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A Christmas Carol and Four Other Christmas Novels by Charles Dickens (Classic Christmas Stories)

Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: ignacio hills press (TM) IgnacioHillsPress.com

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NOTE: This edition has a linked “Table of Contents” and has been beautifully formatted (searchable and interlinked) to work on your Amazon e-book reader.
Between the years 1843 and 1848, every Christmas (except 1847), Dickens released a “Christmas Book”.
Until the start of the 20th century, “The Cricket on [...]

A Christmas Carol: Unabridged (Classic Fiction S.)

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

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“A Christmas Carol” is the best-known and best-loved of Dickens’ ‘Christmas Books’, and the story of the miser Scrooge’s redemption has become as much part of the Christmas tradition as plum pudding and carols themselves. Will Tiny Tim live to see another Christmas? Can Scrooge recover his [...]

Traveling Home for Christmas: Four Stories That Journey to the Heart of Christmas (Radio Theatre)

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Publisher: Tyndale Entertainment

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Celebrate the joy of the season with this collection of Christmas classics. Radio Theatre presents O. Henry’s “Christmas by Injunction” and everyone’s favorite “The Gift of the Magi.” Listen as Tolstoy’s Russian classic “Shoemaker Martin” and Anthony Trollope’s “Christmas at Kirkby Cottage” come alive! Radio Theatre is innovative audio [...]

Bud, Not Buddy

Rating: (481 reviews)
Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father–the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids. Amazon.com Review
“It’s funny how [...]

Kingdom Keepers: Disney After Dark

Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: Ridley Pearson
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH

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Featuring a new paperback cover to match hardcover of Kingdom Keepers II:
 

In this fantastical thriller, five young teens tapped as models for theme park “guides” find themselves pitted against Disney villains and witches that threaten both the future of Walt Disney World and the stability of [...]

Declaring Spinsterhood

Rating: (18 reviews)
Author: Jamie Lynn Braziel
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing

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What can you do when your family harps on you to get married (already!), when your delicious and alluring ex-boyfriend—cheater to the core—believes that you’ve fallen for another guy and sets out to woo and conquer (again), and when you suddenly realize that you have fallen [...]

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Rating: (388 reviews)
Author: Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

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One of the most important works of twentieth-century American literature, Zora Neale Hurston’s beloved 1937 classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is an enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom. Told in the captivating voice of a woman who refuses [...]

Evernight

Rating: (162 reviews)
Author: Claudia Gray
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books

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Bianca wants to escape.
She’s been uprooted from her small hometown and enrolled at Evernight Academy, an eerie Gothic boarding school where the students are somehow too perfect: smart, sleek, and almost predatory. Bianca knows she doesn’t fit in.
Then she meets Lucas. He’s not the “Evernight type” either, [...]

Emma (Penguin Classics)

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Jane Austen
Publisher: Penguin Classics Hardcover

The Season

Rating: (47 reviews)
Author: Sarah Maclean
Publisher: Scholastic Press

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Seventeen year old Lady Alexandra is strong-willed and sharp-tongued — in a house full of older brothers and their friends, she had to learn to hold her own. Not the best makings for an aristocratic lady in Regency London. Yet her mother still dreams of marrying Alex [...]

The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening (rack)

Rating: (150 reviews)
Author: L. J. Smith
Publisher: HarperCollins

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A deadly love triangle
Elena: beautiful and popular, the girl who can have any guy she wants.
Stefan: brooding and mysterious, desperately trying to resist his desire for Elena . . . for her own good.
Damon: sexy, dangerous, and driven by an urge for revenge against Stefan, the brother [...]

Along for the Ride

Rating: (76 reviews)
Author: Sarah Dessen
Publisher: Viking Children’s

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Unabridged CDs • 8 CDs, 10 hours
In her signature pitch- perfect style, Sarah Dessen explores the hearts of two lonely people learning to connect.

Pretty Little Liars Box Set

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Sara Shepard
Publisher: HarperTeen

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Among the mega mansions and perfectly manicured hedges of Rosewood, Pennsylvania, everyone has something to hide—especially four very pretty little liars.
High school juniors Spencer, Hanna, Aria, and Emily have been keeping secrets ever since their best friend, Alison DiLaurentis, disappeared three years ago. But when the girls begin [...]

Works of Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Love and Freindship, Lady Susan (mobi)

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Jane Austen
Publisher: MobileReference

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Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any novel from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Author’s biography and free stories in the trial version.
Features

Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases
Make bookmarks, notes, highlights
Searchable [...]

A Christmas Carol

Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Prestwick House Inc.

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This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader’s notes to help the reader fully appreciate the beauty and humor of Dickens’s work.
In his “Ghostly little book,” Charles Dickens invents the modern concept of Christmas Spirit and offers one of the world’s most adapted [...]

The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits

Rating: (18 reviews)
Author: Les Standiford
Publisher: Crown

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As uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how one writer and one book revived the signal holiday of the Western world.
Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors at [...]

Sweet Valley Kids Super Snoopers-5 Vol. Boxed Set: Case of the Christmas Bell, Case of The…

Author: Francine Pascal
Publisher: Bantam Books

Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women at Christmas

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Publisher: Candy Cane Press

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As they prepare for Christmas, the March sisters have a difficult time deciding what gifts to give Marmee. Taken from the first two chapters of “Little Women,” with a new ending to the story.

Van Gool’s A Christmas Carol

Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Brompton Books Corp

Christmas Collection: A Christmas Carol, A Christmas Tree, The Child’s Story, Nobody’s Story, The Poor Relation’s Story, The Schoolboy’s Story, and more (mobi)

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: MobileReference

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Contents
The Battle of Life
The Chimes
A Christmas Carol
The Cricket on the Hearth
The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain
The Holly-Tree
Some Christmas Stories:
A Christmas Tree
The Child’s Story
Nobody’s Story
The Poor Relation’s Story
The Schoolboy’s Story
What Christmas is as we Grow Older
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A Christmas Carol: Play (Acting Edition)

Author: John Mortimer
Publisher: Samuel French Ltd

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Charles Dickens’ tale of Ebenezer Scrooge’s transformation from embittered skinflint to generous benefactor has been dramatized by Mortimer. It retains Dickens’ own ironic point of view through the use of the a chorus to propel the drama.

A Christmas Dinner

Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Red Rock Press

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Charles Dickens penned this sketch in December, 1835 as his conception of an ideal Yuletide gathering. Dickens, who may have invented the modern notion of Christmas, had lively ideas about what a family Christmas should be—down to how preparations should be shared, what dainties might be [...]

Dylan Thomas Reads a Child’s Christmas in Wales and Five Poems/Cd

Rating: (14 reviews)
Author: Dylan Thomas
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

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A Child’s Christmas in Wales is the nostalgic recollection of Dylan Thomas’ childhood that has become a classic among Christmas tales. With powerful grace, Thomas performs this renowned work, along with five of his most well-known poems. Features: A Child’s Christmas in Wales Fern Hill Do Not [...]

You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You: Very Short Fairy Tales to Read Together

Rating: (19 reviews)
Author: Mary Ann Hoberman
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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his cheerful companion follows the enormous success of You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You: Very Short Stories to Read Together. Designed with budding readers in mind, each of the 8 fairy tales has been given a new twist and is [...]

Huevos verdes con jamón

Rating: (31 reviews)
Author: Dr. Seuss
Publisher: Lectorum Publications

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Sam-I-Am mounts a determined campaign to convince another Seuss character to eat a plate of green eggs and ham. “Limited vocabulary but unlimited exuberance of illustration”.–School Library Journal. Full color.

Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Rating: (112 reviews)
Author: Lewis Carroll
Publisher: MacMay

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Both of the original Lewis Carroll tales Alice in Wonderland written in 1865 and Alice Through the Looking-Glass written in 1872.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass are classic works of nonsense literature written by English author Charles Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. The Adventures of [...]

GHOSTS OF FEAR STREET R L STINE’S: FRIGHT CHRISTMAS CASSETTE (R.L. Stine’s Ghosts of Fear Street Series)

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: R.L. Stine
Publisher: Audioworks

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Kenny Frobisher is the biggest bully in Shadyside, and Santa is watching him do rotten, nasty things. Kenny is out to ruin everyone’s holiday–until he gets trapped in a closet in Dalby’s Department Store on Christmas Eve. When Kenny finally gets out, the store is locked–and Kenny is [...]

Runaway (Airhead)

Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Meg Cabot
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

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Emerson Watts is on the run: from school, from work, from her family, from her friends, from herself.
With everyone she loves furious with her for something she can’t explain, and nothing but the live Stark Angel fashion show on New Year’s Eve to look forward to, Em’s [...]

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Rating: (184 reviews)
Author: Sherman Alexie
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where [...]

My Soul to Take

Rating: (98 reviews)
Author: Rachel Vincent
Publisher: Harlequin

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She doesn’t see dead people, but…
She senses when someone near her is about to die. And when that happens, a force beyond her control compels her to scream bloody murder. Literally.
Kaylee just wants to enjoy having caught the attention of the hottest guy in school. But a normal [...]

New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Book 2)

Rating: (2231 reviews)
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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Legions of readers entranced by Twilight are hungry for more and they won’t be disappointed. In New Moon, Stephenie Meyer delivers another irresistible combination of romance and suspense with a supernatural twist. The “star-crossed” lovers theme continues as Bella and Edward find themselves [...]

A Series of Unfortunate Events #9: The Carnivorous Carnival

Rating: (210 reviews)
Author: Lemony Snicket
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books

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Everybody loves a carnival! Who can fail to delight in the colourful people, the unworldly spectacle, the fabulous freaks?
A carnival is a place for good family fun – as long as one has a family, that is. For the Baudelaire orphans, their time at the carnival turns [...]

The Little Engine That Could mini

Rating: (80 reviews)
Author: Watty Piper
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap

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“A good example of pioneer feminist lore, with girl engine as ‘hero’”.–Publishers Weekly. The classic story of optimistic thinking that has delighted generations of children. Full-color illustrations. Amazon.com Review
The unknowing progenitor of a whole generation of self-help books, Wally Piper’s The Little Engine That Could is [...]

A Christmas Carol. Dicken’s Classic illustrated by Ronald Searle

Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Perpetua Books

We Wish You a Merry Christmas: Favorite Stories and Carols

Author: Kenneth Grahame
Publisher: Gallery Books / Smith Publishers

Sun-Kissed Christmas (Summer)

Author: Katherine Applegate
Publisher: Simon Pulse

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More summer fun in the series that includes Beach Blondes and Tan Lines by Katherine Applegate.

It Came from Beneath the Sink! (Goosebumps Series)

Rating: (27 reviews)
Author: R.L. Stine
Publisher: Scholastic

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An evil, living creature called The Sponge appears to be an ordinary kitchen sponge, but thrives on human bad luck, which it deliberately causes and then sucks up while refusing to do the dishes.

A Christmas Carol: A Pop-Up Book

Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

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This beautiful re-imagining of Charles Dickens’s timeless fable, A Christmas Carol: A Pop-Up Book features artist Chuck Fischer’s richly painted depictions of the tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, brought to life in intricate pop-up scenes by paper engineer Bruce Foster. [...]

A Wrinkle in Time

Rating: (964 reviews)
Author: Madeleine L’Engle
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger.
“Wild nights are my glory,” the [...]

The Muppet Christmas Carol

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Publisher: Buena Vista Home Entertainment

Christmas in Canaan

Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: Kenny Rogers
Publisher:

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“I reckon there’s nuthin’ worth learnin’ from the coloreds,” DJ answered, again turning to the window.
“That right?” his father asked ‘Nuthin’ worth learning from them folks?”
“Yeah,” DJ said. “Nuthin’. Completely nuthin’.”
In the quiet, rural town of Canaan, Texas, a clash between two classmates — one, a tough farm boy, [...]

The Christmas Books: Volume 1: A Christmas Carol and The Chimes (Penguin English Library)

Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Penguin Classics

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In October 1843, Dickens hit upon the idea of writing a story that would not only celebrate Christmas but alert people to the desperate needs of England’s poor. “The Christmas Carol” was the result. “The Chimes” is a topical satire set on New Year’s Eve.

A Conspiracy of Kings

Rating: (21 reviews)
Author: Megan Whalen Turner
Publisher: Greenwillow Books

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Sophos, under the guidance of yet another tutor, practices his swordplay and strategizes escape scenarios should his father’s villa come under attack. How would he save his mother? His sisters? Himself? Could he reach the horses in time? Where would he go? But nothing prepares him [...]

A Christmas Carol (Everyman’s Library Children’s Classics)

Rating: (198 reviews)
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Everyman’s Library

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Through the intervention of four ghosts, Ebenezer Scrooge is shown the spirit of Christmas.

The Christmas Ghost (Sweet Valley Twins)

Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Francine Pascal
Publisher: Sweet Valley

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Jessica Wakefield is determined to meet Beau Dillon, teen actor, even if it means double-crossing her own sister. But Jessica begins to feel guilty, and that night her actions catch up with her in a dream sequence similar to A Christmas Carol.

The Tra-la-laaa-mendous Captain Underpants Collection (Books 5-8)

Rating: (16 reviews)
Author: Dav Pilkey
Publisher: The Blue Sky Press

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With more than 38 million copies in print, Dav Pilkey’s Captain Underpants books are among the bestselling children’s series of all time! Now readers of all ages can enjoy a deluxe boxed collection of Books 5-8, featuring the tighty-whitey-wearing superhero who fights for Truth, Justice, [...]

Le Petit Prince (French Language Edition)

Rating: (83 reviews)
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Publisher: Harcourt, Inc.

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In 2000 Harcourt proudly reissued Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s masterpiece, The Little Prince, in a sparkling new format. Newly translated by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Howard, this timeless classic was embraced by critics and readers across the country for its purity and beauty of expression. And Saint-Exupéry’s [...]

Archie’s Classic Christmas Stories

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Various
Publisher: Archie Comics

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Deck the halls with smiles and laughter, fa la la la la, la la la la! Since their inception, Archie and his friends have delighted readers with scores of Yuletide tales. These stories proved so popular that in 1954 an entire series devoted to stories of Holiday Cheer [...]

Beautiful Creatures

Rating: (345 reviews)
Author: Kami Garcia
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she’s struggling to conceal her power, and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of [...]

T’was the Night Before Christmas and Other Seasonal Favorites (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications)

Author: William Lach
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

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A holiday keepsake featuring magnificent art from the Met
Perfect for gift-giving, this beautiful volume of holiday writings is lavishly illustrated with artwork from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Through holiday-rich artwork-from a medieval stained-glass window, a Currier and Ives print, and Arthur Rackham illustrations, to woodcuts [...]