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1) The wheel of the year: an illustrated guide to nature's rhythms

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Magic connects living things to each other. This book is not so much about learning how to do magic: it is about learning how to find and recognize magic. As you build a relationship with your environment, you tap into the magic and power inside and beyond your self. Roux takes readers through the cycle of one year and shows how it is divided into eight spokes: two solstices, two equinoxes, and four cross-quarter days that fall between those significant...

2) Dino-Hanukkah

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Hanukkah is coming, and the dinos are all busy getting ready! They make brisket and latkes, and the dino-kids play with a dreidel, act out the Hanukkah story, open gifts, and eagerly await their turn to light the menorah. Dinosaurs big and small gather to decorate, eat, and even compete in party festivities like only prehistoric carnivores and herbivores would.

3) Dasher

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Dasher is an adventurous young reindeer with a wish in her heart. She spends her days with her family under the hot sun in a traveling circus, but she longs for a different life - one where there is snow beneath her hooves and the North Star above her head. One day, when the opportunity arises, Dasher seizes her destiny and takes off in pursuit of the life she wants to live. It's not long before she meets a nice man in a red suit with a horse-drawn...

4) Hurray for today!

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Cat in the Hat's learning library

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The Cat in the Hat explains the origins of various holidays throughout the year, some well-known and some lesser-known, as well as some of the rituals associated with each.

5) Just one more sleep: all good things come to those who wait ... and wait ... and wait

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Curtis, Jamie Lee

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Helping kids celebrate milestones and holidays throughout the year, this hilarious book channels childhood exuberance and explains why waiting can be wonderful - and why it can be worth it!

6) Wreck the halls: a novel

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Stepping out of her comfort zone with her former best friend Beat Dawkins to convince their mothers to perform one last concert on Christmas Eve, Melody Gallard, the daughter of music royalty, discovers a decades-old scandal threatens to wreck everything--the reunion, their relationships with their mothers and their newfound love. Melody Gallard may be the daughter of music royalty, but her world is far from glamorous. She spends her days restoring...

7) Two New Years

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A multicultural family celebrates the traditions of two New Years--the Jewish Rosh Hashanah in the autumn, and the Asian Lunar New Year several months later.

8) The Unity Cup: A Kwanzaa Story for Youth

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A storybook for young minds looking for the meaning of Kwanzaa.
This book contains two stories. The first story is that of young Jahi, sent out to buy a replacement unity cup by his father. It is an important task. Jahi feels very proud of himself for being chosen, out of all his brothers and sisters. As he tries to find the best Kikombe Cha Umoja (unity cup) in the world, little things that he does will demonstrate the seven principles

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9) A Christmas story Christmas

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Ralphie is all grown up in this sequel to the annual holiday favorite in which he must deal with Christmas and all that comes with it, this time as a dad. Peter Billingsley returns to the role that has made kids of all ages anticipate Christmas morning like no other.

10) Myles picks the field

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As snug as a book in a bug
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The bugs decide they should get ready for winter and that when they are done they will have a Thanksgiving feast.

11) Christmas Creek Cowboy

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Fossen, Delores

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Cowboys and Christmas are an unbeatable combination in this charming western novella from the USA Today bestselling author. A perfect gift for fans of Linda Lael Miller, Jill Shalvis, and Maisey Yates.
In small-town Christmas Creek, Texas, folks go all out for the holidays, but Sheriff Calen Jameson is too busy commiserating about cheating exes with his best friend, Emmy Kendrick . . .

Calen always thought his close...

12) Trick ARRR treat: a pirate halloween

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Kimmelman, Leslie

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""Swashbuckling trick-or-treaters stomp and clomp through their neighhborhood in search of treasure--aka Halloween candy--but they must be back before dark, because the pirate chief's mom said so"--

13) Midnight at the Christmas bookshop: a novel

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Christmas bookshop volume 2

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In this sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller The Christmas Bookshop, an American production company decides that McCredie's is the perfect location to film a very cheesy Christmas movie and Carmen, the bookshop's manager, uses this unexpected windfall to fend off a buyout offer from an obnoxious millionaire. An American production company decides that McCredie's is the perfect location to film a very cheesy Christmas movie. Who can resist...

14) Harmony Lights

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True Love Classics

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A Hanukkah miracle is the only hope for transforming this small-town second chance reunion into true love.

Abigail Cohen got over Ethan Weiss years ago. She moved away. She became a doctor. She hardly ever thinks about her first true love.

But when her mother has a medical crisis, Abby must return to Harmony Springs. It's Hanukkah, and Abby is soon managing latkes and holiday candles...and a mother who

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15) A Very Scandinavian Christmas: The Greatest Nordic Holiday Stories of All Time

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Andersen, Hans Christian

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A smorgasbord of Christmas stories by writers from Hans Christian Andersen to August Strindberg to Karl Ove Knausgaard.

This collection brings together the best Scandinavian holiday stories, including classics by Hans Christian Andersen of Denmark; Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerlöf, August Strindberg and Hjalmar Söderberg of Sweden; as well as the popular contemporary Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard. These...

16) On the Fourth of July

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Happy birthday, America! This picture book celebrates patriotism, community, and summertime.

17) Death by Haunted House

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Hayley Powell Food and Cocktails Mystery

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When new neighbors move in next door, Hayley Powell is finding the Halloween spirit a little too close to home this year in coastal Bar Harbor, Maine . . . Once upon a time, food and cocktails columnist Hayley Powell used to be married to a man named Danny. They lived quite the cozy life together in rugged Maine. And for two years, their closest neighbor was an abandoned house that only seemed to add to their picture-perfect life. Even if the...

18) A Holiday Homecoming

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Christmas at the Sugarberry Inn

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The Sugarberry Inn is exactly how I remember it.

Cute, kitschy, and tourist trappy.

It's also the last place I want to be.

But when my best friend asks me to be in her wedding, I can't exactly say no.

I just hope I can get through this trip without seeing him. Logan Wainwright.

The man who broke my heart ten years ago.

Seeing as how he owns half the town, I think

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19) The shortest day

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A celebration of the winter solstice and the Yuletide season. As the sun set on the shortest day of the year, early people would gather to prepare for the long night ahead. They built fires and lit candles. They played music, bringing their own light to the darkness, while wondering if the sun would ever rise again. Written for a theatrical production that has become a ritual in itself, Susan Cooper's poem "The Shortest Day" captures the magic behind...

20) Confessions of a Christmasholic

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Grumpy meets Sunshine in this hilarious festive romcom that will have you wishing for a HEA! Sutton Alsop hates Christmas. So much so, when confronted with a house that looks like Santa himself vomited Christmas all over it, she accidentally (drunkenly) destroys every fairy light, fake reindeer and candy cane in sight. Unfortunately for Sutton, this house belongs to none other than Gus Langston, single dad and owner of the village's year-round Christmas...

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