In "Unto Us a Child," Jeremiah Maddox plays host to international students and finds his life filled with laughter, children, and love; and in "Christmas, Don't Be Late," a millionaire makes the Christmas wish of his beautiful neighbor's son come true. This two-in-one combines Palmer's "Unto Us a Child," in which a bachelor discovers babysitting and the woman who turns his life upside down, with Hart's warm "Christmas Don't Be Late" which finds millionaire...

David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favoritesas the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris's tales of tardy trick-or-treaters ("Us and Them"); the difficulties of explaining the Easter Bunny to the French ("Jesus Shaves"); what to do when you've been locked out in a snowstorm ("Let It Snow"); the...

Available for the first time in a single volume are the three holiday stories that Truman Capote regarded as among his greatest works of short fiction. Two of these childhood memoirs - "A Christmas Memory" and "The Thanksgiving Visitor" - center on the author's early years with a family of distant relatives in rural Alabama. Both pay loving tribute to an eccentric old-maid cousin, Miss Sook Faulk, who became his best friend. In "A Christmas Memory,"...

An omnibus of novels by Lee Hollis, Leslie Meier and Barbara Ross. With the fireplace crackling, the tree twinkling, and the carols humming, few things in life are as picture perfect as Christmas in Maine - until murder dampens the holiday spirit. It must be something in the eggnog ... Collects holiday-themed mysteries by three popular authors including "Eggnog Murder" by Leslie Meier, in which a gift-wrapped bottle of eggnog proves to be a killer...

Beth Cardall's life was falling apart: her six-year-old daughter, Charlotte, was suffering from an unidentifiable illness; her marriage transformed from a seemingly happy and loving relationship to one full of betrayal and pain; her job was increasingly at risk; and she had lost her ability to trust, to hope, or to believe in herself. Then, on Christmas day, Beth encountered Matthew, a handsome, mysterious stranger who changes the course of her life....

When the Fairy Tale Villains kidnap Santa Claus, the Fairy Tale Heroes must decide if they will sacrifice their happiness so that Santa can bring Christmas to all the children of the world.