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Christmas, Present

(Mitchard, Jacquelyn)

By Jacquelyn Mitchard

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| Hardcover | 9780060565572

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Book Description

A fourteenth wedding anniversary is nothing to sneeze at, Elliott Banner knows, but it's not exactly a landmark year—like fifteen, or twenty, when he plans to take his wife, Laura, to Paris. But when a headache on the drive home from their anniversary date—two days before Christmas&#Continue

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Christmas, Present

Christmas, Present Jacquelyn Mitchard HarperCollins Hardcover 144 pages October 2003 There must be some serious pressure in the publishing world for bestselling authors to release short holiday novels around Christmas time. John Grisham has one, Davi ... (read full critics)

curledup published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010

1 Review

I was hoping this book would help put me into the spirit of the Holidays which are fast approaching. It didn't because it wasn't the warm and fuzzy story I guess I was looking for. It's my fault for assuming that just because the title has the word Christmas in it, it would be a happy story.
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I was hoping this book would help put me into the spirit of the Holidays which are fast approaching. It didn't because it wasn't the warm and fuzzy story I guess I was looking for. It's my fault for assuming that just because the title has the word Christmas in it, it would be a happy story.
Quite the contrary, this was a very sad story of a wife/mother/sister who is given 8 to 12 hours to live due to a brain aneurysm. She says goodbye to loved ones and fills out cards for her daughters future big events (weddings, graduations etc) while the doctor researches and consults w/other doctors earnestly trying to find some way to help her.

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