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.
zlib_text: NEW CHRISTMAS DREAMS
  CHRISTMAS ROMANCE IN WIL L OW SPRINGS BOOK
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  A PER SONAL  WORD F ROM BRENDA
  ear Readers,
  You read about the Wild West because of the romance, the
  adventure, the spirit of possibility that filled those frontier days. I write
  these books for the same reasons. I love the stories of the pioneer
  women who crossed the country to build new lives in what must
  have felt like a totally foreign land. With courage, faith, common
  sense, and a good dose of humor, many of these courageous
  women married their true loves and became the Old West’s literal
  founding mothers!
  Many of my books draw directly from history, using the real-life
  stories of those women to tell the story of the birth of the western half
  of our nation. As I look around my southwest backyard, I often take a
  moment to think about what it might have looked like before we all
  moved in. These stories are my attempt to share that wonderful
  adventure with you.
  Happy reading,
  Brenda
  Christmas Romance I n Willow Spri