Luce knows she should be thrilled when Jenna asks her to be bridesmaid - after all, they've known each other since childhood and Jenna is the best friend any girl could have. But it's hard to get excited about weddings when you're terminally single and the best man is the boy who broke your heart: Jamie, the groom's dashing and irresistible brother. How can she face the man who dumped her when she's still so hopelessly in love? Then again, maybe this is the perfect opportunity - after all, where better to get back together than at a wedding? So Luce has six months to figure out how to win back her ex, but she has plenty else on her plate - from an old friend returned to Newcastle with an announcement of her own, to a youthful colleague who may or may not have a crush on her and a mother who is acting very strangely indeed... and that's all before a mysterious, handsome American walks into her life. Sometimes being a bridesmaid isn't all confetti and champagne... 'A smarter, funnier Bridget Jones' Diary for the 2010s - great pithy writing and instantly likeable characters' Cass Green, Sunday Times/USA Today bestselling author of In a Cottage in a Wood'
How does a woman, who had everything, find her way in this world when all the meaning has been removed? Mara Dalton has a life that most women only dream of. She has an amazing husband, a new baby boy and owns her own company. When her husband and son are killed tragically just days before Christmas, Mara stops living as well. For years she tries to live but finds herself only existing. She attempts to avoid reliving another year of horrible memories at Christmas by leaving her home; which has become her tomb. While traveling with not much of a plan other than avoidance, she discovers a small town in Alabama. The quaint town seems the perfect place to avoid the holiday and her pain. She finds more than she bargained for in the Lambert family; a family whose roots are buried deep in their small southern town. Mara discovers the one thing she has lost, herself.She struggles to allow herself to live again, at the same time breathing life into the town and the Lamberts. Sometimes we don't get to choose where we lay our roots, it chooses us.
With Santa as a mouse, a sleigh pulled by beetles, and gifts of toys, crackers, and cheese, this adorable picture book puts a silly and savoury twist on Clement C. Moores classic Twas the Night Before Christmas poem Illustrated by award-winning artist Jenny Lvlie, The Mouse Before Christmas is sure to become a festive family favourite.
Fourteen-year-old Ben Mason has known for some time hes a little bit different than other people. It isnt until traveling back to Australia from a holiday in the United States he discovers just how true that is. Ben and his friends are flying home when their airplane crashes on a remote island. Guided by the captain, the passengers try to stay alive and safe until rescue arrives. But Ben feels strange things happening. Soon he meets a boy named Noke who saves Ben from drowning and a swarm of killer bees. Then, twenty-six days into their ordeal, Ben meets Goldevere, a prisoner of the dragon, Black Knight. Goldevere tells Ben he has the gift that can help both of their people and that he needs to find his wife Silver for help. They must work quickly to save the world from the angry black dragon.
Most pirates have a parrot on their shoulder. Have you ever wondered how they find them? In this story, Captain John, a bad, mean old pirate, tries to plunder a very nice, posh ship. But the posh ship's parrot takes a fancy to a watch on a long gold chain and takes some coaxing from Captain John to give it up.
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