Holiday Literary

Third grader Wally lives alone with his father, an ill professor struggling with depression and unable to summon much holiday spirit. When his father reveals that the source of his sadness is not knowing the meaning of life, Wally becomes determined to find it for him.

There's one corpse too many in this ingenious mystery featuring husband-and-wife sleuth duo PI Rosco Polycrates and crossword editor Belle Graham. The residents of the bucolic Massachusetts hamlet are up in arms. A developer has bought the sprawling Quigley homestead, and his construction crew is causing a ruckus digging up the land. The noise stops abruptly when a female skeleton is found buried in the garden.

Originally published in the 1876 Christmas edition of The Graphic, Christmas at Thompson Hall is a Victorian tale concerning the proper Mr. and Mrs. Brown and their journey from southern France to Thompson Hall to celebrate Christmas with their relatives - a trip that becomes a comedy of errors once Mr. Brown's throat condition, a malady that almost prevented the trip entirely, worsens.

"La música que salía de la casa" de Paulo Coelho es un relato sobre los valores humanos y el espíritu navideño.

La edición especial Cuentos de Navidad de Paulo Coelho recoge diversos relatos navideños del escritor. Estos cuentos giran en torno a la alegría, la generosidad, la humildad y los pequeños grandes milagros que vivimos en nuestro día a día.

Set in New York at the turn of the century, the story centers on a young couple that sacrifices their dearest possessions to buy each other Christmas gifts.

In Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale, a little fir tree realizes too late that it did not appreciate the grand moments of life - the majesty of the forest, the dazzling grandeur of its night as a Christmas tree - while they were happening...

"Bank Holiday" is a story by Katherine Mansfield: A stout man with a pink face wears dingy white flannel trousers, a blue coat with a pink handkerchief showing, and a straw hat much too small for him, perched at the back of his head.

The Great Smokey Mountains National Park draws more tourists than any National Park in the United States. The Sevier County government transformed the its three major cities into Christmas mega-destinations lighting up the boulevards, bridges, and businesses with festive lighting and decorations creating Winterfest. Families deeply rooted in mountain traditions struggle to hold on to their local values and business with the onslaught of large commercial interests. It'll take some Christmas Mountain Magic to save these families and their businesses.

Joey Golft loved Christmas. When he was four years of age, his father Nippy showered him with gifts and sometimes a trip to Paris, where his Aunt Florie resided. Joey’s uncle, Tome Golft, was always trying to convince Joey that Christmas was a hoax and on Christmas morning in the year 1970, at the age of 17, when Joey’s father was arrested and sent to prison for funds embezzlement from his Company, Tome Golft told Joey that it was because of Christmas his father was arrested.

Written as a bedtime story for her niece and part of Louisa May Alcott's Lulu Library, A Christmas Dream is the tale of a privileged little girl and a fantastic dream of Christmas, teaching the value of giving to those in need.

Disfruta de este regalo navideño: Mis galletas crujientes de Nochevieja, una de las recetas de Días de Navidad, de Jeanette Winterson. Puedes escuchar su original punto de vista sobre el significado de Año Nuevo mientras cocinas.