A Most Unusual Christmas Eve

A Most Unusual Christmas Eve
Author: Charles Ernest Knowles
Publisher:
Total Pages: 20
Release: 1994-12
Genre: Christmas stories
ISBN: 9780964527706

A magical story set in the last century & conceived on Christmas Eve, 1966 when, after all the traditional stories had been read, the author's oldest daughter Theresa (then 5 yrs. old) asked her father to TELL a story. With the lights of a Christmas tree providing the only illumination & imbued with the warmth so often present during this holiday, he began the first sentence of the story, "Many years ago..." & the rest came from his heart. The characters truly came to life when Theresa illustrated the story & surprised her father with a bound copy as a Christmas gift in 1986. The author printed a new ed. in 1988 (& again in 1990 & 1992) as gifts for family & friends. During the summer of 1994, Theresa drew new illustrations & the author published the present edition just before Christmas. For over 29 years this heartwarming story, with its wonderful surprise ending, has brought tears & joy to the author's six children, many grandchildren, family & friends. Produced through the love of a father & his daughter, this book is dedicated to the child in each of us, without regard to age, who feels the true meaning of Christmas. Available from author: 1222 Currituck Dr., Raleigh, NC 27609, (919) 782-6658.

Weird Christmas Traditions

Weird Christmas Traditions
Author: Michael Brown
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-11-12
Genre:
ISBN:

Did you know that in Norway, people hide their brooms on Christmas Eve to prevent them from being stolen by witches and evil spirits?Or that in Caracas, Venezuela, it's customary to roller-skate to Christmas Mass? This collection of unusual traditions will take you on a whimsical journey through the most peculiar aspects of the holiday season across the globe. Dive into the most bizarre and delightful corners of global Christmas celebrations with "Weird Christmas Traditions: 475 Festive Oddities from Around the World." This book is a sleigh ride through the quirkiest holiday customs you've never heard of. From the fiery "Krampus Run" of Austria to Japan's curious Christmas dinner, you'll be amazed at how diverse and unexpected yuletide festivities can be. Perfect for the holiday enthusiast and the culturally curious alike, "Weird Christmas Traditions" offers stories, illustrations, and insights that are as informative as they are entertaining. Each tradition is given life with vivid descriptions, presenting a tapestry of festive customs that challenge the mundane. Whether you're looking for a stocking stuffer, a conversation starter, or just want to explore Christmas from a fresh perspective, this book is the perfect pick. So, cozy up with a cup of hot cocoa and prepare to be whisked away on an international adventure that promises to redefine the way you think about Christmas.

The Christmas Eve Tree

The Christmas Eve Tree
Author: Delia Huddy
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2016-09-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0763679178

A homeless boy's rescue of a scrawny Christmas tree sparks a glimmer of hope that has far-reaching effects.

Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk

Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk
Author: Frank Cowper
Publisher: Biblioasis
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2018-10-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1771962607

Reading a ghost story on Christmas Eve was once as much a part of traditional Christmas celebrations as turkey, eggnog, and Santa Claus. When he finds an abandoned duck punt on Christmas Eve, a hunter rows out into the marsh and comes across a shipwreck. He climbs aboard to explore—and finds himself trapped when a surge snaps the mooring line and his punt floats away. Sleep eludes him, and soon he discovers that he's not the only one trapped on the derelict ship.

Santa Mouse

Santa Mouse
Author: Michael Brown
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 15
Release: 2021-10-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1534437975

"Originally published by Grosset & Dunlap"--Copyright page.

A Visit from St. Nicholas

A Visit from St. Nicholas
Author: Clement Clarke Moore
Publisher: Boston : Atlantic monthly Press
Total Pages: 20
Release: 1921
Genre: Children's poetry, American
ISBN:

A poem about the visit that Santa Claus pays to the children of the world during the night before every Christmas.

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author: Hugh Chisholm
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1090
Release: 1910
Genre: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN:

This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.

From the Family Kitchen

From the Family Kitchen
Author: Gena Philibert Ortega
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2012-04-12
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1440318336

Celebrate Your Family Recipes and Heritage From Great-grandma's apple pie to Mom's secret-recipe stuffing, food is an important ingredient in every family's history. This three-part keepsake recipe journal will help you celebrate your family recipes and record the precious memories those recipes hold for you--whether they're hilarious anecdotes about a disastrous dish or tender reflections about time spent cooking with a loved one. The foods we eat tell us so much about who we are, where we live and the era we live in. The same is true for the foods our ancestors ate. This book will show you how to uncover historical recipes and food traditions, offering insight into your ancestors' everyday lives and clues to your genealogy. Inside you'll find: • Methods for gathering family recipes • Interview questions to help loved ones record their food memories • Places to search for historical recipes • An explanation of how immigrants influenced the American diet • A look at how technology changed the way people eat • A glossary of historical cooking terms • Modern equivalents to historical units of measure • Actual recipes from late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century cookbooks

Letters to Margaret

Letters to Margaret
Author: Hunter Davies
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2024-08-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1837931003

At the end of almost every day of their fifty-five years of married life, the publicity-shy author Margaret Forster would ask her naturally gregarious and outgoing husband Hunter Davies to describe to her the highlights of his working day spent in the worlds of journalism and publishing. In the six years that have elapsed since Margaret's death, Hunter has continued these conversations with his wife, regaling her with accounts of the events and developments in his life – domestic, social, romantic, book-related, health-related and others – through a sequence of 'Letters to Margaret'. Whether recounting adventures in online dating, the pleasures and pitfalls of buying a new house by the seaside, the trauma of major operations on his heart and gall bladder, a chance encounter at a book-signing session that led to a new romantic attachment, or a visit to A&E when he was supposed to be watching the World Cup final, these twenty-three letters weave together strands of confession, self-mockery, anecdote and touching remembrance of married happiness with Margaret. Letters to Margaret reveals Hunter Davies raging happily against the dying of the light in his late eighties, and seeking consolation for life's frustrations and disappointments through a sustained conversation with the woman he shared his life with for more than half a century.

Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor

Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor
Author: Lisa Kleypas
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2011-10-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312605872

Three lonely people, three lives at crossroads, three people who are about to discover that Christmas is a time when anything is possible and when wishes can come true.