Download or read book Santa s Outback Secret written by Mike Dumbleton and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2015 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Santa has packed his bags and set off on a very special mission to the Australian outback. What is he up to? And will he be back in time for Christmas Eve? Every year Santa opens all his Christmas mail. But this year he receives a very special letter and soon he is packing his bags and setting off, promising to be back by Christmas Eve. But where is Santa going? And why? Quick ... hop on board. Let's find out.

Download or read book Santa s Secret written by Mike Dumbleton and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2013 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful Christmas book with a mischievous Australian twist The Christmas presents have all been delivered, but Santa is back on his sleigh. What is he up to? Where is he going? Quick . . . hop on board. Let's find out!

Download or read book Thomas Kinkade s Cape Light a Christmas Secret written by Katherine Spencer and published by Berkley Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christmas season brings the promise of new beginnings in this next novel by the New York Times bestselling author of the Angel Island series. Before Christmas comes.... Martin Nightingale was no stranger to Cape Light. He spent many happy summers there as a boy. Now, he's returned to fulfill the unusual terms of his grandfather's will. In order to collect his inheritance, Martin must spread joy throughout the town with anonymous gifts. A shy man who doesn't make friends easily, Martin is stumped by the role of Secret Santa. But a pretty police officer, Louisa Tully shows him that, "A stranger is just a friend you haven't met yet." One Christmas, long ago... Martin's grandfather, Walter was a toy-making genius, but a terrible businessman. The Christmas of 1955 seemed the last for Nightingale's Magical Toy Shop. Until miracles arrived, along with a stray dog named, Otis. But, as Martin discovers, his grandfather's greatest legacy is a priceless lesson about giving from the heart.

Download or read book A Miracle for His Secret Son written by Barbara Hannay and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freya and Gus shared a perfect summer—until Gus left town for a future that couldn't include Freya…. Now, twelve years on, Freya has a shocking revelation for Gus: they have a son, Nick, who needs a new kidney—a gift only his father can provide. Gus is taken aback, but vows to help Nick. And despite everything, the connection between Gus and Freya is still strong. Can they make a life together and give Nick another miracle…a family?

Download or read book Montana Secret Santa written by Debra Salonen and published by Tule Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ad exec Krista Martin, while feeling more Grinch than elf, still jumps at the chance to co-chair Marietta’s Secret Santa Society. Why not? Especially since brilliant, attractive, and innovative tech wunderkind Jonah Andrews has agreed to help. He's well connected and Krista's hoping for some advice on rebooting her career. Jonah knows Krista has a not-so-hidden agenda, but sparring with her over cocoa at their Secret Santa meetings is the most fun he’s had since returning to his old hometown. Krista may come across as all business, but Jonah’s positive he’s glimpsed a little girl inside her who wants to believe in Santa... and in love.

Download or read book The Secret Project written by Jonah Winter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five starred reviews! Mother-son team Jonah and Jeanette Winter bring to life one of the most secretive scientific projects in history—the creation of the atomic bomb—in this “astonishing…beautifully told” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) picture book. At a former boy’s school in the remote desert of New Mexico, the world’s greatest scientists have gathered to work on the “Gadget,” an invention so dangerous and classified they cannot even call it by its real name. They work hard, surrounded by top security and sworn to secrecy, until finally they take their creation far out into the desert to test it, and afterward the world will never be the same.

Download or read book Morse s Greatest Mystery and Other Stories written by Colin Dexter and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2007 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'No one constructs a whodunnit with more fiendish skill than Colin Dexter' GuardianMorse had solved so many mysteries in his life. Was he now, he wondered beginning to glimpse the solution to the greatest mystery of them all . . . ? How can the discovery of a short story by a beautiful Oxford graduate lead Chief Inspector Morse to her murderer? What awaits Morse and Lewis in Room 231 of the Randolph Hotel? Why does a theft at Christmas lead the detective to look upon the festive season with uncharacteristic goodwill? And what happens when Morse himself falls victim to a brilliantly executed crime? This dazzling collection of short stories from Inspector Morse's creator, Colin Dexter, includes six ingenious cases for the world's most popular fictional detective - plus five other tantalizingly original tales to delight all lovers of classic crime fiction.

Download or read book Top Secret Restaurant Recipes written by Todd Wilbur and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-06-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 bestselling Top Secret Recipes series with more than 4 million books sold! Every year, Americans spend billions of dollars gobbling up meals at full-service restaurant chains, inspiring Todd Wilbur to change his focus from cracking the recipes for convenience store foods to cloning the popular dishes served at these sit-down stand-bys. Wilbur's knock-offs, absolutely indiscernible from the originals, are selected from national and regional chains, many drawn from a list of the top ten full-service restaurant chains, including Houlihan's, Red Lobster, and Pizza Hut. Also included in this savory cookbook is a special section devoted to dishes from hot theme restaurants such as Hard Rock Cafe, Planet Hollywood, and Dive! Recipes include: Applebee's Quesadillas; Denny's Moons Over My Hammy; Bennigan's Cookie Mountain Sundae; The Olive Garden Toscana Soup; The Cheesecake Factory Bruschetta; T.G.I.Friday's Nine-Layer Dip; Pizza Hut Original Stuffed Crust Pizza; Chi-Chi's Nachos Grande, and many more!

Download or read book Secret Ingredients written by David Remnick and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Yorker dishes up a feast of delicious writing–food and drink memoirs, short stories, tell-alls, and poems, seasoned with a generous dash of cartoons. “To read this sparely elegant, moving portrait is to remember that writing well about food is really no different from writing well about life.”—Saveur (Ten Best Books of the Year) Since its earliest days, The New Yorker has been a tastemaker—literally. In this indispensable collection, M.F.K. Fisher pays homage to “cookery witches,” those mysterious cooks who possess “an uncanny power over food,” and Adam Gopnik asks if French cuisine is done for. There is Roald Dahl’s famous story “Taste,” in which a wine snob’s palate comes in for some unwelcome scrutiny, and Julian Barnes’s ingenious tale of a lifelong gourmand who goes on a very peculiar diet. Selected from the magazine’s plentiful larder, Secret Ingredients celebrates all forms of gustatory delight. A sample of the menu: Roger Angell on the art of the martini • Don DeLillo on Jell-O • Malcolm Gladwell on building a better ketchup • Jane Kramer on the writer’s kitchen • Chang-rae Lee on eating sea urchin • Steve Martin on menu mores • Alice McDermott on sex and ice cream • Dorothy Parker on dinner conversation • S. J. Perelman on a hollandaise assassin • Calvin Trillin on New York’s best bagel Whether you’re in the mood for snacking on humor pieces and cartoons or for savoring classic profiles of great chefs and great eaters, these offerings from The New Yorker’s fabled history are sure to satisfy every taste.

Download or read book Santa s on His Way written by Lisa Jackson and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four women get cozy with someone special in this holiday romance anthology featuring a #1 New York Times bestselling author. A Baby for Christmas · Lisa Jackson Annie McFarlane’s uneventful Christmas in Oregon takes a surprising turn when she finds an adorable baby left on her snowy doorstep. Then she meets the extremely attractive, yet extremely angry man claiming to be the father. Liam O’Shaughnessy may be intimidating, but this is one precious gift Annie isn’t giving up so easily . . . What the Cowboy Wants for Christmas · Maisey Yates When Meg O’Neill’s boyfriend lets her down, again, on Christmas no less, she braves an Oregon blizzard to get to her best friend Noah’s comforting arms. But this time Noah’s not telling her what she wants to hear—he’s telling her the truth, from his heart . . . Snowed In · Stacy Finz Rachel Johnson found the perfect spot for her second Tart Me Up bakery in Glory Junction, California. Except she’s in fierce competition with hunky bar owner Boden Farmer. Worse, while the icy rivals await the city’s decision, they end up catering the same Christmas Eve mountaintop wedding—and getting snowed in . . . A Cowboy Wedding for Christmas · Nicole Helm Big city art teacher Lindsay Tyler isn’t just back home in Colorado for her brother’s wedding at the Barton Christmas Tree Farm and Ranch. She’s back for good. She just hasn’t told anyone yet—including Cal Barton, the ex-boyfriend she left behind . . .

Download or read book Tea and Sugar Christmas written by Jane Jolly and published by National Library of Australia. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tea and Sugar train only came once a week on a Thursday. But the special Christmas train only came once a year. Today was Sunday. Four more days without sugar. Four more days until the Christmas train. Please, please be on time. Please don’t be late. Join Kathleen in the outback as she eagerly awaits the Christmas Tea and Sugar train. Will she meet Father Christmas? Will she receive a Christmas gift from him? A delightful, heart-warming story from the National Library of Australia that will intrigue, captivate and introduce readers to a slice of the past. Wonderful sensitive illustrations, including a beautiful double fold-out image showing the shops inside all the carriages.

Download or read book Let s Get Dogs T written by Tommy Hawkins and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-02-12 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was copied out of my journal that was wrote whilst I travelled around Australia and Asia. I wasnt planning to write a journal, but I left England around x-mas time and the journal was a x-mas present from my brother Mat. The first few weeks of my travels I met so many people who had started a journal and didnt carry it on, it was these guys who give me the inspiration to keep writing until I got back to London. 2 and a half years later Lets get Dogs#!t was born.

Download or read book Adventures of the Seoul written by Lindsey Chamness Maguigan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-05-28 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leila is just an ordinary college girl. She's never had a boyfriend or tasted beer and wants nothing more than to get away from Tennessee. So when she found out about her school's study abroad program, she was the first to sign up. What she didn't expect was to be assigned to South Korea, a country half a world away. When Leila first arrives in Seoul with two other Tennessee girls, the shock is almost unbearable. The language is difficult. The culture is different. But she soon finds friends in the dorm, and one Minnesota girl, Mackenzie, becomes an especially close ally. As the international students explore the enormous city, Leila starts to break out of her shell. Is there anything she can't do? On a chilly December night, Leila and Mackenzie meet two Koreans outside their school, Yonsei University. That moment changes everything.

Download or read book An Aussie Night Before Christmas written by Yvonne Morrison and published by Scholastic Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special 10th anniversary edition of an Aussie holiday favourite. Twas the night before Christmas; there wasnt a sound. Not a possum was stirring; no-one was around. Wed left on the table some tucker and beer, Hoping that Santa Claus soon would be here. Christmas in the middle of an Australian summer means Santa has to find new ways to deliver his presents. The obvious solutions are to don a sunhat, shorts and a pair of thongs, not to mention ditching the sleigh and reindeer in favour of some roos and a ute. The gentle illustrations are packed with familiar icons cleverly woven into the visual narrative to recreate the warm, comforting, family atmosphere that Christmas is all about.

Download or read book Boy Swallows Universe written by Trent Dalton and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2018-07-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The best Australian novel I have read in more than a decade' Sydney Morning Herald 'Astonishing, captivating ... a wild, beautiful, heart-exploding ride' Elizabeth Gilbert The bestselling novel that has taken Australia, and the world, by storm. Winner of Book of the Year at the 2019 Indie Book Awards, winner of a record four Australian Book Industry Awards in 2019, including the prestigious Book of the Year Award, and winner of the 2019 UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing, NSW Premier's Literary Awards Brisbane, 1985: A lost father, a mute brother, a junkie mum, a heroin dealer for a stepfather and a notorious crim for a babysitter. It's not as if Eli Bell's life isn't complicated enough already. He's just trying to follow his heart and understand what it means to be a good man, but fate keeps throwing obstacles in his way - not the least of which is Tytus Broz, legendary Brisbane drug dealer. But now Eli's life is going to get a whole lot more serious: he's about to meet the father he doesn't remember, break into Boggo Road Gaol on Christmas Day to rescue his mum, come face to face with the criminals who tore his world apart, and fall in love with the girl of his dreams. A story of brotherhood, true love and the most unlikely of friendships, Boy Swallows Universe will be the most heartbreaking, joyous and exhilarating novel you will read all year. Awards: 2019 ABIA Book of the Year Award, Winner 2019 Indie Book Award, Winner 2019 UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing, NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Winner 2019 People's Choice Award, NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Winner MUD Literary Prize 2019, Winner 2019 ABIA Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year, Winner 2019 ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year, Winner 2019 ABIA Audiobook of the Year, Winner 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award, Longlisted 2019 Colin Roderick Award, shortlist Reviews: 'Boy Swallows Universe is a wonderful surprise: sharp as a drawer full of knives in terms of subject matter; unrepentantly joyous in its child's-eye view of the world; the best literary debut in a month of Sundays.' The Australian 'Boy Swallows Universe hypnotizes you with wonder, and then hammers you with heartbreak.' Washington Post 'This thrilling novel' New York Times Book Review 'Marvelously plot-rich ... filled with beautifully lyric prose ...At one point Eli wonders if he is good. The answer is "yes," every bit as good as this exceptional novel.' Booklist 'Dalton's splashy, stellar debut makes the typical coming-of-age novel look bland by comparison ... This is an outstanding debut.' Publisher's Weekly (starred review) 'Extraordinary and beautiful storytelling' Guardian

Download or read book Christmas with My Cowboy written by Diana Palmer and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From popular and bestselling authors comes a holiday western romance anthology that “brings three sets of former lovers the promise of second chances” (Publishers Weekly). From the snowy, wind-whipped prairie to the remote Australian Outback, a cowboy’s loving kiss makes this Christmas merry and bright . . . “The Snow Man” by Diana Palmer Meadow Dawson needs Santa to deliver a solution to her management of the Colorado ranch she’s inherited. Cattleman Dal Blake just wants his pretty neighbor’s dog to quit digging under his fence. This Christmas, the unexpected gift of love will surprise them both. “Kassie’s Cowboy” by Lindsay McKenna A brutal blue norther is battering Wyoming just in time for Christmas when solitary former Marine Travis Grant finds his childhood sweetheart, Kassie Murphy, injured in her car just beyond the ranch where he works. For Travis and Kassie, this snowy silent night will be one last chance to put the painful past behind them—and treat the wounds only love can heal. “Her Outback Husband” by Margaret Way Scott and Darcey MacArthur were the perfect couple, devoted to their life together on the family cattle ranch. With one blistering rumor, it ended in heartbreak—but Scott’s mother has a scheme that will reunite them in the Outback for a holiday that will prove it’s the season for forgiveness. “Three tales of winter second chance romance will help keep you warm . . . Vigorous romances about determined women are a good way to start the year, so treat yourself to a good book by your favorite authors.” —Fresh Fiction

Download or read book The Australian Twelve Days of Christmas written by Heath McKenzie and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New board book edition. A well-known Christmas song given a distinctly Australian feel - everything from kookaburras to sharks to Tassie devils! It's December in Australia and the days are getting warmer. When a young woman receives a kookaburra up a gum tree from her true love, it's a sign that Christmas is on the way.