“The Christmas Spirit”
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Fiction: “The Christmas Spirit” by Debbie Macomber
Two lifelong friends, a bartender and a pastor, decide to trade places the week before Christmas and end up finding love along the way. Peter Armstrong and Hank Colfax are best friends, but their lives couldn’t be more different. Peter is a local pastor who is dedicated to his community. He spends his time visiting the flock, attending meetings, and with the holiday season approaching, preparing for the Christmas service and live nativity. As a bartender, Hank serves a much different customer base at his family-owned tavern, including a handful of lonely regulars and the local biker gang. When Peter scoffs that Hank has it easy compared to him, the two decide to switch jobs until Christmas Eve. To their surprise, the responsibilities of both bartender and pastor are similar, but much more difficult than either of them expected.
Nonfiction: “The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams” by Stacy Schiff
“The Revolutionary Samuel Adams”
Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, “Samuel Adams was the man.” With high-minded ideals and bare-knuckle tactics, Adams led what could be called the greatest campaign of civil resistance in American history. Stacy Schiff returns Adams to his seat of glory, introducing us to the shrewd and eloquent man who supplied the moral backbone of the American Revolution. He employed every tool available to rally a town, a colony, and eventually a band of colonies behind him, creating the cause that created a country. For his efforts he became the most wanted man in America.
Youth: “The Most Magnificent Idea” by Ashley Spires
“The Most Magnificent Idea”
Usually, the girl is an idea machine — sometimes her brain is so full of ideas that her hands can’t keep up. But today feels different. She seems to have everything she needs to get to work … but she doesn’t know what to make! She searches high and low for an idea. She and her dog go for a walk, they brainstorm, they research, they dig through the entire house, but the girl can’t find a single idea anywhere. What if she never has another idea ever again?
