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This Christmas experience the music and majesty of the season as seen through the heart of a child. Here are 25 brief reflections on treasured songs and carols for the entire family to enjoy during Advent. Explore the wonders of Bethlehem revealed in the stories of treasured songs and enjoy new arrangements of traditional Christmas favorites by award-winning composer Steven Bias. Your spirit will sing with the inspiration and fun of Advent Calendar...
4) Grateful
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When Nate meets Gio on his way to parents' house, is it time for his risk-taking impulses to turn out well for a change?
5) Kismet
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Will fate reunite Tucker and Cal on New Year's, when Tucker loses Cal's phone number after their first chance meeting?
7) Talk Turkey
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Will recent culinary school graduate Tom at the Talk Turkey hotline help Carson with his Christmas dinner and much more?
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Grant Beaudoin should be thrilled to escape Minneapolis at Christmastime and grateful to lounge on a Hawaiian beach. Instead he is mired in self-pity and drowning in too much tequila. His twin is marrying the perfect man, while Grant is stuck in middle management with no love life in sight. A walk into the rain forest leads to a meeting with a doomed man who has a story about a holiday that predates Christmas. Grant comes to realize that difficult...
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Cowboys Wyatt and Brady are competing in a team-roping event in Missoula, Montana's annual Christmas Eve rodeo. Christmas is Wyatt's favorite time of year and nothing is going to dampen his holiday spirit, not even his surly, no-nonsense roping partner. They've only been riding together for a week, but Wyatt has already secretly fallen head over bootheels for Brady, though it's painfully obvious Brady only has eyes for the rodeo's grand prize purse....
10) Iced
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Keith Walker, a mall bookstore employee, is struggling to get through another miserable holiday season while trying to preserve a crumbling long-term relationship. One of his few comforts is his morning coffee made by a good-looking, younger barista. Austin Novak felt an attraction when Keith started frequenting the coffee shop, but he doesn't think the older man has any interest in him or his graphic novel collection. A Christmas week snowstorm buries...
11) Mele Kalikimaka
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Being rich has its advantages, but it is also rife with suffocating pressures and family telling Chandler Buckingham how to live his life. When his assistant offers to help him escape the mounting obligations of the holiday season by running away to Hawaii, Chandler jumps at the chance. Only to find nothing is quite as he'd expected. Micah Keolu has lived in Hawaii all his life. He has to work two jobs and has little time for a social life, but his...
12) Popcorn Garlands
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Carlos Mendez spends all year working hard at his Houston-based landscaping business, and he sends every spare penny he earns back to his family in Mexico. By the time the holidays roll around, he doesn't have much patience for the unadulterated greed and consumerism paraded past him. But a chance meeting with his neighbor, Ned Williams, and Ned's cancer-stricken daughter, might help to remind him of the real meaning of the season-something beyond...
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Federal park ranger Carter Williams dislikes kids almost as much as he dislikes Christmas. He chose his career to escape human contact, not embrace it. And no matter how much his husband Owen tries to sway his opinion, Carter is a grump who would rather ignore the holiday. Owen's efforts are put on hold, however, when they get a call about six missing foster kids lost in the park. Christmas Eve takes a turn for the worse when Owen injures himself...
14) Santa for Hire
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Dumped by his ex on Christmas Eve two years ago, Oxford Street department store manager Richard Barratt now hates the holidays. Things go from bad to worse when the store's usual Santa is too ill to reprise his role and the firm sends cocky but handsome Blaine Ryder to take his place. The attraction between the two is clear, but Blaine is an incorrigible player who reminds Richard of his ex. His idea of a relationship is a quick roll in the hay, and...
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Hill hates Christmas. The shoppers. The cheer. The drama. All of it. Each holiday season is a painful reminder that seven years before, his lover, Drew, walked out of his life and moved across the country, leaving Hill like a cup of rotten eggnog. Now Drew is back and wants Hill to put a little jingle in his bells. Well, not this Scrooge. Drew admits he moved to get away from Hill-but not for the reasons Drew gave him all those years ago. Some of...
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Sheriff Sam Daly, a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, and his husband, Michael Bellomo, have made a life for themselves in sparsely populated Pine County, in the Colorado mountains. Sam oversees the small sheriff's department, and Michael sells his paintings and tourist items out of his shop, Needful Things. From the beginning, Sam has known Michael possessed gifts: the ability to see and hear things Sam cannot. When a report of a body in a massive...
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Growing up an orphan meant Charlie never celebrated Christmas. He's committed to making sure his newly adopted cat, Max, doesn't miss out like he did. Unfortunately, he discovers that giving Max the perfect Christmas might be easier said than done-and not without risk. Charlie's landlord, successful and wealthy real estate developer Aemon Scotfield, is charmed by the gorgeous redhead and his shameless alley cat. He finds himself compelled to help...
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Frustrated by their stubbornness and cluelessness, Aubrey takes matters into her own hands. She decides the best gift to give Josh is something homemade and from the heart-a boyfriend they'll both love. A story from the Dreamspinner Press 2017 Advent Calendar "Stocking Stuffers."
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Kyle is struggling to run his coffee shop on his own after his partner walked out on him. He has his eye on Steven, who comes into the shop each day, but hasn't worked up the nerve to express his interest. When Steven asks Kyle to help out with Christmas lunch at the homeless shelter where he works, Kyle is too exhausted to agree. He donates his tips but still feels he's blown his chances with Steven and made himself look like a selfish jerk. On Christmas...
20) Christmas Grace
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Christmas has been a lonely time of year for Aaron since losing his family fifteen years ago. But now he's seeing Craig, and though Aaron is sure they belong together, both have been hurt in the past, so they're taking things slowly. So far, Craig has been supportive of Aaron's struggles with anxiety-struggles that cost Aaron relationships in the past. On Christmas Eve, Aaron is closing his bookshop when Craig surprises him with a specially planned...
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