Download or read book The Magic Shoppe The Holiday Collection Book 1 written by Shirley Hailstock and published by Shirley T. Hailstock. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georgiana Castleton is gifted. But she knows all gifts come with a price. And hers is a short life. This will be her last Christmas and she’s resolved to her fate--until two mysterious men enter her life and revive her hope. But she has to get something for each of them. And it will take a miracle to do that. And even with her gift, she has no guarantee that she will succeed. Angus Fielding’s moves are those of a magician. Appearing virtually out of thin air, he saves Georgiana from the jaws of death. With inhuman forces stalking her, Georgiana knows his help also comes at a price. She doesn’t know what Angus wants...but her life depends on her giving it to him.

Download or read book The Hocus Pocus Magic Shop written by Abigail Drake and published by Abigail Drake. This book was released on 2019-06-21 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When chemist Grace O’Leary finds a book of magic spells hidden in her Aunt Lucy’s run-down magic shop, the scientist in her itches to try them out. She mixes up a batch of love potions as a joke, and has to face the consequences when they actually seem to work. Her dream of becoming a professor is in peril, and time is running out to finish research for her dissertation. She can't handle any more distractions, but the magic shop is on the verge of closing, her aunt has become forgetful and confused, and a handsome reporter named Dario Fontana keeps sniffing around for a story. The last thing she needs is for him to find out about the love potions and expose her as fraud, but she begins to trust him, and the sizzling chemistry between them is soon too powerful to deny. With her personal and professional life in chaos, and her budding relationship with Dario in jeopardy, Grace is faced with a difficult choice. Fixing what is broken means going against every logical bone in her body. Can Grace learn to silence her scientific brain long enough to accept the truth about magic…and also about herself?

Download or read book The Magic Cake Shop written by Meika Hashimoto and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emma Burblee couldn't be more different from her parents if she tried. She'd rather dig for treasure in a park than try on the latest fashions or discuss her vain parents' favorite subject: themselves. When Emma mortifies her parents at a dinner party, her punishment is immediate. She must spend the summer with her Uncle Simon—a loathsome man with a huge appetite for food and get-rich-quick schemes. Although Emma's days revolve around cooking and cleaning, there is one bright spot. Her uncle's sweet tooth means she gets to visit the town bakery, Mr. Crackle's Cake Shop, all the time. This world-renowned baker is as charming and kind as Uncle Simon is vile. But then Emma discovers a plot by Uncle Simon and one of his shady acquaintances: they've set their sights on ruining Mr. Crackle—and the entire dessert making industry, for that matter! Can Emma stop their evil plan? First-time author Meika Hashimoto's effervescent tale, filled with funny characters and adventures, will have readers checking their cupboards for mouth-watering ingredients and secret portals.

Download or read book Holiday Magic written by Mary Ruth Kuczkir Michaels and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of four Christmas romance stories includes Fern Michaels' "Holiday Magic," in which ski shop manager Stephanie Marshall gets an unexpected Christmas bonus in the form of her handsome boss, Eddie O'Brien.

Download or read book Juliet Dove Queen of Love written by Bruce Coville and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magical fantasy adventure about the high cost of loving, from the award-winning author of My Teacher Is an Alien and The Unicorn Chronicles. Juliet Dove is a girl who doesn't like to be noticed. But though she may be shy, she has a wickedly sharp wit. Whenever someone does take notice of her, she tears into the person with a savagery that’s earned her the nickname “Killer.” Juliet ends up leaving Mr. Elives’s magic shop with Helen of Troy's amulet—that is, a virtual man magnet. Juliet doesn’t know what she’s got, but the boys in her class do—they start to notice her . . . Soon every boy in town is swooning for her. Yet, much as she’d like to lose all the unwanted attention, she can’t: The amulet won't come off! “Although humorous, the story has surprising depth, with musings on honor, power, strength, courage, and, above all, love.” —School Library Journal “A rare book . . . . Funny [and] absorbing.” —Miami Herald

Download or read book Legacy FREE PREVIEW First 5 Chapters written by Shirley Hailstock and published by Shirley T. Hailstock. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you're sitting on top of the world, You only have two decisions to make. Do you fall to the left or the right? Erika St. James has seen both the best of life and the worst of it. Losing the only parent who loved her unconditionally when she was twelve, she fled to a man who became a dear friend and one who taught her to run a global business. However, he didn't teach her to how to find good relationships -- especially the man-woman kind. On his death-bed he tells her a secret, one that brings Michael Lawrence in to again upset her emotions. Michael Lawrence, a traumatized attorney, turned his back on the law and escaped to a solitary life in the Maryland mountains. Discovering he is heir to a fortune, he can only claim it if he returns to the city and works with Erika St. James, the beautiful new president of a multinational corporation. While his thoughts of her stray from the boardroom to the bedroom, someone else has plans to make him pay for past deeds. And Erika is the pawn he'll use to force Michael into his crosshairs. If they survive, will they be able to love again?

Download or read book White Diamonds FREE PREVIEW First 5 Chapters written by Shirley Hailstock and published by Shirley T. Hailstock. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sandra Rutledge has been in front of cameras most of her life. She longs for the quiet existence of a university professor. A PhD candidate in mathematics, she’s at the family cabin in the Pocono Mountains when she finds Wyatt Randolph, the missing junior senator from Pennsylvania, bleeding to death on the road. Saving his life puts hers in danger. Attracted to the senator, she’s appalled when he accuses her father of treason. Together they set out to find the truth. Wyatt Randolph’s best friend was killed for a cache of diamonds. His death set off a chain of events that go all the way to the White House. It’s up to Wyatt to discover what the stones entrusted to him do and why people are willing to kill for them. With the reluctant help of Sandra Rutledge, the daughter of the man Wyatt believes holds the key to the entire project, the two of them fight to find the truth and stay alive in the process.

Download or read book Brush Stokes written by Shirley Hailstock and published by Shirley T. Hailstock. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you call surviving a lightning strike? Michaela Manfred‑Smith did just that. But what happened next would be considered a gift by most. For Michaela, it felt like a curse. The owner of a world‑class art gallery could lose her reputation if her secret is discovered. Then famous artist, Zachary Cooper, calls her out of the blue and agrees to be the speaker and judge of her art show. In this romance, if Michaela trusts him with her secret will the magic disappear or will he reveal her gift?

Download or read book Running Wild in Reno Precious Waters written by Shirley Hailstock and published by Shirley T. Hailstock. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sable Ballantine has been on the run for a year and she doesn't know why. Apparently in the wrong place at the wrong time, she's had to escape strangers bent on harming her. Taking the common name of Helen Ryan and finally feeling safe, she meets Officer Brett Emerson who may be her salvation or the ticket to her downfall.

Download or read book The Obsidian Cat written by Shirley Hailstock and published by Shirley T. Hailstock. This book was released on 2019-05-05 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethan Pollack thinks of Blythe Cove Manor as his second home and Blythe is second mother. A career navy officer, Ethan never returns to Martha's Vineyard without a gift for Blythe. However, he didn't know there was anything unusual about the obsidian cat he bought in Japan. Then he sees a woman in his room who isn't there. Jenna Taylor plans, prepares, compares her options before making decisions, but one Memorial Day Weekend she uncharacteristically takes a vacation to Martha's Vineyard. The island is flooded with uniformed sailors. Meeting Ethan on the stairs of Blythe Cove Manor, she has no idea why she feels she already knows him. Neither of them understands that there is something more at work that will tie them together. Can they unravel it? And do they really want to?

Download or read book Into the Magic Shop written by James R. Doty, MD and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the extraordinary things that can happen when we harness the power of both the brain and the heart Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke. Today he is the director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University, of which the Dalai Lama is a founding benefactor. But back then his life was at a dead end until at twelve he wandered into a magic shop looking for a plastic thumb. Instead he met Ruth, a woman who taught him a series of exercises to ease his own suffering and manifest his greatest desires. Her final mandate was that he keep his heart open and teach these techniques to others. She gave him his first glimpse of the unique relationship between the brain and the heart. Doty would go on to put Ruth’s practices to work with extraordinary results—power and wealth that he could only imagine as a twelve-year-old, riding his orange Sting-Ray bike. But he neglects Ruth’s most important lesson, to keep his heart open, with disastrous results—until he has the opportunity to make a spectacular charitable contribution that will virtually ruin him. Part memoir, part science, part inspiration, and part practical instruction, Into the Magic Shop shows us how we can fundamentally change our lives by first changing our brains and our hearts.

Download or read book Jennifer Murdley s Toad written by Bruce Coville and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this magical fantasy adventure by the award-winning author of Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher, a talking toad takes a girl on a wild ride. Jennifer Murdley has always wanted to be pretty. That’s why she’s so surprised to leave Mr. Elives’s magic shop with a particularly ugly toad. As her worst enemy says, “A toad for a toad.” But this toad can talk. And what it has to say sets Jennifer off on a journey that leads her into the company of the Immortal Vermin and straight to the Beauty Parlor of Doom . . . where she comes face-to-face with her deepest fears and dreams. Jennifer Murdley would give anything to be beautiful. But sometimes anything is too high a price to pay. “Endlessly funny . . . . A roller-coaster ride of a story, full of humor and even wisdom.” —Kirkus Reviews “Fast-moving with slapstick humor . . . . Recommended.” —Horn Book

Download or read book His 1 800 Wife The Ballantines Series Book 2 written by Shirley Hailstock and published by Shirley T. Hailstock. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catherine Carson didn’t think there was an ideal man out there. And the last one she would have picked for the job was Jarrod Ballantine. He’d been a thorn in her side since she was a child, but he’d also been with her when life was at its roughest. Convincing him to be her husband proved an easier task than stopping herself from becoming his wife. Fed up with her meddling family, Catherine has the perfect plan...make a deal with a nice, unexciting guy who would agree to marry her for six months, then divorce. And she knew her childhood friend Jarrod Ballantine was just the perfect man for the job–until he sparked a completely unexpected desire. Now, Catherine must discover what she really wants to find...everything she’s ever dreamed of.

Download or read book Holiday Magic at the Disney Parks written by Graham Allan and published by Disney Editions. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autumn and winter holidays are more than individual, celebrated feasts; they are an exceptional concoction of feelings, dreams, hopes, reawakened memories, and (perhaps more than at any other time of year) a renewal of traditions. Sounds a bit like the Disney theme park experience already, doesn't it? Disney magic and holiday enchantment blend smoothly, and the result has delighted guests for decades. This spectacular oversized coffee table book offers visual storytelling at its best. More than 1,800 photographs (more than half of them taken just for this book) showcase Disney's key locations filled with special holiday menu offerings, the big biggest parade and stage productions and nighttime spectacles, the tiniest decorating details from amazing artists and designers, and of course the most significant historical holiday events. A harmonic trio of researchers, writers, and photographers logged more than 150,000 miles in visiting every Disney park and resort across the globe, personally documenting the holiday installations through fifty-five thousand photographs and, wherever possible, meeting the talented and endlessly passionate artisans behind it all. With twelve theme parks and dozens of resorts, plus numerous cruise ships, dining and shopping districts, and more than six decades of holiday experiences, there're a lot of pumpkin treatments and ornate trees to reflect upon. (The smallest holiday tree at a Disney property is just four inches high, while very tallest ever put up was seventy feet.) Every parade or show requires dozens (sometimes hundreds) of creative magicians both onstage and off. And each decoration is chosen carefully to fit within a story and is placed on its tree or garland by craftspeople backstage. The decor is installed onstage, maintained, and, ultimately, de-installed and disassembled by small armies of technicians before it is once again cleaned, prepared, and stored in vast warehouses for the next year's use. The stories and contributions from so many unsung employees (usually working hard at hours of the night when so many people are asleep) fill these pages, along with the joys of Halloween, Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Year celebrations. Time to join the party!

Download or read book The Dress Shop on King Street Heirloom Secrets Book 1 written by Ashley Clark and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harper Dupree has pinned all her hopes on a future in fashion design. But when it comes crashing down around her, she returns home to Fairhope, Alabama, and to Millie, the woman who first taught her how to sew. As Harper rethinks her own future, long-hidden secrets about Millie's past are brought to light. In 1946, Millie Middleton--the daughter of an Italian man and a Black woman--boarded a train and left Charleston to keep half of her heritage hidden. She carried with her two heirloom buttons and the dream of owning a dress store. She never expected to meet a charming train jumper who changed her life forever . . . and led her yet again to a heartbreaking choice about which heritage would define her future. Now, together, Harper and Millie return to Charleston to find the man who may hold the answers they seek . . . and a chance at the dress shop they've both dreamed of. But it's not until all appears lost that they see the unexpected ways to mend what frayed between the seams.

Download or read book Christmas in Washington The Holiday Collection Book 4 written by Shirley Hailstock and published by Shirley T. Hailstock. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Gregory's heart is as cold as the snow falling on the nation's capital. Three years ago, her life went on hold when a fatal accident took her only sister on Christmas Eve. That accident involved James Hill, Elizabeth's fiancé. Since then, she makes the rounds of holiday parties but her heart is not in the season. Embroiled in SEC regulations, fraud and insider trading accusations, James had his hands full surviving the attacks and convincing his clients of his innocence. Unable to tell Elizabeth the complete truth about her sister, he left her alone until one Christmas Eve when he finds her standing at his door. Knowing time is running out for them, James embarks on a new season to change their fates. This Christmas old secrets, lies and truths will be driven into the light and like a shinny new toy, Elizabeth's world is transformed. Yet whether James can convince her that their Christmas past is not their present or future is a North Pole she will have to find. Is their love worth a second chance. . .

Download or read book Summer the Holiday Fairy written by Daisy Meadows and published by Orchard Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fairy and her human friends try to stop mean Jack Frost from spoiling a holiday island.