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      Hardcover Christmas Card Book
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      ISBN: 0395272041

      ISBN13: 9780395272046

      A Christmas Card

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      Lost in a New England snowstorm, a family is sheltered by a mysterious old man who disappears the next morning, leaving behind a magical "Christmas card." This description may be from another edition of this product.

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      My introduction to Paul Theroux

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      Many years ago on a trip to England I found the Penguin / Puffin version of A Christmas Card in a bookstore and bought it for my children, who were living in Denmark and visiting their grandparents in Maine every other summer. They don't seem to remember the story, but I read it to classes every year at Christmas as a high school English teacher in Denmark and my students loved it as much as I did after they got over the fact...

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      VALUE THE GIFT

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      A few days before Christmas nine-year-old Marcel and his family are driving to their new house--an old farm deep in the snowy woods, then get lost. Luckily they find an old hotel which at first seemed to be closed. Marcel is fascinated by their quaint but kindly host, Pappy, who promises to provide them with directions to their destination the next day. But the man mysteriously disappears, leaving them only an unsigned,...

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