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Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
The classic Dickens story about a bitter old man who's given a chance for redemption when three ghosts come to visit him on Christmas Eve. Bonus features include: Introduction by Leonard Maltin, Dead to Begin With documentary, Scrooge By Another Name featurette, The Human Blarney Stone documentary, A Scholar's View video narrative, collection of early silent Dickens films, commentary tracks, and more!
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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Charles Dickens is not feeling the Christmas spirit. His newest book is an utter flop, the critics have turned against him, relatives near and far hound him for money. While his wife plans a lavish holiday party for their ever-expanding family and circle of friends, Dickens has visions of the poor house. But when his publishers try to blackmail him into writing a Christmas book to save them all from financial ruin, he refuses ... On one of his long...
Author
Series
Dickens of a crime volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
London, December 1835. Charles and Kate are out with friends and family for a chilly night of caroling and good cheer. Their singing is interrupted by a body plummeting from an upper window of a house-- his neck wrapped in chains. The dead man, Jacob Harley, was the business partner of the resident of the house, an unpleasant codger who owns a counting house, one Emmanuel Screws. Before Dickens can investigate further, Harley's corpse is stolen--...
Description
Christmas is shaping up to be wonderful for all the pooches at the Flea Bite Cafe. But the festivities and good will don't mean anything to Carface, a big bully of a bulldog who doesn't like Christmas-- in fact he hates it so he's come up with a plan to ruin it for everybody! But Charlie and Itchy step in and with a litle divine intervention come up with a plan to save Christmas and transform Carface from a holiday humbug to a yuletide hero.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters little sister. Main series volume 104
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
When Karen and her brother Andrew land parts in a local production of "A Christmas Carol, " Karen discovers the true meaning of the holiday.