Download or read book Veering Off on Valentine s written by A.J. Kormon and published by SolVin Creative. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s Valentine’s Day, and Jordan Cartwright is about to learn the meaning of true love . . . from her cat! In book three of the Halloway Hills Middle School Mysteries, after feeling rejected by her best friend Avery because of Valentine’s Day, Jordan wonders if she can still be friends with him. As she tries to avoid Avery, Jordan witnesses some strange behaviour from her cat Blizzard. When Blizzard goes missing during a snowstorm, Jordan enlists Avery’s help to find him. Will Jordan and Avery find Blizzard, or will his strange behaviour remain a secret forever? A short, page-turning story for ages 9-11. Includes bonus word search!
Download or read book Halloway Hills Middle School Mysteries 1 3 written by A.J. Kormon and published by SolVin Creative. This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three short, page-turning mysteries for ages 9-11 featuring mischievous cats and their middle grade owners. In Hiding Out on Halloween, Avery Mcintosh borrows the Super Ultimate Minecraft Hacks book from the school library, much to the dismay of the school bully Becky. When Avery accidentally splashes Becky with an invisibility potion that he learned from the book, she not only disappears from Minecraft, but from the real world too. Trying to ease his guilt about Becky’s disappearance, with the help of his friend Jordan and a black cat who appears to be stalking him, Avery sets out to find Becky. In Creeping Up on Christmas, it’s time for the Halloway Hills Middle School Christmas fair and Violet Sidhu and her friends have planned to sell crocheted hats to raise money for charity. There’s just one problem—the hats are missing! When Violet discovers what’s happened to her hats, thanks to the new guy at school, getting them back turns out to be harder than she thought. In Veering Off on Valentine’s, Jordan Cartwright learns the meaning of true love . . . from her cat! After feeling rejected by her best friend Avery because of Valentine’s Day, Jordan wonders if she can still be friends with him. As she tries to avoid Avery, Jordan witnesses some strange behaviour from her cat Blizzard. When Blizzard goes missing during a snowstorm, Jordan enlists Avery’s help to find him and learns an important lesson in the process. Includes bonus cookie recipe and word search! * The paperback version is formatted using Century Gothic font, larger type, and more space to help ease reading challenges.
Download or read book Melting Hearts Series written by Jordyn Kross and published by Scarlet Parlor Press, LLC. This book was released on 2023-12-02 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How far would you go to heal a damaged heart? The Melting Hearts series tells the scorching-hot stories of the emotionally frozen breaking society’s taboos in search of forever. Love is the one thing they can’t control and it doesn’t follow the rules. Will they be able to pay the cost? The collection includes: Jack’s Frost, Winter’s List, Xmas Angel, and Shattered Ice.
Download or read book A Celebration of Life written by Helen Pendleton and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These poems, entitled A Celebration of Life, are just that; to help celebrate the everyday. So I try to envision a sunny day and make it poetic.
Download or read book Hating Valentine s Day written by Allison Rushby and published by Red Dress Ink. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roses are red Violets are blue I hate Valentine's Day... Just like you. One of the top wedding photographers intown, Liv Hetherington, steadfastly single, hatesValentine's Day. This year she's putting her footdown and has vowed there'll be no dinner partyset-ups, speed-dating frenzies or any otherform of accidental dating organized byher father, flatmate or best friend. Liv's ecstatic, to say the least. Now she canconcentrate on more important thingslike setting up her own studio andpolishing off her Dickens collection. But are relationships really not forher? Drew, the new man in Liv'slife, would beg to differ. Aswould Cupid, who's had enoughof Liv being stubbornly single... Valentine's Day...bah, humbug. Or is that about to change?
Download or read book Valentine s Day Is Killing Me written by MaryJanice Davidson and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cupid's arrow goes dangerously awry in this trio of stories that follow three women as their Valentine's Day festivities are marred by murder and illegal activities, leading them into the arms of the law. Original.
Download or read book Something Off Limits written by Laine Watson and published by Mir.Mad, LLC. This book was released on 2024-09-14 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam Who knew strumming a guitar could lead to the forbidden chords of love? Storm—my best friend’s sister, the melody in my chaotic life. But she’s off-limits, a secret I keep in the shadows. One I don’t deserve to hold. I’m a nobody, trying to make a name for myself, hoping to be worthy enough for her. I don’t care what it takes—whether it’s leading a rock band or playing lacrosse. I’ll do it until I deserve her. Deep down I know I never will, but I’m a selfish enough bastard to keep trying. Storm, with her midnight curls and eyes that sparkle like stage lights, is everything I shouldn’t want. But she’s the harmony to my soul. Our hidden moments are the lyrics I cherish most. But with every secret meeting, I fear the final note of our love song. Will our melody survive the harsh reality? ___ Storm I just had to fall for the campus flirt with a guitar, Sam Shin-Carter. He’s not just the lead singer of a band; he’s also on the lacrosse team. He’s been popular since high school. But he’s my brother’s best friend—off-limits. Our love is the secret we can’t let slip. At Dennington University, he’s a star, on and off the field. Sam, with those stormy eyes and a smile that undoes me every time. His voice, low and rough, feels like it’s meant for me alone. We’re sneaking moments, pushing boundaries, always wanting more. As things heat up, I wonder: will we ever get to be out in the open? Or are we stuck hiding in the shadows, pretending it’s nothing when it’s everything? Something Off-Limits is Book 1 of the prequel duet to The Give Me Something Series. This steamy new adult romance follows a driven lacrosse keeper and lead singer, and his best friend’s sassy, irresistible younger sister. Will Sam choose the spotlight as a pro athlete or rockstar? And will Storm follow him to the ends of the earth, or be left behind?
Download or read book Duplicity Spellbound Trilogy 2 written by Nikki Jefford and published by Nikki Jefford. This book was released on 2012-05-12 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If Graylee Perez thought sharing a body with her twin sister was bad, dealing with a duplicate of herself is two times worse. Gray the second doesn’t seem to get that Lee’s boyfriend, Raj McKenna, is off limits. Then there’s the problem of Adrian Montez. He expects one of the Grays to be his. Nearly a year later, the council is onto them for past misdeeds; Lee, along with the rest of the coven, has lost control of her powers; and Gray is being stalked by what looks like the Grim Reaper. If they work together, they may stand a chance of setting things right and making it out alive.
Download or read book Face Down Under the Wych Elm written by Kathy Lynn Emerson and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabethan herbalist Susanna, Lady Appleton, must root out a killer when two women are accused of witchcraft while the real killer, an expert in poisons, remains free to strike again. Reprint.
Download or read book Big Time The Life of Adam Faith written by David Stafford and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Taking Funny Music Seriously written by Lily E. Hirsch and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take funny music seriously! Though often dismissed as silly or derivative, funny music, Lily E. Hirsch argues, is incredibly creative and dynamic, serving multiple aims from the celebratory to the rebellious, the entertaining to the mentally uplifting. Music can be a rich site for humor, with so many opportunities that are ripe for a comedic left turn. Taking Funny Music Seriously includes original interviews with some of the best musical humorists, such as Tom Lehrer, "the J. D. Salinger of musical satire"; Peter Schickele, who performed as the invented composer P. D. Q. Bach, the supposed lost son of the great J. S. Bach; Kate Micucci and Riki Lindhome of the funny music duo Garfunkel and Oates; comedic film composer Theodore Shapiro; Too Slim of the country group Riders in the Sky; and musical comedian Jessica McKenna, from the podcast Off Book, part of a long line of "funny girls." With their help, Taking Funny Music Seriously examines comedy from a variety of genres and musical contexts--from bad singing to rap, classical music to country, Broadway music to film music, and even love songs and songs about death. In its coverage of comedic musical media, Taking Funny Music Seriously is an accessible and lively look at funny music. It offers us a chance to appreciate more fully the joke in music and the benefits of getting that joke--especially in times of crisis--including comfort, catharsis, and connection.
Download or read book Saving Hadley written by Amy Sparling and published by Amy Sparling. This book was released on with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If suntans, saltwater, and a stubbornly cute guy can’t save Hadley’s summer, nothing will. Hadley Parrish is having the worst luck ever. Her boyfriend dumped her for social media fame, her stepsister got into Harvard the day Hadley failed chemistry, and now she’s been blamed for a crime she didn’t do. As punishment, she’s sent to Sterling Beach for the summer to learn some “work ethic” and “manners” from her grumpy grandfather who she barely knows. The beautiful beach is no match for Hadley’s epically bad mood, and she’s determined to spend every second of the summer locked in her room brooding. Her grandfather’s only rule is that she has to come out once a week, for Friday night poker. Hadley wants to protest, but then she meets her grandfather’s favorite poker player, Jeremy, the unbelievably cute guy who lives next door. Jeremy sees things differently after being granted a miraculous second chance at life. He’s not about to let Hadley’s bad mood ruin the best years of her life. In fact, he’s going to make it his mission to save her this summer. Even if it’s the hardest thing he’ll ever do. Saving Hadley is a Boys of Summer Novella. If you like enemies-to-lovers, flirty banter, and page-turning sweet romance, this story is for you. It is a novella in the Boys of Summer series, a collaboration between several YA authors. They are all standalone stories that take place in the same fictional town. Escape to Sterling Beach today!
Download or read book Eight Fantastical Tales From Here There Everywhere written by Poornima Manco and published by Mango Tree Publications. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if… anything was possible? What really lurks beneath the humdrum and the mundane, the ubiquitous and the familiar? And what if you came face to face with it? Enter a world where goddesses descend to earth, mythical creatures materialise out of thin air, ghosts mean well, and limbs have minds of their own. In a series of tales that explore the fantastical and the surreal, lives of ordinary people are upturned by bizarre incidents and mysterious happenings. Gloriously imagined, deliciously crafted and wickedly entertaining, Eight takes you on a fabulous romp around multiple countries and cultures of the world, with just a wee bit of something extra in the mix. Sit back, relax and get ready to savour a slice of some delectably fantastical cake! Netgalley reviews: "Delightful light confection that goes around the globe with short fantasy stories. From Argentina to somewhere in the air Hitting Germany, France, Egypt, Korea, China, India in-between. Little quick tastes of a dot of sweet, sour, spicy, hot & cold tidbits to make you smile or think. Most poignant I thought was the German & the rabbit but they were all tasty fare." "One of the reasons I love Gabriel Garcia Marquez is because of the magic realism.These 8 short stories take place in different countries and while dealing with very serious subjects(disability,addiction,loss, loneliness...)each of them has a touch of magic realism that make it very easy to get immersed in them." "This was such a magical book I thoroughly enjoyed every second of reading it. It was well written with such brilliant imagery. A great read." "I’ll be honest straight away and say I have a hate/hate relationship with short stories and all my previous reviews will attest to that. No matter how many I read, I just don’t enjoy them. They’re not for me and never seem to grab me or keep me interested. But I think I’ve finally found the one collection that has shown me what a good short story can be. They’re whimsical and magical and almost fairytale like but steeped in realism with an important life lesson at the end, but by approaching it in this way, they don’t become corny or preachy or over the top."
Download or read book Around the World in Twenty Seven Tales written by Poornima Manco and published by Mango Tree Publications. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey the globe, one story at a time… In a world where choices shape our destinies, "Twelve" invites you to embark on an exciting journey that spans the globe. From the bustling streets of West Berlin to the lush landscapes of Bali; from the vibrant alleys of New Delhi to the iconic avenues of New York, immerse yourself in a diverse tapestry of narratives that traverse the continents. Lose yourself in the lives of characters standing at crossroads, where pivotal decisions may lead them on vastly different paths. Meanwhile, "Eight" beckons you to a whimsical odyssey across the world, infusing the ordinary with the extraordinary. Here, goddesses walk amongst mortals, mythical creatures materialise unexpectedly, and reality seamlessly melds with the supernatural. Witness the bizarre events that disrupt ordinary lives, opening a portal to a fantastical realm sprinkled with magic and mayhem. And what about love? "Six" paints a vibrant portrait of love's kaleidoscope. It captures the unlikeliest of connections forged among society's outcasts, the glimmer of hope ignited by a serendipitous encounter, the dizzying heights of passion, the profound depths of longing, and the crippling anguish of betrayal. This collection traverses the emotional spectrum, reminding us that love, both fragile and enduring, shapes our lives in countless ways. Finally, a BONUS short story about the twilight years—an exploration of unexpected love and rekindled hope. This tale serves as a poignant reminder to embrace life's late yet beautiful surprises. Step into a world where flavours and fantasies collide, weaving a captivating tapestry of experiences. Indulge in a delectable buffet of stories, where each page offers a mouthwatering morsel of pure storytelling delight. "Twelve," "Eight," "Six," and the BONUS story add up to Twenty-Seven tales that take you on a creative and imaginative spin around the world. Come, enjoy a literary feast that will leave your senses craving for more.
Download or read book Deadly Desires at Honeychurch Hall written by Hannah Dennison and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deadly Desires at Honeychurch Hall is the second charming and witty whodunit in Hannah Dennison's amazing cozy series. Set at an English manor house, fans of British mysteries and Downton Abbey are sure to enjoy this contemporary take on murder at the manor house. When the body of a transport minister is discovered in the grounds on Honeychurch Hall, suspicion about his unusual demise naturally falls on the folks in the village. After all, who could possibly want a high-speed train line built in their front yard? News of the murder soon reaches our heroine Kat Stanford's nemesis Trudy Wynne. A ruthless tabloid journalist and the ex-wife of Kat's discarded lover, Trudy is out for revenge. She is also interested in exposing—and humiliating—Kat's mother Iris, who is secretly the international bestselling romance writer Krystalle Storm. As the body count begins to build, Kat becomes inextricably embroiled in the ensuing scandal. Is the minister's death the result of a local vendetta, or could it be connected to her mother's unusual (to say the least) past?
Download or read book Blue Plate Special written by Kate Christensen and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delectable memoir about the transformative power of food, Blue Plate Special is a deeply personal narrative in which food becomes the vehicle for exploring a life. Here, novelist Kate Christensen tells her own story, from her unorthodox childhood in 1960s Berkeley as the daughter of a legal activist who ruled the house with his fists to her extraordinary success as a PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author. Hungry not just for food, but for love and a sense of belonging, Christensen writes honestly about her struggle to find the contentment she has always yearned for. A beautifully written account of a knockabout life, full of sorrows, pleasures—and, of course, food—Blue Plate Special is a delicious reading experience.
Download or read book Rotten Movies We Love written by The Editors of Rotten Tomatoes and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hook. Wet Hot American Summer. Valley of the Dolls. There are some movies that defy traditional critical assessment -- films that are panned by reviewers, but that go on to become beloved classics and cult phenoms anyway. Ever been crushed to learn your favorite movie -- or a new one you're dying to see -- has been given the big green splat from Rotten Tomatoes' infamous Tomatometer? The site's editors stand by their critics and scores, but they also feel your pain: Fresh films shouldn't get all the glory! In Rotten Movies We Love, the RT team celebrates 101 Rotten movies that can't be missed, including: Box office behemoths that bombed with critics: Space Jam, Maleficent, Bad Boys Sci-fi treasures so bad they're awesome: Cherry 2000, Zardoz, Masters of the Universe Rare Rottens from Fresh directors: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Marie Antoinette, Legend, Willow Deeply beloved cult classics: The Last Dragon, Empire Records, The Craft, MacGruber Underrated gems ahead of their time: The Strangers, Event Horizon, Practical Magic, The Cable Guy Sequels worth a second look: Home Alone 2, Rocky IV, Jurassic Park III, Return to Oz Featuring 16 essays from some of the world's most well-known film critics -- Leonard Maltin, Terri White, Amy Nicholson, David Fear, K. Austin Collins, and more -- and punctuated with black-and-white film stills and punchy graphics, it's a fun romp through the quirkier corners of film history, sure to delight any cinephile or pop-culture fanatic.
