Download or read book A Christmas Quest written by C. H. Crane and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tim is an ordinary boy in an ordinary small town. He's going through the motions of preparing for Christmas along with his know-it-all cousin Natalie and clumsy best friend Stretch. It is finally Christmas vacation! Tim is looking forward to doing all the fun things he enjoys, like tobogganing and having snowball fights. He doesn't want to be bothered decorating the Christmas tree or shoveling snow. He especially thinks hes too old to write a letter to Santa Claus, even though his parents strongly suggest he should, Just in case. Every year Stretch and Tim build a special contraption intended to capture Santa Claus. But Tim doesn't even want to help Stretch build this traditional Santa Trap they design every year! Tim believes that if Santa really existed, they would have surely caught him by now. That is until Alexander, a member of the "Secret Society of Santa's Snowmen," explains that an evil entity, known as the Jester, from historys past has returned to challenge Santa for control of the Christmas Holiday. Alexander convinces Tim and Stretch that the chairman of this society, Excelsior, needs their help in saving Christmas or else Christmas as they know it would be gone forever! How can Tim and Stretch, two ordinary boys, possibly help in such an important task? Thats when they turn to Tims cousin, Know-it-all Natalie, for help. Join Tim, Stretch and Natalie, the Jr. Detective, in their Quest to save Christmas from the evil Jester. Will the group successfully fight off the immense powers of the Jester? Will Christmas ever be the same again?

Download or read book The Snowman Maker written by Barbara Briggs Ward and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-07-07 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the years, Ben and Ellie never had a problem communicating. So when Ben seems distant, Ellie's confused. Her instinct tells her it has something to do with the contents of an old cardboard box his father insisted Ben take before he passed away. With the children grown, Ben's evasiveness adds to Ellie wishing the holidays were over. But it's Christmas -- the season of hope and love rekindled -- especially when going back to a wondrous place on a winter's night in the old sleigh decorated in pine boughs and silver bells -- the very sleigh that carried a little boy and that cardboard box on a Christmas Eve journey so long ago. About the Author Barbara Briggs Ward is a writer who lives in Ogdensburg, New York. She is the author of the award-winning Christmas story, The Reindeer Keeper, represented by Bergman Entertainment, Los Angeles, for option of film rights and chosen by Yahoo's Christmas Book Club Group as their December, 2012 Book of the Month. Her short stories and articles have appeared in the Chicken Soup for the Soul book, Christmas Magic, the Chicken Soup for the Soul book, Family Caregivers, Ladies' Home Journal, The Crafts Report, Highlights for Children, and is a regular contributor to boomer-living.com. Her projects include creator of the Snarly Sally book series. She has been a featured author on Mountain Lake PBS in Plattsburgh, New York and at Target book festivals in Boston and New York City. Barbara invites you to visit www.barbarabriggsward.com. Suzanne Langelier-Lebeda is an award-winning graphic designer/illustrator. She earned national awards for art and publication design as a coordinator of publications at the State University of Potsdam. Her projects have included illustrations for the National Park Service Cumberland Island National Seashore Visitors Center, Georgia; Renee Fleming Benefit Concert Materials, New York City; Adirondack Life and Country Living Gardener magazines; St. Lawrence University; Clarkson University; and graphic design for the permanent exhibit on History and Traditions at SUNY Potsdam. She is a member of the Adirondack Artists' Guild in Saranac Lake, New York. In her fine artwork she primarily concentrates on contemplative nature studies that explore intimations in nature by integrating watercolor, drawing, writing, and digital photography. Suzanne invites you to visit www.suzannelebeda.com.

Download or read book Seasons written by Silas Toney and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2021-12-03 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spring on the horizon, and all days of winter not yet fulfilled! Winter proclaims, “This is my time! Shall not all my days come to pass!!! After all, are there not four seasons? All the while spring with great expectation awaits her triumphant entry. The excitement at which spring anticipates her moment, expressed in the early budding, hints green invade the skyline, blossoms of color dot the landscape, her fragrance like none other, arises! She can barely stand it!

Download or read book Work from Home Jobs Directory written by Debra Mundell and published by Lucky Notes. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands Of Jobs At Home, Online Employment Agencies, Jobs At Home Newsletters, Hundreds of Major National Corporations That Hire Telecommuters, Art, Barter, Songwriting Contests, Crafts Marketplaces, Greeting Card Design, Clowns, Psychics, Telemarketing, Loan Representatives, Travel Jobs, Writing Jobs, Certifications, Colleges, Freelance, Blogs, Disabled, Large Variety Of Jobs, Books, Helpful Work At Home Information and Resources [email protected]

Download or read book The Work Wife written by Allison B. Hanson and published by Lyrical Press. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From boardroom to bedroom... Jamie Witmer recognizes a good thing when she sees it, whether it’s the elegant buildings she helps design, or her effortless working relationship with her partner, Weston Archer. But being the second-place team at their Boston firm isn’t enough to get Jamie and Wes invited to the couples-only bonding retreats with a potential new client. So, Jamie has an idea—she and Wes will become married friends with (company) benefits... Wes has always thought of Jamie as a great friend and better business partner, but her crazy plan—and their co-workers’ easy acceptance of the change in their relationship—has him questioning what he thought he knew. Fake marriage leads to close contact. Contact leads to temptation. And when they finally act on all that heat, the passion is more intense than even Wes could have imagined... They say if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. But now that their friendship is irrevocably changed, it might be time for something even sweeter to begin...

Download or read book The Unwanted Baby the Sequel written by Lone Wolf and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story begins at the eighth week of a young mothers pregnancy. The small life inside the young mother from the time of conception is unwanted and unloved. However, the baby arrives safely into the world. Being unwanted and unloved, another miracle would come; the babys parental grandparents accepts the baby as their own and raised this life in a godly home. As the child grows into its adolescent years, the story takes a turn into an adventurous twist, keeping you on the edge of your seat. The Unwanted Baby the Sequel: A Father with Custody A young alcoholic father is abandoned by the mother, leaving him with four small children to raise. It would seem as if she vanished from earth. It would be fourteen years before she would make an attempt to reconnect with her children. The five of us would be rejected and turned out to the cold winter streets by our own family, leaving the five of us homeless, cold, and hungry. Threats to our lives by neighbors caused us to live in constant fear for our lives. The continued craving for the alcohol of the father would cause lack of food as the father sold food stamps in exchange for alcohol. Things escalate until the state removes the children permanently from the father. Years passed and the baby of the family unexpectedly dies at the age of thirty-two years. After thirty-eight years abusing alcohol, the father has an out-of-body experience that takes his spirit to the depth of hell to have a firsthand look of what this place of eternal damnation will be like. My prayers to the single parent are that there is hope and help. My help came from coming to believe in a higher power, and that higher power for me was Jesus Christ.

Download or read book Seymore Synopolis And Skinny The Snowman written by Charlotte Hale and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-03-22 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They laugh at my name And poke fun at my size, And just look at this hair and saucer size eyes! Seymore Synopolis is trying very hard to get into the Christmas spirit, but unkind words said to him by neighborhood children are making it very difficult. However, a bit of holiday magic and the "creation" of a special new friend will make this Christmas Eve one of surprise and adventure for Seymore. This story of celebration and feelings is sure to touch the hearts of children and their families.

Download or read book The Snowman written by Jo Nesbo and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Inspector Harry Hole tracks a Norwegian serial killer in this “fiendishly complex and terrifically entertaining” (The New York Times Book Review) installment of the New York Times bestselling series. "Maddeningly addictive.” —Vanity Fair One night, after the first snowfall of the year, a boy named Jonas wakes up and discovers that his mother has disappeared. Only one trace of her remains: a pink scarf, his Christmas gift to her, now worn by the snowman that inexplicably appeared in their yard earlier that day. Inspector Harry Hole suspects a link between the missing woman and a suspicious letter he’s received. The case deepens when a pattern emerges: over the past decade, eleven women have vanished—all on the day of the first snow. But this is a killer who makes his own rules ... and he’ll break his pattern just to keep the game interesting, as he draws Harry ever closer into his twisted web. With brilliantly realized characters and hair-raising suspense, international bestselling author Jo Nesbø presents his most chilling case yet—one that will test Harry Hole to the very limits of his sanity. Don't miss Jo Nesbo's latest Harry Hole thriller, Killing Moon!

Download or read book Of Myth written by Todd M. Wilson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-07-30 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up entails universal experiences of love, loss, self-realization, and self-reproach. Of Myth & Ions captures the essence of these experiences in poetry that is at times, is as lyric as the beauty of new love through to the edginess and raw emotions that so aptly express the darker side we face as we move through our journey from adolescence to adulthood.

Download or read book Two Hour Christmas Crafts written by Michele Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Summary of Elizabeth Letts s The EightyDollar Champion written by Milkyway Media and published by Milkyway Media. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get the Summary of Elizabeth Letts's The EightyDollar Champion in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Eighty-Dollar Champion" by Elizabeth Letts tells the heartwarming story of Harry de Leyer and Snowman, a horse he rescued from slaughter. Harry, a Dutch immigrant and riding instructor at the Knox School, purchased the malnourished gelding for a mere eighty dollars. Despite Snowman's humble beginnings and Harry's limited resources, the pair formed a deep bond...

Download or read book Pleasure Island written by Robert McLaughlin and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billed as Boston's answer to Disneyland, Pleasure Island opened on June 22, 1959. William Hawkes, president of Childlife Magazine, and executives at Cabot, Cabot and Forbes collaborated with Marco Engineering of Los Angeles to build what was called the "Disneyland of the East." Pleasure Island rose from the wetlands off of Route 128 into an 80-acre theme park. Through photographs, Pleasure Island recalls memories of boat rides to Pirate Cove, searching for the great white whale, driving a Jenney car, getting dizzy in the Slanty Shanty, and taking a ride on Old Smoky. At Pleasure Island, children and children at heart entered into a world that traditional amusement parks could not provide, where character actors continually put on a show and the entire park was the stage.

Download or read book Christmas in France written by World Book, Inc and published by World Book .com. This book was released on 1996 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each 80-page Christmas Around the World Book includes full narratives explaining the customs of the region covered, photography and illustrations, spe cial sections of native songs, recipes, and fun-to-do crafts.

Download or read book A Lot Like Christmas written by Connie Willis and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new, expanded edition of Miracle and Other Christmas Stories features twelve brilliantly reimagined holiday tales, five of which are collected here for the first time. Christmas comes but once a year, yet the stories in this dazzling collection are fun to read anytime. They put a speculative spin on the holiday, giving fans of acclaimed author Connie Willis a welcome gift and a dozen reasons to be of good cheer. Brimming with Willis’s trademark insights and imagination, these heartwarming tales are full of humor, absurdity, human foibles, tragedy, joy, and hope. They both embrace and send up many of the best Christmas traditions, including the holiday newsletter, Secret Santas, office parties, holiday pageants, and Christmas dinners (both elaborate and spare). There are Rockettes, the best and worst Christmas movies, modern-day Magi, Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present, and Yet to Come—and the triumph of generosity over greed. Like all the timeless classics we return to year after year, these stories affirm our faith in love, magic, and the wonder of the season. Praise for A Lot Like Christmas “A perfect stocking stuffer for Christmas—celebrating fans of [Connie] Willis’s humorous SF.”—Publishers Weekly “A collection of Christmas stories with just the right blend of sugar and spice . . . sweet and sharp, whimsical and heartfelt, funny and warm . . . Fans of Willis’s gently comic speculative fiction will love this collection, and it will also appeal to readers looking to get into the holiday spirit.”—Kirkus Reviews

Download or read book The Christmas House written by Georja Skinner and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1934, twenty-two-year-old George Skinner was stricken with polio and confined to an iron lung in the polio ward of Los Angeles County General Hospital. Regular visits from his father, Albert, and the outpouring of support from his neighbors and community kept him going as he struggled to heal. Determined to walk again and recover from this horrible disease, he vowed that when he left the hospital he would create something to thank his community and to repay their kindness; he would create something called the Christmas House. In the midst of the Great Depression, in 1936, those dreams came true. George left the hospital and began building an elaborate outdoor display with his father. Newspapers sent photographers; the local American Legion Post donated time and supplies; churches provided choirs and contributed food; but most of all, children and adults came to experience the first house ever decorated with elaborate outdoor holiday displays and to bask in the true spirit of Christmas.

Download or read book The Prophets and the Executioners written by Frank Franco and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-03-12 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously in Book 1 of the Prophets and the ExecutionerThe AwakeningIt was December 2011 when Steven Di Carlo suffered a horrific accident that put him in a coma for sixteen days. During those sixteen days, he was awakened to his purpose on earth by being shown several of his past lives, spanning thousands of years and a vision of a future time.His story began on his home planet amid a devastating war, a planet destroyed by greed, a home they chose to abandon in search of another. Arriving on Earth ten thousand years ago, they found a planet in dire need of cleansing and not much safer than the one they had left behind. Too tired to search for another and too eager for their long journey to end, they decided that Earth would become their new home.In 949, Plati, Greece, living his life as Thaddeus, son of Constantine, his two uncles were executed, and his father was the one who ordered the execution.In 1789, Lockerbie, Scotland, living his life as Francis Mackenzie, he was awakened to the evil forces of Daniel Macleod, the brutal murder of his two children, and the loss of his wife, who died of a broken heart a year later!In 1958, living his life as Giuseppe D'Amato, he was awakened to the wickedness of Luciano Lo Sciavo at an epic battle in the small Italian village of Amato. His only son was shot dead, and his wife died trying to save him!In 2011, Riverdale, New York, living his present-day life as Steven Di Carlo, he was awakened to a vision of a future where his wife and children would be brutally murdered and the world would be brought to the brink of darkness. To save his ninth family and all of humankind, he would need the help of others like him and the guidance of the path to defeat the darkness.Will the executioner be able to save them, or will evil prevail? Find out in The Darkness, book 2 of the trilogy The Prophets and the Executioner.

Download or read book The adventures of Arie and Rike written by Matthias Gundel and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-30 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The storks Arie and Rike live together in their nest on the factory chimney near the former goods station. There they experience stories to smile and think about with their friends Rudmilla and Rodolfo.