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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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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"--
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Homer Kelly mysteries volume 11
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English
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In Cambridge, Massachusetts, a jealous and deranged husband sets out to murder the men he imagines are his wife's suitors. He kills three before Mary Kelly, wife of a Harvard professor, fingers him. By the author of Divine Inspiration.
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English
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A new selection spanning the breadth of Donne's verse.
One of England's preeminent poets, John Donne's poems are among the most passionate, profound, and spiritual in the English language. This rich representation reflects the wide diversity of his poetry. From such witty items as "The Flea, " which transforms the image of a louse into something marvelous, to the intimate and intense Holy Sonnets, Donne breathed new vigor into poetry by drawing lucid...
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Guess How Much I Love You volume 12
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English
Description
Little Nutbrown Hare and Little Field Mouse spread joy with a holly sprig. / Little Nutbrown Hare feels mixed up on the shortest day of the year.
8) Wintergate
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English
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No one has traveled to or from faerieland since the end of the Border Wars, save through the Wintergate, whose power can only be activated on the shortest day of the year. When gatekeeper Emilia loses everything to the Border Kingdom, ice touches her heart and grows within her, until the day comes that she must finally choose between her duty and someone else's loss....
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English
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The shortest day of the year is anything but for C.o.P. Judith Anderson. A series of smash-and-grab robberies is threatening to derail the Christmas shopping season in the small Florida city where Judith Anderson is the new Chief of Police. Shoppers are afraid, merchants are frustrated, the mayor is furious, and Judith and her department are looking like fools. But they have little to go on. The thief is quick and is completely covered from head to...
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English
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"A companion to Nina MacLaughlin's luminous Summer Solstice. The year is fading. Light is fading. Solstice means sun-stilled. It's a wild sort of stilling, a thrashing frenzied sort of stilling, a stopping of time, a de-metering, a holding of the breath as the tension builds, as the dark expands, until it cracks and the light drives in. That's the hope. Pomegranate, holly branch, birch switch, mistletoe. We'll leaf with life and pass below the secret...
12) Unrest Rising
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English
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Ten years after the bloody vampire epidemic arrived on British shores, order has been restored to London but vampires remain a marginalized and persecuted group. Now the unrest begins during the winter solstice, the vampires day of celebration. In a world where vampires are real, many countries are at war with their own vampire epidemics, yet Britain has found a way to manage their own vampire epidemic. Donor houses are where vampires get to satisfy...
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"In 1851, at a remote village in the Scandinavian tundra, a Lutheran minister known as Mad Lasse tries in vain to convert the native Sámi reindeer herders to his faith. But when one of the most respected herders has a dramatic awakening and dedicates his life to the church, his impetuous son, Ivvár, is left to guard their diminishing herd alone. By chance, he meets Mad Lasse's daughter Willa, and their blossoming infatuation grows into something...
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English
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Step into the dark roots of Christmas, full of monsters like the Krampus, Gryla, and Tomten and fears that the sun won't rise again after the shortest, darkest day. Christmas time is truly the darkest and creepiest time of the year filled with devilish creatures lurking in the shadows waiting to get us. Best known is the Krampus, who has been the subject of films and songs. There was a time in the late 1800s when people sent Krampus cards, not holiday...
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English
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Step into the dark roots of Christmas past where the Krampus punishes the bad boys and girls.
Christmas time is truly the darkest and creepiest time of the year filled with devilish creatures lurking in the shadows waiting to get us. Best known is the Krampus who has been the subject of films and songs. There was a time in the late 1800s when people sent Krampus cards, not holiday greetings. There are other violent and dangerous monsters from all...
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Publisher
Bearport Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Describes some of the signs of winter, including changes in light and temperature, plants at rest, bare branches on trees, animals and birds responding to the cold and lack of food, and other differences, and suggests related activities.
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Publisher
Okeh
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
For his latest album, Bill Frisell mines the catalog of guitar-based music from the 1950s and 1960s that first inspired him to pick up the instrument. Along with works from artists including Dick Dale and Chet Atkins, Frisell adds in a few compositions of his own.
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Stink Moody volume 1
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English
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The shortest kid in the second grade, James Moody, also known as Stink, learns all about the shortest president of the United States, James Madison, when they celebrate Presidents' Day at school. Every morning, Judy Moody measures Stink and it's always the same: three feet, eight inches tall. Stink feels like even the class newt is growing faster than he is. Then, one day, the ruler reads-can it be?-three feet, seven and three quarters inches! Is...
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