Download or read book Josie s Handyman written by Renie Smith and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I wrote this book because I identify with Josie in so many ways and wanted to show that in spite of betrayal and broken trust, relationships and families can be healed and restored. Reconciliation is possible even though it may not be easy to accomplish. Lies can be forgiven and love can bloom within the forgiveness of our Heavenly Father. I hope this story will help others struggling with these issues and many more. I love Josie and hope readers will as well.

Download or read book Camp Bestival at Home written by Josie da Bank and published by Random House. This book was released on 2024-05-23 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get wild. Get messy. 'Dad dance' like no one’s watching. Nourish your body and mind. Let go of the reins and the routines. Make memories and have some serious fun. From the co-founders of the award-winning family festival, Camp Bestival at Home is the perfect handbook for parents who want to bring the magical ethos of the festival home. Packed with activities, recipes and ideas to keep the whole family inspired all year round, why not get back to nature and stargaze. For kids with endless energy, you could organise a kitchen disco or put on a show. Go foraging, learn circus skills and face painting, or make festive decorations. And relax after all the activity with a family feast, plus some yoga for the grown-ups. Written and illustrated by Camp Bestival co-founders Josie and Rob da Bank, with contributions from celebrity friends and festival regulars Fatboy Slim, Sara Cox, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Fearne Cotton and Jo Whiley.

Download or read book Hate to Want You written by Ashlyn Mathews and published by Ashlyn Mathews. This book was released on 2020-07-10 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FBI field agent and hacker Audrey Benson vows never to be like her father. But when the Feds charge her brother for a crime she believes he was coerced into committing, Audrey goes back on her word. Guilt-ridden over the line she’s crossed, Audrey arrives in the small town of Cedar Falls ready to find the answers that will clear her brother of the charges and get her back her job. She gets more than she bargains for when she runs into the town’s homegrown star quarterback in a less-than-friendly first meeting. She’s not into complicated and disgruntled. He steers clear of perplexing and secretive. But they can’t deny their instant attraction. Audrey’s search for answers bring them closer but will secrets from her past drive them apart? Contemporary romance, small town romance

Download or read book The Bag Lady War written by Carol Leonard SeCoy and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-05-20 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tired of fending off street thugs and worried about the day they can no longer take care of themselves, three elderly widows, Josie, Mabel and Mil, concoct the perfect plan for ensuring their safety, which will also guarantee them free room and board for life. As grocery bag-covered bodies begin turning up in Southern California, police and the media are stumped. Detectives assigned to the case, Paige Turner and Mark Wisneski, wonder what weird new serial killer is on the loose. The victims are mostly drug addicts and small-time crooks, but why the grocery bags? The bodies pile up until the widows invite Turner and Wisneski to tea, where they tell all. What they reveal shocks the world and could lead to the widows' master plan seriously backfiring. Life on the streets and in prison will never be the same.

Download or read book Jake and Josie s Discovery written by JB Price and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secrets? Everyone has a few. Except for the pleasant ones that produce a knowing smile and put a definite spring in our step, we tend to hide, bury, or camouflage the others. It is the others that the Roberts siblings have knowingly and unknowingly buried. Though their lives are littered with clues, they are oblivious to the connection between the two. For such secret keepers, it is not only disturbing but also disarming when the new family next door begins to openly share their smiley secrets and discreetly disclose the ones that generate tears. The Diamond family's openness about life encourages Jake and Josie to unearth their never-before-revealed stories. What they discover is alarming. Will they choose the love that heals and the truth that sets free? Or will they allow the past to continue to define their present and predict their future? Discoveries await ... either way.

Download or read book Summer in Sunset Harbour written by CP Ward and published by AMMFA Publishing. This book was released on with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life isn't going well for forty-something Josie Roberts. Her marriage has dissolved, and the narcissistic songwriter ex-husband who took everything just happens to be the current darling of the music industry with a nationwide viral hit. Without a job and with her beloved home on the market to pay for legal expenses, she lets her best friend Hilda convince her to make a move to the south Cornwall coast. There, Josie finds it hard to find her feet, with her beloved daughter dropping out of medical school, and then the remnants of a reclusive cult sabotaging her attempts to revive a long-abandoned campsite. But slowly, as Josie starts to find the strength within herself to overcome her problems, life begins to improve. There are new friends, and possibly even a new man on the glittery horizon, as well as mysteries to revealed which will turn her life on its head. Summer in Sunset Harbour is another delightful romantic comedy from CP Ward, author of Christmas at the Marshmallow Café and Autumn in Sycamore Park.

Download or read book Balancing Act written by Wendy Graham and published by Lothian Children's Books. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen-year-old Josie is talkative, impulsive and awkward. She desperately wants to fit in at school, but the kids think it’s weird that she’s always counting things. And constantly wiping things clean. And avoiding lifts and packed trains. During visits to the city to see her therapist, Josie becomes besotted with a city busker. She fantasizes about him and travels into town to watch his performances at every opportunity. One day Josie’s life begins to overlap with that of Macka, another school outcast. Macka is quiet, sharp-eyed and takes a while to trust people. A bit like the wedge-tail eagles and other birds of prey he trains after school at the Wildlife Haven. While Josie is besotted with the busker, Macka finds himself besotted with Josie. The two soon realise their lives are following similar paths, which causes a series of misunderstandings and missed opportunities, but also helps each develop a sense of self-worth. Written in a lively and humorous style whilst also invoking compassion and empathy for young people who don't fit in, BALANCING ACT by Wendy Graham is a well-rounded and powerful story of finding and accepting yourself.

Download or read book Fall from Grace written by Megan Chance and published by Megan Chance. This book was released on 2011-07-30 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lily lost her childhood the day the Sharpe gang murdered her parents and “adopted” her. Soon, she was “Lily the Cat,” a wanted outlaw herself, ruthless and smart. But Lily bided her time and planned her revenge, betraying them all and making her escape, running for the life that should have been hers.But she reckoned without Texas Sharpe, the man who loved her, married her and defied his father for her. And Texas was about to show Lily just how ruthless a man betrayed could be....

Download or read book Betting Their Lives written by Lorne Tepperman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Problem gambling has traditionally been seen as an individual issue: it's your problem, you deal with it. But this new book, takes an innovative sociological approach, considering problem gambling as a public health issue (it has social causes and significant health outcomes). This book is based on first-hand interviews that take us right into the lives of a selection of problem gamblers; we see how gambling is influenced by, and in turn influences, relationships with intimate partners - husbands, wives, children. Based on important new research, this book looks into the personal relationships of problem gamblers, and comes out with some surprising results. It provides a superb discussion of expert opinion on the subject, includes first-hand narratives of those who have suffered from gambling addictions, and brings essential new explanatory concepts to the issue.

Download or read book Kind of a Big Deal written by Shannon Hale and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Shannon Hale, bestselling author of Austenland, comes Kind of a Big Deal: a story that will suck you in—literally. “So many strange and wonderful things happen at every twist and turn, you'll be happy to wander with Josie . . . Each book she descends into seems to teach her something, and even if it's not obvious where the story is going, we're in it for the long haul.” —NPR There's nothing worse than peaking in high school. Nobody knows that better than Josie Pie. She was kind of a big deal—she dropped out of high school to be a star! But the bigger you are, the harder you fall. And Josie fell. Hard. Ouch. Broadway dream: dead. Meanwhile, her life keeps imploding. Best friend: distant. Boyfriend: busy. Mom: not playing with a full deck? Desperate to escape, Josie gets into reading. Literally. She reads a book and suddenly she's inside it. And with each book, she’s a different character: a post-apocalyptic heroine, the lead in a YA rom-com, a 17th century wench in a corset. It’s alarming. But also . . . kind of amazing? It’s the perfect way to live out her fantasies. Book after book, Josie the failed star finds a new way to shine. But the longer she stays in a story, the harder it becomes to escape. Will Josie find a story so good that she just stays forever?

Download or read book Siege written by Roger Longrigg and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kemp family rent a fortified farmhouse for the summer, so that Giles can dabble in watercolours; Rob can recover from a breakdown; and Step can indulge her obsession for the Cathars, whilst the children roam free. However, hostile villagers and a near fatal accident trigger a series of events that lead to death, devastation and terror ...

Download or read book As You Were written by Johann Nestroy and published by Samuel French Limited. This book was released on 1997 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael and Helena Hoffmann have a precarious marriage, not least because of servant trouble. Josie conveniently arrives and takes the post of maidservant. But it is when Muffett, Michael's former master, responds to an advertisement for a new manservant that the trouble begins.2 women, 2 men

Download or read book Josie Bloom and the Emergency of Life written by Susan Hill Long and published by Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Entertaining and emotionally resonant.” —Kirkus Reviews “Long nails the voice of a kid trying as hard as she can to tackle adult problems on her own when the well-meaning adults in her life fall short.” —Publishers Weekly Josie Bloom is put to the test when she’s confronted by mysterious wads of money, a washed-up baseball player, and a whole lot of squirrels in this hilarious and heartwarming novel in the spirit of Kate DiCamillo’s Raymie Nightingale. Josie Bloom discovers the first wad of money stuffed inside a packet of bologna, and the second hidden between the trash can and the bin liner. That money comes in handy when she finds the PAST DUE notice from the heating company. Seems like Grandpa has been spending more time feeding squirrels than paying the bills. But when a bill arrives that’s too big to handle, Josie’s going to need a plan to get more money—while keeping Grandpa’s odd behavior a secret. Hilarious and heartwarming, Josie Bloom and the Emergency of Life celebrates the lengths family and friends will go to when it looks like the squirrels are winning.

Download or read book The Bassett Women written by Grace McClure and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth century, Brown’s Park, a secluded valley astride the Utah-Colorado border, was a troubled land of deadly conflict among cattle barons, outlaws, rustlers, and small ranchers. Homesteader Elizabeth Bassett gained a tough reputation of her own, and her daughters followed suit, going on to become members of Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch’s inner circle. Ann—who counted Cassidy among her lovers—became known as “queen of the cattle rustlers.” Both sisters proved themselves shrewd businesswomen as they fended off hostile takeovers of the family ranch. Through the following decades, the sisters became the stuff of legend, women who embodied the West’s fearsome reputation, yet whose lived experiences were far more nuanced. Ann became a writer. Josie, whose cabin still stands at present-day Dinosaur National Monument, applied her pioneer ethics to a mechanized world and became renowned for her resourcefulness, steadfastness, and audacity. For The Bassett Women, Grace McClure tracked down and untangled the legends of Brown’s Park, one of the way stations of the fabled “Outlaw Trail,” while creating an evenhanded and indelible portrait of the Bassetts. Based on interviews, written records, newspapers, and archives, The Bassett Women is one of the few credible accounts of early settlers on Colorado’s western slope, one of the last strongholds of the Old West.

Download or read book Blessed Are the Bank Robbers written by Chas Smith and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rollicking true story of Bibles and bank robberies in Southern California, from a talented and highly praised gonzo journalist Chas Smith grew up deeply enmeshed in the evangelical Christian world that grew out of Southern California in the late 1960s. His family included famous missionaries and megachurch pastors, but his cousin Daniel Courson was Grandma’s favorite. Smith looked up to Cousin Danny. He was handsome, adventurous, and smart, earned a degree from Bible college, and settled into a family and a stable career. Needless to say, it was a big surprise when Cousin Danny started robbing banks. Known as the “Floppy Hat Bandit,” Courson robbed 19 of them in a torrid six-week spree before being caught and sentenced to seven years. When he tried to escape, they tacked on another year. And when he finally got out, despite seeming to be back on the straight and narrow, Cousin Danny disappeared. Banks started getting robbed again. It seemed Cousin Danny might be gunning for the record. Smith’s Blessed Are the Bank Robbers is the wild, and wildly entertaining, story of an all-American anti-hero. It’s a tale of bank robberies, art and jewel heists, high-speed chases, fake identities, encrypted Swiss email accounts, jilted lovers, and the dark side of an evangelical family (and it wasn’t just Danny; an uncle was mixed up with the mujahideen). It’s a book about what it means to live inside the church and outside the law.

Download or read book Frozen Passion written by Charlie (Chawtoma) Davis and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2018-08-13 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Randango Hardcastle, known as Randy, is very flexible with the young ladies on campus, but Josie Garden is his latest attempt. He discovers the cute girl from the state of Georgia has not only raised the passion in his heart but also his expectations that he could score big. Randy, being a passionate warrior, tries every avenue of romance. He believes in trying to transform and seduce Josie, but nothing seems to work. Josie, being a young lady with an respectable mind, believes that a young lady should receive a ring before giving any sexual attention. She knows that major support should come from the man who plans to wed her, but she desires to reach her educational goal first. Both believe they want the same thing - marriage, only to find out later on, their desires were opposed instead of united.

Download or read book Just This Once written by Jill Gregory and published by Jill Gregory. This book was released on with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the journey from the saloons of the American West to the glittering salons of Victorian England as Josie Cooper, a charming pickpocket trying to discover the truth about her past is forced into a pretend marriage by Ethan Savage, the powerful Earl of Stonecliff. Can a former dance hall girl and experienced pickpocket find love in London with the man who blackmailed her into becoming his wife? Ethan needs a bride to fulfill the terms of his father’s will. He won’t let anything get in the way of what he wants. Yet somehow his adorable but untrustworthy countess begins to steal her way into his heart. His agreement with Josie was only supposed to last for six months, but when he looks into her eyes, and holds her in his arms, he begins to realize he might never want to let her go… “Refreshing characters, witty dialogue and adventure…Just This Once enthralls, delights, and captivates, winning readers’ hearts along the way.” – Romantic Times. Historical Romance of the Year nominee. 4 ½ stars. Top Pick! “Here is another unforgettable story that will keep you captivated. She has combined the Old West and the elegance of England into this brilliantly glorious tale. The characters are undeniably wonderful. Their pains and joys will reach through the pages and touch your heart.” — Rendezvous