Maddy Again

Author : Pamela Brown
Publisher : Pushkin Children's Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781782691938

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Maddy Again by Pamela Brown Pdf

The fifth and final book in the Blue Door series, which starts with The Swish of the Curtain, the classic story which inspired actors from Maggie Smith to Eileen Atkins. Maddy got up and did her Junior Miss speech, trying not to overdo the comedy. Her American accent was hideous, and very funny, and all the class began to giggle. The whole class clapped when she had finished, and Mr Manyweather roared with laughter. 'What a little horror!' he cried. 'I've never seen anything so nauseating, but excellent!' Maddy is on her own again at the Actors' Guild in London, while the others work at the Blue Door Theatre. But she's not entirely alone: she has a new roommate, a new chaperone and an inspiring new teacher, Mr Manyweather, brought in to introduce students to the very different world of television. With these friends, can Maddy survive her first taste of failure - or is she embarking on her greatest acting adventure yet?

Author : Patricia Yager Delagrange
Publisher : Maximus Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781954395091

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Maddy's Phoenix by Patricia Yager Delagrange Pdf

Maddy McCray lives a hard scrabble life, working as a waitress at the Monte Rio Café in a little town on California’s Russian River. Abandoned by her mother when she was a teenager, then by her two worthless boyfriends, she is nonetheless grateful for the rustic cabin where she lives—and for Cheryl, the older and wiser waitress who watches over her while Maddy anticipates the birth of her baby. Then one night Maddy goes into labor prematurely and loses her precious baby. The loss is almost more than the distraught 22-year-old can bear. A few days later he discovers a tiny infant in the dumpster behind the café. An abandoned baby, a baby no one wants, a baby who will wind up in a string of foster homes. But Maddy wants the baby. She names her Judith. Maddy resolves to take the money in her tip jar and move to the Bay Area, where she can get a better-paying job and study to become a nurse, to be better than the things her momma said about her. But how can Maddy take care of little Judith, work and go to school?

Author : Pamela Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 0091124700

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Maddy Again by Pamela Brown Pdf

Author : Kate Fagan
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780316356534

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What Made Maddy Run by Kate Fagan Pdf

The heartbreaking story of college athlete Madison Holleran, whose life and death by suicide reveal the struggle of young people suffering from mental illness today in this #1 New York Times Sports and Fitness bestseller *Instant New York Times Bestseller* #1 New York Times Monthly Sports and Fitness bestseller If you scrolled through the Instagram feed of 19-year-old Maddy Holleran, you would see a perfect life: a freshman at an Ivy League school, recruited for the track team, who was also beautiful, popular, and fiercely intelligent. This was a girl who succeeded at everything she tried, and who was only getting started. But when Maddy began her long-awaited college career, her parents noticed something changed. Previously indefatigable Maddy became withdrawn, and her thoughts centered on how she could change her life. In spite of thousands of hours of practice and study, she contemplated transferring from the school that had once been her dream. When Maddy's dad, Jim, dropped her off for the first day of spring semester, she held him a second longer than usual. That would be the last time Jim would see his daughter. WHAT MADE MADDY RUN began as a piece that Kate Fagan, a columnist for espnW, wrote about Maddy's life. What started as a profile of a successful young athlete whose life ended in suicide became so much larger when Fagan started to hear from other college athletes also struggling with mental illness. This is the story of Maddy Holleran's life, and her struggle with depression, which also reveals the mounting pressures young people, and college athletes in particular, face to be perfect, especially in an age of relentless connectivity and social media saturation.

Author : Dale Mayer
Publisher : Valley Publishing Ltd.
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781927461334

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Maddy's Floor by Dale Mayer Pdf

Medical intuitive and licensed MD Madeleine Wagner thought she'd seen every way possible to heal a diseased body...then patients start dying from mysterious causes in her long-term facility. The terminally ill fight to get into her ward. Once there, many miraculously...live. So when her patients start dropping and she senses an evil force causing their deaths, she calls on her friend and mentor, Stefan, for help. Together, they delve beyond the physical plane into the metaphysical... Only to find terror. She wants to save everyone, but are some souls not meant to be saved? Detective Drew McNeil has two family members in need of Maddy's healing care, but his visits to her facility leave him wondering - who cares for Maddy? Bizarre events on her floor raise his professional curiosity. And the more time he spends with Maddy, the more personal everything becomes. When the deaths on Maddy's Floor intersect with one of his cold cases, he realizes an old killer has returned - and Maddy's standing in his path. How can these people stop something that no one else can see, feel or even believe?

Author : Simone St. James
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101577233

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The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. James Pdf

A woman of limited means and even less experience must confront a vengeful spirit in this haunting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Broken Girls and The Sun Down Motel. 1920s England. Sarah Piper’s lonely, threadbare existence changes when her temporary agency sends her to assist an obsessed ghost hunter. Alistair Gellis—rich, handsome, and scarred by World War I—has been summoned to investigate the spirit of the nineteen-year-old maid Maddy Clare, who is said to haunt the barn where she committed suicide. Maddy hated men in life, and she will not speak to them in death. But Sarah is unprepared to confront an angry ghost—real or imagined—on her own. She’s even less prepared for the arrival of Alistair’s associate, rough, unsettling Matthew Ryder, also a veteran of the trenches, whose scars go deeper than Sarah can reach. Soon, Sarah is caught up in a desperate struggle. For Maddy’s ghost is no hoax—she’s real, she’s angry, and she has powers that defy all reason. Now, Sarah and Matthew must discover who Maddy was, where she came from, and what is driving her desire for vengeance—before she destroys them all....

Author : Imogen Tovey
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781783065004

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Maddy's Dolphin by Imogen Tovey Pdf

When Maddy and her brother CJ arrive at Loutraki Bay for their annual summer break, they are looking forward to long days waterskiing with their dad and most of all, swimming with Indigo, the local dolphin. But Indigo is no ordinary dolphin: he is able to speak to certain humans, and has been with Maddy ever since saving her from drowning when she was a toddler. And this time, he has an urgent message to tell her: the dolphins are under threat from a mysterious underwater noise that interferes with their sonar, causing them to lose their way at sea. Maddy and CJ soon discover that the source of the noise is the American submarines, which have come to Greece to prevent attacks on the NATO summit in Athens. When the US President and his daughter arrive in Loutraki, Maddy and CJ see their chance to alert him to the dolphins' plight; but persuading him to call off the submarines will take a very risky plan...

Author : Scott Speer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781101561478

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Immortal City by Scott Speer Pdf

Jackson Godspeed is the hottest young Angel in a city filled with them. He's days away from becoming a full Guardian, and people around the world are already competing for the chance to be watched over by him. Everyone's obsessed with the Angels and the lucky people they protect - everyone except for Madison Montgomery. Maddy's the one girl in Angel City who doesn't breathlessly follow the Angels on TV and gossip blogs. When she meets Jackson, she doesn't recognize him. But Jackson is instantly captivated by her, and against all odds the two fall in love. Maddy is swiftly caught up in Jackson's scene, a world of glamour, paparazzi - and murder. A serial killer is on the loose, leaving dead Angels' wings for the police to find on the Walk of Fame. Even the Guardians are powerless to protect themselves in the face of this threat . . . and this time it's up to Maddy to save Jackson.

Author : Kristin Carter Rowe
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781462839605

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Maddy "No Chance" by Kristin Carter Rowe Pdf

Madison Chance is a misunderstood and oft-teased nine-year old girl who escapes the rigors of elementary school by occasionally sneaking away to the cemetery on an adjacent hill. There, Maddy "No Chance," as she is called by her peers, finds comfort in her unusual discussions with the recently murdered daughter of the towns police chief, Nora Pendleton. Noras murder is unsolved until Maddys unique psychic abilities begin to unravel the secrets surrounding Noras untimely death, secrets so sinister that they threaten the safety of the entire community and even Maddy herself.

Author : Sandra Barret
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781636794686

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Grave Consequences by Sandra Barret Pdf

When Tamar Richler, an unlicensed necromancer, raises someone from the dead, she is forced to earn her license from researcher and top necromancy expert in the state, Maddy Wu. Maddy is both beautiful and unreachable, with lofty standards Tamar feels she can never meet. Maddy knows better than anyone the dangers of unlicensed magic. After an accident years before leaves one brother dead and the other mysteriously uninjured, Maddy attempts a resurrection herself before the ambulance and licensed necromancer can arrive. The result leaves her with chronic illness and fatigue, and her brother in a coma. Now her only goal is to right her wrong and bring him back. When Tamar connects the dots to what really happened, the two of them must fight against the most politically powerful necromancer in the state to save a life and prevent the threat to their own survival.

Author : Sam Kauffman
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781491834282

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Maddy - Courage and Heart by Sam Kauffman Pdf

Through supper dishes that seem to fly; pansy salads and conquering loveseats the size of Mt. Everest Maddy - Courage and Heart - teaches us lessons about wide-eyed wonder, life changes and opening up to the miraculous all taught by a puppy. Through humor, engaging storytelling and insight into the mind and attitudes of a puppy, Sam Kauffman draws readers into Maddy's story weaving a captivating tale about Maddy, her littermates and her family. With eyes open, ears up and tail wagging, Maddy takes us on a journey from the vantage point of a lively puppy that discovers the world of bugs, music and how life is supposed to be through her "Puppy Handbook." As each chapter unfolds, we are invited on a magic carpet of memories that ultimately brings the reader into the experience of grabbing onto life with courage and heart. A must-have for anyone who loves animals!

Author : Mike Allen,C. S. E. Cooney,Amanda J. McGee,Jessica P. Wick
Publisher : Mythic Delirium Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A Sinister Quartet by Mike Allen,C. S. E. Cooney,Amanda J. McGee,Jessica P. Wick Pdf

2020 Locus Recommended Reading List, Best Anthology Contains “The Twice-Drowned Saint” by C.S.E. Cooney, 2020 Locus Recommended Reading List, Best First Novel “With fiction from C.S.E Cooney, Jessica P. Wick, Amanda J. McGee, and Mike Allen, Mythic Delirium’s excellent new anthology, A Sinister Quartet, provides further evidence that long-form genre fiction is not just alive and well but thriving.” —Locus, Ian Mond “Mythic Delirium is one of the smaller presses which sustains our field . . . This is lovely and fascinating . . . Really fine work.” —Locus, Rich Horton "Easily one of the best things I've read this year . . . 'The Twice Drowned Saint' alone is worth five times the cost of the collection." —The Little Red Reviewer INCLUDES BONUS STORIES AND EXCERPTS AND NEW FULL COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS Behind the walls of an invulnerable city ruled by angels, old movies provide balm for the soul and a plan to escape risks grisly retribution. A princess discovers a passage to a nightmarish world of deception and blood-sealed enchantment. A woman who has lost everything meets a man of great wealth and ominous secrets. In a town haunted by tragedy, malevolent supernatural entities converge, and the conflict that ensues unleashes chaos. A Sinister Quartet gathers original long-form wonders and horrors composed in unusual keys, with a short novel by World Fantasy Award winner C. S. E. Cooney and a new novella from two-time World Fantasy Award finalist Mike Allen joined by debut novellas from rising talents Amanda J. McGee and Jessica P. Wick. All four offer immersions into strange, beautiful and frightening milieus.

Author : S. James Mitchell
Publisher : Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Pu
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1843864444

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The Fuhrer Directive by S. James Mitchell Pdf

Author : Margaret Thornton
Publisher : Allison & Busby
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780749017729

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Remember Me by Margaret Thornton Pdf

Madeleine Moon has turned seventeen and the day has come for her to leave the family home - she's achieved her ambition of topping the bill as 'Yorkshire's own songbird'. But visiting the north-coast tourist towns isn't the only journey she's about to embark on; Maddy's heart is taken on a bumpy ride as she experiences the highs and lows, the rapture and the heartache, of falling in love for the first time. Will her dreams of romance and 'happy ever after' come true? Warm and nostalgic, Remember Me is a book for anyone who smiles at the memory of their first love, and the foolish mistakes they made along the way.

Author : Dana Piccoli
Publisher : Bella Books
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781642471083

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Savor the Moment by Dana Piccoli Pdf

Natalia Chambers is a successful singer/songwriter whose star is on the rise. But Nat has a problem. She can’t seem to write any new music and the pressure is on to write a follow-up to her last record. The fact that her last girlfriend betrayed her and left her with a wounded heart certainly isn’t helping any. When Nat comes home from her latest tour, she’s ready for some serious R&R. The last thing she expects is a stunning pastry chef named Maddy LaDuke to send her tumbling (literally) head over heels. As Nat spends more time with Maddy she discovers a side benefit—it seems that their romance may hold the key to that serious writer’s block problem. Just when Nat thinks she’s ready for something big with Maddy, an old flame arrives and tries to burn it all down. Will Nat and Maddy be able to put their hearts on the line and find trust in each other? Dana Piccoli takes readers on journey of sweet romance and second chances with her debut novel, Savor the Moment.