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.]

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Download or read book We who Live Apart written by Joan Connor and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In We Who Live Apart, Joan Connor returns to the dark New England of her earlier collection and the wry characters who inhabit it: a hunter who has spent too much time listening to the woods, a ferryman whose emotional seclusion leads to a doomed longing for a summer girl, a carnival diviner whose cards foretell her desertion, a corpse who, out of sheer meanness, will not stay below ground. Although childlessness, divorce, and alcoholism are recurrent motifs that underscore the estrangement of many characters, the moods of the stories are rarely bleak. Humor figures in often, as do elements of the folktale and the supernatural. Despite the stylistic variety in these stories, there is a shared vision of isolation in which characters, wittingly and unwittingly, ensure their separateness and even come to treasure it. As the narrator says in "The Anecdote of the Island," "After a year of debate, it conduces to this: I watch you leave as you once watched me. Our cars separate at the base of a hill. You diminish to a speck in my rearview mirror. When I look for you, I stare into my own eyes looking for you. And I begin to think that what you want is not love but the hope for love. Its remoteness. Its shadow self. You linger in dark places." Indeed, many of these characters linger in dark places, but without giving in to despair. In "October," a recovering alcoholic surprises herself and begins to risk the beginnings of reconnection. And in "Women's Problems," a character coping with the loss of her lover, and then her mother, manages to transmute loss to gain with the triumphant realization that she has become her mother and that, indeed, "Worse things could happen." For these characters, their apartness is as often a choice as a consequence, but the choice has a consequence. When Bluebeard's wife escapes her murderous husband and her fairy-tale narrative in "Bluebeard's First Wife," she finds that "Ordinariness sat upon [her] shoulders like a weather-eroded gargoyle." Whether these characters isolate themselves or find themselves isolated by nets of personal and communal history, they move to wisdom rather than despondency. Connor displays a keen ear for language and a mastery of prose rhythms and dialogue. Her writing, which is often lyrical in the best sense, amply repays the effort of rereading and reflection, and the variety of narrative techniques sustains the reader's interest.

Download or read book The Post Box at the North Pole written by Jaimie Admans and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Oh, holy five star, I LOVED THIS BOOK... Laugh out loud funny, incredibly charming and full to the brim with Christmas magic.’ NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Download or read book Kismetology written by Jaimie Admans and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding the perfect man isn't easy. Especially when it's for your mother... Mothers. Can't live with them, can't live without them, can't live three doors down the road without them interfering in every aspect of your life. Mackenzie Atkinson's mother has meddled in her love life once too often and something has to be done. Mackenzie decides to turn the tables and find love for her lonely mother. Her lonely and very fussy mother. Surely finding an older gentleman looking for love won't be that hard, right? Wrong. If you've ever thought that boys grow up, here's the problem: They don't. Ever. And Mackenzie is about to learn that the hard way. Faced with a useless boyfriend, dressed up dogs, men who wear welly boots on dates, men who shouldn't be allowed out in public, and men who make reptiles seem like attractive company - will she ever find the perfect man for her neurotic mother?

Download or read book It s a Wonderful Night written by Jaimie Admans and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2018-10-05 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One night will change their lives forever... Georgia Bailey is closing up her little charity shop in Oakbarrow when she gets a mysterious late night call from a stranger, threatening to jump off the town’s bridge.

Download or read book The Little Bookshop of Love Stories written by Jaimie Admans and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2020-05-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘I love everything about this book...For the first time ever, a book actually gave me goosebumps!’—5 Stars, NetGalley Reviewer Today is the Mondayest Monday ever. Hallie Winstone has been fired – and it wasn’t even her fault!

Download or read book Snowflakes at the Little Christmas Tree Farm written by Jaimie Admans and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2019-10-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘One big romantic mug of hot chocolate with extra whipped cream and a splash of Christmas perfection!’ LUCY KNOTT, author of Wishes Under a Starlit Sky All she wants for Christmas...

Download or read book The Little Christmas Shop on Nutcracker Lane written by Jaimie Admans and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2020-10-16 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Wow... I fell a little bit in love! In these dark days, this book is a beacon of light!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Netgalley reviewer

Download or read book The Chateau of Happily Ever Afters written by Jaimie Admans and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2017-06-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Enchanting. I found myself whizzing through the pages!’ Rachel’s Random Reads (top 500 Amazon reviewer) Escape to beautiful France this summer with this uplifting romantic comedy.

Download or read book Afterlife Academy written by Jaimie Admans and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even being dead isn't enough to get you out of maths class. Dying wasn't on sixteen-year-old Riley Richardson's to-do list. And now, not only is she dead, but she's stuck in a perpetual high school nightmare. Worse still, she's stuck there with the geekiest, most annoying boy in the history of the world, ever. In a school where the geeks are popular and just about everything is wrong, Riley has become an outcast. She begins a desperate quest to get back home, but her once-perfect life starts to unravel into something not nearly as great as she thought it was. And maybe death isn't really that bad after all... Welcome to Afterlife Academy, where horns are the norm, the microwave is more intelligent than the teachers, and the pumpkins have a taste for blood. - - - Afterlife Academy is a Young Adult paranormal romantic comedy, suitable for approximately ages 14 and up.

Download or read book A Very Perry Christmas written by Marie Landry and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hot chocolate by the fire. Christmas carols. Stolen kisses in the snow. When Gwen's boyfriend Evan invites her to spend Christmas with his family, she pictures a perfect Hallmark holiday scene, complete with all the happy sighs and swoons.But between Evan's brother who schedules the family's every move, his sister who's never met a mirror she didn't like, and the amorous newlyweds who flaunt their sexcapades, Gwen finds herself dodging the Perrys like it's her job. The more Evan's family bringstheir own brand of chaos to Christmas, the more Gwen wonders if she's in over her head and if the Christmas of her dreams is going to turn into a nightmare.

Download or read book When I Was Invisible written by Dorothy Koomson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Do you ever wonder if you've lived the life you were meant to?' I ask her. She sighs, and dips her head. 'Even if I do, what difference will it make?' In 1988, two eight-year-old girls with almost identical names and the same love of ballet meet for the first time. They seem destined to be best friends forever and to become professional dancers. Years later, however, they have both been dealt so many cruel blows that they walk away from each other into very different futures - one enters a convent, the other becomes a minor celebrity. Will these new, 'invisible' lives be the ones they were meant to live, or will they only find that kind of salvation when they are reunited twenty years later?

Download or read book The Little Vintage Carousel by the Sea written by Jaimie Admans and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2019-04-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if one moment could change your life forever? Ness has almost resigned herself to being single forever, when she catches sight of the most gorgeous man she’s ever seen on the train to work.

Download or read book Jewel of the Thames written by Angela Misri and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-03-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There's a new detective at 221B Baker Street. Set against the backdrop of 1930s England, Jewel of the Thames introduces Portia Adams, a budding detective with a mysterious heritage."--Back cover

Download or read book Midnighter Vol 1 Out written by Steve Orlando and published by DC. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first chapter in the all-new adventures of MIDNIGHTER joins renowned writer Steve Orlando and acclaimed artists Aco, Stephen Mooney and Alec Morgan. Between the supercomputer wired into his brain and the enhancements saturating his body, the living weapon known as Midnighter doesnÕt face a lot of real challenges to his uncanny combat skills. Lucky for him, he enjoys beating the tar out of low-level bad guys as much as the high-end onesÑand since his recent breakup with his first love (and fellow superhuman) Apollo, heÕs had plenty of chances to engage in his unique brand of physical therapy. Now, insanely dangerous weapons are beginning to pop up all over the globe, wreaking havoc on society and complicating MidnighterÕs professional and personal life. As the outbreaks pile up, tracking them back to the original thief becomes an overriding imperative . Collects MIDNIGHTER #1-7.

Download or read book Red Joan written by Jennie Rooney and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the true story of a female spy, this is “an infectious page-turner, as crafty and nuanced and impassioned as any classic thriller” (The National). Inspired by the true story of Melita Norwood, unmasked as the KGB’s longest-serving British spy in 1999, at age eighty-seven, Red Joan centers on the deeply conflicted life of a young physicist during the Second World War. Talented and impressionable, Cambridge undergraduate Joan Stanley befriends the worldly Sonya, whose daring history is at odds with Joan’s provincial upbringing. Joan also feels a growing attraction toward Leo, Sonya’s mysterious and charismatic cousin. Sonya and Leo, known communist sympathizers with ties to Russia and Germany, interpret wartime loyalty in ways Joan can only begin to fathom. As nations throughout the continent fall to fascism, Joan is enlisted into an urgent project that will change the course of the war—and the world—forever. Risking both career and conscience, leaking information to the Soviets while struggling to maintain her own semblance of morality, Joan is caught at a crossroads in which all paths lead to the same endgame: the deployment of the atomic bomb. Life during wartime, however, is often ambiguous, and when—decades later—MI5 agents appear at her doorstep, Joan must reaffirm the cost of the choices she made and face the cold truth: our deepest secrets have a way of dragging down those we love most. The basis of the film starring Judi Dench and Sophie Cookson, this is “a brilliant spy novel, with [a] deft, involving plot . . . Tense, beautifully pitched, and very moving” (Marie Claire).