Download or read book The Big Blue Overstuffed Chair written by Arvon Swanberg and Carolyn Spicer and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elvira is a kind-hearted Rhode Island Red hen who lives in a cozy house at the end of a quiet street. One morning, after Elvira Hen decides to take a walk along a path that leads into the big woods, she makes a shocking discovery. After Elvira finds a paper sack filled with money, she immediately takes it to the police station, where a policeman promises to find its rightful owner. But when no one comes forward to claim the money, Elvira suddenly finds herself richer than she ever imagined. On her way home, Elvira sees a beautiful, big, blue, overstuffed chair in a store window. Even though she now has the money to purchase the chair, Elvira decides to wait for another day. Finally, after all the tax collectors pay her a visit, Elvira has just enough left over to purchase the chair. But soon Elvira learns that nothing is certain in life. In this children's tale, a hen who is determined to do the right thing must rely on friendship, love, and the goodness of her heart after she makes a discovery that leads her down an unexpected path in life.
Download or read book The Big Blue Machine written by J. Patrick Boyer and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2015-10-10 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a formidable campaign organization — "the Big Blue Machine" — that ran a string of successful Progressive Conservative Party campaigns in a several provinces over four decades. Devoted to the art of winning campaigns, it pioneered new techniques in polling, advertising, fundraising, communications, and policy development.
Download or read book Grace Street written by Diane Jacks Saunders and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grace Street is about children growing up in a Lebanese neighborhood in Michigan City, Indiana, during the 1950s. Children in that era were safe to walk city streets and explore parks and wooded areas. Racial prejudice was rampant, and most families had stay-at-home mothers. The South Shore Railroad was in its heyday and Washington Park was a popular recreation area. With a healthy dose of humor tempered with a pinch of pathos and a sprinkling of irony, Grace Street touches on old-world beliefs and customs while telling the story of siblings and cousins who grew up in a sometimes confusing ethnic environment. This close-knit family had a few secrets, including an alcoholic uncle and a grandmother who was nearly deported, but the parents rarely spoke of these matters, especially to the children.
Download or read book Whenever He Saw a Marching Band written by Michael A. Clarke and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-09-19 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whenever He Saw A Marching Band is a love story about Kevin and Lou Ann, a boy and girl who meet in high school and fall in love. In college they drift apart and Kevin marries someone else. Years later, following his wife’s death, Kevin receives a letter from Lou Ann, herself a widow. He visits her and they soon realize that their love has been given a second chance. After an old-fashioned courtship they marry. Both men and women, especially the mature reader, will enjoy this romance-filled story of both youthful and adult love.
Download or read book Thirty Days in the Kingdom written by Matt Ferrell and published by . This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For author Matt Ferrell, it's not always pixie dust and flying elephants as he tackles a month at a certain amusement park in Anaheim, California. In Thirty Days in the Kingdom, he relays his day-to-day experiences beginning on September 1, 2008, and continuing each day for the rest of the month. Following an inner urge to relive his childhood, Ferrell experiences the sights, sounds, rides, crowds, food, music, shows, characters, and more at this popular theme park. Sharing his observations and insights while surrounded by "guests" having fun, Thirty Days in the Kingdom provides a unique look at the culture, patrons, and "cast members" of this much-visited tourist attraction. Among oversized strollers and churro-hungry guests hurrying to wait in the next line, Ferrell finds his happy place, and he discovers that somewhere between childhood memories, Neverland, and middle-aged realities that his dreams just might possibly come true.
Download or read book Warrior in Her Bed written by Cathleen Galitz and published by Silhouette. This book was released on 2010-12-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annie Wainright hoped teaching on an isolated Native American reservation would bring peace to her troubled soul. But that was before she came face-to-face with the most compelling man she'd ever known—a man who made it clear he didn't want her there.... John Lonebear, an ex-marine who had returned to make his home a better place, was as harsh and unyielding as the land he loved. And yet even he could not deny the wildfire heat that blazed between him and this unwelcome stranger.... She wanted to believe love could build a bridge between their worlds. But what would happen when he learned about the new life their love had created...?
Download or read book Spirit Level written by Sarah N. Harvey and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harriet is a donor-conceived child who is connecting with her half-siblings in this work of young adult fiction.
Download or read book A Cry for Help No One Heard written by P.J. McDonald and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-11-04 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amy was a ten year old who was kidnapped from a park . Taken across the county line . She was sexually assaulted and beaten. Everyone in the town was looking for her . Until the tragic moment came when they found her in the school yard. This book is meant to help let parents know what could happen to your child in the least of a moment.
Download or read book Paradise written by Catherine Campbell and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melissa is a typical teenager. Her life revolves around her friends, getting the highest grades in her classes, spending time on her computer and at the mall. Her parents fear she is becoming too dependent on electronics and decide to send her to her Aunt's ranch in western Montana. She searches the Internet for information on the area where her aunt lives and can only find pictures of a town that appears to be a ghost town. Aghast, she fears she is being ex-communicated from society. The adventures waiting for her include wild horses and Indians with unexpected twists and turns. They turn out to be better than any book she has read, and one is forever life-changing. These books started as an idea long ago, when I was in high school. The story has grown and changed a bit over the years, but the horses have not. Once thought by my friends to be a figment of my imagination, they exist, I have seen them. They are beautiful. I pray they remain free. I hope you enjoy Melissa's adventures as much as she does. There are many more to come. Blessings Catherine Campbell
Download or read book Dictionary of American Children s Fiction 1990 1994 written by Agnes Regan Perkins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-11-01 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for librarians, teachers, and researchers, this is the second five-year supplement to the authors' Dictionary of American Children's Fiction, 1960-1984 (Greenwood, 1986). Its 567 entries cover 189 award-winning children's books by 136 authors published from 1990 to 1994. Included are concise critical reviews of novels, biographical profiles of authors, and descriptions of memorable characters. An appendix lists books by the awards they have won, and an extensive index allows complete access to the wealth of material contained within this reference work. Included are alphabetically arranged entries for those works that critics have singled out to receive awards or have placed on citation lists during the five years covered by the volume. The reference also contains biographical entries for leading authors of children's fiction, with entries focusing on how the author's life relates to children's literature and to particular works in this dictionary. The volume provides a list of awards, along with an appendix classifying individual works by the awards they have won. An extensive index provides full access to the wealth of information in this book.
Download or read book Waiting for Bojangles written by Olivier Bourdeaut and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “oddball fairy tale” (The New York Times)—shortlisted for one of France’s highest literary prizes—a dark, funny, and wholly charming novel about a young boy and his eccentric family, who grapple with the realities of mental illness in unique and whimsical ways. A young boy lives with his madcap parents, Louise and George, and an exotic bird in a Parisian apartment, where the unopened mail rises in a tower by the door and his parents dance each night to Nina Simone’s mellifluous classic “Mister Bojangles.” As his mother, mesmerizing and unpredictable, descends deeper into her own mind, it is up to the boy and his father to keep her safe—and, when that fails, happy. Fleeing Paris for a country home in Spain, they come to understand that some of the most radiant people bear the heaviest burdens. Told from the perspective of a young boy who idolizes his parents—and from George’s journals, detailing his epic love story with his wife—Waiting for Bojangles is a “lighthearted and yet sorrowful tale” (San Francisco Chronicle) that will stay with you long after the final page.
Download or read book Why Stay Catholic written by Michael Leach and published by Loyola Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Stay Catholic? is a lively, timely book about the "good stuff" within the Catholic Church today.
Download or read book Furniture Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Street Smart Psychic s Guide to Getting a Good Reading written by Lisa Barretta and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2009 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's the dish on getting a fabulous psychic reading? Who better to ask than the Street-Smart Psychic? Lisa Barretta offers insider advice from the other side of the tarot cards, crystal ball, and tea leaves. Sassy, candid, and spot-on, Lisa Barretta's guidance will help you choose the psychic that's right for you--astrologer, medium, tarot reader, or phone-line psychic--and steer clear of charlatans. True stories from Barretta's colorful career as a psychic reader reveal what to do--and what not to do--to build rapport with your psychic and get the best possible reading. "A great guide to help you make a discerning choice when you're seeking someone to weigh in on your 'what's next.'"--Debbie Nigro, author and New York radio talk-show host
Download or read book Fragments from Being written by J. a. Terry and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A short story and poetry collective by Jill [J.A.] Terry; a masterful weaver of words with an eloquence not often found within the pages of modern authors.
Download or read book Shaver written by John Pearson and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2024-02-26 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On most days, Wisconsin farmer Lawrence (Shaver) Ketch works hard and fast in the mornings so he can be at his mother’s bar in the village of Wonder by noon for lunch. His routine is disrupted when a tragic accident at a nearby lake kills two teenage boys. An old nemesis would like to hold Shaver’s brother JJ, the county sheriff, responsible for the tragedy. Shaver knows that JJ has done no wrong and would like to help prove it. Steve Hardy, Shaver’s fellow bar patron, also believes in JJ’s innocence. A mysterious death at Steve’s business turns out to be a murder. Shaver, JJ, and Steve are not suspects, but they have different reasons for wanting the murder solved. Many meals that Shaver enjoys are described, and insight into the life of a farmer is explored. Before the murder is solved, a bit of humor and some romance for one of the characters holds interest.
Download or read book Getting Rid of Bradley written by Jennifer Crusie and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucy Savage is not having a good week. Her cheating husband, Bradley, lobbed the final insult when he stood her up in divorce court. A dye job gone wrong has left her hair green. And someone is trying to kill her. To top it off, sexy cop Zack Warren is certain that the very same man Lucy is trying to wash right out of her hair is the same Bradley he wants to arrest for embezzlement. When someone shoots at her and then her car blows up, Zack decides she needs twenty-four-hour police protection. Next thing Lucy knows, Zack has moved in to her big Victorian house, making them both sleepless…and not just from things that go bump in the night!
