Download or read book The Shambelurklers Return written by Marit Meredith and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-08-31 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of children's stories and poems contributed by writers near and far, spreading the joy of reading, while also raising money for children on the autism spectrum within education. All royalties will be donated to http: //www.autism.org.uk/advocac

Download or read book The House at Zaronza written by Vanessa Couchman and published by Ocelot Press. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hidden letters from the 1900s reveal a tale of star-crossed lovers against the backdrop of the rugged landscape of Corsica and the trenches of World War I.

Download or read book Life Class written by Gilli Allan and published by Headline Accent. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four people hide secrets from the world and themselves. Dory is disillusioned by men and relationships, having seen the damage sex can do. Fran deals with her mid-life crisis by pursuing an online flirtation which turns threatening. Stefan feels he is a failure and searches for self-validation through his art. Dominic is a lost boy, heading for self-destruction. They meet regularly at a life-drawing class, led by sculptor Stefan. They all want a life different from the one they have, but all have made mistakes they know they cannot escape. They must uncover the past – and the truths that come with it - before they can make sense of the present and navigate a new path into the future.

Download or read book Pearl Harbor and More written by R. Doon and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 7th 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes carried out a devastating surprise attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and changed the face of World War II. This wide-ranging collection of eight stories by a diverse group of authors, who write wartime fiction, commemorates the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Pearl Harbor. Few people's lives were unaffected in some way by that fateful day and these stories reflect this. Some of them are set at Pearl Harbor itself, in other parts of the United States and in Singapore. Other stories take place in Europe: occupied France, Germany and Northern Ireland. They explore the experiences of U.S. servicemen and women, a German Jew, Japanese Americans, a French countess, an Ulster Home Guard, and many others. The authors invite you to step into December 1941 with them. The Stories: Deadly Liberty by R.V. Doon: Connie Collins, a navy nurse on the hospital ship, USS Solace, takes liberty the day before Pearl Harbor. Her budding romance wilts, an AWOL nurse insists she find a missing baby, and she's in the harbor when WWII erupts. Under fire, she boards the ship--and witnesses a murder during the red alert chaos. When liberty turns deadly, shipmates become suspects. The List by Vanessa Couchman: A high-ranking German officer is assassinated in Western France and 50 hostages are shot. Fifty more will be executed if the killers are not handed over. Jewish communist Joseph Mazelier is on the list. Will Countess Ida agree to help him escape? Christmas Eve in the City of Dreams by Alexa Kang: On his last night in New York, a young grifter sets out to turn the table on those who shorted him before he leaves for the draft. Will he win or lose? Allies After All by Dianne Ascroft: Although their nations are allies, from their first meeting American civilian contractor Art Miller and Local Defence Volunteer, Robbie Hetherington loathe each other. But Northern Ireland is too small a place for such animosity. What will it take to make the two men put aside their enmity and work together? Time to Go by Margaret Tanner: A young sailor, who died at Pearl Harbor, finally meets his soulmate on the 75th Anniversary of the battle. Will she be prepared to leave the 21st century with him? Or will they forever remain apart? Turning Point by Marion Kummerow: Eighteen-year-old German Jew Margarete Rosenbaum is about to be sent to a labor camp, when a bomb hits the building she lives in. Emerging from the rubble she's presented with an unexpected opportunity. But how far is she willing to go to save her life? I am an American by Robyn Hobusch Echols: Ellen Okita and Flo Kaufmann are high school seniors in Livingston, California. Ellen is a first generation American who lives in the Yamato Colony, composed of about 100 families of Japanese descent. Flo's father is a first generation American. After Pearl Harbor, the war hits home fast and brings unforeseen changes to them and their families. A Rude Awakening by Robert A. Kingsley: Singapore, December 1941; the fortress sleeps, believing its own tales of strength and invulnerability. A rigidly class based society throws garden parties and dines sedately, disregarding the slowly growing number of warning signals. Suddenly, the underestimated enemy ferociously attacks and the myth of invincibility is shattered forever.

Download or read book Saddle The Wind written by Jess Foley and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let much loved author Jess Foley sweep you away with this beautifully breathtaking saga of one woman's search for love and fulfilment. Fans of Catherine Cookson, Dilly Court and Katie Flynn will absolutely love this. 'An earthy tale of love, longing and tragedy' -- Swindon Evening Advertiser 'Dramatic and satisfying' -- Iris Gower 'Compulsive and well-paced' -- Wiltshire Times 'This is the most moving story I have read in a very long time' -- ***** Reader review 'A truly excellent, memorable read' -- ***** Reader review 'I just couldn't put it down' -- ***** Reader review ************************************************************************ BORN INTO POVERTY, RAISED IN RICHES. WHERE DOES SHE BELONG? When little Blanche is born in a small village in the West Country - the fifth child of an impoverished labourer - the future appears bleak. Then one fateful day Blanche's mother is requested at the 'big house' to nurse Marianne, the motherless daughter of John Savill. The two girls, so different in their hopes, are brought up together caring for each other as sisters. As she grows over, Blanche is torn between her roots and her desire for a life of wealth and ease. Her friendship with Marianne remains the one constant in her life but when she meets Marianne's intended husband, tragic consequences await them all.

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Download or read book Tracy s Hot Mail written by T. A. Belshaw and published by . This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracy's the new girl in the office. A sassy nineteen year old with an eye for cloned fashion and an ear for the latest gossip, she reveals all in a series of emails written to her friend, Emma. Tracy doesn't spare anyone's blushes as she dishes the dirt on friends, family, and foes. If something is worth hearing, it is worth telling... Everyone gets the Tracy Treatment, her benefit-fiddling father, her porn obsessed boyfriend, even her pocket billiards champion boss. Not forgetting the office's serial bum pincher and his latest conquest, the office tart. Behind Tracy's wide eyed innocence and reassuring smile lies a muck spreader of the highest calibre. No secret is safe. Praise for Tracy's Hot Mail "Hilariously written. I can't fault this book..." Rose McClelland, Judging Covers "made me laugh from beginning to end...a whopping good read" Liz Jackson "a fun, easy, truly enjoyable read...Trevor writes like a girl!" Emma Kerry "Tracy reminds me slightly of Bridget Jones as she is a likeable character but quite honestly, a bit slow-on-the-uptake at times." Rebecca Emin

Download or read book A Nose for Mischief written by K.T. Lee and published by Vertical Line Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I thoroughly enjoyed my time reading this quick and fun novel. It is the first in a new series and you can bet your bottom that I will be continuing!” – JenJen Reviews “...if you like stories with romance, revenge, a healthy dose of cunning and some VERY clever dogs then you will love this book and I heartily recommend it!” – Nat, The Pursuit of Bookiness Book Blog “This was such a great read and I read it in one sitting.” – Leanne Loves Books “This was a great cosy mystery story with some very likeable lead characters, including the furry ones, with a lot of danger and a touch of romance into the bargain.” – The Word is Now Out Blog *** When materials engineer Zoey Butler lands her dream job at Future State Energy, she believes her research in renewable energy will make headlines. Unfortunately for her, she’s right. Zoey is working on her latest experiment when FBI Special Agent Alexis Thompson and her K-9 partner, Waffle, raid Future State and arrest the head of the development for fraud. Zoey helps the FBI find answers in the aftermath, but she soon finds herself jobless and unemployable. Desperate and out of options, she reaches out to Alexis, the one person who knows Zoey was duped like everyone else. Liam Graham is an FBI special agent and instructor at Riverbend K-9 Academy. When Alexis brings in a new recruit with an unusual background, Liam pairs her up with Tasha, a dog in need of a handler to stay in their competitive program. Zoey is thrilled to put her past behind her and give the mischievous rescue dog her own second chance. However, shortly after she arrives, the FBI realizes the Future State case is far from closed. And Zoey may be the key to solving it. Zoey offers to go back to Future State to help the FBI end things once and for all. Only this time, she’ll have Liam and Tasha for backup. But, the problems at Future State are more explosive than any of them suspect.

Download or read book Tracy s Celebrity Hot Mail written by T. Belshaw and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-05 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracy's back! After being replaced by a dumb terminal at the office, Tracy teams up with uber-iffy agent, Shayne Slider, for an assault on the bottom end of the celebrity market. Tracy's quest to become a C-list celebrity takes her from in-store promotions at her local supermarket, to an up-market but amoral celebrity event on the outskirts of Harrogate. Despite her hectic lifestyle, Tracy still finds time to inbox her best friend, Emma, with all the latest news about her friends, family and new-found showbiz acquaintances. Fruitier than a ten-gallon fruit shoot. No one dishes the dirt quite like Tracy."

Download or read book Unspoken written by T. A. Belshaw and published by T a Belshaw. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heart-warming, dramatic family saga. Unspoken is a tale of secrets, love, betrayal and revenge. Unspoken means something that cannot be uttered aloud. Unspoken is the dark secret a woman must keep, for life. Alice is fast approaching her one hundredth birthday and she is dying. Her strange, graphic dreams of ghostly figures trying to pull her into a tunnel of blinding light are becoming more and more vivid and terrifying. Alice knows she only has a short time left and is desperate to unburden herself of a dark secret, one she has lived with for eighty years. Jessica, a journalist, is her great granddaughter and a mirror image of a young Alice. They share dreadful luck in the types of men that come into their lives. Alice decides to share her terrible secret with Jessica and sends her to the attic to retrieve a set of handwritten notebooks detailing her young life during the late 1930s. Following the death of her invalid mother and her father's decline into depression and alcoholism, she is forced, at 18 to take control of the farm. On her birthday, she meets Frank, a man with a drink problem and a violent temper. When Frank's abusive behaviour steps up a level. Alice seeks solace in the arms of her smooth, 'gangster lawyer' Godfrey, and when Frank discovers the couple together, he vows to get his revenge. Unspoken. A tale that spans two eras and binds two women, born eighty years apart.

Download or read book Foreign and Far Away written by Writers Abroad and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of fiction, non-fiction and poetry has flowed from the pens of expats around the world to create this collection on the theme of people and places. Foreign and Far Away, the fourth anthology published by Writers Abroad, explores the relationship between people and the landscapes and settings they live in. An eclectic range of writing evokes the diversities, similarities, connections and misunderstandings of life in foreign places. The result is a volume to delight, intrigue and, above all, entertain. Writers Abroad has chosen Book Aid International to benefit from the proceeds of this anthology. This charity increases access to books and supports literacy, education and development in sub-Saharan Africa. They provided 543,280 new books to over 2,000 libraries in 2012 and have sent more than 30 million books to partner libraries since 1954.

Download or read book The Anti Relationship Year written by Katie Wismer and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johanna Palmer is very much over relationships. After a scarring experience her freshman year of college, she's decided she'd much rather have something fun than something serious. Her best friend Miller has seen it all--the tears, the parties, the drunken phone calls at four in the morning when she needed a ride. In fact, there might be several things Miller saw that Jo herself can't remember. Things Miller can't forget. With the whirlwind of senior year underway, Jo just wants to move on, get her degree, and land her dream job. But her past might not be as easy to outrun as she'd hoped. The Anti-Relationship Year is a companion to The Anti-Virginity Pact, but both books can be read as standalones.

Download or read book Pyre written by Perumal Murugan and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the author of One Part Woman: “A haunting story of forbidden love set in Southern India that illustrates the cruel consequences of societal intolerance.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review Saroja and Kumaresan are young and in love. After meeting in a small southern Indian town where Kumaresan works at a soda bottling shop, they quickly marry before returning to Kumaresan’s family village, where they hope to build a happy life together. But they are harboring a terrible secret: Saroja is from a different caste than Kumaresan, and if the villagers find out, they will both be in grave danger. Faced with venom from her mother-in-law and questions from her new neighbors, Saroja tries to adjust to a new lonely and uncomfortable life, while Kumaresan struggles to scrape together enough money for them to start over somewhere new. But in a world filled with thorns, their love may not be enough to keep them safe.

Download or read book A Cut for a Cut written by Carol Wyer and published by Thomas & Mercer. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DI Kate Young can't trust anybody. Not even herself. In the bleak countryside around Blithfield Reservoir, a serial murderer and rapist is leaving a trail of bloodshed. His savage calling card: the word 'MINE' carved into each of his victims. DI Kate Young struggles to get the case moving--even when one of the team's own investigators is found dead in a dumpster. But Kate is battling her own demons. Obsessed with exposing Superintendent John Dickson and convinced there's a conspiracy running deep in the force, she no longer knows who to trust. Kate's crusade has already cost her dearly. What will she lose next? When her stepsister spills a long-buried secret, Kate realises she's found the missing link--now she must prove it before the killer strikes again. With enemies closing in on all sides, she's prepared to do whatever it takes to bring them down. But time is running out, and Kate's past has pushed her to the very edge. Can she stop herself from falling?

Download or read book The Mystery of the Lost Husbands written by Gina Cheyne and published by . This book was released on 2021-12 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Murdering Your Husband an Addiction or merely an annoying habit? This is the question facing P.I. Cat Harrington when rich builder, Tom Drayton, dies shortly after his wedding night. Suspicion falls on his widow, Anastasia Rodriguez, the survivor of three previous lost husbands. Two years later, Anastasia is engaged again, to Angelo, an Italian snail collector. Angelo's sister, Gia, employs P. I. Cat and the SeeMs Detective Agency to discover if her brother's financé is a killer. The search for Anastasia's lost husbands takes Cat and her team from Scotland to the South of Spain and on to Argentina. They have just a few weeks before the wedding to discover if Anastasia is a murderer and save their friend from becoming victim number five. For fans of Arsenic and Old Lace and The Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency. This is the first book in the SeeMS Detective Agency series. P.I. Cat, a translator and linguist, First Officer Stevie, an airline pilot, and Miranda, a mother of three, put their wits together to find lost dogs. However, they are always willing to take on a bigger challenge when the chance arises. And, when their friend Angelo became engaged to the woman now known as the Black Widow, they were all ready and determined to get to the truth: did she kill her previous husbands?

Download or read book Trouble with Swords written by Richard Hardie and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Death at the Abbey written by Christine Trent and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Victorian-era undertaker plans a funeral for an eccentric duke's pet raven—but the bird's death is soon followed by murder: “A most unusual heroine.” (Publishers Weekly). While on a much-needed respite with her husband Sam in Nottinghamshire, undertaker Violet Harper is summoned to Welbeck Abbey by the Fifth Duke of Portland to prepare a body. His Grace is known as the “mad duke,” and Violet has more than an inkling of why when she arrives at the grand estate and discovers that the corpse in question is that of the duke's favorite raven, Aristotle. Many of the duke's servants believe a dead raven is a harbinger of doom, and the peculiar peer hopes to allay their superstitious fears with an elaborate funeral for his feathered friend. But Aristotle's demise is soon followed by the violent murder of one of the young workers on the estate. Wishing to avoid any whisper of scandal, the reclusive duke implores Violet to conduct her own discreet investigation. In her hunt for evidence, Violet wonders if the manner of the raven's death might provide a crucial clue in solving the crime before someone else—including herself—risks an untimely fate.