検索キーワード： 祝日

Clover Harrington might be sixty-one, but she’s still bossing it in the corporate world and can still run rings around her younger colleagues. And then she is made redundant…. Devastated and now suddenly the wrong side of sixty Clover doesn’t know what to do with her life or her corporate wardrobe! What does she wear if not red lippy and a power suit?! Rather than offer her any support, her partner, Jack announces he's off on a golfing weekend, leaving Clover completely adrift. Desperate to get away from it all, Clover decides to visit her cousin Zoe in the gorgeous Italian Lakes.

Ben Schilling, 37, erfolgreicher TV-Regisseur, ist depressiv. Burnout? Midlife-Crisis? Er weiß es nicht. Eines Morgens beschließt er, allem zu entfliehen und noch am selben Tag zu verreisen – wohin auch immer es ihn verschlägt. Auf der sonnigen Trauminsel Kreta trifft er den 72-jährigen Max. Und der hat etwas, das der Regisseur gern hätte: ein außergewöhnliches Leuchten in den Augen voll Leichtigkeit und Lebensfreude. Ben will herausfinden, was sein Geheimnis ist – und ahnt nicht, dass der alte Mann eine Vergangenheit hat, die ihm die Sprache verschlagen soll.

Strange happenings at Ferndean Manor threaten to spoil a Happy Christmas—Country squire Edward Rochester is determined to give his new bride, Jane Eyre, a Christmas to remember. Jane is equally committed to making this holiday special for Edward. But mysterious footsteps, disappearing food, and odd happenings cause both the Rochesters to worry.

Hooray, it's Christmas! Mary Brown's favorite time of year, and she embraces it with the sort of thrill and excitement normally reserved for toddlers seeing jelly tots. Our funny, gorgeous, and bonkers heroine finds herself dancing from party to party, covered in tinsel, decorating the Beckhams' Christmas tree, dressing up as Father Christmas, declaring live on This Morning that she's a drug addict, and enjoying two Christmas lunches in quick succession.

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.

GDYBY MISIEK WIEDZIAŁ CO GO CZEKA W NADCHODZĄCE ŚWIĘTA, NAJPRAWDOPODOBNIEJ WŁAŚNIE WYJEŻDŻAŁBY ZE ŚWIERADOWA W DOWOLNIE OBRANYM KIERUNKU, BYLE NIE W STRONĘ WILLI SWOJEJ TEŚCIOWEJ... Do starej, klimatycznej willi, u stóp Gór Izerskich zjeżdża pewna rodzina. Tegoroczne święta Bożego Narodzenia wszyscy spędzą goszcząc u seniorki rodu. Przystrojony stół, pachnąca choinka i góra prezentów mają już czekać na gości. A przynajmniej tak wszyscy sobie to wyobrażają. Zapowiada się cudowny czas w rodzinnej atmosferze. Co więc może pójść nie tak?

Seliger Weihnachtstag, da die Kleinen mit vor Ungeduld trippelnden Beinchen und leuchtenden Augen an der verschlossenen Türe lauschen, hinter der sich helle, duftende Wunder vorbereiten, mit wichtiger Miene der Mutter zusehen, die den Festtagsfisch schmort für das Abendessen, und, alte Lieder auf den frischen Lippen, zum Großmütterchen, das im hohen Ohrenstuhl am plaudernden Feuer träumt, hüpfen und ihm die sanften, faltigen Hände küssen.

Lebensfreude, Liebe und Familie - darauf kommt es an. Ihre Tochter will unbedingt in ihrem Elternhaus heiraten, das verkauft werden muss, ihr Sohn wirft seinen Job im Familienbetrieb hin, und dann kommt ein erneuter Fehltritt ihres Ex-Manns an Licht. Robyn Caldwell ist eigentlich für alle der Fels in der Brandung. Aber als alles zur selben Zeit auf sie einstürmt und sich die Gelegenheit bietet, packt sie ihren Koffer und nimmt die Einladung ihrer Großtante Lillian an. Ein paar Sommerwochen im Familienanwesen in Santa Barbara werden ihr guttun.

Supply chain disruptions are threatening Christmas! When the news reaches Santa, he decides to take things into his own mitten-clad hands.

Lora Weaver is throwing her first New Year’s bash in her new digs, and she wants everything to be perfect. She’s planned every detail from the food to the decorations. But what she didn’t plan on was trouble. Just one hour before the New Year is set to ring in, Lora stumbles across a mystery that may just take the fizzle out of the case of champagne she’s bought for the night’s festivities.

You do not want to miss Violet Rhinehammer’s journey and some appearances from our beloved Laundry Club Ladies and favorite characters from A Camper and Criminals Cozy Mystery crossover series! Holiday Cozy Mystery Series Collection Books 1-3 contains: Book 1 - Four Leaf Felony, Book 2 - Mother's Day Murder, and Book 3 - A Halloween Homicide.

Spending time with the woman who can’t stand the sight of me? Not my best idea. But I can’t help it. Those red lips suck me in. My job is my life. It’s one of the only things I have going for me. Finding true love? Not in the cards for me.

What’s the actual last thing you’d ever want your spouse to see you doing when you’ve been trying to get it on for weeks? Dancing around your baby’s room to “Come and Get Your Love” like Star-Lord in Guardians of the Galaxy—in an Elmo costume? Yeah. Me too.

Lady Marjorie's plans for a quiet time are in tatters when her son asks her to host his business guests the week before Christmas. Time to bring in reinforcements. The "awesome foursome" get together again. Pandemonium isn't a word Marjorie Snellthorpe is used to, but when an array of eccentric guests descend on her London home, along with a quirky cook and a large dog, even Edna Parkinton's advice is welcome.

Occasionally an author appears who, in a short career, emblazons a legacy so bright and so distinct, as well as popular, that it is difficult to believe it is the output of only one man. Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was such a talent. Over the course of his prolific career, Stevenson had not only given his audience many classic novels but beautiful poetry such as ‘A Child’s Garden of Verses’ and many short stories as with his dark classic of Christmas Day ‘Markheim’ (1884).

Christmas may come but once a year but human emotions, the driving force of our characters, are with us every day. Yet, somehow these same emotions when they happen at Christmas seem amplified; we seem more tender to their touch, their words. In this volume we take the verse and poems of our classic poets and put them alongside our short story masters to reveal a Christmas that everyone remembers and that everyone wants to be part of.

Christmas may come but once a year but human emotions, the driving force of our characters, are with us every day. Yet, somehow these same emotions when they happen at Christmas seem amplified; we seem more tender to their touch, their words. Whether it’s a long-lost returning soldier wondering how best to return to the arms of his family without too great a risk of shock... Or a prodigal son whose taken path has driven pain into his own and others hearts… These stories reveal much about the human condition.

When Cat Jones is given the opportunity of a lifetime to present one of Ireland’s most popular live daytime shows, alongside TV royalty David Fitzgerald, she isn’t sure she is ready for the challenge. But after being pushed by her mother’s friend Lorraine to say 'yes' to everything for a month, she reluctantly agrees. What follows is a whirlwind of opportunities where Cat is forced outside her comfort zone with varying degrees of success.

Christmas may come but once a year but evil, intrigue and malevolence are everyday events. Within this volume Christmas is a time when these dark forces form and coalesce to take life and liberty from people who may and who may not deserve the spin of its wheel. Some are merely evil, others have the beginnings of a conscience that displays itself in a dialogue with the devil, or perhaps only themselves. But, in this volume Christmas takes a ringside seat to the horrors of the human heart.

In the first ever crossover episode, Zak and Zoe join forces with Hawaiian visitors Luke and Lani, to find out who killed a historian visiting Ashton Falls in order to find a treasure map left by his grandfather a hundred years earlier.