Do you have down time or planning on traveling over the upcoming holidays? We have been busy pouring over several books that make up what we call the St Martin’s Press Recommended Holiday Reading List. Our list includes both humor and suspense, as well as a favorite pastime of mine, coloring.
Holiday Reading List:
Holiday Reading List:Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe
Author: Melissa de la Cruz
From bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz, comes a dazzling retelling of Pride and Prejudice with a Christmas twist. Darcy Fitzwilliam is 29, beautiful, successful, and brilliant. She dates hedge funders and basketball stars and is never without her three cellphones—one for work, one for play, and one to throw at her assistant (just kidding). Darcy’s never fallen in love, never has time for anyone else’s drama, and never goes home for Christmas if she can help it. But when her mother falls ill, she comes home to Pemberley, Ohio, to spend the season with her family.
Her parents throw their annual Christmas bash, where she meets one Luke Bennet, the smart, sardonic slacker son of their neighbor. Luke is 32-years-old and has never left home. He’s a carpenter and makes beautiful furniture, and is content with his simple life. He comes from a family of five brothers, each one less ambitious than the other. When Darcy and Luke fall into bed after too many eggnogs, Darcy thinks it’s just another one night stand. But why can’t she stop thinking of Luke? What is it about him? And can she fall in love, or will her pride and his prejudice against big-city girls stand in their way?
Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe is a sweet, sexy and hilarious gender-swapping, genre-satisfying re-telling, set in contemporary America and featuring one snooty Miss Darcy.
About the Author:
Melissa de la Cruz is the #1 New York Times,#1 Publisher’s Weekly and #1 IndieBound bestselling author of many critically acclaimed and award-winning novels for readers of all ages including the Disney Descendants novels, Alex and Eliza, Blue Bloods and Witches of East End, a one-hour television drama on Lifetime. She lives in Los Angeles with her family.
Zendoodle Coloring Presents Keep Merry and Color On: Deluxe Edition with Pencils
Author: Meredith Mennitt
Tis the season for Christmas coloring! Now with colored pencils affixed to the cover! Make your holiday season merry and bright with an inspiring assortment of fun and easy yuletide illustrations from Keep Merry and Color On. There’s no better way to bring holiday cheer to your loved ones than by creating beautiful Christmas designs, from beautiful winter collages and jingle bells, to Santas and festive holly.
Features:
-6 double-sided colored pencils
-Perforated pages for easy framing
-One-sided printing so colors don’t bleed through
Year One: Chronicles of the One, Book 1
Author: Nora Roberts
In her newest work, the stunning beginning to an epic hardcover trilogy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts weaves an enthralling saga of suspense, survival, and the journey that will unite a desperate group of people to fight the battle of their lives…
The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed—and more than half of the world’s population was decimated.
And as the power of science and technology receded, magic rose up in its place. Some of it is good, like the witchcraft worked by Lana Bingham, practicing in the loft apartment she share with her lover, Max. Some of it is unimaginably evil, and it can lurk anywhere, around a corner, in fetid tunnels beneath the river—or in the ones you know and love the most. As word spreads that neither the immune nor the gifted are safe from the authorities who patrol the ravaged streets, Lana and Max make their way out of a wrecked New York City. At the same time, other travelers are heading west too, into a new frontier.
In a world of survivors where every stranger encountered could be either a savage or a savior, none of them knows exactly where they are heading, or why. But a purpose awaits them that will shape their lives and the lives of all those who remain. The end has come. The beginning comes next.
About the Author:
Nora Roberts is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than 200 novels, including The Obsession,The Liar, The Collector, Whiskey Beach, and many more. She is also the author of the bestselling In Death series written under the pen name J.D. Robb. There are more than 500 million copies of her books in print.
From bestselling novels and celebrity memoirs and biographies, to beautiful photo books, mouthwatering cookbooks to hilariously cute photos of dogs, St. Martin’s Press has a great collection of books for any gift-giver’s list.
My Thoughts:
My Thoughts:Zendoodle Coloring Presents Keep Merry and Color On: Deluxe Edition with Pencils
I of course had to jump right into the coloring book. The book by Zendoodle includes 10 colors and 75 designs for you to complete. The complexity of these designs I would rate on an intermediate to advanced…which is great for me as the little ones won’t be asking to “help me”! Sometimes I feel like a two-year old when it comes to my coloring books and pencils. You know…Mine – Mine – Mine!
Who doesn’t love the Pride & Prejudice story? So how about adding a twist to it? Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe takes the story and shakes it all up. I am looking forward to reading this over the long holiday weekend while my crew is shopping.
Last but not least is the latest release by Nora Roberts titled: Year One: Chronicles of the One, Book 1. This author is one that I will clear my schedule for every new book. I can’t stop reading her stories once I dig in. I have a long road trip coming up the end of this month and you will find me in the third row of the van snuggled under a blanket with my thermos and this book! I am so excited to read this book, especially knowing it is only book one in a trilogy. So much more to look forward to over the coming year.
Do you have a favorite author? Do you wait for their new releases? I have several that I wished just wrote faster!
So whether you enjoy reading or have readers on your shopping list; I recommend these books. You can’t go wrong with a holiday themed coloring book (that even includes the pencils), and either of the other books will have a smile on the receivers face. It is a win-win for you as the gift giver.
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