Download or read book Little Valerie Wants To Grow Taller written by Eugene T. Dawson and published by Children Picture Book. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This children's picture book is designed for age 4 - 7. Also, it is designed such that the parent, caregiver or home schooler sit and read with the child. It contains a simple project that both the caregiver and child work on together. This is a new concept called, "Applied Reading". In addition, it helps the child to understand why it is important to eat healthy foods. It contains a bit of humor. And, at the end of the story, there are several questions to determine how much the child retained about the story. Valerie learns how to grow taller, eat healthy and nurture a flower from seed.

Download or read book Crazy in Love written by Janet Dailey and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Art Quilt Maps written by Valerie S. Goodwin and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2013 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning quilt artist Valerie Goodwin shows your customers how to transform the places they love and places they ve always wanted to see into hypnotic art quilts. Readers learn step by step how to create fiber collages based on maps of their favorite real and imaginary places. The book features a large photo gallery of quilt maps by Valerie and her students. . Innovative designs keep your customers creativity engaged . Fully illustrated guide covers a variety of basic mixed-media techniques . Bundle this book with fabric paints and mediums, markers, and fusible web"

Download or read book Losing It written by Valerie Bertinelli and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-11-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular actress, Jenny Craig spokeswoman, and America's sweetheart Bertinelli reveals in this courageous and candid memoir her complicated past and how she has taken control of her own life to gain self-esteem and happiness. 8 pages of b&w photographs.

Download or read book Bed of Grass written by Janet Dailey and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Americana romance from the New York Times–bestselling author, a single mother returns to her Maryland hometown, and a lost love. Valerie Wentworth, a young woman from Maryland farm country, paid for her mistakes. Her grandfather saw to it. Her only real family, he disowned her after a fling with wealthy and cavalier horse-breeder Judd Prescott left her pregnant and alone. Afraid to tell Judd the truth, Valerie had nowhere to turn but the first road out of town. Seven years later, she’s come home for her grandfather’s funeral with her six-year-old son. One look at Judd, and she’s swept away by bittersweet memories. Yet he’s not the only reason she’s spending the summer in Maryland. It’ll give her son a chance to enjoy the rich green countryside, and ride the thoroughbreds on Judd’s farm. Still, Valerie can’t help wondering if she should share the secret of their child with the one man who could break her heart all over again.

Download or read book Under the Bayou Moon written by Valerie Fraser Luesse and published by Revell. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restless with the familiarity of her Alabama home, Ellie Fields accepts a teaching job in a tiny Louisiana town deep in bayou country. Though rightfully suspicious of outsiders, who have threatened both their language and their culture, most of the people in tiny Bernadette, Louisiana, come to appreciate the young and idealistic schoolteacher as a boon to the town. She's soon teaching just about everyone--and coming up against opposition from both the school board and a politician with ulterior motives. Acclimating to a whole new world, Ellie meets a lonely but intriguing Cajun fisherman named Raphe who introduces her to the legendary white alligator that haunts these waters. Raphe and Ellie have barely found their way to each other when a huge bounty is offered for the elusive gator, bringing about a shocking turn of events that will test their love and their will to right a terrible wrong. A master of the Southern novel, Valerie Fraser Luesse invites you to enter the sultry swamps of Louisiana in a story that illuminates the struggle for the heart and soul of the bayou.

Download or read book Dis inhibition written by Nancy E. Shaffer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valerie Running Deer is a brash, brilliant neuroscience graduate student. Elizabeth Baldwin is her uptight, control-freak advisor. Elizabeth and Valerie's relationship has always been a battle of wills, but when Elizabeth hands over one of Valerie's original research ideas to another student, Valerie fires the shot that turns their cold war into a hot one: she makes a pass at Elizabeth's daughter Lisa, a coy, impetuous teen who has been harboring a crush on her. Valerie's spiteful impulse is diffused when she starts to fall for Lisa behind Elizabeth's back, but a confrontation is inevitable. Valerie's tumultuous journey towards it will entangle her in the circuitous dance of the relationships around her as friends, colleagues, and family struggle to balance need and trust, impulse and restraint. Control freaks. Hot heads. Timid artists. Impulsive kids. Dis/inhibition explores the complications of self-control both outside and inside the scientific laboratory.

Download or read book King of Joy written by Richard Chiem and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Writer to Watch by the Los Angeles Times, Richard Chiem brings readers a novel that is equal parts sledgehammer and sweet song--a neon, pulsing portrait of grief, and an electrifying story of one woman's survival against all odds. Corvus has always had an overactive imagination. Growing up, she develops a unique coping mechanism: she can imagine herself out of any situation, no matter how terrible. To get through each day, Corvus escapes into scenes from fantasy novels, pop songs, and action/adventure movies, and survives by turning the everyday into just another role to play in the movie of her life. After a tragic loss, Corvus finds a sadness so great she cannot imagine it away. Instead, she finds Tim, a pornographer with unconventional methods, who offers her a new way to escape into movies. But when a sinister plot of greed and betrayal is revealed, Corvus must fight to reclaim her independence, and discovers she is stronger than even she could have imagined.

Download or read book Chilling Effect written by Valerie Valdes and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Jam-packed with weird aliens, mysterious artifacts, and lovable characters... a tremendous good time and an impressive debut.” -- Kirkus Reviews (starred) A hilarious, offbeat debut space opera that skewers everything from pop culture to video games and features an irresistible foul-mouthed captain and her motley crew, strange life forms, exciting twists, and a galaxy full of fun and adventure. Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra cruise the galaxy delivering small cargo for even smaller profits. When her sister Mari is kidnapped by The Fridge, a shadowy syndicate that holds people hostage in cryostasis, Eva must undergo a series of unpleasant, dangerous missions to pay the ransom. But Eva may lose her mind before she can raise the money. The ship’s hold is full of psychic cats, an amorous fish-faced emperor wants her dead after she rejects his advances, and her sweet engineer is giving her a pesky case of feelings. The worse things get, the more she lies, raising suspicions and testing her loyalty to her found family. To free her sister, Eva will risk everything: her crew, her ship, and the life she’s built on the ashes of her past misdeeds. But when the dominoes start to fall and she finds the real threat is greater than she imagined, she must decide whether to play it cool or burn it all down.

Download or read book Reflections of Life Children s Stories written by Maria N. Andrade and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-11-19 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This childrens book was created in a compilations of true and untrue stories, Also contains happy and sad stories. Along with a few childrens poems. Inside each childrens story it was prepared and written for children threw out the world, for their enjoyment of reading and also for their learning. And for children to continue to read more as the learn about the lifes emotions, of happiness and sad etc. Also about many types of animals and insects and their way of life.

Download or read book Off the Market written by Audrey Wick and published by Tule Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can the man who saved the day win her heart? Quinn LaFayette is in her inaugural year as library special programs director of Last Stand, but when the kickoff performance for the children’s summer program goes terribly wrong, she has to save face as well as her job. She has a surprise advocate in Cole, whom she did her best to ignore in school. Seven years has only made Cole more appealing, but Quinn is determined to resist the sparks that fly between them because they are too different. Restaurant owner Cole Hutchinson is no bookworm, but thanks to his fast-thinking antics, he ends up saving the day at the library and earning Quinn’s praise in the process. He’s tempted to seek more, but he’s juggling plenty of female attention from gracing the June edition of Modern Texas magazine featuring barbeque. Cole’s not interested in revisiting a woman from his past, but there’s something about Quinn that he can’t quite ignore. Can Cole prove that opposites really do attract?

Download or read book Evil Red Aurora Sky Vampire Hunter Vol 2 6 written by Nikki Jefford and published by Nikki Jefford. This book was released on with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L.A. is one tough city, especially when sharing a trailer with four thieving sisters. Valerie's plans for a better life and Hollywood grandeur are interrupted after a fateful stabbing lands her in Anchorage, Alaska where government agents expect her to play the role of a vampire hunting La Femme Nikita. The redheaded vixen is back in her own novelette. * This bonus novella prequels the Aurora Sky: Vampire Hunter series and can be read before or anytime during the series.

Download or read book Long Tall Cowboy Christmas written by Carolyn Brown and published by Forever. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This goes down like a cup of hot cocoa--warm and sweet." -- Entertainment Weekly A heartwarming holiday read from USA Today bestselling author Carolyn Brown Nash Lamont is a man about as solitary as they come. That's exactly why ranch life in middle-of-nowhere Happy, Texas suits him. So what the heck is he doing letting a beautiful widow and her three rambunctious children temporarily move in? Before he knows it, they're stringing Christmas lights and decorating the tree... and he's having the time of his life. But after everything he's been through, Nash knows this kind of happiness doesn't last. Kasey Dawson thought she'd never get over the death of her husband. Nash, with his strong hands and infinite patience, is stirring something she hasn't felt in a long time. Kasey knows the sexy cowboy isn't telling her everything about this past, though. And she refuses to risk heartbreak all over again. But her kids have a plan of their own: Nothing will keep them from having a real family again-even if it takes a little help from Santa himself. "Genuinely sweet." --Publishers Weekly

Download or read book Get Up and Grow written by Lucy Hutchings and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Clear, modern and inspiring" - Alan Titchmarsh, gardener and broadcaster In this truly innovative book Lucy Hutchings – aka She Grows Veg – proves that vegetable gardening doesn't always require outdoor space. Through clever uses of space and containers, understanding of growing conditions and a unique, design-led approach, Lucy showcases how anyone can grow pretty much anything in their back garden, courtyard, balcony or kitchen. Lucy creates 19 projects, from living vegetable walls and hydroponics basics, to indoor greenhouses and hanging herb racks that have all the decorative style and visual interest of ornamental house plants. With step-by-step illustrations and stunning photography, with Get Up and Grow, you can go from gardening novice to growing pro in a matter of weeks. Lucy is blazing a trail for new-wave gardening with a mantra of anything is possible, for anyone.

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Download or read book Dragons Deal written by Robert Asprin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Robert Asprin and Jody Lynn Nye up the ante in this tale of dragons in the Big Easy… As head dragon and owner of a successful gambling operation in New Orleans, Griffen McCandles has a lot on his plate. Especially since the Krewe of Fafnir—a society of dragons—has asked him to be the king of its Mardi Gras parade. Being the king is a huge honor, and despite the extra responsibilities, Griffen can’t resist the krewe’s offer to lead the biggest party of the year. But not everyone is happy with Griffen’s new leadership status. A group of powerful dragons is conspiring to bankrupt his business, from the inside out. And when a young dragon in Griffen’s employ is murdered, it becomes clear that certain dragons will stop at nothing to dethrone the new king…

Download or read book The Muse Also Weeps written by Tom F. Dodd and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting mystery that has its origins in the final days of WWII, and starts in present day with the assassination of an old, ex-Nazi SS Officer who harbors a world-shattering secret. A trail of bodies and subtle clues lead to the discovery of looted art masterpieces, gold and the Amber Room. Set in present day Switzerland, Germany and Austria, the principal characters, a French Art Historian and a Swiss police detective join forces in an effort to recover the gold, art masterpieces and solve the murders. In the course of the investigation, they discover that they could be on the threshold of unearthing one of the greatest hidden treasure hoards since the discovery of King Tutenkhamen's tomb. But they come face to face with an organized group of killers after the same treasure. Along the way, the police detective finds danger and passionate romance. The story concludes with an ironic and completely unexpected twist that will flabbergast even the most seasoned whodunnit reader.