
Oswald T. Campbell, told by his Chicago doctor that he won't survive another winter, moves to Lost River, a small town in Alabama, and meets a little girl and a redbird.
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Elfrida Phipps, a retired actress, moves to a Hampshire village and ends up spending Christmas in a big house in the far north of Scotland with a group of strangers who each need a home.
Tova Sullivan, a widow who mops floors at a small Puget Sound aquarium at night, strikes up an unlikely friendship with Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus who knows more about her past than she does.

Novalee Nation, seventeen and seven months pregnant, is left by her boyfriend at a Walmart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma, and secretly makes the store her home.
Evelyn Couch, an unhappy Birmingham housewife, befriends Ninny Threadgoode at a nursing home, and Ninny tells her the story of the Whistle Stop Cafe in 1930s Alabama and the two women who ran it, Idgie and Ruth.

Luther and Nora Krank, their daughter abroad for the year, decide to skip Christmas and go on a Caribbean cruise instead, and their neighbours on Hemlock Street take it badly.

Rachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt, a Jewish author secretly writing Christmas romances, has to get a ticket to the hottest Hanukkah party in New York to save her career, and it is run by her old summer-camp enemy.

Three linked love stories set over one snowbound Christmas Eve in a small town, starting with a train stuck in a blizzard.

An accidentally-adopted red-haired orphan talks, dreams, and misbehaves her way into the hearts of an ageing brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm.

Over Christmas in New York, Lily leaves a red notebook of dares on a shelf at the Strand bookshop, and Dash, a cynical teenager who hates the holidays, picks it up.

Charlie Goodwin, a television chef in Los Angeles who has lost her sense of taste, swaps lives for Christmas with her identical twin Cass, who runs the family bakery in a snowy mountain town.

Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch comes home from New York to Maycomb, Alabama, in the mid-1950s for her annual visit and discovers that her father Atticus, and the town that raised her, are not what she believed.

Tom Langdon, a burned-out journalist banned from flying, takes the train across America to Los Angeles for Christmas, and finds an old love among the passengers.