Dec
15
2007
This Christmas, why not gather around with the family and listen to some great Christmas stories?
Santa doesn’t even have to come down the chimney this year to deliver these goodies … our audio book titles can be immediately downloaded to your computer and transferred to an MP3 Player, iPod, or burned to a CD.
Here are some of our Christmas specials on downloadable audio book format:
| Christmas Collection, The |
Normal Price: $11.99
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Christmas brings out the best and the worst in us, as can be seen in this evocative anthology. Among what Thomas Love Peacock calls the ‘many poetical charms in the heraldings of Christmas’ there are eulogies by saints and diatribes from curmudgeons. Here, Christmas is expounded by divines, sung by rustics, deplored by philosophers, made mystical in stories and summed up in a line by the poet Elizabeth Jennings: ‘The hush, the star, the baby, people being kind again’.This collection includes complete versions of such old favourites as ‘The Little Match Girl’, ‘The Night Before Christmas’, ‘Ring out Wild Bells’ and ‘Christmas Day in the Workhouse’. But there are also discoveries: a sermon by Lancelot Andrewes, an account of Christmas under the Puritans, a first, poverty-stricken Christmas in turn of the century New York and a Mummer’s Play. Adding the final touch is the music: from traditional Christmas carols and Corelli to Benjamin Britten. On this recording, Christmas past brings alive Christmas present.
Normal in-store price: $22.60
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| Autobiography of Santa Claus, The |
Normal Price: $19.49
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“You’re right to believe in me…”
Jump on Santa’s sleigh for a journey through seventeen centuries of Christmas magic!
This enchanting holiday treasure combines historical fact with glorious legend as Saint Nicholas himself reveals the definitive story of Santa Claus. From his birth in Lycia to meeting Mrs. Claus and all of his helpers, Santa relates the tale of how he spread his message of generosity and the goodness of giving across the world.
Families will delight in every entertaining chapter of this holiday classic—one for each cold December night leading up to Christmas!
Normal in-store price: $29.95
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| How Mrs Claus Saved Christmas |
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In this delightful sequel to the bestselling holiday classic The Autobiography of Santa Claus, the first lady of Christmas herself tells the story of how she and a very brave group of people once saved a treasured holiday from being lost forever.
It’s 1620 and Mrs. Claus’s dear husband is off in the New World planting the seeds of what will become a glorious Christmas tradition. Meanwhile, Mrs. Claus has chosen to stay in England, where the first signs of a dangerous threat to Yuletide cheer are in evidence. The Puritans have gained control of Parliament and appear determined to take all the fun out of Christmas. But Mrs. Claus knows that it’s time for serious action when, in 1647, a law is passed by Parliament that actually punishes anyone who celebrates Christmas.
Using as its springboard the actual events of a day in 1647 when ten thousand peasants marched through the streets of Canterbury demanding their right to celebrate a beloved holiday, How Mrs. Claus Saved Christmas is rich in historical detail, adventure, and plain ol’ Christmas fun.
Normal in-store price: $29.95
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