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|  | | Christmasville (Book I of the Christmasville Trilogy)
Mary Jane Higgins suspects that there is more to Christmasville than what meets the eye. What the reader discovers at the end of chapter one is that Mary Jane lives in a Christmas village, situated on a 4 x 8 model train platform.
The remaining eleven chapters reveal Mary Jane's illuminations and discoveries as she attempts to resolve the enigma of Christmasville, culminating in an unexpected result.br />
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i>Christmasville /i>was written for a readership of young adult through adult. Additional excerpts and reviews are available at the Linden Park Publishers website. For the "Group Study Guide" and the "Ten Fun Facts" about i>Christmasville, /i>please see the articles section.
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Kriss Kringle in the i>North Pole Gazette. | |  | | Finding Christmasville (Book II of the Christmasville Trilogy)
If Mary Jane was motivated by faith, a spirit of independence and the quest for truth in the first novel of the trilogy, Madeleine and Esmeralda are driven by purposes quite different in the second. For both girls, it is the embracing of hope - of salvation for Madeleine, and illumination for Esmeralda - that propels them along their separate paths.
Madeleine, a daughter of the Magian line, is bequeathed i>calinda al emeris magis/i> - the rare "gift of the fourth king" - which enables her to perceive what others cannot. But, as with many gifts, there are prices to pay for such things. The bloom of a rose, or the fruit of a tree, does not come without the promise of a thorn, or the threat of blight.br />
For Esmeralda, the fortuneteller who once read Tarot cards for Mary Jane on First Night, the journey forward is impeded by that affliction which haunts everyone who calls Christmasville home: memory - the multiple perforat |
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