Category: Fiction
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Comfort and Joy
Kristin Hannah, 2005 Joy Candellaro has always loved Christmas. Until this one. She is recently divorced and her sister, with whom she was always close, has further broken her heart. Without these two relationships, life seems to have no point. Impulsively, Joy buys a ticket and boards a plane bound for the Northwest. Things do…
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Christmas Stories Worth Reading
Eva’s Choices My first choice is called Christmas Day in the Morning by Pearl S. Buck. I was introduced to this book when I joined Weston’s family. It is a simple story of a young boy wanting to come up with a gift for his father. He doesn’t have much money and time is running short to…
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House of the Seven Gables (From Two Angles)
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851 Hepzibah Pyncheon is so desperately poor she must open a little shop on the lower level of her ancestral home, known as the House of the Seven Gables. She refuses all help from her wealthy cousin, Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon. About the same time, Hepzibah’s brother, Clifford comes home after serving a thirty-year…
So She Reads 