"An empowering picture book biography of Aretha Franklin and her role in civil rights, perfect for Women's History Month and Black History Month"-- Provided by publisher.

Five couples struggle to cope with fragile and crumbling relationships until one Christmas everything comes crashing down. Will the magic of the holiday season save their lives, their loves, and their families?

Thanksgiving get-together for the eccentric Turner clan, presided over by eminent scholar and patriarch, Poppy, turns into a disastrous holiday weekend when black sheep daughter Nina pays her fist visit home in fifteen years. Nina immediately clashes with stepmother, Deborah, and competes with her siblings for Poppy's affection, and money. Over three days, the family gradually disintegrates over who will get Poppy's money; only to discover Poppy has...

Includes traditional and non-traditional recipes for Christmas dinner, Hanukkah, and holiday baking, plus holiday decorating tips, handmade ornament ideas, as well as gift wrapping ideas.

A con-man must suddenly become a family man, complete with a wife and kids, before he can inherit his uncle's fortune. Can a dog, two kids, and a nanny help one man unwrap the true meaning of Christmas?

With the story centering around the unsolved murder of his partner Jake Marley on Christmas Eve the year before, Private Eye Richard Stone is forced by four spirits, to take a good look at himself and his failure to bring Marley's killer to justice.

The Barnabys entertain Joyce's family for Christmas, and he is almost anxious for Sgt Scott to call him out as a diversion. Meanwhile, at the run-down historic home of the Villiers, the family gather for their Christmas, some 9 years after the suicide of one of their members, Ferdy Villiers. The atmosphere becomes more and more tense, as the family tries to keep its dark secrets hidden. When elderly aunt Lydia Villiers dies after a fall, the apparent...

Vanessa Marks returns to her hometown library to read to children the book that she wrote, "November Christmas." The book is about her serious illness as a child and how her family and community teamed up to move Halloween to August and Christmas to November to help her.

When a medical resident loses a patient, he moves back home with his father to rethink his career. His visit is a bittersweet one, overshadowed by memories of the mother he lost 18 years earlier on Christmas Eve. Nathan accepts a coaching position at a local elementary school where he meets Megan, a teacher, and becomes close with a young boy named Charlie. His world is turned upside down when the lives of the woman he loves and an innocent young...

A human baby accidently ends up at the North Pole and grows up among the elf community. Buddy, as he comes to be known, knows that he's "special". When he's 30, Buddy learns from Santa that he's really a human. He decides to go in search of his father, to find out where he belongs. He walks to Manhattan, and is immediately run over by a cab. His father at first rejects him and Buddy ends up in a department store where other elves are working. But...