Christmas: Tradition, Truth and Total Baubles
Christmas: Tradition, Truth and Total Baubles

Author: Nick Page

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Published: 2020-10-29

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1529334098

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Why is Christmas the way it is? How did we get from the birth of Jesus to everyone pushing their credit card and their belts to their maximum extent? Starting with the events surrounding Jesus' birth, this book takes us through centuries of commemoration, celebration and over-consumption. Along the way we'll find out why we eat turkey, how an obscure Turkish saint turned into a man flying a sleigh, and why that tree in your house should really contain an apple and a snake. Combining in-depth historical research, cheerfully irreverent humour and cutting-edge guesswork, Nick Page explores what this festival really means, and how we can get back to something real and true beneath all that wrapping.

A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature
A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature

Author: Gordon Williams

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2001-09-13

Total Pages: 1650

ISBN-13: 0485113937

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Providing an alphabetical listing of sexual language and locution in 16th and 17th-century English, this book draws especially on the more immediate literary modes: the theatre, broadside ballads, newsbooks and pamphlets. The aim is to assist the reader of Shakespearean and Stuart literature to identify metaphors and elucidate meanings; and more broadly, to chart, through illustrative quotation, shifting and recurrent linguistic patterns. Linguistic habit is closely bound up with the ideas and assumptions of a period, and the figurative language of sexuality across this period is highly illuminating of socio-cultural change as well as linguistic development. Thus the entries offer as much to those concerned with social history and the history of ideas as to the reader of Shakespeare or Dryden.

Of The Bauble
Of The Bauble

Author: Debbie McGowan

Publisher: Beaten Track Publishing

Published: 2016-12-15

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1786451069

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When nineteen-year-old Kieran O’Sullivan takes a trip to the attic for the Christmas decorations, it proves to be an illuminating experience. Box includes: - a hapless but not altogether helpless student - a pedantic supernatural being (or two, or…well, quite a few) - a funky older sister - the coolest mum in the world - a naughty rescue bunny and her easily led feline sidekick - an insightful ex-girlfriend - twinkle lights - tinsel - baubles * Warning – may contain traces of magic and a smidgeon of social commentary (hey, it's a book by Debbie McGowan – did you expect anything else?) * Of the Bauble is a young adult, biromantic/non-binary fantasy romance.

Gaudy Bauble
Gaudy Bauble

Author: Isabel Waidner

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-05-14

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9781546386216

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"I'm besotted with this beguiling, hilarious, rollocking, language-metamorphosing novel. The future of the queer avant-garde is safe with Isabel Waidner." Olivia Laing Gaudy Bauble stages a glittering world populated by GoldSeXUal StatuEttes, anti-drag kings, Gilbert-&-George-like lesbians, maverick detectives, a transgender army equipped with question-mark-shaped helmets, and birds who have dyke written all over them. Everyone interferes with the plot. No one is in control of the plot. Surprises happen as a matter of course: A faux research process produces actual results. Hundreds of lipstick marks reanimate a dying body. And the Deadwood-to-Dynamo Audience Prize goes to whoever turns deadestwood into dynamost. Gaudy Bauble stages what happens when the disenfranchised are calling the shots. Riff-raff are running the show and they are making a difference.

The Adventures of Jesta - The Mystery of the Christmas Bauble
The Adventures of Jesta - The Mystery of the Christmas Bauble

Author: Graham Hyman

Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers

Published: 2024-09-13

Total Pages: 31

ISBN-13: 1035853221

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Jesta, the playful puppy, has a secret plan for Christmas. Every night, he sneaks a bauble from the tree and hides it in his bed, hoping to surprise his family with a special gift. As the days go by, Jesta’s collection grows, but will his family discover his mischievous scheme? Join this adorable pup and his loved ones in a heartwarming tale of Christmas magic and the unexpected ways love can be expressed. Follow Jesta’s journey as he tries to keep his secret under wraps, and discover the joy and surprise that awaits his family on Christmas morning. This delightful story will warm your heart and remind you of the true spirit of the holiday season.

Make Your Own Christmas Baubles
Make Your Own Christmas Baubles

Author: Mabel Dawn Van Niekerk

Publisher: Mabel Dawn Van Niekerk

Published: 2013-11-19

Total Pages: 46

ISBN-13:

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As Christmas draws closer you might be interested in augmenting your supply of decorations for the Christmas tree. Here are a few ideas to make your own baubles for the Christmas tree, and you can of course rope the family in to help you. Children enjoy any project pertaining to Christmas.

Baubles
Baubles

Author: Jackie Keswick

Publisher: Jackie Keswick

Published: 2020-09-13

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13:

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It wasn't the flashiest bauble in the shop, or the largest, but Rica treasured it more than anything else she'd ever made. Every year, it was the only one left unsold. And every year, Rica packed it carefully away, hoping that, one day, someone would be drawn to this particular piece of glass and magic and would come to claim it. She'd almost lost that hope, when a stranger walked into her store. A holiday short story of conviction, hope, and magic. Note: This is a 3400-word, sweet Christmas short story, originally written for the 2018 Rainbow Advent calendar and featuring two female characters.