No Trick or Treats is a coming-of-age, multigenerational narrative about family traditions, loyalty, secrets, mystery, revelations and love. Through the lens of a young impressionable girl Elena Rose the book evolves. Elena is on a life-long journey of discovery and resolution. This complex girl experiences intense flashbacks. Elena Rose enhances family traditions through loyalty and love. The varied and interesting characters in this unique story will elicit fascinating and intriguing emotions. In this unique novel, Elena journeys from her teens through adulthood. She harbors a dark secret for years. Adding suspense and intrigue, a parallel storyline emerges about a New England family commencing from the Civil War to the end of the nineteenth century. These two families intersect in a profound way. The narrative is viewed through Elena's vivid imagination. As she searches for truth and love, she learns to accept losses on this extensive journey of discovery and justice. The story begins in Elena's teenage years in Jersey City, New Jersey and follows her through the hustling town of Chicago, to glamorous Hollywood, California and sedate Walpole, NH. In Chicago she meets people who inform her life. In Hollywood, Elena transforms from a naive girl to an impressionable young woman. Later, in rural Walpole, New Hampshire she addresses previous taxing life's challenges. Throughout the novel, historical references from years past enrich the narrative. Elena's extraordinary life is colored by fears, tears, laughter, and life's lessons. You will be drawn in as you observe her grow from an innocent and insecure young girl to an enlightened and fully developed woman of substance. Elena's extraordinary journey will scare you with Tricks and delight you with Treats.

Halloween is more than haunted in this superscary superspecial story in the frighteningly fun You’re Invited to a Creepover series. When Ashley McDowell’s parents first told her that they were moving from the big city to a one-stoplight farm town, she was convinced that she was going to hate living in Heaton Corners. But to Ashley’s surprise, she loves it. Everyone is super welcoming, especially her new friends. Plus, it’s October and there’s the town’s Harvest Festival, and, of course, Halloween. But, when Ashley starts making plans for Halloween night, she is shocked to find out that her new friends are forbidden to go trick-or-treating. Ashley convinces them to sleep over at her house and go trick-or-treating anyway, but she soon discovers that Halloween in Heaton Corners isn’t like Halloween anywhere else. For one thing, everything seems so much more real…too real. Ashley can’t help but think that maybe Heaton Corners doesn’t need tricks and disguises to be terrifying on Halloween night… This exceedingly scary superspecial story features a glow-in-the-dark cover and bursts through Level 5 on the Creep-o-Meter.

Learn to create these quilts and crafts to decorate your home in its finest for fall. A colorful patch of pumpkins, a fanciful bat make-do pincushion, and more cast a bewitching spell in this celebration of autumn joys. Whether you love fall for its warm palette of hues or its festive celebration of Halloween, you will find the perfect project to warm your home throughout the season. Inspired by her longtime love of Halloween, quilt designer Betsy Chutchian has assembled a diverse array of creative treats, ranging from quilts big and small to a striking orange-and-black diamond table runner and whimsical wool appliqué chair pads. Bonus projects include antique quilts in Betsy’s collection that inspired some of the featured projects as well as a charming pumpkin handbag, a simple yet striking fabric-covered journal, and a clever pincushion crafted from an antique matchbook holder. Betsy also shares her time-tested tips for decking the halls in fall flair.

Jerri Garretson lived a total of 33 years in Manhattan, Kansas, in three periods. This book features 55 topics about life in the years she was growing up there, plus 13 mini-biographies of teachers and neighbors that were important in her life. It is illustrated with over 800 photos of people, places, and events, and even everyday objects most of us no longer use. To assist readers unfamiliar with Manhattan, she has included maps, and to anchor local events to the nation and the world, there is a timeline. The book is thoroughly indexed. Though many dates and events are mentioned, it is not a history of the city, but rather an entertaining account about the way of life in that time and place. Please be aware that this is a 298 page, heavily illustrated book in the same fixed format as the printed book. As such, it is a download of about large download of approximately 227 MB and will take much longer to download than a novel in flowing format that has no illustrations.

In 1999 the French bishops condemned the celebration of Halloween in France. In 2003 the Moscow Department of Education recommended the banning of Halloween celebrations in all educational institutions under its control. In 2008 a group of Catalan intellectuals launched an internet petition against the Halloween celebrations organised by the Port Aventura theme park, arguing that they were detrimental to long-standing Catalan traditions associated with 31 October. In the meantime children and young people all over Europe—and increasingly adults—are energetically adopting and adapting the American version of Halloween as a source of fun, community building and general revelry. So are we all being tricked by rampant cultural imperialism, or responding creatively to the arrival of Halloween as a welcome onset-of-winter treat? This book, which arose out of the first-ever conference on the topic of Halloween held in Glasgow, Scotland, on 31 October 2006, brings together a series of studies examining the phenomenon of Halloween from a wide range of perspectives: its origins; the ways in which it is now and has been in the past celebrated in the British Isles; its spectacular arrival in both Eastern and Western Europe over the last two decades; its links with tourism; and its multifaceted presence in the media. What emerges is a phenomenon of astonishing complexity, characterised by multiple meanings and intense battles over ownership.

Trick-or-Treat! Move over, bite-size candy bars, it's time to put some Halloween Mad Libs stories in your pumpkin basket! What better way to celebrate Halloween than with these 21 new and hilarious fill-in-the-blank Mad Libs stories, full of creepy tales, costumes, and funny frights!

This “entertaining” guide features “Halloween trends past and present...costumes, recipes, movies, parties, myths and expeditions” (Publishers Weekly). What is the difference between a goblin and a ghoul? What's the recipe for pumpkin soup? Where can you see the oldest Halloween parade in the United States? Have you ever wondered how to keep your carved pumpkin from decaying too quickly? If you're looking for information and instructions about every aspect of Halloween, you've come to the right place. A Halloween How-To is packed with ideas for October 31. There are fifty great costumes you can make yourself, recipes for everything from fake blood to pumpkin soup, and lists of great movies, CDs, and spooky books. Author Lesley Bannatyne has even assembled a number of games drawn from early twentieth-century Halloween celebrations and includes sample text for party invitations. “This how-to offers everything anyone would ever want to know about All Hallows Eve. . . . A useful reference for both the growing population of adults who revel in Halloween and folks who seek to make the trick-or-treat experience a little more harrowing for unsuspecting children in costume.” —Booklist