Christmas Jars – August 1, 2006 PDF

Christmas Jars Hardcover – August 1, 2006
Author: Visit ‘s Jason F. Wright Page ID: 159038699X

From Publishers Weekly

In a plot reminiscent of Penelope Stokes’s The Blue Bottle Club and Angela Hunt’s The Note, a journalist happens upon a human interest story that winds up teaching her lessons about love and forgiveness and renewing her own faith in human kindness. On Christmas Eve, twenty-something Hope Jensen is quietly grieving the recent loss of her adoptive mother when her apartment is robbed. The one bright spot in the midst of Hope’s despair is a small jar full of money someone has anonymously left on her doorstep. Eager to learn the source of this unexpected generosity, Hope uses her newswoman instincts to find other recipients of “Christmas jars,” digging until her search leads her to the family who first began the tradition of saving a year’s worth of spare change to give to someone in need at the holiday. Wright commits some rookie mistakes in style and pacing; the novel veers heavily toward melodrama at some junctures, and he tends to show us and tell us about his characters. Still, the heart of this novella is its transformative message about the power of giving, a compelling theme that calls to mind books like Pay It Forward and The Kingdom Assignment.
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“Beautifully written. I believe The Christmas Jars tradition will change lives.” — Richard Paul Evans, New York Times bestselling author of The Christmas Box and Finding Noel –This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Hardcover: 149 pagesPublisher: Shadow Mountain; 1 edition (September 1, 2006)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 159038699XISBN-13: 978-1590386996 Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces Best Sellers Rank: #199,749 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #6811 in Books > Christian Books & Bibles > Literature & Fiction #7772 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Religious & Inspirational #30799 in Books > Literature & Fiction > United States
Christmas Jars is a little book with a big message about the Christmas season. In an age when Christmas gift giving has become more of an expensive routine than a heartfelt pleasure for many people, Jason Wright offers an alternative that recaptures the spirit of the season.

When young newspaper reporter Hope Jensen experienced one of those horrible Christmas Eves that are often written about in newspapers like hers, she had no reason to believe that anything good would come from the experience. Getting through her first Christmas without her adoptive mother was going to be hard enough already but, when she returned to her apartment wanting nothing more than to sleep the rest of the day away, things would get worse. Hope found her apartment trashed by burglars, something that seems to happen all too often on Christmas Eve.

Finding herself somewhere between bursting into tears and throwing a tantrum, Hope was saved from doing either when she discovered a small jar stuffed with coins and paper currency that had mysteriously appeared just inside her apartment door during all the excitement. There was nothing to indicate its source or why it had been left for her. Smelling a newspaper story, and in need of something pleasant on which to focus, Hope Jensen decided that she would solve the mystery of her Christmas jar.

What she discovered about the Christmas jar tradition in her town, and what she learned about herself in the process, is the heart of this Christmas story. It is a story about strangers giving gifts to those who need them most, and how those who received the jars on one Christmas often gave Christmas jars of their own to others on the next.
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