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A Gingerbread Cafe Christmas by Rebecca Raisin

Dec24

Warm And Welcoming

A Gingerbread Café Christmas by Rebecca Raisin is a delightful contemporary festive offering of three stories.

Christmas At The Gingerbread Café by Rebecca Raisin is the first book in the Gingerbread Café series and is absolutely delightful. It is a gentle novella about friendship and love during the festive season. We see that we achieve more when we work in partnership rather than viewing others as competition or rivals. All the characters are warm and welcoming. This is Christmas wrapped up in a tale.

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Christmas Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

Dec21

Deliciously Delightful

Christmas Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella is the most delightful contemporary festive offering that will fill your heart with joy.

The reader follows Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) in the run up to hosting Christmas. She is determined to produce the perfect day and her efforts are phenomenal but exhausting. She has a heart of gold and is responsive to the needs she sees in others. She is also a shopaholic. She is a charming, likable character who draws the reader into her head and heart as the novel is written in the first person from her point of view.

Many of the characters are charming and likable but occasionally Becky Brandon meets those out to cause mischief.

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Christmas Stories by Max Lucado

Dec16

So Beautiful

Christmas Stories by Max Lucado is a beautiful book to read during Advent. It contains stories, biblical excerpts and thoughts from the author.

The stories include The Christmas Candle. There are stories about the first Christmas from various points of view including Joseph and Gabriel.

We also hear of Lucifer’s attempts to thwart the birth.

The excerpts are from many of Max Lucado’s other books.

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The Post Box At The North Pole by Jaimie Admans

Dec10

Believe Again

The Post Box At The North Pole by Jaimie Admans is the most heart-warming and delightful contemporary Christmas offering. It will fill your heart with love and leave you smiling.

Christmas is a time to believe and to ignite childhood traditions and memories. It is a time to blur the lines between reality and imagination.

A life going nowhere in a grey and damp Britain is injected with light and life after an unexpected family crisis sees a character on route to Norway where clean air and Santa’s village re-invigorate.

For both the character and the reader Christmases past are evoked. For just a few hours we can immerse ourselves in the magic of Christmas – with reindeer, candy canes and of course, Santa.

Characters whose lives have been scarred and on hold for years learn what it is to begin to live and trust and love again. Priorities are ordered as we learn that to love others and for them to love us is the most important.

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