Archie's Funhouse Comics Annual #19, 125 pages

 

Archie's Funhouse Summer Annual #21, 125 pages

 Spotty, Little Archie's dog, becomes unexplainably sick and stays that way until he hears Little Archie reminiscing about him with Little Betty -- especially when he hears Betty suggest that Archie might need a cat like her Caramel for company! This story begs to answer the Do our pets really understand what we say?

Oh, What Fun by Chandler Baker, 47 pages

 Everyone is home for the holidays, clamoring for all the Christmas cheer only their mother can whip up. They can already smell the chestnuts roasting—or is that Mom’s hair on fire? From a New York Times bestselling author comes a laugh-out-loud short story for any mom who’d rather wreck the halls.

Tyler, Channing, and Sammy Clauster have descended on their childhood home, with significant others and four-year-old twins in tow, for another good old-fashioned Christmas. Overwhelming holiday magic, as always, comes courtesy of their mom, Claire. They know she’s thrilled to cook, wrap gifts, decorate, accommodate, play games, overprepare every Christmas Eve Eve Eve tradition, and still let Dad be known as the Fun One. It’s her thing, right? Maybe the family should have paid closer attention. Because this year, something is a little off-key—and it’s not just the carols.

Christmas With Louisa May Alcott, 64 pages

 Features two Christmas-themed stories:  “A Christmas Dream," and "How It Came to Be True,” a tale inspired by Charles Dickens’s  "A Christmas Carol,"  and his short story, “How It Happened.” 

Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott, 299 pages

 Rose Campbell, tired and ill, has come to live at "The Aunt Hill" after the death of her beloved father. Six aunts fussing and fretting over her are bad enough, but what is a quiet 13-year-old girl to do with seven boisterous boy cousins? It is the arrival of Uncle Alec that changes everything. Much to the horror of her aunts, Rose's forward-thinking uncle insists that the child get out of the parlor and into the sunshine. And with a little courage and lots of adventures with her mischievous but loving cousins, Rose begins to bloom.

Written by the beloved author of Little Women, Eight Cousins is a masterpiece of children's literature. This endearing novel offers readers of all ages an inspiring story about growing up, making friends, and facing life with strength and kindness.

A Fatal Thaw by Dana Stabenow, 179 pages

 On her homestead in the middle of twenty million acres of national Park, Aleut P.I. Kate Shugak is caught up in spring cleaning, unaware that just miles away a man's sanity is breaking. When the sound of gunfire finally dies away, nine of his neighbors lie dead in the snow. But did he kill all nine, or only eight? The ninth victim was killed with a different weapon. It's up to Kate and her husky-wolf sidekick Mutt to untangle the life of the dead blonde with the tarnished past and find her killer. It won't be easy; every second Park rat had a motive. Was it one of her many spurned lovers? Was a wife looking for revenge? Or did a deal with an ivory smuggler go bad? Even Trooper Jim Chopin, the Park's resident state trooper, had a history with the victim. Kate will need every ounce of determination to find the truth before Alaska metes out its own justice....

Of Magic & Reindeer by Maya Nicole, 350 pages

 Neve North has zero Christmas spirit.

She hates the cold, won't touch cookies, and rolls her eyes at anything remotely festive. As far as she's concerned, the holidays can choke on a candy cane.

But when she catches reindeer eating someone's rooftop garden and watches them shift into men, everything changes. Suddenly nine strangers are at her door to call a herd meeting.

They think Neve is the key to saving everything, but she can’t remember ever having set foot in Santa’s Village. Or that her Arctic researcher dad is Santa Claus.

Now she has to survive “Christmas Spirit Restoration Activities,” and the kind of North Pole traditions no HR department would ever approve…

She might hate Christmas, but her magic and nine reindeer are about to deck her halls anyway.