Download or read book The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle written by Matt Cain and published by A John Scognamiglio Book. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This rollicking romance entrapped me! True in its detail and its scope, it is amusing yet heart-breaking.” —Ian McKellen Perfect for fans of Fredrik Backman and TJ Klune, this humorous, life-affirming, and charmingly wise novel tells the story of how the forced retirement of a shy, closeted postman in northern England creates a second chance with his lost love, as he learns to embrace his true self, connect with his community, and finally experience his life’s great adventure… Indie Next List Selection | Library Reads Selection Every day, Albert Entwistle makes his way through the streets of his small English town, delivering letters and parcels and returning greetings with a quick wave and a “how do?” Everyone on his route knows Albert, or thinks they do—a man of quiet routines, content to live alone with his cat, Gracie. Three months before his sixty-fifth birthday, Albert receives a letter from the Royal Mail thanking him for decades of service and stating that he is being forced into retirement. At once, Albert’s simple life unravels. Without the work that fills his days, what will he do? He has no friends, family, or hobbies—just a past he never speaks of, and a lost love that fills him with regret. And so, rather than continue his lonely existence, Albert forms a brave plan to start truly living, to be honest about who he is . . . and to find George, the man with whom he spent one perfect spring and summer long ago. One painful yet exhilarating step at a time, Albert begins searching for George and revealing his story to those around him. As he does, something extraordinary happens. Albert finds unlikely allies, new friends, and the courage to help others—even as he seeks the happiness he’s always denied himself. Beautifully written, funny, and wise, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle is a book to fall in love with and to be inspired by, one that proves it is never too late to live, to hope, and to love. A Note from Matt Cain, the author of The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle: “One of the things that inspired me to write this novel was all the joy I felt at seeing gay men like myself being embraced by British society. I think you'd be hard-pushed to find any other minority community in the UK that was as hated, feared and vilified as gay men were fifty years ago and is now as widely celebrated and loved. Acceptance of gay men has become a touchstone of British values within less than a decade, something that even the most optimistic commentators couldn’t have predicted. I wanted to write a book that would celebrate this. And I sincerely hope The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle makes its readers feel good about themselves and the part they’ve played in bringing about this extraordinary social shift.” —Matt Cain

Download or read book Belle s Secret written by Victoria Purman and published by Tule Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-25 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isabella Martenson never expected to be a runaway bride. She never expected to be a bride, period. She simply has the wrong DNA to do the whole happily married thing. Until one night in Vegas with a handsome winemaker changes everything... A year later, Harry Harrison’s bride is still a mystery. Who was she? Where was she? And why did she run? When Harry flies to a Australia for his best friend's wedding, he runs straight into the woman he’s never been able to forget. All she asks is for their marriage to be kept a secret. All he asks is for a divorce. But after a week together, Harry and Isabella are forced to face what they really want.

Download or read book Hollywood Confessions written by Gemma Halliday and published by Gemma Halliday Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times & USA Today Bestselling author Gemma Halliday comes a dead Hollywood producer, a slew of reality show contestants with juicy motives, and one tabloid reporter determined to get the truth! Allie Quick has high aspirations—much higher than reporting on the latest celebrity gossip for the L.A. Informer, Hollywood's most notorious tabloid. But if she's going to join the ranks of the real reporters, she's going to need a headline worthy story under her belt. Which is just what she gets when the producer of the trashiest reality shows on TV winds up murdered, and Allie convinces her editor, Felix Dunn (from the High Heels Mysteries), that this story has her name written all over it. Between an aging dance-off judge, a family with sextuplets and triplets, and the star of a little person dating show, Allie has no shortage of reality stars to question. But when she finds herself falling for her prime suspect, Allie's relationship with her editor is suddenly on the rocks, and her life is in danger. This is one deadline Allie can't afford to miss! What critics are saying: "The latest in the Hollywood Headlines series is 320 pages of pure fun. Halliday has created yet another laugh-out-loud whodunit. She breathes life into her mystery with a rich cast of vivid, pulp-fiction type characters and a heroine worth rooting for. 4 1/2 stars!" ~ RT Book Reviews "Gemma Halliday's witty, entertaining writing style shines through in her new book! I look forward to seeing lots more of Tina as this series continues. A fun read!" ~ Fresh Fiction "Halliday writes the kind of books that just make you smile and put you in a great mood. They're just so enjoyable and I would without a doubt recommend this book to romance and mystery readers alike." ~ Enchanted By Books "Very well written with smart and funny dialogue. It is a well-paced story that is thoroughly enjoyable with a mystery, a little romance, and a lot of laughs. Readers are sure to enjoy this delightful tale which is highly recommended." ~ Romance Reviews Today

Download or read book What Happens in the Salon Stays in the Salon Blank Lined Journal to Write in Ruled Writing Notebook written by Uab Kidkis and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are a hairstylist, this is the design for you! This funny product features a cool design that will be sure to stand out among your many happy clients. Great birthday gift for any beautician, stylist, hair dresser, cosmetology student or instructor!Show your apreciation regards your beautician with this cool design! This is a hilarious gift idea for hairstylist, styler, and hairdresser. use this funny product to the beauty salon & barber shop while cutting hair and Beards or getting your hair done.

Download or read book The Complex World of Abigail Mccarthy written by Gary L. Brenden and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tragedy often strikes when least expected, as was the case with Abigail McCarthy. It was during the prosperous fifties when disaster struck, when life should have been filled with optimism and joyous possibilities. It was a time when Abigail was just beginning to enter midlife, a peaceful time, before unwelcome signs of what was to come would make themselves known. But little did she know how tragedy can alter a persons life, forcing them to take journeys they never would have thought possible, searching for answers that are very difficult to find. From having lived a sheltered life on a small prairie farm, Abigail ventured to the great cities of Paris and Rome and on to the desert countries of North Africa, searching for an understanding. What she discovered along the way would change her life forever in ways she never thought possible.

Download or read book Hollywood Secrets written by Gemma Halliday and published by Gemma Halliday Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times, and USA Today bestselling author Gemma Halliday comes a kidnapped movie star, a dead Hollywood agent, and the female paparazzi member thrown into the middle of it all! Cameron Dakota is the L.A. Informer's staff photographer and paparazza extraordinaire. Her latest subject is Trace Brody, top-shelf actor and half of America's favorite Hollywood couple. Trace is about to get married in a blow-out wedding, and Cam's editor, Felix Dunn (from the High Heels Mysteries), has assigned her to get the first shots of the bride and groom. But when Cam takes pictures of what looks like Trace being threatened at gunpoint, she suddenly finds herself smack in the middle of a scandal more sensational than even she could invent. On the run, under fire, and in serious danger of falling in love with one leading man, Cam must get to the bottom of this story... before she becomes tomorrow's headline. What critics are saying: "The latest in the Hollywood Headlines series is 320 pages of pure fun. Halliday has created yet another laugh-out-loud whodunit. She breathes life into her mystery with a rich cast of vivid, pulp-fiction type characters and a heroine worth rooting for. 4 1/2 stars!" ~ RT Book Reviews "Gemma Halliday's witty, entertaining writing style shines through in her new book! I look forward to seeing lots more of Tina as this series continues. A fun read!" ~ Fresh Fiction "Halliday writes the kind of books that just make you smile and put you in a great mood. They're just so enjoyable and I would without a doubt recommend this book to romance and mystery readers alike." ~ Enchanted By Books "Very well written with smart and funny dialogue. It is a well-paced story that is thoroughly enjoyable with a mystery, a little romance, and a lot of laughs. Readers are sure to enjoy this delightful tale which is highly recommended." ~ Romance Reviews Today

Download or read book The Hundred Gifts written by Jennifer Scott and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The national bestselling author of The Sister Season shares a new novel about a woman who discovers the spirit of the season is truly in the giving.... With the holidays around the corner, empty-nester Bren Epperson realizes that for the first time in decades, she has no large family to cook for, no celebration to create. So she starts teaching a holiday cooking class, and it’s a hit—until Virginia Mash, the old lady upstairs, bursts in complaining. Rather than retaliate, Bren suggests that the class shower Virginia with kindness—and give her one hundred gifts. So they embark on the plan to lift a heart. Along the way, amidst the knitting and the making and the baking, they’ll discover the best gifts can’t be bought and family celebrations can be reborn. CONVERSATION GUIDE INCLUDED

Download or read book Delivery written by Tomas Hulick Baiza and published by Running Wild, LLC. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Daniel Corriente wants is to escape his past and be “normal,” but as he enters his senior year in college, he must face the past traumas that have made him who he is. During his journey, Dani will find himself at the intersections of seemingly conflicting identities — Mexican/Chicano/Anglo, thug/intellectual, straight/queer, loner/friend. Along the way, Dani will begin to weave toward clarity with the help of a therapist, feuding mentors, an elitist boss, a persistent drug addict, a former love, and an old woman obsessed with his character flaws and the pizzas with extra green peppers. If he has any hope of finding himself, Dani must ultimately answer the question posed by one of his customers—a question that haunts him at every turn: &¿Qué tipo de persona quieres ser? What kind of person do you want to be?

Download or read book Co menomic written by E. Lloyd Wells and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2018-11-07 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most small businesses start with a laborer with at least some skills in a given area, who perceives his skills marketable. He looks at his employer's revenue derived form his labor and says, "I can do that for myself and keep all the money." Those who work for us need stability, and it is our responsibility to ensure it, if we desire success. We never see what makes it all happen until we are faced with the reality of maintaining a workplace, attracting customers, continuing our education, providing equitable employment for those who help us, keeping the necessary market share, and a whole host of other things. Things like your career, your name, the value of your product, the alternatives available, a routine for the performance of your job, written instructions for every aspect of your business, pricing policies, control of your inventory, understanding every detail of your job, the state of federal laws governing your industry, and your involvement in your community are all of extreme importance to your sustainable success. It has always been my benefit that each generation should hold the next on its shoulders, ensuring growth in our field of endeavor. Giving back is the real measure of accomplishment in our lives rather than amassing great wealth. As Zig Ziglar used to say, "You can have everything in life you want, if you'll help enough other people get what they want!" Co$menomic$ is about all of that and more in detail as lived by the author and his associates during the fifty-five years in the business.

Download or read book The Salon Industry Business Artist written by Eric Charles Mokotoff and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Repairing the relationship of salon owners and salon professionals. Tackling the common problems that prevent success for hairdressers and salon owners. Breaking the stereotypes that have a negative impact on the salon indsutry.

Download or read book Storm Deaths written by Steve Orme and published by Steve Orme. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reporter is murdered, a television weather presenter inexplicably disappears. Are the cases linked? Detective Inspector Miles Davies has to find out. His attempts are continually thwarted by his boss who seems intent on ensuring that Davies doesn’t discover the truth. But why is Davies reluctant to investigate whether any members of a local basketball team are involved? Davies knows he has to weather the storm and find answers – before more bodies are discovered. “A cross between John Harvey and Stephen Booth” www.steveorme.co.uk

Download or read book The 32 written by Paul McVeigh and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We read because we want to experience lives and emotions beyond our own, to learn, to see with others’ eyes. The 32 is a celebration of working-class voices from the island of Ireland. Edited by award-winning novelist Paul McVeigh, this intimate and illuminating collection features memoir and essays from established and emerging Irish voices including Kevin Barry, Dermot Bolger, Roddy Doyle, Lisa McInerney, Lyra McKee and many more. Too often, working-class writers find that the hurdles they come up against are higher and harder to leap over than those faced by writers from more affluent backgrounds. As in Common People – an anthology of working-class writers edited by Kit de Waal and the inspiration behind this collection – The 32 sees writers who have made that leap reach back to give a helping hand to those coming up behind. Without these working-class voices, without the vital reflection of real lives or role models for working-class readers and writers, literature will be poorer. We will all be poorer.

Download or read book Basic Hairdressing written by Catherine Avadis and published by Nelson Thornes. This book was released on 2003-06-30 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique pack has been specially developed to provide you with new ways of teaching NVQ Level 2 and is packed with additional materials to help you deliver the course and make learning fun. It provides complete coverage of all core and optional units and complements the Basic Hairdressing coursbook. Provides a flexible approach to teaching through activities, demonstrations, quizzes and student worksheets. Designed to assist you in the planning and delivery of classes. Interactive worksheets and quick quizzes keep students motivated and help measure the success of each session. Shows how activities link to relevant Key Skills. Contains a FREE easy-to-use CD-ROM with fully editable worksheets, networkable photos from the coursebook and answers to student quizzes.

Download or read book Dog Wash Can I Help You written by J. L. Campbell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-02-14 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty-seven-year-old Denise Jameson, an award-winning groomer who has been plying her trade for over thirty-five years, is the manager of Dog Wash, a grooming salon inside a Your Pets store. Denise works long hours, seven days a week, and her only desire is to see her favorite rock group, and favorite singer, in concert. The salon never has a dull moment with pets of all breeds and sizes, and the employees who help Denise groom the animals. There’s Christine, a groomer who brings her talkative and, at times, trouble-making mynah bird, Diego, to work with her every day, and Stacy, the other groomer with two small children and a third one on the way. Working with the groomers is Kathy, a young grooming assistant who wants to be a singer. Her constant singing at the salon gets on the nerves of Bob, another grooming assistant who is hoping to get accepted at a school for veterinary medicine. Cheryl, a part-time grooming assistant, is content just to work with Denise. Their lives intersect with Tony Lovic, a homeless US Army veteran, who would do anything to be employed again. One day, hungry and desperate, Tony asks his patron saint, Francis of Assisi, to pray for him to find a job. Then Tony enters Denise’s grooming salon, and Diego greets him by saying, “Dog Wash. Can I help you?” It’s an action that will change more than one life for the better.

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Download or read book The World of the Salons written by Antoine Lilti and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World of the Salons is a revisionist study of the French salon of the eighteenth century, arguing that it was a place governed by social hierarchy, not equality, connected to the world of the Court, and not the fount of the Enlightenment as has traditionally been believed.

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