Download or read book The Grumpy Old Man Christmas 2018 Edition written by Nick Mariano and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democrat, Republican, #METOO member, man, woman. No matter what political leanings you have, I think you will enjoy the Christmas 2018 Edition of "The Grumpy Old Man". The book will definitely give you something to think about, give you some stories from news sources that you may have missed over the last several months and hopefully, will give you a chuckle or two along the way. It's the perfect Christmas Gift for friends, family, neighbors or just about anyone you know. Buy several copies for Christmas this year. You won't regret it.

Download or read book The Grumpy Old Man s Book 2018 Edition written by Nick Mariano and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grumpy Old Man strikes again. More analysis of our world today by the Grumpy Old Man himself. Some informative articles that you may have missed in the news during 2017-2018. A book to get you thinking about some things and to just give you a laugh now and then.

Download or read book Harlequin Special Edition December 2018 Box Set 1 of 2 written by Brenda Harlen and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlequin® Special Edition brings you three new titles for one great price, available now! These are heartwarming, romantic stories about life, love and family. This Special Edition box set includes: BRING ME A MAVERICK FOR CHRISTMAS! Montana Mavericks: The Lonelyhearts Ranch by Brenda Harlen With Christmas right around the corner, grumpy cowboy Bailey Stockton is getting grumpier by the minute. Adorable veterinary technician Serena Langley could be the one to rescue Bailey from his holiday funk. Trouble is, they’ve got more baggage than Santa’s sleigh. But maybe this Christmas, Santa can deliver a happy ending! A RANGER FOR CHRISTMAS Men of the West by Stella Bagwell Arizona park ranger Vivian Hollister is not having a holiday fling with Sawyer Whitehorse—no matter how attracted she is to her irresistible new partner. So why is she starting to feel that Sawyer is the one to help carry on her family legacy? A man to have and to hold forever… A DADDY BY CHRISTMAS Wilde Hearts by Teri Wilson Without a bride by his side, billionaire Anders Kent will lose his chance to be a father to his five-year-old niece. Chloe Wilde’s not looking for a marriage of convenience, even to someone as captivating as Anders. But sometimes Christmas gifts come in unusual packages…

Download or read book Chase s Calendar of Events 2018 written by Editors of Chase's and published by Bernan Press. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1957, Chase's observes its 60th anniversary with the 2018 edition! Users will find everything worth knowing and celebrating for each day of the year: 12,500 holidays, historical milestones, famous birthdays, festivals, sporting events and much more. "One of the most impressive reference volumes in the world."--Publishers Weekly.

Download or read book Harlequin Medical Romance December 2018 Box Set 1 of 2 written by Annie O'Neil and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlequin Medical Romance brings you a collection of three new titles, available now! Enjoy these stories packed with pulse-racing romance and heart-racing medical drama. This Harlequin Medical Romance box set includes: THE ARMY DOC’S CHRISTMAS ANGEL Hope Children’s Hospital by Annie O’Neil Pediatrician Dr. Finn Morgan’s pushed everyone away since losing his leg in Afghanistan. Until he begins working with stunning Naomi… THE BILLIONAIRE’S CHRISTMAS WISH Hope Children’s Hospital by Tina Beckett While visiting diagnostician Madison Archer works to find a cure for his sick daughter, Theo Hawkwood’s fighting a growing attraction…to her! CHRISTMAS WITH HER BODYGUARD by Charlotte Hawkes Obstetrician Rae Rawlstone’s past is catching up with her—she’s spending Christmas under the protection of first love Major Myles Garrington!

Download or read book Grumpy Old Christmas written by Stuart Prebble and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Tis the season to be Jolly - Grumpy...In the case of the Grumpy Old Man 'tis the season to have to put up with even deeper layers of vexation than usual. From breakfast presenters who tell us it's now just 120 shopping days to go, to the annual festive strike by airport baggage handlers. From office parties to parents videoing their precocious brats at the atrocious school nativity play where your kid is playing the part of the donkey's rear end, and the 150th opportunity to see Whistle Down the Wind on the telly. Speaking of wind, there's the Xmas turkey that sends your digestive system to hell...

Download or read book Icicle Falls Christmas Collection written by Sheila Roberts and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join bestselling author Sheila Roberts for the holidays in Icicle Falls, where life’s full of surprises, and happiness is just around the corner! Together for the first time in one box set, all the Christmas stories from her popular Life in Icicle Falls series: Merry Ex-Mas Cass Wilkes, owner of the Gingerbread Haus bakery, was looking forward to her daughter Danielle’s wedding—until Dani announced that she wants her father, Cass’s ex, to walk her down the aisle. Her friend Charlene Albach arrives at their weekly chick-flick night in shock. She’s just seen the ghost of Christmas past: her ex-husband, Richard, who left a year ago when he ran off with the hostess from her restaurant, Zelda’s. Now the hostess is history and he wants to kiss and make up. Hide the mistletoe! And bring out the hot buttered rum, because the holidays aren’t easy for Ella O’Brien, either. Ella, newly divorced, is still sharing the house with her ex while they wait for the place to sell. The love is gone. Isn’t it? But watch as Christmas brings all kinds of surprises…. Originally published in 2013 Christmas on Candy Cane Lane Everyone’s getting ready for Christmas in Icicle Falls, especially on Candy Cane Lane, where holiday decorating is taken very seriously. But this year, someone’s destroying the precious decorations! Thank goodness for the cop in their neighborhood. And while some town residents are excited to host their families for the holidays, others can sum up the holiday in two words: Bah, humbug. But despite family disasters, irritating ex-husbands and kitchen catastrophes, three women are going to find out that Christmas really is the most wonderful time of the year! Originally published in 2015 Christmas in Icicle Falls When Muriel Sterling released her new book, A Guide to Happy Holidays, she felt like the queen of Christmas. She’s thrilled when the new tree she ordered online arrives and is eager to show it off—until she gets it out of the box and realizes it’s a mangy dud. But rather than give up on the ugly tree, Muriel decides to make a project out of it. As she pretties up her tree, she realizes there’s a lesson to be learned: everything and everyone has potential. Maybe even her old friend Arnie, who’s loved her for years. Except, she’s not the only one seeing Arnie’s potential… Meanwhile, Muriel’s ugly-tree project has also inspired her friends. Sienna Moreno is trying to bring out the best in the grouchy man next door, who hates noise, hates kids and hates his new neighbors. And while Olivia Claussen would love to send her obnoxious new daughter-in-law packing, she’s adjusting her attitude and trying to discover what her son sees in the girl. If these women can learn to see the beauty in the “ugly trees” in their lives, perhaps this might turn out to be the happiest holiday yet. Originally published in 2018

Download or read book Harlequin Special Edition January 2018 Box Set 1 of 2 written by Michelle Major and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlequin® Special Edition brings you three new titles for one great price, available now! These are heartwarming, romantic stories about life, love and family. This Special Edition box set includes: HER SOLDIER OF FORTUNE The Fortunes of Texas: The Rulebreakers by Michelle Major When Nathan Fortune returned home, he vowed to put the past behind him. But when Bianca, his best friend’s little sister, shows up with her son, Nate finds that the past won’t stay buried…and it threatens to snuff out the future Nate and Bianca now hope to build with each other. JUST WHAT THE COWBOY NEEDED The Bachelors of Blackwater Lake by Teresa Southwick Logan Hunt needs a nanny. What he gets is pretty kindergarten teacher Grace Flynn, whose desire for roots and a family flies right in the face of Logan’s determination to remain a bachelor. Can Logan overcome his fears of becoming his father in time to convince Grace that she’s exactly what he wants? THE RANCHER AND THE CITY GIRL Sweet Briar Sweethearts by Kathy Douglass Running for her life, Camille Parker heads to her sworn enemy, Jericho Jones, for protection. She may be safe from those who wish her harm, but as they both come to see their past presumptions proven incorrect, Camille’s heart is more at risk than ever.

Download or read book Easy Listening and Film Scoring 1948 78 written by Jack Curtis Dubowsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composers, arrangers, conductors, session musicians, and executives worked in easy listening and scoring, complicating an academic focus that lionizes film music while ignoring or deriding easy listening. This book documents easy listening’s connections with film music, an aspect overlooked in academic and popular literature. Fueled by the rise of the LP and home entertainment, easy listening became the largest midcentury commercial music market, generating more actual income for the record business than 7- inch singles. Easy listening roped in subgenres including classical, baroque, jazz, Latin, Polynesian, "exotica," rock, Broadway, and R&B, appropriated and reinterpreted just as they were for cinema. Easy listening provided opportunities in orchestral music for conservatory- trained composers. Major film composers such as Henry Mancini and Michel Legrand had a prodigious output of easy listening albums. Critics fault easy listening for structural racisms, overlooking its evolution and practitioners. Easy listening helped destabilize a tripartite record business that categorized product as race records, old time records, or general popular music. Charlie Parker’s with Strings records altered the direction of jazz, profoundly influencing other performers, encouraging bold crosspollinations, and making money. The influence of technology and historical contexts of music for work and leisure are explored. Original interviews and primary sources will fascinate scholars, historians, and students of cinema, television, film scoring, and midcentury popular music.

Download or read book Cowboys of Cold Creek Christmas Collection Volume 1 written by RaeAnne Thayne and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy these three heartwarming Cowboys of Cold Creek holiday romances by New York Times bestselling author RaeAnne Thayne, together for the first time! The Cowboy’s Christmas Miracle Christmas is tough for widow Jenna Wheeler and her four children. But even though she’d sold part of her family’s land to make ends meet, she’s determined to spin the holiday into the stuff of magic—no matter what it takes. Now if she could only find a job…. Maybe her new landlord could oblige—gorgeous, child-averse Carson McRaven. He needs a chef, and he knows the lovely Jenna can do a bang-up job—if only she could keep her brood out of his hair. But as he finds himself catapulted into the cheerful chaos of her family…not to mention Jenna’s arms… he’s learning more about the spirit of Christmas than he’d ever dreamed existed. A Cold Creek Holiday All Emery Kendall wanted was to flee painful memories of Christmases past. She craved distraction and healing, and the mountains of Idaho offered both…plus the key to a long-buried family secret. But when she meets her host, rancher Nate Cavazos, she hardly gets a warm welcome…. The former army ranger’s smoldering good looks mask deep emotional scars. And now his hands are full as guardian of two orphaned nieces. That’s all the involvement he could handle right now. Still, Nate can’t ignore his fierce attraction to Emery or his nieces’ instant attachment to her—until Emery’s secret shatters their happiness. Would it be a lonely Christmas for four lost souls? Or the best family holiday ever? Christmas in Cold Creek She claimed to be a waitress and a single mother, but Rebecca Parsons doesn’t look like any hash-slinger Pine Gulch Police Chief Trace Bowman has ever seen. And she doesn’t seem particularly maternal toward her little girl, either. Still, one look in her vulnerable green eyes and his protective instincts go into overdrive. Attention from local law enforcement is the last thing Becca needs. She’ll do anything to protect her little sister Gabi from their con-artist mother, even lie about their identities. When Trace shows up at their house carrying a Christmas tree and stirring desires she can’t afford to indulge, she longs to surrender to the magic of the season with him. But Becca’s past is catching up—fast. Can her sexy police chief perform a Christmas miracle?

Download or read book My Christmas Tales written by Callum Clegg and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes in the North Pole around Christmastime? Does Santa get distracted? Do toy machines break down? Does someone else out there want to destroy Christmas? Well, I’ve wondered about all these things and imagined what could happen, so come and share the adventures with me.

Download or read book The Twelve Dice of Christmas written by Gail Oust and published by Beyond The Page. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Serenity Cove, a peaceful Southern communitywhere the residents like to play dice, play golf and, when foul play moves in, play detective. With Christmas fast approaching, Kate McCall and her dice-playing friends get into the holiday spirit by agreeing to help the elderly Eula Mae Snow decorate her home, even when it means sorting through a veritable blizzard of the older woman’s knickknacks. Intent on doing a good deed and digging up a bright collection of seasonal decorations, Kate is stopped dead in her tracks when instead she discovers the skeleton of a man showing clear signs of foul play. Many in Serenity Cove thought that Waylon Snow had run off and left town—and Eula Mae—more than two decades earlier. But with the appearance of his skeleton and a whole host of clues pointing to Eula Mae as the murderer, Kate will have to put her sleuthing skills to work to figure out who could have committed the evil deed. Determined to clear Eula Mae’s name, Kate knows she’ll have to solve the coldest of cold cases to track down the culprit before the holidays really go south . . . Includes tasty holiday recipes!

Download or read book Chasing Christmas written by D.K. Daniels and published by D.K. Daniels. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas Eve is supposed to be a festive and jolly time for everyone. However, what young Noah Finch realizes this Christmas is that life has a way of kicking you in the gut while you're down. As the family gathers an unexpected arise of circumstances result in his crush and family being taken in by Noah's mother for the holidays. What starts off as playful flirting takes a dramatic outcome in the icy, knee-deep conditions of a Chicago neighborhood when Noah's, cousin Lucas provokes a group of teenagers. Warning: The book features a brief scene with sexual content. To a younger audience, be advised.

Download or read book Once Upon a Christmas Feast written by Kelly McClymer and published by Kelly McClymer Books. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wanted to attend a Victorian Christmas celebration? Well now you can, in Once Upon a Christmas Feast you not only get an original story, but menus, recipes, favorite Victorian Christmas stories and songs. What's in this jam-packed Victorian Christmas celebration of a tome? First: an original Once Upon a Wedding short story. "Once Upon a Fairytale Christmas." The Duchess of Keystone is an unconventional woman who loves fairytales and happily ever after endings. When it comes to Christmas, she loves nothing better than to have her family gathered at her estate enjoying Christmas joy, food, games, and entertainment. This year, her niece Margause arrives to view the wonder of a fairytale Christmas celebration. At three, Margause loves to slip into the library of the ducal estate, where her parents fell in love, and peruse the books she hopes to read one day soon.Observant and advanced for her age, Margause notices that her aunts and uncles are not as happy as they should be about her Aunt Kate’s upcoming Twelfth Night wedding to a handsome, charming Irish rogue. She also doesn’t understand why her mother’s former governess Katherine tries so hard to cheer up Scroogish Sir Robert. It seems obvious to Margause that Sir Robert would need Mr. Dicken’s three ghosts to make him feel any Christmas joy. But then, what else does the Duchess of Keystone offer everyone, but a chance at a fairytale Christmas, where miracles happen around every corner. Next: An Appendix of traditional Victorian Christmas stories and essays by Charles Dickens...what? You didn't know "A Christmas Carol" wasn't his only Christmas story? Nope. Dickens, along with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, are actually responsible for making Christmas the holiday we celebrate today. You'll also find it handy to have the lyrics to several Christmas favorite songs, so you can make sure to lead your family in rounds of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" without messing up the lyrics. All in all, Once Upon a Christmas Feast is your guide to celebrating a very Victorian Christmas.

Download or read book Christmas Stories written by Maria G. Kocsis and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are all happy and grateful for Santa’s existence. Every Christmas Eve he sneaks into people’s houses and leaves gifts under their Christmas trees. That’s really amazing, isn’t it? Yes, it is, but do you know how he came to do this every Christmas? Before things were as we know them now, lots of other things occurred that helped Santa to be able to make all these amazing gifts for us at Christmas. Even though Santa has lots of magic, one person’s magic is not always good enough to make all the things happen. Sometimes help is required. It can be magic too, or it can be simple help from normal beings. Let’s discover the story of sharing gifts at Christmas and how Santa met Rudolph.

Download or read book Virgin River Christmas Collection written by Robyn Carr and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look for Robyn’s new book, The Best of Us, a story about family, second chances and choosing to live your best life—order your copy today! Celebrate the season in Virgin River! Together for the first time, every Christmas story set in the fan-favorite small town—four stories in one value-priced complete box set, only from New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr. A Virgin River Christmas Marci Sullivan is on a journey to find the man who gave her three extra years with her late husband. Veteran Ian Buchanan doesn’t know what to make of the determined young widow who forces him to look into his painful past and the uncertain future. But it is a season of miracles and maybe, just maybe, it’s time to banish the ghosts and open his heart. Under the Christmas Tree When the townfolks discover box of adorable puppies under the town’s Christmas tree, they call on local vet Nathaniel Jensen for help. But it’s his budding romance with Annie McCarty that really has tongues—and tails—wagging! Bring Me Home for Christmas When Becca Timm crashes her brother’s men-only hunting weekend, an accident turns her impromptu visit into an extended stay, and she finds herself stranded with Denny Cutler, the guy who broke her heart. As the power of Christmas envelops the little town, Becca discovers that the boy she once loved has become a strong and confident man. And the most delicious Christmas present she can imagine. My Kind of Christmas Angie LeCroix wants to spend Christmas in Virgin River relaxing, away from her well-intentioned but hovering mother. Yet instead of freedom, she gets her uncle, who would prefer she never go out at all. And certainly not with navy pilot Patrick Riordan. But Angie has her own idea of the kind of Christmas she wants—and the kind of man. Patrick and Angie thought they wanted to be left alone this Christmas—until they met each other. Now they want to be left alone together. But the Sheridan and Riordan families have different plans for Patrick and Angie—and for Christmas, Virgin River style!

Download or read book Father Christmas written by Raymond Briggs and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "BLOOMING CHRISTMAS, HERE AGAIN!" Raymond Briggs's hilarious comic strip picture book has amused generations of children, telling the story of grumpy Father Christmas making his rounds on the busiest night of the year. Now reissued in a small gift edition, perfect for slipping into a Christmas stocking . . .