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The ingenious new Christmas crime novel from Alexandra Benedict, the ‘queen of cosy Christmas crime’ (James Lovegrove, Financial Times) Edie O’Sullivan has no time for murder. With her wedding to Riga fast approaching, she is determined to ignore the desperate call from Anne, a former...

Count down to Christmas with twelve sealed festive love stories from various romance authors. The Twelve Loves of Christmas is a swoon-worthy, novelty advent-style short story collection – some sweet, some spicy – about finding love during the most magical time of the year. This festive...

Welcome to Marshport, Maine — a quaint, little coastal town preparing for their annual Winter Wonderland Festival. But beneath the lights and holiday cheer, something evil is stirring — and it’s not a mouse. When a mysterious package arrives on the doorstep of veteran police officer Matthew Klein and his family's home, it seems, at first, like a harmless holiday gift. However, there’s no tag and no sender. Inside lies an antique wooden advent calendar with strange engravings and twenty-four doors that each shelter something dark and unspeakable.

Nick Winter hates Christmas. No, he doesn’t just hate it. He loathes it. Despises it. And all because he saw his mummy killing Santa Claus on Christmas Eve thirty years ago. Oh, and it was his dad dressed as Santa ... December is the worst time of year, but as a postman, Nick is forced to...

Each night brings another dying soul with a secret heavy enough to drag the dark closer: a toymaker obsessed with broken children, a woman who decided which kids never came home, a man whose holiday ledger ended in blood, and others who carried their sins far too long.

Advent und Weihnachten mit dem Who's Who dänischer, norwegischer und schwedischer Autoren. Im Norden sind die Winter lang und man hat viel zu erzählen. Im Audiobuch-Adventskalender "Skandinavischer Advent" geben Herman Bang, August Strindberg, Hans Christian Andersen, Henrik Ibsen, Selma Lagerlöf u. a. ihren Gedanken zu Engeln, Schneemännern und zur Heiligen Nacht freien Lauf. Beate Rysopp und Frank Stieren führen als Sprecher durch verschneite Landschaften, in abgelegene Holzhütten und zum Weihnachtsgottesdienst.

Die Adventszeit ist ruhig und besinnlich? Von wegen! Evelyn Sanders nimmt in zwölf humorvollen Kurzgeschichten den familiären Vorweihnachtsstress aufs Korn. Und dieser fängt alle Jahre wieder schon im Herbst an! Egal ob es um verliebte Weihnachtsmänner und -frauen, die unendliche Suche nach dem perfekten Geschenk oder das Winterquartier für die Gartenzwerge geht: Die Großfamilie Sanders stolpert von einem Chaos ins nächste. Eine "Stille Nacht" gibt es mit dieser Familie nicht – dafür jede Menge witziger Geschichten mitten aus dem Leben.

Adventszeit bedeutet für viele Menschen Shoppingzeit. Zu Tausenden strömen sie in die Kaufhäuser. Nur dieses Jahr gab es noch eine weitere Kundin. Und die kam im Auftrag der Hölle.

The songs of Christmas do more than fill the air with music. They tell stories that stay with us for a lifetime. Carol of the Tales and Other Nightly Noels brings beloved Christmas carols to life through twenty-five heartwarming stories filled with wonder, humor, hope, and redemption. Inspired by the timeless music of the season, these tales invite readers to experience Christmas in new and unforgettable ways. Throw your cares away with stories inspired by sweet silver bells. Discover the tale of the one creature who truly was stirring on Christmas Eve.

Christmas carols capture the spirit of Christmas like nothing else, and Carol of the Tales and Other Nightly Noels brings beloved carols to life like never before. Throw your cares away with the tales from sweet silver bells. Find out how Santa Claus dabbles in time travel, and feel the redemption of a dying wife's parting Christmas gift. Experience all this and more in these heartfelt, entertaining tales donated by a team of authors from across the country, teaming together for a good cause.

Why him? Of all the party planners in the city, I managed to hire a company run by my ex-husband James. I haven't seen him in more than ten years. He broke my heart by turning away from me in his time of need. I'll never forgive him for that. But damn, he looks good. And he's saying all the right things. I just have to get through this Christmas season without falling for his charms, and I'll be right back where I started, blissfully single.

Advent and Christmas are my favorite times of the year, with the coming celebration of the birth of Christ. However, the older I get, the more I have come to realize that Christ has been relegated to third or perhaps fourth place behind toys, decorations, and commercialism. I wanted to create a series of stories that might bring the true reason for the season back to its place of importance. These whimsical, multicultural tales evoke the timeless human needs of love, companionship, and purpose in life that are promised in the birth of a baby at Christmas.