Library Greeting: Santa is coming

With Christmas season right around the corner, the library staff thought a few Christmas books might be of interest to one and all. Don’t forget Santa and his helpers will be at the library this Saturday 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Everyone, young or young at heart, feel free to come by and see him.

Newlysingleandunemployed Kerry Tolliver needs a second chance. When she moves back home to her family's Christmas tree farm in North Carolina, she is guilt tripped into helping her brother, Murphy, sell trees in New York City.

She begrudgingly agrees, but she isn't happy about sharing a trailer with her brother in the East Village for two months. Plus, it's been years, since before her parents' divorce, that she's been to the city to sell Christmas trees.

Then, Kerry meets Patrick, the annoying Mercedes owner who parked in her spot for the first two days. Patrick is recently divorced, a father to a six year old son, and lives in the neighborhood. Can Kerry's first impressions about the recently divorced, single father, and dare she say, handsome neighbor be wrong?

Surrounded by warm childhood memories, sparkling possibility, and the magic of Christmas in the City, will Kerry finally get the second chance she needs to find herself and maybe even find love? Bright Lights, Big Christmas by Mary Kay Andrews is filled with Christmas magic.

After losing a promotion to a younger protégé and now fearing for her job at the holidays, a Detroit mergers & acquisitions executive who specializes in corporate takeovers is desperate to reinvigorate her career.

She impulsively tells her bosses that she can convince her aging parents to sell their iconicMichiganChristmasstore by the start of the New Year to a massive corporation looking to polish its tarnished image.

She returns to her Michigan hometown-thestorybookBavarian town of Frankenmuth-during its magical Christmastime season on the pretense visiting family but intent on pressuring them to sell their business- now the largest, privately held store intheworldandonetheystarted in her grandparents' basement. During her time there, she reconnects not only with a quirky collection of childhood friends (who work at and run such local institutions as the Cheese Haus and the dueling Bavarian chicken restaurants) but also with a former boyfriend who broke her heart at Christmas on the Holz Brucke (Michigan's largest covered bridge), which forever tarnished her affection for the town and for the holidays.

Slowly, she begins to reconnect with the magic of the store, her parents and the holidays... while also rediscovering the magic of her small town, the boy she once loved, dreams of being an entrepreneur (and hiring, rather than firing, people at the holidays) and the joy of Christmas. The Wishing Bridge by Viola Shipman is a her newest novel.

UntilCamrynNeffcanreturn to her “real” life in Chicago, she’s in Wishing Tree to care for her twin sisters. She’s not looking for forever love, not here.

But handsome hotelier Jake Crane is a temptation she can’t resist, so she suggests they pair up for the season. No golden rings, no broken hearts. At his side, she sees her hometown through Christmas-colored eyes.

The cheer is cheerier, the joy morejoyful.Shethoughtshehad putherfutureonholdbutmaybe her real life was here all along, waiting for her to come home.

New in town, River Best is charmed by Wishing Tree’s homespuntraditionsandwarmhearted people. When she’s crowned Snow Queen, she’s honored but wary.

Dylan Tucker, her king, seemslikethestuffofsugarplum dreams, but she can’t shake the feeling that he’s hiding something big. As they perform their “royal” duties—tasting cookies, lighting trees—Dylan’s good humor and melty kisses draw her to the brink of love.

But she can’t let herself fall until she uncovers his secret, even if her lack of faith means losing him forever.

With twinkling humor and heartfelt Christmas spirit, two friends find love in a town called Wishing Tree in the novel Home Sweet Christmas by Susan Mallery.