Holiday Traditions

Chinese New Year is a time for new beginnings. Some people clean their homes from top to bottom or share meals with friends. Others pray, light fireworks, or give each other gifts. Listeners will discover how a shared holiday can have multiple traditions and be celebrated in all sorts of ways.

The United States is a nation that touts its diversity, but there is one tradition that all Americans love to share. Every year on the Fourth of July, Americans celebrate the founding of the nation. Independence Day is the greatest of national traditions, but much of the inherited lore that surrounds the Fourth is myth and legend, not history.

Were you ever curious about holiday traditions in Peru?Would you like to hear about how they celebrate Christmas in Germany?Then, this audiobook is for you! You will get to hear all about Christmas traditions, food, games, and celebrations! In Amazing Christmas Traditions from Around the World, you’ll hear over 100 cool and amazing traditions, more than 100 different foods, amazing games, and fun that kids have all around the world, and more.

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 ...

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

Happy birthday! Let's celebrate! All around the world people are turning another year older. What are some ways birthdays are celebrated in Asia? Or in South America? Discover the ways people celebrate birthdays in this engaging series that develops kids' understanding of our diverse global community and their place in it.

Here, at last, is the Halloween audiobook fun for kids and the whole family. First up is everybody's favorite Halloween spook, Uncle Zombie with his creepy stories, tales, and super scary poems for Halloween. Both educating and entertaining Uncle Zombie promises to deliver a lot of frightful autumn fun in this delightful new storyteller's extravaganza.

This Christmas, get swept away with a sweet historical romance! Eliza Wentworth is always fashionable and fashionably late—especially in love. When romance in London leaves her with broken hopes, she refuses to return for another Season. Luckily, London is not the only place love blooms like a winter rose! The two Bentley cousins vie for her attention. Will Eliza choose Emmett or Thomas? And in the end, will she even have the right to choose at all? Who will meet Eliza under the kissing ball? Find out in this heartwarming romance. Fashionably Late is the debut novel by up-and-coming ...

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 ...

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Every spring, people all around the world celebrate Easter. Discover the traditions and history of this unique event, celebrate Easter, and enjoy easter egg-themed activities you can do at home with your kids! Not only that, but you’ll enjoy learning the Christian religious history of Easter; the story of the last supper; and how Jesus was captured, died on the cross, and rose again three days later. Plus we’ve added in some extra fun stories of some of the Easter activities people do around the world!

Freja Sorenson is content running 2 Sisters Kringle and Fudge, their family business in Dickens. She decides to rent out the back apartment in her big Victorian home. She’s taken aback when the man who once held a special place in her heart wants to rent the space. Once a loving couple, she suffered his betrayal when he shared her secret ingredient with her biggest contender when she competed in her culinary school’s distinguished bake-off. Her grandmother always said, “Why cry over spilled milk? You can’t fix what already happened.” Can she forgive him for his betrayal? Axel ...

Wicca is a neo-pagan religion based on the worship of nature and the forces of nature that can be both magical and divine. Wiccans celebrate and honor the cycles of nature and regard all forms of life as equal. The unifying spirit centered in the Wiccan religion exist in mountains, rivers, rocks and all of the world’s natural features. This divine spiritual energy, sometimes called the Divine, exists in all things, including humans. This book will give you practical knowledge. You will learn about the basic principles of Wicca, elements of Wicca, and Wicca rituals.

Karla Sorensen’s dream was to restore the bells in the former church in downtown Dickens. She feels a strong connection to the church since great, great, Grandfather Sorenson was the first pastor in 1870. After the church was deconsecrated, the town turned it into a library annex and the bells have been silent for seventy-five years. Time is running out on her two-year project. Karla assured the town council the work would be complete by Christmas Eve, but a vital part is missing and there’s an outstanding balance due to the company. To raise money Karla has been doing online visits as ...

What life-altering surprises will make this Christmas the one Kate would never forget? Young Kate’s life had been a series of painful adjustments following the heartbreaking death of her mother. Her memories of Christmastime and its traditions brought comfort, but all that changed when Kate’s father married Evie, who came with her own ideas about celebrating Christmas. Granny Grace had always been there to help carry on the sacred family traditions, but she decided to leave. Grappling with her anger and disappointment, Kate had no idea the surprises this Christmas would bring. The ...

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El Día de Acción de Gracias, con raíces que se remontan a los años 1620, simboliza el hermoso encuentro entre colonos europeos y nativos americanos, donde el intercambio de alimentos y sabiduría marcó el inicio de una tradición de gratitud y convivencia. Sin embargo, en la actualidad, esta festividad a menudo se ha transformado en un ritual centrado en el consumo, alejándose de su esencia original. Es momento de revitalizar su significado, aprendiendo a valorar lo que tenemos y a compartirlo con los demás.

Every year, people all around the world celebrate Father's Day. Discover the traditions and history of this unique event, celebrate Father's Day, and celebrate the amazing dads all over the world with fun themed activities you can do at home with your kids! Plus we’ve added in some extra fun stories of some of the Father's Day gifts you can make at home to surprise your wonderful dad! This audiobook is perfect for kids two to six years of age and makes the perfect Easter gift for children.

Elf Tales: Bedtime Stories of Tinsel Tumbleflump is a collection of Christmas stories for young readers. Books about Christmas are great any time of year! Tinsel Tumbleflump is the Assistant to the Head Assistant Toy Master in Charge of Gears, Motors, and Electric Things. His job is to make sure that all of the electrical stuff that gets put into all the toys is working properly: no loose wires, everything oiled, and the fresh batteries of the right size and shape! While dusting off Mostly Official Bookshelf Number 17, on the seventeenth shelf, he noticed something a little strange about ...