Download or read book Sleep Tight Charlie written by Michael Escoffier and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlie goes through his bedtime preparations, closes his eyes, and drifts off to sleep, only to be awakened repeatedly by noisy animals outside his window.

Download or read book Sleep Tight Charlie written by Michael Escoffier and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's been a busy day, and Charlie, like any tired rabbit, is ready for bed. He arranges his slippers and glass of water, finds his teddy bear, and checks to make sure there are no monsters under the bed. But just as he drifts off to sleep, TAP TAP TAP, a loud noise outside the window, wakes him up. It's not just the tapping of Bird that keeps him up, Squirrel starts cracking nuts, then Mouse begins playing on the swings. Will Charlie ever get some rest?! This playful and beautifully illustrated picture book is funny and entertaining. Charlie's humorous expressions, inspired by slapstick comedians like Charlie Chaplin, will make you laugh out loud at every turn.

Download or read book Sleep Tight written by Jeffrey Jacobson and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sleeping With The Enemy They hide in mattresses. They wait till you're asleep. They rise in the dead of night to feast on your blood. They can multiply by the hundreds in less than a week. They are one of the most loathsome, hellish species to ever grace God's green earth. Thought to be eradicated decades ago, thanks to global travel they're back. And with them comes a nightmare beyond imagining. Bed bugs. Infected with a plague virus so deadly it makes Ebola look like a summer cold. One bite turns people into homicidal maniacs. Now they're in Chicago. And migrating to all points north, south, east, and west. The rest of the world is already itching. The U.S. government and the CDC are helpless to stop it. Only one man knows what's causing the epidemic. And the powers-that-be want him dead. "A fresh new talent with an amazing ability to astonish." --David Morrell, bestselling author of First Blood

Download or read book Sleep Tight written by Judith Bohannon and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maggies Pentecostal granny is her only solace during a difficult childhood in eastern North Carolina that includes boozing, biker parents and an unwed sisters pregnancy. But hard-working, determined Maggie breaks out of this harsh lifestyle by excelling in school, earning a college scholarship, and escaping from her provincial familybut never from her grandmothers Christ-centered admonitions. Meeting Carson Bales, a chemistry professor, in unlikely circumstances sets Maggies course toward romance, a hastily planned marriage, and a wedding night surprise. After thirty happy years together, their lives are interrupted by Carsons diagnosis of Alzheimers disease. Maggie walks every step of dementias abyss with him, which leads her to a fateful connection with Dr. Bill Holton, whose wife suffers the same disease. Bill and Maggie form a friendship around their common thread. At least, Maggie believes it is just friendship, until a stormy night and a broken water heater bring them together on the Outer Banks. Maggies stalwart morality, driven by Grannys warnings, is in jeopardy when one misspoken word causes Bill to challenge her fidelity to a husband who no longer knows her name. Will Maggie choose faithfulness to her husband and to Jesus or a second chance at love? And will forgiveness require yet another choice? Sleep Tight is the heartfelt tale of one womans journey to remain true to her Christian faith in the face of moral challenges that occur during her husbands battle with dementia.

Download or read book The Big Sleep written by Raymond Chandler and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Download or read book Splat the Cat written by Natalie Engel and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Splat is excited about camping out until his mother surprises him with the news that Spike and Plank will be there, too!

Download or read book Silence of the Schwag written by Tom Sadira and published by HIFI Press. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Alien meets Half Baked meets Silence of the Lambs meets A Few Good Men meets Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure meets Godzilla" – #1 INTERGALACTIC BESTSELLER Light years from his old life back on Earth, Charlie still managed to end up on the wrong side of the law. When a member of his crew is arrested by the Galactic Federation, Charlie embarks on a dangerous mission to set things right. Stranded on a planet so delicate that sound is destructive, his stoned wit is put to the test. Surviving robot mercenaries, deadly booby traps, and shapeshifting monsters will seem like a piece of cake compared to the real challenge: doing it all with nothing more than a sack of the schwaggiest schwag in the cosmos. INTERPLANETARY PRAISE FOR FAR OUT CHRONICLES: “★★★★★ Consuming one page per day was not only a healthy meal replacement, but it helped put the zing back in my mating rituals!“ — Duboo Fluboo, ranked #3 Used Transporter Salesman in the Warbler Zone “★★★★★ After our planet was destroyed, the hilarious sci-fi series FAR OUT CHRONICLES inspired us to regroup and strike back. Now, we’ve claimed our aggressor’s planet as our own, and have scattered what was left of the Essari scum to the darkest corners of the galaxy. Thanks Tom Sadira!” — Garbok Svenzi, survivor of the Essari Rebellion & First President of New G’warkonia “★★★★★ Since being published in our sector, the FAR OUT CHRONICLES series has become our planet’s currency, our only imported or exported resource, the founding document of our government, the origin of all our religions, and our species’ primary source of nutrients. Oh yeah, makes for pretty good toilet paper, too.” — Crytix Fru-Fru, Supreme Leader of Annekc M’ecneret Readers have compared Tom Sadira’s Far Out Chronicles series to Douglas Adams ' Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Terry Pratchett ‘s Ringworld series, Grant Naylor's Red Dwarf series, Barry J. Hutchison's Space Team series, as well as books by Ernest Cline, David Wong, Tom Robbins, Christopher Moore, and Rob Dircks.

Download or read book The City in the Middle of the Night written by Charlie Jane Anders and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LOCUS AWARD FINALIST! “This generation’s Le Guin.” —Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less Charlie Jane Anders, the nationally bestselling author of All the Birds in the Sky delivers a brilliant new novel set in a hauntingly strange future with #10 LA Times bestseller The City in the Middle of the Night. "If you control our sleep, then you can own our dreams... And from there, it's easy to control our entire lives." January is a dying planet—divided between a permanently frozen darkness on one side, and blazing endless sunshine on the other. Humanity clings to life, spread across two archaic cities built in the sliver of habitable dusk. But life inside the cities is just as dangerous as the uninhabitable wastelands outside. Sophie, a student and reluctant revolutionary, is supposed to be dead after being exiled into the night. Saved only by forming an unusual bond with the enigmatic beasts who roam the ice, Sophie vows to stay hidden from the world, hoping she can heal. But fate has other plans—and Sophie's ensuing odyssey and the ragtag family she finds will change the entire world. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book The Keeper of Secrets Novella written by Amanda Brooke and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-08-08 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An emotionally-charged novella from the author of Yesterday's Sun, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick. Can long-buried secrets break you apart ... or set you free?

Download or read book Shhhhh Everybody s Sleeping written by Julie Markes and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-12-28 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does the farmer sleep on a mattress of hay? Is the baker's bed made of soft, doughy bread? And is the grocer most comfortable resting on a bed of lettuce? No matter what the bed or walls look like, when the day's activities are done, it's time for everyone, big or small, to go to sleep. With whimsy and humor, Julie Markes and David Parkins show that -- although everybody has a unique idea of quiet and order -- happy dreams and slumber await all when evening falls.

Download or read book Their Marriage Meant To Be written by Louisa Heaton and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only thing that can heal them? Each other! The day they lost their son, veterinary nurse Bex's and vet Ethan’s worlds were left shattered. Struggling to cope, their marriage fell apart. Now, five years later, Ethan is back in Bex’s life…to treat a critically ill horse in her care. Being in each other’s company again reminds Bex of every single thing that she loved about Ethan. But will it prove they are meant to be together—forever? “I loved this one from page one, Ms. Heaton really knows how to write a beautiful medical romance that has characters that the reader finds very easy to care for…. This is a story that I would highly recommend.” -Goodreads on Twins for the Neurosurgeon “…Louisa Heaton is definitely a writer after my own heart, creating heartwarming romance with ambitious conflicts, compelling medical drama and amazing locales. I look forward to escaping with Heaton’s next release!” -Goodreads on Risking Her Heart on the Trauma Doc

Download or read book Coop 39 s Corner Collection written by William M. Cooper and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coop's Corner Collection: Inspirational Stories and Poems is a marvelous collection of short stories and poems that reinforce such noble characteristics as love, duty, respect, honor, self-sacrifice, patience, humility and compassion. Readers will put themselves in the stories and find wisdom and truths that they can live by. William Cooper is a wonderful dreamer. He puts together his little stories like the child with the still impressionable mind that dreams of a better world for all of us. And you can tell he writes his stories so that everyone can read them ...adults and children alike. Parents don't have to worry about their youngsters reading questionable material. But most importantly, the stories have their own little messages. They're stories of honor, strength, kindness, and love ...even love for enemy. And Cooper's writings are vivid ...you see things, places, and people so clearly, yet without long passages of descriptive writing. A talent in and of itself. - Robert G. Christie, filmmaker, RC Feature, Columbus, Ohio William M. Cooper grew up in Odessa, Texas.I don't write in hopes of seeing my name on a book cover, rather I write because I have a message that above all else, human beings can be noble creatures. Publisher's Website: http: //sbpra.com/WilliamMCoope

Download or read book Finding Grace written by Maren Cooper and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Booker is thrilled to start married life in Two Harbors, Minnesota, with his ambitious ornithologist bride, Caroline—but he sabotages his own happiness when, blinded by his desire for a family, he tricks Caroline into a pregnancy she doesn’t want. Caroline, bold and unapologetic, follows her own nature and holds Charles to his promise to parent their daughter without her help—an arrangement that allows her to travel the world and follow her birds, wherever they may take her. This uneasy truce results in near tragedy for their daughter, Grace, who comes of age in a household full of toxic resentment on the one side and suffocating love on the other, and increasingly struggles with her mental health as she grows older. Told by all three of the characters involved and set against the backdrop of Lake Superior, Finding Grace is a piercing chronicle of the struggles and eventual insight gained by each over the years, starting with Charles and Caroline’s courtship and continuing into Grace’s early adulthood—and a poignant coming-of-age journey for both Grace and her parents.

Download or read book Rainy Season written by Adele Griffin and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVAs a nation teeters on the brink, Lane struggles to hold herself—and her family—together /divDIV In 1977 Panama, there is no greater issue than the ownership of the famous canal. Completed by the Americans in 1914, it has been under the control of the US Army ever since, and Panama wants it back. For the thousands of Americans who live in the slender strip of land known as the Canal Zone, the Canal is more than a political issue—it is their entire life. /divDIV /divDIVLane Beck has been a lifelong “military brat,” but she is not cut out for her father’s latest tour of duty on a Panamanian army base. Bookish and timid, she lives in fear that the fragile political treaty might break, and chaos will ensue. She is afraid her family might erupt, as well—she is constantly anxious about her reckless, unpredictable brother, and haunted by a tragedy in her family’s past. Change is coming to the Canal Zone, and Lane will do whatever it takes to make sure the people she loves survive./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features a personal history by Adele Griffin including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s own collection./div

Download or read book Without Paradise written by Kenneth Sean Campbell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a gay twist on Brief Encounter, Charlie Morgan and Ben McSwain meet on a train and are instantly drawn to each other. Charlie is a gay writer and atheist. Ben is an evangelical Christian, widowed with two children, who has never even thought about a relationship with another man. While it appears that these two have nothing in common, they find that they are "soulmates." It's a surprising and joyous discovery for Charlie and a confusing one for Ben as they try to bridge their vastly different lives Ben has a full life with his work as a nurse, his family and his devotion to his church. His love for Charlie and a personal tragedy will test all of those commitments and make him question everything in his life. Charlie's work takes him to Texas to write a Broadway-bound show in collaboration with his old college roommate, Lee, and sexy, young country and western star, Luke Beecham. It looks like a smash hit until a secret from Lee's past shatters everyone's chances for happiness and brings Charlie to the loneliest place in his life.

Download or read book Release the Stars written by Harper Bliss and published by Ladylit Publishing via PublishDrive. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can love be measured in percentages? After her girlfriend leaves her for a man, broken-hearted novelist Charlie Cross moves from New York to Los Angeles to work on a TV show based on her books. Charlie vows to never date any woman who isn't a hundred percent certain of being a lesbian. When Charlie is seduced by gorgeous bisexual cooking show host Ava Castaneda, whom she's had a celebrity crush on for ages, she's forced to review her belief in percentages... because true love could very well be on the line. Release the Stars is a contemporary lesbian romance novel set in the glitzy world of Hollywood. What reviewers are saying about RELEASE THE STARS: ★★★★★ "I loved this precious romance and eagerly await Ms. Bliss' next book." - Curve Magazine ★★★★★ "The writing is just as hot as you'd expect from Ms. Bliss." - The Lesbian Review What readers are saying about RELEASE THE STARS: ★★★★★ "The LA lesbian romance I never knew I needed." ★★★★★ "The characters are complex and the romance is sweet." ★★★★★ "It was so good, I read it straight through." ★★★★★ "Charlie is one of Harper's most realistic characters, flawed and thoroughly likeable."

Download or read book The Lost Boy the Doodlebug and the Mysterious Number 80 written by Stevie Henden and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an eclectic and thought-provoking book, best defined as a modern day fairy tale in which the dreams and lives of four people are inexorably linked together across time, bound by love, friendship, heartache and fateDuring the London Blitz a young woman, Iris, has a vision while reading Tarot cards of two lovers in great peril and knows it will be her destiny to help them. Meanwhile Robert, a wounded and repressed Battle of Britain pilot, dreams of happiness and of a love he believes he can never have.In another time, Charlie, a troubled little boy with amazing blue-green eyes growing up in the repressed suburbs of 1950s South London, dreams of the number ‘80’ and knows only that it means something terrible and evil. Elsewhere, a dark, disturbed man dreams repeatedly of Charlie and knows it is his destiny to kill him.This time-travelling tale moves between present day Dulwich, World War Two London, the gay bars of the 1970s, Eva Peron’s Buenos Aires and Glastonbury Tor in 1989. It is a tale of great love and loss, destiny, tragedy, spiritual transformation and self-acceptance. It asks questions about how much of our lives are destined and how much can be altered and about what the effects of unintentional time travel would be on very ordinary people. This book can be interpreted on many different levels. On one it is a murder-mystery, on another an allegorical tale of spiritual transformation, on a third, a complex tale of two gay men’s individual journeys into adulthood and on a fourth, a simple and beautiful love story.