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Each of these titles is a perfect companion while the days grow imperceptibly longer.

A library in Leeds, England, has set up a Christmas display with an assortment of holiday classics, but the star of the ...

(Laura Battle, FT) "Funny, tender and deeply moving... [it] brought me more pleasure than any other book this year." (Johanna Thomas-Corr, The Sunday Times) The Story of a Heart by Rachel Clarke ...

Everyone knows "A Christmas Carol." What everyone doesn't know, now, is that Dickens' 1843 tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts was just the first in a series of annual holiday books.

As the snow falls and the holiday season wraps us in its magic, there’s no better time to grab a warm blanket, a steaming cup ...

you can grab the sequel The Grinch Takes a Vacation, which is a hilarious take on the story about everyone’s favorite Christmas grouch. This award-winning classic book follows young Peter as he ...

Over the years, it slowly changed until it settled into the role of helping with groceries and ensuring children had at least a new book and toy at Christmas. For 40 of those years, Marilee Roloff ...

But we also had a Christmas gift tradition that was less traditional (in fact, maybe we are the only family that did it?): the book couch. Santa would put the presents (the ones that fit ...

I was on the London tube recently when the women sitting next to me appeared engrossed in a book – I interrupted her and asked what she was reading.