ELLINWOOD — Looking for a good Christmas story for the holiday season? Here are a few titles of interest that you might enjoy.
“1225 Christmas Tree Lane” by Debbie Macomber. Beth Morehouse expects a great Christmas. Her small Christmas tree farm is prospering, her family is happy, and her new relationship with the local vet is showing plenty of romantic promise. But, someone recently left a basket filled with puppies on her doorstep, and her kids have invited her ex-husband for Christmas. More than one scheme will go awry this Christmas.
“Skipping Christmas” by John Grisham. Imagine a year without Christmas. That’s just what Luther and Nora have in mind when they decide to ignore the holidays. But, as this weary couple is about to discover, skipping Christmas brings enormous consequences, and isn’t half as easy as they’d imagined. Skipping Christmas offers a hilarious look at the chaos and frenzy that have become part of our holiday tradition.
“A Simple Christmas: Twelve Stories That Celebrate the True Holiday Spirit” by Mike Huckabee. The political and television personality recounts twelve Christmas memories, often funny, sometimes deeply moving that range from his childhood in Arkansas to his time as a governor and then a presidential candidate.
“The Gift” by Richard Paul Evans. Nathan Hurst hated Christmas. For Nathan, Christmas was simply a reminder of the event that destroyed his childhood. But then a snowstorm, a cancelled flight, and an unexpected meeting with a young mother and her very special son would show him that Christmas is indeed the season of miracles.
“A Redbird Christmas” by Fannie Flagg. After a devastating diagnosis, Oswald T. Campbell leaves Chicago to spend what he believes will be his last Christmas in the warm and welcoming town of Lost River, Alabama. There he meets a unique cast of characters, and a little redbird named Jack, who is at the center of a magical Christmas, one that will never be forgotten.
“The Christmas Quilt” by Jennifer Chiaverini. When Sarah McClure explores the trunks packed with Bergstrom family Christmas decorations that haven’t been touched in more than fifty years, she discovers a curious unfinished Christmas quilt. As she examines the array of quilt blocks each family member contributed but never completed, memories of Christmases past emerge.
Sharon Sturgis is the librarian at the Ellinwood School/Community Library.