Vintage Fiction List #1 | Gentle Reads
"A Christmas Party That Prevented a Split in the Church"by
Margaret Black
Vintage, Christmas, Short Read, Small-Town
The women of a village church prepare for the arrival of a new, young minister—who happens to be single.
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Notes: Pictured above is fan art by Nadine C. Keels, not an official book cover. You can find this holiday tale in A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories, though not all of the stories in the collection are gentle reads.
Margaret Black
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Notes: Pictured above is fan art by Nadine C. Keels, not an official book cover. You can find this holiday tale in A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories, though not all of the stories in the collection are gentle reads.
My Man Jeevesby
P.G. Wodehouse
Short Reads, Vintage, Humor
Come along for a series of hijinks in New York City with a hapless English gentleman, Bertie Wooster, and his ingenious valet, Jeeves! Granted, you'll spend half the time here with Reggie Pepper—an early Wooster prototype, don't you know. Book One in a series.
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Notes: Pictured above is fan art by Nadine C. Keels, not an official book cover. A few of the stories in this collection have brief mentions of off-page violence, handled with humor and without very graphic details.
P.G. Wodehouse
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Notes: Pictured above is fan art by Nadine C. Keels, not an official book cover. A few of the stories in this collection have brief mentions of off-page violence, handled with humor and without very graphic details.
The Plums Hang Highby
Gertrude E. Finney
Vintage, Historical, Biographical Novel
Hannah Maria and her husband Jethro sail from England to America, planning to pluck down one of the American fortunes said to grow like plums on trees. But what might it take to reach such plums?
Gertrude E. Finney
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (and Mrs. Harris Goes to New York)
by
Paul Gallico
Paul Gallico
Vintage, Short Read
Ada Harris, a London cleaning lady, dreams of owning a Dior gown, so she makes an unforgettable trip to Paris.
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Content notes: This volume also contains the New York sequel, a story that addresses child abuse: most of which happens off-screen, except for one slap. There's also a character in New York who uses some coarse language, including a few uses of the N-word, though the narrative doesn't fail to call him out on "his prejudices."
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Content notes: This volume also contains the New York sequel, a story that addresses child abuse: most of which happens off-screen, except for one slap. There's also a character in New York who uses some coarse language, including a few uses of the N-word, though the narrative doesn't fail to call him out on "his prejudices."
And Both Were Young
by
Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle
Vintage, Young Adult
Flip, a shy teenaged artist, doesn’t think she’ll ever fit in at a Swiss boarding school. But one day while she's out walking, she meets a French guy by chance…
The Enchanted April
by
Elizabeth Von Arnim
Elizabeth Von Arnim
Vintage, Women's Fiction
Four disenchanted Englishwomen go off to an Italian villa and experience a holiday of awakenings.
Sarah, Plain and Tall
by
Patricia MacLachlan
Patricia MacLachlan
Vintage, Historical, Children's/Family Fiction, Short Read
Sarah Elisabeth Wheaton comes from Maine to the prairie in answer to an advertisement for a wife and mother. An advertisement sent by Anna and Caleb's papa. Book One in a series.
The Greatest Gift: A Christmas Tale
by
Philip Van Doren Stern
Philip Van Doren Stern
Vintage, Christmas, Speculative Fiction, Short Read
Here’s the story that inspired the classic Christmas movie It’s a Wonderful Life.
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