Download or read book A Curvy Wonderland written by Kelsie Stelting and published by Kelsie Stelting Creative LLC. This book was released on with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when the Christmas-loving curvy girl is forced to volunteer for a Christmas charity with the grumpiest guy in a town? I’m babysitting two little girls while their mom works and their dad’s deployed. Their mom asked me to keep them busy serving others so they don’t have time to miss their dad. I’m all for it… until I realize the charity she signed us up for is managed by the Scrooge-iest guy in town. You’d think someone who’s grown up selling Christmas trees with a giant, fluffy dog named Bauble would have a little more holiday spirit but no such luck. His parents put him in charge of the project to try boosting his mood. At first, I’m not sure their plan is working, but once I see his gentler side with the girls, I start falling for him, even though I know we’re more opposite than peppermint and garlic. As he opens up to me, I have to wonder… Does all the mistletoe in town have my head coming up with make-believe stories that will never come true? Is he being nice just for the girls? Or could he be thawing his heart for me too?

Download or read book Not Quite Wonderland written by Jennifer Ridge and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice is bored with her daily life; she'd rather fantasize about magic and romance. Her best friend Clary is more concerned with school and homework. One night, Clary and Alice's brother disappear and they find themselves in Laurelin-a kingdom in another world. Their arrival coincides with the disappearance of the Princess. As Clary tries to adjust to her stay in the kingdom, she's recruited to investigate some strange accusations which might be connected to the Princess' disappearance. Princess Elina leads a charmed life. She's happy to leave the kingdom's care in the hands of her older sister, the White Queen, who is trying to clean up the mess their mother left behind. She isn't prepared for one of her guards to turn traitor. He kidnaps her and whisks her away to another world. When they become unintentionally stuck there, Elina has to figure out a way to get home. Thankfully, she finds Alice, who is willing and eager to help. Now if only Elina could understand her kidnapper's motives.

Download or read book Wonderland with the Beast written by Rebecca Hamilton and published by Evershade Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one said saving the world would be easy. But nothing could have prepared Charisse for the sacrifices she would have to make. When Char travels through time to put an end to the dystopian future Darcus has created, she never expects the two lives most in danger would be her best friend’s kids. Or that they would have put themselves in such peril knowingly. And yet, here they are. Now, with the help of old friends, an underground rebellion called ‘Wonderland,’ a mad hatter, and a talking cat, Char must rescue her best friend’s daughter, Alice, all while trying to bridge the gap between supplicants and conduits to put a stop to Darcus’ nefarious plans once and for all. But as Char heads into the belly of the beast, with her own beast Abram at her side, it soon becomes clear that Darcus isn’t just some wicked mastermind. His plans transcend evil and were forged for revenge. Revenge he plans to exact with her blood alone. Just as Char finally reclaims the man Abram was before, she’ll be forced to sacrifice all they’ve fought for to stop Darcus from killing the gods themselves in this thrilling conclusion of The Conduit Series. Scroll up and one click to finish this steamy, action-packed paranormal romance series today! The Conduit Series is complete! Binge Read the Series Today! Taken by the Beast Sleeping with the Beast Charmed by the Beast Granted by the Beast Wonderland with the Beast

Download or read book Once Upon a Winter Wonderland written by Susan May Warren and published by Sunrise Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join USA Today best-selling author Susan May Warren, award-winning author, Rachel D. Russell, and best-selling Minnesota authors Michelle Sass Aleckson and Andrea Christenson in this delightful twist on Bing Crosby’s holiday favorite song, Winter Wonderland. A Deep Haven wedding at Christmas? With snow glistening in the lane, sleigh bells ringing, and all the world a winter wonderland—magical, right? Or maybe not, because the snowstorm of the century has buried their small town, and as Vivien Calhoun and Boone Buckam fight the sleet, snow, and ice, just about everything can—and does—happen to skid their big day into the ditch. It’ll take all their friends—and a few strangers—to turn this Christmas wedding from a blizzard to a beautiful sight in this charming collection of novellas. Discover four enchanting stories featuring old friends, and new, who discover that there just might be a happy ending waiting in this winter wonderland—if only they can shovel their way out of trouble. Book 1: A Beautiful Sight Vivien Calhoun has planned the perfect wedding—and it had better be perfect, because the prewedding day jitters have hit her like a snowplow. Boone’s recent call-outs with the Deep Haven Crisis Team haven’t helped. She just needs a perfect day—and that starts with the perfect dress. The perfect, custom-made dress that she designed, herself. The dress that she left with her seamstress…that has now gone AWOL. It’s a race to find it before their date at the altar…but is the dress just an omen for a wedding day disaster? Book 2: We’re Happy Tonight Detective Duke Lowry hates Christmas, and a wedding at Christmas is simply a double whammy. But he’ll show up as Boone’s best man, and he’ll take charge of Boone’s beloved Mustang, getting it detailed and ready for Vivien’s crazy picture idea. He’ll even put up with Vivien’s quirky, somewhat annoying friend, Zuri, from New York City. And then the Mustang goes missing, and Zuri’s the last one to see it. Suddenly, it’s up to Duke and Zuri to save the day. And along the way, Zuri just might change the Grinch into a guy with a heart of gold. Maybe. Book 3: The Snow is Glistening “Keep the guests happy and don’t burn down anything.” These are Owen Christiansen’s parting words to his cousin, Romeo Young, before leaving him in charge of the Evergreen Resort—and the Wilder wedding venue—while the family vacations in Florida. But when the blizzard hits, Romeo will have to keep the resort running and the wedding on track. The last thing he needs is a tag-along in the form of a guest. But Owen did say to keep the guests happy… Stella Brown can’t believe that she’s third-wheeling on her parents’ second honeymoon, but what’s a girl to do when her life is derailed? Helping Romeo add some Christmas cheer to the resort seems the right answer. But when her “help” turns into horror, has she destroyed yet another bright future? Book 4: Sleigh Bells Ring Pastor Bob Brown feels frozen over. And not just from the Minnesota cold. He’s numb from the never-ending problems in his parish. He just needs a break, okay? A getaway with his wife seems the perfect Christmas holiday. And he’s delighted to have his daughter, Stella, along. Maybe he’ll even get some peace and quiet, and hear, deep in his soul, his now-silent calling. With their best friends recently divorced, and Bob acting, well, weird, Margaret Brown fears the worst. But with this getaway, she intends to put some heat back into her chilly marriage. Thank goodness their daughter seems to have gotten the hint. The only one who remains clueless is Bob. Maybe their love has turned icy, no longer able to hear the love song from the past. But she’s not going to give up… Spend your Christmas in Deep Haven, where the sleigh bells ring and love is listening, in Once Upon a Winter Wonderland.

Download or read book Have Yourself a Curvy Little Christmas written by Sugar Jamison and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of warmth, wit, and voluptuous romance, the Perfect Fit series embraces the holiday spirit with an exclusive new novella--Have Yourself a Curvy Little Christmas! On the first day of Christmas, former wild child Dina Gregory returns home to New York on a mission: To find the father of her young son. Making him take responsibility for the child he helped create is the only thing on Dina's wish list. Instead, she finds herself in an awkward run-in with his stuffy older brother, Ben. Ben has never liked Dina. But he can't help but admire her tenacity—and her bold beauty. Being trapped together during a holiday blizzard offers him a glimpse into what it would be like to have a family, and to fall truly in love. Could it be that Dina has reignited his Christmas spirit? The only thing Ben knows for sure is that her heart is a gift to behold...and he will never let go. Look for Dangerous Curves Ahead and Thrown for a Curve, both from St. Martin's Paperbacks. Praise for Sugar Jamison's Perfect Fit series: "Snarky, sexy, and so much fun. Sugar Jamison is sure to be a hit!"—Kristan Higgins, New York Times bestselling author "Laugh out loud funny and super sexy, with unique characters you can't help but love!"—Lori Foster, New York Times bestselling author "Delightful!"—Susan Donovan, New York Times bestselling author

Download or read book Mist Chances a curvy girl vampire mystery written by Lulu M. Sylvian and published by Moon Tan Press. This book was released on with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It all started with a party. It uncovered a secret. It ended a curse. Willa doesn’t like driving through the fog, even if there is promise of an epic party at the end of it. What she finds is a mysterious castle and a gut feeling that things just aren’t right. She’s in the wrong place at the wrong time, and ends up as the igniting spark of a battle between vampires. With the help of the Red Knight and the Angel in White she escapes with her life and her memories. But she’s the only person who remembers anything. Even the castle is gone. That doesn’t stop Willa. She is determined to uncover the secret she knows is lurking on the other side of the mist, and find the two men she cannot live without. This tale is the bastard child of the Lotus Eaters and Brigadoon blended with true crime cold cases and vampires.

Download or read book Best Bike Rides Denver and Boulder written by Robert Hurst and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for cyclists of all stripes, Best Bike Rides books offer a diverse array of scenic tours in and around some of America’s largest urban destinations. Road rides, rail trails, bike paths, and single-track mountain bike rides all get included. Most rides are in the 5 to 30 mile range, allowing for great afternoon outings and family adventures. Each book features 35-40 rides with color photos, maps, point-by-point miles and directions, and GPS coordinates of starting and finishing points.

Download or read book Alice in Wonderland Step Into written by and published by Words & Pictures. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into Alice in Wonderland. This exquisite board book introduces the classic story to the youngest children with engaging text, beautiful illustrations, and die-cut and layered pages. One summer day, Alice was lying on the riverbank when... "Oh dear, oh dear! I shall be late!" a rabbit cried, dashing down a rabbit hole. Burning with curiosity, Alice followed it. Down, down, down she went... Alice in Wonderland combines a simple narrative with die-cut holes and high-contrast illustrations to create a captivating storytelling experience that encourages tactile interaction. Turn each page to delight in the increasingly expansive spreads. Keep the magic of Alice in Wonderland alive for the next generation with this gorgeous interactive retelling. The Step into... series of interactive board books introduces the youngest children to classic stories through beautifully layered pages featuring bright, contemporary illustrations, die cuts, and gentle text. The illustrations, and wonders, expand as each new layer is revealed. Step into even more classic stories with: The Nutcracker.

Download or read book The Wishing Bridge written by Viola Shipman and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With unabashed winter charm, The Wishing Bridge sparkles with the humor and heart fans of Kristy Woodson Harvey, Nancy Thayer and Jenny Colgan love most. Once the hottest mergers and acquisitions executive in the company, Henrietta Wegner can see the ambitious and impossibly young up-and-comers gunning for her job. When Henri’s boss makes it clear she’ll be starting the New Year unemployed unless she can close a big deal before the holidays, Henri impulsively tells him that she can convince her aging parents to sell Wegner’s—their iconic Frankenmuth, Michigan, Christmas store—to a massive, soulless corporation. It’s the kind of deal cool, corporate Henri has built her career on. Home for the holidays has typically meant a perfunctory twenty-four-hour visit for Henri, then back to Detroit as fast as her car will drive her. So turning up at the Wegner’s offices in early December raises some eyebrows: from her delighted, if puzzled, parents to her suspicious brother and curious childhood friends. But as Henri fields impatient texts from her boss while reconnecting with the magic of the store and warmth of her hometown, what sounded great in the boardroom begins to lose its luster in real life. She’s running out of time to pull the trigger on what could be the greatest success of her career…or the most awkward family holiday of her life. Includes the bonus novella Christmas Angels

Download or read book CSS3 written by Jason Cranford Teague and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With CSS3: Visual QuickStart Guide, readers can start with a tour of the stylesheet language, or skip ahead to any chapter of the book to look up specific tasks covering just what they need to know. This task-based, visual reference guide uses step-by-step instructions, and plenty of screenshots to teach beginning and intermediate users CSS. Best-selling author Jason Cranford Teague takes readers through today's CSS essentials and provides extensive coverage of CSS3 and CSS 2.1 techniques. The book outlines what can be done with CSS3 now and how the latest browsers have implemented many of the new features. Both beginning users, who want a thorough introduction to CSS, and more advanced users, who are looking for a convenient reference, will find what they need here in straightforward language and through readily accessible examples.

Download or read book Love in Winter Wonderland written by Abiola Bello and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sun Is Also a Star meets You’ve Got Mail in this YA Christmas love story set in a London Black-owned bookshop. Charming, handsome Trey Anderson balances the pressures of school popularity with a job at his family’s beloved local bookshop, Wonderland. Quirky, creative Ariel Spencer needs tuition for the prestigious art program of her dreams, and an opening at Wonderland is the answer. When Trey and Ariel learn that Wonderland is on the brink of being shut down by a neighborhood gentrifier, they team up to stop the doors from closing before the Christmas Eve deadline—and embark on a hate-to-love journey that will change them forever. Heartwarming and romantic, this read is the gift that keeps on giving, no matter the season.

Download or read book World of the Jezebel Files Duology An Urban Fantasy Fairy Tale written by Deborah Wilde and published by Te Da Media Inc.. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love, danger, and magic collide in this action-packed urban fantasy featuring witty banter, a shifter romance, and a clever Red Riding Hood retelling. Dr. Raisa Montefiore has based her life on science, but at the moment, only three facts are relevant: A) werewolves don't exist, B) she may have created the one standing in front of her, C) revisit fact A. She’s a magic scientist with a mission to heal, but when her passion project is twisted to create the world’s first wolf shifter and her entire world comes crashing down, she’s thrown from the lab and onto a path filled with changing—and dangerous—unknowns. With her life’s research on the line, she’s forced to work with the wolf, an infuriating man who was bossy enough before he went furry. Worse still is their cover story: fake dating. Their deadly pursuers are looking pretty good in comparison. She’s trusting the Big Bad Wolf to protect her from the perils of the forest, while hoping he’s not the biggest danger of them all. Or that she won't give in to the urge to throw his corpse in a vat of strong acid, leaving no trace of his remains. Either way, Raisa is redeeming her life’s work and no man—or wolf—is going to stop her. If you like KF Breene, Annabel Chase, and Heather G Harris, you’ll burn through this clever, fast-paced duology! Includes the titles: Howl at the Moon (World of Jezebel, #1) Lost in the Woods (World of Jezebel, #2) Join the hunt now.

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Download or read book Happy written by Celina Baljeet Basra and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2024-11-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Leaping, chattering, dancing atop this conundrum [of global migration] comes the hero of Celina Baljeet Basra’s debut novel, Happy Singh Soni, his head bursting with ideas, his heart set on gargantuan dreams." —New York Times "Bighearted." —New York Times Book Review, Editor's Choice/Staff Pick ★Publishers Weekly ★Bookpage ★Booklist In a rural village of Punjab, India, a moony young man crouches over his phone in a rapeseed field near his family’s cabbage farm. His name is Happy Singh Soni, and he’s watching YouTube clips of his favorite film, Bande à Part by Jean-Luc Godard. In fact, Happy is often compared to a young Sami Frey by the imaginary journalists that keep him company while he uses the outhouse. Pooing, as he says, “en plein air.” When he’s not sleeping among the cabbages and eating his mother’s sugary rotis, Happy dreams of becoming an actor, one who plays the melancholy roles—sad, pretty boys, rare in Indian cinema. There are macho leads and funny boys en masse, but if you’re looking for depth and vulnerability, you must make your own heroes. Then comes Wonderland, an eccentric facsimile of Disneyland that steadily buys up the local farms, rebranding the community’s traditional way of life. Happy works a dead-end job at the amusement park, biding his time and saving money for a clandestine journey to Europe, where he’ll finally land a breakout role. Little does he know that his immigration is being coordinated by a transnational crime syndicate. After a nightmarish passage to Italy, Happy still manages to find relief in food and fantasy, even as he is forced into ever-worsening work conditions over a debt he allegedly accrued in transit. But his daydreams grow increasingly at odds with his bleak reality, one shared by so many migrant workers disenfranchised by the systems that depend on their labor. At turns funny and poetic, sunny and tragic, Happy is a daring feat of postmodern literature, a polyphonic novel about the urgent, lovely coping mechanisms created by generations of diasporic people. Set against the enmeshed crises of global migration and the politics of labor within the food industry, Celina Baljeet Basra’s luminous debut argues for the things that are essential to human survival: food, water, a place to lay one’s head, but also pleasure, romance, art, and the inalienable right to a vivid inner life.

Download or read book California Cottages written by Diane Dorrans Saeks and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 1996-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the concept of the cottage-style home, and presents examples built and decorated by Californians.

Download or read book Reclaiming Canadian Bodies written by Lynda Mannik and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central focus of Reclaiming Canadian Bodies is the relationship between visual media, the construction of Canadian national identity, and notions of embodiment. It asks how particular representations of bodies are constructed and performed within the context of visual and discursive mediated content. The book emphasizes the ways individuals destabilize national mainstream visual tropes, which in turn have the potential to destabilize nationalist messages. Drawing upon rich empirical research and relevant theory, the contributors ask how and why particular bodies (of Estonian immigrants, sports stars, First Nations peoples, self-identified homosexuals, and women) are either promoted and upheld as “Canadian” bodies while others are marginalized in or excluded from media representations. Essays are grouped into three sections: Embodied Ideals, The Embodiment of “Others,” and Embodied Activism and Advocacy. Written in an accessible style for a broad audience of scholars and students, this volume is original within the field of visual media, affect theory, and embodiment due to its emphasis on detailed empirical and, in some cases, ethnographic research within a Canadian context.

Download or read book Festive Fever written by Hallie Bennett and published by The Arrowed Heart. This book was released on 2022-08-17 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emery Michaels wishes for a Christmas miracle... to be paired with her TV crush, Calder Mayfield—after becoming a volunteer at MerryCon. Instead, she gets matched with Thatcher North, an actor who's trying to stage a comeback. Thatcher North needs some Christmas magic... like a resurrected career after participating in MerryCon. Too bad the curvy volunteer assigned to him smells like holiday cookies and looks good enough to eat... He can't afford distractions, but perhaps Emery is the holiday miracle he needs? Short and hot, this quick read is for fans of Hallmark Christmas movies who need ALL the steam (no fade to black or ending on kisses here). Just a curvy girl and a filthy-talking hero who are definitely on Santa's Naughty List!