01227cam a2200337 4500 214754922 TxAuBib 20101214120000.0 030318s2003||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2003047816 9780060565572 acid-free paper 0060565578 acid-free paper 9780060565589 pbk. : acid-free paper 0060565586 pbk. : acid-free paper DLC DLC ICrlF TxAuBib Mitchard, Jacquelyn. Christmas, present / Jacquelyn Mitchard. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2003. ix, 132 p. ; 20 cm. Publisher's Weekly. The Banner family draws together to celebrate their lives together when Laura, a wife and mother, suffers a brain aneurysm two days before Christmas that leaves her with only hours to live. Adult. 20031031. Family United States Fiction. Aneurysms Fiction. Death Fiction. Family life United States Fiction. Christmas Fiction. Domestic fiction.