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Despite job stress and a crumbling home life, workaholic businessman Lou Suffern gives Gabe, a homeless man, a job in his company’s mail room; but the mysterious Gabe seems be in two places at once, and he’s meddling in Lou’s private affairs.

For three very different women trying to get what they want, it is a Christmas where miracles happen, love is magical, and changing their lives is as simple as changing their outfits.

It’s the week before Christmas, and antiques dealer Weezie Foley is in a frenzy to garnish her shop for the Savannah historical district decorating contest. But suddenly things start to go missing from her display, and there seems to be a mysterious midnight visitor to her shop.

Doug Barnes is delighted to be playing a shepherd in the local Christmas
pageant until he is confronted by a host of problems, including the misbehavior of his fellow shepherds and the illness of the family dog.

A new rendition of the Christmas story follows Mary and Joseph, who are planning to be married, only to face an unexpected pregnancy that for Mary is a miracle and for Joseph, a challenge to his faith in his wife and in God.

Caterers Bernadette and Libby Simmons are coping with their busiest time of the year when they are recruited for a cooking show contest that pits celebrity chefs against each other, resulting in murder.

A seasonal tale features the story of three very different sisters, each with her own set of man problems, and follows themes of humor, romance and holiday spice.

After being informed that he only has a year to live, Oswald T. Campbell leaves Chicago to spend his last Christmas in the tiny town of Lost River, Alabama.

Matriarch Theodora’s efforts to bring her family of belligerent idiots together for a South Carolina Christmas reunion go badly awry, until a very special someone uses Gullah magic and common sense to bring about a miracle.

In an unconventional holiday tale set in a kingdom two hundred years in the past, ten-year-old Benjamin, a mute autistic savant, is commissioned to paint a nativity scene for midnight mass and meets a talented pig who helps him to find his voice.

A journalist recounts his personal interview with Santa Claus at the North Pole after St. Nick himself refuted points in a Christmas paper the author was writing, during which his subject shared the actual story of his life.

Recently divorced and having no family of her own, Joy Candellaro is beginning to dream of a new life with widower Daniel O’Shea and his son, Bobby, until a fateful Christmas Eve forces her to make a painful choice.

Fearing that Christmas of 1564 may be the last for an ailing friend, Queen Elizabeth decrees an elaborate holiday celebration. But when one of the queen’s kitchen staff is found murdered, Elizabeth and her group of friends must puzzle out the mystery.

A heart-warming tale of how a developmentally disabled young man’s wish to foster a dog for Christmas inspires the entire community and teaches a lesson in holiday spirit.

It’s 1964 and ten-year-old Felix is sure of a few things: the birds and the bees are puzzling, television is magical, and this is one Christmas he’ll never forget.

When Eliot and Laura Banner learn that Laura has a terminal condition, they gather their children and family around themselves during the holiday season to convey her blessings to them for the future and remember their shared history.

When a seven-year-old boy witnesses the murder of a portly, Scrooge-like real-estate developer, he believes the victim is Santa Claus and wishes for the man’s recovery.

Managing a failed seafood restaurant in a run-down New England mall just before Christmas, Manny DeLeon coordinates a challenging final shift of mutinous staff members, an effort that is complicated by his love for a waitress, a pregnant girlfriend, and an elusive holiday gift.

These Christmas stories are set against the backdrop of a changing country, from a 19th century mining town to the roaring twenties, the Great Depression, and cold war America.

A Nova Scotia Christmas tree farmer and a widowed New York librarian bond through their common losses and their concern for the farmer’s runaway son.

Tired of their husbands’ refusal to share Christmas responsibilities, Joy, Laura, and other women of Holly decide to stage a boycott in order to make the men decorate, mail cards, shop for gifts, and clean up the holiday mess.

Offers seven Christmas stories about ordinary people experiencing subtle graces amidst the harsh realities of life.

The mundane and the miraculous stand side by side in these sketches and stories of Southern small-time life.