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Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Christmas stories
ISBN : 9780557892907
Author : Kissinger, Barbara Hallman
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Christmas
ISBN : 1455602213
Author : Good Wives and Warriors
Publisher : Puffin
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0141366761
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Author : Neil Gaiman,M. R. James,E. Nesbit,Louis de Bernières,Muriel Spark,Frank Cowper,E. F. Benson,Bernard Capes,L. P. Hartley,Robert Aickman,Jerome K. Jerome,Kelly Link,Jenn Ashworth
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473663473
A present contains a monstrous secret. An uninvited guest haunts a Christmas party. A shadow slips across the floor by firelight. A festive entertainment ends in darkness and screams. Who knows what haunts the night at the dark point of the year? This collection of seasonal chillers looks beneath Christmas cheer to a world of ghosts and horrors, mixing terrifying modern fiction with classic stories by masters of the macabre. From Neil Gaiman and M. R. James to Muriel Spark and E. Nesbit, there are stories here to make the hardiest soul quail - so find a comfy chair, lock the door, ignore the cold breath on your neck and get ready to welcome in the real spirits of Christmas.
Author : Robert Brenner
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0764301721
The historical importance, makers, materials, and rarity of Christmas trees, decorations, and ornaments of all kinds are discussed in detail, including glass ornaments, all types of lighting from candles to electricity, cotton and paper ornaments, and Dresdens. All the major manufacturers are identified and much personal information is given about the families that developed the Christmas ornament industry into big business internationally. Christmas Past includes beautiful colour pictures of extremely rare, exquisite glass balls and figurals and early electric lamps.
Author : Rhys Bowen
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250125736
From Rhys Bowen, the author of In Farleigh Field, comes the next Molly Murphy mystery: The Ghost of Christmas Past. Semi-retired private detective Molly Murphy Sullivan is suffering from depression after a miscarriage following her adventure in San Francisco during the earthquake of 1906. She and her husband, Daniel, are invited for Christmas at a mansion on the Hudson, and they gratefully accept, expecting a peaceful and relaxing holiday season. Not long after they arrive, however, they start to feel the tension in the house’s atmosphere. Then they learn that the host couple's young daughter wandered out into the snow ten years ago and was never seen again. Molly can identify with the mother's pain at never knowing what happened to her child and wants to help, but there is so little to go on. No ransom note. No body ever found. But Molly slowly begins to suspect that the occupants of the house know more than they are letting on. Then, on Christmas Eve, there is a knock at the door and a young girl stands there. "I'm Charlotte," she says. "I've come home."
Author : Catherine Daly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Christmas stories
ISBN : 0545484227
Haley is starting to think this Christmas ski trip was a big mistake. When her best friend ditches her to hang with more popular girls, Haley's totally left out in the cold. And if that wasn't bad enough, someone is playing scary pranks around the old inn and Haley's getting all the blame! Christmas is going to be a really silent night if she can't figure out what's going on. But the more Haley finds out about the inn's creepy past, the more she starts to suspect that the prankster isn't a guest ... it's a ghost!--P. [4] of cover.
Author : Brian Earl
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493069408
Behind every Christmas tradition is a story — usually, a forgotten one. Each year, as we decorate a tree, build a gingerbread house, and get ready for a visit from St. Nicholas, we’re continuing generations-old narratives, while being largely unaware of their starting chapters. But knowing how these traditions began adds a new level of depth to our Christmas spirit, as well as an arsenal of anecdotes to share at Christmas parties. Christmas Past: The Fascinating Stories Behind Our Favorite Holiday’s Traditions reveals the surprising, quirky, mysterious, and sometimes horrifying stories behind the most wonderful time of the year. With 26 short chapters, it’s a festive, digestible Advent calendar of a book. Covering traditions ancient and modern, Christmas Past is filled with stories of happy accidents, cultural histories, criminal capers (including tomb raiders and con artists), and hidden connections between Christmas and broader social, economic, and technological influences. How did the invention of plate glass forever change the Christmas season? What common Christmas item helped introduce fine art to the masses? Why do Americans typically spike their eggnog with rum, rather than the traditional brandy? And speaking of booze, does using the phrase “Merry Christmas” mark you as a drunken reveler? Christmas Past answers all of those questions, and many more.
Author : Robert Vaughan
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781418516888
John and Madison Carmichael's success in their careers has come at a high price at home: they are on the brink of divorce. To soften the blow for their two children, they decide to spend one final Christmas together as a family. Responding to a travel brochure, they set off to "Celebrate Christmas Past" in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee with a group of historical re-enactors. Tensions worsen when their car breaks down, but a horse-drawn carriage arrives and delivers them to the home of Judge Andrew Norton and family, where their Victorian Christmas begins. With none of the comforts or distractions of contemporary life, John and Madison rediscover each other and the love they once felt. But upon their return to "modern civilization," the Carmichaels learn that the nineteenth-century house has been empty and boarded up for more than thirty-five years. Could it be that a miracle from "Christmas Past" has brought their family together again?
Author : Debbie McGowan
Publisher : Beaten Track Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786452061
Black hair and band hoodies had a lot to answer for. Eleven years ago, when Gothboy mooched into their business studies class for the very first time, Krissi had taken one look at him and thought, What a freak. He’s so cool! Now in their mid-twenties, Krissi Johansson and Jay Meyer are successful businesspeople and still best friends. But while one is moving forward with their life, the other is sliding ever backwards…revisiting the past and wallowing in regret. Between career commitments, unresolved family matters and friends springing unwelcome surprises, Krissi and Jay have more than enough drama to contend with, and not all of their own making. On top of all that, it’s Christmas. Yay. * * * * * This is a stand-alone novel featuring 'the next generation' of HBTC characters. For those reading the series, this story follows (more or less) chronologically from Reunions (Season Seven).
Author : D. C. Donahue
Publisher : Author House
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781481740289
While doing some last minute shopping on Christmas Eve a man has a magical experience. He watches a child preparing to get on Santa's lap through a shop window and is reminded about a special Christmas memory. When the child gets down Santa makes eye contact with the man and they are immediately taken back to a moment they had shared in his past. So the story unfolds as he stares through a window of time at a Glimpse from Christmas Past...
Author : Greg Wise,Emma Thompson
Publisher : Quercus Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781529404210
'The perfect gift for anyone who loves all things Christmas ... it's a festive gem' Woman & Home 'A beautiful, funny and soulful collection of personal essays' Prima ___________ The perfect gift book, featuring the writing of Meryl Streep, Bill Bailey, Emilia Clarke, Olivia Colman, Caitlin Moran, Richard Ayoade, Emily Watson and others, to coincide with the upcoming movie Last Christmas, starring Emma Thompson, Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding. When you think back to Christmases past, what (if anything) made it magical? Looking towards the future, what would your perfect Christmas be? What would you change? What should we all change? This is a beautiful, funny and soulful collection of personal essays about the meaning of Christmas, written by a unique plethora of voices from the boulevards of Hollywood to the soup kitchens of Covent Garden. Away from the John Lewis advert, the high street decorations and the candied orange in Heston Blumenthal's Christmas pudding, this gem of a book introduced and curated by Emma Thompson and Greg Wise celebrates the importance of kindness and generosity, acceptance and tolerance - and shows us that these values are not just for Christmas.
Author : Bill Holm
Publisher : Afton Historical Society Press
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 189043499X
FACES OF CHRISTMAS PAST is an engaging, middle-aged look at the perils of Christmas, our own self-imposed burdens of ritual duty (like the newsy Christmas Xerox), and the more unsettling fact that successive Christmases, more even than New Year's, mark the passing of our life from childhood to death. "Old Christmas card photos show us how we've aged," says author Bill Holm, "reminding us that, though time may curve in Einstein's physics, in our small life it is a straight line to white hair and bifocals."
Author : Michael Hebler
Publisher : Night After Night Publications, LLC
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 069267408X
**Beverly Hills Book Award Finalist** A Holiday Journey Into Life...And Afterlife Based on Charles Dickens' character of the same name, the radiant spirit is given another chance to shine when it embarks on a spiritual adventure of its own to find meaning for its being.
Author : Christopher Schario
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Christmas plays
ISBN : 0822215209
THE STORY: Focusing on Dickens' powerful language, humor and warmth, this charming version of A CHRISTMAS CAROL simply and directly tells the story of the redemption of a human soul. The play follows the ever-powerful story of Scrooge, a lonely mis