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A self-defined Grinch, Stephanie begins her stay at Snow Valley Lodge immune to Christmas sentiment. But as the lodge's festive traditions provide the Christmas Stephanie never had growing up with her distant father, Stephanie finds herself enjoying every minute. To complicate her professional duties even further, the combative feelings she felt toward Brady turn into romantic ones.

Humorous illustrations and simple text takes the reader on a journey of words that rhyme (or do not) with parfait.

Deep in the heart of the English countryside lays the enchanting village of Gladbury. Legend has it every twenty-five years an angel visits the village candle maker and touches a single candle. Whoever lights the Christmas Candle will receive a miracle on Christmas Eve. But in 1890, at the dawn of the electric age, this centuries old legend may come to an end. When David Richmond, a progressive young minister from London arrives in Gladbury the villagers...

In his late sixties, Norman Mailer plunged into making experimental films. These self-financed, largely improvised metafictions are works of madness and bravado and starred Mailer himself. Included in this collection are Maidstone (1970); Wild 90 (1967); and Beyond the Law (1968).

A single mother and a banker are about to discover that what they really need the most for Christmas is each other.

Pinky is jealous when his best friend Rex gets the lead in the school play, even though she only tried out to give Pinky moral support.

Thinking the cockatoos have said "toucan stew," the toucans run away in a toucan canoe but the cockatoos set things right with some two-can stew.

Mommy and Daddy help Cassie and Marley get ready for Cassie's big school Christmas play, but when the time comes for Marley to join the other dogs in their reindeer costumes he is nowhere to be found.