New Christmas Titles
Halloween is over so you know what that means. Yes, it’s time for Christmas. I haven’t been to Walmart this week, but I’m guessing they took the candy off the shelves and started replacing it with Christmas ornaments. This year is special anyway because according to news reports, we may not be able to get anything delivered in time for Christmas. With that being the case, you may as well grab a new Christmas novel to read to take your mind off your gift list. Here are some of the popular titles that have been released this season. The descriptions are from the publishers.
When newly-divorced Ivy Perkins buys an old farmhouse sight
unseen, she is definitely looking for a change in her life. The Four Roses, as
the farmhouse is called, is a labor of love―but Ivy didn't bargain on just how
much labor. The previous family left so much furniture and so much junk, that
it's a full-time job sorting through all of it.
At the top of a closet, Ivy finds an old Santa suit―beautifully made and
decades old. In a pocket of the suit she finds a note written in a childish
hand: it's from a little girl who has one Christmas wish, and that is for her
father to return home from the war. This discovery sets Ivy off on a mission.
Who wrote the note? Did the man ever come home? What mysteries did the Rose
family hold?
Lindy Carmichael isn't feeling particularly joyful when she
returns home to Wenatchee, Washington, for Christmas… Not even carolers or
Christmas cookies can cheer her up―but Lindy's mother, Ellen, remembers an old
tradition that might lift her daughter's spirits. Reading through a box of childhood letters to
Santa and reminiscing about what she'd wished for as a young girl may be just
the inspiration Lindy needs. With Ellen's encouragement, she decides to write a
new letter to Santa, one that will encourage her to have faith and believe just
as she'd done all those years ago. Little does Lindy know that this exercise in
gratitude will cause her wishes to unfold before her in miraculous ways.
Every December, Josie posts a letter from her home in London
to the parents she lost on Christmas night many years ago. Each year, she
writes the same three words: Missing you,
always. But this year, her annual trip to the postbox is knocked off course
by a bicycle collision with a handsome stranger―a stranger who will change the
course of Josie's life… Aglow with new love, Josie thinks this might be the
start of something special. Only for Max
to disappear without saying goodbye. Over
the course of the next year, Max and Josie will find that fate continues to
bring them together in places they'd never expect. New York City. Edinburgh.
The quiet English countryside. And it turns out, Max had every reason to leave
and every reason to stay. But what does fate hold for Josie and Max as
Christmas approaches again?
Annie Sharpe's spark for life has fizzled out. Her kids are
grown up, her restaurant is doing just fine on its own, and her twenty-six-year
marriage has come to an unceremonious end. Untethered for the first time in her
adult life, she finds a winter guardian position in a historic seaside home and
decides to leave her city life behind for a brand-new beginning. When she arrives in Willow Bay, Annie is
enamored by the charming house, the invigorating sea breeze, and the town's
rich seasonal traditions. Not to mention, her neighbors receive her with open
arms―that is, all except the surly nephew of the homeowner, whose grand plans
for the property are at odds with her residency. As Christmas approaches,
tensions and tides rise in Willow Bay, and Annie's future seems less and less
certain. But with a little can-do spirit and holiday magic, the most difficult
time of her life will become...a season for second chances.
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