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Even in today’s busy times, the kitchen is the heart of the home. Author Tammy Maltby believes the true meaning of Christmas is realized when families gather to share activities that make Christmas “the most wonderful time of the year.” More than any other holiday, Christmas is when family and friends gather for a cup of hot chocolate, fresh-baked cookies, and lots of laughter.

Look inside this holiday treasure for:

- Easy-to-do holiday recipes

- Hints for new traditions

- Personal gift ideas

- Kid-friendly activities

- Simple decorating tips

The Christmas Kitchen is more than a recipe book, it’s a book designed to help you enjoy the holiday season, not be burdened by it. Take a few minutes each day to browse these pages for the help you’ve been looking for.

Merry Christmas and may your kitchen be filled, first, with the sweet aroma of love, and then with the spices of the season.

About the Author
Tammy Maltby is a speaker, author, Bible teacher, and media personality with a heart for helping real Christian women live richly and fully in the real world. A ten-year co-host of the six-time Emmy nominated, two time Emmy winning NRB TV talk show of the year 2005 Aspiring Women, Tammy has also been featured on Focus on the Family, Family Life Today, Life Today, The 700 Club, and Midday Connection, 100 Huntley Street, CBN’s Living the Life as well as hundreds of other radio and television programs. She was the ongoing MC for the John Maxwell’s international THRIVE!

Tammy lives near the Rocky Mountains in Colorado with her husband and four children, two of whom are adopted internationally, three of which are now adults. She has recently become a grandmother to Cohen…and is completely in love.

Tammy Maltby is a writer, speaker, and media personality. For eight years she was the co-host of the four-time Emmy-nominated television talk show Aspiring Women and has been featured on other television shows such as Focus on the Family, Life today, The 700 Club, and Midday Connection. She serves on the board of the National Woman’s Ministry Association, Christian Woman in Media and Arts, and Woman of Courage International. She and her family live in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Ann Christian Buchanan is a respected communicator with more than twenty-five years experience and considerable success in the gift and inspirational market. She works regularly as an editor and maintains an active sideline of writing liner copy for publishers. A Texan by birth, Anne lives in Terre Haute, Indiana with her professor husband, two dogs, and three cats. She and her husband have one daughter.

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Merry Christmas from Kentucky is a wonderful collection of recipes perfect for the holiday season- or anytime. This book offers up easy-to-prepare recipes for fun-filled holiday festivities.
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The people of Christmas Valley always celebrate Christmas to the fullest extent. The mayor plays Santa, every business is holiday themed, and there’s a nativity for the kids each Christmas Eve. This town knows Christmas. But this year nothing goes according to plan. Shepherd’s Inn is full of strangers, Mad Myrtle is causing problems, and a young couple with a baby due any minute rolls in to the middle of town in their Partridge Family-style bus. It’s hardly the holiday Christmas Valley wanted–but it may be just what they need. This charming novella is sure to become a new Christmas tradition for readers who love a great holiday story.

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FRONT FLAP Amy skimmed the brochure. “It sounds like the town decided to capitalize on its name-Christmas Valley-and turned into a tourist town where everything is about Christmas.” She looked out at the pine trees. “I guess it does look kind of Christmassy up here. Look, Collin! It’s really snowing.” Collin just muttered, “Uh-huh.” He didn’t know a lot about engines or mechanical things, but he knew they weren’t going to make it over the mountain pass tonight. “Maybe we should check out this town,” he said. “Could we?” she exclaimed. “Why not?” And so it was that a rather large and brightly painted bus rolled into the quiet little hamlet of Christmas Valley. BACK FLAP Melody Carlson is the prolific author of more than 150 books for women, teens, and children. Carlson’s work has been awarded the ECPA Gold Medallion and the prestigious Rita Award, among others. She lives in Sisters, Oregon.

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Every year Gooseberry Patch brings homespun charm to the holidays with its popular annual Christmas book, and the eleventh edition is no exception. Reflecting the latest trends in decorating and entertaining-while keeping a close eye on tradition-the pages brim with all-new ideas for handcrafted decorations and gifts, keepsakes, activities, and yummy recipes from Gooseberry Patch’s family of readers.

With beautiful photography, simple instructions for crafts and recipes, easy-to-use recipe and craft indexes, and beloved Country Friends® illustrations, this series helps make treasured memories and establish new holiday traditions.

About the Author
Based in Ohio, Gooseberry Patch (GBP) is the beloved “Country Store in Your Mailbox.” The company started Patch started in 1984 literally over the backyard fence in Delaware, OH. Neighbors, Vickie and Jo Ann, shared a love of antiques, gardening, and country decorating, and decided to try their hands at the mail-order business. 25 years later, the shelves of their “country store” are brimming with over 400 products, including kitchenware, candles, gourmet goodies, enamelware, and bowls, that are showcased in a 96-page catalog. They also have their very own line of cookbooks, calendars, and organizers. Since 1992, they’ve published over 180 country cookbooks for every meal of the day, year-round, including 58 hardcover cookbooks.

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This debut book in FSG’s Kitchen Arts & Letters imprint offers holiday food and prose in equal measure by 25 celebrated cooks and writers. Some of the gastronomes wield a whisk more cunningly than a pen. However, Julia Child is not among them: the indomitable one writes cheerfully of her fateful encounters and hilarious collisions with buche de Noel , the French pastry shaped like a woodland log, and mothering faux mushrooms. On a darker note, but with equal conviction, Betty Fussell remembers learning “God’s lessons” in the Depression-era Christmas of her Calvinist family, when humble fare featured scrambled eggs with brains. Contributors also include Craig Claiborne, Irena Chalmers, Marcella Hazan, Felipe Rojas-Lombardi and Maida Heatterwhose cookie recipes seem especially indispensable as December looms. Regional accent ranges from mellow Californian to highly spiced Peruvian. The cliches of Christmas do some writers in: “I recall vividly the excitement of those early Christmas parties,” chirps one, and he is not alone. But this remains a rich repository of Christmas foods. Illustrations not seen by PW. 50,000 first printing; BOMC selection.
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The holiday food recollections of some of today’s leading chef-writers are brought together. For them, Christmas is wrapped in a warm mix of steaming kitchens, spicy fragrances and carefully laid tables as they share with readers home memories.

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Christmas, that time of good cheer and lapsed diets, is the perfect holiday to showcase the cooking of Food Network star Deen (Paula Deen Celebrates!), who specializes in the kind of butter-and cheese-laden fare that epitomizes family-style comfort food. Sweets and snacks account for most of the recipes, since Deen happily admits to never varying from her Christmas dinner menu, which centers on a Standing Rib Roast and features a trio of potato dishes, including some unbelievably decadent Crème Fraîche Mashed Potatoes. Cooks will find the cookies and desserts familiar but richer, like eyebrow-raising but delicious Chocolate Cheese Fudge and creamy Chocolate Sandwich Cookies. Snacks and breakfast dishes are crowd pleasers, like gooey Praline French Toast Casserole and Cheese-coated Bacon Wraps. Devoted viewers of Deen’s show may miss the sound of her warm drawl narrating the process, but the smattering of glowing family photos and anecdotes about her grown kids and recent marriage, though she’s told them before, are decent stand-ins. Several pages of baking hints are included, but most of the recipes are simple and straightforward enough, with readily available ingredients, that even novices should be able to put together a generous Christmas spread. (Nov.)
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“I’ve gone through all my books and put together this collection of my most treasured recipes and memories for the holiday season to share with you…You’ll find a few new dishes, a sprinkling of new holiday stories, and some family pictures you might not have seen before.”

There’s no holiday Paula Deen loves better than Christmas, when she opens her home to family and friends, and traditions old and new make the days merry and bright. Filled with Paula’s trademark Southern charm and happy reminiscences of Yuletide seasons past, Christmas with Paula Deen is a collection of beloved holiday recipes and stories interspersed with cherished family photographs. Included are Paula’s most requested homemade gifts of food; a collection of cookies sure to become your family’s favorites; easy dishes for a Christmas breakfast or brunch that will let you enjoy the food and your guests; impressive fare for Christmas dinner and holiday entertaining and, of course, spectacular cakes, puddings, pies, and other sweet things.

“So Merry Christmas, y’all, and best dishes and best wishes from me and my family to yours.”

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In Beck’s debut novel, the conservative radio and TV host (An Inconvenient Book) makes a weak attempt at a holiday classic in the vein of It’s a Wonderful Life. Despite his single mother’s financial hardships, 12-year-old Eddie is certain this Christmas he will receive his much-desired Huffy bike. To his dismay, what he finds under the tree is “a stupid, handmade, ugly sweater” that his mother carefully modeled after those she can’t afford at Sears (one of four places she keeps part-time jobs). Eddie tosses the sweater and insults his mother before the two go visit his grandparents at their farmouse. On the drive home, though, Eddie’s exhausted mother falls asleep at the wheel and crashes, dying instantly. Sent to live with his grandparents, an increasingly bitter and angry Eddie lashes out at his accommodating guardians, engages in typical teenage angst and grapples with belief in God. For all his focus on traditional family virtues like respect, love and forgiveness, Beck’s lightweight parable cruises on predictability, repetition and sentimentality.
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If You Could Change Your Life by Reversing Your Biggest Regrets, Sorrows and Mistakes…Would You?

#1 New York Times bestselling author and renowned radio and television host Glenn Beck delivers an instant holiday classic about boyhood memories, wrenching life lessons, and the true meaning of the gifts we give to one another in love.

We weren’t wealthy, we weren’t poor — we just were. We never wanted for anything, except maybe more time together….

When Eddie was twelve years old, all he wanted for Christmas was a bike. Although his life had gotten harder — and money tighter — since his father died and the family bakery closed…Eddie dreamed that somehow his mother would find a way to have his dream bike gleaming beside their modest Christmas tree that magical morning.

What he got from her instead was a sweater. “A stupid, handmade, ugly sweater” that young Eddie left in a crumpled ball in the corner of his room.

Scarred deeply by the realization that kids don’t always get what they want, and too young to understand that he already owned life’s most valuable treasures, that Christmas morning was the beginning of Eddie’s dark and painful journey on the road to manhood. It will take wrestling with himself, his faith, and his family — and the guidance of a mysterious neighbor named Russell — to help Eddie find his path through the storm clouds of life and finally see the real significance of that simple gift his mother had crafted by hand with love in her heart.

Based on a deeply personal true story, The Christmas Sweater is a warm and poignant tale of family, faith and forgiveness that offers us a glimpse of our own lives — while also making us question if we really know what’s most important in them.

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