new year

A boy confronts his mother's suitor on New Year's Eve when the boy kills the man's duck and, in a fit of anger, the man kills the boy's dog.

Describes the origins of New Year's celebrations and traditions and how they differ throughout the world. Includes a glossary of terms.

Text and photographs depict the celebration of Chinese New Year by Chinese Americans living in San Francisco's Chinatown.

Provides information about the Chinese New Year, a fifteen-day celebration that starts on the first day of the lunar year in January or February, discussing the feasting, gifts, parades, and other traditions that characterize the holiday.

Describes how countries around the world traditionally celebrate the New Year, including rowdy parties, special feasts, and spiritual ceremonies and covering such countries as Brazil, China, and England.

Charlie Brown spends his Christmas vacation reading "War and Peace" and worrying about a New Year's Eve party. Based on a television special.

Presents 247 alphabetized entries on Christmas and New Year's celebrations around the world, discussing both religious and folk symbols, legends, and traditions.

Miss Flora McFlimsey has a surprise late night visitor on New Year's Eve.

A picturesque monograph of the rites, ceremonies and observances in relation thereto--t.p.

A former talk-show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother, each intending to commit suicide, find themselves together on the roof of a London building and begin to contemplate their individual choices and circumstances.