This unique, keepsake gift book will inspire your family to write down what Christmas means to them, celebrate togetherness, recount holiday travels, and highlight the importance of Christ's birth.

Contains craft and recipe suggestions for family craft activities at Christmas.

"Alice is an entrepreneur who owns a gift shop. Her business is failing, and she's struggling with doubts about her upcoming marriage on Christmas Day, in Pennsylvania. Despite her doubts, she follows the plan to meet her fiancé in Pennsylvania, six days before the wedding. Alice leaves New York and, as night descends, she gets lost in a violent snowstorm. A man darts out in front of her and she barely misses him. He's frightening and mysterious. He directs her to a nearby B&B. In a bookshelf in her room, she discovers an old diary wedged behind a row of books. The diary was written by a man 15 years before. Alice reads it and is immediately overcome by its honest and tender style. Intrigued, she sets off on an "innocent" journey to find the man, to learn what happened to him. During her journey, Alice must confront her past, present, and future, and make a decision that will change her life forever."--Back cover.

THE STORIES: THE SANTALAND DIARIES is a brilliant evocation of what a slacker's Christmas must feel like. Out of work, our slacker decides to become a Macy's elf during the holiday crunch. At first the job is simply humiliating, but once the thousands of

‘It won’t happen to me. That’s what I thought when I got on the plane to Venezuela. But it did – I got caught.’ Caught smuggling half a million euros’ worth of cocaine, Paul Keany was sexually assaulted by Venezuelan anti-drugs officers before being sentenced to eight years in the notorious Los Teques prison outside Caracas. There he was plunged into a nightmarish world of coke-fuelled killings, gun battles, stabbings, extortion and forced hunger strikes until finally, just over two years into his sentence, he gained early parole and embarked on a daring escape from South America . . . Aided by his extensive prison diaries, Keany reveals the true horror of life inside Los Teques: a shocking underworld behind bars where inmates pay protection money to stay alive, prostitutes do the rounds and vast amounts of cocaine are smuggled in for cell-block bosses to sell on to prisoners for huge profits. The Cocaine Diaries is a remarkable story, told by Keany with honesty, courage and even humour, despite knowing that every day behind bars might have been his last.