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Book Synopsis Evolution of an Xmas Letter by : Jon Coile
Download or read book Evolution of an Xmas Letter written by Jon Coile and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past five years, Jon & Wendy Coile have gained some measure of notoriety for the ever increasing absurdity of their annual Christmas Letter. From a simple two-page chronicle of the year's events, their Xmas Letter has evolved from the ubiquitous annual diary into a source of delight and surprise for those on their Christmas card list. Now available in hardcover and paperback from international publisher, iUniverse, Evolution of an Xmas Letter is the complete and unabridged compendium of their body of work-to-date. Filled with action, famous people, tragedy and comedy, we can guarantee you that it is like no other holiday letter you have ever seen. It makes a great Christmas Present, too! Here's what the critics are saying: 'Our Christmas Letter this year is a book? Are you kidding me? A book? What were you thinking?"-Wendy Coile 'Always, always, always keep holiday letters to two-pages or less. People don't want to be bored to tears reading every miniscule detail of your life."-Prof. Vicki Meade 'Drop the plum pudding! Leave your presents under the tree and read aloud your copy of Evolution of an Xmas Letter. You'll laugh! You'll cry (well, maybe not cry)! But you will love it!"-Yoda 'If nothing else, please, at least read the last page before noon on January 1st."-Drew Elioc
Download or read book Dear Santa written by Chronicle Books and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a heartwarming trip into Christmas history with these children’s letters to Santa Claus from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This first-ever collection of children’s letters to Santa written between 1870 and 1920 presents more than one hundred charming and endearing missives. Along with its vintage charm, timeless sentiments, and non-denominational perspective, this heartwarming book is filled with historical discoveries that will delight everyone who loves this holiday ritual. Dear Santa is a unique celebration of one of Christmas’s most enduring traditions—and a tribute to the millions of households that keep it alive.
Book Synopsis The History of the Christmas Card by George Buday by : György Buday
Download or read book The History of the Christmas Card by George Buday written by György Buday and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of the Christmas Card by : György Buday
Download or read book The History of the Christmas Card written by György Buday and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christmas written by Bruce David Forbes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-10-10 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for everyone who loves and is simultaneously driven crazy by the holiday season, Christmas: A Candid History provides an enlightening, entertaining perspective on how the annual Yuletide celebration got to be what it is today. In a fascinating, concise tour through history, the book tells the story of Christmas—from its pre-Christian roots, through the birth of Jesus, to the holiday's spread across Europe into the Americas and beyond, and to its mind-boggling transformation through modern consumerism. Packed with intriguing stories, based on research into myriad sources, full of insights, the book explores the historical origins of traditions including Santa, the reindeer, gift giving, the Christmas tree, Christmas songs and movies, and more. The book also offers some provocative ideas for reclaiming the joy and meaning of this beloved, yet often frustrating, season amid the pressures of our fast-paced consumer culture. DID YOU KNOW For three centuries Christians did not celebrate Christmas? Puritans in England and New England made Christmas observances illegal? St. Nicholas is an elf in the famous poem "The Night Before Christmas"? President Franklin Roosevelt changed the dateof Thanksgiving in order to lengthen the Christmas shopping season? Coca-Cola helped fashion Santa Claus's look in an advertising campaign?
Book Synopsis The Christmas Letters by : Lee Smith
Download or read book The Christmas Letters written by Lee Smith and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2002-08-19 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Christmas Letters, three generations of women reveal their stories of love and marriage in the letters they write to family and friends during the holidays. It's a down-home Christmas story about tradition, family, and the shared experiences of women. Here, in a letter of her own, Lee Smith explains how she was inspired to write this celebrated epistolary novel: Dear Friends, Like me, you probably get Christmas letters every year. I read every word and save every letter. Because every Christmas letter is the story of a life, and what story can be more interesting than the story of our lives? Often, it is the story of an entire family. But you also have to read between the lines with Christmas letters. Sometimes, what is not said is even more important than what is on the page. In The Christmas Letters, I have used this familiar format to illumine the lives, hopes, dreams, and disappointments of three generations of American women. Much of the story of The Christmas Letters is also told through shared recipes. As Mary, my favorite character, says, "I feel as if I have written out my life story in recipes! The Cool Whip and mushroom soup years, the hibachi and fondue period, then the quiche and crepes phase, and now it's these salsa years." I wrote this little book for the same reason I write to my friends and relatives every holiday--Christmas letters give us a chance to remember and celebrate who we are. With warmest greetings, Lee Smith
Book Synopsis Letters to Santa Claus by : The Elves
Download or read book Letters to Santa Claus written by The Elves and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “poignant” collection of real letters sent to Santa Claus—a town in Indiana—from the 1930s to the twenty-first century, from both children and adults (The New York Times). For countless Christmases, children—and sometimes adults—have stuffed their dreams, wishes, and promises into envelopes. Over many decades, millions of these letters have poured into Santa Claus, Indiana. Arriving from all corners of the globe, the letters ask for toys, family reunions, snow, and help for the needy—sometimes the needy being the writers themselves. They are candid, heartfelt, and often blunt. Many children wonder how Santa gets into their chimneyless homes. One child reminds Santa that she has not hit her brothers over 1,350 times that year, and another respectfully requests two million dollars in “cold cash.” One child hopes to make his life better with a time machine, an adult woman asks for a man, and one miscreant actually threatens Santa’s reindeer! Containing more than 250 actual letters and envelopes from the naughty and nice reaching back to the 1930s, this moving book will touch hearts and bring back memories of a time in our lives when the man with a white beard and a red suit held out the hope that our wishes might come true. “Often very affecting . . . also offers an unusual window into American history.” —Library Journal “The letters . . . are alternately silly and somber, hilarious and heartfelt.” —The Weekly Standard
Book Synopsis Letters From Father Christmas by : J.R.R. Tolkien
Download or read book Letters From Father Christmas written by J.R.R. Tolkien and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R. Tolkien’s children. Inside would be a letter in a strange, spidery handwriting and a beautiful colored drawing or painting. The letters were from Father Christmas. They told wonderful tales of life at the North Pole: how the reindeer got loose and scattered presents all over the place; how the accident-prone North Polar Bear climbed the North Pole and fell through the roof of Father Christmas’s house into the dining room; how he broke the Moon into four pieces and made the Man in it fall into the back garden; how there were wars with the troublesome horde of goblins who lived in the caves beneath the house, and many more. No reader, young or old, can fail to be charmed by Tolkien’s inventiveness in this classic holiday treat.
Book Synopsis Family History Through Christmas Letters by : Daniel T. Cousins
Download or read book Family History Through Christmas Letters written by Daniel T. Cousins and published by . This book was released on 2003* with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Walter H. Page's Christmas Letter to His Grandson by : Walter Hines Page
Download or read book Walter H. Page's Christmas Letter to His Grandson written by Walter Hines Page and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Christmas Letter by : Steven H. Berman
Download or read book The Christmas Letter written by Steven H. Berman and published by September Sky Press. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary is a naive twenty year old in 1945 when her high school sweetheart, Jack, returns to their small Indiana steel town wounded from World War II and makes her his bride. While Jack struggles to find his place in the world, Mary begins her own journey of self-discovery. As the years and letters unfold, Mary and Jack have five children, including their first-born son, Junior who is not "right," an issue that contributes to the turmoil in their marriage and impacts their lives in unforeseen ways. Mary's Christmas letters track her children from toddling to adulthood, while also commenting on her marriage, her friendships, and the world around her-- advances in technology, the dawn of the nuclear age, the Cuban Missile Crisis, The Cold War, Vietnam, Woodstock, and more. Through disappointments, triumphs, dark moments of doubt and suspicion, loss of loved ones, and the lessons learned from hard experience, Mary's Christmas letters are a constant in an uncertain world. A part of the ritual of Christmas, these letters are a touchstone from which Mary takes strength and comfort.
Book Synopsis Baby Santa and the Lost Letters by : M. Maitland DeLand
Download or read book Baby Santa and the Lost Letters written by M. Maitland DeLand and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2012 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third classic Christmas tale in the popular Baby Santa series. It's only a week until Christmas, and Santa and his elves are ready to start making presents -- but no letters have arrived at the North Pole! For the first time in history, the North Pole mailbox is empty. How will Santa know what everyone wants for Christmas? Just when it seems that Christmas may be ruined, out jumps Baby Santa. The youngest member of the Claus family relies on his quick wits, his winning attitude, and his endless energy to solve the mystery of the lost letters with help from remarkable animal characters around the globe. With his enormous good cheer and a boundless spirit of co-operation, Baby Santa proves that Christmas is for every living being, even penguins, gila monsters and a three-toed sloth. Children and their parents will thrill to this exciting holiday adventure guided by the youngest member of the Claus family, Baby Santa.
Book Synopsis The Romance of Greeting Cards by : Ernest Dudley Chase
Download or read book The Romance of Greeting Cards written by Ernest Dudley Chase and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Letters From Father Christmas by : Billy Abraham
Download or read book Letters From Father Christmas written by Billy Abraham and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-12-08 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is Christmas portrayed as Santa Claus if we celebrate it due to the birth of Jesus Christ? And why is Easter portrayed as a bunny if we celebrate it due to the resurrection of Jesus Christ? Christmas is not "portrayed as" Santa Claus. Neither is Easter "portrayed as" a bunny. This is not a Christian phenomenon - far from it! It is American post-Christian, un-churched, and non-Christian pop-culture and media that over-emphasized Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny because both were religiously safe in that both could be easily secularized and universalized whereas Christ's birth could not be. But blame Madison Avenue and Hollywood ... and the unseen consequences of the Framers' 18th Century quaint if naive notions regarding religion and religious liberty. (They never imagined America would be anything other than 99% Protestant and/or Unitarian.) At any rate, note the cultural appropriation and exactly where they cut the actual lyrics: For the unchurched, the 2nd bar of Joy to the World is THE LORD IS COME! -- not, Narf, narf, narf! And the 2nd bar to Hark the herald angels sing is GLORY TO THE NEWBORN KING! LEARN MORE...
Book Synopsis Santa Claus by : Charles River Editors
Download or read book Santa Claus written by Charles River Editors and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Dear Editor -I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, 'If you see it in The Sun, it's so.' Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?" - Letter written by Virginia O ́ Hanlon in The Sun newspaper (1897)Christmas is the most important holiday of the year. After the corresponding days that exalt the national pride of each country, such as Independence Day in the United States, Victory Day in Russia, or Bastille Day in France, it's December 25 that articulates the life, the work and the economy in much of the world, including many non-Christian countries. Since ancient times, the beginning of winter has been the occasion for most people to eat, drink, dance, and get together to beat the drum and take a break. Especially since the 20th century on, the days adjacent to the holiday have become an occasion to do big business. The winter season is the most solid stimulus for the economy - more than any fiscal package - since the incomes of families, spending, credit, and consumption in all productive sectors are significantly increased. In the United States alone, Christmas sales are estimated to generate $3 trillion. In the early 19th century, two literary works appeared and helped shape Christmas. The first was a collection of stories by Washington Irving, entitled Sketch Book, from 1819. The work "not only gave to American literature the characters of Ichabod Crane and Rip Van Winkle, but sparked widespread interest in Christmas as a cozy domestic ritual." Next came A Visit from St. Nicholas, a children's poem better known as "The Night Before Christmas," which was published anonymously in 1823, but is traditionally attributed to Clement Clarke Moore, a university professor and Biblical scholar. The poem spread quickly and helped install a definitive image of Santa Claus in the popular imagination, with his sleigh, his eight reindeer (each one with a name), his red nose, and his journeys down chimneys to fill children's stockings with toys. Supposedly, Moore got his inspiration during a shopping outing in a sleigh, and he based his Santa Claus on a Dutchman who lived in Chelsea. "So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roofThe prancing and pawing of each little hoof.As I drew in my hand, and was turning around, Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot, And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;A bundle of toys he had flung on his back, And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack.His eyes -- how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow..." Meanwhile, the turning point for old St. Nicholas, now Santa Claus, came with the December 24, 1881 edition of Harper ́s Weekly. Artist Thomas Nast gave him his definitive look for the Christmas issue as an old man with a huge round belly and a belt, a thick white beard, a red nose, a cap, mistletoe on his head, a miniature horse toy in one hand, a pipe between his fingers, and a child hanging from his neck. Ever since, Santa has been known the world over for being delightfully paunchy and endlessly jolly. To most, these two descriptors alone are enough to conjure up his name, and lead them to envision a round-bellied, grandfather-type, clad in a fur-trimmed, cherry-red ensemble, armed with candy canes and a bottomless sack of presents, and blessed with a bushy, silvery-white beard.
Book Synopsis Adventures in the Ditch by : Jon Coile
Download or read book Adventures in the Ditch written by Jon Coile and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a seven-year-old boy, Jon Coile dreamed of spending the summer sailing Author of Evolution of an Xmas Letter the Atlantic. He just couldnt get his friends to cooperate. Coile grew up and spent time on the water, and in Adventures in the Ditch, he shares one story of a family nautical adventure. Hoping to rekindle the wanderlust and excitement of earlier sailing experiences, Coile, his thirty-seven-year-old brother Andrew, and their eighty-one-year-old father Russell embark on a nine-day, 2,500-mile, round-trip voyage on the Intracoastal Waterwayfrom the Chesapeake Bay to Miami. Their refurbished vessel, the Griffin, throws them some curveballs, and the trio encounters other unexpected situations, calling for creative and whimsical solutions. More than a mere boat trip, Adventures in the Ditch presents a rich, warm, and personal story of family relationships. Praise for Adventures in the Ditch Jon Coiles action-packed account of a journey on the Inland Waterway with his elderly father beautifully captures the challenges of navigating and the tensile strength of family ties. Susan Moger, Former Senior Editor, Scholastic Inc.
Book Synopsis Christmas the Christ Jesus Event That Changed Human Evolution by : Ysatis De Saint-Simone
Download or read book Christmas the Christ Jesus Event That Changed Human Evolution written by Ysatis De Saint-Simone and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-29 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Science, Beyond Religion, Beyond Compare! This intriguing book, 'Christmas The Christ-Jesus Event that Changed Human Evolution' by Dame Ysatis De Saint-Simone reveals to us a well-guarded secret that will indeed change your life for it is connected to our own evolution. A great mystery contained in this Heavenly-Earthly Event that is Christmas, the birth of the Cosmic Power of the Christ in the human form of Jesus of Nazareth. A Grand Event that changed the count of Time, History and human Evolution. Christmas is presented here as a Mystery understood by few - or none - a Mystery whose cosmic and evolutionary dimensions vital for our spiritual and human evolution found solely in the Archeological writings of the Sanhedrim and the Talmuds of the Jews, kept in the Vatican Library Vaults and the Mosque of Saint Sophia in Constantinople, where they were gathered by Emperor Constantine and kept since 337 A.D., and zealously protected by Mohamed when he took Constantinople. Know that there is no piece of history to be found like this in the entire world, but in The Christmas Story and the Source of its research. Dame De Saint-Simone, a true Theological Investigator does it again, by disclosing to us this secret fruit of her deep research, as she did in her spell-bounding book 'Genesis 2000' based on the reconstruction of the Hebrew language to its original purity by the great French etymologist and linguist Fabre d'Olivet. 'Christmas The Christ-Jesus Event That Changed Human Evolution' is based on research of official documents made in the Jewish courts in the days of Jesus Christ translated by Drs. McIntosh and Twyman of the Antiquarian Lodge of Genoa, Italy and records of the Senatorial Docket taken from the Vatican Library at Rome. If you want to know the whole story of Christmas, not just the small toned-down fragment of it in the Gospels, but the unabridged testimony of what happened, the night the Christ-Jesus was born of first hand witnesses as the Bethlehem shepherds and of Melker, the Jewish priest at the Synagogue of Bethlehem, whose deep and profound letter to the Sanhedrim of the Jews is not only historic testimony of the events that happened that night, but also a prophetic statement of a man well versed in prophecy who said that of all great events this one of Bethlehem is the grandest of all, and stating to the Masters of the High Court of the Sanhedrim that this event of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth and the birth of John the Baptist, the forerunner fulfilled all the prophecies of the so much expected coming of the Redeemer of men! Melker's letter is a deep and profound historic document, containing Knowledge of higher things vital for our inner growth and our evolution; and it is given in its exact unabridged version for the first time in history to the general public. This letter in itself is worth more than any other description of what Christmas truly is. The Splendor of Christmas shines as never before in 'The Christmas Story' giving those souls who search for Love and Peace - regardless of creed - as Love doesn't discriminate, manifold blessings revealing to their mind untold dimensions of the Christ-Jesus Birth Event that raise its understanding beyond dogma and concepts into an indescribable bliss aid to their spiritual growth. In our society Christmas has been nearly reduced to a yearly rite, family dinners and a tremendous buying and selling rush to exchange gifts. Material gifts and pastimes are fine, but they tend to obliterate the true Spirit of Love and the Splendor of the Gift of God to us - this Great Mystery closely linked to our evolution that some of us have maybe only begun to comprehend. . So, this little book Christmas The Christ Jesus Event that Changed Human Evolution sealed with God's Love comes like all things of God's Providences, always out at the right moment - just on time!.'
