Holidays category: 1566 books
by Freekidstories Publishing
Language: French
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Joyeux Noël ! Dans ce livre, vous trouverez 25 dévotions quotidiennes qui permettront à vos enfants de s’imprégner de l’esprit de Noël. Les dévotions s’attacheront à leur faire découvrir le vrai sens de cette fête et les encourageront à faire preuve d’amour et de compassion envers...
by Lewis Black
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
From Lewis Black, the uproarious and perpetually apoplectic New York Times-bestselling author and Daily Show regular, comes a ferociously funny book about his least favorite holiday, Christmas.
Christmas is supposed to be a time of peace on earth and goodwill toward all. But not for Lewis Black.
He...
How to Spell Chanukah...And Other Holiday Dilemmas
18 Writers Celebrate 8 Nights of Lights
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Ring in the holiday with eighteen writers who extol, excoriate, and expand our understanding of this most merry of Jewish festivals as they offer up funny, irreverent, and, yes, even nostalgic takes on a holiday that holds a special place in Jewish hearts . . . and stomachs.
Pieces by Jonathan...
Tinsel
A Search for America's Christmas Present
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
A heartfelt, hilarious look at the evolution of a half-trillion-dollar American holiday
Hank Stuever turns his unerring eye for the idiosyncrasies of modern life to Frisco, Texas, a suburb at once all-American and completely itself, to tell the story of the nation’s most over-the-top celebration:...
by Jodi Lee
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
Beltaine is also known as Baal Tinne, Beltane, Bel's Fire, Cet Samhain, Mayday, Tana Festiva, or Walpurgisnacht, and is generally celebrated on or about the first of May.
In many cultures, Beltaine celebrates the beginning of the growing season with the plowing and planting of fields. Fertile...
The 13th Gift
A True Story of a Christmas Miracle
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
For readers of Richard Paul Evans and Greg Kincaid comes The 13th Gift, a heartwarming Christmas story about how a random act of kindness transformed one of the bleakest moments in a family's history into a time of strength and love.
After the unexpected death of her husband, Joanne Huist Smith...
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Christmas Cheer
Stories about the Love, Inspiration, and Joy of Christmas
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Christmas Cheer will warm readers’ hearts and spread the wonder of the holiday season with its tales of love and joy. A fantastic holiday gift for the young and young at heart.
Everyone loves Christmas and the holiday season. We reunite scattered family members,...
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...
A WOMAN AFTER DAVID'S HEART
A Valentine romance
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2014
David Andersen doesn’t have a problem indulging in Valentine’s Day, per se, but not on a first date. Considering it was the love fest of the year, he didn’t want a woman to get any ideas that a wedding ring was forthcoming before he got a chance to know her. So he has no choice but to wait until...
by Anna Selby
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
The author of Food Through the Ages presents a festive overview of Dickens-era Christmas traditions—from decorations and songs to games and recipes.
Anna Selby discusses how the Victorians invented many of the Christmas traditions we enjoy today from Christmas trees and cards to carols and...
A Walk with Christ to the Cross
The Last Fourteen Hours of His Earthly Mission
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2009
In Jesus' walk to the cross and His subsequent resurrection, Dawson McAllister says, Jesus paid for our sins and gave hope and meaning to our lives; but in order to fully appreciate and apply these exciting truths, Christians must grasp the full significance of Christ's life and ministry. In looking...
New Testament
A Rendering by Jon Madsen
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
Jon Madsen's translation seeks a way between the strictly literal, which might appear dry and archaic, and contemporary idiom, which risks trivializing. He has retranslated the Greek New Testament in such as way that something of the Spirit working in the early Church can also become part of our modern...
by Melody Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
The small town of Parrish Springs is not ready for Matilda Honeycutt. A strange older woman with scraggly gray hair and jewelry that jangles as she walks, Matilda is certainly not the most likely person to buy the old Barton Building on the town's quaint main street. When it becomes apparent that...
Faces of Easter
Meeting the Paschal Mystery in the People Around Us
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Using vignettes set in or near his monastery in downtown Newark, New Jersey, Benedictine monk Albert Holtz helps us to see that the Easter mystery, which can often seem abstract and distant, is in fact present all around us. As we accompany him through the fifty days of the Easter season, we listen...