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Claire Annette And The Magic Music Box : James Brosnahan
Claire Annette and the Magic Music Box
Imagine if magic music could empower a young girl to gain self-confidence?
Claire Annette and the Magic Music Box tells the story of a nine year old girl discovering her own inner strength. Meet Claire Annette: a young girl who wants to be a singer, climb a mountain and fly an airplane.
She would love to do all of these exciting and adventurous things, but she is far too scared. Today is Claire Annette’s ninth birthday and her Grandma has a special gift for her. It is a magical music box.
Later that night, as Claire Annette drifts off to sleep, she dreams of the music box. Can there be such a thing as magic music? Will the music make her brave? Tomorrow will be a wondrous new day.
Love’s Dance : Amethyst Creek
Love’s Dance: Romance, Passion and Danger in Old Colorado
It is 1879 and Maggie Lenihan is interested in finding true love. At age twenty-one, she is the only child of a prominent family from New York City who stands to inherit a large fortune from her elderly father.
As her family’s wealth is no secret, it is not surprising that she is besieged by young men beating a path to her door. But she has to wonder, are these potential suitors genuinely interested in her or are they perhaps motivated to pursue Maggie for her wealth?
These doubts persuade her to do the unconventional. To increase the chances of finding love, our heroine decides to move temporarily to a city where she is unknown.
With brazen determination, Maggie moves to the young city of Denver, The Queen City of the Plains, where she assumes the role of ‘stringer’ for a ladies magazine.
The plan is a reasonable one as Maggie succeeds in meeting a number of eligible young men including the handsome cowboy, Garret Blackstone. But she soon finds herself flirting with trouble when an unexpected event places her in mortal danger.
Will a sinister outlaw be unmasked before it is too late? Will Maggie find true love?
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Ties That Bind : Carolyn Arnold
Ties That Bind
“Madison Knight is a tough, sassy, and intelligent detective. She is a straight shooter and takes no crap.”—My Blissful Books
The hunt for a serial killer begins…
Detective Madison Knight concluded the case of a strangled woman an isolated incident.
But when another woman’s body is found in a park killed with the same brand of neckties, she realizes they’re dealing with something more serious.
Despite mounting pressure from the sergeant and the chief to close the case even if it means putting an innocent man behind bars, and a partner who is more interested in saving his marriage than stopping a potential serial killer, Madison may have to go it alone if the murderer is going to be stopped.
90 Years of Football-Almanac : Juan Llambes
90 Years of Football-Almanac
90 Years of Football Almanac is a compilation of historical information about football leagues and teams. Where and how they originate, standings for each year listing teams, coach, and quarterback by season from all major professional football leagues since 1920.
It gives a brief description of team’s origins as they appear in history from leagues such as the APFA/NFL, AFL I, II & III, AAFC, the AFL of 1960, the WFL and the USFL. Find interesting facts about the origin and name changes of your favorite team. Learn about other teams and leagues and how they rose and fell throughout the years.
The game of Football runs deep with stories about players, coaches and their teams and cities. From it’s conversion in the late 1800’s of the Scottish rugby game to today’s changes in cities and names of teams.
Learn which is the oldest team playing today that was first established in 1898. What was the original city of the Rams, are they back home in Los Angeles? Why did the Packer enter the APFA/NFL as the Acme Packers? What team played in the Super Bowl for both leagues? Learn who are the four oldest teams still playing the game today. How they changed names ownership and locations. Who are they today.
The Seasons section is created to allow the reader to not only see the standings for the year of a given team, but to also have the names of the coaches and quarterbacks for that year. With this, you can appreciate and see how coaches and quarterbacks move from team to team or remain with a given team year after year. You can also see how and when teams move from city to city or change ownership and names.
Learn the notable events that have happened, like the creation of the fourth AFL league in 1960 and then the merger with the NFL 10 years later. How the NFL addresses disparity in the number of teams merged from the AFL, which teams change leagues and what are the leagues changed in to. How many leagues start and end after the 1970 merger of the NFL and AFL. Who starts what team and where. What coaches and quarterbacks play for these teams and then make a name for themselves in the NFL.
The Almanac format allows the reader to visualize from year to year the changes in team names, cities, coaches and quarterbacks. Also to look at teams when they were strong in a certain time frame and with which coach and quarterback at the helm.
The light Was Always Here : Michelle Goettemoeller
The light Was Always Here
Why do people choose the books they do? What brought you to this one? What does it have to offer?
Always the questions we ask when searching out a book to read. So many books and similar genres to select from. Hold onto the queries a bit and stay with me, we will arrive at some answers perhaps.
In the beginning, this book was about me and a particular story I wished to tell. My story includes my pilgrimage walk on the Camino de Santiago.
On that journey, I experienced something spiritual and profound. The experience was a catalyst for me. It unfolded me and turned me inside out.
You see, before the journey, I was living my life directed by my inner fears. I was trying in vain to find comfort and safety.
Living life in such a way was painful. All the while, a version of an extraordinary existence that I dreamed about was dying within. It was there, beckoning me to grasp it, but seemed out of reach and fading fast.
At this point in my life is where the Camino came in and strengthened me from the “inside out.” I emerged emboldened and capable. I became no longer satisfied with just dreaming up a life to have, but never to live. Fearlessness was required to reach inside me and pull out the terror so I could then soar without clipped wings.
That work continues still.
Now, let’s answer the questions above.
It is all about you now.
I am an absolute believer that stories and other mediums pick us based on our intentions. Spiritual messages come to us when we call them from within us.
We do this when we are searching and hungry for transportation, desire, inspiration and passage from one reality to another.
We desire a stimulation that can arise out from the pages and reach that place within. I want feelings to emerge that surprise, entrance, or stir something within you. So, you become inspired by the narrative, and you become the next story written.
That is why you will choose this book.
The Camino experience had been gifted to me in the manner I just described, as were the voice and the words to express the incredible passage now.
And so I have…
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A Heart across the Ocean : Shelley Kassian
A Heart across the Ocean
Fate cannot escape its guilty charge.
Should the truth be discovered, the night watchman could detain Madeleine Bourbonnais once more…
A ward of King Louis XIV, Madeleine escapes from a Parisian hospital by accepting the king’s dowry, which frees her to immigrate to New France and secure a husband. Given her past and her condition, she’s an unlikely candidate for the filles du Roi initiative, but when she arrives in the new world, she ashamedly accepts the admiration of a brave officer, hoping this handsome man could be the remedy for her misfortune.
A Captain in the Carignan-Saliere’s Regiment and a second son, Julian Benoit would never inherit the family estate, so he travelled to New France to serve and protect the French colony from Iroquois conflicts. When his commanding officer forces the statute of marriage, he complies with the edict, succumbing to a pretty mademoiselle, but he’s ill-equipped for her hidden truth.
Will Madeleine accept the challenges waiting to be borne in the new world? Can Julian recognize that this is the woman he’s been waiting for, and take her deeper into his heart and the demanding life of the Canadian wilderness, or annul their marriage and send her back to France, gambling the lives of all involved?
The Big Yank : J.P. Sexton
The Big Yank – Memoir of a Boy Growing Up Irish
Life is not easy growing up in dire poverty. More so, if it is in rural Ireland in the 70’s.
Young J.P. Sexton was to find this out the hard way. He went from having a nice roof over his head and plenty of food on the table and toys at Christmas, to living without electricity or running water, in a double-deck bus on the side of a blustery Donegal mountain.
The author’s first job was as a smuggler along the Donegal/Derry border. His father (The Big Yank) made a hefty profit smuggling food from the North of Ireland, into the South and used his three young sons as part of his clandestine operations.
Future ventures were as erratic, if not as profitable. By the time the author had entered secondary (high) school, at 12 years of age, he was already performing duties of an adult male on the run-down family farm.
The memoir introduces the reader to a host of eclectic, if not downright insane family characters, spearheaded by his father – who couldn’t decide whether he wanted to be a cowboy or a songwriter.
His mother was a far cry from any of the other mothers he saw when he visited friends’ homes, but she paled in comparison to her own father – Danny Houton.
The boys’ grandfather was nothing less than a force of nature. His crazy antics, fueled by his love of whiskey and poitin (moonshine), knew no bounds. Up until the day he died, he remained as wild as the wind which blows off the Atlantic Ocean, on the doorstep of his native Malin Head.
Stepping Across the Desert : Kat Caldwell
Sold into slavery at seventeen, Rowena Brayemore has worked for five years as simply Fatia. She sees no hope of ever leaving until one evening when she is given away to an Englishman, Christophe Sutton.
A staunch abolitionist, Christophe feels obligated to take her to Spanish Melilla and set her free, but along the way he finds himself caring for her. Once in Melilla, Sutton searches for ways for an English gentleman and former slave to be together, but before he finds the solution, Rowena disappears without saying a word.
Back in England, Rowena finds ignoring the hurts of her past is not easy. While she begins to relearn the customs of the culture, she realizes she is forever different from the other pampered, rich girls in London. When she and Christophe meet again, Rowena realizes she is not the only one who holds secrets.
As rumors, lies and prejudice threaten to run her out of England, Rowena must decide what is more important: being accepted by society through a lie, or embracing her past and the love that Christophe wishes to offer her.
Cheat Day Rules! : Josephine Fitzpatrick
Cheat Day Rules!
The world is abuzz about cheat days.
From Good Morning America, to People Magazine, to Oprah, to just about everyone thinking about food.
What do you dream of eating on your cheat day?
It’s true, you can eat what you want and still lose weight.
Josephine Fitzpatrick harnesses the power behind a cheat day in Cheat Day Rules!
The formula is simple: Six days on the program and one day to eat whatever you like. The results are amazing.
And the beauty of it all is the program’s 99% success rate.
Palace Cat and the Shadow Dog : Robyn Walshe
Palace Cat and the Shadow Dog
Every home needs a pet to look after it. Even if that home is a palace…
Palace Cat is a big cat, with an even bigger job to do.
He lives with his family, who just happen to be the royal family, in a huge palace. His job is to make sure that palace life runs smoothly, that everyone in his family is happy, and most importantly, that no unauthorized mice get into the palace!
Fortunately for Palace Cat, he has the help of his friends when things go wrong, and sometimes he even makes a new one along the way.
Palace Cat leads a very comfortable existence in the Palace. He eats his favourite foods, sleeps in his scruffy basket, and chats to his best friend. However, sometimes things go wrong, and it’s Palace Cat’s job to sort it out, and make sure Palace life gets back to normal.
The first book in the Adventures of Palace Cat series sees Palace Cat having to solve the mystery of a very sad dog, who is also a very important dog, as she is part of the Queen’s pack of Shadow Dogs, sworn to protect the kingdom from bandits outside the city walls…