Padme's Library: 12/04/20

Friday, December 4, 2020

📘🎥Friday's Film Adaptation🎥📘: How Murray Saved Christmas by Mike Reiss

Summary:

A hilarious Christmas story from an Emmy award-winning writer of The Simpsons!

When Santa’s knocked out cold by a Jack-in-the-Boxer’s walloping punch, deli owner Murray Kleiner reluctantly agrees to take his place. The suit doesn’t fit, Murray smells a bit like pickles, and there’s no way he can remember the names of all those reindeer. But with the help of a pushy elf and an eager-to-believe young boy, Murray finds out that even though he’s not big enough to fill Santa’s suit, he’s got more than enough heart to get the job done.

"Reiss scores a bull's-eye with this hilarious debut. Catrow's puckish watercolors are equal to Reiss's wit and lightning pace." —Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Finally, a Christmas book that lives up to its title!" —Matthew Groening, creator of The Simpsons

Illustrated by David Catrow.

One-hour animated special surrounding a surly deli owner Murray Weiner, who is forced to step into Santa's shoes for one Christmas and bumbles his way into doing a great job.

Release Date: December 5, 2014(NBC Special)

Release Time: 42 minutes

Cast:

Jerry Stiller as Murray Weiner

Sean Hayes as Edison Elf

Kevin Michael Richardson as Santa Claus and Easter Bunny

Jason Alexander as Doc Holiday

John Ratzenberger as Officer Bender

Dennis Haysbert as the Baby New Year and the Narrator

Nick Jameson, Tom Kenny, Maurice LaMarche, Tress MacNeille and Billy West as various characters

Author Bio:

Mike Reiss is an award-winning television writer, including four Emmys and a Peabody for his work on The Simpsons. Reiss is also the author of several children's books.

David Catrow is the illustrator of many picture books including Stand Tall, I Wanna Iguana, and We the Kids: the Preamble to the Constitution. He lives in Ohio with his wife, Deborah.

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Release Blitz: Angels in the City by Garrett Leigh

Title: Angels in the City

Author: Garrett Leigh

Genre: M/M Romance, Christmas

Release Blitz: December 3, 2020

Cover Design: Black Jazz Design

Summary:

A fake relationship with a stranger. An office romance with doughnuts and white knights. An addictive arrangement—friends with benefits—fast turns to love.

Jonah Gray is rich, successful, and the most eligible bachelor in the city, according to his mother, at least. But the truth is, despite her efforts to pair him off, he’s fine on his own. All he needs is a date to the Christmas ball.

Sacha Ivanov is a lone wolf, content in the cycle of long days, late nights, and anonymous hook ups, but when a chance encounter in a broken-down lift brings a gorgeous copper-haired CEO into his life, everything begins to change.

As Christmas fast approaches, a favour for a stranger blooms into something more. He doesn’t do second dates or relationships. But for kind-hearted Jonah, his angel in the city, he might just change his mind.

Angels in the City is a Christmas themed MM friends-to-lovers, forced proximity, office romance. Expect fraught days, steamy nights, and true love built around festive snacks and Christmas trees.

Author Bio:

Garrett Leigh is an award-winning British writer and book designer.

Garrett's debut novel, Slide, won Best Bisexual Debut at the 2014 Rainbow Book Awards, and her polyamorous novel, Misfits was a finalist in the 2016 LAMBDA awards.

When not writing, Garrett can generally be found procrastinating on Twitter, cooking up a storm, or sitting on her behind doing as little as possible, all the while shouting at her menagerie of children and animals and attempting to tame her unruly and wonderful FOX.

Garrett is also an award winning cover artist, taking the silver medal at the Benjamin Franklin Book Awards in 2016. She designs for various publishing houses and independent authors at Black Jazz Design, and co-owns the specialist stock site Moonstock Photography with renowned LGBTQA+ photographer Dan Burgess.