Welcome to North Pole, Alaska, where the Christmas Spirit lives all year long.<\/p>\n Lots of kids write letters to Santa. But those delivered to North Pole are actually answered by a group of dedicated volunteers who call themselves “the Elves.”<\/p>\n JD Baxter\u2019s letter to St. Nick asks for just one thing: His father didn\u2019t make it back from Afghanistan, and JD wants Daddy home again. Saints can do miracles, right? But since last year\u2019s letter went astray, JD decides to stow away to North Pole and ask for his miracle in person.<\/p>\n In North Pole, he encounters a postmistress who looks exactly like Mrs. Claus, a man named Rudolph with a red nose and a herd of reindeer, as well as enough toys, candy and Christmas cheer to make anyone feel good. He just can’t find St. Nick.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Bailey Sullivan can’t stand Christmas, even though her family’s business is a store specializing in the perfect holiday. But now her hometown’s chief supplier of rooftop Rudolphs and treetop angels is in danger of going under–and it’s up to Bailey to save the shop.<\/p>\n She has it all planned: She’ll arrive on December 1 and be gone by Christmas. Plus there’s always spiked eggnog to ease the pain. But “Humbug” Bailey’s not the only one home for the holidays. Finn Jacobson, legendary local bad boy turned Secret Service agent and Bailey’s long-lost high-school boyfriend, is once again the boy next door. Only this time he’s all grown up, and the sparks are flying faster and hotter than ever!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Despite his wealth, Alex Thompson has been living in fear since his wife died in childbirth. A frivolous wrongful death lawsuit, harassing phone calls, and anonymous threats drive him and his five-year-old twins away from their home in Houston and into the crosshairs of a sniper.<\/p>\n Molly McDill is a struggling single mom who lives next door to Alex and his twins. When she helps them adjust to their new life in the country, she exposes herself and her son to the same threat that followed Alex.<\/p>\n An attempt on his life throws their lives into chaos, inviting more threats, public scrutiny, and Molly’s ex-husband back into her life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Scarlett hates her new job as a stripper, but she can\u2019t afford to quit or she\u2019ll lose her house and won\u2019t be able to afford to pay for her dad\u2019s chemo. One night, the handsome billionaire Michael Manning visits the club and shows interest in Samantha\u2014Scarlett\u2019s stage name. Scarlett is immediately attracted to Michael, but she refuses to date anyone she meets at the club.<\/p>\n The next day, Scarlett\u2019s friend drags her to church, and to her surprise, Scarlett meets Michael again. He doesn’t realize she\u2019s Samantha from last night (she wears a mask while performing) and asks her out. But Scarlett would never have guessed what kind of a scandalous, yet utterly irresistible deal he\u2019s about to propose…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n From the bestselling author of the Miller’s Creek novels comes this beach Christmas novella about finding God’s peace in life’s pieces.<\/p>\n A young mother and wife of a naval aviator longs for a white Christmas, and she doesn’t mean yet another white Christmas beach near where her husband is stationed. Grateful for a recent promotion that should keep her man stateside, Liv eagerly anticipates the first family Christmas in several years with her husband, daughter, and extended family.<\/p>\n Then her military marriage undergoes trial by fire as her husband is deployed for an undetermined amount of time right before the holidays, leaving Liv and her little girl in pieces.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Jason Guthrie has no time for entanglements\u2014between helping out his widowed brother and teenage nephew and getting his hometown back on its feet, his days are spoken for. But his nights are another story\u2026 And when his lovely new neighbor, Honor Brown, reluctantly accepts his help in remodeling her house, Jason finds himself wishing his handyman skills could knock down the defenses she keeps building around herself.<\/p>\n Martial arts teacher Sullivan Dean knows real danger when he sees it\u2014even when it takes the form of the gorgeous blonde helping her friend move in across the street.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Some friends just fit together.<\/p>\n Once there was a pair of pants. Just an ordinary pair of jeans. But these pants, the Traveling Pants, went on to do great things. This is the story of the four friends\u2014Lena, Tibby, Bridget, and Carmen\u2014who made it possible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [wp_ad_camp_2]<\/p>\n Picking up where she left off in Where the Blind Horse Sings<\/i>, Kathy Stevens regales us with more tales of the rescued animals at Catskill Animal Sanctuary (CAS), some touching, some hilarious, all provocative. We meet Barbie, the broiler hen found hiding under a blue Honda in Brooklyn who falls for the animal ambassador Rambo, a ram with an uncanny sense of what others need. Then there\u2019s Norma Rae, the turkey rescued from a “turkey bowl\u201d just before Thanksgiving. There\u2019s also Noah, a twenty-one-year-old stallion, starved and locked in a dark stall for his entire life until he came to the safety and plenty of CAS.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n For Zoey Carlson, being maid of honor is more than she bargained for. The groom is a billionaire, the bride is hounded by the press, and the super-secret wedding is across the ocean in France. Zoey will do anything to keep away the media\u2014even spend two weeks wedding planning in Paris with Mitch, the uptight best man who drives her crazy.<\/p>\n For Mitch, keeping the press away is about more than making sure his best friend has a perfect wedding\u2014it\u2019s his job. And as far as he\u2019s concerned, chaotic and spontaneous Zoey is an attractive liability.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Join Father Tim on a profoundly personal journey back to his childhood home.<\/p>\n Thirty-eight years have passed since Father Tim Kavanagh left his Mississippi hometown, determined not to return. Then he receives a handwritten note postmarked Holly Springs. Cryptic and unsigned, it says only Come home<\/i>. These two words compel him to make the most challenging journey of his life.<\/p>\n Traveling to his boyhood home doesn\u2019t merely take Father Tim across hundreds of miles. Thanks to a thousand sights and smells, he also travels back through memories\u2014some fond and some he\u2019s tried for nearly forty years to forget, from his quick-to-anger father and his lovingly tender mother to the picturesque small town he\u2019d tried desperately to leave behind.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n BEKA COOPER IS a rookie with the Provost’s Guard, and she’s been assigned to the Lower City. It’s a tough beat, but Beka can hear the voices of the dead on the wings of pigeons, and Beka’s birds clue her in to two major murderers on the loose. The rest of the Guard is busy investigating the fire opal killer, so it’s up to Beka to nab the Shadow Snake.Tamora Pierce begins a new Tortall trilogy introducing Beka Cooper, a young woman who lived 200 years before Pierce’s popular Alanna character. Pierce employs first-person narration, bringing readers even closer to a character that they will love for her unusual talents and tough personality.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The relationship between Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton is like that of two complementary stages of a rocket. Galileo, the argumentative “wrangler” who demanded that the universe be examined through a telescope rather than by means of a philosophy book, provided the first liftoff, and Newton, the secretive mathematician who searched among his notes to find a mislaid proof for universal gravitation, put the world into orbit. 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<\/a><\/p>\nLetting Go: A Contemporary Romantic Thriller<\/a><\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nHome to Holly Springs (Father Tim Novels Book 1)<\/a><\/h3>\n
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