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Each of these titles is a perfect companion while the days grow imperceptibly longer.

A library in Leeds, England, has set up a Christmas display with an assortment of holiday classics, but the star of the ...

As the snow falls and the holiday season wraps us in its magic, there’s no better time to grab a warm blanket, a steaming cup ...

Everyone knows "A Christmas Carol." What everyone doesn't know, now, is that Dickens' 1843 tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts was just the first in a series of annual holiday books.

Little did Anderson County native Jimmy Byrge think when he wrote the book "The Evergreen Christmas Tree" in 2008 for a railway venture that it would become one of Amazon's "hot" new books this year ...

Over the years, it slowly changed until it settled into the role of helping with groceries and ensuring children had at least a new book and toy at Christmas. For 40 of those years, Marilee Roloff ...

But we also had a Christmas gift tradition that was less traditional (in fact, maybe we are the only family that did it?): the book couch. Santa would put the presents (the ones that fit ...

when the Book Review editors wrote about it in a short note to readers: “The human heart beats in it, the true Christmas spirit pervades it, and it will be dear to the heart of childhood as long ...