Download or read book Repo Elf written by Tom Sims and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travis Johnson is no ordinary kid. He has caught one of Santas elves in the act of stealing back a gift! Honcho is no ordinary elf. He leads the special squad that take back gifts from naughty children who were only pretending to be nice. Now Santa must step in to resolve the situation. Can Santa forgive Travis? Will Travis get a second chance to do good? Repo Elf is a cautionary tale more for bigger kids and grown-ups than little kids. But everyone can learn something from this story of an elf seeking justice and a kids personal road to redemption.

Download or read book Take a Chance on Me written by Jill Mansell and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even in a small town the drama is larger than life... Cleo Quinn doesn't have the greatest track record when it comes to men, but now Will's come along. Handsome and attentive, he could be her Mr Right. Things are definitely looking up for Cleo... apart from one small problem with a rather large ego. Johnny LaVenture, sculptor extraordinaire and her personal childhood nemesis, is back in Channing's Hill and tormenting her as if he'd never been away. Meanwhile Cleo's sister Abbie has a problem of her own—husband Tom has become distant and withdrawn, and she's determined to find out why. But will the shocking truth mean the end of their idyllically happy marriage? The sisters are about to discover that the past can come back to haunt you, and that love can flourish in the unlikeliest of places... Praise for Jill Mansell: "Pick this up at your peril: you won't get a thing done till it's finished." —Heat Magazine "Witty and charming, this easygoing tale is full of twists that make it hard to put down." —Woman Magazine "Mansell knows her craft and delivers a finely tuned romantic comedy." —Kirkus "A fast pace and fun writing make the story fly by." —Publishers Weekly

Download or read book The Naughty List written by Michael Fry and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A great story, lively drawings, and a cast of unforgettable characters. What else could you want for Christmas? The Naughty List is a book for all seasons!" —Lincoln Peirce, bestselling author of the Big Nate series "Will keep kids laughing from start to finish." —Publishers Weekly Fans of the Big Nate and Diary of a Wimpy Kid series will love this laugh-out-loud funny Christmas adventure packed with comic illustrations. When Bobbie's hilariously bumbling efforts to save her brother's Christmas actually land him on Santa's Naughty List, she must travel to the North Pole to make things right again and save Christmas. Bobbie suddenly finds herself on an epic holiday adventure complete with rogue elves, dysfunctional reindeer, a lazy Santa, and more.

Download or read book Mazin Grace written by Dylan Coleman and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the powerful, rhythmic sounds of Aboriginal English and Kokatha language woven through the narrative, Mazin Grace is the inspirational story of a feisty girl who refuses to be told who she is, determined to uncover the truth for herself. Growing up on the Mission isn’t easy for clever Grace Oldman. When her classmates tease her for not having a father, she doesn’t know what to say. Pappa Neddy says her dad is the Lord God in Heaven, but that doesn’t help when the Mission kids call her a bastard. As Grace slowly pieces together clues that might lead to answers, she struggles to find a place in a community that rejects her for reasons she doesn’t understand. In this novel, author Dylan Coleman fictionalizes her mother’s childhood at the Koonibba Lutheran Mission in South Australia in the 1940s and 1950s.

Download or read book Bohemia Bells written by Lucy Lakestone and published by Velvet Petal Press. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MERRY MAYHEM AT A CHRISTMAS WEDDING! A hot holiday romantic comedy … When my friends draft me to plan their Christmas wedding, I’m not worried. I’m a natural organizer, even if I don’t know what to do with my life. I figure a spectacular centerpiece is just what this wedding needs, and a world-renowned sand sculptor with ties to Bohemia Beach will be just the guy to create it. But soon I realize my expensive impulse might cost me. No matter how talented Bennett is, he’s also a troublemaker, stirring up spats with the snooty caterer and driving me to distraction. Worse, I can’t resist him, even as his merrymaking steers us toward a wedding-day disaster. The Christmas Eve deadline is coming up fast, my organized life is completely muddled, we have a critical shortage of mistletoe, and I’m losing my heart in the mayhem. Bohemia Bells is a hot holiday romantic comedy featuring a heroine seeking a calling that will stick, a sand sculptor with a penchant for pranks, and stockings full of friends and fun. This is the sixth book in the Bohemia Beach Series, each a steamy standalone romance set among a circle of artists in the enchanting Florida city they call home. "Lucy Lakestone writes sizzling, smart, sexy beach romances that are hard to put down and impossible to forget." - Roxanne St. Claire, New York Times bestselling author THE BOHEMIA BEACH SERIES While each title can be read on its own, the books have interconnected characters and settings, and you may wish to read them in order: 1. Bohemia Beach 2. Bohemia Light 3. Bohemia Blues 4. Bohemia Heat 5. Bohemia Nights 6. Bohemia Bells 7. Bohemia Chills

Download or read book The M lamare Mystery written by Maurice Leblanc and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mélamare Mystery (also known as The Mysterious Mansion) is the eighteenth novel in the Arsene Lupin series of books by Maurice Leblanc. The book tells the story of a diamond theft and the kidnapping of Régine Aubry, an actress. Arsene Lupin, under the pseudonym Jean d'Enneris, is hired by jewel magnate Van Houben in an attempt to solve the crime. The mystery deepens however when a second kidnapping takes place, and a history of rivalry and hatred between two families is uncovered.

Download or read book Letters to Santa Claus written by The Elves and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “poignant” collection of real letters sent to Santa Claus—a town in Indiana—from the 1930s to the twenty-first century, from both children and adults (The New York Times). For countless Christmases, children—and sometimes adults—have stuffed their dreams, wishes, and promises into envelopes. Over many decades, millions of these letters have poured into Santa Claus, Indiana. Arriving from all corners of the globe, the letters ask for toys, family reunions, snow, and help for the needy—sometimes the needy being the writers themselves. They are candid, heartfelt, and often blunt. Many children wonder how Santa gets into their chimneyless homes. One child reminds Santa that she has not hit her brothers over 1,350 times that year, and another respectfully requests two million dollars in “cold cash.” One child hopes to make his life better with a time machine, an adult woman asks for a man, and one miscreant actually threatens Santa’s reindeer! Containing more than 250 actual letters and envelopes from the naughty and nice reaching back to the 1930s, this moving book will touch hearts and bring back memories of a time in our lives when the man with a white beard and a red suit held out the hope that our wishes might come true. “Often very affecting . . . also offers an unusual window into American history.” —Library Journal “The letters . . . are alternately silly and somber, hilarious and heartfelt.” —The Weekly Standard

Download or read book The Elf on the Shelf written by Carol V. Aebersold and published by . This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas Tradition is an activity the entire family will enjoy. Based on the tradition Carol Aebersold began with her family in the 1970s, this cleverly rhymed children's book explains that Santa knows who is naughty and/or nice because he sends a scout elf to every home. During the holiday season, the elf watches children by day and reports to Santa each night. When children awake, the elf has returned from the North Pole and can be found hiding in a different location. This activity allows The Elf on the Shelf to become a delightful hide-and-seek game.

Download or read book The Lotterys More or Less written by Emma Donoghue and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eagerly awaited sequel to The Lotterys Plus One! Sumac Lottery is the keeper of her family's traditions -- from Pow Wow to Holi, Carnival to Hogmanay, Sumac's on guard to make sure that no Lottery celebration gets forgotten. But this winter all Sumac's seasonal plans go awry when a Brazilian visitor overstays his welcome. A terrible ice storm grounds all flights, so one of her dads and her favorite brother can't make it home from India. And then the power starts going out across the city...Can Sumac hang on to the spirit of the season, even if nothing is going like a Lottery holiday should?

Download or read book Nobbut a Lad written by Alan Titchmarsh and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Give me the boy and I will show you the man’ the saying goes. In this warm, tender, wonderfully evocative and often hilarious memoir one of the best-loved men in Britain, Alan Titchmarsh, brilliantly recalls his childhood in 1950s Yorkshire. Growing up in the beautiful landscape that surrounds Ilkley in Wharfedale inspired Alan’s early passion for nature. In a time of post-war austerity, hard work and ‘making do’ was not just the lot of the grown-ups; for the young Alan it was also the simplest pleasures that were the best – whether it was climbing trees, fishing in streams, or riding wooden carts fitted with old pram wheels. With the sharpest eye for detail and vivid recall, he brings to life the various family members, school friends – and foes – teachers and local characters who became the powerful early influences of Alan’s life. A joy from beginning to end, this is a classic childhood memoir.

Download or read book The Churchman written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Any Way You Slice It written by Stan Cox and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rationing: it’s a word—and idea—that people often loathe and fear. Health care expert Henry Aaron has compared mentioning the possibility of rationing to “shouting an obscenity in church.” Yet societies in fact ration food, water, medical care, and fuel all the time, with those who can pay the most getting the most. As Nobel Prize–winning economist Amartya Sen has said, the results can be “thoroughly unequal and nasty.” In Any Way You Slice It, Stan Cox shows that rationing is not just a quaint practice restricted to World War II memoirs and 1970s gas station lines. Instead, he persuasively argues that rationing is a vital concept for our fragile present, an era of dwindling resources and environmental crises. Any Way You Slice It takes us on a fascinating search for alternative ways of apportioning life’s necessities, from the goal of “fair shares for all” during wartime in the 1940s to present-day water rationing in a Mumbai slum, from the bread shops of Cairo to the struggle for fairness in American medicine and carbon rationing on Norfolk Island in the Pacific. Cox’s question: can we limit consumption while assuring everyone a fair share? The author of Losing Our Cool, the much debated and widely acclaimed examination of air-conditioning’s many impacts, here turns his attention to the politically explosive topic of how we share our planet’s resources.

Download or read book Words and Their Uses Past and Present written by Richard Grant White and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Words and Their Uses Past and Present A Study of the English Language written by Richard Grant White and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-02 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

Download or read book Perfect Murders written by Peter Van De Graaff and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teacher Jane married Head master John Crocker in order to have a family. When she realizes she married a boring sterile man she seeks her form of justice and retribution by having affairs with fellow science teacher Paul Belmont, whose wife Meredith is a few months pregnant, and his best friend, prosecutor lawyer Vincent Myles. The men see it as a bit of a lark, Jane sees it as her only way to get a baby she desperately wants. The affair spins out of control, threatening the men's marriages and careers. When Jane blithely informs Paul she is pregnant he finally realizes what her game had been all along. He feels used and abused and threatened and when an unexpected opportunity to kill her with impunity crops up he acts on it without thinking of the morality or consequences. Johnny, a nerdy student, who constructed the fatal Leyden jar that killed Jane is sent to an institution but local gossip ties Paul and Vincent in with Jane and reckon the lad was treated unjustly. Paul thinks only he and Vincent knew Jane was pregnant, but his wife also knew and kept it a secret believing John Crocker to be the father. When Meredith is told John was sterile she realizes her husband murdered Jane. She confronts Paul but decides to stay with him for their two children's sake. Johnny sees a photo of Vincent and recognizes him as the man smooching with Jane an hour or so before she got killed and realizes he'd been set up . He stirs up trouble by sending Paul, Vincent and Det. Symonds an identical bin to the one used as the Leyden jar that killed Jane. With it he sends a collage of heavily pregnant Jane holding hands with Paul and Vincent, all blessed by the judge who arranged his incarceration. The wives take delivery of the bins, understand the awful meaning and mayhem results. Vincent has a fatal accident trying to evade justice whilst Paul's intended apology to Johnny is misconstrued and Johnny accidentally kills him but is able to cover it as suicide.

Download or read book Creepy Christmas written by Jaimie Admans and published by Jaimie Admans. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange things are occurring in the neighbourhood. A mysterious snowfall, one Santa too many, and eyes of coal that watch you wherever you go. Ten-year-old Kaity is busy trying to get rid of her mum's creepy new boyfriend and reunite her divorced parents, but her curiosity gets the better of her when she meets the new mall Santa and his enchanting daughter Blizzard. Can Kaity help them save Christmas from being destroyed by Anti-Claus - a pretend Santa who is a permanent member of the naughty list? It's Christmas in the village of Chelferry, but this year the snowmen can move, the fairy won't stay on top of the Christmas tree, and if you listen closely to the musical Christmas cards, you can hear the faint sound of screaming over the Jingle Bells... - - - - - - - - - - Creepy Christmas is a 50,000 word (approx 200 pages) novel suitable for ages 8 and upwards. [Keywords: Christmas, family, divorce, middle-grade, Santa, holidays, festive, freebie, free.]

Download or read book It s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas written by Maureen Reil and published by Maureen Reil. This book was released on 2017-12-23 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robyn Cross was looking forward to Christmas but not anymore. Not after she found out that her husband cheated on her so she wants to divorce him despite loving the bones of the man, which makes it worse. Only first, they decide that for the sake of everybody they know and love that they will spend one last perfect Christmas together and try to fake it until they make it past not only Christmas but New Year’s too and even beyond their daughter’s birthday. If they can just last that long without giving the game away that is, for this is all for show remember so no forgetting that and falling back into old habits. However, if they do fail then that will surely ruin the festivities altogether for not just them but their family too. Well they are all going on a three-day trip to a Winter Wonderland Hotel Experience, so the atmosphere needs to be warmer than the weather outside since that is cold enough for snow. Will they succeed and make it a memorable Christmas for all the right reasons? Will they mess up despite being on their best behaviour, when the ex turns up to pour fuel on the fire? If you are in need of some funny festive fiction to get you laughing through this special season, then pick up this hilarious British novel which contains quite a few swear words so you have been warned. While you can be glad, you’re not the potty mouthed Robyn Cross for actions do have consequences and they’re not always so easy to make good on. As she finds out, but will you?