Once Upon a Christmas: Just Like the Ones We Used to Know\The Night Before Christmas\All the Christmases to Come

November 1, 2006
Three contemporary tales celebrate the joy and love of Christmas. In Brenda Novak's poignant "Just Like the Ones We Used to Know," all Angela's adopted daughter Kayla wants for Christmas is her father, and now a surprise holiday trip gives Angela the chance to let Matt Jackson meet the daughter he never knew he had. In Melinda Curtis' humorous "The Night before Christmas," limousine driver Emma Roberts teaches hotel and casino owner Simon Castle the true meaning of Christmas. And Anna Adams gives her hero another chance at romance with his pregnant ex-girlfriend when the two reunite on a Christmas train trip in the sweet "All the Christmases to Come." (Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2006, American Library Association.)