02344cam a2200445 i 4500 1345063820 MeVbMML 20241029111614.0 220919t20222022nyu e 000 1 eng d 2022941580 9780316405904 0316405906 (OCoLC)1345063820 AJM 813/.54 23/eng/20220902 P2772 .ttt Patterson, James, 1947- author 1127 The twelve topsy-turvy, very messy days of Christmas / James Patterson and Tad Safran 12 topsy-turvy, very messy days of Christmas Topsy-turvy, very messy days of Christmas First edition New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022 ©2022 276 pages ; 22 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier During the holiday season, a family of three, missing someone very dear to them, find their house filling up with unexpected guests, making Christmas memories to last a lifetime 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 Goodreads and perusal of book BPL: David Winn Bishop and Isabel MacPherson Bishop Memorial Fund. Bereavement Fiction 8336 Entertaining Fiction 18628 Harlem (New York, N.Y.) Fiction 9003 Christmas fiction. lcgft 2984 Domestic fiction. lcgft 61 Novels. lcgft 50 Safran, Tad, author 18629 .b176072342 ddc BOOK 30168 30168 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2024-10-29 25.00 5 PATT 66660 2025-02-20 2025-02-07 2024-10-29 BOOK 1