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Skipping Christmas by Author: John Grisham
In ‘Skipping Christmas’, Grisham takes a hilarious look at the frenzy that has become a part of the holiday tradition, by imagining a Christmas without crowded shops, loud office parties, Christmas cakes, or unwanted presents.
The central characters, Luther and Nora Krank decide to, just once, skip the holiday altogether and set sail on a Caribbean cruise on December 25th. But skipping Christmas, they soon realise, isn’t half as easy as they had imagined.
The Party by Author: Robyn Harding
Harding spins a provocative domestic drama about a sweet sixteen birthday party that goes horribly wrong. Jeff and Kim Sander’s flawless life in a wealthy San Francisco family home suddenly begins to come apart, when they throw a party for their daughter, Hannah. It was to be a simply party with pizzas, cake, movies and a sleepover with four friends, but things turn otherwise and they find their picture-perfect life unravelling their darkest secrets and their friends turning to enemies.
The Gift of the Magi, Author: O. Henry
This is a short story about a young married couple and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money. Set in New York at the turn of the twentieth century, this piece of American literature tells the story of a young couple and the sacrifices each must make to buy the other a gift. One dollar and eight-seven cents is all the money Della has in the world to buy her husband a Christmas present…