Download or read book Maddy Kettle written by Eric Orchard and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thimblewitch turned Maddy's parents into kangaroo rats, and now they're gone! Maddy and her pet flying toad set out to find the witch and rescue Maddy's parents.

Download or read book Bera the One Headed Troll written by Eric Orchard and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After finding a human baby in the realm of trolls, Bera sets out to protect it from the other trolls by returning the baby to its own world.

Download or read book Love and a Promise written by Lyn Andrews and published by Headline. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A promise to the woman who saved her life holds Maddy back from following her heart... Lyn Andrews writes an unforgettable family saga in Love and a Promise, set in both Dublin and Liverpool. Perfect for fans of Anne Baker, Maureen Lee and Katie Flynn. 'A page-turning and beautifully written novel. The loves and tragedies of the Kiernan siblings will keep you hooked until the very end' - Irish World Maddy Kiernan knows her situation is desperate. With her parents dead, her brother Thomas is left as guardian to Maddy and her sister Carmel. But Thomas has plans that don't include his sisters and his reckless ambition could put all their futures at risk. Sharp-witted and strong-willed, Maddy knows it is she who must assume responsibility for the fragile young Carmel. When Thomas deserts Ireland for Liverpool, Maddy realises she has little option but to follow. Within days the girls are destitute, their precious savings gone. Even when Maddy finds a position with an elderly widow, Thomas's aspirations threaten their security. And then Maddy is faced with a terrible choice - between love and a promise... What readers are saying about Love and a Promise: '[This book] was excellent from cover to cover. I found myself staying up late at night just to finish it - you just cannot put it down! It has real life drama, romance and a wonderful ending' 'Once I start a Lyn Andrews book, I cannot stop reading it. I feel as if I have been transported back in time' 'Love and a Promise is a great and gripping story, I just had to continue until I'd finished the book. It is a great story of rags to riches and the heartbreak in between - just a lovely story'

Download or read book Dakota Nights written by Debbie Macomber and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2019-08-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Together for the first time in one volume, two more classic tales of romance and second chances set in Buffalo Valley, only from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. ALWAYS DAKOTA A few years ago, this was a dying town. Now it’s come back to life! People are feeling good about living here again—stalled lives are moving forward. People like Margaret Clemens are taking risks on new ventures and on lifelong dreams. On happiness. Margaret is a local rancher who’s finally getting what she wants most. Marriage to cowboy Matt Eilers. Her friends don’t think Matt’s such a bargain; neither did her father. But Margaret is aware of Matt’s reputation and his flaws. She wants him anyway. And she wants his baby… BUFFALO VALLEY The outside world has discovered Buffalo Valley. A large retail conglomerate plans to move in, which would surely destroy the independent businesses...and maybe the whole town. Just out of the army, Vaughn Kyle is looking for a life to live, and decides to visit and old family friend. He arrives at her store one snowy day and finds instead a young woman named Carrie Hendrickson… As Vaughn gets to know Carrie, she makes him question the things the thought he wanted. He wants to stay in Buffalo Valley and fight for its way of life, and for Carrie’s love.

Download or read book Always Dakota written by Debbie Macomber and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A few years ago, this was a dying town. Now it’s come back to life! Always Dakota People are feeling good about living in Buffalo Valley again—the way they used to. They’re confident about the future. Stalled lives are moving forward. People like Margaret Clemens are taking risks on new ventures and on lifelong dreams. On happiness. Margaret is a local rancher who’s finally getting what she wants most—marriage to cowboy Matt Eilers. Her friends don’t think Matt’s such a bargain; neither did her father. But Margaret is aware of Matt’s reputation and his flaws. She wants him anyway. And she wants his baby… Buffalo Valley Just out of the army, Vaughn Kyle’s looking for a life to live—and waiting for his reluctant fiancée to make up her mind. Vaughn decides to visit Buffalo Valley and Hassie Knight. He was named after Hassie’s son who died in Vietnam, and she thinks of Vaughn as a surrogate son. He arrives at her store one snowy day and finds not Hassie but a young woman named Carrie Hendrickson. As he begins to love Carrie, Vaughn questions his feelings for the woman he thought he loved. He wants to stay in Buffalo Valley and fight for its way of life. A life that’s all about friends and family… The Dakota Series Book 1: Dakota Born Book 2: DAKOTA HOME Book 3: Always Dakota Book 4: Buffalo Valley

Download or read book Lost Innocents written by Patricia MacDonald and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a fifteen-year-old babysitter and the toddler entrusted to hercare vanish from their sleepy sub-urban town, Maddy Blake -- like the rest of Taylorsville -- is horrified. When the teenager turns up dead and the baby is nowhere to be found, Maddy's once tranquil life is shattered. Her husband becomes the prime suspect for this heinous crime, having only recently been acquitted of sexual misconduct charges brought by one of his teenage students. Plagued by doubts of her husband's innocence, tortured by a growing attraction to her priest, and disconcerted by the grim strangers to whom she has opened her home, Maddy realizes too late that she is inmortal danger.

Download or read book Bluenose Adventure written by Jacqueline Halsey and published by Formac Publishing Company. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's a true-to-life adventure story. Arty is a 10-year-old boy who gets the chance of a lifetime -- he's hired to go on the maiden voyage of the famous schooner Bluenose in 1921. Young readers will delight in joining along with Arty as he learns his way around the ship amidst the dangers, excitement and intrigue of working on a fishing schooner. When Arty climbs to the top of a mast and spots another ship heading toward Bluenose on a collision course, even the captain is grateful for his help. Once he's back in Bluenose's home port of Lunenberg, Arty has a real adventure to share with his family and friends. In this story, based on the real experiences of young boys who worked on board Bluenose in the 1920s, Jacqueline Halsey has created a book that celebrates the story of the ship and her famous captain Angus Walters.

Download or read book Nursery Rhyme Comics written by Chris Duffy and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nursery Rhyme Comics" presents 50 traditional nursery rhymes in comic book format, with illustrations by well-known cartoonists.

Download or read book My Maddy written by Gayle E. Pitman and published by American Psychological Association. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ALA’s 2021 Rainbow Book List Top Ten Title for Young Readers Most mommies are girls. Most daddies are boys. But lots of parents are neither a boy nor a girl. Like my Maddy. My Maddy has hazel eyes which are not brown or green. And my Maddy likes sporks because they are not quite a spoon or a fork. Some of the best things in the world are not one thing or the other. They are something in between and entirely their own. Randall Ehrbar, PsyD, offers an insightful note with more information about parents who are members of gender minority communities, including transgender, gender non-binary, or otherwise gender diverse people.

Download or read book Civvy Street written by Fiona Field and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susie Collins's world has fallen apart. Her husband, Mike, has been made redundant from the army. But worse is to come when Susie learns that the family finances are much rockier than she realised. Their rebellious twin daughters can't stay at their fee-paying school and there's almost no money left to buy a decent house. These are desperate times and Susie knows she must find a job quickly. But Mike is being difficult about her plans and the girls impossible. How are they all going to cope? Life is tough for newcomers on civvy street.

Download or read book Sheet Music written by M. J. Rose and published by Evil Eye Concepts, Incorporated. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a seductive storyteller who dares to plumb the dark, passionate depths of the heart and soul comes an absorbing new erotic thriller that is also a gripping tale of psychological suspense. SHEET MUSIC Grief-stricken Justine Pagett fled to Paris after her mother’s death, but scandal forces her back to the States to redeem her tarnished reputation as a journalist. Commissioned to write a piece on the eccentric classical composer Sophie DeLyon, Justine finds herself part of a mysterious deception. At Euphonia, the exclusive institution DeLyon created to nurture America’s most gifted music prodigies, a malevolent presence is composing a deadly work. Threatening cybermessages meant to intimidate convince a determined Justine that fascinating secrets await her. But when Sophie suddenly disappears, Justine’s assignment to mine the story behind the legend becomes an even greater challenge. The disharmonious DeLyon family seems more interested in Sophie’s estate than in her artistic legacy, and a group of devoted fans is fiercely defending the name of the enigmatic genius. Wrestling with her own demons while searching for the truth, Justine is clear about one thing: Someone is orchestrating a deadly deceit . . . from which no one will emerge unscathed. An expertly crafted opus of obsessive passions and poisonous shame, of brilliant achievements and brutal deception, Sheet Music confirms M. J. Rose’s place at the forefront of today’s top psychological suspense writers.

Download or read book Grave Consequences written by Sandra Barret and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Tamar Richler, an unlicensed necromancer, raises someone from the dead, she is forced to earn her license from researcher and top necromancy expert in the state, Maddy Wu. Maddy is both beautiful and unreachable, with lofty standards Tamar feels she can never meet. Maddy knows better than anyone the dangers of unlicensed magic. After an accident years before leaves one brother dead and the other mysteriously uninjured, Maddy attempts a resurrection herself before the ambulance and licensed necromancer can arrive. The result leaves her with chronic illness and fatigue, and her brother in a coma. Now her only goal is to right her wrong and bring him back. When Tamar connects the dots to what really happened, the two of them must fight against the most politically powerful necromancer in the state to save a life and prevent the threat to their own survival.

Download or read book Rich and Mad written by William Nicholson and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen-year-olds Maddy Fisher and Rich Ross yearn for love, and after their first attempts at relationships go awry, they find one another and form a deep bond that can only be expressed one way.

Download or read book Secrets in Burracombe written by Lilian Harry and published by Orion. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come home to Burracombe - the village where life is full of surprises... A seemingly sleepy Devonshire village, Burracombe is in fact full of intrigue and drama. Family secrets, budding romance, cruel twists of fate and amazing friendships all play out against the backdrop of the beautiful countryside. It's autumn 1953. The village is delighted when Joe Tozer - who left Burracombe as a young man in 1919 - returns to visit his family. His life since emigrating to the States has been a world away from rural Devon, but coming home, he falls in love with the place (and one particular person) all over again. With him is his eldest son, Russell. He sets hearts fluttering in the village - but will there be anyone on his arm when he catches the boat back to America?

Download or read book Every Little Secret written by Ruby Speechley and published by Hera books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘I haven’t been able to put this one down. It has gripped me and kept me guessing throughout.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review She believed the lies... The truth will destroy her. Maddy Saunders’ life is unravelling. After the heartbreaking, unexpected death of 5-year-old daughter Chloe, she’s trying desperately to keep her family together for other daughter, Emily. But when the police inform her that husband Max is missing, the rucksack found at the bottom of a local canal leading them to believe he has taken his own life, her grief takes a new and sharper turn. Unable to believe that Max would abandon her and Emily, Maddy desperately searches for clues as to what has happened to her husband. But as she delves deeper into his secrets, Maddy finds a web of betrayal that forces her to re-examine everything about the life they have built together. Maddened by grief, and forced into untangling Max’s lies, Maddy will stop at nothing to uncover the truth – even if it destroys her in the process. A gripping, absolutely unputdownable psychological thriller that will have you hooked – perfect for fans of K.L. Slater, Shalini Boland and B.A. Paris. Readers are totally hooked on Every Little Secret: ‘WOW! Couldn’t put this one down!... Highly Recommend!!!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review ‘How this story unfolds is just brilliant...would be any wife’s nightmare. Very twisty and a “cannot stop reading” book. Just brilliant’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review ‘an intense and intriguing thriller that does not disappoint! Highly recommended!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review ‘a scary, chilling read. The book was very hard to put down... readers will want to stay up late at night to find out what is truth and what are the lies - highly recommended!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review ‘will leave you wondering how well you really know your partner... a compulsive read which pulled on my emotions...A taut, gripping read that will have you turning the pages late into the night.’ Reader Review ‘a gripping thriller that kept me enthralled...I liked how the story moved between the past and present and I enjoyed getting to know all the characters’ Reader Review ‘This book gripped me from the start!... It was pacy and exciting. I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys psychological thrillers.’ Reader Review ‘I haven’t been able to put this one down. It has gripped me and kept me guessing throughout... a fast-paced psychological thriller perfect for fans of Clare Mackintosh and Alice Feeney.’ ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review

Download or read book The Ruby Speechley Psychological Thriller Collection written by Ruby Speechley and published by Hera books Ltd. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 1329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let Ruby Speechley keep you reading long into the night with these four compelling thrillers. Includes; Someone Else’s Baby, Every Little Secret, A Mother Like You and The Face at the Window. Someone Else’s Baby: Charlotte Morgan knows how it feels to desperately want a baby. As a child, seeing her mum devastated by losing her longed-for babies, Charlotte wished another woman could give her mother what she so craved. Now Charlotte’s a mum herself, and knowing how much love her daughter, Alice, brings into her life, she vows to help others achieve their dreams of becoming a parent. When she meets Malcolm and Brenda on a surrogacy website, it seems that she's found the perfect couple. In their late forties, they have wealth and an enviable life, but there’s just one thing missing – a child of their own. Charlotte falls pregnant with twins and though her heart breaks as she hands them over to the couple, she is happy for Malcolm, Brenda and their little family. But are they all they seem? When Malcolm and Brenda disappear without a trace, Charlotte is plunged into a frantic search for the babies she carried – before it’s too late... Every Little Secret: Maddy Saunders’ life is unravelling. After the heartbreaking, unexpected death of her 5-year-old daughter Chloe, she’s trying desperately to keep her family together for her other daughter, Emily. But then the police inform Maddy that her husband Max is missing, his rucksack found at the bottom of a local canal leading them to believe he has taken his own life. Unable to believe that Max would abandon her and Emily, Maddy delves deeper into her husband’s secrets. She finds a web of betrayal that forces her to re-examine everything about their life together. Maddened by grief, and forced into untangling Max’s lies, Maddy will stop at nothing to uncover the truth – even if it destroys her in the process. A Mother Like You: Kate Marshall lives an enviable life. Married to handsome, charming, James, owner of a successful company, she seems to have it all. But falling pregnant at 45 was never part of the plan. Especially as Kate’s hiding a devastating secret – one that she’s been running from for twenty years. So when ex-boyfriend Paul comes back into her life, threatening to expose the truth about what Kate did, the clock is ticking. Can she keep her secrets and finally be the mother she always dreamed of – or will her past lies destroy her future? The Face at the Window: To the world, Gemma Adams is @HappyWife. Online, people only see her picture-perfect home, handsome husband, Nick, and beautiful baby, Thomas. They don’t see the real Gemma. They don’t see her past, the dark secrets she is hiding in her marriage. They don’t see the fear Gemma lives in every single day. But Gemma knows someone is watching her. And now, they’ve taken Thomas. She will stop at nothing to get her baby back. Even if it destroys everything else. A collection of gripping, absolutely unputdownable psychological thrillers that will have you hooked – perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty, K.L. Slater and Shalini Boland. /h2Praise for Ruby Speechley ‘Gripping and twisty, I was hooked until the last page.’ Sophie Flynn, author of Keep Them Close ‘Psychological thriller writing at its best!’ A.A. Chaudhuri, author of She's Mine ‘Twisty, engrossing, sensitive and dark. EXCELLENT’ Will Dean, author of First Born ‘Very twisty and a “cannot stop reading” book. Just brilliant’ Reader Review ‘Brilliantly addictive with great characters and I just loved every page.’ Reader Review

Download or read book Soldiers Wives written by Fiona Field and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This page-turning soap opera interweaves the stories of three women trying to get to grips with military life. Chrissie, orphaned young, finds solace in her career as a medic in the regiment, but will love for a married man prove her undoing? Maddy, a brilliant Oxford graduate, is bogged down with a fretful baby and a super-ambitious officer husband. Will she be able to stand life as a regimental wife? And Jenna – glamorous, bad girl Jenna, who doesn't believe in rules and regulations. Will she destroy her husband's career? Or will it destroy her?