Christmas Short Stories Anthology

When the local club throws a Ménage Night Before Christmas party for charity, Roxie learns that scrumptious blue-collar co-worker Evan Johnston will be playing doctor.... Evan is playing doctor and offering one lucky lady an erotic sensual exam - along with a sizzling ménage a trois, and he's got only one sexy fantasy lady in mind for the naughty deed...if she'll play with him.

Maria has left everything she knows to travel to French Gulch, California, to find a husband, but none of the potential matches seem to work out. Adam is focused on his job and has no intentions of finding a wife among the women who traveled to French Gulch to find love. Together, they learn that the Christmas is full of surprises that can overcome personal intentions and rescue those in need.

Weihnachtsgeschichten zum Liebhaben. Glitzerschnee, Plätzchenduft und Geschenke: Weihnachten ist die schönste Zeit des Jahres - das wissen selbst die Tiere im Wald! Bisweilen geschehen sogar Wunder: Der kleine Bär macht sich auf, um den Mond zu besuchen, der kleine Hase reist ins ferne Land des Nordsterns und vielleicht können Grummels Freunde sogar den Griesgram davon überzeugen, dass Weihnachten einfach wunderbar ist. Diese Sammlung mit drei Geschichten von Paul Bright, Gillian Lobel und Elizabeth Baguley sowie Liedern von Fredrik Vahle ist bestens geeignet für kuschelige Stunden zum Lauschen.

In the excitement of the season, the true meaning of Christmas sometimes gets lost. These warm and humorous stories provide a gentle reminder that it is the day that we celebrate Christ's birth. In Waldo, Tell Me About Christmas, a little boy is more interested in his presents than in why we celebrate this joyous day until his best friend, Waldo, helps him learn the true meaning of Christmas. In The Star of Melvin, the smallest angel—who is responsible for the smallest star—is given a very special task. Can love alone make his star shine bright enough to show the way?

Rumpole and the Health Farm Murder finds the corpulent barrister spending a most untypical Christmas at a health spa, where he is gloomily trying to survive on a not-so-festive diet of yak's milk and steamed spinach. He is soon enlivened, however, when a murder is committed and he is asked to represent the chief suspect. Bill Wallis reads this special seasonal story starring Horace Rumpole, scourge of all QCs and friend of the criminal classes.

Fourteen-year-old Vicki Gray loves Christmas, and this year's will be special indeed. Still, she has a dilemma. Her long-distance friendship with Chase is great, but she enjoys being with her classmate and friend Danny as well. On winter break with her BFF, Jess, by her side, Vicki tries to balance the two. Will she ever feel as comfortable around Danny as she does around Chase? Join Vicki for a fun-filled school holiday as she and her friends discover that Christmas holds many surprises!

Weihnachten - Wie sehr hat sich doch die Bedeutung dieses Festes gewandelt in den letzten Jahren und Jahrzehnten! Dabei ist leider viel von dem ursprünglichen "Geist" auf der Strecke geblieben. Wer weiß eigentlich noch, was genau die "Rauhnächte" sind? Doch Weihnachten muss nicht nur Hektik, Stress und Kommerz bedeuten.

If Beth can't figure out a way to seduce her love's picky appetite, she fears her relationship is toast-burnt. She cooks up a plan only to have it boil over. What's a terrible cook to do? Can Beth brave a winter storm in search of a Christmas dish to save her relationship - or will the holidays be a distasteful disaster?

A stay-at-home mom, Ruth has been busy steering her family toward Christmas. All of this comes to a screeching halt, though, when she hears words she would never have thought possible coming over her phone.

Judging a chocolate-making competition for the women’s shelter’s annual fundraiser should be an easy, even pleasurable, assignment for Maise, new food critic for the Bloomingfield Daily Dispatch. Too bad just the smell of chocolate makes her stomach roil. By the time she reaches the last table, she hopes her face isn’t as green as her holiday sweater. But the tall, square-jawed man behind piles of fudge makes her want to linger, even savor the moment along with his chocolate-coffee-flavored confection.

This year, Ali and Stephen are both just trying to make it through the holidays. Stephen is fresh out of a relationship and dreading the prospect of Christmas alone. Ali, on the other hand, can't celebrate with friends or family. The most important man in her life is dying - decorating cookies and hanging tinsel aren't even on her radar. When the two meet during a chance encounter, Stephen's instant attraction to Ali spurs him into action.

Dr. Lauren Spencer is having a hard time finding the Christmas spirit, but when a terrible accident necessitates the need to try to save a woman's life, she and the members of a small community will come to learn the true meaning of the holiday spirit.

Nothing puts a damper on the Christmas spirit more than a fluffy white rooster named Sweetie. Reginald and his flock plot to serve the big bully a helping of humble pie with the aid of their fellow farm animals and some creative storytelling. Will they end up on Santa's naughty list? Or Martha's stewpot? And can they teach a humbug how to get along?

Out on the prairie, the Joseph family is all astir with concealing their Christmas gifts for one another. But will Santa come this year? After all, the crops had failed this summer and they were on short commons. When their town neighbors, the Ralstons ask to take refuge overnight at the Joseph's on Christmas Eve, they make a shakedown bed in front of the fire. But what will become of the big bundle of gifts they carried in with them?

Here are five spooky stories to listen to near the fireplace. Sit back and relax with the Shiver and Fears first Christmas short tales!

This audiobook includes two short stories from celebrated Russian author Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881). "White Nights" (1848) features a nameless and lonely narrator who, though he resides in a big city, lives largely in his own head. In "The Heavenly Christmas Tree", an orphaned boy who is shunned by society is surprised to awaken before a beautiful Christmas tree; however, the scene is not what it seems. Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

Being the only mortal in a world of magical elves isn’t easy for Chrissy Star, especially at Christmastime. Feeling as if she’s in the way, she escapes Christmas Town and her duties as CFO for a week long vacation on a Greece isle. If she could have her Christmas wish, she’d meet a man who would not only heat up her love life, but understand her unusual family. Nick Christopoulus has met Chrissy before, but a lot has changed in five years.

Children aren't the same as kittens, as Miss Mary Mason is reminded when she volunteers to keep two orphans in her home through Christmas. Ragged and dirty, their manners leave much to be desired. Still, Mary perseveres, not willing to return them to a system that will certainly not meet their needs.

Die Adventszeit hat begonnen und alle Kinder aus seiner Klasse freuen sich, nur Fritz ist traurig. Aber warum und kann ihm geholfen werden? Fräulein Glücklich ist eine Klassenlehrerin mit Leidenschaft zum Beruf. Jeder mag sie und was hat sie sich dieses Mal zum letzten Schultag überlegt?

Wenn wie ein Wunder beim Schneeschaufeln ein Kälbchen auftaucht, wenn Katz und Hund sich diesmal nichts zu Weihnachten schenken und Heiligabend statt Gans Heringssalat auf den Teller kommt... dann ist tierisch schöne Weihnachtszeit. Enthält die Geschichten: Ein Kalb fällt vom Himmel von Astrid Lindgren, Weihnachten bei Hund und Katz von Timo Parvela, Gans in Not von Sabine Ludwig. Vorgelesen von Gabriele Blum, Ursula Illert und Jens Wawrczeck, untermalt mit weihnachtlicher Musik.