Download or read book Maggie Scratch written by Susana Gross and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maggie ScratchSearching for seeds... How does a rebel from the Jewish suburbs of Philadelphia ultimately find a home in the Son of Moses Valley on the island of Ibiza? Maggie Scratch tells this story in three parts, each dedicated to a boyfriend, or husband. During 1979-1980, about to turn thirty-two, a self-styled columnist for The Ibiza News, Maggie reports current events from her century old farmhouse while reliving past adventures. From coming of age with H.G. Blumberg in the 60's in Elkins Park, Pa., to college in Boston in the 70's, to a teepee in the California redwoods with her Native American husband, P.P. Goldfeather, and then to a palapa in Mexico where she meets Izzy, Maggie explores the world. It is men she apparently pursues, but her best friend, Seneca Stone sums up Maggie with a metaphor: "Maggie Scratch searching for seeds." Maggie wonders if she will find a way to get pregnant or have to break up with Izzy, the charismatic painter, because of his vasectomy. While driven to plant a seed in herself, Maggie hears her grandmother's voice, "Certain paths are meant to be." She stumbles upon a man in a forest and wonders if he is meant to be...her stud. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Susana Gross grew up in Philadelphia where Harry Gross, her happy-go-lucky grandfather, gave her the nickname Maggie Scratch. In the late 70's Susana used the name for a weekly byline in The Ibiza News. Maggie Scratch's humoristic column Adventures with Paco offered readers offbeat stories of island life. Susana later moved to Barcelona where she worked as a scriptwriter for Spanish TV, creating sitcoms and pilots, while raising her daughter and re-writing the novel, Maggie Scratch, the first book of the upcoming The Maggie Scratch Trilogy. Throughout the 80's and 90's until the present, she has continued reporting the adventures of Maggie Scratch, spanning four generations from the USA to Spain and Mexico, and ending up in Southern France. Susana and Maggie share a blog (https://susanagross.wordpress.com) and Maggie Scratch has her own page on Facebook. One of Susana's readers once described their relationship, "She's the character that still lives within the author." REVIEWS"Maggie Scratch, the central character, explores relationships and all their foibles, across the years and across continents, before finally settling in Ibiza...What is fuelling her restlessness... Of course, the answer is not an easy one, she wants a child - and one can imagine what follows, in light of the fact this part of the book is based in Ibiza, island of 'anything goes'..." --Cat Milton, Ibiza Spotlight "Dreamy, sensuous and evocative: 'In the late evening, the earth cools down so loud I can hear it crack.' Maggie Scratch is filled with beautiful, contrasting images and situations. It is a synesthetic journey, a portrait of a time, of the people she finds while she builds and searches for her identity. A really powerful book!" --Gabriela Nadal, Barcelonogy "The book is a psychological jigsaw puzzle. While fitting the pieces together and fantasizing about how she will get pregnant, a surprise piece falls in Maggie's lap. Destiny? Or, Maggie wonders, are the pieces meant to be?" --Barcelona Metropolitan "Maggie's roller-coaster narrative goes down easy in Gross' clean and elegant prose. The book opens in the front seat of a Corvair, a signpost of what's to come: the reader is instantly passenger in a car that speeds, skids, halts, crashes and coasts along familiar and foreign roads. Whether Maggie reminds you of yourself, your mother, or someone you once saw, she is rendered with an openness and a tenderness that makes her as compelling and accessible as kin." --Winter Miller, playwright, In Darfur

Download or read book Maggie written by Ann M. Martin and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 1997 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: YA. Written in the diary format of a young girl suffering from low self esteem. 11 yrs+

Download or read book A Scratch Sniff Halloween written by Elizabeth Spurr and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young readers can scratch and sniff the Halloween treats children receive, including pizza, witch's brew, and an apple.

Download or read book Maggie Diary One written by Ann M. Martin and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maggie makes everything she does look easy—but there’s a high price to pay for perfection Maggie Blume does everything right. She gets straight A’s, is a talented pianist, and was just named the youngest poetry editor of the school’s literary magazine, Inner Vistas. She makes the life of a successful thirteen-year-old look easy. For Maggie’s father, nothing but perfect will do. Not only is he obsessed with his job as a studio executive, he expects Maggie to have a detailed plan for her life, which unfortunately leaves no room for her true passion: music. Once Maggie’s friends learn of her talent, they help her land a spot as the lead singer for Vanish, the band managed by her friend Amalia. Maggie could never share this news with her dad, so when she has to choose between going to his movie opening and the battle of the bands, she takes a huge risk to make sure she’s able to do it all—perfectly. This ebook features an illustrated personal history of Ann M. Martin, including rare images from the author’s collection. Maggie: Diary One is the 3rd book in the California Diaries, which also includes Sunny: Diary One and Amalia: Diary One.

Download or read book Maggie s California Diaries written by Ann M. Martin and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teenager Maggie Blume struggles with not being perfect in this spin-off from the Newbery Award–winning author’s Baby-sitters Club series. Straight-A student Maggie might seem perfect, but in reality, her life is anything but. There’s not much she can do about the demands her dad puts on her, her mother’s alcoholism, or her insecurity about following her passion for music—but she can control what she eats. As Maggie’s friends begin to worry that she has an eating disorder, she’ll have to face the fact that she might have a problem being perfect won’t solve . . . The next chapter following Ann M. Martin’s bestselling Baby-sitters Club series, the California Diaries are the first-person journals of Dawn, Sunny, Maggie, Amalia, and Ducky—five teenagers dealing with the ups and downs of growing up. This collection includes the complete set of Maggie’s three California Diaries.

Download or read book The Complete Maggie Killian Trilogy written by Pamela Fagan Hutchins and published by SkipJack Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cowboys, guitar chords, and a past full of crazy. If she’s not careful, Maggie’s old junk may wreck her new life. "Hutchins’ Maggie is an irresistible train wreck—you can’t help but turn the page to see what trouble she’ll get herself into next."Robert Dugoni, #1 Amazon Best-selling Author of My Sister's Grave Live Wire (Maggie #1): Washed-up alt-country-rocker-turned-junker Maggie Killian is pulled to Wyoming by an irresistible force . . . former bull rider Hank Sibley, the man who broke her heart fifteen years before. When she unexpectedly meets his Sunday school-teaching girlfriend at a saloon, Maggie seeks liquor-fueled oblivion between the sheets of a younger man’s bed. But after her beloved vintage truck breaks down and leaves her stranded in the Cowboy State, she learns her hook-up died minutes after leaving their rendezvous. Suddenly surrounded by men with questionable motives, Maggie searches for the murderer while fighting the electricity between herself and her old beau and her new penchant for local whiskey. Sick Puppy (Maggie #2): Junker and former alt-country-rocker Maggie Killian tucks tail back to Texas with Louise, the mutt her bull-riding ex foisted on her in Wyoming after he gave another woman his heart. Maggie runs straight to Gary Fuller—her long time best friend-with-benefits and the biggest Texas country music star since George Strait—but arrives too late to save him from dying in a fire. She just wants to lick her wounds in her own bed with nothing save a bottle for comfort, but Maggie’s short term renter refuses to budge from her home. Soon her small town sanctuary is overrun with Nashville bigwigs, Gary’s trailer park family, and grief-crazed fans feeding the fires of media speculation about the bodies in her wake. Dead Pile (Maggie #3): After Maggie Killian’s junker business goes into the shitter in Texas, the former alt-country-rocker packs up her vintage truck and rescue mutt for Wyoming and a sexy reunion with her ex, Hank Sibley. When she discovers Hank’s foreman unceremoniously dumped on the ranch’s dead pile—the repository for deceased livestock—deputies look no further than the ranch for suspects, especially the young Amish hand, Andy, who received a battlefield promotion of sorts. Because the two have bonded over his guitar lessons, Maggie worries about Andy, even as she is struggling to resolve her suddenly resurrecting musical past, the demolished business in her present, and the complexity of a future with a lover who has suffered from traumatic brain injury since his bull riding days, his disapproving sister, and his Alzheimer’s-stricken mother. ˃˃˃ See why Pamela wins contests and makes best seller lists. USA Today Best Seller #1 Amazon Best Seller Top 50 Amazon Romantic Suspense and Mystery Author Silver Falchion for Best Adult Mystery USA Best Book Awards Cross-Genre Fiction Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, Romance, Quarter-finalist ˃˃˃ Once Upon A Romance calls Hutchins an "up-and-coming powerhouse writer." If you like Sandra Brown or Janet Evanovich, you're going to love Pamela Fagan Hutchins. A former attorney and native Texan, Pamela splits her time between Nowheresville, Texas and the frozen north of Snowheresville, Wyoming. ˃˃˃ The Maggie reviews are in, and they're good. Very, very good. "Murder has never been so much fun!" — Christie Craig, New York Times Best Seller "Maggie's gonna break your heart—one way or another." — Tara Scheyer, Grammy-nominated musician, Long-Distance Sisters Book Club "Hutchins nails that Wyoming scenery and captures the atmosphere of the people there." — Ken Oder, author of The Judas Murders "You’re guaranteed to love the ride!" — Kay Kendall, Silver Falchion Best Mystery Winner ˃˃˃ Catch more adventures with Maggie and her friends in the What Doesn't Kill You romantic mysteries. Scroll up and grab your copy today.

Download or read book From Scratch written by C.E. Hilbert and published by Pelican Ventures Book Group. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maggie McKitrick loves everything about her new life in Gibson's Run, Ohio—her charming bakery, her quirky customers, her distance from the past. Yes, she loves everything…except her new landlord. Police Chief Sean Taylor is like a piece of sand in an oyster—irritating, but with the promise of something beautiful. Despite Maggie's self-imposed man-fast, she wonders what kind of treasure she and the lawman could create together. Sean Taylor likes to keep the peace, but his new tenant is making it nearly impossible to keep anything on an even keel—including his heart. Despite her sassy attitude, Sean is drawn to the beautiful pastry chef and has an overwhelming need to serve and protect her. As Maggie and Sean draw closer together, her long buried dreams about her life are reawakened into a hopeful prayer…until a threat from her past promises to destroy their future. Will Maggie be forced to run—again—starting fresh? Or will God answer her prayer and give her the happily-ever-after she's started from scratch?

Download or read book Maggie written by Marie Maxwell and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “powerful” novel about an orphaned sixteen-year-old aspiring singer in 1960s England, from the author of Ruby and Gracie (Booklist). 1962. Confident, bright, and popular, Maggie Wheaton lives with her loving, wealthy parents in a close-knit Cambridgeshire village. But, just days after her sixteenth birthday, her world is destroyed: An accident kills both her parents, and then she suffers the ultimate betrayal when she learns a life-changing family secret. Maggie has no choice but to go and live with her appointed guardian, her mom’s dear friend Ruby Riordan, in the seaside town of Southend, where she sets out on a deliberate path of self-destruction. Will Ruby be able to save Maggie from herself, or is it all too little too late? “Maxwell offers powerful testimony to strength, resilience, and what family and love should truly mean.” —Booklist

Download or read book Free Fall written by Fern Michaels and published by Zebra. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sisterhood is a group of women who dish out their own brand of justice. In their seventh novel, the members' newest target is America's favorite movie star, a brute who has conned the world into believing he's Mr. Perfect. However, he's not above the ladies' special brand of payback.

Download or read book E is for Maggie written by Susan D. Dagenais and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E is for Maggie is a memoir about love, adaptation, and the search for happiness. Susan bravely shares her inner thoughts and feelings, mistakes, and the difficult decisions she had to make to ensure her family was as safe and fulfilled as possible. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to raising children, and caring for her daughter with severe autism in the 1980s and 90s presented challenges that often felt isolating and insurmountable. Susan came to learn: “You have to keep knocking till you get the help you need.” Today, Maggie is a living testimony of love that never gave up.

Download or read book Maggie Darling written by James Howard Kunstler and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She's the goddess of hearth and home, America's millionaire media maven of domesticity, Connecticut's most dazzling hostess, and everything in her world is perfect-except that Maggie Darling's picture-book life has suddenly gone off the rails. Amid the extravagant trappings of a Christmas Eve bash, she spies her swinish stockbroker husband slipping out of a powder room moments after his creamy young colleague. Matrimonial meltdown launches Maggie on a year of romance and misadventure, starting with an ill-fated fling with British rock star-turned-movie-actor Frederick Swann. Back home, a sniper is loose on the Merritt Parkway and a gang known as the Businessman's Lunch Posse is terrorizing patrons of Manhattan's four-star restaurants. Meanwhile, Maggie's son Hooper drops out of college and falls into the company of the sinister gangsta-rap group Chill Az Def. As calamity piles on catastrophe, can Maggie Darling brilliantly resolve the collapse of civilization as we wish we knew it?

Download or read book The Black Kachina written by Jack Getze and published by Down & Out Books. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a top-secret weapon goes missing on Colonel Maggie Black’s watch, her honor and her career are on the line. There were airmen who said the Air Force’s best female combat pilot would never be the same after losing her arm in Iraq, but state-of-the-art prosthetics have made Maggie better than new, and she’s not about to lose what she battled so hard to regain. But finding her experimental missile won’t be easy—thanks to the revenge-fueled ambitions of Asdrubal Torres, whose hallucinatory encounter with the Great Spirit challenges him to refill Lake Cahuilla, the ancient inland sea that once covered much of Southern California. To fulfill his blessed mission, Torres needs wizardry and weaponry, and the Great Spirit provides both: Magic, in the form of a celebrated shaman’s basket returned to the tribal museum by San Diego reporter Jordan Scott; Might, in the form of Maggie Black’s top-secret weapon that falls from the sky. From that moment, it’s a race against time for Maggie and Jordan, who together must stop Torres from destroying Hoover Dam—and turning the Colorado River into a tsunami that would kill hundreds of thousands and wipe out the Southwest’s water supply. In the final showdown, it’s Maggie who must disarm the stolen missile’s trigger—one-handed or not—and save the day.

Download or read book I Am With You Always written by Phyllis Pritchard and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Am With You Always by Phyllis Pritchard I Am With You Always is a message to the world of possible future happenings if mankind doesn’t change their ways. This will inspire all who read it that it is time for everyone to heed now of their present relationships with their God and with that discovery, on their part fulfilled, to act accordingly, because we may be in the “end of time” scenario. We are a society that is very comfortable in our own little corner of our world and don’t really like any kind of drastic changes in our lives. We need to come to the realization that changes are in the making and will continue to happen on a longer and faster scale in our future.

Download or read book Jingle Jangles eBook written by Kimberly Jordano and published by Creative Teaching Press. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research has confirmed that the more children practice reading, the more fluent they become. This book features 32 interactive scripts and mini-books based on familiar songs and chants that provide this necessary element of repeated reading proactive in a fun and interactive way. This motivating format keeps children's interest level high throughout several "takes" of the same text, leading to more fluent and confident readers.

Download or read book Through the Ant Farm written by Robert Leland Taylor and published by ABC Group Documentation, an imprint of Down & Out Books. This book was released on with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grip McCormack has never stepped on an ant. But, at seventeen, he shoots his abusive father, Amos, off the roof of their Kentucky home. Go figure. The murder trial dominates the news for months and brings a torrent of notoriety to the agoraphobic young man, along with a string of female admirers. One of them is Millie—unhinged, tenacious, and eighteen years his senior. Grip has a parole hearing coming up in three days. Lucky for him. If only life on the outside weren’t waiting to get him—Uncle Edgar (Dad’s brother) wants to kill him, and Millie wants to marry him, and she’s already picked out their house—across the street from Uncle Edgar. Grip’s anorexic sister, Beanie, still refuses to forgive him and flees to Illinois to escape the family shame (where she becomes a model for Simplicity Patterns). Mom quits her job and stows away with shades drawn in the crumbling Kentucky home (where she is now sole occupant). And Dad? Still dead, and still something of a klutz. He has a difficult time mastering the ways of the afterlife, getting stuck in prison walls and crashing into metal doors while trying to pass through them. But that doesn’t stop him from attempting a reconciliation with his son. Without it, both know that true freedom will never come. Praise for THROUGH THE ANT FARM: “Robert Leland Taylor is endlessly inventive in his observations of the human condition. He populates his universe with characters who are both world-weary and naive at the same time. Hilarious and heartbreaking. Every word rings true. More, please.” —Gatlin Reed, author of Shelter in Place. “A unique voice propels the narrative of Taylor’s Through the Ant Farm. Grip is an abused kid with a high IQ, knows he’s weird but doesn’t know why. This novel is filled with great one-liners, dry observations and sets the stage for a hilarious and memorable tale.” —Richard Hine, author of Russell Wiley is out to Lunch. “Heart-breakingly funny. This is one of those novels where I find myself sorry for the agents and publishers, and ultimately, the readers—who are missing out on stories and characters such as Robert Leland Taylor can write.” —Gae Polisner, author of The Summer of Letting Go.

Download or read book Cleaning Up Finn written by Sarah M. Chen and published by All Due Respect, an imprint of Down & Out Books. This book was released on with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah M. Chen’s Anthony Award-nominated and IPPY Award-winning debut. Life is a constant party for restaurant manager, Finn Roose. When he seduces an underage woman on one of his booze cruises and loses her—literally, it sets off a massive search involving the police, her parents, and a private investigator. Finn is an expert manipulator but his endless lies only tighten the screws on himself and his unsuspecting best friend. Finn scrambles to make things right which may be too much to ask from a guy who can’t resist a hot babe and a stiff drink. Praise for CLEANING UP FINN: “Chen creates a compelling character with restaurant manager Finn Roose. Readers with certain taste (like me) will enjoy watching this self-deluded ladies man bumble from one mistake to another, trying to hide his involvement with a missing teenage girl. Sarah M. Chen creates a hybrid West Coast restaurant noir novella. A great read.” —Travis Richardson, author Lost in Clover “A speedboat ride along the Southern California coastline where the sun shines a light on the lecherous locals. Finn Roose is an opportunistic restaurant manager who finally gets in over his head when he meets an underage femme fatale. Lives are shattered and bullets fly through the salty ocean air in this fast-paced debut from Sarah M. Chen.” —S.W. Lauden, author of Bad Citizen Corporation and Crossed Bones “If you like your crime fiction the way Finn Roose likes his women, hard and fast, you’ll love Sarah M. Chen’s debut novella. A challenging, unsentimental look at a man who may be beyond redemption. Chen is a writer to watch.” —Matt Coyle, author of the Anthony Award-winning Rick Cahill crime series “Cleaning Up Finn is a complex morality tale of debauchery, selfishness, sacrifice, and guilt. This romp of a noir through Southern California’s South Bay will stay with you, challenging your ideas of poetic justice and leaving you wanting more from Sarah M. Chen.” —James W. Ziskin, author of the Anthony, Barry, Macavity and Lefty Award nominated Ellie Stone mysteries “A gritty and compelling journey, Chen navigates the intricate labyrinth of great modern storytelling with believable style. I’ll be tapping my foot waiting for more from this incredible author and more of her character Finn.” —Darrell James, author of the award-winning Del Shannon series

Download or read book A Better Kind of Hate written by Beau Johnson and published by Down & Out Books. This book was released on with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world has never been perfect. The world has never been all bad. But there has always been evil and men who drink of it. This ends now. Enter Bishop Rider and people like him who have had enough and are willing to embrace what most will not. The world will never be perfect. The world will never be all bad. It’s the middle we must embrace. This, a better kind of hate. Praise for A BETTER KIND OF HATE: “Hard hitting stories of lives on the razor’s edge.” —Paul D. Brazill, author of Too Many Crooks, A Case of Noir, Guns of Brixton, The Last Laughand Kill Me Quick! “Beau Johnson is a lawless writer. Several—but not all—of the stories in his collection, A Better Kind of Hate, feature his renegade cop alter ego Bishop Rider, a battered and bruised, world-weary hero forced to operate outside a corrupt system to find justice. And that’s just what these stories have in common: justice, in all its muted, corrupt glory. Whether showcasing Rider or another flawed hero, Johnson operates in shades of gray, where sometimes all it takes is for a bad man to kill a worse one. A stark and sobering reality, and a stellar debut.” —Joe Clifford, author of the Jay Porter Thriller Series “Beau’s ability to strike at the heart of human emotion is both unnerving, uncanny, and unique. It allows him to wring tears from the darkest recesses of the human experience. A dark chameleon who slides from twisted villain to damaged innocent like a well-tuned master of fiction. A how-to on the craft of short fiction.” —Tom Pitts, author of Hustle and American Static “A Better Kind of Hate will haunt you like a specter. An uneasy collection, Beau Johnson crafts each story with masterful precision and an icy cold edge. Each page, each word, escalates the tension, ratchets the foreboding . Dripping with psychological terror, nerve racking suspense and characters unhinged, A Better Kind of Hate is an offering of patience, plans, and revenge. Johnson’s talent is spectacular and terrifying.” —Marietta Miles, author of Route 12 “Beau Johnson writes from that place inside us all that is nothing but brutal honesty and grit. And while most people avoid this place, Beau milks it for every word he can.” —Ryan Sayles, author of the Richard Dean Buckner series