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Books & Authors Archives - December 2009

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Best Books of 2009

Published December 30, 2009  Submitted by: Lynn

Lists of the best in reading from 2009 to entice you to make 2010 the year to read !  More...
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'Tis the season — every year at this time — for the various renderings of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

Published December 17, 2009  Submitted by: Lynn

Charles Dickens was not the only writer from this literary period (1837-1901) to become a mainstay of today's favorite authors.  Dickens wrote the most famous Christmas ghost story, A Christmas Carol (1843), and also a Christmas fairy story intended to be read aloud on winter evenings, The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy-tale of Home (1846).
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