Download or read book Minettes Birthday written by Richard André and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Minette s Feast written by Susanna Reich and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minette’s Feast introduces the iconic American chef Julia Child to a new audience of young readers through the story of her spirited cat, Minette, whom Julia adopted when living in Paris. While Julia is in the kitchen learning to master delicious French dishes, the only feast Minette is truly interested in is that of fresh mouse! This lively story is complete with an author’s note, a bibliography, and actual quotations from Julia Child and comes just in time for the 100th anniversary of her birth. UPraise for Minette's Feast/u DIV “Foodie parents who love cats will love to read this delightful book to their kids.†?/div DIV —The Atlantic/div DIV “This charming portrait...†?/div DIV —Publishers Weekly/div "A delectable tale about Julia Child discovering her culinary calling in Paris...This book is a charmer to share aloud with young people who enjoy a well-paced story and with cat lovers and food lovers of any age." —Horn Book "A charming picture book." —The New York Times Sunday Book Review "Amy Bates uses pencil and watercolor to crate artwork that is as playful as Minette the cat." —Library Media Connection STARRED REVIEWS DIV “A fine recipe for pleasure: Julia Child, the culinary arts, Paris and a lucky cat. Magnifique!†?/div DIV —Kirkus Reviews, starred review "Bates’ illustrations work marvelously well with this charming conceit." —Booklist, starred review "Reich's internal rhymes make the proceedings feel festive, while her overall prose conveys Julia's seriousness of purpose. The smooth flow of her narrative belies the impressive amount of research she undertook to relate actual conversations and events...Discover: A delectable banquet that charts Julia Child's culinary progress through the eyes of her cat, Minette." —Shelf Awareness, starred review /div DIV “...feast for the senses†?/div —School Library Journal, starred review UAward/u Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) Choices 2013 list - Picture Book

Download or read book A Handsome Cap written by Richard André and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Finders Keepers written by Walter Sutton and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When ten million dollars vanish, so does Flash Finnegan's career. In the world of money laundering and high-stakes fraud, "Flash" Finnegan was a star in the Seattle Police Department. Now, caught in the crossfire of his own team's sting operation, Flash is framed for the theft of millions. With his back against the wall, Flash swaps his badge for a beach view in Kauai, but retirement is anything but peaceful. The stolen millions trigger a conflict between a shadowy syndicate and a Swiss bank, and soon, Flash is caught in the middle of it all. The first book in Walter Sutton's Flash Finnegan Series, FINDERS KEEPERS is a fast-paced thriller where trust is a luxury, and survival is anything but guaranteed.

Download or read book Minette s Birthday A Comic Operetta for the Drawing room written by Richard ANDRÉ and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Just Married written by Zoe Barnes and published by Piatkus. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emma (ne Cox) and Joe Sheridan have just got married. Emma has been in love with Joe since school - marrying him was the happiest day of her life. But now the honeymoon is over and Emma's having to cope with the reality of married life. She's living in a new town, has a new job and a new husband, who hasn't quite left his bachelor days behind him.Then there's Emma's interfering mother-in-law who's expecting the patter of tiny feet before Joe's even carried her over the threshold! Still, at least she and Joe are together at last. But Joe and Emma have never lived with each other before - and apart from the odd holiday - have never spent more than two weeks in each other's company. Setting up home together for the first time might be romantic, but nobody told them that living happily ever after takes a lot of hard work . . .

Download or read book Minette Walters and the Meaning of Justice written by Mary Hadley and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgar Award-winning crime novelist Minette Walters is known for revitalizing the tradition of the stand-alone psychological thriller in books such as The Ice House, The Dark Room, Acid Row and Fox Evil. This book offers an in-depth analysis of Walters' narrative technique and examines the major themes found throughout her work, including truth and justice, the treatment of children, patterns of victimization, British social issues, body image and body politics, the fashioning of identity, and heroism and evil in society. In addition, it includes a valuable interview with Walters.

Download or read book Watching Me Watching You written by Fay Weldon and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVFay Weldon’s first short-story collection features her trademark themes of feminism, sisterhood, and domestic livelihood, where the ties that bind can also draw blood/divDIV Love, loss, and the ever-changing sexual battlefield are the themes of this early anthology by master storyteller Fay Weldon: In “Christmas Tree,” the adulterous playwright hero embarks on a quest for true love, perhaps the most self-deceiving state of all; “Breakages” explores the fragility of married life as a miserly vicar’s infertile wife contemplates his much-darned socks amid ghostly visitations; the loss of hair and female friendship are brought to poignant life in “Alopecia,” while religion becomes an excuse for infidelity in “Holy Stones”; a holiday game of Monopoly reveals the widening holes in the fabric of a family in “Man with No Eyes”; and an old house and its inhabitants are haunted by doomed love in the title story./divDIV /divDIVBy turns humorous, ironic, and tragic, Watching Me, Watching You presents Fay Weldon at her most witty, original, and courageous./div

Download or read book The Good Neighbour written by Beth Miller and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone has secrets. How far will you go to protect yours? After living next to the neighbours from hell, Minette is overjoyed when Cath and her two children move in next door. Cath soon becomes her confidante, a kindred spirit, even her daughter’s babysitter. But Cath keeps herself unusually guarded and is reluctant to speak of her past. And when Minette witnesses something unspeakable, she begins to question whether she really knows her new friend at all... An addictive and gripping novel, perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty and Daughter

Download or read book Mischief written by Fay Weldon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'She's a Queen of Words' CAITLIN MORAN. 'One of the great lionesses of modern English literature' HARPER'S BAZAAR. 'Readable, articulate and fascinating' THE SCOTSMAN. 'Outrageously funny' DAILY EXPRESS. 'Sharp, witty, incisive' THE TIMES. 'Wise, knowing, forthright' INDEPENDENT. Reviewers have been describing Fay Weldon's inimitable voice for years. Now, here is Fay Weldon in her own words. Choosing and and introducing twenty-one of her favourite short stories written throughout her fifty year career as one of Britain's foremost novelists. Included as a bonus is a new novella, The Ted Dreams, a ghost story for the age of cyber culture, big pharma, and surveillance.

Download or read book The Sculptress written by Minette Walters and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-10-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Edgar Award and the Macavity Award for Best Novel In prison they call her the sculptress: a grotesquely obese young woman convicted of cutting her mother and sister to pieces and rearranging their bodies on the floor like a jigsaw puzzle. She pleaded guilty to the crime, but no one has noticed that the facts don't add up until Rosalind Leigh comes to visit the prisoner, hoping to get a book deal out of her story. The more fevered Rosalind's pursuit of the truth, the closer she gets to the true source of the evil ascribed to the Sculptress in her cell.

Download or read book Judy Moody and Friends Mrs Moody in The Birthday Jinx written by Megan McDonald and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Based on the characters created by Peter H. Reynolds."

Download or read book Miranda s Birthday Party written by Ale González and published by nicanitas · nicanitasantiago. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miranda shares with us her joy or excitement and ideas for her birthday party.

Download or read book The Life of Madame Necker written by Sonja Boon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madame Necker occupies a unique position in French social and cultural history. This study breaks new ground by examining the profoundly corporeal nature of Madame Necker’s life – her debilitating, decades-long psychic and somatic suffering and subsequent curious death.

Download or read book Edwina Mountbatten written by Janet P. Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biografi om Edwina Mountbatten, gift med Indiens sidste vicekonge

Download or read book Their First Meeting written by Effie W. Merriman and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Love Bug written by Zoe Barnes and published by Piatkus. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't get bitten...If love is a bug then Laurel Page is immune. Been there. Done that. Got over it. All she wants now is a quiet life. And while running a dating agency may not seem like the logical career path for a woman who has so fervently sworn off romance, for Laurel it's perfect. There's something deliciously safe about other people's romantic problems. Laurel's had enough drama in her relationships to last two life times. And then Gabriel Jouet walks into her office. Tall, dark and oozing with Gallic charm, he's an unlikely client and almost enough to make even Laurel contemplate abandoning her vow of singledom. Almost... But Laurel's scars run deep: Cupid really would have to be stupid to pick on her again...