02232cam a2200397 i 4500 623924570 TxAuBib 20221018120000.0 220923s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780316474429 large print; paperback 0316474428 large print; paperback (OCoLC)1345544435 NjBwBT NjBwBT eng eng rda rda rda OQX rda OQX OQX OCO W8N CWF IEP ABJ GZD TxAuBib OQX OCO W8N CWF IEP ABJ GZD TxAuBib rda Patterson, James, 1947- The Twelve Topsy-Turvy, Very Messy Days of Christmas / By James Patterson and Tad Safran. 12 Topsy-Turvy, Very Messy Days of Christmas. Large print edition, First edition. New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2022. 390 pages (large print) ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier After their mother's death on Christmas Day five years ago, Will and Ella Sullivan, and their father, Henry, come to a family agreement: Christmas is a holiday for other people. At their brownstone in Harlem, stockings go unstuffed, tinsel unstrewn, gifts unbought, mistletoe unhung, chestnuts unroasted, carols unplayed, cookies uncooked, a tree un-visible, and guests uninvited. Until this year. Until guests start arriving anyway. In pairs and sixes, in sevens and tens-- they keep coming. And they stay. For twelve long, hard, topsy-turvy, very messy days. That's when the Sullivans discover that those moments in life that defy hope, expectation, or even imagination, might be the best gifts of all. -- adapted from jacket, regular print edition. 20221018. Bereavement Fiction. Entertaining Fiction. Widowers Fiction. Animals Fiction. Harlem (New York, N.Y.) Fiction. Large print books. lcgft Christmas fiction. Domestic fiction. Fiction. lcgft Safran, Tad, author. TXKPL