The holidays add joy—and sometimes stress—to life. The Library helps you find the cheer this season with the perfect respite: books and videos that raise your spirits and lift your heart.
Happy Holidays
Explores how five of America's culturally dominant holidays (Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Easter, Halloween, and Thanksgiving) came to be what they are today: combinations of seasonal and religious celebrations, heavily influenced by modern popular culture.
Children's Music
An eclectic CD for all ages, paying tribute to a wide variety of holidays.
Fiction
A holiday story about two people who brave loneliness and loss to find love.
A holiday collection of short stories that capture the eccentric lives of the inhabitants of a small Southern town.
Movies & Music
Seated next to each other on a plane, Kara and Jessie strike up an unlikely friendship. With both girls visiting family they’ve never met, they devise a plan to switch places for Christmas.
Sounds, sights and music to create a holiday atmosphere.
Nonfiction
Explores how five of America's culturally dominant holidays (Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Easter, Halloween, and Thanksgiving) came to be what they are today: combinations of seasonal and religious celebrations, heavily influenced by modern popular culture.
Pays homage to the holidays’ funniest (and most uncomfortable) moments, as captured by awkward family photos.
Describes all the little things that make the holidays great, from successfully regifting a present to knowing that Kwanzaa is worth more Scrabble points than Hanukkah or Christmas.
Family traditions provide a sense of home and identity that kids and parents both need. This book spotlights hundreds of ways to bring fun and ritual back to family life.
Reveals how an almost forgotten festival became the most visible of American Jewish holidays.
Stories, quips and quotes for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s.
Stories and scriptures that offer readers a way to redeem what can be painful days—Thanksgiving, Christmas, birthdays and anniversaries, milestones such as weddings and graduations, and more.