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From an unexpected visitor on Christmas Eve in "The Christmas Mouse" to an unwanted change of plan in "No Holly For Miss Quinn", Miss Read recounts some of the most memorable Christmas events where often, despite best-laid plans, things do not always go as expected.For heart-warming reading there is no writer to rival Miss Read, and this charming collection of Christmas tales is packed with unforgettable characters, enchanting stories and festive cheer.

Join Father Tim on a profoundly personal journey back to his childhood home in this charming novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon's Mitford series. Thirty-eight years have passed since Father Tim Kavanagh left his Mississippi hometown, determined not to return. Then he...

Annie Tucker's world is upended. She's lost her favorite aunt, inherited a house and dog on Martha's Vineyard, and now finds herself alone there with three children while her husband is away. When she runs into her old boyfriend from the Island, she must confront the life she has chosen with the life she might have had.

Veloura has never stood a chance. Raised by negligent parents and orphaned as a teen, she's settled for a life of low expectations. She spends her days sprucing up the shack of a has-been bull rider and washing hair down at the local salon. But when it turns out her fiancé doesn't have her best interests at heart, she's forced to come up with a new plan for herself. An opportunity to be the spokesperson for a coffee chain means a bright future could be hers, if only she can stay ahead of her dark past.

Kate Holly needs a temporary secretary. Amanda Davis is a competent worker with a friendly personality and - after altering her hairstyle and fashion sense to identically match Kate's - more issues than a lifetime subscription to Psychology Today.

Brandi Buefred and her sisters, Barbara and Bonnie, were never that close to begin with. After their beloved mother died, the shaky family ties unraveled, leaving a family divided. When a cookie bake-off comes to Brandi's small town and her childhood nemesis enters the competition, she knows her only hope of winning the competition and honoring her mother's baking legacy is to reunite with her sisters to revive their mother's old, forgotten recipes. Will Barbara and Bonnie be game for the challenge? Do the Buefred sisters have what it takes to beat the tough cookie-making competition?

Holly wears a ring that says "true love waits" and worries because her boyfriend isn’t trying to persuade her otherwise. Then a boy in her English class invites her to join his book club. Shocked to find herself at ‘sex club’, plunged into in the classics of erotic literature, Holly soon becomes fascinated: by the strange new world of Eros, by the increasing power she senses in her own body and by a weird blue glow emanating from the most private part of herself. But Salter and Nabokov are one thing.