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America’s beloved storyteller will guide and thrill your imagination with these classic tales. Join Gene Edwards as he recounts his favorite stories from more than 50 years of travel and ministry. Considered the “Paul Harvey” of Christian writers, Gene Edwards is one of America’s most...

Feeling a chill amidst the warmth of the season? Sensing a shadow lurking behind the tinsel and lights? Experience the darker visions hidden within our brightest holiday. Come listen to the water ghost's story as she spends Christmas Eve haunting Harrowby Hill.

Tantor Media presents a collection of some of the most popular Christmas stories read by award-winning narrators Renee Raudman and Alan Sklar. This special anthology will transport listeners back to the Christmases of their youth, when they first heard these holiday tales.

This treasury of family stories continues in the style of two previous best-sellers by Alice Gray, Stories for the Heart and More Stories for the Heart, both featured on Billy Graham's national TV broadcasts. Her tender stories deliver Christian values in a captivating and wondrous way that appeals to parents, grandparents, couples, and single moms.

A picture is worth a thousand words, and a good story spans the generations. Now the same story treasury that has touched readers' souls since 1996 -- and launched a series with more than 4 million copies in print -- has gotten even better! Adorned with an updated cover to match later Stories collections and journals, and elegantly typeset within, the new book still offers over 100 encouraging story selections from some of America's best-loved communicators. Carry them in your heart, learn from their wisdom, and share them with someone you love. It's the storybook that sparked a movement!

In the same tender, uplifting, and heart-warming style of Stories for the Heart is this wonderful collection of stories selected for a woman's heart. These inspirational stories by communicators like Ruth Graham, Gigi Tchividjian, Kay James, and Luci Swindoll instill Christian values and virtues.

O'Connor, the author of the best-selling Gettin' Old Ain't for Wimps (more than 175,000 copies sold), continues her delightful storytelling in these short vignettes based on real life. Readers will chuckle as they read these funny, heartwarming experiences for themselves and then share them with their friends.

A Chicago journalist finds himself in a small Texas town on Christmas Eve. Lonely and alone, he encounters old faces and new facts: a hand carved manger, a father's guilt, a young girl's faith. The trip into the past holds his key to the future, and a scarlet cross shows him the way home.

This edition of Christmas Stories for the Heart offers an uplifting collection of many of the best Christmas stories ever told. The heartwarming and tender treasury - another release in the best-selling Stories for the Heart series from Alice Gray - includes stories by several of America's most respected and beloved Christian communicators. It's the perfect holiday gift to give or to keep for listeners who want to curl up by a crackling fire and renew their faith, hope, and love for the holiday season.

A sequel to Stories for the Heart, More Stories for the Heart offers up over 100 stories that hug listeners' hearts and encourage their souls. This treasury of timeless tales, written by some of the best Christian communicators today, offers a wealth of compassion and love certain to minister to multiple generations. Listeners will find themselves sharing these uplifting tales in conversation and letting the stories' wisdom inspire their thinking.

In "A Country Christmas", Louisa May Alcott tells the story of Sophie, a debutante from the city who travels to rural Vermont to spend Christmas with her cousins Saul and Ruth. Though apprehensive at first, Sophie learns that the charms of celebrating Christmas in the country are many.

What would it be like if someone were completely, 100 percent for you? The loser. The rising star. The drug addict. The good Christian kid gone bad. The undeserving overwhelmed with gratitude. Whoever you are and wherever you’ve been—Jesus is for you. Not when you clean up your act or when...

Originally published in an 1896 edition of The Home Monthly, "The Burglar's Christmas" tells the story Crawford, a homeless man in Chicago who has not eaten recently and considers stealing food on Christmas Eve. Reminiscent of the parable of the prodigal son, this tale reflects on the nature of forgiveness. This recording of "The Burglar's Christmas" was recorded as part of Dreamscape's Classic Christmas Stories: A Collection of Timeless Holiday Tales.

This is a story from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes III collection. In this collection are four more individual cases for Mr. Sherlock Holmes, narrated by his faithful friend and admirer Dr. Watson. They dive into the opium dens of London in "The Man with the Twisted Lip," recall the curious history of "The Musgrave Ritual," come face to face with the grisly evidence contained in "The Cardboard Box," and go on a wild-goose chase in "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle." The powers of Sherlock Holmes prevail.