Books like Journey to Jericho by M. J. Thomas

Five mother‑daughter pairs navigate holiday hijinks—from a Christmas cruise rivalry to a West Coast home‑search—while keeping their book club’s Pinterest‑perfect spirit alive.

In New Zealand, a family gathering for Christmas is disrupted by three enigmatic brothers, turning the holiday into a supernatural adventure.

A secret doorway in a broom cupboard opens to a tiny cottage where the adventurous mice Tumtum and Nutmeg live, inviting young readers into a world of brother‑sister camaraderie, seashore adventures, and holiday joy.

The Jingle Bells on Ice, skating show was just a few days away and the skaters needed our help. The lights went out during rehearsal, skates disappeared, and the ice turned to slush.

Twelve‑year‑old Jericho Wetherby joins his family’s arduous 1852 move from Tennessee to Texas, learning that growth comes in many forms beyond size as sibling teasing gives way to personal development.

Hubert Humphrey: the idealistic firebrand who electrified the 1948 Democratic convention and relentlessly championed civil rights for more than twenty years. Lyndon Johnson: the wily, pragmatic Senate majority leader who resisted calls for civil rights but eventually, as president, became the driving force behind the monumental 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act. And Richard Russell: the passionate conservative senator from Georgia who vainly defended a dying segregationist way of life. Their personal and political lives strangely and inextricably intertwined, these three stood at the center of the storm during the legislative battles to establish American civil and voting rights. Drawing on rich archival materials and on interviews with participants and witnesses, Robert Mann has written an unforgettable account of the intrigue, the compromises, the friendships, and the rivalries of these three powerful men and their complex relationships with other members of the Senate, including Everett Dirksen, Paul Douglas, John F. Kennedy, Albert Gore Sr., John Stennis, and James O. Eastland. It is a classically American story about the perseverance, eloquence, duplicity, and genius of different men in pursuit of different goals - and the battered triumph of tolerance, fairness, and justice.