A semi-pornographic portrait painter and his pretty wife are hard at work in their isolated farm in darkest Exmoor. Two beautiful, well upholstered models arrive to pose. But the wife's first husband, a ne'er-do-well violent prisoner, has escaped from Dartmoor Prison as 'Long John Silver' (whom he thinks he is, having got a knock on the head during a pantomime) and is bent on murder. There are two naive Dartmoor screws in pursuit of Long John and a virginal vicar pursued by the models. A pantomime horse and a gorilla suit help to complicate matters in this end-of-pier eisteddfod. Read it and produce it!
Noah Zark and Jennifer Snowden leave their small hometown in rural Pennsylvania and move to New Orleans. On a darkened street in the French Quarter, Noah meets Jill St. Clair, a woman of astonishing beauty. She introduces him to the greatest secret mankind has ever known: Sex Magick. Leaving behind a cryptic letter, Jill leaves Noah behind, giving him nothing but the vaguest hints as to what he has gone through with her. On the verge of loosing his sanity, Jennifer comes to his rescue. The two of them are soon in league with Melanie Pewter, who looks like a ravishing teenage girl but is so much more. She has come looking for her lover, one Jill St. Clair, which gives the trio a common goal: to Kill Jill. But as they embark on their mutual quest, their feelings toward the mysterious woman they seek are constantly shifting. Yet one thing never changes, and that is their absolute need to find this woman, and to force her to divulge her Secrets.
Imaginative childrens' poetry created by a Mum for her family and now being passed down the generations. Grandpa is a wonderful character and full of life and well intent. Small and knotty-boned, blue twinkling eyes and mischievous at eighty. Grandpa has one message that life need not be dull as when you are good to others you'll live life to the full. Meet Grandpa and other characters in this wonderful collection of poems and rekindle the art of telling stories and creating pictures with your own children.
Imaginative childrens' poetry created by a Mum for her family and now being passed down the generations. Grandpa is a wonderful character and full of life and well intent. Small and knotty-boned, blue twinkling eyes and mischievous at eighty. Grandpa has one message that life need not be dull as when you are good to others you'll live life to the full. Meet Grandpa and other characters in this wonderful collection of poems and rekindle the art of telling stories and creating pictures with your own children. This is the second book in the Grandpa Jolly series.
"We want to wrap this book up with a bow and leave it under everyone's tree this year. Lindsay Maple delivers a confection of holiday charm, small town quirk, tenderly sketched characters, and scorching heat." --Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone, USA TODAY bestselling authors of A Merry Little Meet CuteIt's the hottest Christmas on record...Like naughty and nice, Mariah and Ellie are complete opposites. Small-time actress Ellie is thrilled to be back on set of a cozy holiday film, while makeup artist Mariah only views the low-budget project as a stepping stone on her way to more serious movies. The pair definitely don't hit it off when they're introduced, but if they want to survive the summer heat--and Mariah's stifling Canadian hometown--they've got to keep it professional. Luckily, holiday cheer is Ellie's specialty, and she's determined to win stubborn Mariah over.Mariah finds one bright spot in her forced second Christmas: hot hookups with an edgy local bartender. The romance even has her opening up to Ellie--who admits to crushing on her wholesome cottage-rental host. But when Ellie and Mariah realize the guys are cheating on them, they band together to get revenge. It's fun planning their own Home Alone-inspired pranks...until Ellie and Mariah realize they're actually falling for each other.But the film shoot is too short to get serious, so they'll have to decide: Was their romance simply a holiday fling or a real Christmas-in-July miracle?"Full of hilarious hijinks and tenderness in equal measure, this holiday romance had me flipping the pages late into the cozy night. Come for the revenge, stay for the true love." --Ashley Herring Blake, USA TODAY Bestselling Author of Delilah Green Doesn't Care
TA-DAH! It’s DRAGON JELLY time, A sizzling scrumptious treat. It’s red. It’s wobbly. Best of all, It’s SCARY HOT to eat . . . ! Max is having a MONSTER party. They play all sorts of yucky games then cool down in a fruitbat drool paddling pool! Then it’s tea-time, with termite tarts, ear-wig rolls and eyeball birthday cake. But the REAL treat is the red-hot dragon jelly! Dragon Jelly is monstrously gloopy, gunky fun from the bestselling Claire Freedman and Sue Hendra.
This festive kitty-corn tale features Christmas decorations, gingerbread houses, one (almost) perfect tree—and the magic of true friendship. The best part of Christmas is the merry music! No, it’s the gingerbread! No, it’s definitely decorating the tree! Kitty and Unicorn can’t wait to spend their first Christmas together! But try as they might, they can’t seem to agree on their favorite festivities. Will the magical best friends pull off the perfect Christmas, or will all their plans come tip-timber-crashing down? The magical, bestselling team of Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham return with a cozy and heartwarming holiday story for kitty-corns everywhere.Favorite Kitty-Corn books available in hardcover:Bubbly Beautiful Kitty-Corn Party-Hearty Kitty-Corn Pretty Perfect Kitty-Corn Itty-Bitty Kitty-CornAnd in board book:Kitty-Corn Club: Things That GoKitty-Corn Club: Parts of Us
Two graves occupy a corner of the lawn on the old Rakestraw home place. The family believes their shameful secret is buried forever, but a curious descendant keeps searching and asking questions until he uncovers the truth. What he discovers is not a shame, but an ancestral legacy of strong, honest people who changed a nation. Deep inside this old story, there's a life so wonderful and a love so tragic that it must be told. Emotional courage is required if you are willing to find the end of this family's story. It grabs you up by the collar and jerks into the middle of the Rakestraw family tree. By the time you turn the last page, not a skeleton in your closet will ever dare to rattle its bones again. But if it does, you'll be able to answer quietly, "I know and I understand."
By chance, by accident or by design, many events can occur during pregnancy, potentially causing irregular if not devastating consequences in newborns. Some are; the mother-to-be having a bad fall or consuming alcohol or drugs, moderately or to excess, or abuse in all its many forms, physical or emotional. The list goes on and on. Is it necessary the by-products of any or all of those events result in wholly negative repercussions? Meet Jack and Jill.The twins were born with abilities that set them apart from all other children. Without a father on the scene from day one, and now, due to one of the...no...make that, due to THE final disastrous event, no mother, they were separated at birth. Jill was fortunate enough to be immediately adopted by a loving couple. Jack, waiting for an adoption that never came, entered the foster care system. Despite their separation, they grew up close to one another, their abilities gaining in strength with each passing year.At 12, tragedy struck Jill and she found herself in the same group home where Jack resided, The Randolph House. After nearly two years she was lucky enough to be placed with a family of four. The older child, Joey Jones, a dour, aimless college sophomore becoming addicted to heroin purchased from Jasper Johnson, an evil man with three equally evil cohorts, witnesses Jasper murder a man. Joey flees, only to have Jasper track him down and threaten his entire family, including Jill. The only problem for Jasper and his crew is never having come up against the likes of Jack and Jill and their unique powers, despite their young age.As the twins become teenagers, they face the typical problems that plague all our youth; love, romance, rivalries, bullying, all while fighting off the lethal aspirations of a band of drug dealers, rapists and murderers, concluding with one perilous final assault.Sprinkled throughout the present day story are reports from Joyce Whitaker, the twin's social worker who has been with them since their birth. She details important events through the years that demonstrate the twin's growth and development and abilities, forever in a quandary as to how much of their story to tell, their protection and privacy her number one goal.
