Staff Picks: Charming Holiday Romances
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Cozy up this season with some of these fun new holiday romance novels!
Love You A Latke, by Amanda Elliot | Request NowAbby is the only Jewish woman on her small Vermont town’s council, and because of this she’s been pigeonholed into planning their first ever Hanukkah festival. Unfortunately, most of her fellow council-members are uneducated about the meaning of the holiday and Abby’s having trouble getting the support and funding she needs to make the festival a meaningful one. Desperate, she reaches out online to see if there are any other Jewish people in the area who might be willing to help out. It turns out there is one—Seth, who annoys Abby immediately with his sunny personality and insistence on visiting her at her cafe every morning. He has connections to a huge Jewish community in New York City and can introduce Abby to all the vendors she needs to make the festival a success… if Abby can tolerate him. This sweet story shows that sometimes, breaking down our emotional walls is worth it: both for the success of our dreams and, maybe, for true love?
The Merry Matchmaker, by Sheila Roberts | Request NowIn this cheery Christmas themed story, a woman can’t resist trying to help everyone around her, even when her help is unasked for, unwanted and sometimes even leads to disaster. Author Sheila Roberts was inspired by Jane Austen’s Emma when she wrote her character of Frankie Lane. Frankie seems to know what’s best for everyone in her life, but doesn’t spend much time thinking about what might be best for her. She’s determined to help her divorced sister find new love, her shy employee to come out of her shell and her chocolate-making daughter to start her own shop. She’s also determined to help Mitch, the local hardware store owner, find a new woman after his recent divorce. He and Frankie have been friends for years and he was her support system when her husband passed away in a freak accident. Any lady would be lucky to have him, Frankie just needs to find the right one…. Readers will smile at Frankie’s blunders, and root for her all the way to the last page of this festive romance.
Three Holidays and a Wedding, by Uzma Jalaluddin and Marissa Staphy | Request NowMaryam Aziz and Anna Gibson are seatmates on a December flight to Toronto. They’re traveling there for vastly different reasons: Maryam is headed to her sister’s impromptu wedding and Anna is excited to meet her boyfriend’s family for the first time. All is going well, until unexpected turbulence forces the plane to redirect and make an emergency landing, and Maryam and Anna find themselves confessing their deepest hopes and fears to one another as they cross their fingers that they’ll land safely. The plane does indeed land safely, in a snowbound town where the passengers, including Anna, Maryam, Maryam’s sister’s entire bridal party, and Saif, the love of Maryam’s life (who happened to be sitting behind the two women on the plane and overheard their entire conversation) are forced to stay at the quirky Snow Falls Inn. It’s not where anyone expected to be, but as Maryam works to repair things with Saif and Anna realizes that an actor she’s had a crush on forever just happens to be filming a movie at the Inn, the women find themselves getting into the holiday spirit after all.
Bright Lights, Big Christmas, by Mary Kay Andrews | Request NowKerry Oliver is not in a great place. She’s newly single and she’s just lost her job and she desperately needs a second chance at, well, life. She’d never planned on moving back to her family’s Christmas tree farm in North Carolina but she’s out of options so that’s where she heads. She no sooner arrives, though, when she’s guilt tripped into heading to New York City for two months with her brother Murphy to sell trees out of a trailer in the East Village. It’s definitely not how Kerry expected to spend the holidays but, again, she doesn’t have much of a choice. When she meets Patrick, an annoying Mercedes owner who keeps taking her parking spot, she’s unimpressed. But as she finds out more about him: he’s recently divorced, the father to a charming six-year-old son, and lives just down the street from the Christmas tree trailer, she begins to wonder if first impressions can be wrong. Filled with the magic of Christmas in the city, readers will root for Kerry to find love and happiness again—and for her to sell lots of Christmas trees!

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