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Christmas At The New Yorker: Stories, Poems, Humor, And Art

10 best books like Christmas At The New Yorker: Stories, Poems, Humor, And Art (The New Yorker): Miracle and Other Christmas Stories, Wombat Divine, The Trees of the Dancing Goats, 100 Malicious Little Mysteries, Greyhaven, A Small Miracle, Christmas Every Day, In Paul Klee's Enchanted Garden, Calvin and Hobbes 1: Thereby Hangs a Tale, Non Campus Mentis: World History According to College Students

Miracle and Other Christmas Stories
AuthorConnie Willis
ISBN0553580485
The winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, Connie Willis captures the timeless essence of generosity and goodwill in this magical collection if Christmas stories.  These eight tales-two of which have never before been published-boldly reimagine the stories of Christmas while celebrating...
Wombat Divine
AuthorMem Fox
ISBN0152020969
I picked this up because I think Mem Fox has a good hit/miss ratio... The cover I have isn't immediately christmassy, and I thought Wombat Divine was referring to an especially good wombat - so I was initially suprised that this was a Christmas book.

This book has everything you could ask for -...
The Trees of the Dancing Goats
AuthorPatricia Polacco
ISBN0689838573
Trisha loves the eight days of Hanukkah, when her mother stays home from work, her Babushka makes delicious potato latkes, and her Grampa carves wonderful animals out of wood as gifts for Trisha and her brother. In the middle of her family's preparation for the festival of lights, Trisha visits her closest...
100 Malicious Little Mysteries
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN1402711018
Charmingly insidious and satisfyingly devious, these 100 baffling little mysteries—selected by such prominent authors as Isaac Asimov—are just the thing to suit your most malevolent mood. These tales come from the pen of many well-known writers in the field, including Michael Gilbert, Edward...
Greyhaven
AuthorMarion Zimmer Bradley
ISBN0879978155
Somewhere in Northern California there is a house where all the dimensions of time and space and distant worlds come together: This house, whose exact location is known to a very special few, is called Greyhaven..it is the spiritual home of an ever-growing 'family' of imaginative writers. Diana Paxson,...
A Small Miracle
AuthorPeter Collington
ISBN0679887253
This is a Christmas miracle like no other, with such richness in image and
story that children will return to it again and again" "(Booklist,"
starred review).
The wooden figures in a Christmas crè che come to life to save a poor old
woman in this truly original, deeply moving contemporary...
Christmas Every Day
AuthorWilliam Dean Howells
ISBN0671003267
"'Here is a charming Christmas tale. Read this to your little one.' I took the book from her outstretched arm and examined the title, Christmas Every Day by William Dean Howells." So wrote Richard Paul Evans in his bestselling The Christmas Box, which captivated millions of readers across America,...
In Paul Klee's Enchanted Garden
AuthorAudun Eckhoff
ISBN3775721010
Many call Paul Klee a magician. He was no such thing; he did not conjure up anything. He was a creator who found beauty in the world around him, wrote one of Klee's students from the legendary Bauhaus. The Swiss-born painter, like many of his contemporaries--Kandinsky among them--was interested in Transcendentalism...
Calvin and Hobbes 1: Thereby Hangs a Tale
AuthorBill Watterson
ISBN0751505080
If you have read the first Calvin and Hobbes directory that was published in the 80's, then you have read this one.
It is a paperback version of half the first book. With classic strips.

Was inspired to read it after watching "Dear Mr. Watterson" documentary on Netflix.

I missed...
Non Campus Mentis: World History According to College Students
AuthorAnders Henriksson
ISBN0761122745
Mangled Moments of Western Civilization from Term Papers & Blue Book Exams

Did You Know:
Cesar was assassinated on the Yikes of March when he is reported to have said, "Me too, Brutus!"
Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Truman were known as the "Big Three"
Rasputin was a pheasant...
The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw, and Never Will See, in The New Yorker
AuthorMatthew Diffee
ISBN1416933395
Each week about fifty New Yorker cartoonists submit ten ideas, yielding five hundred cartoons for no more than twenty spots in the magazine. Arguably the most brilliant single-panel-gag cartoonists in the world create a bunch of cartoons every week that never see the light of day.

These rejects...
Live and Learn and Pass It on: People Ages 5 to 95 Share What They've Discovered about Life, Love, and Other Good Stuff
AuthorH. Jackson Brown Jr.
ISBN1558531564
کتابی عالی که تجربیات افراد مختلف را نه در قالب پند بلکه در قالب صحبت هایی دوستانه بیان می کند و مخاطب احساس همزاد پنداری با تمام گویند گان جملات این کتاب می...
Encyclopedia of Bad Taste
AuthorJane Stern
The subtitle of this heavenly concoction is: A celebration of American pop culture at its most joyfully outrageous.

This is not so much a book as an aspirin to banish gloom. Of course, America marches on and this book needs a major update to include such modern phenomena as Celebrity Rehab and...
Unplug the Christmas Machine: A Complete Guide to Putting Love and Warmth Back into the Season
AuthorJo Robinson
ISBN0688109616
Nine years and thirteen printings later, Unplug the Christmas Machine is still the undisputed guide to creating a joyful, stress-free holiday season. Revised and filled with new material, this book will enjoy even greater popularity in the years to come.

In the pages of Unplug the Christmas...
The Night of Las Posadas
AuthorTomie dePaola
ISBN0698119010
Tomie dePaola's glorious paintings are as luminous as the farolitos that light up on the Plaza in Santa Fe for the procession of Las Posadas, the tradition in which Mary and Joseph go from door to door seeking shelter at the inn on Christmas Eve.This year Sister Angie, who is always in charge of the clebration,...
Winter's Tale: Winter's Tale
AuthorRobert Sabuda
ISBN0689853637
This was an amazing Book! All the pop-ups are BEAUTIFUL and AMAZING. I went thru the book a few times before I 'discovered' the flaps on the sides. With very few words the author is so expressive and told a beautiful story about winter!
I think this book would be great to teach about what animals do in...
Vater und Sohn, Bd. 3
AuthorErich Ohser Plauen
ISBN3473520624
Beautiful childhood moments

I read this book about 100 time when I was a little kid in Iran , Loved the pictures and humor , Today it’s still melting my heart. Thank you Erich Ohzer for your books being part of my beautiful childhood memories.
Shepherds, Why This Jubilee?
AuthorJeffrey R. Holland
ISBN1573458635
Too often our Christmas season is filled with such questions as "What do you want for Christmas?" or "What do you mean it is sold out?" or "Did decorating the tree take this long last year?" only to find that when the season has come and gone a more vital question remains: "Is that all there is to Christmas?"
In...
Saul Bass: A Life in Film and Design
AuthorJennifer Bass
ISBN1856697525
This is the first book to be published on one of the greatest American designers of the 20th Century, who was as famous for his work in film as for his corporate identity and graphic work. With more than 1,400 illustrations, many of them never published before and written by the leading design historian...
Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism
AuthorNoenoe K. Silva
In 1897, as a white oligarchy made plans to allow the United States to annex Hawai'i, native Hawaiians organized a massive petition drive to protest. Ninety-five percent of the native population signed the petition, causing the annexation treaty to fail in the U.S. Senate. This event was unknown to...
Jennifer and Josephine
AuthorBill Peet
ISBN0395296080
Josephine, a stray cat, has finally found a home in Jennifer’s backseat. Jennifer is a car left in a corner of a junk yard. However, their lives change when a traveling salesman buys Jennifer one day. He’s always in a hurry. What will that mean for Jennifer and Josephine?

This is another of...
A Family Christmas
AuthorCaroline Kennedy
ISBN1401322271
"When I began assembling [this] collection, I was skeptical that I would learn anything new about Christmas, but reading and reflecting on the history and spirit of Christmas brought back many memories, and taught me a great deal. . . . The literature of Christmas ranges from the miraculous to the tragic,...
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