Author: Louisa May Alcott
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 9047
Book Description
e-artnow presents to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas novels and stories, myths, carols and the poetry dedicated to this magical holiday by the masters of literature: _x000D_ Mr. Pickwick's Christmas (Charles Dickens) _x000D_ The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry)_x000D_ The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf)_x000D_ A Merry Christmas (Louisa May Alcott)_x000D_ A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain)_x000D_ Silent Night_x000D_ The Night After Christmas_x000D_ The Child Born at Bethlehem_x000D_ The Adoration of the Shepherds_x000D_ The Visit of the Wise Men_x000D_ As Joseph Was A-Walking_x000D_ The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter)_x000D_ Where Love Is, God Is (Leo Tolstoy) _x000D_ The Three Kings (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) _x000D_ A Christmas Carol (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) _x000D_ Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum)_x000D_ Christmas At Sea (Robert Louis Stevenson)_x000D_ The Savior Must Have Been A Docile Gentleman (Emily Dickinson)_x000D_ The Heavenly Christmas Tree (Fyodor Dostoevsky)_x000D_ The Little City of Hope (F. Marion Crawford)_x000D_ The First Christmas Of New England (Harriet Beecher Stowe)_x000D_ Christmas in the Olden Time (Walter Scott)_x000D_ Christmas In India (Rudyard Kipling)_x000D_ A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens) _x000D_ The Twelve Days of Christmas_x000D_ The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (L. Frank Baum)_x000D_ Ring Out, Wild Bells (Alfred Lord Tennyson)_x000D_ Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett)_x000D_ Black Beauty (Anna Sewell)_x000D_ The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton)_x000D_ Granny's Wonderful Chair (Frances Browne)_x000D_ The Romance of a Christmas Card (Kate Douglas Wiggin)_x000D_ Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame)_x000D_ The Wonderful Life - Story of the life and death of our Lord (Hesba Stretton)_x000D_ The Christmas Angel (A. Brown)_x000D_ Christmas at Thompson Hall (Anthony Trollope)_x000D_ Christmas Every Day (William Dean Howells)_x000D_ The Lost Word (Henry van Dyke)_x000D_ The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (E. T. A. Hoffmann)_x000D_ The Little Match Girl_x000D_ The Elves and the Shoemaker_x000D_ Mother Holle _x000D_ The Star Talers_x000D_ Snow-White_x000D_ The Christmas Hirelings_x000D_ The Blue Carbuncle_x000D_ An Exciting Christmas Eve_x000D_ The Spirit of Christmas…
That Christmas Eve
Author: Mia Ford
Publisher: Mia Ford
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
“Are you sh*tting me?” He is my brother’s best friend? That hunk of muscle attached to a killer smile and light-my-fire eyes? That billionaire who sizzles my insides every time he says my name? I didn’t have a choice. I got him alone during our Christmas Eve party, and I told him to unwrap his gift. Me. But Josiah left me with an unexpected gift of his own. A bouncing baby that’s the spitting image of him. I can’t believe my family hasn’t figured it out. They think I’m some sex-crazed maniac who can’t say no to men. But Josiah’s the only one I’ve ever really wanted. And now he’s back. And I’m f*cked. Because I still want him. And I know he still wants me. But bad boys don’t want babies, they want babes. Can I tell him the truth without losing him forever?
Publisher: Mia Ford
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
“Are you sh*tting me?” He is my brother’s best friend? That hunk of muscle attached to a killer smile and light-my-fire eyes? That billionaire who sizzles my insides every time he says my name? I didn’t have a choice. I got him alone during our Christmas Eve party, and I told him to unwrap his gift. Me. But Josiah left me with an unexpected gift of his own. A bouncing baby that’s the spitting image of him. I can’t believe my family hasn’t figured it out. They think I’m some sex-crazed maniac who can’t say no to men. But Josiah’s the only one I’ve ever really wanted. And now he’s back. And I’m f*cked. Because I still want him. And I know he still wants me. But bad boys don’t want babies, they want babes. Can I tell him the truth without losing him forever?
Don't Look Now
Author: Daphne du Maurier
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590172884
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Classic horror stories by one of masters of the form. Full of bone-chilling tales, this collection includes "The Birds," the basis for the Alfred Hitchcock film of the same title, and other creepy classics. Daphne du Maurier wrote some of the most compelling and creepy novels of the twentieth century. In books like Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel, and Jamaica Inn she transformed the small dramas of everyday life—love, grief, jealousy—into the stuff of nightmares. Less known, though no less powerful, are her short stories, in which she gave free rein to her imagination in narratives of unflagging suspense. Patrick McGrath’s revelatory new selection of du Maurier’s stories shows her at her most chilling and most psychologically astute: a dead child reappears in the alleyways of Venice; routine eye surgery reveals the beast within to a meek housewife; nature revolts against man’s abuse by turning a benign species into an annihilating force; a dalliance with a beautiful stranger offers something more dangerous than a broken heart. McGrath draws on the whole of du Maurier’s long career and includes surprising discoveries together with famous stories like “The Birds.” Don’t Look Now is a perfect introduction to a peerless storyteller.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590172884
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Classic horror stories by one of masters of the form. Full of bone-chilling tales, this collection includes "The Birds," the basis for the Alfred Hitchcock film of the same title, and other creepy classics. Daphne du Maurier wrote some of the most compelling and creepy novels of the twentieth century. In books like Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel, and Jamaica Inn she transformed the small dramas of everyday life—love, grief, jealousy—into the stuff of nightmares. Less known, though no less powerful, are her short stories, in which she gave free rein to her imagination in narratives of unflagging suspense. Patrick McGrath’s revelatory new selection of du Maurier’s stories shows her at her most chilling and most psychologically astute: a dead child reappears in the alleyways of Venice; routine eye surgery reveals the beast within to a meek housewife; nature revolts against man’s abuse by turning a benign species into an annihilating force; a dalliance with a beautiful stranger offers something more dangerous than a broken heart. McGrath draws on the whole of du Maurier’s long career and includes surprising discoveries together with famous stories like “The Birds.” Don’t Look Now is a perfect introduction to a peerless storyteller.
Dance Little Lady
Author: Lilian Harry
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 1409130266
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
An absorbing Sunday Times bestselling wartime saga from this much-loved author. Kate, Sally, Maxine and Elsie work at the naval armament depot on the shores of Portsmouth harbour. The hours are long and the work difficult and dangerous, but even in the dark days of the Second World War they still find time to enjoy themselves, at the ENSA concerts and hops in the local drill hall. However, beneath the careless laughter each girl nurses a secret. Kate is terrified that she carries a jinx, while Maxine has discovered a family secret which turns her bitterly against both her parents. Elsie is still grieving the loss of her son Graham, killed in the Blitz. And spirited young Sally has lied about her age in order to get her job. Each faces a dilemma that will be resolved only after D-Day in June 1944. What happens then brings each woman face to face with her own strengths and failings and, ultimately, her own destiny.
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 1409130266
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
An absorbing Sunday Times bestselling wartime saga from this much-loved author. Kate, Sally, Maxine and Elsie work at the naval armament depot on the shores of Portsmouth harbour. The hours are long and the work difficult and dangerous, but even in the dark days of the Second World War they still find time to enjoy themselves, at the ENSA concerts and hops in the local drill hall. However, beneath the careless laughter each girl nurses a secret. Kate is terrified that she carries a jinx, while Maxine has discovered a family secret which turns her bitterly against both her parents. Elsie is still grieving the loss of her son Graham, killed in the Blitz. And spirited young Sally has lied about her age in order to get her job. Each faces a dilemma that will be resolved only after D-Day in June 1944. What happens then brings each woman face to face with her own strengths and failings and, ultimately, her own destiny.
Christmas in Mustang Creek
Author: Linda Lael Miller
Publisher: HQN Books
ISBN: 1488022801
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
True love gets a second chance this Christmas in Mustang Creek Growing up in Mustang Creek, Wyoming, Charlotte Morgan couldn't wait to escape to the big city. But with a job she doesn't love and a sense of loneliness she can't shake, life in New York is less fabulous than she'd like to admit—especially now that veterinarian Jaxon Locke has left town. Jax's move to Idaho to fill in at his dad's practice ended things with Charlotte just as they were getting interesting. But he didn't expect to miss her so much. So when Charlotte returns home to help care for the great-aunt who raised her, Jax is determined to get to Wyoming and do whatever it takes to win her back…and he'll start by giving her the most magical Mustang Creek Christmas of all. Bonus novella! The town scrooge meets his perfect match in A Copper Ridge Christmas by New York Times bestselling author Maisey Yates
Publisher: HQN Books
ISBN: 1488022801
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
True love gets a second chance this Christmas in Mustang Creek Growing up in Mustang Creek, Wyoming, Charlotte Morgan couldn't wait to escape to the big city. But with a job she doesn't love and a sense of loneliness she can't shake, life in New York is less fabulous than she'd like to admit—especially now that veterinarian Jaxon Locke has left town. Jax's move to Idaho to fill in at his dad's practice ended things with Charlotte just as they were getting interesting. But he didn't expect to miss her so much. So when Charlotte returns home to help care for the great-aunt who raised her, Jax is determined to get to Wyoming and do whatever it takes to win her back…and he'll start by giving her the most magical Mustang Creek Christmas of all. Bonus novella! The town scrooge meets his perfect match in A Copper Ridge Christmas by New York Times bestselling author Maisey Yates
Love Always Us54607898
Author: John Derral Hargroder
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1420815210
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Love Always, US54607898 is not a novel; it is the telling of a true story through a soldier''s letters home to his wife. This book is the compilation of the letters John Derral Hargroder (US54607898) wrote to his wife during his tour of duty in Vietnam beginning in April ''68. The setting of this true story is war, but the focus is life and relates how a relationship endures through such difficult times. Unlike more recent wars, the war in Vietnam took place in a time when letters were the only means of communicating with love ones back home.People relied on these letters, waited for these letters, lived for these letters;and that is what Love Always is, the collection of those cherished letters.Step into the role of the wife receiving those treasured letters and you will experience the life of a soldier as he deals not only with life in the jungle but also with the boredom and frustration of base camp. Moreover, not only will you undergo his experiences, but also the indescribable constant worry of the lonesome wife back at home who has to continue on with life. Love Always is not juist a war story, it''s not just a love story; it is a story about life and how it goes on even through war.It has it all: religion, fear, financial matters, politics,drugs, love and boredom all in the arena of war.
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1420815210
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Love Always, US54607898 is not a novel; it is the telling of a true story through a soldier''s letters home to his wife. This book is the compilation of the letters John Derral Hargroder (US54607898) wrote to his wife during his tour of duty in Vietnam beginning in April ''68. The setting of this true story is war, but the focus is life and relates how a relationship endures through such difficult times. Unlike more recent wars, the war in Vietnam took place in a time when letters were the only means of communicating with love ones back home.People relied on these letters, waited for these letters, lived for these letters;and that is what Love Always is, the collection of those cherished letters.Step into the role of the wife receiving those treasured letters and you will experience the life of a soldier as he deals not only with life in the jungle but also with the boredom and frustration of base camp. Moreover, not only will you undergo his experiences, but also the indescribable constant worry of the lonesome wife back at home who has to continue on with life. Love Always is not juist a war story, it''s not just a love story; it is a story about life and how it goes on even through war.It has it all: religion, fear, financial matters, politics,drugs, love and boredom all in the arena of war.
Giant Steps
Author: Karl Bushby
Publisher: Sphere
ISBN: 1405521023
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
In Punta Arenas, Chile, in November 1998, Karl Bushby set out on one of the most remarkable journeys of modern times. His plan is as simple as it is extraordinary: to walk up the Americas, across the Bering Strait, through Asia, Russia and Europe, back through the Channel Tunnel and returning to Britain in 2011. It is a journey of remarkable endurance -- 20 miles a day, 3,000 miles a year, 36,000 miles in total. By the time Karl returns, he will have crossed four continents, twenty-five countries, a frozen sea, six deserts and seven mountain ranges. But more than that, unlike other similar expeditions, Karl is attempting it single-handed: no huge support teams, no large sponsorship deals, this is the inspiring true story of a man facing remarkable odds -- and winning.
Publisher: Sphere
ISBN: 1405521023
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
In Punta Arenas, Chile, in November 1998, Karl Bushby set out on one of the most remarkable journeys of modern times. His plan is as simple as it is extraordinary: to walk up the Americas, across the Bering Strait, through Asia, Russia and Europe, back through the Channel Tunnel and returning to Britain in 2011. It is a journey of remarkable endurance -- 20 miles a day, 3,000 miles a year, 36,000 miles in total. By the time Karl returns, he will have crossed four continents, twenty-five countries, a frozen sea, six deserts and seven mountain ranges. But more than that, unlike other similar expeditions, Karl is attempting it single-handed: no huge support teams, no large sponsorship deals, this is the inspiring true story of a man facing remarkable odds -- and winning.