Something smells off about this murder, and it's not the stinky cheese. Brianna West needs a fresh start away from the big city. In her new cheese-themed café on quaint Driftwood Island, she plans to serve mascarpone croissants and asiago scones to friends new and old. But when Brianna follows her eccentric Aunt Dot’s escaped goat and discovers the water buffalo farmer next door with Dot’s pitchfork in his back, her aunt is suspect number one. Soon, other suspects besides Dot emerge like curds from whey. Brianna sets out to prove her aunt's innocence with the help of her chatty best friend, the inflated egos of the local Gourmand Society, and a handsome local Mountie in charge of law enforcement. Brianna vows to sniff out the real murderer before she loses her aunt, her new life on the island, and her succulent, savory cheese café. Cheese is pungent. Murder stinks.
Secrets and lies go together like crackers and cheese. On windswept Driftwood Island, Brianna West serves freshly baked bread and mini cheesecakes in her cozy café. Surrounded by quirky members of the Gourmand Society and other new friends, she finally feels a sense of belonging. But not everyone is so friendly. An obnoxious journalist visits the island before Christmas, intent on rooting out scandal and secrets best left buried. He winds up dead, his lifeless eyes covered with carefully laid slices of feta cheese. The prime suspect? A local kiwi farmer dating Brianna’s best friend. Brianna wades through island gossip to learn the truth, risking her own safety. Will she uncover the killer’s identity, or will this Christmas be her last?
Cheese and wine are a match made in Heaven. Too bad murder is also on the menu. Brianna West adores her busy cheese-themed café that serves Roquefort Danishes and camembert crackers on quaint Driftwood Island. To celebrate her new small but vibrant community of Snuggler's Cove, Brianna is planning a wine and cheese event she knows will be to die for. When Brianna visits a local winery to source wine for her event, she stumbles across the vintner's body stabbed by a corkscrew. Someone has killed a man--and upended Brianna's event--and she won't let this slide. With her trusty cheese connoisseur club on her side howling for justice and the island's overworked Mountie warily accepting her help, Brianna will leave no vine unsearched in her hunt for the killer.
Murder is big news at a tiny tea party. Cheese café owner Brianna West must cater an afternoon wedding on a neighboring island, thanks to her meddling aunt’s arrangement. Miniature animals fill the farm venue, and Brianna’s cream cheese sandwiches and parmesan twists must be tiny to match. But cute creatures can’t mask the ugliness of murder. The groom’s grandmother drops dead from poison. Accusations stink like a pungent cheese, and suspicion lands on fellow cheese club member Magnus Pickleton. When a storm prevents police from arriving at the farm, wedding attendees take matters into their own hands. Brianna must find the real killer before they frame Magnus for the crime.
When Kaitlin Howard's father is killed suddenly, she must learn to let go of her business towards God. But when circumstances thrust her into the strange household of Edmund Fitzpatrick, she finds someone whose bitterness towards God far outweighs her own. In this novel, auhtor Michelle Ford presents a gripping character-driven novel set in Victorian England. Readers are able to emphathize with Kaitlin as she struggles to make life changing decisions-should she really marry to save her reputation?-and deal with the consequences. Can she really show God's love to a man with a heart of stone? Will her own faults get in the way? And when Kaitlin's very life is threatened, will she find the love of a godly man or will her hopes of happiness be shattered? A captivating novel of romantic suspense, These Rugged Cliffs takes readers on a journey through bitterness and forgiveness, fear and love.
In a time where there is so much uncertainty, we all at one point and time have questioned "will it ever get better". This book Promises, Promises, Promises deals with the struggles that people face today. Are pressures and responsibilities of family life running you down? The collapsing and failing economy will it ever come to an end? There are an increasing number of people that are struggling with many kinds of addictions, ie; drugs, porn and so much more. But, there is hope and deliverance that awaits each and every one of us. That's a promise! God's promise. The author, Michelle T. Ford shares about the struggles that she personally had gone through in her own life and how God's promises have and still are delivering her from them today.
The Fundamentals of Writing a Financial Plan, 1st Edition provides a new and unique approach to helping aspiring financial planners write a comprehensive financial plan. The book outlines how the CFP Board of Standards, Inc. newly-revised 7-step systematic financial planning process can be applied when writing a comprehensive financial plan for an individual or family. The book not only highlights various elements involved in comprehensive financial planning, including estate, tax, cash flow, education planning, and much more - but also introduces important behavioral perspectives and communication techniques. As a way to synthesize these pieces and learn how the plan writing process unfolds, students follow a running case--the Hubble family. This book features: A thorough review of the new 7-step systematic financial planning process. A description of the regulatory environment in which every financial planner operates. An in-depth discussion of client communication and counseling techniques. Financial planning strategies that can be applied to a variety of clients and client circumstances. A chapter-by-chapter focus on analytical tools and techniques that can be used to evaluate client data. An example of a complete written financial plan with explanations about how analyses lead to the recommendations. Chapter-based learning aids, including access to a fully integrated Financial Planning Analysis Excel(tm) package and other online support materials, including video examples of client communication and counseling strategies. Instructions on how to do calculations essential to creating a financial plan. Numerous self-test questions to test comprehension of material.
You may wonder or might not ever give a damn about why I would decide to spend my time spilling all this inside information about our factories. I did it so that some of us line rats are exposed for the rats we really are. Maybe it is because I just want to gain a bit a respect for all the hardworking, sweating hours that went into those vehicles that some of us deserve. I would like to clear up many false impressions that all of us Ford Employees have to try to live up to that are not even close to being realistically true! Whatever the case may be, I like most of American has a story to tell. I have allowed myself to tell the truth, chase any issues that I had stored all boggled up inside, sometimes taking myself to even the darkest depressing places in my life. I changed all the names, days, and identifying characteristics of many people portrayed in this book have been obscured for literary cohesion, to protect our privacy, to protect the guilty so that they may retain their innocence, and so that my husband will not divorce me.
We've all had one of those days when one event after another goes wrong until it escalates into calamity. The twenty-four fiction stories in this collection are a diverse selection of comedic situations involving a female protagonist who uses her wits, sense of humor, or stubbornness to make the best of a bad situation. Laughter is truly the best defense against a day that seems beyond redemption. On one of those days, ignore the chaos around you and curl up with A Shaker of margaritas: A Bad Hair Day and let the laughter begin"--Back cover.
Living in the shadow of a famous parent can have powerful effects, from professional opportunities to pressure so great it leads to suicide. Some children of stars are proud of their roots while others live in secrecy. This is a rare look into the private lives of the children (and, in a few cases, grandchildren) of these classic Hollywood icons, revealing the stresses and inspirations of living with great performers who may or may not have been great parents. Some movie stars protected their offspring, but others used them as publicity props or even made them into rivals. Despite their unusual upbringing, some of the children succeeded in the movies or elsewhere, but many never lived up to the public expectations. Many lost their parents, whether to the extremes of the celebrity lifestyle, to divorce, or to their careers. From the beautiful bedtime stories Harpo Marx and his wife told their four adopted children to explain where they'd come from, to the studded belt Bing Crosby used to punish his sons for not obeying the strict family rules, this work tells the best and worst of growing up in a celebrity home. Families covered include those of W.C. Fields, the Marx Brothers, Eddie Cantor, Mario Lanza, Ruth Hussey, Jerry Lewis, Douglas Fairbanks and Boris Karloff. Research is drawn from interviews with celebrity offspring, who also provided never-before-published snapshots of Hollywood legends at home.
TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 806: Guide to Cross-Asset Resource Allocation and the Impact on Transportation System Performance provides guidance and a spreadsheet tool to help managers with applying data-driven techniques to project prioritization, program development, scenario analysis, and target setting. The tool and guidebook are intended to assist managers with analyzing and communicating performance impacts of investment decisions. The software is available online only and can be download from TRB's website as an ISO image."--Publisher's description.
The China Cabinet is a series of short stories written from the perspective of a modern woman. It tells of a woman's struggles as well as successes. Michelle Metje is a Consultant that works with individuals and companies who, like herself, are committed to professional and personal growth.
Deviance and Social Control: A Sociological Perspective provides a sociological examination of deviant behavior in society, with a significant focus on the major sociological theories of deviance and society’s reaction to deviance using readings from classic and current research.
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