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Holiday Cheer 2025

At Bookreporter.com, we've been celebrating the holiday season in style with our Holiday Cheer Contests and Feature. As our gift to you, we've been spotlighting a book and giving five lucky readers a chance to win it.

Although the contests have ended, we encourage you to take a look at this year's featured titles. These are books you'll want to read during the holidays --- and throughout the new year as well!

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A Sea Glass Christmas by Davis Bunn

In the ultimate Christmas comfort read for fans of Nicholas Sparks and Karen Kingsbury, a bracing Christmas on North Carolina’s Outer Banks opens the door to a second chance at love.

Some places never leave you.

Two days before his 21st birthday, Brody Reames left the Outer Banks to fulfill his dream of sailing. For years, it’s been a liberating, wayfarer’s life, crewing on ocean-bound vessels and joining cross-Atlantic races. He knew leaving his hometown wouldn’t be forever, but to mend a disillusioned heart in Fortunate Harbor, it was for the best. Still, he never expected that a family upheaval and his loving mother’s plea would call him back. With Christmas nearing, Brody is coming home again --- to a crisp chill in the air and a warm former flame.

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Week of September 28, 2026

Paperback releases for the week of September 28th include BUCKEYE by Patrick Ryan, a sweeping novel that weaves the intimate lives of two midwestern families across generations, from World War II to the late 20th century; ALL THE WAY TO THE RIVER, a landmark memoir from Elizabeth Gilbert that will resonate with anyone who has ever been captive to love --- or to any other passion, substance or craving --- and who yearns for liberation; PENDERGAST: THE BEGINNING by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child,   which serves as a golden opportunity for longtime fans and newcomers to learn about Agent Pendergast’s strange and shocking first case; and Angela Flournoy's THE WILDERNESS, an era-defining novel about five Black women over the course of their 20-year friendship, as they move through the dizzying and sometimes precarious period between young adulthood and midlife.  

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