Résultats lu par "Emily Gittelman" dans Toutes les catégories

This story, A Huge Lesson for Toado and Friends, is from the delightful series of Toado and Friends. It is a wonderful story that teaches children a valuable life lesson, to accept another as they are. Young listeners will learn about a fat little frog that has been hurt by thoughtless comments about her size.

Each book provides an adventure with the pond friends while providing them with a valuable learning experience. Toado always knows the answer, but needs the wise old Turtle, Captain Snap, to put the final spin on things. Polly is his cute, little polliwog sister who is always full of innocent questions.

This is the story of a dog and his life told from the viewpoint of the dog from it's birth, adoption, family life, and it is set in Austin TX. It is safe for all ages and is written for those six years or older, and makes a great bedtime story.

Sybil Ellis was a 17-year-old orphan with very few options: If she didn't want to be a governess or a companion - and she didn't - she had to marry. So she married Dr. Philip Maynard, who was old enough to be her grandfather and treated her like a daughter. In fact, he treated her like Judith, the daughter he had lost, even to calling her by that name and having all of his new servants do likewise.

The life she once knew is over. The love of her life is dead (for the second time), and his last act saved her from the same fate. Now Jane has to learn to cope with her new-found abilities and the trials that come along with them.

Six months ago, Liberty Collins was advancing in her career at a prosperous marketing firm and dreaming of a bright future. Now, the only thing darker than her nightmares is reality. In a socially, and economically, collapsed America, Liberty struggles to find the courage to endure, and the strength to protect herself. Her faith, constitution, and sanity are challenged as the lines that separate right from wrong grow increasingly blurry.

Inspired by true events...The first day of college gives every girl a chance to reinvent herself. I go and screw mine up by meeting the most gorgeous guy I've seen in five years while talking to my cat. But Andrew Crowner is far from judgmental. By the end of our interaction, he has me smitten by his easy manner and kind smile. And from the way his eyes linger on me before he leaves, I start to think that maybe I've caught his attention, too. I let myself believe that luck may finally be on my side.

If you told me two weeks ago that I would fall in love with my would-be kidnapper, I would have laughed in your face. Yet here I am today. Madly, deeply, and hopelessly in love. With Richard Blackthorne. With the man who drugged me and left me for myself... but with the same man who came back for me later. Nobody in my life has ever given a shit. I've always been on my own - before Rich.

The Memory Bouquet is a short novella featuring Risa, Ginger, and Georgia, three sisters who live in a world of missed opportunities and regret. Long ago, all three sisters were given the chance to follow their dreams. Twins Ginger and Georgia took theirs, but eldest sister Risa gave hers up to stay behind and raise a family with her childhood sweetheart. And now, twenty-five years later, Ginger's a high profile entertainment lawyer living in L.A., right around the corner from her very famous sister, Georgia Franklin - a far cry from their hometown of Cypress Falls, Louisiana.

Elemental magic is a weapon of power, on both sides of the war. The Seven has another leader, Kaitlyn is a new mother, and everyone is busy building their armies. During one battle, the secret to Akasha is discovered, and the race to master it is on. With all eyes on the prize, what matters most gets left behind. It is up to Kaitlyn to preserve the planet in the wake of the pure destructive power of Akasha, and the humans who wield it.

She carries more than elemental powers. In Air, the sequel to Water of the Akasha Series, Kaitlyn has a secret. One she won't be able to hide much longer. As the strongest Gaia the planet has ever seen, she must face mankind's greatest enemy as he campaigns for "One Less: Depopulation." Everything depends on Kaitlyn fully embracing her role as Gaia. Her family. The Seven. The Earth. Something has to give, and it won't be Kaitlyn.

Software developer Honor Macklin believes she’s equal business partners with her philandering ex-husband, but when family responsibilities take her to Florida, she discovers her ex may have cheated her in more ways than one. Spirits at the Belleview Biltmore hotel try to help Honor by invading her dreams to share memories from the life of Darcy Loughman, a young Victorian woman with big problems of her own.

Persevere, and survive. Those are my two guiding words. I never knew either of my parents. I have no family and no home. The only person I could ever rely on was myself. In this cruel world, that's about as much as I can ask for. Love? Hah. Don't talk to me about love. I stopped believing in it the day my first boyfriend ripped out my heart three years ago. That's why love is the last thing on my mind when I leave a packed college bar with a captivating stranger....

When Kaitlyn Alder is involuntarily introduced to a life of magic, she becomes part of an organization hell-bent on saving the Earth. Her new found life holds promises of purpose, romance, and friendship, but the organization divides and a rogue member holds Kaitlyn hostage. Now one of the most terrifying men the human race has to offer stands between her and Earth's survival.

What does one expect to find in the mind of a killer? Veronica Russo, bent on avenging the murder of her sister, seeks a therapeutic alternative to mayhem keeping a journal at a writer's workshop, but finds her desire for destruction is too powerful to ignore. She resists the advances of Jack Daniels, an aptly named aspiring writing with a fondness for drink, but when she rebuffs him once too often is her life in danger instead?

When life gave Jane pointy teeth, she decided to make the most of them. In this 15,000-word novella, Jane takes you with her on one of her jobs, and goes through the harrowing tale of how she fell in love and lost more than just her life. This is the first part of a series of novellas. The novellas are not stand-alone and should be read in sequence, as each one builds upon the last.

Rylan and his partner in crime, anthropologist Ursula Deiss, push deep into a dangerous rain forest in Madagascar with a group of scientists. In the jungle, they find a population of cryptic man-like primates. Their discovery quickly draws them into a vortex of an ancient conspiracy that is bound to change mankind's destiny. Enriched with extensive facts drawn from the fields of anthropology, swarm intelligence, and information science, Talus takes listeners from one vibrant location to another.