Download or read book Winter Whimsy at Golden Sands Bay written by Georgina Troy and published by Boldwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2023-05-19 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Full of emotion, humour and warmth . . . will charm fans of Katie Fforde and Phillipa Ashley' Bookish Jottings Zip up your puffer coat, winter has arrived on the Boardwalk! When Lexi Davies discovers that her father has sold the fishermen’s cottages that she lives in and runs as holiday lets, she is furious and heartbroken. Lexi realises that her whole future at her beloved cottages is now over. New owner, handsome, Scottish entrepreneur Oliver Whimsy arrives on the island in a blaze of glory and immediately upsets the locals. When he offers Lexi her old job, she’s unsure whether to accept but needing a roof over her head for the winter, she finds herself stuck between a rock and a hard place. Pride does not pay the bills. As they get to know one another, there’s far more to Oliver Whimsy than she or anyone else had imagined. What heartache is Oliver trying so desperately to hide from? And why was he so determined to buy the cottages? Lexi is on a mission to find out... What readers say about Winter Whimsy on the Boardwalk: 'It was like chocolate for the soul and melted my heart whilst soothing away the stress' Like Herding Cats Blog 'Oliver is a fantastic hero who I am sure will have readers intrigued from the moment he strides onto the page' Bookish Jottings 'Georgina Troy's writing style carries the reader along and is as light and crisp as the first snowfall of the year' Julie Ryan 'A warm-hearted story that made me feel all wintry and Christmassy' Karen Clarke

Download or read book Winter Whimsy on the Boardwalk written by Georgina Troy and published by Boldwood Books Limited. This book was released on 2023-05-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Full of emotion, humour and warmth . . . will charm fans of Katie Fforde and Phillipa Ashley' Bookish JottingsZip up your puffer coat, winter has arrived on the Boardwalk! When Lexi Davies discovers that her father has sold the fishermen's cottages that she lives in and runs as holiday lets, she is furious and heartbroken. Lexi realises that her whole future at her beloved cottages is now over. New owner, handsome, Scottish entrepreneur Oliver Whimsy arrives on the island in a blaze of glory and immediately upsets the locals. When he offers Lexi her old job, she's unsure whether to accept but needing a roof over her head for the winter, she finds herself stuck between a rock and a hard place. Pride does not pay the bills. As they get to know one another, there's far more to Oliver Whimsy than she or anyone else had imagined. What heartache is Oliver trying so desperately to hide from? And why was he so determined to buy the cottages? Lexi is on a mission to find out... What readers say about Winter Whimsy on the Boardwalk: 'It was like chocolate for the soul and melted my heart whilst soothing away the stress' Like Herding Cats Blog 'Oliver is a fantastic hero who I am sure will have readers intrigued from the moment he strides onto the page' Bookish Jottings 'Georgina Troy's writing style carries the reader along and is as light and crisp as the first snowfall of the year' Julie Ryan 'A warm-hearted story that made me feel all wintry and Christmassy' Karen Clarke

Download or read book An Island at War written by Deborah Carr and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now with a brand new epilogue! Please update your eBook to get the new version and find out what happens after the war...

Download or read book Mrs Boots Goes to War Mrs Boots Book 2 written by Deborah Carr and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-02-19 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is at war and her country needs her

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Download or read book The Furry Trap written by Josh Simmons and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2012-07-02 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Furry Trap contains 11 short stories, varying in length from one to 30 pages, as well as a number of “extras” that will flesh out the reader’s experience. From the title creatures in “Night of the Jibblers,” to the witches and ogres of “Cockbone,” to the Godzilla-sized, centaur-bodied depiction of the title character in “Jesus Christ,” to the disarmingly cute yet terrifying demons of “Demonwood,” to the depraved, caped crusading antihero in “Mark of the Bat,” Simmons is a master of creating terrifying beasties that inspire and inflict nightmarish horrors, usually taken to unforgettable extremes. The individual stories in The Furry Trap stand on their own as mini-masterpieces of skin-crawling terror, but collectively complement each other in a way that only heightens the anxiety and dread pouring from page to page. Just remember: You've been warned.

Download or read book Boardwalk of Dreams written by Bryant Simon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-29 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the first half of the twentieth century, Atlantic City was the nation's most popular middle-class resort--the home of the famed Boardwalk, the Miss America Pageant, and the board game Monopoly. By the late 1960s, it had become a symbol of urban decay and blight, compared by journalists to bombed-out Dresden and war-torn Beirut. Several decades and a dozen casinos later, Atlantic City is again one of America's most popular tourist spots, with thirty-five million visitors a year. Yet most stay for a mere six hours, and the highway has replaced the Boardwalk as the city's most important thoroughfare. Today the city doesn't have a single movie theater and its one supermarket is a virtual fortress protected by metal detectors and security guards. In this wide-ranging book, Bryant Simon does far more than tell a nostalgic tale of Atlantic City's rise, near death, and reincarnation. He turns the depiction of middle-class vacationers into a revealing discussion of the boundaries of public space in urban America. In the past, he argues, the public was never really about democracy, but about exclusion. During Atlantic City's heyday, African Americans were kept off the Boardwalk and away from the beaches. The overly boisterous or improperly dressed were kept out of theaters and hotel lobbies by uniformed ushers and police. The creation of Atlantic City as the "Nation's Playground" was dependent on keeping undesirables out of view unless they were pushing tourists down the Boardwalk on rickshaw-like rolling chairs or shimmying in smoky nightclubs. Desegregation overturned this racial balance in the mid-1960s, making the city's public spaces more open and democratic, too open and democratic for many middle-class Americans, who fled to suburbs and suburban-style resorts like Disneyworld. With the opening of the first casino in 1978, the urban balance once again shifted, creating twelve separate, heavily guarded, glittering casinos worlds walled off from the dilapidated houses, boarded-up businesses, and lots razed for redevelopment that never came. Tourists are deliberately kept away from the city's grim reality and its predominantly poor African American residents. Despite ten of thousands of buses and cars rolling into every day, gambling has not saved Atlantic City or returned it to its glory days. Simon's moving narrative of Atlantic City's past points to the troubling fate of urban America and the nation's cultural trajectory in the twentieth century, with broad implications for those interested in urban studies, sociology, planning, architecture, and history.

Download or read book The Golden Sands Bay Series written by Georgina Troy and published by Boldwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 1437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the uplifting, heartwarming Golden Sands Bay series from Georgina Troy 'I want to visit now. Loved the characters and the community helping each other' ★★★★★ Reader Review 'Full of fun and laughter, with secrets and romance thrown in, my type of book' ★★★★★ Reader Review This boxset contains the complete Golden Sands Bay series from Georgina Troy Summer Sundaes at Golden Sands Bay Love Begins at Golden Sands Bay Winter Whimsy at Golden Sands Bay Sunny Days at Golden Sands Bay Snow Angels at Golden Sands Bay Summer Sundaes at Golden Sands Bay When Sacha Collins, cafe owner and sundae-maker extraordinaire, meets Italian archaeologist, Alessandro Salvatore in Rome, she's grateful to him for being her tour guide. Now he’s turned up in the seaside village where she lives and is setting up a gelateria in direct competition to her retro Summer Sundaes Café. She's only been running her café for two years since taking over from her father. Until now the only other shops on the boardwalk have been a wool shop, an antique shop and a second-hand book shop. These have helped rather than hindered her custom. How will her creative sundaes made from fresh Jersey ice cream compete with his delicious Italian gelato? Sacha is worried. Is there enough custom for both businesses to thrive? Who is behind the strange changes being made on the boardwalk? And when the oldest resident on the boardwalk is threatened with eviction can Sacha and Alessandro come together and find a way of helping her? Love Begins at Golden Sands Bay Bella is happiest running her tiny antique business from the front room of her cottage on the Boardwalk. To ensure she has enough income coming in, she also rents out two of her bedrooms to paying lodgers. But she didn't count on having a secret crush on Jack Collins, one of her lodgers and her best friend's brother... Winter Whimsy at Golden Sands Bay When Lexi Davies discovers that her father has sold the fishermen’s cottages where she lives and runs her holiday business, she is heartbroken. Then Oliver Whimsy arrives at the boardwalk and announces that he is the new owner and Lexi realises that the future she was looking forward to enjoying at her cottages is over. Oliver might be handsome, wealthy and very sexy, but he’s new to the island and has already made a terrible impression on the locals. When the Scottish entrepreneur offers Lexi a job, she’s unsure whether she should accept. Unfortunately, she has little alternative if she wants to keep a roof over her head for the winter. Sunny Days at Golden Sands Bay When artist Jools Jones’, new man Finn Gallichan, leaves the Boardwalk to go travelling for several months she’s not too worried. She has her paintings to keep her busy and helps her grandmother run their second hand bookshop, Boardwalk Books. She’s happy to wait for Finn’s return, to pick up where they left off, as absence makes the heart grow fonder – right? Snow Angels at Golden Sands Bay Portia Fortescue has traded in the hustle and bustle of London to help renovate a magnificent French manor house on the beautiful island of Jersey with her boyfriend Charlie. But what they hoped would be a blissful escape to the chateau, turns out to be more of a DIY SOS. As the winter snow sets in, the stress of restoring the derelict building begins to take its toll on their relationship. Portia has known heartbreak before, but thought she’d found her happy-ever-after with Charlie...

Download or read book A Jersey Kiss written by Georgina Troy and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-09 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People say that it's hard not to fall in love living on the sunny island of Jersey, but for Bea Philips, still reeling from a divorce and the loss of her beloved godmother, she's not sure she can find the time. While her soon-to-be-ex-husband is trying to take away the home she grew up in, surly but attractive builder Luke is doing it up. Her old flame Tom has just turned up as her new manager at the office, and she has no idea what the mysterious Jersey Kiss is that her godmother has bequeathed to her... Is life going to give Bea a break, so she can keep her dream home, and maybe fall in love? And what exactly is a Jersey Kiss?

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Download or read book The Winter Purge written by M. L. Lloyd and published by M. L. Lloyd. This book was released on 2021-05-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happened one night in 2739 when seven million LaPortans met a fiery death? Lena Sage is tasked with restoring the illustrious name of LaPorte Industries after this global calamity called the Winter Purge. She must lead while ignoring her nagging suspicions that she is being punished by the same company she has served loyally for over 700 years. Lena is a tangler of the twisted tongue, an enhanced immortal human designed to be formidable in the art of sales and persuasions. The company is floundering with their primary product for sustaining immortality, the SDS System, continually offline for safety testing since the Winter Purge. The SDS system cures many ailments of immortality, most notably the symptoms of Expiration Fever. Customers are demanding Lena switch the cure for mortality back online; however, only its enigmatic founder, LaPorte, can make that happen. Unfortunately, LaPorte has been unsubscribed for decades and is currently unreachable for comment. Undeterred, the loyal Lena Sage continues to sing out her company’s cheery propaganda of false immortality promises to the masses. At the same time, she stews in private about how long she must serve in this impossible task. When a precocious reporter comes sniffing for Lena’s answers on the company’s current demise, a journey is sparked through time and space. Lena will be forced to face the truth about her storied past while bringing prosperity to the faltering society that depends on LaPorte Industries to remain immortal.

Download or read book Love Begins at Golden Sands Bay written by Georgina Troy and published by Boldwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hold on to that feeling of a holiday by the sea with this gorgeous romance. 'A wonderfully warm, romantic read' Karen Clarke Bella is happiest running her tiny antique business from the front room of her cottage on the Boardwalk. To ensure she has enough income coming in, she also rents out two of her bedrooms to paying lodgers. But she didn't count on having a secret crush on Jack Collins, one of her lodgers and her best friend's brother... As if life wasn’t complicated enough,her world-travelling mother appears on her doorstep on the same evening that Jack’s ex-fiancée arrives on the Boardwalk determined to win him back. Bella has a lot of thinking to do and soon discovers that not all gems sparkle. What readers are saying about Love Begins on the Boardwalk: ‘I absolutely adored this book! ...finished it quite late at night but it was definitely worth staying up for! Donnas Book Blog ‘A wonderful book full of friendships and love. Just loved it!' Polly ‘The chemistry sizzles’ Dash Fan ‘Plenty of action, great conversations, kind gestures, laughs all set to a stormy Jersey backdrop’ Gilbster *Previously published by Georgina Troy as Autumn Antics*

Download or read book Sunny Days at Golden Sands Bay written by Georgina Troy and published by Boldwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2023-07-15 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slip on your sunglasses, Spring has sprung on the Boardwalk! When artist Jools Jones’, new man Finn Gallichan, leaves the Boardwalk to go travelling for several months she’s not too worried. She has her paintings to keep her busy and helps her grandmother run their second hand bookshop, Boardwalk Books. She’s happy to wait for Finn’s return, to pick up where they left off, as absence makes the heart grow fonder – right? She’s soon drawn into helping Alan Hidrio trace a copy of a book he wrote years before and meets glass artist Marius Arnesen, who, fascinated by her paintings, offers her a place in an art exhibition. When she begins to suspect that Finn isn’t quite the person she had hoped and Marius steps up to save someone close to her, she wonders if maybe she’s made the wrong decision... Can Jools rely on her instincts? Or should she risk the chance of a future with Marius? What readers say about SUNNY DAYS ON THE BOARDWALK: 'A love story that will capture readers attention from the very beginning and keep them hooked throughout' - Bookish Jottings 'A charming finale to an adorable series about love, romance, and the power of female friendship' - Amy’s Booket List 'A very uplifting, friendly, romance filled and community coming together story' - Between the Pages Book Club ‘Fabulous conclusion to an entertaining series.’ - Reading Tonic ‘A delight to read and then some... superbly written' - Ginger Book Geek ‘A series where I have been fully engrossed in it from start to finish.’ - Jolene’s Book Corner ‘A feel good read that will have you smitten at the first chapter.’ - Herding Cats Blog ‘That a lot of the action centres around a bookshop is another bonus and the search for a missing book is the icing on the cake.’ - All Things Bookie

Download or read book Heart s Desire written by Jayne Ann Krentz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents three short love stories by romance authors Jayne Ann Krentz, Linda Howard, and Linda Lael Miller.

Download or read book Superstorm written by Kathryn Miles and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first complete moment-by-moment account of the largest Atlantic storm system ever recorded—a hurricane like no other The sky was lit by a full moon on October 29, 2012, but nobody on the eastern seaboard of the United States could see it. Everything had been consumed by cloud. The storm’s immensity caught the attention of scientists on the International Space Station. Even from there, it seemed almost limitless: 1.8 million square feet of tightly coiled bands so huge they filled the windows of the Station. It was the largest storm anyone had ever seen. Initially a tropical storm, Sandy had grown into a hybrid monster. It charged across open ocean, picking up strength with every step, baffling meteorologists and scientists, officials and emergency managers, even the traditional maritime wisdom of sailors and seamen: What exactly was this thing? By the time anyone decided, it was too late. And then the storm made landfall. Sandy was not just enormous, it was also unprecedented. As a result, the entire nation was left flat-footed. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration couldn’t issue reliable warnings; the Coast Guard didn’t know what to do. In Superstorm, journalist Kathryn Miles takes readers inside the maelstrom, detailing the stories of dedicated professionals at the National Hurricane Center and National Weather Service. The characters include a forecaster who risked his job to sound the alarm in New Jersey, the crew of the ill-fated tall ship Bounty, Mayor Bloomberg, Governor Christie, and countless coastal residents whose homes—and lives—were torn apart and then left to wonder . . . When is the next superstorm coming?

Download or read book Who We Were in the Dark written by Jessica Taylor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Perfect for those who reminisce on the melancholic feelings [of] John Green's Looking for Alaska.” —USA Today "Will have you hooked from the start and guessing till the very end. Jessica Taylor aces it. I inhaled this one!" —Jennifer Mathieu, author of Moxie, now a Netflix Original Film. Donner Lake is famous for its dazzling waters, dramatic mountains, and the travelers trapped there long ago who did unspeakable things to survive. But for lonely Nora Sharpe, Donner was where a girl named Grace glided into her life one night and exploded her world. After that, every summer, winter, and spring break, Nora, her brother, Wesley, the enigmatic Grace, and their friend Rand left behind their real lives and reunited at Donner Lake. There, they traded truth and lies. They fell in love. They pushed each other too far. They came to know one another better than anyone in some ways, and not at all in others. But two years later, something has happened to destroy them. Grace is missing. And Nora must find her way through the unspoken hurts and betrayals of the last two years—and find her way back to Wesley and Rand—to figure out what exactly happened to Grace, the girl she thought she knew. “Eerily atmospheric.” —Kirkus Reviews "Tense and mystery-laden [with] a strong emotional core." —Booklist "Will keep readers turning pages long past bedtime." —Kit Frick, author of I Killed Zoe Spanos "Character-driven . . . Arrestingly written.” —Publishers Weekly

Download or read book A Scottish Highland Surprise Scottish Escapes Book 2 written by Julie Shackman and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2022-04-22 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the secrets and surprises that the scenic Scottish town of Briar Glen has to offer... ‘A warm beautiful read’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ NetGalley Reviewer ‘A great story . . . a happy feel good read’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ NetGalley Reviewer