Ergebnis für "A Christmas Carol" in Literatur & Belletristik

Todd blasts in from the kitchen with a daiquiri in hand. He sets the drink on the table and two things happen simultaneously; Todd jumps onto Bill’s knee and holds out his hand for his twenty bucks. Charles jumps up on the table and buries his beak in Bill’s daiquiri. Every time Bill tries to take a drink, the dog growls and stiffens its legs. If Bill pulls on the glass, the dog’s growl goes up in pitch. If he stops, the pitch goes down. After a bit of practice, Bill succeeds in playing ‘Jingle Bells’ on the furious dog.

Eric Swift is not having a normal Christmas Eve. While none of his holidays have been particularly normal since his successful rise from coding in an old apartment to running his own software firm, this particular one has taken an unexpected turn. Pre-occupied, dismissive to employees, slightly sadistic, and generally oblivious to the festivities around him, Swift is about to find out how unhealthy it can be to pay more attention to lines of code than those around him....

Annabelle has always been able to fix things with a click of her fingers and a few choice words, but this Christmas, something is different. This Christmas, she realizes that the girl she has raised from birth, Jane, has grown and has a life of her own now, which includes her ultra-rich biological mother, the former bag lady Dennie Bin. It also includes the son of Annabelle’s worse foe.

Suzie is eager to get back to Earth, but is she ready? What happens when she finds herself in Wyandotte, MI, again, and how does Marshmallow come to her rescue?

“This book is a bonbon for any baby boomer. . . . Lamb gets Felix’s voice just right, and he does a spot-on job of evoking the special joys and trials of parochial school in the ‘60’s…Put a bow on this book and warm somebody’s heart.” — St. Petersburg Times Wally Lamb, the...

When a terrorist organization sets their sights on annihilating Christmas, their first act is to take out Kris Kringle himself. But a slug to the chest can't keep a good Santa down. With the help of his North Pole crew and some mercenaries straight off the naughty list, Santa will save Christmas, even if it destroys him. And it just might.

Charles Dickens is known not only for his novels, but also for his short stories, particularly "A Christmas Carol." In the latter genre, interestingly, these stories had a powerful commercial impulse, for they were serialized in magazines at the Christmas season.