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In The First Christmas, two of today's top Jesus scholars, Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan, join forces to show how history has biased our reading of the nativity story as it appears in the gospels of Matthew and Luke. As they did for Easter in their previous book, The Last Week, here...

“I love The First Christmas. What a charming way Stephen Mitchell has found to tell my favorite story of all, the Nativity, character by character (I love the donkey and the ox), with wise and thrilling interludes about God, reality, truth.” –Anne Lamott In The First Christmas, Stephen...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Pumpkin Spice Cafe comes a #1 Sunday Times bestselling grumpy x sunshine Christmas romcom! ❄️ ‘A charming break from reality’ Publishers Weekly ❄️❄️❄️❄️ Every book in the Dream Harbor series can be read as a standalone...

She can't cook, sew, sing, or clean. And no matter how hard young Anna Yoder tries, she'd much rather help people in trouble than be a well-behaved pretty face and properly perfect Amish maiden. So she instantly reaches out to her old schoolmate, Felty Helmuth, when their Amish town ostracizes him for his Korean War army service. He's still the only one who's ever understood Anna - and liked everything from her green Jello carrot salads to her love of books. And this holiday season, she can't help hoping that somehow she and Felty can find a way to be the perfect match....

"...Hammer's voice is brimming with such melody that, if you listen to it long enough, you can probably get drunk off it." — Vulture.com *Now a major motion picture from director Luca Guadagnino, starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet. Winner of the 2018 Academy Award for Adapted...

This everlasting tale of the first Christmas tree follows the monk Winfred as he journeys to lands far and wide to teach others about Christianity. During his adventure, he happens upon those who believe in the ancient thunder god Thor and teaches them the way of Christ.

"Lee Tobin McClain's books make my heart sing."—Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times bestselling author On the Chesapeake Bay, you don’t need mistletoe for the perfect Christmas kiss… Not many women still have “first kiss” on their Christmas list, but somehow Kayla Harris is permanently...

Spiritual beings populate the stories of Scripture. Angels singing. Demons infecting. Heavenly hosts fighting . . . Ignore the armies of God and Satan and you ignore the heart of Scripture. Ever since the snake tempted Eve in Eden, we've known: there is more to this world than meets the eye. In...

When Liv Latimer says goodbye to her colleagues and finishes work for the holidays, she's looking forward to a Christmas to remember with her boyfriend Eddie. But before she makes it home, her phone rings, calling her back into work. And Liv is faced with a choice. Does she do as she's always done, and put herself second? Or, will she say no, so she can finally begin the life she's dreamed of? Liv's decision will turn her world upside down in ways she could never have imagined. Because whatever choice she makes, Liv is about to discover, fate finds a way...

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To impress her boss, Linda Rogers eagerly volunteers to take in a foster child for the holiday season. She's well-organized in and outside the office; the addition of a child? A simple matter of blocking out the hours in her day planner and laying in a few supplies. Never mind that she's single. Never mind that she's never cared to have a lasting relationship or build a family. Housing seven-year-old Lucy Green for Christmas is simply to boost Linda up the next career step, nothing more.

En esta comedia de enredo para toda la familia, el arcángel Gabriel recibe un encargo muy importante. Debe organizar la primera navidad de todas, es decir, el nacimiento del niño Jesús en Belén. Lo que inicialmente es una gran noticia, se convierte para Gabriel en todo un dolor de cabeza, porque para llevar a cabo su misión, debe contar con la “ayuda” de Junípero, un ángel travieso experto en meterse en problemas, que lo complica todo cuando hay que visitar a María para decirle que ella va a ser la madre de Dios.

An actress and a perpetually single former boy-band member are reunited as costars on a steamy holiday film in this all new spicy rom-com by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone, bestselling coauthors of A Merry Little Meet Cute. Kallum Lieberman is the funny one. As the arguably lesser of the...

Curl up in front of the fire with this slow-burn romance that will melt your heart!❤️‍🔥 ‘One of my favourite Christmas reads. Maxine Morrey writes the most gorgeous heroes' Jules Wake When professional organiser Kate Stone is asked to declutter Michael’s home in time for Christmas...

Rediscover this heartfelt Christmas romance by #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. After losing the woman he loved and his relationship with his father in one fell swoop, Roy Fletcher has become a bitter, career-obsessed man. His mother, whose world was rocked by the same...

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The magic of Christmas—and a second shot at romance—is in the air in Shelter Springs this holiday season… Amanda Taylor isn’t a fan of Christmas, but as the owner of a local soap shop, ignoring the holiday season isn’t an option. To forget the pain of Christmases past, Amanda focuses...

"This is the book your romantic heart needs to be uplifted, inspired, and blissfully satisfied." --Amazon reviewer on A Companion for His Son Can a special K-9… Guide him to an unexpected family? Despite the painful memories, cop-turned-author Frank Wilkins is ready to write about the...

New York Times bestselling author Diana Palmer delivers a classic Long, Tall Texans tale of a cowboy and his lady, originally published as Donavan in 1991. From the moment the well-dressed beauty strolled into the bar on the wrong side of town, rugged Texan Donavan Langley has known she was...

A K-9 Unit has a child to protect… and a murderer to catch. A double murder and an attempted kidnapping of a baby in a national park have Officer Danica Hayes and her K-9 partner on high alert. She’ll have to protect Luke Stark and his nine-month-old son while tracking the person who...