Take a Break From Shopping With a New Christmas Novel

Garrison Keillor.
A Christmas blizzard
A wealthy and depressed man bound for Christmas in the tropics is abruptly summoned home to North Dakota to visit an ailing aunt, arriving just in time to be trapped there by a blizzard. By the author of Pilgrims: A Novel of Lake Woebegon.

Donna VanLiere.
The Christmas secret
Working long hours to make ends meet while struggling to protect her young children from their manipulative father, Christine Eisley saves the life of an elderly department-store employee and sets in motion a difficult series of events that leads her to a new relationship

Linda Lael Miller.
A Creed country Christmas : a Montana Creeds novel
In 1910, in the untamed Montana wilderness, schoolteacher Juliana Mitchell, disowned for her refusal to marry, discovers that she is no longer averse to marriage when she meets widowed rancher Lincoln Creed, who is searching for a governess for his young daughter.

Cleo Coyle.
Holiday grind
Coffeehouse manager and head barista Clare Cosi and her NYPD detective boyfriend discover the snowy body of a man dressed up in a Santa suit, and become convinced the death was more than a mugging gone awry.

Heather Graham.
Home in time for Christmas
When she rescues a man claiming to be a patriot soldier sentenced to death by British authorities, Melody Tarleton takes the stranger to her parents' house, where a little Christmas magic, some enchanted petals, and ancient potions take them on an unimaginable adventure.

Kate Jacobs.
Knit the season : a Friday Night Knitting Club book
Dakota Walker--along with her father, her grandparents and her mother's best friend, Catherine--visits her Gran for the Christmas holidays in Scotland, where the family members reminisce about Dakota's mother, Georgia, from Georgia's childhood to her blissful time as a doting new mom, in a story that takes place a year after the best-selling Knit Two.

Emily Brightwell.
Mrs. Jeffries and the yuletide weddings
Inspector Witherspoon and his staff find their preparations disrupted for the Yuletide wedding of Betsy and Smythe when they discover the murder of a middle-aged spinster by someone hoping to make it look like a random crime.

T. D. Jakes.

Jennifer Chiaverini.
A quilter's holiday : an Elm Creek quilts novel
The Elm Creek Quilters are home for the holidays, during which days spent hand-stitching heartfelt gifts for loved ones brings forth the true spirit of generosity and kindness, especially when Gwen gifts a quilt project to her mentor's bone-marrow donor.

Thomas Kinkade and Katherine Spencer.
A wish for Christmas
Cape Light residents reflect on their past and future during the Christmas holiday, including David, recently returned home after serving in Afghanistan to find his widowed father remarried, and Lillian who comes to the aid of a friend in need.

Wally Lamb.
Wishin' and hopin' : a Christmas story
A holiday novella focuses on a feisty parochial school fifth grader named Felix Funicello as Christmas approaches in 1964, then looks forward from the past to the present to measure what America has gained and what it has lost.
The memory quilt : A Christmas story for our times
A grandmother learns 10 life lessons from the story of Jesus's birth in the Bible, inspiring her to create quilts for children at a local shelter, in a first Christmas story from the best-selling author of Reposition Yourself: Living Life without Limits.