Download or read book Small Town Magic written by Laina Turner and published by New Pen Media, LLC. This book was released on with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haley Holmes loves animals and loves her job at Moonshire Bay’s local pet store. Someday she plans to buy the store when the current owner retires. She just didn’t expect that someday to be now, right before Christmas. She just doesn’t have that kind of money. Max Burns is restoring the old lighthouse in town while he’s on sabbatical from his job in Detroit. When his Labrador retriever, Wendy, goes missing he’s wowed by the beautiful woman that returns his dog. But is she wowed by him? The countdown to Christmas is on and it’s going to take a whole lot of small town magic to get these two together and save them from a deadbeat ex, a meddling son, and a holiday. Luckily, Moonshire Bay is the perfect place to be during the holiday season. The Moonshire Bay series is small town, sweet romance at its best – Hallmark-style with a HEA. Each story is connected but can be read as a standalone. ***previously published at Hailey’s Holiday

Download or read book Feeling Clucky a small town magical story with chickens and a mystery written by Lulu M. Sylvian and published by Moon Tan Press. This book was released on with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s a secret lurking just around the corner in Belvoir County. Why does it feel like everyone knows what it is and isn’t telling Sylvie? Sylvie is on to something, at least she thinks she is. Her research of folklore and folk songs has brought her to the small college campus in Belvoir County. She really wants access to the archives, but they won’t let her in. There is a secret she is close to finding out, it’s just beyond her fingertips. She feels like everyone knows it, and they are keeping it from her. Small town magic meets graduate studies research, with a hot librarian.

Download or read book Small Town Big Magic written by Hazel Beck and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s no such thing as witches…right? Emerson Wilde has built the life of her dreams. Youngest Chamber of Commerce president in St. Cyprian history, successful indie bookstore owner, and lucky enough to have her best friends as found family? Done. But when Emerson is attacked by creatures that shouldn’t be real, and kills them with what can only be called magic, Emerson finds that the past decade of her life has been…a lie. St. Cyprian isn't your average Midwestern river town—it’s a haven for witches. When Emerson failed a power test years ago, she was stripped of her magical memories. Turns out, Emerson’s friends are all witches. And so is she. That's not all, though: evil is lurking in the charming streets of St. Cyprian. Emerson will need to learn to control what’s inside of her, remember her magic, and deal with old, complicated feelings for her childhood friend--cranky-yet-gorgeous local farmer Jacob North—to defeat an enemy that hides in the rivers and shadows of everything she loves. Even before she had magic, Emerson would have done anything for St. Cyprian, but now she’ll have to risk not just her livelihood…but her life. Don't miss Big Little Lies, Hazel Beck's exciting new witchy rom-com where one witch will have to prove her magic isn't a threat to all of witchkind! Witchlore series Book 1: Small Town, Big Magic Book 2: Big Little Spells (coming 2023)

Download or read book Abbondanza written by Lori Granieri and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This zesty guide will attract not only those with Italian heritage, but also anyone who wants to add unique elements to a memorable celebration. Here every aspect of wedding planning, from choosing a location to trimming the guest list, along with detailed instructions on everything from how to dance the Tarantella to how to make confetti (sugared almond bouquets). Illustrations.

Download or read book Small Town Second Chance written by Jenna Jacob and published by Jenna Jacob. This book was released on 2020-07-08 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After escaping an abusive ex and business partner, Kaitlin Grant is broken and bruised, but determined to find a safe haven in the small Iowa hometown of her childhood and forge a new future—alone. Katie doesn’t anticipate the potent electricity still sizzling between her and her first love, Sky Whitefeather. Following his return from Iraq with a daughter and an unforgivable secret, Sky tries to bury the past until Katie, the woman who once crushed him, reappears and threatens to rekindle his reckless desire—and his foolish heart. But a love that’s meant to be cannot be denied, and Fate intervenes to throw Katie and Sky into each other’s arms, where the flame burns hotter than ever. Then danger emerges from the shadows. Suddenly, Katie is in jeopardy…and only Sky can save her. Forced together under one roof, they grapple with their tragic past and confront their uncertain future. Can they survive long enough to mend their hearts and admit their love…or will death and betrayal destroy their dreams forever?

Download or read book The Magic of a Small Town Christmas written by Megan Alexander and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Inside Edition’s national correspondent Megan Alexander comes a sweet picture book celebrating the joys, wonders, and traditions of a small-town Christmas in the spirit of her show, Small Town Christmas. In the town of Heartbeat Falls, where skies are crystal clear, the magic of Christmas is celebrated in many different ways: from picking the perfect tree to decorating it with glittering ornaments; from ice skating to eating yummy gingerbread cookies; from hanging handmade stockings to sharing a homecooked meal. Here, the residents know the beauty of a small town doesn’t come from its size, but from the love shared by its people, shining brightly in their eyes.

Download or read book The Voice of the People written by James S. Fishkin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosopher and political scientist James Fishkin evaluates modern democratic practices, explains how the voice of the people has struggled to make itself heard in the past and combines a review of ideas and experiments--including his own idea for a National Issues Convention that was adapted by PBS in January 1996--to legitimately rediscover the people's voice.

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction written by Don D'Ammassa and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 2061 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents articles on the horror and fantasy genres of fiction, including authors, themes, significant works, and awards.

Download or read book Small Town Dreams written by John E. Miller and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2014-03-28 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live these days in a virtual nation of cities and celebrities, dreaming a small-town America rendered ever stranger by purveyors of nostalgia and dark visionaries from Sherwood Anderson to David Lynch. And yet it is the small town, that world of local character and neighborhood lore, that dreamed the America we know today—and the small-town boy, like those whose stories this book tells, who made it real. In these life-stories, beginning in 1890 with frontier historian Frederick Jackson Turner and moving up to the present with global shopkeeper Sam Walton, a history of middle America unfolds, as entrepreneurs and teachers like Henry Ford, George Washington Carver, and Walt Disney; artists and entertainers like Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Carl Sandburg, and Johnny Carson; political figures like William McKinley, William Jennings Bryan, and Ronald Reagan; and athletes like Bob Feller and John Wooden by turns engender and illustrate the extraordinary cultural shifts that have transformed the Midwest, and through the Midwest, the nation--and the world. Many of these men are familiar, icons even—Ford and Reagan, certainly, Ernie Pyle, Sinclair Lewis, James Dean, and Lawrence Welk—and others, like artists Oscar Micheaux and John Steuart Curry, economist Alvin Hansen and composer Meredith Willson, less so. But in their stories, as John E. Miller tells them, all appear in a new light, unique in their backgrounds and accomplishments, united only in the way their lives reveal the persisting, shaping power of place, and particularly the Midwest, on the cultural imagination and national consciousness. In a thoroughly engaging style Miller introduces us to the small-town Midwestern boys who became these all-American characters, privileging us with insights that pierce the public images of politicians and businessmen, thinkers and entertainers alike. From the smell of the farm, the sounds and silences of hamlets and county seats, the schoolyard athletics and classroom instruction and theatrical performance, we follow these men to their moments of inspiration, innovation, and fame, observing the workings of the small-town past in their very different relationships with the larger world. Their stories reveal in an intimate way how profoundly childhood experiences shape personal identity, and how deeply place figures in the mapping of thought, belief, ambition, and life's course.

Download or read book This Is a Picture and Not the World written by Joseph Natoli and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In This Is a Picture and Not the World, Joseph Natoli employs the lingua franca of film itself—screenplay dialogue—as well as the more recent form of the political blog to present a hyperreal account of popular film as both a creator and a reflector of our post-9/11 mass psyche. Drawing on both classic and contemporary film examples, the book also offers a quasihistory of film genres, including science fiction, the western, film noir, and screwball comedy, emphasizing how these genres have been shaken up, recontextualized, recombined, turned self-reflexive, and parodied over the past couple of decades. Taken together, these satirical parodies of screenplays and blogs reveal and perform how our very gaze has shifted from modern to postmodern, from a direct view of the world to a filtered one.

Download or read book The Sinner written by Kathleen O'Brien and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one is more surprised than Bryce McClintock when he is mentioned in his father's will. The two had been estranged for fourteen years, and Bryce hadn't expected—or wanted— any part of his father's estate. But the former FBI agent, smarting from a botched final assignment and finding himself in need of respite, heads to Heyday—only to discover that Lara Lynmore, the woman who directly contributed to his on-the-job problem, has also come to town.

Download or read book The Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children written by Simon Bacon and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children raises important questions at the heart of society and culture, and through an interdisciplinary, trans-cultural analysis presents important findings on socio-cultural representations and embodiments of the child and childhood. At the start of the 21st, new anxieties constellate around the child and childhood, while older concerns have re-emerged, mutated, and grown stronger. But as historical analysis shows, they have been ever-present concerns. This innovative and interdisciplinary collection of essays considers examples of monstrous children since the 16th century to the present, spanning real-life and popular culture, to exhibit the manifestation of the Western cultural anxiety around the problematic, anomalous child as naughty, dangerous, or just plain evil. The book takes an inter- and multidisciplinary approach, drawing upon fields as diverse as sociology, psychology, film, and literature, to study the role of the child and childhood within contemporary Western culture and to see the historic ways in which each discipline intersects and influences the other.

Download or read book We Exist in Theories written by Kuhu Mahajan and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2020-04-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theories of their disappearance stain the air... The most important thing for highly-opinionated, sharp-witted and physics-loving Kay is her family. What’s left of it, anyway. So, when the family bonds she has tried so hard to keep together are on the verge of fracturing for good, she has to do everything in her power to restore them before it’s too late. All while trying to stay alive. And when the boy she asks for help flips her world on its axis with his contradictory thoughts and seemingly insensitive words, it’s not so easy to hide the truth about her family’s past from the charming green-eyed jerk. Aris challenges all that Kay has ever known in her seventeen years of living—her opinions, her beliefs—just by simply being himself. Time is ticking, first-time relationships are forming, and it forces Kay to acknowledge that there may be more to life than being a fugitive. Stuck between surrender and survival, love and endings, this is a story of contradictions, consequences and of course, chaos.

Download or read book Cincinnati Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cincinnati Magazine taps into the DNA of the city, exploring shopping, dining, living, and culture and giving readers a ringside seat on the issues shaping the region.

Download or read book Magic Hours written by Tom Bissell and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning essayist Tom Bissell explores the highs and lows of the creative process. He takes us from the set of The Big Bang Theory to the first novel of Ernest Hemingway to the final work of David Foster Wallace; from the films of Werner Herzog to the film of Tommy Wiseau to the editorial meeting in which Paula Fox's work was relaunched into the world. Originally published in magazines such as The Believer, The New Yorker, and Harper's, these essays represent ten years of Bissell's best writing on every aspect of creation—be it Iraq War documentaries or video-game character voices—and will provoke as much thought as they do laughter. What are sitcoms for exactly? Can art be both bad and genius? Why do some books survive and others vanish? Bissell's exploration of these questions make for gripping, unforgettable reading.

Download or read book Wild Hexy written by Vicki Lewis Thompson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After gaining twenty pounds, former Dairy Festival Queen Annie Winston dreads going back to Big Knob, Indiana, feeling like a dairy cow. But if Annie has changed, so has her quirky home town. A matchmaking witch and wizard have moved into the neighborhood…and they've found the perfect match for Annie. Shy computer whiz Jeremy Dunstan secretly lusted after Annie when they were teenagers, but he never had the courage to pursue her. Now he has a second chance, but only if he can unleash his wild side. It's the sort of transformation that requires confidence, determination…and a little hex. Watch a QuickTime author interview for this book.

Download or read book When Readers Became Lovers written by Indrajeet Nayak and published by Indrajeet Nayak. This book was released on 2023-05-20 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indulge in a captivating love story that will leave you breathless with "When Readers Became Lovers" by Indrajeet Nayak. If you're a fan of romantic novels that tug at your heartstrings, then this book is an absolute must-read. Nora Stephens lives for books--she reads them all--and she doesn't fit the mold of heroines found in fictional works: no plucky heroine, laidback dream girl or romantic protagonists. Nora finds her greatest fulfillment as an aggressive literary agent landing huge deals for clients and supporting her little sister Libby through life's adventures. So when Libby convinces Nora to visit Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August and hopes for a change, she agrees. Her goal? A small-town transformation for Nora who she thinks needs to become the heroine in her own story. Instead, instead of picnics in meadows or encountering attractive country doctors or bartenders like Charlie Lastra from back home. Charlie keeps turning up wherever they go--almost meeting-cute, yet always uninterested or distant at first meeting. Notoriously flawed heroine Nora and unassuming hero Charlie may not seem the ideal protagonist and antagonist, respectively, yet as fate brings them together over and over in a series of chance meetings no editor would allow, their unexpected encounters might reveal truths that threaten to unravel their carefully constructed narratives of themselves. In this heartfelt love book, Nayak takes you on a journey of love, passion, and self-discovery. Set against the backdrop of the literary world, the story follows the enchanting relationship between two book lovers who find themselves falling deeply in love. As their connection grows, they discover that the power of words can ignite the most profound emotions and create a love story that will endure forever. This love book is perfect for couples seeking a romantic escape or for individuals looking for a compelling love story that will transport them to another world. Nayak's exquisite writing style beautifully captures the essence of love, making this novel a true page-turner. "When Readers Became Lovers" is not just a love book for girlfriends and boyfriends; it is a timeless tale that will resonate with adult men and women alike. The author skillfully weaves together themes of passion, desire, and the power of literature, creating a novel that will make your heart swell with every turn of the page. With "When Readers Became Lovers," Indrajeet Nayak invites you to experience a love story that will stay with you long after you've finished reading. So, whether you're a devoted book lover or simply someone in search of a captivating romance, this love book novel is sure to captivate your heart and leave you yearning for more. Indulge in the magic of love and literature with "When Readers Became Lovers." Order your copy today and allow yourself to be swept away by a truly enchanting tale that will remind you of the power of love to transform lives.