A fun new boy has just moved in next door to Grace's best friend, Mimi. When Grace has to go away on a family trip during school, she is terrified that when she comes back Mimi will be best friends with Max instead! After her trip, not only does it seem her fear has come true, but Mimi is even friends with the disgusting Sammy. Now Just Grace has to team up with two other Graces in her third-grade class for a school project, including the Big Meanie. Views: 10
Dark Fantasy/Mainstream. 20266 words long. Views: 10
A fantasy about a woman bequeathed an odd gift by a former lover who broke up with her, then died—his handwriting. Why did he do this and what does it mean?At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Views: 10
grieving artist hamish finds white briars, a gothic cottage set in a rambling unkempt garden surrounded by woods in kent, england. there he discovers and falls in love with liana, an immortal flower sylph who has slept years away in an attempt to flee from the grief of repeated loss but in waking liana, the garden's guardian also wakes green jack,a malevolent sprite with ill-intent in his heart. Views: 10
Compared with a spaceship in distress, going to hell in a handbasket is roomy and slow! Views: 10
As Mrs. James Gary Longchamp, Dawn is blissfully happy. But a legacy of deceit and betrayal still haunts her... At last, Dawn can create a haven of warmth and love for her beautiful baby girl, Christie, and her darling Jimmy. Dawn is a huge success as the new owner of the Cutler's Cove hotel... and soon she and Jimmy will be blessed with a child of their own. Yet Dawn cannot quell her forebodings of evil. She can sense Grandmother Cutler's presence everywhere... can feel her bitter hatred as if the old lady plotted her vengeance from the grave. When Dawn discovers that her brother, Philip, still clings to his mad, shameful passion for her, she is heartstricken. Her spiteful, jealous sister, Clara, is far easier to ignore... until the day Clara's childish rage explodes into violence, destroying Dawn's most cherished, precious dream. Then Christie's father, debonair singing star Michael Sutton, returns. Now, as the heartaches and scandals of the past threaten to engulf her, Dawn must fight for her steadfast Jimmy... for only with Jimmy's love can she find the rainbow at the end of the storm. Views: 10
What is the point of Brian O'Bunion? Bottom of the class, slowest on the pitch, never invited to parties ... he sometimes wishes he could just disappear. Then, one day, some of his classmates actually do. That's when Brian's knack of noticing while going unnoticed leads him into a sticky trap of enchanting honey, freaky bees and not-so-sweet revenge. A buzzing tale of bullies and battleaxes, a bossy fossil, a bottom that longs to dance and a brave-hearted boy who makes the grade without coming top in his class. Debbie Thomas is back with another story full of crazy characters, fantastic adventures and deliciously zany use of language! Views: 10
In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives; of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom; of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who visited her; of primitive festivals; of big game that were her near neighbors—lions, rhinos, elephants, zebras, buffaloes—and of Lulu, the little gazelle who came to live with her, unbelievably ladylike and beautiful. Views: 10
Audrey felt she was a failure with men. So, when handsome, dashing Elliot Knight rescued her from yet another disaster, she wasn't surprised that he didn't want to pursue their relationship.But circumstances brought Elliot back into Audrey's life to help her out of a sticky situation once again, and suddenly their attraction seemed mutual - only now Audrey was experiencing new doubts about Elliot's past and what he wanted from her. After all, Audrey stood to inherit a fortune, and Elliot already had one marriage to a rich, older woman behind him... Views: 10
A Single Tree assembles the raw material underpinning Don Watson's award-winning The Bush. These diverse and haunting voices span the four centuries since Europeans first set eyes on the continent.Each of these varied contributors - settlers, explorers, anthropologists, naturalists, stockmen, surveyors, itinerants, artists and writers- represents a particular place and time. Men in awe of the landscape or cursing it; aspiring to subdue and exploit it or finding themselves defeated by it. Women reflecting on the land's harshness and beauty, on the strangeness of their lives, their pleasures and miseries, the character and behaviour of the men. Europeans writing about indigenous Australians, sometimes with intelligent sympathy and curiosity but often with contempt, and often describing acts of startling brutality. This collection comprises diary extracts, memoirs, journals, letters, histories, poems and fiction, and follows the same loose themes of... Views: 10
