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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Follows the lives of seven London residents in the week before Christmas in 2007, including a hedge fund manager in his attempt to further his career, a professional football player from Poland, a pothead schoolboy with an addiction to reality television, a Tube train driver, and others.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Donnie takes the train to visit his grandparents on the farm at Eagle Pond, where Gramp milks the cows and entertains his grandson by speaking rhymed pieces; Donnie's eyes are drawn to an empty stall that houses a graceful, cobwebby sleigh that no one uses anymore, and when the gifts are exchanged and the remains of the Christmas feast put away, the air becomes heavy with fine snowflakes and everyone wonders, how will Donnie get back...
3) Winter
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Series
Language
English
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When four people, strangers and family, converge on a fifteen-bedroom house in Cornwall for Christmas, will there be enough room for everyone?
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Series
Language
English
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When the four Essinger children gather in Austin for Christmas, they all bring their news. Nathan is hoping to become a Federal judge. Susie's husband has taken a job in England. Jean has asked her boyfriend and boss to meet her family. Paul has broken up with Dana, mother of their son Cal. But their parents have plans, too, and invite Dana to stay, hoping to bring the couple back together. As the week unfolds, the Essingers all face conflicts of...
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