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    Stille Nacht
    Stille Nacht
    Stille Nacht
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    Stille Nacht

    By Kristine Kathryn Rusch

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    Christmas: a time of family, tradition, togetherness—until your family shatters. With no grandparents to spoil her daughters, one single mom faces the holiday alone. Her daughters worry that Santa, like Daddy, won't show up. She worries, too: What if she can't give them—or herself—the magic of Christmas?

    But maybe, just maybe, she'll find that magic on Christmas morning, under the tree, like all the other gifts of the season.

    "Rusch is a great storyteller."

    —RT Book Reviews

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWMG Publishing
    Release dateDec 5, 2016
    ISBN9781536592825
    Stille Nacht
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    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    New York Times bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch writes in almost every genre. Generally, she uses her real name (Rusch) for most of her writing. She publishes bestselling science fiction and fantasy, award-winning mysteries, acclaimed mainstream fiction, controversial nonfiction, and the occasional romance. Her novels have made bestseller lists around the world and her short fiction has appeared in eighteen best of the year collections. She has won more than twenty-five awards for her fiction, including the Hugo, Le Prix Imaginales, the Asimov's Readers Choice award, and the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers Choice Award.   

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      Stille Nacht - Kristine Kathryn Rusch

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      Kristine Kathryn Rusch

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      Stille Nacht

      To the memory of my mother

      The girls are finally asleep. I have waited until I hear no more giggles coming from the tiny bedroom. Now I have taken out the Santa presents, and they are scattered on the apartment’s scarred hardwood floor. I sit in the narrow dining room, which gives me a good place to hide as well as a view of the hall.

      It’s hard to put the girls to bed on Christmas Eve. "Will

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