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The Community Library has a selection of Christmas themed audiobooks on our main floor display near the copy/fax room. Below are several of the titles that you will find - check one out today for a little dose of holiday cheer!

My Kind of Christmas by Robyn Carr
Patrick Riordan's plans for a relaxing Christmas--a much-needed break from his work as a Navy pilot--are complicated when he falls for Angie LeCroix, who is visiting Virgin River in order to escape her hovering mother. (Publisher Summary)

The Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck
A holiday tale relates the story of a thirteen-year-old boy whose final gift from his mother, a sweater, is scorned in favor of more expensive gifts before a tragic car accident ends the mother's life. (Publisher Summary)

The Perfect Christmas by Debbie Macomber
Tired of being single, Cassie Beaumont, who longs for a husband and kids, hires professional matchmaker Simon Dodson who assigns her three tasks to complete before she meets her perfect match. (Publisher Summary)

If You Like 'The Matchmaker', You May Also Like...

Elin Hilderbrand's latest novel, The Matchmaker, landed on the New York Times Bestseller List this week. Although Hilderbrand's characters change from book to book, she always sets her novels in the same place - the historic island of Nantucket, making her collection of works the perfect summer reads.

In The Matchmaker, main character, Dabney Kimball, who is a known matchmaker and island resident, has her life turned upside down when her love from the past returns to Nantucket.

Already read The Matchmaker and are looking for read-alike titles? Check out these suggestions from NoveList, our reader's advisory database:
Summer Breeze by Nancy Thayer
Natalie is house sitting in the Berkshires when she becomes friendly with a shopkeeper who is caring for an aging parent and a stay-at-home mom with whom she commiserates over romantic complications.

Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan

Three generations of women come together at a family beach house and gradually reveal secrets that include a pregnancy, a terrible crush, and a deeply-held resentment for past misdeeds.

50 Harbor Street by Debbie Macomber

Corrie McAfee and her husband, a private investigator, try to solve a mystery from their past, while their daughter, Linette, moves back home to Cedar Cove, Washington to open a new medical clinic and finds unexpected romance.

Patron enthusiastically recommends Debbie Macomber's books

Recently, Linda from Shirley enthusiastically recommended Debbie Macomber to the Readers' Advisory Librarian. Linda said she loved the way Macomber's books keep characters' intimate passions private, and how they are real page-turners that keep a strong hold on a reader's heart. The book that got her hooked on Macomber? Changing Habits (2003), about three very different women who enter a convent in Minneapolis, then change, grow, and ultimately leave the sisterhood.

For Debbie Macomber fans, Novelist (a readers' advisory database free to Mastics-Moriches-Shirley cardholders) also recommends Jan Karon's Mitford series (start with At Home in Mitford) and the Navy-oriented love stories by Susan Wiggs (start with The Ocean Between Us).