Abigail’s grandmother passed away a few years ago and her grandfather has been heartbroken ever since. Abigail’s childhood sweetheart, Michael, moved away to an Amish community in Canada about the same time as her grandmother passed away. Two broken hearts in one Amish family. Michael...

The Task Force That Saved Christmas by Jack Gannon and Cyndi Williams-Barnier is a collection of three short action stories. In the first story, Silent Night, Murder Night, Billy who is a store owner and Fred, his employee, are attacked by the members of a...

Wedding bells are in the air and it’s almost Christmas. Emily is getting married at what she believes is the most magical time of the year. Not only does she want to be happily married, but she wants to become a family: she wants to...

The Worst Christmas Book in the Whole Entire World by Joey Acker, despite what you may have been led to believe, is a very enjoyable book. Nameless, the main character, doesn’t believe that the book will be any good and tries to convince any reader...

Natasha felt lonely in the orphanage. It was Christmas in Russia and Natasha danced in her dreams with Father Frost. She wished for him to bring her mommy and daddy back. Father Frost heard her wish and sent her picture to the perfect family...

Belinda, like so many other six-year-olds, is very excited when she turns the calendar to December 1st. She knows that Christmas is in December and there’s lots of fun and excitement in the preparations. With Mom overseas working as a doctor, Belinda lives with her...

Ruby Panda’s Christmas Surprise, written by Kirsten Wheelock and with illustrations by Mehwish Umber, is a sweet children's story of one red panda’s very special surprise. It’s that special time of year at the zoo where everyone is coming to visit the animals so that...

The Christmas Walk Caper: A Mac and Millie Mystery is a holiday-themed sleuth mystery novel written by J.B. Michaels. Though his days as a beat cop on the streets of Chicago were now over, due to his injuries received during an act of heroism that...

Taming My Christmas Rogue: Taming the Duke's Heart is the second book in the Miracle Express series by Tammy Andresen and Miracle Express. This is the story of two people who fell in love, even if they didn’t want to. Miss Danielle (Dani) Frazier is...

What is the meaning of Christmas? And is Father Christmas real? Ten-year-old Annie is about to find out. The middle child of a large family, Annie’s parents assured her that she was old enough to stay up on Christmas Eve to meet Father Christmas when...

The Christmas Eve Crash Landing is a holiday-themed storybook for children written by John O'Boyle and illustrated by Mykyta Harets. Nothing is quite as exciting as the night before Christmas. The young boy in this story was sitting by the family’s Christmas tree and thinking...

Ham Hands the Christmas Elf is a holiday-themed picture book for children written by Whitney Beatty and illustrated by Becca Kaiser. Every so often, a child will find a Christmas gift with wrapping that’s not as perfect as they've come to expect. It does happen,...

Charles Dickens’s classic story, A Christmas Carol, is as popular today as it has been for almost two centuries. There have been movie adaptations and numerous retellings of this story about greed and the true meaning of Christmas. Scrooge, visited by the three ghosts of...

From a young age, Erin had always known she was different from the other reindeer in the herd. She did not fit in and did not want to. The Christmas Quest by David Serra is about Erin's life-changing adventure. Erin always wondered about Santa's sleigh...

With Christmas just around the corner, Courtney Winston, an accountant who sidelines as a writer, definitely feels the pressure – she needs to finish her revisions by the first of January. The problem is, the editor and the publisher are not simply asking her to...

What is the true meaning of Christmas? Is it the special day when everything you planned for happens perfectly? All the gifts are well wrapped and the most suitable for everyone on your list? The tree and the house are both decorated to perfection? And...

Santaville was a snug village that nestled in the hollow of a hill. That night the North Star twinkled. There were sounds of joy and laughter everywhere and the piles of gifts and toys just kept increasing as Santa's workers and helpers crowded around every...

In An Unacceptable Christmas by Bruce Edwards, Holly is a 16-year-old girl living in a world where Santa Claus has been outlawed. No one can write a letter to him, no one may sing “Here Comes Santa Claus” or similar songs, and his image cannot...

Dick Weiner’s Caribbean Christmas: An Overstuffed Sequel by author Luther Banks is an out and out farce designed to make us laugh out loud. This is the second iteration of the Dick Weiner story and although I have yet to read the first, I can...

We are all put on earth for a reason. We live, we give, we share and then we move on to join our Creator. Even trees have their reasons for existing. Mr. B had a marvelous, almost magical Christmas tree farm. Every year families came...