Download or read book Alfie in the Bath written by Debi Gliori and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second picture book about Alfie, the little rabbit with the BIG imagination. A gatefold page takes Alfie on a magical deep-sea adventure at bathtime.

Download or read book The Bath Time Book written by Michael Yu and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-18 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was eight o'clock and time for bed, but Alfie wasn't tired. Alfie doesn't want a bath. He just wants to play. Read along as Alfie turns this nightly chore into a fun, imaginary adventure. From safari hunts to slaying dragons, bath time will never be the same. This is the perfect book to read before bed or bath!

Download or read book Alfie s Quest written by Allan Giles and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story is set in the summer of 1962, the swinging sixties and a more liberal society. A time of Sex Drugs and Rock and Roll. There are two central characters, namely Alfie and Harry, both in their teens and the best of friends. Boy-Girl relationships together with the proverbial annual British seaside holiday are very much on the agenda. Alfie aged 17, was struggling with being a virgin unlike Harry aged 18, who had many sexual conquests. The sixties marked a watershed moment affecting all walks of the British way of life.It was really a turning point from the old to the modern. The times were now being driven by youth and you could say the adults were the ones now being educated in the process with new attitudes to sex, music and fashion. One thing that doesn't change is the proverbial seaside holiday.The story begins one Sunday morning after a fight the night before at the local Church dance and the imminent revenge that's about to take place, however the story will take you back a week earlier, before moving on and eventually unfolding the unforgettable holiday in Great Yarmouth. Involving the holiday accommodation, the girls they encounter and pop stars from a show at the Windmill theatre. All throughout the book you will be reminded of the classic songs of the sixties.

Download or read book The Trap written by Mary Jane Staples and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderfully humourous Cockney saga from multi-million copy seller Mary Jane Staples. Perfect for fans of Maggie Ford, Kitty Neale and Katie Flynn. Perfect to settle down with! READERS ARE LOVING THE TRAP! "Loved this book, a very easy read with a lovely story" - 5 STAR REVIEW "Loved the humour in this book; also a great story" - 5 STAR REVIEW "Brilliant book. Love all Mary Jane Staples books." - 5 STAR REVIEW "Captivating" - 5 STAR REVIEW ********************************************************* THE MOMENT HE MET HER HE KNEW LIFE WAS NEVER GOING TO BE THE SAME AGAIN... When Jamie Blair, twenty-four, unemployed, and back from the trenches, takes lodgings at Larcom Street in Walworth, he has no idea he is walking into a trap. The house is owned by Henry Mullins - a big, burly, hard drinker who makes life hell for his four stepchildren, all half-starved and frequently hit. It's Kitty, seventeen, who Jamie feels most sorry for. She takes the brunt of Mullins' bad temper, whilst trying to protect her sisters and brother. When Mullins suddenly dies - in somewhat suspicious circumstances - Kitty realises they could be in trouble. If she isn't careful the authorities could take the younger children away - split the family up... Too late Jamie finds himself with a ready-made family and a stubborn and fiery young lady called Kitty determined not to let him go.

Download or read book Saturdays at Noon written by Rachel Marks and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the emotionally gripping and uplifting page-turner that will put a smile on your face 'Heart-breaking and full of hope' WOMAN & HOME 'Wonderful, compassionate, unpredictable' GRAEME SIMSION, author of THE ROSIE PROJECT 'I genuinely couldn't recommend Saturdays At Noon enough' 5***** READER REVIEW ________ EMILY JUST WANTS TO KEEP THE WORLD AWAY. After getting into trouble yet again, she's agreed to attend anger management classes. But she refuses to share her deepest secrets with a room full of strangers. JAKE JUST WANTS TO KEEP HIS FAMILY TOGETHER. He'll do anything to save his marriage and bond with his six-year-old son, Alfie. But when he's paired with spiky Emily, he wonders whether opening up will do more harm than good. The two of them couldn't be more different. Yet when Alfie, who never likes strangers, meets Emily, something extraordinary happens. COULD ONE SMALL BOY CHANGE EVERYTHING? _________ 'Totally loveable and completely unforgettable' CLAIRE POOLEY 'I loved this book' KATIE FFORDE Readers LOVE Saturdays at Noon . . . 'Such a special book . . . the characters jump off the page and pull you immediately into their world' 5***** Reader Review 'This book was FANTASTIC. When I wasn't reading it I couldn't stop thinking about it' 5***** Reader Review 'Outstanding. I have goosebumps typing this review . . . The story telling is the best I have read in a long time' 5***** Reader Review Longlisted for the Guardian's 'Not The Booker' prize!

Download or read book A Goodnight Story written by Maria TeWeehi and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its about trying to organize the children to do their chores and to bathe before its time to read the bedtime story.

Download or read book FURY THE FLOWER written by Ersen OLĞAR and published by Ersen OLĞAR. This book was released on with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfie Fury is a genius, book worm and neat student. He is successful at highschool and always carries the book 1984 by George ORWELL with him. But, it doesn't go well with his family. He thinks it is a good idea to have the university education in another city in order to get away from his family because he wakes up to a morning of hatred everyday at home. He begins a new education life at the branch of physics and chemistry in California University due to his love of science. His years at university pass in poverty and he only has one friend, and also a British old friend whom he remembers sometimes and misses so much. He applies for jobs to some science institutions for earning his life at his university years but when he gets refused, he comes across a hot dog seller coincidentally and starts to work for him. Besides all, his biggest mistake is to mess with an illegal gumbling gang. He learns on the phone that his brother who was on duty in the army is dead and goes back to West Virginia, to where he never wanted to go back. Later, he falls in love with his new neighbour Valerie, whom he has seen for the first time in the garden in his life. Valerie is his first love in the life. He notices that his poor mother Sarah is still a worker at a textile factory, his brother has achieved nothing in his life yet and his quarrelsome father Micheal is still a drunk during the time he is home. He thinks he is right again and starts to develop intimacy with his love. This becomes possible due to Valerie's artist personality and Alfie's fondness to art. After a time, Alfie learns the truth from a colonel at the military service. He is told that his father was an old agent and his brother died in Turkey for special-ops. The colonel tells him that his family is in trouble with the Turks. Alfie turns to be a murderer in the chain of events for the sake of protecting the people who he loves both from the Turks and the gambling gang and he murders other people. Then, he begins to feel pleasure of that. He lastly murders his father and finally gets arrested owing to Valerie's betrayal after witnessing the murder. He gets judged and sentenced to execution by the electric chair. The execution is delayed for a week due to Alfie's confessions and he gets some time. He takes the advantage of his devilish mind in the jail and escapes from prison. Oddly, this becomes possible with his murdering another prisoner there. He's gone to England. He lives in a hotel room for a while. However, he can make us feel that he is insomniac. At last, he leaves the hotel room and decides to visit his English old friend. The prison-breaker, murderer, Alfie Fury disguises himself and steps forward to London streets. He finds out that his old friend passed away a short time ago. Both since he is bored of the police after him and his only love Valerie, who betrayed him, occurs in his head, he turns his route back to West Virginia city from where he wanted to stay away throughout his life. He gets caught by the police in front of Valerie's door but insists on not coming before seeing Valerie. Atfer seeing her, he tells his last words and commits a suicide by his own gun. Briefly, this is the story of Alfie Fury, who was world's most ordinary and quiet but genius man, his losing everything due to the urge of prorecting the people he loves and his wish to death because of endless family quarrels apart from his lover's betrayal.

Download or read book And the Rest of Alfie s Story written by Henry A. Buchanan and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2001-02-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Easterday Adventure with The Moonshiners, Alfie was a big boy growing toward manhood. He had eaten the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and he had become responsible for his own actions. But with Ace as his Demon, and Junior as his ever-present Gadfly, Alfie found himself in frequent trouble. Mama was his Guiding Angel, though, and Papa was the Instrument of Punishment. Uncle Seeb was the Shining Ebony Light to illuminate his path. And LOVE for he discovered girls, and he yearned to be a Hero. His world was changing too, because Jody was now the Baby, and Willie and Cliff and Junior all went away to the War in Europe. He became the Man of the House when Papa was killed and he held in his hand Papas Watch, the Arbiter of Time and the Measuring Rod of Life.

Download or read book Time to Sleep Alfie Bear written by Catherine Walters and published by Magi Publications. This book was released on 2006-03-04 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfie Bear doesn't want to go to bed. He's not at all sleepy. The fish and the owls and the wolves are all still awake and Alfie wants to be like them, splashing and swooping and howling into the night! But Alfie's high spirits are keeping the baby twins awake. Will Mother Bear ever persuade the little bear to go to sleep? Another touching and funny story about this lively, determined little bear, that captures perfectly the toddler's determination to stay awake for ever.

Download or read book Andrew written by Jennifer Beckstrand and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew, Abraham, and Austin Petersheim’s family business has earned them the nickname The Peanut Butter Brothers. But if their matchmaking younger siblings have their way, all three may soon bear another title: husband . . . Handsome, hardworking, and godly, Andrew Petersheim has always been sure of his place in his Wisconsin Amish community. He’ll be a welcome catch for the local girl who finally captures his heart. Mary Coblenz certainly isn’t that girl. Two years after “jumping the fence” for the Englischer world, she’s returned, unmarried and pregnant. Yet instead of hiding in shame as others in the community expect, she’s working at the Honeybee Farm, ignoring the gossips—and winning over Andrew’s eight-year-old twin brothers . . . For all Andrew’s certainty about right and wrong, it seems he has a lot to learn from Mary’s courage, grace, and resilience. She’s changing his notions about forgiveness and love, but will she in turn accept the challenge of starting over and choose to stay—with him? Praise for Jennifer Beckstrand and her Matchmakers of Huckleberry Hill series “Full of kind, sincere characters struggling with the best ways to stay true to themselves and their beliefs.” —Publishers Weekly “A heart-warming story of faith, hope, and second chances. The story will captivate readers who love the Amish culture and enjoy an endearing romance.” —Amy Clipston, bestselling author of A Place at Our Table

Download or read book His Lordship s Return written by Samantha SoRelle and published by Balcarres Books LLC. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Dominick and Alfie, it feels like they've only just settled into life at Balcarres House when an urgent letter from an old friend has them racing back to London. However, they're not returning to Alfie's swirling ton of money and nobility, but to the dark underside of the city that Dominick knows all too well. In a desperate race against time, they'll have to walk streets that Alfie barely remembers and Dominick hoped to forget. Their return brings up terrors better left in the past and for one of them, the strain may be too much to bear. Under the shadow of the workhouse, they'll have to act quickly to stop a killer or the lives lost may be their own. His Lordship’s Return is the third novel in the His Lordship’s Mysteries series.

Download or read book The Adventures of Master Alfie London written by Hamish McTavish and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London 1842 - Unwilling to be shackled by his orphan tag and the Mile End Poorhouse, 10-year-old Alfie London is desperate to break out and explore the world by way of a naval career. Following a chance encounter, Alfie meets the well-to-do Alexandria Scott. Together with their stray Jack Russel, Rocket, they fearlessly stowaway into the unknown in search of adventure. And adventure is what they soon find! The kind that will test their mettle to the limits and take them on a magical journey to save their imprisoned shipmates. Tackling puzzles, villains, and mythical creatures at every turn, they must find a way to ensure that the history of the world as we know it comes to pass! Where their only hope is finding the long-lost Scrolls of Shangri-La and, in turn, the enchanting and miraculous kingdom itself!

Download or read book His Lordship s Blood written by Samantha SoRelle and published by Balcarres Books LLC. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even after a year of having an earl for a lover, Dominick still isn’t prepared for the dazzling high society of Bath with its ruinous gossip and scandalous fashions. All he wants is to uncover who his parents are so he and Alfie can return to their quiet life in Scotland. But as long-buried secrets come to light, Dominick finds himself trapped in a web of intrigue that may prove impossible to escape. When an old acquaintance winds up dead, it’s almost a relief. With a murder to solve, Alfie and Dominick have a distraction from the jaws of fate slowly closing around them. Assuming, of course, that they can avoid being murdered themselves. Alfie knows how much learning the truth about his family means to Dominick, but as events begin to spin out of control, it soon becomes clear that knowledge may come with a terrible cost—their happiness, their relationship, and even their lives. His Lordship’s Blood is the fourth novel in the His Lordship’s Mysteries series.

Download or read book My Two Lives written by J. J. Levy and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is about choices. For 18-year-old Emma King, she faces a choice which will determine the path her life will follow; does she study at university, or does she join the British Army?

Download or read book Hers to Have and to Hold written by June Francis and published by Canelo. This book was released on 2023-03-16 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How much does she truly know about her husband? Eliza Jones and her husband Bryn had a whirlwind romance and married shortly after meeting, but he was soon sent off to fight. In the midst of a Blitz attack on Liverpool, which leaves Eliza with amnesia, she gives birth to their baby son, Alfie. Still struggling with the aftermath of the birth, Eliza is distraught when Alfie is kidnapped from the nursery. As the search for Alfie progresses and the community bands together around Eliza, she is left with more questions than answers. Who would take her baby, and why? And does she have any hope of being reunited with her baby? When her search for answers leads her back to Bryn’s family, Eliza must ask herself how well she really knew the man she married. A gripping saga set in wartime and post-war Liverpool, perfect for fans of Pam Howes and Katie Flynn. Praise for Hers to Have to Hold ‘What a brilliant page turner and emotional book. Family saga at its best.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader review ‘A lovely heart warming story... I really enjoyed reading this book.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader review

Download or read book The Land written by James A Lloyd and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anja, her brothers Alfie and Toby, and Rob Hemmersley; a young policeman, disappear from a small English village one midsummer night. Why does the Land; a sentient, vast and almost unpopulated world want Anja? Why do its servants; the old Gods of our world, take such interest in this child? One beguiles her, one helps her, one hunts her. What of Rob Hemmersley? Alone, driven insane after entering the Land. Turned into a vicious creature obsessed with taking retribution on the children who he blames for his misfortune? The Land watches dispassionately. The children will either survive or not. If they do they will never be the same, especially Anja; manipulated, terrified, enhanced with power she cannot control. If she survives she could become its most powerful servant. To what end: A child considering her humanity.

Download or read book The Time Traveller written by Elvin Shawyer and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-04-13 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nick Fletcher was just an ordinary man with a relatively ordinary job and was just trying to raise his small family comfortably. And despite lifes day-to-day challenges, he was a happy and content man. Then, one afternoon while on his way home from work, he suffered an accident that would change the focus of his life forever. While trying to seek help after his accident, Nick made an amazing discovery in the dead of night, amid a blinding light! The result being the ability to time travel. Will he be able to rise to the challenges he then has to face? Should anyone have such power at their fingertips? What choices should he make and what effect will these decisions have on the ones he loves? Like time itself, the possibilities are believed to be endless.