-This Year It Will Be Different by: Maeve Binchy
15 Christmas stories that evoke many lives during the holiday season - stepfamilies struggling with exes, long married couples, children caught in grown-ups tug-of-wars, etc.

-Tidings of Great Joy by: Sandra Brown
Mayor-elect Taylor MacKensie is charming and handsome, and independent architect Ria Lavender never dreams that she'll be swept away by his charisma at the Christmas party.

-Silent Night by: Mary Higgins Clark
The Dornan family heads to New York during the Christmas season, and when his mother's wallet is stolen, young Brian follows the thief into the subways.

-He Sees You When You're Sleeping by: Mary & Carol Higgins Clark
For 46 years, Sterling has lingered outside the heavenly gates, waiting for admission to heaven; when his day of judgment comes, he is tested by being sent back to earth to prove his worthiness by helping others.

-Scarpetta's Winter Table by: Patricia Cornwell
Scarpetta, Marino and Lucy celebrate the week between Christmas and New Year's with holiday food and drink, and the unexpected joy of befriending a lonely boy.

-Hard Christmas by: Barbara D'Amato
Freeland reporter Cat Marsala's assignment is a story on Christmas tree farming, but her visit to a tree farm in Michigan includes the discovery of a mysterious death.

-Christmas Books by: Charles Dickens
This volume contains "A CHristmas Carol," the famous story of Scrooge and Tiny Tim, along with "Cricket on the Hearth," "The Chimes," "The Battle of Life," and "The Haunted Man."

-Cat in a Golden Garland by: Carole Nelson Douglas
An ad agency hires an actor to portray Santa Claus at a party, and when the substitute is murdered, Temple Barr and her cat. Midnight Louie, must find out who killed Saint Nick.

-The Christmas Box by: Richard Paul Evans
The touching story of a widow and the young family who moves in with her; together they discover the gift of Christmas and learn what Christmas is really all about.

-Politically Correct Holiday Stories by: James Finn Garner
Humorous revisions of classic tales 'for an enlightened holiday season' include "Frosty the Persun of Snow," and "Rudolph the Nasally Empowered Reindeer."

-Marrying Man by: Olivia Goldsmith
Phyllis Geronomous horrifies her children by announcing she will visit during Christmas...and may even move in with them...so the children plot to marry Mom off.

-A Stillness in Bethlehem by: Jane Haddam
It's December in Bethlehem, Vermont, and the annual Nativity Pageant is threatened by a woman protesting the religious program being performed on public land.

-The Homecoming by: Earl Hamner, Jr.
The novel that was the inspiration for the long-running TV drama "The Waltons," this is a story of Christmas Eve on Spencer's Mountain.

-A Holly, Jolly Murder by: Joan Hess
Claire Malloy, bored with her life, agrees to attend a solstice celebration with an elderly woman, but when she arrives at the site, she discovers her hostess is dead.

-The Present by: Johanna Lindsey
It would take nothing short of a Christmas miracle to unite the dashing English lord with the exotic, low-born Lady whose background and family are so different from his own.

-Santa and Pete by: CHristopher Moore
Long ago Santa Claus had an African partner named Pete, and together they brought the spirit of Christmas to America's first settlers.

-A Midnight Clear by: Katherine Paterson
12 modern-day stories of the true meaning of Christmas written for the author's husband, a pastor, to read to his congregation on Christmas Eve.

-The Christmas Tree by: Julie Salamon
A tale narrated by the chief gardener at Rockefeller Center of an orphan girl who befriends a tiny fir tree, and who grows up to be a nature-loving nun.

-Holidays on Ice by: David Sedaris
Six hilarious tales of the holiday season by the renowned humorist and NPR commentator.

-The Christmas Letters by: Lee Smith
A heartwarming story of three generations of Christmas letter writers, whose long letters are written to explain their lives as much to themselves as to their far-flung family and friends.

-Treasured Stories of Christmas
From the editors of Guideposts, a collection of inspirational stories by Norman Vincent Peale, Pearl Buck, Catherine Marshall, and many more.

-The Christmas Shoes by: Donna VanLiere
Sometimes the things that can change your life will cross your path in an instant - and then they're gone. But if you open your eyes and watch carefully, you will believe...