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Christmas Pieces – 24 Historical Fiction Short Stories Surrounding Christmas

Author : Tom Gahan

Publisher : First Edition Design Pub.

Page : 379 pages

File Size : 50,53 MB

Release : 2024-09-27

Category : Religion

ISBN : 150691439X

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Christmas Pieces – 24 Historical Fiction Short Stories Surrounding Christmas is a compilation of stories that take place across America and offers the reader a view of various ethnic cultures and how they celebrate Christmas. Although they are stories that include Christmas holiday traditions, they can also be read throughout the year and enjoyed for their historical content. Tom Gahan wrote one story for each of the twenty-four days of Advent leading up to Christmas. Various stories are fun and whimsical, others are more serious. Some have an element of romance, others do not. Christmas Pieces is written for a wide audience. It is wholesome and family-friendly with secular and Christian themes alike. The content is free of violence, profanity, or disturbing themes that is suitable for children and sensitive readers. Tom Gahan has written for decades covering a wide variety of areas. He prefers to write historical fiction. Tom’s commercial writing helped launch a startup company to be an international industry leader within two years. His well-received historical fiction novel, Harmony Bay: An adventurous slice of waterfront life where mystery surrounds history became required reading at several high schools. Tom Gahan has often lectured on writing and has been a welcome guest at schools, universities, libraries, and book clubs. Tom is the recipient of several awards including the prestigious Gold Key Award from his hometown Chamber of Commerce, two citations from the U.S. Congress, and was named Civic Leader of the Year for his humanitarian work. Tom, who is a happily married grandfather, enjoys travel, fishing, wildlife, nature, and woodworking. He lives on eastern Long Island in New York. Foreword provided by Deborah E Gordon-Reagle, Th.D. Keywords – Christmas Short Stories, Holiday Stories, Historical, Advent, Wholesome, Family-Friendly, Multicultural, Secular, Christian, Romance, Tradition, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Alaska, Pittsburgh, Oshkosh, Florida, California, Denver, Bayou, Bethlehem, West Bank, Christmas Book, Christmas Books, Christmas Stories



Stories Behind the Best-loved Songs of Christmas

Author : Ace Collins

Publisher : Zondervan

Page : 202 pages

File Size : 36,91 MB

Release : 2001

Category : Carols, English

ISBN : 0310239265

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Describes the origins of thirty-one famous Christmas songs, including "Jingle Bells," "O Holy Night," and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," and provides the lyrics to each.



The Christmas Chronicles

Author : John Townsend

Publisher : Scribblers

Page : 96 pages

File Size : 43,53 MB

Release : 2021-10

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 9781913971335

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The Christmas Chronicles is a magical collection of 24 Christmas-themed short stories - around 500 words each - taking place at the North Pole from 1st to 24th December as Santa Claus prepares to launch his sleigh to deliver the presents. Perfect for bedtime reading.



Christmas Bells

Author : Jennifer Chiaverini

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 273 pages

File Size : 45,27 MB

Release : 2015-10-27

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0698407091

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New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini celebrates Christmas, past and present, with a wondrous novel inspired by the classic poem “Christmas Bells,” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. I heard the bells on Christmas Day / Their old familiar carols play / And wild and sweet / The words repeat / Of peace on earth, good-will to men! In 1860, the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow family celebrated Christmas at Craigie House, their home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The publication of Longfellow’s classic Revolutionary War poem, “Paul Revere’s Ride,” was less than a month hence, and the country’s grave political unrest weighed heavily on his mind. Yet with his beloved wife, Fanny, and their five adored children at his side, the delights of the season prevailed. In present-day Boston, a dedicated teacher in the Watertown public school system is stunned by somber holiday tidings. Sophia’s music program has been sacrificed to budget cuts, and she worries not only about her impending unemployment but also about the consequences to her underprivileged students. At the church where she volunteers as music director, Sophia tries to forget her cares as she leads the children’s choir in rehearsal for a Christmas Eve concert. Inspired to honor a local artist, Sophia has chosen a carol set to a poem by Longfellow, moved by the glorious words he penned one Christmas Day long ago, even as he suffered great loss. Christmas Bells chronicles the events of 1863, when the peace and contentment of Longfellow’s family circle was suddenly, tragically broken, cutting even deeper than the privations of wartime. Through the pain of profound loss and hardship, Longfellow’s patriotism never failed, nor did the power of his language. “Christmas Bells,” the poem he wrote that holiday, lives on, spoken as verse and sung as a hymn. Jennifer Chiaverini’s resonant and heartfelt novel for the season reminds us why we must continue to hear glad tidings, even as we are tested by strife. Reading Christmas Bells evokes the resplendent joy of a chorus of voices raised in reverent song.



Christmas Stories

Author : Charles Dickens

Publisher :

Page : 384 pages

File Size : 13,25 MB

Release : 1862

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ISBN :

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A Christmas Story

Author : Jean Shepherd

Publisher : Crown

Page : 109 pages

File Size : 22,92 MB

Release : 2010-10-27

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0307768732

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A beloved, bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana—the book that inspired the equally classic Yuletide film and the live musical on Fox. The holiday film A Christmas Story, first released in 1983, has become a bona fide Christmas perennial, gaining in stature and fame with each succeeding year. Its affectionate, wacky, and wryly realistic portrayal of an American family’s typical Christmas joys and travails in small-town Depression-era Indiana has entered our imagination and our hearts with a force equal to It’s a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street. This edition of A Christmas Story gathers together in one hilarious volume the gems of autobiographical humor that Jean Shepherd drew upon to create this enduring film. Here is young Ralphie Parker’s shocking discovery that his decoder ring is really a device to promote Ovaltine; his mother and father’s pitched battle over the fate of a lascivious leg lamp; the unleashed and unnerving savagery of Ralphie’s duel in the show with the odious bullies Scut Farkas and Grover Dill; and, most crucially, Ralphie’s unstoppable campaign to get Santa—or anyone else—to give him a Red Ryder carbine action 200-shot range model air rifle. Who cares that the whole adult world is telling him, “You’ll shoot your eye out, kid”? The pieces that comprise A Christmas Story, previously published in the larger collections In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash and Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories, coalesce in a magical fashion to become an irresistible piece of Americana, quite the equal of the film in its ability to warm the heart and tickle the funny bone.



Outlook

Author : Alfred Emanuel Smith

Publisher :

Page : 650 pages

File Size : 31,34 MB

Release : 1875

Category :

ISBN :

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The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories

Author : Jessica Harrison

Publisher : Penguin UK

Page : 288 pages

File Size : 42,59 MB

Release : 2019-10-03

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0241396719

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The perfect gift this Christmas season: a generous selection of some of the greatest festive stories of all time This is a collection of the most magical, moving, chilling and surprising Christmas stories from around the world, taking us from frozen Nordic woods to glittering Paris, a New York speakeasy to an English country house, bustling Lagos to midnight mass in Rio, and even outer space. Here are classic tales from writers including Truman Capote, Shirley Jackson, Dylan Thomas, Saki and Chekhov, as well as little-known treasures such as Italo Calvino's wry sideways look at Christmas consumerism, Wolfdietrich Schnurre's story of festive ingenuity in Berlin, Selma Lagerlof's enchanted forest in Sweden, and Irène Nemerovsky's dark family portrait. Featuring santas, ghosts, trolls, unexpected guests, curmudgeons and miracles, here is Christmas as imagined by some of the greatest short story writers of all time.



Christmas Around the World

Author : Mary D. Lankford

Publisher : Harper Collins

Page : 52 pages

File Size : 33,82 MB

Release : 1998-10-19

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 0688163238

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Ethiopian fringed umbrellas; star-shaped Filipino parol lanterns;candlelit Swedish St. Lucia crowns-Mary Lankford bringstogether Christmas traditions from twelve different lands,like decorations on a splendid tree.



The Cumulative Book Index

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Publisher :

Page : 778 pages

File Size : 27,86 MB

Release : 1910

Category : American literature

ISBN :

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A world list of books in the English language.