books about: extravaganza (annotated sanctuary mistletoe)

books about: extravaganza

books:

Marsha McCloskey's Block Party: A Quilter's Extravaganza of 120 Rotary-Cut Block Patterns (Rodale Quilt Book)
Marsha McCloskey

Rodale Pr, 1998

With 120 rotary-cut blocks, each finishing at 9 inches, every quilter's creativity will be greatly enhanced when she mixes and matches the blocks in more than 15 settings. Each project features complete directions, sewing hints, and quilting suggestions, and quilters can choose their favorite blocks to feature in the quilt. McCloskey offers tips for laying out blocks, planning fabric placement, and choosing borders. There are also ...

White Christmas (Christmas Holiday Extravaganza)

Pelican Book Group (White Rose Publishing), 2011

After his very public break-up from his fiancé, Chad Fletcher is convinced that a healthy marriage and his rising political career won’t mix, and Christmas at his Aunt Nell’s home in White, Arizona is a great way to start fresh. Political watch dog, Tessa Conway, plans to spend her vacation enjoying her grandparents’ ranch before they must sell it, so she is not pleased with Grandma Sophie and Aunt Nell’s efforts to throw her and Chad ...

Meet Me Under the Mistletoe (Christmas Holiday Extravaganza)

Pelican Ventures Book Group-White Rose Publishing, 2012

Jacob Marston, Starlight, Iowa's hometown hero made a long-ago promise to the Lord: he won't kiss a woman until he knows she's "the one." Now at age twenty-eight, the rugged firefighter questions if it'll ever happen. Then, he meets his best friend's sister, and Jake believes he's found the woman of his dreams. But what will she think when she discovers his vow? When Julia makes an unexpected confession on Christmas Day, Jake shares his secret ...

Finding Home (Christmas Holiday Extravaganza)

Pelican Ventures Book Group-White Rose Publishing, 2012

A Christmas voyage to London… Six months ago, Alexa Gordon’s engagement transformed from happiness to betrayal. Christmas is on the way. The last thing she wants to do is spend the holiday in mourning for being so foolish with her emotions. A spontaneous, soul-reviving trip to London is just what she needs. Becomes a mission of the heart… Peter Colby, a treasured friend from Alexa’s study abroad term in England years ago, welcomes ...

Southern Fried Christmas (Christmas Holiday Extravaganza)

Pelican Ventures Book Group-White Rose Publishing, 2012

Love: purer than Colorado snow, deeper than a Louisiana bayou. The Colorado Rockies have always been home to journalist Kelly Shepherd, but after the death of her father, and facing her first Christmas alone, she accepts an assignment that leads her deep into Louisiana’s Cajun country. Since his wife’s death, Denny Labouve has focused his attention on his ten-year-old daughter and the family business, but Kelly sparks the dying embers of ...

Polar Bear Plunge (Christmas Holiday Extravaganza)

White Rose Publishing, 2011

Brice Taylor might not be on Aleni Callan's Christmas list, but she finds him under her tree anyway. Nurse Aleni Callan's anger toward God is fueled when Brice Taylor enters her life. Not only does Brice have no regard for his own life—as evidenced by the concussion and hypothermia he suffers after participating in the Polar Bear Plunge—he escaped the war in Afghanistan and lived to tell his story in a bestselling book, while her precious ...

One Christmas Eve (Christmas Holiday Extravaganza)

Pelican Ventures Book Group-Harbourlight Books, 2012

Movie star Blake Carmichael found more than just freedom from his drug addiction in rehab. He found God. And he has just one wish for the first Christmas of his new life: reconciliation with his teenage son, Eli. But after eight years of hardly hearing from Blake, Eli wants nothing to do with his father. So when his mother forces Eli to stay with Blake during the Christmas holidays, Eli sneaks out of the house. From the New Hampshire seacoast ...

Savanna's Gift (Christmas Holiday Extravaganza)

Pelican Book Group (White Rose Publishing), 2011

Forced to return to the ski lodge where she once worked, Savanna Holt is reminded of one special Christmas and how ambition led her to make the worst mistake of her life: Leaving Luke Nelson. Stunned to discover Luke never left, but worked his way up from lift operator to manager, Savanna sees the opportunity as a gift from God. She’s determined to win Luke back. But Luke wants no reminders of his past hurt, or a relationship with the woman ...

The Annotated Wizard of Oz (Centennial Edition)
L. Frank Baum

W. W. Norton & Company, 2000

The "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is the quintessential American fairy tale, but it is also a controversial children's book. This annoted edition illuminates the numerous contemporary references, provides character sources, and explains the actual meaning of the word "Oz". A facsimile of the rare 1900 first edition appears with the original drawings by W.W. Denslow, as well as 25 previously unpublished illustrations. There is a bibliography of L. ...

Sparrow Road
Sheila O'Connor

Putnam Juvenile, 2011

It's the summer before seventh grade, and twelve-year- old Raine O'Rourke's mother suddenly takes a job hours from home at mysterious Sparrow Road- a creepy, dilapidated mansion that houses an eccentric group of artists. As Raine tries to make sense of her new surroundings, she forges friendships with a cast of quirky characters including the outrageous and funky Josie. Together, Raine and Josie decide to solve the mysteries of Sparrow ...

Christmas Sanctuary (Christmas Holiday Extravaganza)

Pelican Book Group (White Rose Publishing), 2011

Dea Lacey is on the run. Scared and alone, she has to protect her endangered nephew. If she can find Garrett's father, perhaps he'll keep the boy safe and learn to love the child she'd trade her life to keep. Jesse McTavish has lost his family. Abandoning his faith, the seeds of destruction are sown. As he struggles with grief, the last thing he needs is a woman showing up with a child who's the mirror image of his dead son. But he can ...

Liberace Extravaganza!
Connie Furr Soloman, Jan Jewett

Harper Design, 2013

Liberace Extravaganza! by award-winning costume designers Connie Furr Soloman and Jan Jewett is an opulent display of the renowned entertainer’s dazzling and over-the-top costumes. No one would ever accuse Wladzlu Valentino Liberace of being demure. The internationally celebrated star is almost as well known for his eye-catching, flamboyant fashion as he is for his music. Authorized by the Liberace Foundation, Liberace Extravaganza! ...

As You Are at Christmas (Christmas Holiday Extravaganza)

White Rose Publishing, 2012

Angela Murphy’s plans for a cozy Colorado Christmas shatter when she finds her fellow-teacher boyfriend entangled with another woman. But she goes home anyway—to her grandmother Mollie’s Berthoud Boarding House where she’s forced into tasks with Mollie’s handsome new boarder, Matt Dawson. While temporarily rooming at the boarding house until his new furnace arrives, Matt sees through Mollie’s manipulations to pair him with her ...

Christmas in Coyote County (Christmas Holiday Extravaganza)

White Rose Publishing, 2011

In Coyote County, Christmas means festive lights, the town parade, hot coffee and cinnamon rolls...not creatures from another planet. While a glowing green Peeping Tom with two antennae is a little hard to buy, Libby Hawkins doesn’t believe her former school teacher suffers from either dementia or a runaway imagination. There’s a logical explanation, and she intends to discover it before the older woman is placed in a nursing home. After a ...

Ransomed Hope (Christmas Holiday Extravaganza)

Pelican Ventures Book Group-White Rose Publishing, 2012

“Hope deferred makes the heart sick…” Seventeen years ago, Ashley Turner lost her father as well as Manuel Vega, the man she loved. Since then, she’s been trying to make the best of a bad situation. Now a widow, burdened with the alcoholic brother who bankrupted the family ranch, and days from foreclosure, she’s beyond hoping for her situation to improve. Ashley knows God allows adversity for a reason, but she can’t begin to ...

Christmas Forever (Christmas Holiday Extravaganza)

White Rose Publishing, 2012

Jason hasn't seen Cami in three years. Now she's back, with the son he'd wanted to claim as his own. Can he believe her newly found faith or will she desert him, and God, again?

Extravaganza King: Robert Barnet and Boston Musical Theater
Anne Alison Barnet

Northeastern, 2004

This is the entertaining tale of Robert Barnet (1853–1933), a prosperous Boston sugar merchant, and the enormously popular musical theatricals he wrote and produced for the First Corps of Cadets, a volunteer militia of young upper-class Boston businessmen who sought money to build an armory as protection against feared immigrant uprisings. Barnet had already made a name for himself in local amateur theater circles when the Corps hired the ...

Sophie's Ballet Show: A Sparkly Pop-up Extravaganza!
Rosalinda Kightley

Barron's Educational Series, 2012

This delightful story about a little girl who joins a ballet class comes with big color illustrations and all kinds of interactive features on every page. There are tabs to pull, flaps to lift, wheels to turn, and a wonderful pop-up ballet scene on the book's final two-page spread. When kids pull the book's tabs, little Sophie and her classmates actually move around, practicing their steps and learning to dance. Little girls will also enjoy ...

The Present (Christmas Holiday Extravaganza)

Pelican Ventures Book Group-White Rose Publishing, 2012

What does a girl do with a Christmas present that’s too good to be true? This year’s Christmas is worse than ever. Candice Cane-Bryant (don’t call her Candy Cane) is stressed by her job, exhausted in her role as surrogate parent to her three younger siblings, and angry with her carefree adult sister, Jane. And all of that has her feeling guilty for not appreciating God’s gift of keeping her family together. When Jane brings home another ...

Julia Gillian (And the Dream of the Dog)
Alison Mcghee

Scholastic Press, 2010

In this stunning conclusion to the JULIA GILLIAN trilogy, Julia Gillian discovers the hardest part of being human: to love what is mortal. Sixth grade is proving to be less than dreamy: Julia Gillian's new homeroom teacher is serious about school work and has the class "controlling for variables." Julia Gillian has been paired for the Reading Extravaganza with Fergus Cannon, whose distaste for reading rivals her own. Worst of all, her beloved ...