02568cam a2200517 i 4500 1176862454 TxAuBib 20240327120000.0 220624s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022941580 9780316405904 hc 0316405906 hc TxAuBib rda PATTERSON, JAMES, MARCH 2018, author. 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. txt rdacontent n rdamedia 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. 20240327. Bereavement Fiction. Entertaining. Fiction. Entertaining. Fiction. Bereavement. fast Entertaining. fast Christmas Fiction. Harlem (New York, N.Y.) Fiction. New York (State) fast New York Harlem. Christmas fiction. Domestic fiction. Christmas stories. Novels. fast Christmas stories. fast Christmas fiction. fast Domestic fiction. fast Fiction. fast Novels. fast Safran, Tad,.