[PDF] Christmas In Maine eBook

Author : Robert Tristram Coffin
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,34 MB
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Christmas
ISBN : 9781939017765

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Pulitzer Prize winning poet Robert P. Tristram Coffin's 1941 depiction of the perfect Maine Christmas describes a farmhouse "banked with emerald jewels clustered on bayberry boughs," stuffed with aunts, uncles, and cousins by the cart load, with mince pies by the legion. You will feel like one of the family as he brings you along to play with cousins in the hay chaff, take a bouncy afternoon sled ride, savor the goose during the three-hour meal, string popcorn for the tree, and listen to tales by firelight at the drowsy end of a long and perfect day. Paired with gorgeous and evocative original woodblock prints by Maine artist Blue Butterfield, this edition will be a keepsake book, one to read aloud year after year to remind ourselves of the true meaning of the holidays.

Author : Con Fullam
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 22,54 MB
Release : 2021-10
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ISBN : 9781954277007

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Heartwarming lyrics from Con Fullam's overwhelmingly popular "The Maine Christmas Song" present a timely message of hope, compassion, and peace on earth. Learn about the old-fashioned spirit of Maine at Christmastime and discover the true essence of a time not so long ago. Cynthia Baker's charming illustrations enhance this enduring message and take readers through Maine's wondrous landscape from the mountains to the great Atlantic shore.

Author : Chelsea M Cameron
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 16,19 MB
Release : 2021-10-07
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All Colden Hayes wanted was to spend Christmas by herself in a cottage by the sea where the cheer of the holiday season couldn't reach her. Everything was going according to plan until the cottage she rented turned out not to exist and she ends up snowed in at a charming inn that happens to be owned by the family of her most-hated coworker, Laura Sterling. Talk about bad luck. Colden ends up saying yes to Laura's mother when she insists on giving her a room. It's only for a night, but she somehow finds herself agreeing to spend Christmas with the Sterlings as well. She blamed the festive atmosphere that she couldn't seem to escape. Maybe there's something in the mistletoe? Against her will, Colden finds herself being sucked into the comfort and joy of the season, even though she can't seem to escape Laura, who is literally everywhere Colden is, like she's doing it on purpose. Things get even worse when they're forced to share a bed when there's a fire at a local farm and the inn offers all the available rooms to the family. Colden finally realizes there's a thin line between annoyance and attraction, and she and Laura definitely crossed it. She's also pretty sure that Laura's mother is shipping them hard and so is the rest of her family, right down to her great-grandmother whose main companion is a two-hundred-pound pig named Minnie. Will the magic of the holiday season melt Colden's heart? Or will she go back to Boston alone, with only the memories to keep her warm?

Author : Belle Calhoune
Publisher : Forever
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 12,15 MB
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1538735997

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Mistletoe, Maine, is buzzing and not just because Christmas is around the corner! Dante West, local cutie-turned-Hollywood hunk, is returning home to make his next movie. Everyone in town is excited . . . except librarian Lucy Marshall. When Dante took off for LA without warning—or even a goodbye—he broke Lucy’s heart. She swore not to spend one more minute thinking about her ex, but Dante makes an offer Lucy’s struggling library can’t refuse: a major donation to film on-site. Dante is thrilled to help boost his hometown’s economy and finally begin making amends to the people he hurt years ago when he left, starting with Lucy. But seeing his former best friend on set every day feels a lot less like closure and more like a fresh start. It’s one thing for Dante to fall for Lucy all over again, quite another for a famous movie star and a small-town librarian to find lasting romance. Can the magic of the holiday season give Lucy and Dante’s first love a second chance?

Author : Wendy Ulmer
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,69 MB
Release : 2023-07
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My Twelve Maine Christmas Days is a lush and lively book based on the traditional holiday carol. Readers of all ages will delight in learning about the hardworking people who treasure and share Maine's rich gifts, from shrimpers and bakers to clam diggers and knitters.

Author : Ann Hassett
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 34,27 MB
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 054750523X

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Every year Farmer Tuttle loads his truck with Christmas trees fresh from his farm and drives down to the city to sell them. Then he picks out a special Christmas hat to bring home to Mrs. Tuttle. But one year, people stopped buying real Christmas trees. Fake ones were more convenient, they said. So Farmer Tuttle had to return home without a hat to give his wife. The Tuttles worried; if they couldn’t sell their trees anymore, what would they do? Just when they’re about to sell all their trees to a man from the sawmill, a mysterious letter arrives requesting Farmer Tuttle’s finest tree . . .

Author : Holly Chamberlin
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,3 MB
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1496723732

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In a charming Maine seaside town, a single mother longs to create a memorable Christmas for her two daughters—and receives a chance to make her own wishes come true . . . At first glance, Nell King’s cozy home in Yorktide seems a step down from the impeccably decorated Boston house she shared with her husband. But in the six years since he abruptly left to marry another woman, Nell and her almost-grown daughters have found real happiness here. Now, faced with what may be their last Christmas together, Nell feels anxious. She gave up her own ambitions when she married. With the daily obligations of motherhood coming to an end, what role is left for her to fill? Twenty-one-year-old Molly worries about sacrificing her independence the way her mother did. Should she stay in Maine with her dependable boyfriend, or move to the city and prove herself? Felicity, meanwhile, is torn between loyalty to Nell and wanting to spend time with her glamorous stepmother. Nell is eager to make this holiday picture-perfect. But there’s a complication—and an opportunity. Nell’s first love, now a successful novelist, is in town for a book signing. As the two rekindle their friendship, Nell confronts the choices she once made in the name of stability. And as the days unfold with revelations and unexpected gifts, this Christmas promises to herald a bright new beginning . . .

Author : Amy Whorf McGuiggan
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,80 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Christmas
ISBN : 9781889833989

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Christmas, as we celebrate it today, is a relatively recent invention. Our Puritan forefathers would not have thought of reveling in the birth of Christ-and frowned, or worse, on those who did. It was only in the nineteenth century, as the United States emerged as a nation, that so many of the traditions we take for granted as "Christmas" established themselves. So many originated in New England that, from sea to sea, American Christmas observances seem to smell of pine and fir, and even some in the South think of snow and sleighs when December 25 comes around. Christmas, writes McGuiggan, "is a cozy living room with a blazing fire, a piping mug of cider or hot chocolate and a plate of warm, spicy gingerbread boys and girls. It is woodlands of fragrant pine and an evening of crystalline air with a hint of wood smoke. It is the quaint, simple beauty of a town green and a white-steepled church aglow with candlelight. It is mittens and scarves, skating, sledding, and sleigh rides. And, most of all, it is snow." That, at least, is America's vision of a New England Christmas today. But how did all this come about? Here are some of the more than fifty holiday traditions traced and described in this fascinating treasury: Charles Follen and the Christmas Tree Church; Flying Santa; Silent Santa; Rudolph, the Most Famous Reindeer; A Magical Ride on the Polar Express; Louis Prang, Father of the American Christmas Card; Candlelight Strolls at Old Sturbridge Village and Strawbery Banke; A Norman Rockwell Christmas; and Captain James Magee's Holiday Party. Over 100 period illustrations, including a 16-page full-color insert, make this joyous book a family keepsake to be treasured by and forgenerations.