Little Gemma and her family prepare for Christmas all week and have a happy celebration on the day.

Bramble House B & B is booked for the Christmas season, and new owner Amy Arden and her husband Chet Hardwick are excited to spend their first Yuletide season as a married couple. To spread the joy of the season, they have carefully selected their guests for the week before Christmas including two very special people. Oliver Rivers is coming to Marietta to fulfill his mother’s deathbed wish…to locate the daughter his mother gave up when she was fifteen. When that doesn’t go as planned, he finds himself gravitating to another guest at Bramble House. Everyone calls Gemma Granger the runaway bride, but they don’t know she was deceived by her fiancé and fled to Bramble House to nurse her broken heart. Instead, Gemma finds herself feeling an instant connection with Oliver and helping him bond with his long-lost family. Oliver suspects Gemma is taking on him and other projects to avoid dealing with her heartbreak. But the truth is that with each passing day, Gemma is discovering that her real life and her real love might not be where she thought it was.

Treasured Time with Your Toddler is a handbook of activities for parents of two- and three-year-olds. For four weeks of each month, Jan Brennan presents songs and nursery rhymes to sing, stories and books to read, simple foods to prepare, and games, crafts, or explorations to do together. Advertising in women's and parent's magazines.

An endearing and beautifully rendered tale sure to be a family favorite. It's Christmas Eve. Gossie and Gertie hang their bright colored boots in the barn. Peedie and BooBoo hang their striped stockings in the barn. Ollie stomps through the snow. It's not easy to wait for Father Christmas Goose! With ample wry humor, beautiful ink-and-watercolor pictures, and irresistible charm, Olivier Dunrea shares the first holiday story of Gossie and friends.Ollie perfectly encompasses the adorable impatience of young children waiting for Christmas to finally come.

The Unexpected Lydia is a kind hearted person that is always doing things for others. When her boyfriend moves to Spain she is heartbroken. When friends ask her to be there surrogate mother she accepts. Th e responsibilities and the risks are overwhelming. When unexpected things start to happen no one knows what to expect. Will Lydia live through this pregnancy and if she dose will she lose everything and be all alone. The Captivating Gemma is just starting out in High school and trying to move on from her horrible past. High school is hard enough but Gemma has secret abilities she doesn’t know how to control and things go very wrong. Gemma is lost and confused and can’t tell anybody. But when Emerald comes back into her life she has hope again but can her heart handle all the secrets is there love strong enough to last?

A comprehensive guide to multicultural literature for children, this valuable resource features more than 1,600 titles—including fiction, folktales, poetry, and song books—that focus on diverse cultural groups. The selected titles, pubished between the 1970s and 1990s are suitable for use with preschoolers through sixth graders and are likely to be found on the shelves of school and public libraries. Topics are timely, with an emphasis on books that reflect the needs and interests of today's children. Each detailed entry includes bibliographic information. Use level is also included, as are cultural designation, subjects, and a summary. The invaluable Subject Access section incorporates use level culture information.