Who is this Secret Santa? A Secret Santa in a small New England town has been making headlines for years in newspapers worldwide by donating hundreds of thousands of dollars every year. Who is it? Everybody wants to know—especially Margot Stone, the publisher of the New York Chronicle. She wants the story for her Christmas Eve front page.A week before Christmas, Margot dispatches her top investigative reporter, Darsy Meadows, back to her hometown of Mulberry Falls, Vermont, to find...

Grace Albright is hoping for a Christmas miracle. Grace, a blind schoolteacher, and her father, the Reverend Bill Albright, are trying to keep the local school and church open in the seaside village of Saint Michaels. But they are running out of time. Since the church bells and the pipe organ have gone silent, attendance has dropped. And now, the bishop is coming on Christmas Eve amidst rumors he may announce the closures.Grace urges her father to enlist her childhood friend, Sam Ca...

Holly Jamison has always loved Christmas and is on her way home to celebrate the holidays with her family. It has been a while since she has been home to Pine Tree, Vermont, and she is looking forward to her visit. But this Christmas will be special. Holly plans to surprise her parents and take them up on their longstanding job offer to take over the reins of the family business. She has quit her job, subleased her apartment, and packed her car with all her belongings. But little does she ...

When you celebrate the magic number of fifty years in your marriage, you celebrate something very special. Everybody asks the same question: What's your secret? We wrote down all the reasons we had, then, over the months that followed, we interviewed friends, family, neighbors, and, yes, even strangers, asking, "What's your secret to a long marriage?" We were amazed at the answers we received. They are all listed here in this book. Enjoy!

When you celebrate the magic number of fifty years in your marriage, you celebrate something very special. Everybody asks the same question: What's your secret? We wrote down all the reasons we had, then, over the months that followed, we interviewed friends, family, neighbors, and yes, even strangers, asking, "What's your secret to a long marriage?" We were amazed at the answers we received. They are all listed here in this book. Enjoy!

The Macgregor brothers—Robert, Eian, and Ryan—are all recently widowed and forced to live together in Ryan’s beach house in sunny Florida. To get them to reengage with the world, Ryan’s daughter, Mary Kate, signs them up for dance lessons and insists that each find a partner in time for her wedding.Robert, the eldest of the brothers, rediscovers an old friend who brings the spark back to his life. Eian, a former professional baseball player, takes another swing at love with the wid...

In 1968, young Tom Murphy left the small farming community of Willard, Kansas, to travel to Europe. The nineteen-year-old college dropout decided that he wanted to see the world before going to fight in the jungles of Vietnam. So, he packed some clothes, shoved four hundred dollars into his jeans, threw a rucksack and sleeping bag over his shoulder, and headed for Europe. He wanted to see the world in what little time he had left before he goes off to war.Hitchhiking through Europe...

When a New England Christmas reunites two lifelong friends, romance blooms. From the author of Christmas in Vermont.Miracles are like snowflakes—no two are alike, but each one is precious and beautiful. This Christmas, Dr. Beth Harding could use a few miracles. The hospital she runs in River Dale, New Hampshire, is being shut down, unless she can convince the Scrooge-like board to save it. At least her closest friend, firefighter Logan Mitchell, is home fo...

Tahiti… the land of mystery… a land of thousands of tiny islands in the South Pacific, with their wondrous coral reefs, blue-green waters, and soft sandy beaches. With its swaying palm trees and warm and beautiful red sunsets, Tahiti is the most romantic place on earth. But romance is the last thing Joanna Biggs wants. Brokenhearted and reeling from loss, she has but one goal - to fulfill the promise to her mother to spread her ashes on the sun-kissed waves of French Polynesia. Joanna soon...

In White River Junction, Vermont - Christmas is all about family, traditions, and snowfalls. A massive winter snowstorm has closed all the roads and airports out west just days before the holidays. Marine Sergeant Garrett Jackson is on his way back home to Montana, but he now finds himself stranded in the town's local bus station. And then he saw her.Every year, the Maguire family, in keeping with the Christmas spirit, search for stranded travelers to welcome into their home for th...

China has been stealing America's most treasured secrets for the past thirty years. The Chinese communists have stolen military, biomedical, computer, agricultural, and technology secrets – targeting anything representing American excellence. Thousands of incessant cyberattacks and hundreds of thousands of Chinese spies wage war daily against America and its allies. They had to be stopped.In 2016, when the latest in advanced American technology turned out to be a tremendously expens...

From puddles to lakes, streams to rivers, and bogs to swamps, each body of water contains an amazing treasure chest of life. There is an abundance of plant and animal life hiding in every freshwater habitat. But freshwater habitats are also fragile and valuable resources that need to be protected and conserved.Explore Rivers and Ponds! with 25 Great Projects, introduces kids to the fascinating world of freshwater habitats and the creatures they contain. Combining hands-on ...