Silhouette Christmas Stories 1989
The greatest gift by Marilyn Pappano Happiness was along time coming for Neil Sullivan and Elizabeth, the woman he'd once promised to love forever. It took the miracle of a second chance--and the magic of the holiday season--for them to see the truth: their love could defeat any obstacle and make the future an eternal gift. The voice of the turtles by Lass Small Jethro Hanna was content being single--before nurse Megan Bailey came to town. Matchmakers deemed them the perfect couple, and for once Jethro agreed. But Megan's loving attention was reserved solely for her patients... until the wonder of Christmas and Jethro's ardent passion won her guarded heart. A Christmas for Carole by Bay Matthews Chilled by the barrenness of Christmases past, Carole Chapman was astounded to discover a fellow orphan--an abandoned baby--in a holiday creche. When she placed the infant in foster father Chris Nicholas's chaotic, children-filled household, Carole herself was engulfed in warmth enough to wrap Christmas future in a loving glow! Silent night by Brittany Young It was during Christmas that architect Marisa Alexander had been widowed, and the holiday season always brought back painful memories. But this year, when a Christmas Eve blizzard trapped Marisa with client Dane Konrad in his Austrian mountain retreat, the distant echo of "Silent Night" had Marisa rediscovering the spirit of Christmas ...and the greatest gift of all: love.
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Dark tone · Steady pace
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- ISBN-13
- 978-0-3734-8218-4
- Language
- English
- Edition record
- OL7417028M
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A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.
Begin with its place in Fiction, then notice where the book resists that label.
Read for connection, not completion.
Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.
Three questions to carry with you
- What does the central character want, and what do they misunderstand about that desire?
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