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Christmas Prayers

Marianne Williamson. Peter Pauper Press, $6.95 (64pp) ISBN 978-0-88088-253-8

Bestselling spirituality author and guru Williamson offers fairly generic, but beautifully illustrated, prayers for the Christmas season. Written in the slightly offbeat, mystical style that is Williamson's trademark, these prayers emphasize the holiday's themes of universal love and reconciliation. Williamson demonstrates a bit of na vet by opening the book with the romantic statement that Christmas is the one day when ""we are most likely to be honest with those we love."" In a later chapter, simple prayers for family healing and forgiveness strike a truer chord. (June)