Christmas category: 982 books
The Curious World of Christmas
Celebrating All That Is Weird, Wonderful, and Festive
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
A fascinating miscellany that celebrates all things Christmas from the author of The Curious Gardener?s Almanac.
Drawing from more than two thousand years of history and culture, this collection of anecdotes, customs, tips, and recipes features more than 1,000 entries honoring one of the world?s...
The Season of the Nativity
Confessions and Practices of an Advent, Christmas & Epiphany Extremist
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Sybil MacBeth writes that Advent and Epiphany are the often-neglected parentheses around Christmas. And they deserve more attention and better publicity. This Season of the Nativity sets the stage the liturgical year, our yearlong journey through Scripture and salvation history. Sybil MacBeth’s...
by Rona Swanson
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
In a world where presents are priority, the Christmas season often becomes a season of dread. We dread the shopping. We dread the cooking. We dread the office parties, and in this dreadfulness, we can forget why we’re celebrating in the first place!Christmas is a time to celebrate Love come down.Do...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
‘Most people keep two Christmases. One is blazing with greens, reds and gold, a public-spirited, family affair, an undignified, unholy row – it is the Christmas we love to hate. The other Christmas is secret – blue and silvery white for those who have the eyes for that kind of thing – but...
The Wonder of Christmas Devotions for the Season
Once You Believe, Anything Is Possible
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
No other time of the year captures our imagination as much as Christmas: God coming into the world on a dark winter’s night; a baby’s cry that would change the course of human history; the heavens bursting into song; the certain hope that God will have the last word over our brokenness. This season...
by Carol Ann Hope
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
The author developed The Christmas Eve Conversation in 1980 after a conversation with her husband William. He was building a Christmas display in front of his veterinary hospital to raise money for Childrens Hospital. William expressed that, while raising money proved valuable, he was uncomfortable...
40 Days of Christmas
Celebrating the Glory of Our Savior
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Who wants Christmas just one day a year?
Celebrate for forty days!
Do you find your attention consumed by the pressures of the Christmas season—capturing the perfect Christmas card photo, finding the perfect gift, serving the perfect meal, or creating the perfect experience for your family? It’s...
A New Color for Christmas
An Advent Devotional
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
Orange is decidedly not a Christmas color. Or is it? "God speaks in color! And He wants to talk to you this Christmas about the color orange. Orange may not be the color Christmas immediately brings to your mind, but in this book you will find that when you allow God to step into the picture...
The Man Who Invented Christmas
How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
As uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how Charles Dickens revived the signal holiday of the Western world. Soon to be a major motion picture.
Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors...
The Man Who Invented Christmas (Movie Tie-In)
How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
As uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how Charles Dickens revived the signal holiday of the Western world. Soon to be a major motion picture.
Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors...
by Melody Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
The people of Christmas Valley always celebrate Christmas to the fullest extent. The mayor plays Santa, every business is holiday themed, and there's a nativity for the kids each Christmas Eve. This town knows Christmas. But this year nothing goes according to plan. Shepherd's Inn is full of strangers,...
Santa's North Pole Cookbook
Classic Christmas Recipes from Saint Nicholas Himself
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
In this one-of-a-kind Christmas cookbook, Saint Nicholas himself invites readers to pull up their chairs to his dining table at the North Pole and enjoy a bounty of his most cherished holiday recipes. Featuring classic American holiday dishes as well as mouthwatering Christmas fare from all over the...
by Stephen Nissenbaum
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Anyone who laments the excesses of Christmas might consider the Puritans of colonial Massachusetts: they simply outlawed the holiday. The Puritans had their reasons, since Christmas was once an occasion for drunkenness and riot, when poor "wassailers extorted food and drink from the well-to-do....
by Bathroom Readers' Institute
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
A heartwarming collection of merry tales and Christmas lore in the Uncle John’s tradition.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…again! Uncle John’s follow-up to his wildly successful Christmas Collection unwraps even more treasures of holidays past and present. Packed with more...