• African-American Holiday Traditions:
Celebrating with Passion, Style and
Grace by Antoinette Broussard
(Birch Lane Press, $22.50)
• Christmas around the World
series (Bridgestone Books, $18.60
per volume): How the holidays are
celebrated in England, France, Russia, Australia, Greece, Brazil and other
countries.
• Encyclopedia of Christmas by Tanya Gulevich (Omnigraphics, $24.95)
• Folklore of World Holidays edited
by Robert Griffin and Ann Shurgin
(Gale Group, $165)
• Holidays, Festivals and Celebrations
of the World Dictionary, 2nd edition,
by Helene Henderson and Sue Ellen Thompson (Omnigraphics, $88)
• Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family,
Community and Culture by Maulana Karenga (University of Sankore Press, $24.95)
• The Latino Holiday Book: From Cinco
de Mayo to Dia de los Muertos, the
Celebrations and Traditions of Hispanic-Americans (Marlowe & Co., $15.95)
Holiday cookbooks
• The Christmas Cookbook: Recipes to
Celebrate the Festive Season by Sue
Maggs (Southwater Publishing, $12.95)
• Fast & Festive Meals for the Jewish
Holidays: Complete Menus, Rituals, and Party-Planning Ideas for Every Holiday
of the Year by Marlene Sorosky, Joanne
Neuman and Debbie Shahvar (William Morrow & Co., $27)
• The Festive Christmas Cookbook:
A Treasury of Old Traditions, Recipes and Lore of the Christmas Season by Norma Jost Voth (Budget Book Service, $9.99)
• Holiday Cooking around the World (Lerner Publishing, $7.95)
• A Kwanzaa Keepsake: Celebrating the Holiday with New Traditions and Feasts
by Jessica Harris (Fireside, $14)