"Skipping Christmas," the perennial hardcover bestseller, is available this season in hardcover and, for the first time ever, also available in a mass market movie-tie in edition on sale 10/12. The book ties in with the major motion picture, "Christmas With The Kranks," starring Tim Allen, Tim Akroyd, and Jamie Lee Curtis. 0-385-50841-7$14.95 / Bantam
Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded malls, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That's just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just this once, they'll skip the holiday altogether. Theirs will be the only house on Hemlock Street without a rooftop Frosty; they won't be hosting their annual Christmas Eve bash; they aren't even going to have a tree. They won't need one, because come December 25 they're setting sail on a Caribbean cruise. But, as this weary couple is about to discover, skipping Christmas brings enormous consequences-and isn't half as easy as they'd imagined.

A classic tale for modern times, Skipping Christmas offers a hilarious look at the chaos and frenzy that have become part of our holiday tradition.