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After a Vancouver pain clinic lost the ability to prescribe painkillers,rings, Larae Corzine a year ago said her family was in dire straits.

Her husband, Steve, was a longtime patient at the Payette Clinic, which forfeited its rights to prescribe opioids last year after federal agents linked the clinic to the overdose death of an Oregon teen.

Corzine told a newspaper reporter in April 2009 that other doctors in town wouldn’t see her husband, who she said suffers from reflex sympathetic dystrophy, because they were afraid he was addicted to Oxycontin. She said her husband was in pain, was not an addict, and needed help.

"The pain is 10 times worse than it’s ever been," Corzine told The Columbian last year. "He’s vomiting and shaking. I’m surprised he hasn’t gone into seizures."

Now, the distressed wife is behind bars and charged with three Vancouver pharmacy robberies and an attempted robbery on a fourth occasion. The alleged drug of choice: Oxycontin.

The 39-year-old Vancouver woman was arraigned Thursday on the most recently filed charge of first-degree attempted robbery relating to a June 18 holdup attempt at the Vancouver Clinic pharmacy, 501 S.E. 172nd Ave.

Corzine also is charged with three counts of first-degree robbery relating to the April 20, June 14 and June 18 holdups of the Bi-Mart pharmacy, 11912 N.E. Fourth Plain Blvd.

She is being held in the Clark County Jail in lieu of $300,000 bail.

Trial has been set for Oct. 18.

Corzine was first arrested after the June 18 Bi-Mart robbery when a suspect sped away from police in a green Ford Taurus and crashed into an SUV at Northeast 63rd Street and 58th Avenue. In the collision, both cars were knocked off the road and the Taurus caught fire, deputies said.

After taken to Southwest Washington Medical Center and later jailed, investigators allegedly linked Corzine to the other robberies through surveillance video and witness identifications, according to court documents.

In each robbery, the bandit had a black gun tucked in her front waistband and made threatening requests for Oxycontin. In the Vancouver Clinic Pharmacy holdup, the robber said, "Give me Oxycontin 80 (mg) — I have a gun," according to court documents. She then counted down from 10.

Two pharmacy clerks escaped into an office,Charm pendant, called 911 and the robber fled.

Corzine’s case isn’t the first evidence of fallout from the Payette Clinic. Of the 800 former patients, the Drug Enforcement Administration estimated that half were physically dependent on narcotics. The clinic remains open under a new name,watches, Walnut Grove Medical and Mental Health Clinic.

In September 2009,necklaces, another former Payette patient,key rings, Harold Andres Jr., was sentenced to four years and seven months in prison after pleading guilty to three Safeway pharmacy robberies earlier that year for oxycodone.

Laura McVicker: 360-735-4516 or laura.mcvicker@columbian.com.

Two Florida teenagers won the fifth biennial William I. Koch International Sea Scout Cup, beating one of the largest fields ever for Sea Scouts’ most coveted sailing trophy.

Cody Stansky, 16,rings, of Jupiter,cuff Links, Florida and Andrew Britton, 16, of Palm Beach Gardens, FL were awarded the silver trophy at the closing ceremonies held at the Officers Club at the United States Coast Guard Academy, which hosted the week long event.

Stansky and Britton, members of Ship 777, West Palm Beach, FL, defeated Amanda Norris, 14, and Michael Anderson, 16, of Christ Church, New Zealand. Heidi Rittmeyer, 19, and Peter Bied, 14, of Chicago,Charm bracelet, IL, placed third.

Stansky and Britton have been sailing together since middle school. They recently placed 15th at the 420 North American Sailing Competition in Brant Beach, New Jersey last month. The two teenagers are entering their junior year at the Alexander Dreyfoos High School of the Arts in West Palm Beach.

Approximately 80 young men and women gathered at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London to compete in the week-long regatta. Sea Scouts from New Zealand, Australia, England, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Brazil and Trinidad and Tobago sailed against youth from across the United States. The winds were moderate most of the week, averaging 10 to 14 knots, blowing from the south off Long Island Sound before turning light on the final day.

The biennial event is underwritten by William I. Koch, the Palm Beach businessman who successfully defended the America’s Cup in 1992. Other sponsors include West Marine and the United States Coast Guard Academy.

Sea Scouts are divided into two fleets: more experienced sailors compete for the Koch Cup, and a second fleet sails for the Kiwi Cup, a Maori carving donated by New Zealand Sea Scouts. Both trophies are displayed at the Boy Scout Museum in Irving, Texas. This year’s Kiwi Cup was dedicated to former New Zealand Sea Scout and Koch Cup participant Benjamin Carson who was killed in the line of duty while serving in his country’s Air Force.

Abby King,watches, 16, and Barchan Rogers,tiffany, 19, of St. Petersburg, Florida, won the Kiwi Cup.

"I enjoyed the event a lot," said Andrew Britton. "The races were well managed. The Coast Guard Academy did a great job."

Sea Scouts competing in the event selected Jonathan Hall and Jonathan Martin of England as well as Krista Chapin and Karissa Kasper of St. Petersburg, FL for the sportsmanship award.

The event venue, the Seamanship and Sailing Center at the United States Coast Guard Academy is located on the west bank of the Thames River in New London, CT. The center is responsible for the basic sail and seamanship training of the Corps of Cadets, and the coaching and management of the institution’s competitive sailing program.

Sea Scouts is part of the Boy Scouts of America and is open to men and women between the ages of 14 and 21 who learn leadership skills through seamanship.

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Keywords: Boy Scouts of America, Leisure, Sailing.

Something about the way the older boy suggestively grabbed at her 11-year-old daughter, Nala, drove Gwendolyn Davis to tell him firmly she didn’t want him playing with the girl.

A day later, Davis believed it when Cook County prosecutors alleged Wednesday that the 13-year-old boy purposefully poured drain cleaner containing sulfuric acid onto the girl and a 10-year-old playmate.

Though the boy’s family claims the incident in West Garfield Park was a tragic accident, the result is that Nala Armstrong and her playmate Adrian Bennett each suffered chemical burns on their heads and upper torsos,key rings, officials said.

"I’m guessing it was a jealousy thing," Davis said Wednesday, standing beside Adrian’s mother, Loretta Corbett,tiffany, outside the University of Chicago Medical Center’s burn unit. Both children are being treated there, with Nala suffering burns on her forehead, eyelids, cheek and arm. Adrian suffered burns to the back of his head and right arm, hospital officials said.

Surgery is likely for Nala, said Dr. Lawrence Gottlieb, director of the burn unit, calling the injuries "bad."

The 13-year-old, whom the Tribune is not naming because he is a minor, was ordered held by a Juvenile Court judge on a delinquency petition with a charge of heinous battery.

Standing before Juvenile Court Judge Colleen Sheehan, the boy hung his head and folded his hands behind his back as prosecutors detailed the sequence of events in the 900 block of West Garfield Boulevard that led to his arrest.

Both victims were on the second floor of a rear porch in the apartment building when they looked up and saw the 13-year-old walk out onto the third-floor porch above them, pick up a white container and pour it on them, said Assistant State’s Attorney Matt Howroyd.

They "immediately felt a burning sensation," Howroyd said.

Prosecutors said the container had "poison" written on it and was later identified as Black Swan Zap drain cleaner.

The liquid contains about 93 percent sulfuric acid and can cause "corrosive burns to all human tissue," according to the Black Swan company Web site.

The boy’s mother,pendants, whom the Tribune is also not naming because it could identify her son, tearfully declared that her son is innocent.

"He’s a good kid at home," she said to the judge inside the courtroom. "I know it was an accident. He didn’t know it was a poison substance."

Before the hearing, she said the boy had been playing at his cousin’s home inside the building, adding that she learned what happened when her older son called her to say the two children had been injured.

The boy thought the container — which family members said had been left outside by a maintenance worker last fall — was filled with water, she said.

"He didn’t know it was going to be like that," the mother said, tears streaming down her face. "He was very scared, very scared."

The boy’s cousin, Jabari Mathews, 15, said they were playing with the two victims when his cousin ran up the stairs to his third-floor apartment and inadvertently kicked over the container, spilling the chemicals through the floorboards.

Nala did not realize what had happened when the liquid came pouring on her,rings, quickly singeing her skin,bracelets, Davis said.

While Davis was inside her own apartment inside the same building, she heard her daughter screaming as she ran inside: "He threw hot water on me! He threw hot water on me!"

A.M.E.N. stands for Always Meet Every Need and Artisan de Luxe of Los Angeles and The A.M.E.N. Initiative founder, Eric Kimmel, are doing just that for one village in the West African nation of Sierra Leone.

After a successful career as a fashion designer, Kimmel decided three years ago to accept an invitation from a friend to come visit Mokanji in Sierra Leone and see for himself the condition and the state of Mokanji in the post war era. A trip that was supposed to last for a few weeks has now turned into a multiple year adventure and into a mission to reinvigorate Mokanji and its people.

Kimmel and the owners of the Artisan de Luxe fashion house have been personal and business acquaintances for many years. Consequently,key rings, a partnership was formed with the purpose of combining Kimmel’s expertise as a fashion designer with the sewing and finishing talents of the people of Mokanji and Artisan’s design and world-wide marketing infrastructure. This combination has resulted in the creation of a very unique high-end fashion brand that is generating jobs and a sustainable way to earn a living for the true "Artisans" of the Mokanji village.

Under Kimmel’s watchful eye,tiffany, each garment is finished by hand using unique and local techniques of the people of the Mokanji Village. The garments are in and of themselves one-of-a-kind high-end fashion pieces but they are truly special because their creation is providing employment to people who currently have few opportunities.

Kimmel stated, "This has been my dream for the last three years and now it is becoming a reality. The people of Mokanji and myself are so excited and I know that with Artisan’s involvement, we can really impact and improve the lives of the people of Mokanji and at the same time create some amazing fashion products. One job feeds two families so what are doing really means something to the people of Mokanji."

Jay Furrow, Artisan de Luxe CEO, went on to comment that, "This is a very special situation that we believe can be very impactful for everyone involved. By partnering with Eric, and with the fashion expertise that he is bringing to the local Mokanji community, retailers and customer who purchase A.M.E.N. products can actually play an instrumental in providing employment and changing the lives of the people in Mokanji."

A.M.E.N.’s unique styles will now be available in the high-end boutiques and better department stores in the U.S., where consumers can not only enjoy the fresh button-up and T-Shirt styles, but also know that they are contributing to the revitalization of a community.

WHAT: A.M.E.N by Artisan de Luxe (www.artisandeluxe.com) is a fashion line with a conscience. The unisex pieces start at $75, and for that customers get a trendy-but-wearable shirt, but also the pleasure of knowing that one day of work at A.M.E.N. feeds two families that day. The shirt styles, which pair beautifully with denim,tiffany, take basics to a new level with unique details added in the finishing process.

WHERE: A.M.E.N. is L.A. based and the Sierra Leone facilities are located in the village of Mokanji. The line will be available where Artisan de Luxe is sold, including the brand’s store in L.A. (8574 Melrose Ave.), as well as other fine boutiques and select department stores nationwide.

INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITIES: Artisan CEO, Jay Furrow,rings, Artisan Creative Director, Philippe Naouri and A.M.E.N. founder Eric Kimmel are available to further discuss the brand and Eric’s experience in Africa.

CVS Caremark will continue to offer a discount prescription plan in Connecticut,watches, reversing course on a threat in June to end the program because a state law would make it economically unfeasible.

"After much consideration, CVS has concluded that it will not suspend the [Health Savings Plan] program in Connecticut," CVS senior vice president Elizabeth S. Wingate said in a letter dated last Friday to Gov. M. Jodi Rell.

In June, the Rhode Island-based pharmacy chain warned it would shut down its Health Savings Plan, which allows consumers to pay an annual fee of $10 to fill a 90-day prescription of one of 400 generic drugs for $9.99, among other benefits.

At issue was the cost of expanding the program because of a Connecticut law that took effect July 1 requiring discount prescription plans available to the public also to be offered to Medicaid patients whose health care bills are partly funded by the federal government and partly funded by the state. CVS Caremark had said it wasn’t economically feasible to extend the program,rings, designed for uninsured people to get medications through a membership.

Rell responded to the warning by saying thousands of residents could face higher prescription costs and urged Attorney General Richard Blumenthal to take CVS to court. Blumenthal and Commissioner Jerry Farrell Jr. of the Department of Consumer Protection sent a subpoena to CVS Caremark demanding to know why the company planned to end the program and said Connecticut was being "singled out."

"This is a victory for Connecticut — a victory for consumers, who count on discount programs like the Health Savings Pass,cuff Links," Rell said, "and a victory for taxpayers,Bead bracelet, who will benefit from the savings our state will achieve under the new law."

Credit: The Hartford Courant, Conn.

With football season fast approaching,key rings, the Pennsylvania Lottery is again partnering with the Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers to unveil its newest $5 instant games. The games, on sale statewide today, each feature five top prizes of $100,000 and hundreds of exciting second-chance drawing prizes.

"Our collaboration with Pennsylvania’s professional football teams has been a huge success,rings," said Lottery Executive Director Ed Trees, noting that the PA Lottery previously introduced EaglesTM and Steelers(R) instant games in 2009. "These games offer big cash prizes, but they also offer something true fans might consider even more valuable – a chance to get up close and personal with the teams at games and special events."

The Eagles and Steelers instant games each offer more than $19 million in total cash prizes. Players can win up to 12 times on each ticket, and the overall odds of winning a Steelers or Eagles instant prize are 1-in-4.24.

Also, players can enter non-winning Eagles and Steelers tickets for a chance to win hundreds of experiential prizes, such as attending a home game and participating in on-field activities, traveling on VIP road trips to away games, sitting in on media events, joining team representatives for draft events, meeting with team coaches and touring the teams’ practice facilities.

Five separate second-chance drawings for each game will be held throughout the football season. The first second-chance drawings will be held the week of Aug. 16.

Players can enter the Eagles second-chance drawings by submitting three non-winning Eagles instant game tickets to: Pennsylvania Lottery – Eagles 2010 Second-Chance Drawings, P.O. Box 200,tiffany, Middletown, PA 17057-0200. Players must submit new tickets (game number 829) for this season’s second-chance drawings; non-winning tickets from the previous season (game number 783) are ineligible.

To enter the Steelers second-chance drawings, players can submit three non-winning Steelers instant game tickets to: Pennsylvania Lottery – Steelers 2010 Second-Chance Drawings, P.O. Box 3000, Middletown, PA 17057-3000. Players must submit new tickets (game number 830) for this season’s second-chance drawings; non-winning tickets from the previous season (game number 782) are ineligible.

Second-chance entry requirements and deadlines are featured on the back of every instant ticket. Game details, including a list of all available prizes, are online at www.palottery.com.

About the Pennsylvania Lottery: The Pennsylvania Lottery remains the only state lottery that designates all its proceeds to programs that benefit older residents. Since its inception 38 years ago, the Pennsylvania Lottery has contributed more than $19.2 billion to programs that include property tax and rent rebates; free and reduced-fare transit; the low-cost prescription drug programs PACE and PACENET; long-term living services; and the 52 Area Agencies on Aging,Bead bracelet, including more than 600 full- and part-time senior centers throughout the state. The Pennsylvania Lottery reminds its players to play responsibly. Players must be 18 or older.

For more information on the Pennsylvania Lottery, visit www.palottery.com.

Media contact: Veronica Sinclair-Anderson, 717-702-8008

Editor’s Note: Images of the new tickets are available at www.palottery.com/instant-games.aspx.

Keywords: Entertainment, Football, Pennsylvania Lottery, Sporting Activities.

This article was prepared by Entertainment Newsweekly editors from staff and other reports. Copyright 2010, Entertainment Newsweekly via VerticalNews.com.

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ATHENS, Ohio, Aug. 10 — Ohio University issued the following news release:

Ohio University employee Nathaniel Berger’s entry in first lady Michelle Obama’s Apps for Healthy Kids competition,rings, Rhythmatics Kids,Charm bracelet, was in first place by about 100 votes on Tuesday afternoon,Atlas charm bracelet, but he needs more votes to win.

Voting ends Saturday at noon. To vote for Berger’s Rhythmatics Kids entry, click here.

Rhythmatics Kids is a game that aims to make fitness fun. The game is designed so that when a child runs with the phone, it plays music and gives a higher point total to children who run in sync with the music.

The Apps for Healthy Kids competition is part of first lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign to end childhood obesity within a generation. If Berger wins the popular vote, Berger receives a cash prize and a trip to the White House to meet the first lady.

Berger is the operations coordinator for the College of Fine Arts’ Aesthetics Technologies Lab (@Lab). His mobile app represents his personal work and passion for fitness. For any query with respect to this article or any other content requirement, please contact Editor at htsyndication@hindustantimes.com

Augusta Valentine is a little unsure she wants to make her first piece tiffany of beaded jewelry.

“I hope this is not going to become another addiction,” she says, looking at the five other women seated with her around the table.

Debbi Shellhase is just the opposite. She can’t wait to make what is probably her 50th piece.

“I have a jewelry box full,” she says.

The two women recently gathered for a Bead Retreat jewelry- making session at the Naturals Yarn Shop in Gloucester. They sit around a table with four other women, talking about former husbands, kids and clothes. Everyone admires the pink Mary Jane Crocs that Lindsay South wears with jeans and a pink top.

Bead Retreat, started in 2001 by Peninsula residents Lesa Shepherd and Cindi bangles Swett, allows friends to hang out while they make beaded jewelry from kits. A coordinator provides and explains the kits, shows finished samples and helps participants through the process.

Costs include a $10 per-person class fee and whatever your beaded kit costs, which ranges from $2.50 for a Next Generation bracelet to $63 for a Namesake bracelet. The $28 starter tool kit includes a bead board, needle nose pliers and wire cutter. Each participant also receives a catalog where they can order kits to take home. The party hostess receives special gifts.

“I’ve been in direct sales ever since I was 18,” says Bead Retreat coordinator Melissa Hansen, 39. She’s also a stay-at-home mother to Cody, 10, and Gabriella, 5, both active in programs such as ballet and sports. “This is what makes it possible for me to run them everywhere and be at their school programs.”

During the next hour, Hansen guides the women while they make different bracelets rings. Shellhase chooses the Solaris style with opal quartz, Czech fire-polished glass and pewter beads, $8.25. South makes Beaches with mother-of-pearl beads and chips, $10.25. The others opt for Fish ‘n’ Chips with aqua quartz, mother-of-pearl and pewter beads, $10.

The women use numbered bead boards to arrange their beads for stringing.

“We lay it out any old way?” South asks.

“Lay it out the way you will string it,” says Hansen. “Once you make this bracelet, you can make any.”

Deciding how beads should flow is the most time-consuming part. Extra beads are included in each kit so customization is possible.

“I’ll swap you two of these beads for one of those,” says Pat Breth to Valentine and Jean Crowder. “I’m trying to do a particular pattern.”

South finishes first, slides the bracelet on her tiny wrist and holds it up for all to see.

“Mine is all white so it was pretty easy to do,” she says.

Valentine struggles a little with hers.

“I have lots left to do nothing with,” she says.

“You have lots left to do something with,” says Shellhase. She likes to use bracelets extra beads to make matching earrings.

Once Valentine gets the beads on the fine-gauge wire, she puts on the finishing toggle clasp.

“Finally,” she says smiling with satisfaction. “I like it and I did it without saying any bad words.”

The Moscow City Council adopted the city’s first comprehensive plan rewrite since 1999 Monday evening following a meeting that lasted more than four hours.

The council voted 4-2 to keep maps of a proposed ring road/bypass tiffany concept in the plan, with outgoing council members Bill Lambert and John Weber voting for removal.

The plan’s approval concludes a near three-year rewrite process.

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The controversial ring road/bypass concept predictably dominated discussion at the Moscow City Council’s public hearing on the city’s proposed comprehensive plan rewrite.

The council was set to begin deliberations at press time after a nearly two-and-half hour hearing.

Though the comprehensive plan covers a wide array of city planning issues, the ring road concept was the central topic, much like it was during the Planning and Zoning Commission’s hearing on the plan in late October.

That hearing mostly featured testimony from residents outside the city limits concerned about the effect a proposed ring road around the city could have on their properties.

This time, many notable Moscow residents also weighed in both for and against the ring bangles road.

Former Mayor Marshall Comstock was the first to speak, and came out in support of keeping the road in the plan as a guide for the future.

Referencing David Trail, the road’s most outspoken critic, Comstock said development spurs road building, not city planning, and Trail shouldn’t worry about losing his home or surrounding neighborhood.

“With all due respect … within their lifetime there’s not going to be a road built out there unless they (the Trail family) want it to happen,” he said.

Trail, representing a group of landowners in what would be the northeast quadrant of the road, spoke for roughly 15 minutes, and several other residents from outside the city limits voiced their opposition as well.

Tri-State owner Gerard Connelly also spoke against the concept, saying the proposed road is an invitation to bypass the city and its businesses.

Connelly’s testimony was among the most passionate of the evening. He said the city, whether rings intentional or not, “seems hellbent on doing as much harm as it can.”

Mark Williams can be reached at (208) 882-5561, ext. 301, or by e-mail at mwilliams@dnews.com.

QUICKREAD

WHAT HAPPENED: The Moscow City Council conducted a public hearing on the proposed rewrite of the city’s comprehensive plan.

WHAT IT MEANS: The hearing represents the final stage of a near three-year process to write the first new plan for the city since 1999.

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT: As of press time the council was still deliberating following testimony bracelets from the public. It is eventually expected to approve the plan in some form, but modifications could be made.

WHY YOU SHOULD CARE: The plan is intended to serve as the basis for land-use decisions within the city for the next 15 to 20 years. A copy of the current draft can be viewed at www.visionmoscow.org.

There are lots of things that say Christmas tiffany: Trees, cookies, parties and presents, for example. But murder mysteries? Who knew?

Publishers did.

Sales of author Anne Perry’s mystery stories appeared to plateau a few years back. But when the author put out a Christmas novel in 2005, sales shot up, said Daniel Goldin, owner of Boswell Book Company on Milwaukee’s east side.

Mystery writers now join novelists, yarn-spinners and memoirists in expounding on the season.

Here’s a roundup of some of this year’s new holiday titles, from graphic novels to Victorian mysteries to how-to and children’s books.

Unexpected Xmas authors

–”The Dreaded Feast: Writers on Enduring the Holidays,” edited by necklaces Michele Clarke and Taylor Plimpton (Abrams Books, $15.95)

Cynical anthology from writers including John Waters, Charles Bukowski, Dave Barry and Hunter S. Thompson. For those who believe that the best spirits of the season come in a bottle.

–”You Better Not Cry,” by Augusten Burroughs (St. Martin’s Press, $21.99)

His childhood wasn’t so cheery, so it stands to reason that his holidays weren’t brimming with happiness, either.

–”Matchless,” by Gregory MaGuire (HarperCollins, $19.99)

The author of “Wicked” puts his spin on Hans Christian Andersen’s “Little Match Girl” to celebrate the season.

Graphic-novel greetings

All are $14.99 from HarperCollins.

–”A Kidnapped Santa Claus”: Alex Robinson adapts the L. Frank Baum story.

–”The Fir-Tree”: Comics author Lilli Carre’s take on the bangles Hans Christian Andersen tale.

–”The Gift of the Magi”:

Joel Priddy gives his view of O. Henry’s famous tale.

Christmas chick lit

–”The Christmas Cookie Club,” by Ann Pearlman (Atria Books, $24.99)

Women bond over life and over cookies.

–”Knit the Season,” by Kate Jacobs (Fantastic Fiction, $24.95)

Third book in the Friday Night Knitting Club Series is set in Scotland.

–”A Christmas Promise,” by Anne Perry (Fantastic Fiction, $18)

The seventh book in her series of Victorian Christmas novellas.

Winter wonderlands

–”A Christmas Blizzard,” by Garrison Keillor (Penguin Group, $21.95)

Rich man finds the true meaning of Christmas in a South Dakota blizzard.

–”The Gift,” by Cecelia Ahern (HarperCollins, $19.99)

Ahern, the co-creator of TV’s “Samantha Who?” takes on the season.

–”Wishin’ and Hopin’: A Christmas Story,” by Wally Lamb (HarperCollins, $19.99)

Lamb, famous for “She’s Come Undone,” turns back the clock to Christmas, 1960s style.

–”Christmas Memories: Gifts, Activities, Fads and Fancies, 1920s-1960s,” by Susan Waggoner (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, $17.95)

If you ever wondered how the characters on “Mad Men” rings might have celebrated Christmas, it’s in here.

Murder meets mistletoe

–”Decked with Folly,” by Kate Kingsbury (Berkley Publishing Group, $14)

Holiday season at the Pennyfoot Hotel includes death in a duck pond.

–”Holiday Grind,” by Cleo Coyle (Berkley Publishing Group, $23.95)

After seven stories in the coffeehouse mystery series, authors Alice Alfonsi and Marc Cerasini (a.k.a. Cleo Coyle) set this one during Christmas cookie season. Recipes included.

–”Mrs. Jeffries & the Yuletide Weddings,” by Emily Brightwell (Berkley Publishing Group, $23.95)

Two weddings, the Christmas holiday and a murder. It’s a trifecta.

God is in the details

–”The Christmas Glass,” by Marci Alborghetti (Guideposts, $15.99)

The latest from Alborghetti, famous for her faith-themed books, is being compared to 1995′s wildly popular “The Christmas Box” by Richard Paul Evans.

–”Santa Miracles,” by Brad Steiger and Sherry Hansen Steiger (Adams Media, $12.95)

Think “Chicken Soup for the Jolly Old Soul” for this collection of Santa stories.

–”Christmas Traditions: True Stories that Celebrate the Spirit of the Season,” edited by Helen Szymanski (Adams Media, $10.95)

Writers share their purposeful and accidental traditions from the season.

Holiday kid lit

–”Fly, Santa, Fly,” by Betty Ann Schwartz, illustrated by Steve Cox (Sterling Publishing, $9.95)

Geared to infants and preschoolers, it lets kids control Santa’s flight with a lenticular disc.

–”A Pussycat’s Christmas,” by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated Anne Mortimer (HarperCollins, $9.99)

Beautiful photos ask the questions: Can cats hear snow, smell Christmas bracelets trees or celebrate the holiday? Answers inside.

–”Secret Santa,” illustrated by Simone Abel with design and paper engineering by Richard Jewitt (Sterling Publishers, $16.95)

Follow the letter exchange between Santa and a fan with stunning pop-ups that tell the story of the North Pole.

–”Horrid Henry’s Christmas,” by Francesca Simon, illustrated by Tony Ross (Sourcebooks, $4.99)

Nothing says Christmas like a story that includes Pimply Paul.

–”The Great Reindeer Rebellion,” by Lisa Trumbauer, illustrated by Jannie Ho (Sterling Publishers, $14.95)

Turns out elephants don’t make good replacements when reindeer strike at the North Pole.