"Contains information about nearly 2,500 holidays, festivals, holy days, feasts and fasts, and other observances, including popular, secular, and religious celebrations for more than 100 countries and every state of the United States"--Provided by publisher.Contains information about nearly 2,500 holidays, festivals, holy days, feasts and fasts, and other observances, including popular, secular, and religious celebrations for more than one hundred countries and every state of the United States.

Holidays, Festivals, and Celebrations of the World Dictionary

Reference

THOMPSON, Sue Ellen

Henderson, Helene

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Omnigraphics, Inc.

Holiday Symbols and Customs: A Guide to the Legend and Lore Behind the People, Places, Food, Animals, and Other Symbols and Customs Associated With Holidays and Holy Days, Feasts

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

People everywhere gather to celebrate many different types of holidays and festivals: religious holidays, such as Christmas and Ramadan; calendar festivals such as New Year's and the Summer Solstice; national holidays, such as Thanksgiving and the Fourth of July; as well as ancient and folkloric days, such as May Day and Halloween. Holidays reflect the history and identity of people of all cultures. The symbols and customs associated with holidays emerge, migrate, undergo transformations, and sometimes fade away. This new revised and expanded edition of Holiday Symbols and Customs provides an introduction to the myriad ways in which people celebrate and the meanings attached to these traditions.

Holiday Symbols & Customs (HOLIDAY SYMBOLS AND CUSTOMS)

Gulevich, Tanya

Daniels, Peggy

Religion & Spirituality

The Wedding Boat

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Owl Creek Press

Sue Ellen Thompson's poems explore the passions of everyday life. From teenage love to the uncertain gamble of marriage to the angst of raising a teenage daughter, the poems follow the inevitable cycle of domestic life. Thompson's craft is impeccable, her ear for the music of language faultless -- she is a formalist whose fierce emotions are honed to a dangerous edge.

The Leaving: New and Selected Poems

Autumn House Pr

The poems in THEY tell the story of a mother, her aging father, and her transgender child. As the mother struggles to understand her adult child's emerging identity, the daughter takes it upon herself to remain close to her grandfather, a World War II veteran and former P.O.W., as he faces his final years alone. She writes him postcards as she travels around the country, and it is this one-sided correspondence that reveals her abiding love for a man who raised five children in the post-war years and must now grapple with issues he has never had to confront. These poems explore the challenges that gender identity poses to three different generations.

They

WordTech Communications LLC

The poems in Sea Nettles explore relationships between people of three generations as they evolve over decades. At the center of many of the poems is a transgender child. The child's stubborn, gritty insistence on being true to herself is revealed, as well as the mother's struggles to come to terms with her child's identity, and the grandfather's loving relationship with this child. Like so many of us, the speaker in these poems often attempts to take refuge in "Foolish wishes, passing thoughts, dreams abandoned..." but she can't avoid the sharp truths that come with complicated relationships. And whose relationships, if they are true, if they are deep, are ever free of complications?

Sea Nettles: New & Selected Poems

Grayson Books

In Sue Ellen Thompson's fourth book of poems, the acclaimed poet explores relationships between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, the past and the present.

The Golden Hour (Autumn House Poetry)

Autumn House Press

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