Facing another holiday season alone eight years after losing her husband and children in a plane crash, an airline heiress bonds with a young singing prodigy from a home where music is forbidden by the girl's grieving widower father.

The second Sunday in May is a time to celebrate mothers and all those who are like mothers. This book discusses the origins of Mother's Day and explains how songs, poems, and food can prove useful in showing our appreciation for mothers, stepmothers, aunts, grandmothers, and sisters. Additional features to aid comprehension include activities and poetry, informative sidebars, a table of contents, a phonetic glossary, sources for further research,...

"It's Christmas time at the Weber Haus mountainside inn, where the official greeter, watcher, and matchmaker of the hotel's resident humans is an adorably mischievous bundle of feline fluff named Snowball. Snowball takes her job very seriously--even if it means being a little more naughty than nice--and she's ready to celebrate her third holiday season by making the purrrrfect match. Most cats have nine lives, but Snowball is one of the very few with...

Approaching a scary house while treat-or-treating, a reluctant monster warns readers not to ring the doorbell or the monsters that live there may gobble them up.

Greg Bennett feels his life has been a waste. Sixty years old and he has no one to spend Christmas with, no one who cares. Greg finds himself in a church and whispers a simple heartfelt prayer. A prayer that wends its way to the Archangel Grabriel, who assigns his favorite angels-Shirley, Goodness and Mercy-to his case.

While Flora struggles with how to inform her ex-boss that she is carrying his baby, a doctor refugee from war-torn Syria embarks on his first Christmas season without his wife on the remote Scottish island of Mure.

"After years of giving of herself to her family and community, Grace Beiler, an elderly Amish woman, faces her first Christmas since losing her husband of fifty years to his battle with cancer. With her children grown and moved onto different communities, Grace is feeling more than a little depressed. She begins to reflect upon her own life and wonder if she has properly fulfilled her promise to be a servant of God. As Christmas draws near and her...

Can you find items celebrating holidays, seasons, birthdays, and more.

It's 1967, and for young Richard it's a time of heartbreak and turmoil. Over the span of a few months, his brother, Mark, is killed in Vietnam; his father loses his job and moves the family from California to his grandmother's abandoned home in Utah; and his parents make the painful decision to separate. With uncertainty rattling every corner of his life, Richard does his best to remain strong--but when he's run down by bullies at his new school,...

Miss Mackle's third graders share December holiday traditions --Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Three Kings Day, and Korean New Year-- with each other and with Harry's great grandfather, who has just moved to a nursing home.