The Noel Diary

Follows the experiences of a man who, in the wake of estrangements and losses, is given a chance to rewrite and rediscover his true past.

A heartwarming and inspirational Christmas novel in the tradition of The Christmas Box, Grace, The Gift, and The Christmas List. The New York Times bestselling author of The Christmas Box and The Walk series returns with a holiday novel of hope, love, and redemption. A young woman, who has been adopted as a child by a loving family, has only a Christmas ornament inscribed with the word “Noel” as a keepsake of her birth family, about whom she remembers nothing. When long hidden memories resurface, she begins an emotionally challenging personal journey as she searches for her biological sister and clues about her mysterious past...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans returns this holiday season with a tale of love, belonging, and family, following a trail of letters that leads to a Christmas revelation about the healing miracle of hope and forgiveness. After nearly two decades, Noel Post, an editor for a major New York publishing house, returns to her childhood home in Salt Lake City to see her estranged, dying father. What she believed would be a brief visit turns into something more as she inherits the bookstore her father fought to keep alive. Reeling from loneliness, a recent divorce, and unanticipated upheavals in her world, Noel begins receiving letters from an anonymous source, each one containing thoughts and lessons about her life and her future. She begins to reacquaint herself with the bookstore and the people she left behind, and in doing so, starts to unravel the reality of her painful childhood and the truth about her family. As the holidays draw near, she receives a Christmastime revelation that changes not only how she sees the past but also how she views her future.

Follows the experiences of a man who, in the wake of estrangements and losses, is given a chance to rewrite and rediscover his true past.

'A gold mine of gossip with a cast of thousands' GUARDIAN The unexpurgated diaries of one of the greatest, most talented, and wittily flamboyant characters of the 20th century - with a new introduction by Stephen Fry 'Compulsive reading' SUNDAY TIMES '19th February 1956. A A Milne has died. Lord Beaverbrook has not ... Larry is going to make a movie of The Sleeping Prince with Marilyn Monroe, which might conceivably drive him round the bend' '28th February 1960 Princess Margaret has announced her engagement to Tony Armstrong-Jones ... He looks quite pretty, but whether or not the marriage is entirely suitable remains to be seen.' Noel Coward was a renowned actor, dramatist, director - and star. His incredible zest, versatility and unrivalled wit are revealed in these diaries, with a cast of characters ranging from The Beatles to the Queen, Churchill to Marilyn Monroe. Touching, funny and revealing, THE NOEL COWARD DIARIES is a superb account of one of the greatest entertainers of all time.

A love story for Christmas—now a Hallmark Channel original movie—from the #1 bestselling author of The Christmas Box and The Walk. Elise Dutton dreads the arrival of another holiday season. Three years earlier, her husband cheated on her with her best friend, resulting in a bitter divorce that left her alone, broken, and distrustful. Then, one November day, a stranger approaches Elise in the mall food court. Though she recognizes the man from her building, Elise has never formally met him. Tired of spending the holidays alone, the man offers her a proposition. For the next eight weeks—until the evening of December 24—he suggests that they pretend to be a couple. He draws up a contract with four rules: 1. No deep, probing personal questions 2. No drama 3. No telling anyone the truth about the relationship 4. The contract is void on Christmas Day The lonely Elise surprises herself by agreeing to the idea. As the charade progresses, the safety of her fake relationship begins to mend her badly broken heart. But just as she begins to find joy again, her long-held secret threatens to unravel the emerging relationship. But she might not be the only one with secrets.

With engaging, razor-sharp prose, Noel S. Baker vividly chronicles the experience of seeing his first screenplay produced, derived from a diary kept during two years of down-and-dirty filmmaking with Bruce McDonald on the film "Hard Core Logo". "This is the most absorbing account of getting a move made in this country...It's funny, perceptive, and compelling".--Atom Egoyan.

The perfect gift to celebrate the power of love, grace, and the holiday season, this charming boxed set from “the king of Christmas fiction” (The New York Times) features three unforgettable and heartwarming novels in the New York Times bestselling Noel Collection. The Noel Diary follows romance writer Jacob as he reluctantly returns home to settle his late, estranged mother’s estate. Armed with only painful memories, he’s shocked when he stumbles upon a diary belonging to “Noel”—an unknown woman who stayed with his family during her pregnancy thirty years ago. Can Jacob and a young woman who is also in search for her own identity unravel this mystery together and manage to rewrite their future? In The Noel Stranger, Maggie Walther is struggling to get back on her feet after her life turned upside down with a difficult divorce. When she meets the kind, handsome owner of a local Christmas tree lot, Maggie slowly grows hopeful about the future. But this tentative new relationship is soon threatened by a dark secret, and Maggie is now on a journey of redemption and forgiveness. In Noel Street—“another evocative story of hope and forgiveness at Christmastime” (Booklist)—single mother and struggling waitress Elle meets recently returned Vietnam POW William at the Noel Street Diner. Though he is fighting against his own dark demons, he may hold the answer to Elle’s secret pain—a revelation that culminates in a remarkable act of love and forgiveness.