Download or read book The Sweetie Jar written by Venell Mitchell and published by Book Venture Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is targeted primarily at younger children, but will certainly be enjoyed by older ones as well, and even parents and guardians alike. This is a book to which most children could relate, in that, sweets, sweeties or candies - by whichever name they are known — are well liked by children the world over. As they read the story, or, in some instances, the story is read to them, their imagination will come alive as they see their favourite sweets come to life as they speak from within the sweetie jar. This book is vividly creative, and one that every child would enjoy and treasure.
Download or read book The Sweet Shoppe Coloring Book written by Chris Price and published by Adams Media. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step inside the winsome world of the Sweet Shoppe! Welcome to the charming, whimsical world of the Sweet Shoppe, where every jar, bowl, and shelf offers a sweet new discovery. It's unlike anything you've ever seen--let alone colored--as the pages provide an escape to a bygone era. In The Sweet Shoppe Coloring Book, you can explore an old-fashioned candy and pastry store and bring life to its many delights through your color choices and combinations. The Sweet Shoppe Coloring Book is a treat for your eyes and your imagination!
Download or read book The Blessings Jar written by Colleen Coble and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Celebrates the bond between grandparents and grandchildren and teaches little ones an important lesson about recognizing all of God's blessings"--Back cover.
Download or read book Hamlyn QuickCook Cakes Bakes written by Jo McAuley and published by Hamlyn. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wonderful collection of 360 great tasting recipes is perfect for anyone who wants to know how to make perfect cakes and bakes in record-breaking time. Its clever layout will ensure that you'll always be able to make wonderful treats from savoury biscuits and muffins to sweet cupcakes, traybakes, pies and tarts. If you're pressed for time, then the 10-minute options provide clever short-cuts, and if you have a little longer then the 30-minute versions will show you how to add something a bit more special.
Download or read book The Magic of Marie Laveau written by Denise Alvarado and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and work of the legendary “Pope of Voodoo,” Marie Laveau—a free woman of color who practically ruled New Orleans in the mid-1800s Marie Laveau may be the most influential American practitioner of the magical arts; certainly, she is among the most famous. She is the subject of songs, films, and legends and the star of New Orleans ghost tours. Her grave in New Orleans ranks among the most popular spiritual pilgrimages in the US. Devotees venerate votive images of Laveau, who proclaimed herself the “Pope of Voodoo.” She is the subject of respected historical biographies and the inspiration for novels by Francine Prose and Jewell Parker Rhodes. She even appears in Marvel Comics and on the television show American Horror Story: Coven, where she was portrayed by Angela Bassett. Author Denise Alvarado explores Marie Laveau’s life and work—the fascinating history and mystery. This book gives an overview of New Orleans Voodoo, its origins, history, and practices. It contains spells, prayers, rituals, recipes, and instructions for constructing New Orleans voodoo-style altars and crafting a voodoo amulet known as a gris-gris.
Download or read book The Black Cat Detectives written by and published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something suspicious is going on in Cinnamon Grove... Auntie Urooj, world-famous beetle expert, is lonely and Ramzi and his friend Shaima Stalk think they have the perfect solution - a suitor from Truly Deeply Muslims online marriage agency! But smooth-talking Rasheed is not all he seems. He cheats at Monopoly, for a start... It's time for the Black Cat Detectives to do some serious sleuthing! But can they rescue Auntie Urooj and her Long-Horned Capricorn Beetle before it's too late? A funny exciting mystery story from the author of A Hen in the Wardrobe.
Download or read book Crossroads of Conjure written by Katrina Rasbold and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the Fascinating World of Southern Folk Magic Featuring an introductory look at Granny Magic, Hoodoo, Brujería, and Curanderismo in the American South, Crossroads of Conjure provides a fresh perspective on folk magic. This authentic and powerful book demonstrates how these systems are interconnected, celebrates their sustainability, and dispels the myths and misunderstandings about them. Learn about each path's beliefs, practitioners, history, and how its traditions are carried on in modern society. Discover the techniques practitioners use for healing, survival, protection, and more. This entertaining and informative exploration of folk magic also helps you determine which practice resonates with you the most.
Download or read book The Royal Park Murders written by Kevin Marsh and published by Paragon Publishing. This book was released on with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Her skin crawled as she sensed danger. Turning away, she began to run but there was no rhythm to her pace, it was a desperate retreat filled with panic. After a few paces, she looked back again but it was the same. The pavement was empty, the man was nowhere to be seen...” The Royal Parks of London are safe green spaces enjoyed by many thousands of people, but when the body of a young woman is discovered in Hyde Park, the harmonious balance between nature and recreation is disturbed. Newly promoted Detective Inspector Isobel Woods is tasked with leading the investigation, then elements of a previous case threatens her wellbeing forcing her to prove to a new boss that she is fit to lead her team. Things rarely go to plan and the situation escalates when the killer strikes again. Unexpectedly, a web of abuse, fraud and deceit is exposed and as they investigate further Woods and her colleagues’ lives are endangered. With resources stretched to the limit, the team must keep themselves and the public safe. What other surprises will be uncovered before the investigation reaches a satisfactory conclusion?
Download or read book The Vanishing Woman written by Fiorella De Maria and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this next book in the Father Gabriel mystery series, the priest detective tries to solve the riddle behind the disappearance of the most hated woman in town. Enid Jennings, a retired headmistress and an embittered war widow, has a talent for causing conflict and distress wherever she goes. When Enid's daughter sees her vanish into thin air, she is widely assumed to have been mistaken or to have lost her mind – or worse, to have committed an act of foul play. Enter Father Gabriel. Working on the principle that some stories are too strange to have been made up, the priest sets out to discover the whereabouts of the missing woman. With help from the town's physician, and hostility from the irascible Inspector Applegate, Father Gabriel delves into Enid Jennings' past, and he digs up the recent past of the whole village during the days of the Phony War, when invaders lay in wait across the Channel and crimes were just a little easier to hide.
Download or read book Visions in the Dark written by Iain Morrison and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When all sorts of accusations, denials, revelations, disclosures, and leaks are swarming and spilling around the security agencies of the United Kingdom and the USA, it is worse when the Snowden effect erupts. A bruised and slightly disillusioned Commander Elaine Black, training officer and senior security advisor at GCHQ Bude Listening Facility, is plunged into a bewildering and dangerous battle to make sense of and counter a desperate threat to British Security. Headless bodies, fire bombings, threats of chemical warfare unloosed on a small West Country town, apparently straightforward murders and the killing of a policeman make Elaine Black thankful for the involvement of a pair of incorruptible and driven police detectives and the experience and expertise that they bring to the party. However, as the stakes get higher and higher, Elaine is further gratified to have two old fighting companions on side. The question is, can the team confound the multinational conspiracy that stretches to the highest echelons of British and American financial and political establishments?
Download or read book The Girl in the Bog written by Keith Donohue and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2024-08-13 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient heroes from Irish mythology and folklore come to life in the modern world in this dark, atmospheric story. At once a thrilling chase novel and a wry reimagining of Ireland’s oldest epic, it is sure to enthrall readers of Neil Gaiman and Cassandra Khaw. Everybody is after the girl in the bog. One morning in a field in Connemara, a farmer unearths the body of a young woman, two thousand years old, preserved under layers of peat. Later that evening, she awakens in unfamiliar modern Ireland, ripping a hole through space and time and setting awhirl old animosities and long-held grudges. Shadowy figures follow her from the pagan past, and each emerges with a claim on the girl from the bog. With help from a trio of wannabe teenage witches, she goes on the run. Joining in the chase is an American archaeologist who wants to keep the discovery for herself and two befuddled farmers trapped in the plot. Hosts of fairies out for the night work their magic and mischief, and in the blue hour before sunrise, the saga unfolds in a battle for the ages. Part fantasy, part mystery, part thriller, part send-up, this comic and poignant love song to Irish literature and the gift of gab does not merely bend genres; it braids them into Celtic knots.
Download or read book The Crooked Olive Branch written by Frederick Munn and published by novum pro Verlag. This book was released on 2022-02-27 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of heroism and bravery during the Second World War are legend. Many of them have remained secret. This fictional account, inspired by real events, experiences and histories, has all the hallmarks of a spy novel with its many twists and turns. The action switches from a peaceful setting in a sleepy village in the Home Counties to the raw, unyielding terrain of the former Yugoslavia and its demands on the courageous band of partisans to aid a seriously injured British Officer escape a determined Nazi S.S. With, ingenuity, good fortune along with an attached British S.O.E. unit they outwit the occupying German Army.
Download or read book The Fall into Ruin written by Bronwyn Stuart and published by Tule Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her double life catches up with her, she must use all of her wits to survive. Craving freedom and adventure, Rose Clairmont is far more interested in operating her secret smuggling activities at her father’s estate than looking for a respectable husband. So when a handsome man with ties to piracy stumbles over her during her debutante ball, Rose congratulates herself on being ruined and expects to be sent home in disgrace...until he agrees to marry her. Forever besmirched by his father’s pirate reputation, Anthony Germaine wishes to uphold the law as a Bow Street Runner. When he sneaks into a ball hoping to join, he’s tossed out and falls on a woman hiding in the garden. Society is abuzz and Anthony, despite his roots, is a gentleman. But when he visits her estate to court his bride-to-be, he realizes there’s more to Rose than meets the eye. And she’s in danger. Suddenly, playing it safe no longer appeals and Anthony contemplates an adventure that will prove as dangerous to his life as it is to his heart.
Download or read book Dancing With The Red Devil A Memoir of Love Hope Family and Cancer written by Sarah Standing and published by Headline. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A beautifully written gem of a book, both inspiring and poignant.' Elton John 'Incisive and heart-rending.' Richard E Grant Sarah Standing is a wife, a mother, a journalist, a toy shop owner, a grandmother, a great friend, a daughter, and a lover of life. She does not have the time, or inclination, to deal with cancer. But shit happens. After a week or two of struggling to catch her breath, Sarah pops along to see her GP for a few tests. By the end of the day, she has a bag of what looks like bone broth draining from her body and is dealing with a diagnosis of non-Hodgkins lymphoma. It's cancer, says her doctor, but it's the good kind. Radiating personality from the very first page, this memoir is filled with joy, hope and love, and screams 'FUCK YOU, CANCER' at the top of its lungs. Covering the six months that Sarah undergoes chemo - separated from her family by the laws of lockdown - this book will make you laugh, sob and grab life firmly by the balls so you can live the hell out of it.
Download or read book The Mersey Girls written by Katie Flynn and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR KATIE FLYNN: Set in Liverpool in the 1920s, The Mersey Girlsis a heartwarming novel of family, love and triumph against the odds. ____________________________________ 1913 Seventeen-year-old Evie Murphy has chosen to leave behind her native Ireland for the city of Liverpool. She takes her baby daughter Linnet with her, but leaves behind her child’s frail twin, Lucy. A decision that will change their lives for ever. 1924 When tragedy strikes, Linnet is left destitute and alone, disappearing into the unforgiving Liverpool slums. Meanwhile, Lucy is desperate to find her sister but is she willing to leave behind the beautiful Irish countryside where she has grown up. With uncertain times ahead, will the sisters ever be reunited . . . ?
Download or read book The Children of Lochandee written by Gwen Kirkwood and published by Accent Press Ltd. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1960s Scotland, the farming industry is on the brink of huge changes, becoming more mechanised and less dependent on manpower, but at Lochandee, it is a time of hope and promise for the future. Ross and Rachel Maxwell have every reason to be proud of their expanding family. Daughter Bridie and her Nick are as happily married as they are, and working hard to build up their own farm. Eldest son Conan’s transport business is prospering, with he and Fiona planning to develop into the burgeoning tourist industry. Youngest son, Ewan, is showing the same keen interest in farming as they did at his age. But there is a cloud on the horizon – the young woman Gerda Fritz-Allan, who seems to have caught his eye. Beautiful, ambitious and utterly selfish, she has the power to wreak untold damage, changing the lives of the Maxwell family for ever.
Download or read book The Quiet One written by J A Baker and published by Boldwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2023-10-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking for a psychological drama which will have you gripped? Then you will love the unmissable The Quiet One from best-selling author J.A. Baker! Can you ever escape the past? Stella and her partner Wade appear to have the perfect life. They have a lovely home and Stella loves her job as a teacher in a local secondary school. But when Stella starts to receive a series of threatening letters, her life takes a sinister turn. Determined to find out who is behind the threats, Stella is forced to examine her own dark past. And all evidence points to a man with whom she had a one-night stand. A man Wade knows nothing about... Deciding to confront him, Stella discovers the man knows nothing about the letters, forcing her to look even closer to home and a secret she had hoped would stay hidden. Meanwhile, the threats escalate and Stella fears her perfect life is about to come crashing down. But who is behind the campaign of hate and why? Stella is about to find out... J.A. Baker is the best-selling author of Local Girl Missing, The Last wife and The Woman in the Woods. What people are saying about J.A. Baker... 'Superbly written with a cast of crazy characters who will make you look differently at your co-workers from now on.’ Bestselling author Valerie Keogh 'Fast-paced, riveting thriller. Gripped until the last page!' Bestselling author Diana Wilkinson 'A twisty, creepy story expertly told. Perfect for reading on dark winter evenings...with the doors double-locked and bolted. Highly recommended!' Bestselling author Amanda James Please Note, this book was previously published as The Girl I Used To Be
