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This collection brings together the best French Christmas stories of all time, featuring classics by Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet, plus stories by the esteemed twentieth century authors Irène Némirovsky and Nobel Prize winner Anatole France and contemporary writers Dominique Fabre and Jean-Philippe Blondel. With a holiday, spirit conveyed through sparkling Paris streets, opulent feasts, wandering orphans, kindly monks, homesick soldiers,...
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The sixth volume in our popular Very Christmas series, this collection transports readers to the Emerald Isle with stories and poems sure to bring holiday cheer. This anthology is packed with beloved classics, forgotten treasures, and modern masterpieces. You'll find wondrous works by James Joyce, W. B. Yeats, Elizabeth Bowen, Anne Enright, William Trevor, Colm Tóibín, Bernard MacLaverty and many more. See how Christmas is done in snowy Dublin and...
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The third in the very popular Very Christmas series, this volume brings together the best Italian Christmas stories of all time in a vibrant collection featuring classic tales and contemporary works. With writing that dates from the Renaissance to the present day, from Boccaccio to Pirandello, as well as Anna Maria Ortese, Natalia Ginzburg, and Grazia Deledda, these literary gems are filled with ancient churches, trains whistling through the countryside,...
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This collection of new and classic Christmas literature includes stories by Herman Hesse, Joseph Roth, The Brothers Grimm, and many others.
This collection brings together traditional and contemporary holiday stories from Austria, Switzerland, and Germany. You'll find classic works by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas Mann and Arthur Schnitzler, as well as more recent tales by writers like Heinrich Böll, Peter...
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A smorgasbord of Christmas stories by writers, from Hans Christian Andersen to August Strindberg to Karl Ove Knausgaard.
This collection brings together the best Scandinavian holiday stories, including classics by Hans Christian Andersen of Denmark, Selma Lagerlöf, August Strindberg and Hjalmar Söderberg of Sweden, as well as the popular contemporary Norwegian author, Karl Ove Knausgaard. These Nordic tales, coming from the very region, where so...
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It's Christmas and there's an extra special gift under the tree… A corpse. When Holly's asked to dog sit several rowdy and intelligent Border Collies at a rich holidaymaker's cabin in the woods, she's signed up before the request has even left the elderly woman's lips. What's not to love? Collies, Christmas, and a snowy getaway at a cozy cabin? Yes, please! But when one of the guests at the exclusive cabin party is found dead under the Christmas...
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With six days to go before Christmas, there's only one thing on everyone's minds… Murder! Holly, local dog walker and amateur sleuth extraordinaire, likes to think she's her hometown's answer to the dog whisperer. But owls? That's another sack of feathers all together. When she's called out to a rich woman's home, Holly is shocked when she's asked to… walk an owl? No amount of explaining will convince her new client that walking birds is something...
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Very Archie Christmas volume 1
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Have a holly, jolly Christmas in this title featuring some of Archie's most merry stories! It's the most wonderful time of the year once again! Archie and the gang are doing the last of their Christmas shopping and decking the halls in this special collection. Can Archie get his Christmas decorating done in time for the big day? Will Reggie get his name taken off Santa's Naughty List? Get ready for the gift of festively fun tales from Riverdale!
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It's going to be a very murder Christmas… Holly loves the small town life in Full Fork, New York, especially since she gets to spend most of her time walking the adorable dogs of the town's elite. Or hanging out at her best friend's pet cafe. And the first day of Christmas is no exception to the routine. Until she arrives at her first client's home to pick up an adorable Dachshund named Dixie and finds a corpse instead. The owner has been murdered!...
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Very Christmas volume 3
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[2018]
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"The third in the Very Christmas series, this volume brings together Italian Christmas stories in a collection featuring classic tales and contemporary works. With writing that dates from the Renaissance to the present day, from Boccaccio to Pirandello, as well as Anna Maria Ortese, Natalia Ginzburg and Nobel laureate Grazia Deledda. These literary [works] are filled with ancient churches, trains whistling through the countryside, steaming tureens,...
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[2022]
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"This seventh installment in our beloved Very Christmas series is a celebration of the Mexican Yuletide spirit. Replete with mouthwatering Nochebuena meals, mysterious felines, multicolored boxes, marvelous sweet rolls, and many a bedside tale, A Very Mexican Christmas is sure to delight, warm, and astonish by turns. You'll find spellbindng work by some of Mexico's most important writers, contemporary favorites, as well as fresh translations of classic...
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Our fourth book in the very popular Very Christmas series, this collection brings together the best Scandinavian holiday stories including classics by Hans Christian Andersen of Denmark; Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerlöf, August Strindberg and Hjalmar Söderberg of Sweden; as well as the popular contemporary Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard. These Nordic tales--coming from the very region where so much of traditional Christmas imagery originates--convey...
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