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...

Although she feels that the holidays are a season of misery, Jeanette Brioche is pushed into working on the town's annual Christmas festival with the sexy new town manager, Tom McDonald. But with romance in the air, Jeanette and Tom take a fresh look at their painful pasts and a hopeful look into the future.

When Hannah Swenson finds her neighbor murdered next to a box of her gingerbread cookies, she discovers a flurry of murder suspects as long as her holiday shopping list. Jaine Austen has been enlisted to help with her parents' retirement community holiday play. Dr. Preston McCay falls to his death during the final act and Jaine must figure out if it was murder. Lucy Stone discovers a body and with the hours quickly ticking till Christmas, Lucy races...

As the holidays approach, Christmas tree farm owner Beth Morehouse finds her life taking some surprising turns when someone leaves a basket filled with puppies on her doorstep, and her daughters invite their dad, her long-divorced husband, Kent, to Cedar Cove in hopes of a mom-and-dad reunion.

Preparing for the town's annual production of "A Christmas Carol," Hannah supports her friend, Lisa, who is implicated in the murder of her husband's ex-girlfriend.

Richard, a busy and preoccupied father, discovers a Christmas box full of letters from an old woman to her dead daughter and, with the help of an angel, begins to learn the true meaning of Christmas.

A successful travel photographer, Maggie Dawes, struggling to come to terms with a sobering medical diagnosis, is unexpectedly grounded over Christmas with her young assistant and begins to tell him the story of the love that set her on a course she never could have imagined.

A scenic holiday season in the Cornish coastal village of Mount Polbearne finds Polly busy with seasonal demands at her bakery, but when a dangerous storm cuts them off from the mainland, she must team up with her neighbors to safeguard everyone.

When a young couple on the road at Christmas find themselves stranded at an Amish farm, they discover there is more than one way to be rescued.