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Each summer for the past one hundred years, local residents on an otherwise tranquil block in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn turn their lives upside down for two weeks in order to host the reenactment of a centuries-old religious pageant. The annual feast of San Paulino di Nola has its roots in an archaic fertility rite with exotic pagan undertones. Italians from the Campanese village of Nola, who emigrated to Williamsburg in the 1880's, brought...

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

"Ella, or Cinderella, as her parents fondly call her, is getting ready for a puppet-show contest when she meets an unexpected friend, Val. Val doesn't have much, but she teaches Ella how to sew. In return, Ella shares her sewing materials with Val. On the big day, the girls both put on great shows. But who will win the grand prize? "-- Provided by publisher.

From festivals of light in the dark days of winter to harvest celebrations, cultures around the world celebrate the joys each season brings in different ways. Readers will explore the customs and traditions that define those celebrations. This hi-lo narrative nonfiction series celebrates diverse cultures while highlighting how expressions of joy and connection are all part of the human experience. Provided by publisher.

During the holidays, a woman with amnesia catches a ride with her handsome nurse to investigate the only clue to her identity: a newspaper clipping for a Christmas Festival with a cryptic invitation.

The spell of Christmas in a tri-cultural land pervades this last of Dorothy Pillsbury's four books. In 35 stories she takes us to the winter ceremonies of New Mexico. We watch with her the ancient Zuni rite of the Shalako gods; we are lit by the glow of farolitos on adobe roofs and feel the crunch of clean snow in the mountain lanes. Best of all, we are taken through adobe doorways into the homes of friends and neighbors, like those of Tenorio Flat,...

There's a winter festival and Karen wants to do everything - win the Snow Princess contest, be in the parade and switch on the special lights. Stoneybrook is preparing for a special lighting ceremony at the winter carnival, and Karen has a plan to be the one chosen to throw the master switch.

An interactive picture book in which readers help the friendly monsters of the Boo Crew prepare for the fall festival.

Attending the world-renowned Texas Rose Festival to support her bestie Gilley and Gilley's new boyfriend, creative director Stuart Jacobs, life coach Cat Cooper finds things getting thorny when a member of Stuart's staff is accused of murder and she must weed through the cutthroat pageantry to catch a blossoming killer.

Thanks to a bone marrow donation from her newly discovered sister, interior designer Allison Miers has just beat cancer and has been welcomed into her new family, the Bertrands of Cypress Bayou. She's been curious about her birth family for years, and it seems they're all trying to make amends for her mother abandoning her-even offering a trust fund if she'll stay a year and give the town a chance. As Allison arrives in town amidst preparations for...