title: A Very Southern Christmas: Holiday Stories from the South's Best Writers
author: Charlene R. McCord
description: Down below the Mason-Dixon line, it's hardly the land of sleigh bells, snow shovels, and a winter wonderland. What could possibly go on in the South at Christmastime?<br /><br /><i>A Very Southern Christmas</i> burrows beneath all the fluff and window-dressing and goes straight to the heart of our most cherished holiday. Discover writing by some of the South's best contemporary fiction writers, from Pulitzer Prize-winners Robert Olen Butler and Richard Ford to the work of long-established literary lights Barry Hannah, Lee Smith, and Donna Tartt to recently emerging talents such as Julia Ridley Smith. In a collection of ten heartfelt stories, writers gather all the elements of the Christmas season--past and present, joy and sadness, disappointment and surprise, confession and concealment, humor and pathos--to create unforgettable images of the holiday. Accompanied by Wyatt Waters's vibrant watercolors commissioned specifically for this collection, this beautiful anthology promises to be a treasured keepsake.
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  _A FRONTIER CHRISTMAS_
  
  
  
  
  
  Four captivating Christmas love stories by today's leading historical romance
  authors at their heartwarming, passionate best!
  
  
  
  
  
  _LOVING SARAH_
  
  
  
  
  
  Madeline Baker
  
  
  
  
  
  "Madeline Baker is synonymous with tender Western romances!"
  
  
  
  
  
  _Romantic Times_
  
  
  
  
  
  _A CHRISTMAS ANGEL_
  
  
  
  
  
  Robin Lee Hatcher
  
  
  
  
  
  "Tenderness and passion are Ms. Hatcher's hallmarks!"
  
  
  
  
  
  _Romantic Times_
  
  
  
  
  
  _THE HOMECOMING_
  
  
  
  
  
  Norah Hess
  
  
  
  
  
  Norah Hess's historical romances are "treasures for those who savor frontier
  love stories!"
  
  
  
  
  
  _Romantic Times_
  
  
  
  
  
  _THE GREATEST GIFT OF ALL_
  
  
  
  
  
  Connie Mason
  
  
  
  
  
  Connie Mason writes "the stuff that fantasies are made of!"
  
  
  
  
  
  _Romantic Times_
  
  
  
  
  
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  _ THEIR FIRST NOEL
  
  
  CHRISTMAS ANGELS
  
  
  AN OLD-FASHIONED SOUTHERN CHRISTMAS
  
  
  CHRISTMAS CAROL
  
  
  A WILDERNESS CHRISTMAS
  
  
  A TIME-TRAVEL CHRISTMAS
  
  
  
  
  
  Frontier Christmas
  
  
  Madeline Baker
  
  
  Robin Lee Hatcher
  