Christmas off Script

Christmas off Script
Author: Evie Alexander
Publisher: Emlin Press
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2024-11-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1914473345

Enjoy this laugh-out-loud, steamy romance series by award-winning romantic comedy author Evie Alexander… ’Tis the season to fall in love… Best friends Leo Foxbrooke and Ella Chamberlain love Christmas and each other—in a strictly platonic way, of course. The only secret they've ever kept from each other is a mutual crush they had when teenagers. But the timing was never right. Until now… Dumped by her boyfriend, Ella’s facing Christmas homeless and alone. The only ray of sunshine in her life is Leo and his family, who welcome her into Foxbrooke Manor. Staying in the bedroom next to Leo’s is a luxury and means more time together prepping for the Christmas pantomime. Leo always plays a side role, and Ella paints the sets. But as the clock ticks down to Christmas, they find themselves center stage playing Cinderella and Prince Charming. Rehearsal kisses between best friends should be easy. Right? So why do they feel so real? Ella can’t risk losing Leo when she’s already lost so much. But as the Christmas countdown heats up, hearts melt, and practice kisses turn into much more. With Leo and Ella falling for each other faster than the snow outside, maybe this Christmas, they can finally rewrite their friendship and unwrap true love… Christmas off Script is a friends-to-lovers, forced proximity, steamy, standalone romantic comedy with a modern-day Cinderella, her swoony Prince Charming, and more heat than chestnuts roasting on an open fire – Perfect for fans of Lucy Score, Pippa Grant, Kayley Loring, Tara Sivec, Lauren Landish, Lauren Blakely and Nicole Snow. No cheating or cliffhanger, but all the Christmas feels, a sackful of lols, and a fairytale happy ending guaranteed in this fabulously festive and magical romcom! Scroll up to get your copy of Christmas off Script today!

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Author: Barbara Robinson
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 60
Release: 1983
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780573617454

The six mean Herdman kids lie, steal, smoke cigars (even the girls) and then become involved in the community Christmas pageant.

Just Stop Eating So Much! Completely Revised & Updated

Just Stop Eating So Much! Completely Revised & Updated
Author: Gregg McBride
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2014-08-28
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1312430818

Good news! Despite what the commercial diet industry might want you to believe, losing unhealthy excess weight is easy. Popular blogger and author Gregg McBride took off more than 250 pounds within one year-without surgery, pills or fads. And he's kept it off for over a decade. Now you can achieve your own version of success. It all begins with your commitment to yourself. And with this simple, easy to incorporate eating plan and lifestyle, you have the potential to live your life to its fullest-while looking and feeling as good as you deserve to. This completely revised and updated plan includes Just Stop Eating So Much!

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Author: Dr. Seuss
Publisher: RH Childrens Books
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2013-10-22
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0385372035

Get in on the Christmas cheer with Dr. Seuss’s iconic holiday classic starring the Grinch and Cindy-Lou Who—guaranteed to grow your heart three sizes! Every Who down in Who-ville liked Christmas a lot...but the Grinch, who lived just north of Who-ville, did NOT! Not since “’Twas the night before Christmas” has the beginning of a Christmas tale been so instantly recognizable. From the Grinch and his dog, Max, to Cindy-Lou and all the residents of Who-ville, this heartwarming story about the effects of the Christmas spirit will warm even the coldest and smallest of hearts. Like mistletoe, candy canes, and caroling, the Grinch is a mainstay of the holidays, and his story is perfect for readers young and old.

If It's Monday, this Must be Christmas!

If It's Monday, this Must be Christmas!
Author: David Patrick Cook
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2007
Genre: Christmas plays, American
ISBN: 9781583424025

'Cast: 5m., 6w., 1 boy, 1 girl. It's finally here! The fifth play in the Harry Monday trilogy! Okay, Harry never could count. Christmas time rolls around and our down-and-out gumshoe is short of cash as usual. He's down to walking dogs for a few bucks when Harrigan's department store has its payroll stolen. And who you gonna' call? Loretta Mondello, the store manager, has complete faith in Harry pulling this one off. After all, she's his mother! Not only is the payroll missing but, crime of all crimes, somebody kidnapped Santa Claus! The store's St. Nick has gone missing along with the money and bonuses. And Harry has only one day, Christmas Eve, to solve the case. Is Scarlet Kloontz, the all-too-friendly clerk, behind it all? Or maybe Carson Page, the newest member of the Harrigan staff, who is also in love with the boss's daughter? And why did Mildred Wolensky, owner of a rival store, suddenly show up? Or Trixie O'Brien, an elf who was the last one to see Santa before he vanished? Maybe that old con-artist buddy of Harry's, Louie Grandville, has pulled another gig? As if clues weren't hard enough to find, Lieutenant Brogan shows up, along with his 9-year-old daughter. And we get a glimpse into Harry's past as he recalls his first case ... in the third grade! What can a flatfoot do to stay free of the fuzz and find the felons? Wise cracks and plot twists fly faster than Santa's sleigh in this yuletide whodunit. One int. set. Approximate running time: 1 hour, 45 minutes."--Publisher's website.

Nothing Lasts Forever (Basis for the film Die Hard)

Nothing Lasts Forever (Basis for the film Die Hard)
Author: Roderick Thorp
Publisher: Graymalkin Media
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2012-12-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 193516984X

High atop a Los Angeles skyscraper, an office Christmas party turns into a deadly cage-match between a lone New York City cop and a gang of international terrorists. Every action fan knows it could only be the explosive big-screen blockbuster Die Hard. But before Bruce Willis blew away audiences as unstoppable hero John McClane, author Roderick Thorp knocked out thriller readers with the bestseller that started it all. A dozen heavily armed terrorists have taken hostages, issued demands, and promised bloodshed — all according to plan. But they haven’t counted on a death-defying, one-man cavalry with no shoes, no backup, and no intention of going down easily. As hot-headed cops swarm outside, and cold-blooded killers wield machine guns and rocket launchers inside, the stage is set for the ultimate showdown between anti-hero and uber-villains. Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good fight... to the death. Ho ho ho!

Nora Goes Off Script

Nora Goes Off Script
Author: Annabel Monaghan
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2023-02-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0593420055

"The perfect escape." —USA Today "Readers who loved Emily Henry's Book Lovers are sure to savor Nora Goes Off Script." —Shelf Awareness Named one of the Best Beach Reads of Summer 2022 by The Washington Post • USA Today • Cosmopolitan • Southern Living • Country Living • Business Insider • Buzzfeed • Book Riot • The Augusta Chronicle Nora’s life is about to get a rewrite… Nora Hamilton knows the formula for love better than anyone. As a romance channel screenwriter, it’s her job. But when her too-good-to work husband leaves her and their two kids, Nora turns her marriage’s collapse into cash and writes the best script of her life. No one is more surprised than her when it’s picked up for the big screen and set to film on location at her 100-year-old-home. When former Sexiest Man Alive, Leo Vance, is cast as her ne’er do well husband Nora’s life will never be the same. The morning after shooting wraps and the crew leaves, Nora finds Leo on her porch with a half-empty bottle of tequila and a proposition. He’ll pay a thousand dollars a day to stay for a week. The extra seven grand would give Nora breathing room, but it’s the need in his eyes that makes her say yes. Seven days: it’s the blink of an eye or an eternity depending on how you look at it. Enough time to fall in love. Enough time to break your heart. Filled with warmth, wit, and wisdom, Nora Goes Off Script is the best kind of love story—the real kind where love is complicated by work, kids, and the emotional baggage that comes with life. For Nora and Leo, this kind of love is bigger than the big screen.

The Christmas Bus

The Christmas Bus
Author: Robert Inman
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2006
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781583423318

Worried that the Trustees will oust her as director of Peaceful Valley Orphanage, Mrs. Frump tries to make Christmas unforgettable for the eight orphans known as The Hooligans, while a singer from a nearby town must decide between staying home and seeking his fortune.

Off Script

Off Script
Author: Josh King
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2016-04-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1137280069

"Being a public figure is no walk in the park - the world focuses on every move that politicians make and highlights their every mistake. "Image collapse" can befall anyone whose carefully cultivated persona is pitted against intermediaries in the broadcast booths of cable news networks or behind the photo desks of newspapers, magazines, and today's host of digital platforms. As a world-traveling "advance man," an operative who orchestrates TV- and photo-ready moments involving important political figures, Josh King has unique experience working with the reputations of officeholders, candidates and other public figures. In Off Script, King leads readers through an entertaining and illuminating journey through the Hall of Infamy of some of the most catastrophic examples of political theater of the last quarter century. Readers might remember these cringe worthy moments as simple cases of bad luck. King argues, instead, that they were symptomatic of something larger: our broad appetite for public embarrassment, the media's business imperatives in satiating that craving, and the propensity of politicians to serve it up on a platter, often by pretending to be someone they're not while strutting on the public stage. We tour recent history - King calls it "the Age of Optics" - to establish this syndrome, and then turn to the Obama administration and what Josh calls the emergence of the "Vanilla Presidency." King argues that Barack Obama has been more guarded and more protective of the presidential persona than anyone in history, and as we look to the elections of 2016 and beyond, we have to wonder: Will our future president follow Obama's example? If so, how will that influence the relationship between our nation's citizens and their leader?"--

A Christmas Story

A Christmas Story
Author: Jean Shepherd
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 109
Release: 2010-10-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307768732

A beloved, bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana—the book that inspired the equally classic Yuletide film and the live musical on Fox. The holiday film A Christmas Story, first released in 1983, has become a bona fide Christmas perennial, gaining in stature and fame with each succeeding year. Its affectionate, wacky, and wryly realistic portrayal of an American family’s typical Christmas joys and travails in small-town Depression-era Indiana has entered our imagination and our hearts with a force equal to It’s a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street. This edition of A Christmas Story gathers together in one hilarious volume the gems of autobiographical humor that Jean Shepherd drew upon to create this enduring film. Here is young Ralphie Parker’s shocking discovery that his decoder ring is really a device to promote Ovaltine; his mother and father’s pitched battle over the fate of a lascivious leg lamp; the unleashed and unnerving savagery of Ralphie’s duel in the show with the odious bullies Scut Farkas and Grover Dill; and, most crucially, Ralphie’s unstoppable campaign to get Santa—or anyone else—to give him a Red Ryder carbine action 200-shot range model air rifle. Who cares that the whole adult world is telling him, “You’ll shoot your eye out, kid”? The pieces that comprise A Christmas Story, previously published in the larger collections In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash and Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories, coalesce in a magical fashion to become an irresistible piece of Americana, quite the equal of the film in its ability to warm the heart and tickle the funny bone.