Download or read book Maggie s Going Nowhere written by Rose Hartley and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maggie s Going Nowhere written by Rose Hartley and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A compulsive and hilarious read. In Maggie, Hartley has created one of those indelible characters of whom we must thoroughly disapprove and yet cannot help but love.' Karen Joy Fowler Maggie Cotton’s life is a hot mess. In one day, she’s dumped by her boyfriend, disinherited by her mum, and kicked out of the three-year degree she’d stretched to a decade. And that was before she received the letter saying she owed the government $70,000. But that’s no reason to grow up, is it? With a decrepit 1960s caravan to call home, Maggie has to prove to her mother she can survive without a safety net, stop her loyal best friend Jen from marrying a scumbag, and convince her sexy workmate Rueben that she’s not a walking disaster. For someone who’s spent her life avoiding hard work, she sure can move mountains when she’s got a little motivation – just don’t ask her to move the caravan. 'Maggie's Going Nowhere is a whip-smart and heartwarming novel.' Miranda Tapsell ‘Maggie’s Going Nowhere’s sheer energy is remarkable. Rose Hartley’s first novel is a successful comedy, providing many enjoyable moments.’ Canberra Times
Download or read book Burnout written by Claire MacLeary and published by Saraband. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the author of McIlvanney-prize-listed Cross Purpose. "My husband is trying to kill me": a new client gets straight to the point. This is a whole new ball game for Maggie Laird, who is trying to rebuild her late husband's detective agency and clear his name. Her partner, "Big" Wilma, sees the case as a non-starter, but Maggie is drawn in. With her client's life on the line, Maggie must get to the ugly truth that lies behind Aberdeen's closed doors. But who knows what really goes on between husbands and wives? And will the agency's reputation – and Maggie and Wilma's friendship – remain intact? "Excellent ... kept me gripped!" Hearst Big Book Award judges: longlisted 2018 Crime Novel of the Year "Warm, witty, thoughtful, and thrilling, Burnout leaves you with the feeling that Claire MacLeary is only just getting started." Alistair Braidwood, Scots Whay Hae "Burnout examines a timely subject [violence against women and sexism], but it's the depiction of relationships, all with plenty of nuance, that is the main reason to pick up this book. MacLeary's confidence in her writing and central characters grows with every chapter, building on the fine foundation of Cross Purpose. You should make time to get to know Maggie and Wilma." Louise Fairbairn, Scotsman "Absorbing. This is a thoroughly entertaining series that could run and run." Shirley Whiteside, Sunday Herald "MacLeary has a great ear for dialogue and her witty and often gritty prose evokes a strong sense of place and an authenticity that really makes this book sing ... It's not often you get such strong advocacy of and for women in the context of a crime novel but that's what makes this such an engrossing read." Live and Deadly "Incredibly gritty and compelling ... absolutely superb writing." The Quiet Knitter "Harcus and Laird are quite unlike any other characters I am reading – they have self-doubt, worry about paying the bills, feel the world is almost on the brink of slipping away from them yet they have a will and determination to succeed and it makes them joyful to read." Grab This Book "At a time where the subjugation of women in society be it professionally, emotionally, or sexually has been so in the spotlight through the #MeToo campaign, MacLeary adds a wise and all too pertinent voice to the arena... [Maggie and Wilma] are a formidable partnership, and there's plenty of mileage in them yet I warrant, and I, for one, will await the next book with interest. Highly recommended." Raven Crime Reads "...makes for an utterly riveting and often unexpected read, absolutely brilliantly done." Liz Loves Books "I adore the way Claire writes crime fiction, it's refreshing and fast paced with the added bonus of the Aberdonian accent threaded throughout the story... A brilliant and unique take on crime fiction and you would be daft not to dive in!" Loves Book Group blog
Download or read book My Own written by JC Knight and published by Strategic Book Publishing Rights Agency. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maggie is a modern-day loving wife and mother. She has gone through circumstances that are tearing her happy life apart. Even with the help of her sister, Maggie's survival and that of her family now depends on her. To succeed, this loving woman must learn how to shoot a gun to protect her loved ones. The only thing that stands between her and death is a man in the shadows. She believes she is on My Own, and has no idea that this man with a strong sense of obligation is waiting to help.
Download or read book Hiring Success written by Steven T. Hunt and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-06-30 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hiring Success is a comprehensive guide for using staffing assessments to hire the best employees. Research-based, but written in easy-to-understand terms, the book explains what staffing assessments are, why they work, and how to use them. Hiring Success is an important resource for improving the accuracy and efficiency of hiring selection decisions and effectively incorporating assessments into any company’s staffing process.
Download or read book The Engagement written by Gwen Davis and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Maggie begins life on her own, in her own perfect apartment, with her own job, and her very own boyfriend, she learns the hard way that the life one imagines one has is not necessarily the life one is living. Share with Maggie and her very sensible friend Kath the peace that comes from a bit of common sense and trusting in God’s plan. Open your heart to all the new people who come into their lives. Join Maggie, Liam, Mike, Cecilia, Matty, Emily, and even the Franklins as they search for love and happiness, sometimes for the wrong reasons and with the wrong people. Laugh and cry with them as they experience all the joy, sadness, and ordinary events that happen in their lives. And perhaps learn along with them that some things are better when they’re not quite so perfect!
Download or read book Towneast Revenge written by Brenda Dial and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Highway Sailor A Rollicking American Journey written by Joseph Sutton and published by Joseph Sutton. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the woman Jake Massry lives with leaves him for another man because he can't succeed as a writer, and his Old World father, on his deathbed, orders him to get a "real" job, Jake, to get his head straight, hits the highways of America in his worn-out VW bus Old Bones in search of himself and his country. It's Spring 1974--prices are spiraling upward and President Nixon is embroiled in the Watergate fiasco. As he travels from place to place in Old Bones (or rather pushes him), Jake meets a colorful cast of characters of sexy women, gays, born-again Christians, philosophers, racists, bullies and Gary Morse, a 19-year-old hitchhiker who possesses a large "red ruby" given to him by a young heiress.
Download or read book Runaway written by Claire MacLeary and published by Saraband. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A brilliant new talent for the lover of crime.' Sue Black DBE, forensic anthropologist When Aberdeen housewife Debbie Milne abruptly vanishes without trace, leaving behind her two young children, husband Scott is too distraught to sit out the police's 72-hour window and await developments. He turns to local detective agency Harcus & Laird. Put off by previous "domestic" cases, Maggie Laird isn't keen, but is cajoled by partner Wilma Harcus into a covert operation. Together they comb through meagre scraps of information, eventually trawling the city's women's refuges and homeless squats, in spite of the deadly danger. Then a woman's body is discovered in a Dundee builder's skip. With the clock ticking and the police struggling to make identification, the race is on. Claire MacLeary fashions a surprising, gritty, fast-paced tale with the warmth and wisdom of ‘women of a certain age'. Praise for the Harcus & Laird series: "Gripping." Good Housekeeping "A terrific writer." Kirsty Gunn, Scotsman "This is a thoroughly entertaining series that could run and run." Sunday Herald "A wise and all-too-pertinent voice." Raven Crime Reads "A brilliant new talent for the lover of crime." Dame Sue Black, forensic anthropologist "Refreshingly different... a fast-paced tale." Shirley Whiteside, Herald "Fantastic ... a gritty book with a surprisingly warm theme." The List "Terrific ... compelling to the end." Theresa Talbot
Download or read book Secrets Lies and Consequences written by Karen Hyatt and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2020-10-16 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So now I’m writing to you, ‘Dad,’ hoping you will be reasonable and help me out...The baby’s due in August...I need money to live on... By the way, does your wife know about me? And does she know you got forced into retirement? If not, I’m sure you wouldn’t want her to find out about that situation, would you? Ellis and Maggie Jones arrive in tropical Panama looking forward to spending the winter golfing, writing, relaxing on the beach, and socializing with friends. But an unexpected email soon derails their plans: Ellis’s past catches up with him in the form of a young woman attempting to blackmail him. This turn of events soon exposes decades of deception as Maggie realizes the extent of the secrets—old and new—Ellis has concealed from her, and Ellis discovers that he has also been deceived and exploited. Through Ellis and Maggie’s interactions, as well as those of other characters, author Karen Hyatt examines how secrets and deception affect relationships. How much do we hide from those closest to us? What are our motives for doing so? How honest are we with ourselves? And how do lives change when secrets start to unravel?
Download or read book Maggie s Run written by Kelly Hunter and published by Tule Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maggie Walker has never called Wirra Station home. Orphaned as a child, she spent more time at boarding school, and then working in the city, than she ever spent on the edge of the outback. But when her great aunt dies, Maggie inherits everything and reluctantly returns to tidy the place up before selling. Ambitious cowboy-next-door Max O’Connor has the means and the desire to buy Wirra Station outright and return it to its former glory. But first, he wants elusive Maggie Walker to know what she’s giving up. He challenges her to live at Wirra Station for three months—with him as farm manager. Just one season–and if she still doesn’t love the place, he’ll gladly pay up and she can be cashed-up and careless, with no ties to anything or anyone. Three months. Two hearts. One Summer. Roll on.
Download or read book The Color of the Sky written by David Halliburton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-07-28 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Halliburton's book is a richly textured study of the complete writings of Stephen Crane. Offering close readings of the works within a broad framework, Halliburton sets out to explore the imaginative world Crane created in his total œuvre of fiction, poetry and reportage.
Download or read book The Tarot s Warning written by B. Elizabeth Goodson and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beth and her friends have been meeting regularly to consult the tarot and draw wisdom from the cards. But suddenly every time Beth consults the cards The Devil turns up. Increasingly she has the feeling she is being watched with malice. She becomes haunted by fear and comes to believe her life may be in danger. Before it is too late, she and her friends must figure out the meaning behind the tarot card warning.
Download or read book Deceptive Cadence written by Joyce Jones (Vocalist) and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "After the death of her little brother, Maggie abandoned all musical aspirations and went into social hibernation, blaming herself entirely for his death. In a last ditch effort to bring the light back into their daughter's eyes, Maggie's parents send her to Crawford University to study music"--Page 4 of cover
Download or read book The Destruction of Isle Demieres written by Deborah Trimm and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1800s, a small barrier island was located off the coast of Louisiana and was a popular resort for the socialites or New Orleans and surrounding areas. Dave Morgan saw Isle Demieres as his chance for a better life and his escape from the city where he lived with Mrs. Buckley near the red-light district of New Orleans. Dave’s carefully planned trip happened to be the same weekend of the deadliest storm to ever hit the coast. Drawing from documents, letters, and newspaper accounts, Ms. Trimm has written a powerful narrative of compassion and survival.
Download or read book Seasoned Southern Sleuths Cozy Mystery Box Set 1 written by Kelsey Browning and published by Kicksass Creations. This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first three stories of the USA TODAY bestselling Seasoned Southern Sleuths Mysteries by Kelsey Browning and Nancy Naigle available as a box set! IN FOR A PENNY When Lillian Summer Fairview’s husband up and dies on her, it leaves the last living member of the most prestigious family in Summer Shoals, Georgia, in a hot money mess. Desperate to keep up the family name and give the man a decent burial, penniless Lil makes a shady deal that lands her smack-dab in the slammer. Burdened by her shameful secret and a crumbling family estate, Lil entrusts Summer Haven’s care to her best friend, Maggie, who recruits two more over-fifty ladies to help. But when Maggie discovers that Lil’s restitution is ten times the amount she “borrowed” from the federal government, she’s convinced Lil has taken the fall for someone else’s crime. Will these gals be able to prove Lil was duped, or will the swindler get away with hoodwinking a sweet little old lady? COLLARD GREENS & CATFISHING Southern matriarch Lillian Summer Fairview is settling right nice into prison, until Big Martha, the toughest broad on the cellblock, comes asking for a favor. Her niece has fallen for a guy she met online, and Martha’s convinced Mr. Too-Good-To-Be-True is up to no good. All Lil’s friends have to do is check out the guy and report back. Already tied up with a cantankerous septic system on Lil’s family estate, the grannies don’t have time for another investigation. If Summer Haven isn’t in shipshape before the historic society’s inspection, they’ll be in deep you-know-what. But Big Martha is as persuasive as she is tough, and when the gals poke around, they find the guy doesn’t really exist. Will they be able to track down the elusive Romeo in the scam-filled world of online dating, or will they find themselves in trouble right up to their granny panties? CHRISTMAS COOKIES & A CONFESSION Sheriff Teague Castro made a mistake ten years ago that cost him the love of his life. But Jenny Northcutt has always been the woman for him, and he’s ready to do whatever it takes to get a second chance at love. Jenny is a divorced mother, and she has zero time or energy for romance. But her own mother’s recent move is forcing Jenny to come face-to-face with Teague, the man who destroyed her belief in happily ever. Now, Jenny can’t deny the spark is still alive, but this time more than her heart is at risk. Teague cooks up a plan to woo Jenny, but a local theft could ruin both the Christmas holiday and his odds of winning her over. Now, with a mysterious crime to solve, Teague must once again keep a secret from Jenny. Will their painful past repeat itself, or will they get the gift of a second chance at love?
Download or read book The Party written by Tríona Walsh and published by Bookouture. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was only supposed to be a small wedding. Intimate and perfect. But my blood turns to ice when I see someone I know wasn’t invited. My first husband – who I thought was dead. My world shattered when Declan disappeared five years ago. My grown-up children fell apart without their father, and it was up to me to pick up the pieces of our broken lives. I never thought I’d get married again but then I met George. Some people might think we’re moving too fast. But as I look round on our wedding day at our little family, the sounds of laughter and clinking glasses ringing out, I know that I’ve made the right decision. Until Declan steps out the shadows. He says he still loves me, and now he’s back for good. But where has he been all this time? My legs shake so much that I can barely stand… Even though he lied to me so many times, as I stare into Declan’s sparkling blue eyes I realise that my new husband can’t compare to the love we once shared. But at least I can trust George. Can’t I? Before I even have a chance to decide, Declan is found murdered. A chill races down my spine as I realise – his killer must be one of our wedding party. Did Declan bring back secrets that should have stayed buried? Now, we’re trapped in this house in the middle of nowhere and my heart pounds as I realise there’s no escape. Why is Declan dead? And can I get me and my children out of here before one of us is next…? A totally gripping psychological thriller, packed with secrets and gasp-inducing twists. Fans of Lucy Foley, K.L. Slater and Shalini Boland won’t be able to put this down. Readers are loving The Party: ‘Yes!... YES! I loved this book! The anticipation kept me on my toes! I thought I was going to start this book and read a little and then go to bed... wrong! I read this book until I was done! I could not put it down.’ Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘An unputdownable psychological thriller that held my attention from start to finish. There's nothing I like more than a good locked room mystery, and this one fit the bill perfectly with murder, mayhem, and red herrings aplenty to keep the pages turning… I loved the book and couldn't stop reading… The tension gradually builds and keeps rising with every twist and every turn. Just when I thought I had figured out what was going on, the author threw a curveball at me.’ Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘You are not going to want to miss this one… Unbelievable… The pace was perfect and sucked you further and further down the rabbit hole of secrets, lies, and deceit. When the twist was revealed my mind was blown.’ @thrillbythepage_, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I was kept guessing as to 'whodunit' to the end. Excellent thriller with a riveting mystery and shocking twists.’ Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A cannot-put-down page-turner’ Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Twisty and wild.’ Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Wow… left me completely stunned. The author did a fantastic job crafting a twisty tension filled plot. I couldn't put it down!’ Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Heart-pounding thriller that left me on the edge of my seat. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this one… one of the best books this year.’ Netgalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I did not see the twists coming… You’ll be hooked and riveted.’ Netgalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘An unputdownable thriller… I could never guess what was happening next.’ @nlcraigwrites ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘An unbelievably brilliant plot… The author brings you down so many false paths that you’re left reeling… Excellent.’ Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A heart-pounding journey of deceit, betrayal, and the lengths one woman will go to protect her family… a captivating and suspenseful read, with twists and turns that will leave readers breathless… thrilling…will keep readers guessing until the very end.’ @readwithmills ‘Chilling and ominous… A gripping and intriguing book with shocks I never saw coming… A suspense packed drama filled with twists you won't see coming!’ Bookworm 86 ‘A grab you by your hand and never let go psychological thriller that had my attention from the very first line. If you're looking for something to read that moves quick like speeding down a windy road, you've found it!’ Goodreads reviewer ‘Wow! This book was a wild ride!... Had me on the edge of my seat the whole time.’ Goodreads reviewer
