A Book about or Featuring a Holiday

A selection of books that fulfill the UBN 2025 category of a book about or featuring a holiday.

Updated January 4, 2025
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Holidays on Ice
Sedaris, David.
Ebook
David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favoritesas the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris's tales of tardy trick-or-treaters ("Us and Them"); the...
A haunting in Venice
Christie, Agatha
Paper Book
The inspiration for A Haunting in Venice - now a major motion picture.When a Hallowe'en party turns deadly, it falls to Hercule Poirot to unmask a murderer... During a night of party games, Joyce Reynolds boasts that she once witnessed a murder. No one believes her, but then she is...
Christmas poems
Hollander, John.
Paper Book
A beautiful hardcover stocking-stuffer collecting the best-loved poems to celebrate the Christmas season, ranging from traditional religious poems to works by Emily Dickinson, Dorothy Parker, and Philip Larkin. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET. Christmas is both a holiday and a...
THREE HOLIDAYS AND A WEDDING
JALALUDDIN, UZMA
Paper Book
Three times the holiday magic. Three times the chaos. As strangers and seatmates Maryam Aziz and Anna Gibson fly to Toronto over the holidays - Maryam to her sister's impromptu wedding, and Anna to meet her boyfriend's wealthy family for the first time - neither expect that severe turbulence will...
The Book of New Family Traditions
Cox, Meg.
Ebook
Quality family togetherness--everyone wants it, but it seems increasingly harder to achieve. In a world run by cell phones, computers, and virtual networking, the comfort of human connection grows more important-- and rarer-- all the time. In a guide newly updated for the next generation,...
Royal holiday
Guillory, Jasmine
Paper Book
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Proposal and a "rising star in the romance genre" (Entertainment Weekly) comes a dazzling novel about a spontaneous holiday vacation that turns into an unforgettable romance. Vivian Forest has been out of the...
My Jewish year : 18 holidays, one wondering Jew
Pogrebin, Abigail
Paper Book
The much-dissected Pew Research Center study of 2013, "A Portrait of Jewish Americans," revealed that most U.S. Jews locate their Jewishness in their ancestry and culture--not in religion. Abigail Pogrebin wondered if perhaps that's because we haven't all looked at religion closely enough.
1776
McCullough, David G.
Paper Book
America's beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation's birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the actions and decisions that led Great Britain to undertake a war...

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