Undoubtedly the most popular Christmas cookbook to date in the LDS market, Lion House Christmas has been a tried-and-true favorite of family cooks for nearly two decades. In celebration of the holidays, the staff of the Lion House Pantry has compiled a new edition of Lion House Christmas (Deseret Book, Hardcover, $22.95), that includes hundreds of irresistible holiday recipes, tips, and traditions with ideas to pull families close around the holiday table.

If Mary had a midwife, this would be her tender story.

Consider the possibility that someone was sent to help at Christ's birth. A beautifully-crafted piece of historical fiction, The Innkeeper’s Wife (Shadow Mountain, hardcover $12.95) gives readers a new Christmas story and a special witness about the most important birth in the world. The author, Lynda Wilson, takes a deeper look at what could have been as she allows us to view the Nativity through the eyes of Hannah, Mary’s midwife.

Peculiar: "That which pertains to or characterizes an individual person, place or thing, or group of persons or things, as distinct from others. Unlike others, singular, uncommon, unusual" (The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993)

In her humorous yet thought-provoking style, author and popular speaker Mary Ellen Edmunds explores what really makes "a peculiar people."