Lyons Regional Library

Bake something special for Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, Boxing Day, Kwanzaa, or New Year's with one of these eighty-seven simple recipes.
The Wintertime holidays are alive with tradition, especially in the kitchen. And nothing is more festive than baked goods fresh from the oven. Holiday Baking celebrates the six major events of the season—Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, Boxing Day, Kwanzaa, and New Year's—with irresistible...

"Christmas should be celebrated with family, but for Vera Swanson, that's not an option this year. Widowed and recently relocated, she is lonely in her condo-for-one--until little Fiona Albright knocks on her door needing help. With her mother seriously ill and her father out of town Fiona enlists Vera's aid, and when she finds out her new neighbor is a quilter, she has special request--a Christmas quilt for Mama. Vera will have to get a ragtag group...

"It was supposed to be Christy Sullivan's perfect Christmas getaway--a trip to Lapland with her family and best friend, Alix. But facing a make-or-break marriage crisis, Christy desperately needs time alone with her husband. Her solution? Alix can take Christy's little daughter to Lapland, and they will reunite there for Christmas Day. It's a big ask, but what else are friends for? There's nothing Alix won't do for Christy. But Christy's request to...

Novelist Debbie Macomber shares over one hundred favorite recipes for celebrating the Christmas season, and includes instructions for crafts, decorations, and gift wrapping, as well as personal memories and observations.

While most folks are preparing for Christmas, the tight-knit Jensen clan can only hope they'll make it home. In San Antonio tracking down an outlaw, Luke Jensen finds him leading a wholesome life as a pastor and agrees to wait until after Christmas to bring him in. Smoke and Sally Jensen head out from Fort Worth by stagecoach, only to be stranded by unrelenting rains and stalked by a killer. And in Austin, Ace Jensen falls head over heels in love...

Beautifully educated, born to the life of a Southern gentleman, Dr. John Henry Holliday is given an awful choice at the age of twenty-two: die within months in Atlanta or leave everyone and everything he loves in the hope that the dry air and sunshine of the West will restore him to health. Young, scared, lonely, and sick, he arrives on the rawest edge of the Texas frontier just as an economic crash wrecks the dreams of a nation. Soon, with few alternatives...

A collection of more than fifty recipes for holiday desserts and other sweets that children can make with their parents throughout the year, from Saint Patrick's Day to Valentine's Day, is complemented by "Peanuts" strips and illustrations.

Jess and Alex are flatmates Follows one year in the love lives of flatmates Jess and Alex, from when they meet just before Christmas and through the next twelve months of attraction and awkwardness. "Two people. One house. A year that changes everything. Twenty-nine-year-old Jess is following her dream and moving to London. It's December, and she's taking a room in a crumbling, but grand, Notting Hill house-share with four virtual strangers. On...

Small-town nurse Nina Wentworth has made a career out of being a caretaker. More "Mom" than their mother ever was, she sacrificed so that her sister could break free. Which is why she isn't thrilled to see Averil back on Blackberry Island. Nina finds herself juggling two men-her high school sweetheart and a maverick pilot who also wants to claim her heart. Averil doesn't seem to want the great guy she's married to and doesn't seem to be making headway...