MVST - Winter and Holidays: Winter Holidays - Christmas

This book is full of ways to celebrate Christmas in its true meaning with illustrations by Dr. Seuss. Just don't steal the holiday!

A look at the meaning of Christmas from the author of The Purpose Driven Life.

Why are candy canes striped? Why are the Christmas colors red and green? What does mistletoe have to do with anything? Find the answers to these questions and more in this look at Christmas traditions both beloved and esoteric.

Today's Christmas celebrations may seem like an enduring American tradition, but they have changed a lot over the years - including some times where the holiday was barely celebrated at all! From colonial times onward, this book looks at how Christmas celebrations have changed, which traditions came from which communities, and how some American authors have created Christmas traditions and icons of their own.

Jazz arrangements of ten favorite Christmas tunes for B flat, E flat, C and bass clef instruments.

Arrangements of 30 Christmas tunes to help people feel the true spirit of Christmas.

A collection of well-known Christmas carols.

Cook up a storm with these festive recipes.

Spice up your holiday with these Scandinavian Christmas crafts.

It's never the wrong time of year for dried flowers. Bring some color to your Christmas with these festive arrangements.

Make festive food and decorations for your own home Christmas celebration.

Inexpensive recipes for the Christmas season.

Bake up a storm with this collection of Christmas cookie recipes.

Sophie is recovering from a breakup, but her slightly wild family is here to help, setting her up on ten blind dates over Christmas vacation. Is romance in the air?

An after-school program volunteer opens her heart to love again when a precocious 7 year old sets her up for a Christmas romance.

It was only going to be six months in Alaska. Then Josie was going to return to Seattle to be a sous-chef in a top-rated restaurant. But as she begins fitting into her new post at Klutina Lake, it starts to feel like home. Will the love she finds up north be greater than the lure of the restaurant world?

Abandoned by his wife two weeks before Christmas, a man discovers a reference to a woman who helped raise him in his deceased mother's journals. Will finding her give him peace for the holidays?

The author of Wicked presents a new origin story for the famous Nutcracker.

The Quinn family is able to reunite for the holidays for the first time in years, and everyone has something to celebrate. But the Quinns are no stranger to Murphy's Law - especially not this year.

Maddie McLendon is starting to regret moving to Rustlers' Gulch. Winter is coming and the house doesn't even have a foundation yet; she, her son, her grandson and their collection of livestock are living out of tents that look flimsier and flimsier as the nights grow colder. Then there's their millionaire neighbor, Sam Conacher. He doesn't like them, but he doesn't really like anyone...

A Christmas tale for each of the Doctor's first twelve incarnations.

A gossip columnist hoping to break into mainstream journalism finds the story of a lifetime in an Alaskan recluse with an award-winning book. As she gets closer to her story, she also gets closer to him and the reasons why he prefers that her story not air. Will she choose his wishes or her career?

Why would anyone steal a ninety-foot tree? Investigating the theft of a spruce en route to the Rockefeller Center and a subsequent crime wave leads two detectives to a twelve year old secret.