats, Sebastian Rudd takes on a case involving a brain-damaged young man accused of murdering two little girls. FIC
The Scam By Janet Evanovich
Nicholas Fox and Kate O’Hare work together to bring down super-criminals the law can’t touch. This case will take them from the Las Vegas strip to the sun-soaked beaches of Oahu’s North Shore to chase casino magnate Evan Trace. FIC
Beth Cardall has a secret. For eighteen years, she has had no choice but to keep it to herself, but The Shadow of Your Smile on Christmas Eve 2008, all that is By Susan May Warren about to change. FIC After 25 years, Noelle and Eli Hueston are contemplating Robert B. Parker’s The Devil divorce. But then an accident Wins erases part of Noelle’s memory. By Reed Farrel Coleman Though her other injuries are Investigating the discovery of three minor, she doesn’t remember Eli, bodies in an abandoned factory their children, or the tragedy that after a huge storm, Jesse Stone has ripped their family apart. ROM learns that two of the victims were teen friends, who went missing When Love Comes My Way twenty-five years earlier. MYS By Lori Copeland As Tess Wakefield--the spoiled heir of Wakefield Timber--awakens
from a frightening wagon accident, she discovers she has lost her memories, but she soon loses her heart as well to handsome lumberjack Jake Lannigan. ROM
White Fire By Lincoln Child
Special Agent Pendergast investigates after a woman is thrown in jail by the owners of a resort located on the site of unsolved murders. Drawn deeper into the investigation, Pendergast uncovers a mysterious connection between the murders and a fabled, long-lost Sherlock Holmes storyone that might just offer the key to the modern day killings as well MYS
Winter Brides: A Year of Weddings Novella Collection By Denise Hunter and others
A collection of three novellas about winter weddings includes Denise Hunter’s A December Bride, in which Layla O’Reilly gets engaged to Seth Murphy in order to impress an important client, while he hopes to win her heart. ROM
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