Holiday Traditions

The Highlander’s Easter Vow A Highland holiday novella from bestselling romance author Isla McBeth When exiled laird Finlay MacCraith returns to Braemuir after three years branded a traitor, he expects cold shoulders and colder skies. What he doesn’t expect is to be met by Isla Campbell—the fiery village healer who once loved him… and now greets him with a bucket of water to the chest. The clan is crumbling, Easter is approaching, and ancient traditions stir beneath the thawing Highland earth. To reclaim his name and his keep, Finlay must kneel at the Oathing Stone—and earn back ...

What kind of games will you play at your birthday party? From musical chairs to sack racing, games make birthdays fun. Learn about indoor and outdoor games to play on your special day.

“An insightful and often funny depiction of Italian life” Hannah McIntyre. The Italian Insider Magazine In this, the sequel to his successful ‘An Italian Home – Settling by Lake Como’ artist and author Paul Wright relays more enthralling real-life stories about what it’s really like to live in an Italian village on the shores of Lake Como. With the saturation of expat memoirs on bookshop shelves, Wright's original approach makes for a worthwhile read. In this ‘An Italian Village - A perspective on life beside Lake Como’ the author offers an insight into a world few outsiders...

Journey to the center of Naples and the Amalfi Coast! Oh, the magnificent beauty of the south of Italy - what are you waiting for? Passport to European Travel Guides offers this comprehensive, yet quick and concise, five-day guide to Naples and the Amalfi Coast - one of the most beautiful landscapes in the world!

Cinco de Mayo is about celebrating! It honors a Mexican Army victory during the Battle of Puebla in 1862. Some people mark the holiday with folk dancing or traditional foods such as chalupas and mole poblano. Others watch parades or attend cultural festivals. Listeners will discover how a shared holiday can have multiple traditions and be celebrated in all sorts of ways.

After that first remarkable Christmas Day that Charles Dickens himself would call A Christmas Carol, an entire year had passed for Ebenezer Scrooge. A new Christmas Eve had now come, only to draw swiftly to an end with what was about to continue that Christmas tale of old. It was the unfinished business of making things right that moved Scrooge now, with the most pressing issue on his mind stemming from his greatest loss of all—his beautiful Belle! If only he had the chance to act with his present knowledge back in that time when choices mattered, he would surely fix things. He would have...

In addition to all the delicious meals we enjoy around Thanksgiving, we have so much more for which to be thankful. This book aims to bring our attention to God, the Creator of the universe, and many priceless benefits that can only be found in Christ, the Savior.

The small town of Garland Cove, Maine is the setting for holiday cheer, Christmas spirit, and falling in love. Snow, twinkling lights, and miles of evergreen garland will draw the characters in to fall in love in the most magical time of the year. People return to their hometown, get a second chance, turn grumpy into nice, stop being enemies, and fall in love with a best friend. Anything is possible during the magic of Christmas. This complete series boxed set contains the following books: Home for Christmas Second Chance at Christmas Reformed Grump at Christmas Enemies for Christmas Her ...

Once upon a snowy day in Hollyville, a town dressed in wreaths and lights, lived Jamie, an eight-year-old bursting with curiosity and wonder. Jamie's eyes sparkled with delight at the wintry scene outside, the magic of Christmas intensifying their imaginative heart. In the old attic, amid forgotten treasures and tales of yuletides past, Jamie discovered a dusty trunk adorned with faded holiday stickers. Guided by a mysterious elf named Mr. Jinglewhisk, Jamie unlocked the secrets of the Enchanted Tome, a magical book that held the key to a hidden realm. As they ventured through the blinding ...

It’s time to celebrate Diwali! Light lamps. Exchange cards and presents. Dance and watch fireworks. Diwali, or the Festival of Lights, reminds Hindu people of the story of Rama and Sita. It is a story of how good beats evil.

The perfect gift book, featuring the writing of Meryl Streep, Bill Bailey, Emilia Clarke, Olivia Colman, Caitlin Moran, Richard Ayoade, Emily Watson and others, to coincide with the upcoming movie Last Christmas, starring Emma Thompson, Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding. When you think back to Christmases past, what (if anything) made it magical? This is a beautiful, funny and soulful collection of personal essays about the meaning of Christmas, written by a unique plethora of voices from the boulevards of Hollywood to the soup kitchens of Covent Garden.

Journey to the center of Venice, Italy! And if you've yet to experience this hypnotic, floating city, what are you waiting for? Passport to European Travel Guides offers this comprehensive, yet quick and concise, five-day guide to Venice - one of the world's most unique cities to visit.

Did you know Christmas wasn’t always about jolly Santas and sparkling trees? Beneath the tinsel and cheer lies a dark and fascinating history filled with ghosts, witches, and sinister folklore. Dark Christmas: The Sinister Origins of Your Holiday Traditions dives deep into the eerie tales and forgotten rituals that shaped the holiday season as we know it today. Explore spine-chilling stories of Krampus, the Christmas devil, and Frau Perchta, the belly-slitting witch. Discover why we hang stockings, the creepy roots of Christmas trees, and the haunting legends of the Wild Hunt and Mari ...

Hanukkah is about celebrating! Often called the Festival of Lights, the eight-day celebration honors a miracle that happened long ago. During Hanukkah, people light the menorah. They sing songs. They gather with family and friends to eat special food and give gifts. Listeners will discover how a shared holiday can have multiple traditions and be celebrated in all sorts of ways.

Have you ever really considered the psychological effects of the Santa Claus story and Holidays in general? A Holiday Hazing Santa Clause Syndrome is a presentation of one of the most devastating and most commonplace psychological afflictions of the postmodern era; Santa Clause Syndrome. A Holiday Hazing Santa Clause Syndrome dissects the psychological results of the cultural initiation that is celebration of Santa Clause. Moreover no one has elaborated on Christmas and holidays in general like this in 2,000 years! You will laugh, you may cry, and you will forever more question institutions...

Do you crack open a piñata on your birthday? Do you eat long noodles? Learn all about different birthday customs of children around the world.

Few men can stand up to Carla Dennis’s strict standards of character. Jake Harrison, her new brother-in-law, is one of the many who fall way short in Carla’s eyes, made worse because of a couple of “facts” about him. she thought she gleaned at her sister’s wedding several months ago. This has made life much more difficult for Jake, as he fell for the stubborn, unbending woman the minute he set eyes on her almost a year ago. No longer willing to live with the frustration any longer, he determines to set Carla straight about her misunderstanding and then wash his hands of her for ...

Will heiress Arianna ruin Taylor’s renovation of Christmas Inn or is she exactly what the project…and he needs? Heiress Ariana Christmas is in trouble. Fed up with her wastrel life full of parties, hot spot appearances and Internet scandals, her parents cut her allowance, her cell phone access and her car. Then they send her to the back of beyond…Hope Springs, Tennessee. Her aunt has suffered a mild heart attack and needs help restoring Christmas Inn to its past glory. All Ariana wants is to get the job done and get back to her life. What she doesn’t count on is the famous old inn ...

Will there be another Christmas miracle? In the coastal marshlands of Georgia where the intriguing Geechee people call home, Bar Haven is a quaint seaside community where everyone counts, and neighbors take care of each other. The town folks have been busy for months with plans and preparations for Bar Haven’s legendary Christmas festivities. Everything is set. Almost everything . . . The O’Hara family, third-generation residents of a sprawling seaside home, are all wrapped up in Bar Haven’s Christmas celebrations. But in preparing their home for Christmas, Jillian O’Hara finds a ...

Celebrate the Vietnamese Lunar New Year with a little girl and her grandparents as they dive into fun family traditions!