Alamosa Public Library

Describes how and why daylight grows shorter as winter approaches, the effect of shorter days on animals and people, and how the winter solstice has been celebrated throughout history. Includes activities.

"People as far back as anyone's known / Have gathered to give thanks for food we have grown. Celebrate the harvest season in 12 cultures!" --back cover

"Thanksgiving is Bailey King's busiest holiday weekend. This year promises to be even more hectic, since Bailey's candy shop, Swissmen Sweets, is providing desserts for Harvest, Ohio's first village-wide Thanksgiving celebration. Yet, even with a guest list close to seven hundred people -- Amish and English alike -- the event's organizer, Margot Rawlings, is unfazed . . . until she discovers her mother, former judge Zara Bevan, will be in attendance....

The Coyote Canyon Ladies Ukulele Club is gearing up for a ukulele competition when their flamboyant star player, Kiki Jacquenette, is found strangled to death with a G-string. Not only is a first place win in jeopardy, the entire folk music festival is put on the verge of collapse. A murderer on the loose is sure to keep tourists away. Chronicle editor Viva Winter had hoped to make Coyote Canyon the folk music capitol of the Colorado mountains, and...

All about pioneer life, the simple and active ways of celebrating a holiday, which includes much general information and details of everyday life.

During the annual butterfly festival at California's Monterey Peninsula, Casey Feldstein must unravel the clues to catch a killer when a former butterfly queen is found with a knife in her back.

"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.

Eva Wingdale always has BIG ideas -- like the Bloomtastic Festival! She wants to set up a fashion show, a talent show, an art show, and a bake-off. Eva does not like asking for help, but this festival is a lot of work! Will she need to ask her friends to lend a wing?

Describes a range of Mexican festivals and holidays. Includes a calendar of selected fiestas celebrated throughout the Mexican year.

A young woman reluctantly joins her boyfriend on a summer trip to a Swedish festival where things quickly go awry.