New @ the Library: Winter Holidays
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While we're not on campus and therefore not getting new print books, DVDs and other items, this page will feature topical lists of items from our Ebook collection. Ebooks are accessible to all Central Penn students, faculty, and staff--any time, anywhere you have an internet connection. If you have questions/problems accessing the ebooks, please contact the Library.
Winter Holidays Books and Ebooks
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America's Favorite Holidays: Candid Histories
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Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780520284722Publication Date: 2015 -
The Big Book of Holidays and Cultural Celebrations (Grades 3-5)
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Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9781425810481Publication Date: 2013 -
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The Christmas Encyclopedia
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Call Number: Credo ReferenceISBN: 9780786468270Publication Date: 2013 -
Christmas in Germany: A Cultural History
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Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780807833643Publication Date: 2010 -
Christmas in Pennsylvania: A Folk-Cultural Study
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Call Number: 394.266 SHOISBN: 9780811703284Publication Date: 1999 -
Christmas Memories from Mississippi
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Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9781604737554Publication Date: 2010 -
The Christmas Murders: Classic True Crime Stories
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Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9781606350829Publication Date: 2011 -
The Complete Kwanzaa: Celebrating Our Cultural Harvest
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Call Number: 394.261 RILISBN: 9780785816973Publication Date: 2002 -
Encyclopedia of Holidays and Celebrations (Vols. 1, 2, 3)
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Call Number: REF 394.26 DENN v.1, v.2, v.3ISBN: 9780816062355Publication Date: 2006 -
Hanukkah in America: A History
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Call Number: 296.435 ASHISBN: 9780814707395Publication Date: 2013 -
Holidays Around the World
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Call Number: Credo ReferenceISBN: 9780780816190Publication Date: 2017 -
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Immoveable Feast: A Paris Christmas
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Call Number: 394.266 BAXISBN: 9780061562334Publication Date: 2008 -
Inventing the Christmas Tree
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Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780300186529Publication Date: 2012 -
Keeping Christmas: 25 Stories to Warm Your Heart Throughout the Year
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Call Number: 813.0108 CheISBN: 9781930819184Publication Date: 2002 -
Kwanzaa: Black Power and the Making of the African-American Holiday Tradition
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Call Number: 394.2612 MAYISBN: 9780415998550Publication Date: 2009 -
Kwanzaa: How to Celebrate It in Your Home
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Call Number: 394.261 MINISBN: 9780935483697Publication Date: 2013 -
Noche Buena: Hispanic American Christmas Stories
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Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780195135275Publication Date: 2000 -
Practicing Kwanzaa Year Round: Affirmations and Activities around the Seven Principles
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Call Number: 394.261 GWYISBN: 9781570671135Publication Date: 2000 -
Religious Holidays and Calendars: An Encyclopedic Handbook
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Call Number: Credo ReferenceISBN: 9780780806658Publication Date: 2004 -
A Secret Gift: How One Man's Kindness--and a Trove of Letters--Revealed the Hidden History of t he Great Depression
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The author's grandfather, Sam Stone, placed an ad in the Canton, OH, newspaper shortly before Christmas in 1933, offering cash gifts to seventy-five families in distress. Readers were asked to send letters describing their hardships to a benefactor calling himself Mr. B. Virdot. The author investigates a suitcase full of letters responding to these ads as he learns more about his grandfather's hidden past as well as the suffering and triumphs of strangers during the Great Depression. -- From publisher's description.
Call Number: 977.162 GUPISBN: 9780143120001Publication Date: 2011 -
Thanksgiving: The Biography of an American Holiday
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Call Number: 394.264 BAKISBN: 9781584658016Publication Date: 2009 -
Twas the Night Before Christmas: A Visit from St. Nicholas
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Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9781467778053Publication Date: 2015 [1823] -
Winter Street: A Novel
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Call Number: 813.621 HIL winter 1ISBN: 9780316376105Publication Date: 2015 -
Winter Stroll: A Novel
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Call Number: 813.621 HIL winter 2ISBN: 9780316261135Publication Date: 2015 -
Winter Storms: A Novel
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Call Number: 813.621 HIL winter 3ISBN: 9780316261180Publication Date: 2017 -
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas
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Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9781467778152Publication Date: 2015 [1843]Also available in print: 823.821 DICK CHR
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