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Fall in love under the mistletoe... The following romance books all take place during the Christmas season.
*Heat level developed using guides from All About Romance and Novelist.
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Heartwarming: These books don't feature any sex scenes, although some may include swearing or mild inneuendo.
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The Gift
Cecelia Ahern - Harper; 1st US Edition edition
Format: Book
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If you could wish for one gift this Christmas, what would it be?
Everyday Lou Suffern battled with the clock. He always had two places to be at the same time. He always had two things to do at once. When asleep he dreamed. In between dreams, he ran through the events of the day while... |
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The Christmas Room
Catherine Anderson - Berkley
Format: Book
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Widow Maddie McLendon has uprooted her life to move to Rustlers Gulch with her son and grandson. But as a brutal Montana winter looms on the horizon, contractors have yet to break ground on their new house, leaving them to live in a makeshift camp of trailers, tents, and sheds....
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Catching Christmas
TERRI BLACKSTOCK - Thomas Nelson
Format: Book
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As a first-year law associate, Sydney Batson knows she will be updating her resume by New Year's if she loses her current court case. So when her grandmother gets inexplicably ill while she's in court, Sydney arranges for a cab to get her to the clinic.
The last thing cab driver... |
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The Mistletoe Promise
Richard Paul Evans - Simon & Schuster
Format: Book
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Elise Dutton dreads the arrival of another holiday season. Three years earlier, her husband cheated on her with her best friend, resulting in a bitter divorce that left her alone, broken, and distrustful. Then, one November day, a stranger approaches Elise in the mall food court. Though... |
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Christmas Shopaholic
Sophie Kinsella - The Dial Press
Format: Book
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Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) adores Christmas. It's always the same – Mum and Dad hosting, carols playing, Mum pretending she made the Christmas pudding, and the next-door neighbours coming round for sherry in their terrible festive jumpers.
And now it's... |
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Twelve Days of Christmas: A Christmas Novel
Debbie Macomber - Ballantine Books
Format: Book
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Continuing in a festive annual tradition, #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber returns with a new original holiday novel full of romance and cheer - and the magical prospect of finding love in the most unexpected places.
Friendly and bubbly, Julia Padden... |
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Let It Snow: A Novel
Nancy Thayer - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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A Nantucket shopkeeper discovers that Christmas is the perfect occasion to make unexpected friendships, to warm the coldest of hearts--and maybe even to find love.Christina Antonioni is preparing for the holidays at her Nantucket toy shop, unpacking last-minute shipments and decorating... |
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Season of Wonder
RaeAnne Thayne - HQN
Format: Paperback
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It's a long way from New York to Idaho ... but could they have found a home at last? Dani Capelli has never truly belonged anywhere. And from her earliest days as a foster child in Queens, she would have been lost if it weren't for her love of animals. Until high school, when she fell... |
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Heating up: These books may contain innuendo and sex scenes that are not overly explicit.
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My Kind of Christmas
Robyn Carr - MIRA
Format: Book
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The Riordan brothers may have a reputation for being rough-and-tumble, but Patrick has always been the gentle, sweet-natured one. These days, his easygoing manner is being tested by his high-octane career as a navy pilot. But for the Riordan brothers, when the going gets tough ... the tough... |
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Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery: A Novel
Jenny Colgan - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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It's the most wonderful time of the year ... and the perfect moment to escape to a charming English village! From the beloved author whose novels are "sheer indulgence from start to finish" (SOPHIE KINSELLA) comes a delightful holiday story - funny, heartfelt, romantic... |
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In a Holidaze
Christina Lauren - Gallery Books
Format: Paperback
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"Love Actually" meets "Groundhog Day" in the quintessential holiday romance by the New York Times bestselling author of "The Honey-Don't List".
It's the most wonderful time of the year ... but not for Maelyn Jones. She's living with her parents,... |
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The Twelve Dates of Christmas
Jenny Bayliss - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Paperback
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When it comes to relationships, thirty-four-year-old Kate Turner is ready to say "Bah, humbug." The sleepy town of Blexford, England, isn't exactly brimming with prospects, and anyway, Kate's found fulfillment in her career as a designer, and in her delicious side job baking... |
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Happily This Christmas: A Novel
Susan Mallery - HQN
Format: Hardcover
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There's no place like Happily Inc for the holidays ... Wynn Beauchene has a thriving business, a great kid and a mildly embarrassing crush on the guy next door - local cop Garrick McCabe. She's a strong, independent woman who can't help dreaming what-if about a man she barely... |
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Take Me Home for Christmas
Brenda Novak - Harlequin MIRA
Format: Paperback
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Christmas is a time for remembering? Too bad not all memories are pleasant! Everyone in Whiskey Creek remembers Sophia DeBussi as the towns Mean Girl. Especially Ted Dixon, whose love she once scorned. But Sophia has paid the price for her youthful transgressions. The man she did marry... |
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The Trouble with Mistletoe: A Heartbreaker Bay Novel
Jill Shalvis - Harpercollins
Format: Print book
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If she has her way . . .Willa Davis is wrangling puppies when Keane Winters stalks into her pet shop with frustration in his chocolate-brown eyes and a pink bedazzled cat carrier in his hand. He needs a kitty sitter, stat. But the last thing Willa needs is to rescue a guy who doesn't... |
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Mistletoe Miracles
Jodi Thomas - HQN
Format: Book
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A small-town Texas Christmas story, where hearts are lost, love is found, and family always brings you back home.Griffin Holloway is desperate: the Maverick Ranch has been in his family for generations, but lately, it's a money pit. He'd sooner marry one of his horses than sell... |
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