Hundreds of solutions to all your housekeeping needs! Banish those stains and transform your home into a palace of sparkling surfaces, clutter-free cupboards and carpets to be proud of. From ovens to fridges to bathrooms, red wine rings, and foul smelling microwaves - Aggie has all the answers to any cleaning question you can think of. From top to bottom, inside and outside, you'll find oodles of nifty ideas to take the drudgery out of cleaning. Erase each and every one of your domestic nightmares - after all, nobody knows housekeeping quite like Aggie!
Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Daddy takes Ben on a surprise trip to the pet store. Ben doesn't want a mouse, a snake, or even a cat. But when a certain puppy makes Ben laugh, a lasting friendship is formed. Three short chapters trace a day in the life of Ben and his new puppy, Aggie.
A tragic accident on the London docks A family struggling to survive And a girl who makes the worst mistake of her life… In the 1850s, tragedy strikes the Collins family when Aggie’s father is badly injured on the busy London docks. When their mother dies, Aggie and her younger sisters are left to fend for themselves and struggle to make ends meet. Aggie’s father is in constant pain, which is relieved only by his daughter’s skill with massage and regular doses of laudanum. But laudanum is expensive, and food is scarce. Aggie makes a desperate decision to steal food from the market, but to her horror, is caught and sent to Brixton prison. After serving her time, Aggie becomes a maid-of-all-work in the Gartrell household. She is forced to work long, hard hours, and the Dowager Gartrell never misses an opportunity to remind her of her past mistakes. Aggie finds solace in the growing friendship she shares with Viscount Richard Gartrell, the eldest son of the household. Aggie tentatively offers her help with massage to rebuild his body after injuries sustained in the Crimean war, after which their bond deepens. Although Richard is a perfect gentleman, Aggie fears the Dowager will instantly dismiss her if she finds out, for she is determined to see her son marry well and restore the family's fortunes. Her worst fears are realized. The Dowager mistakes their growing friendship for something more, and Aggie’s future is once again in doubt… but worst of all, she has to admit to herself that she has done what she was trying so hard to avoid. She has fallen in love with Lord Richard Gartrell, a relationship that is surely doomed...
Meet the little girl who decided superheroes didn't live only in comic books. Then learn how she--and nine other amazing people--proved it.Aggie Borkowski is only ten when she realizes the world needs help, and she can't do the job alone. For the next dozen years, Aggie pursues her extraordinary goal: to gather a team of nine talented, dedicated people who want to be heroes.Number one on that roster is Aggie's remarkable grandfather, Bernie. His indomitable spirit--undaunted by personal tragedy and a sometimes-terrifying handicap--is key to the realization of Aggie's dreams. The Borkowskis' story spans five decades, from Korea's Demilitarized Zone to the high-tech minefield of life in the 21st Century, including a sojourn in that fearful place called middle school. With Bernie's loving guidance, Aggie develops exceptional coping skills, all the while facing the conventional challenges of growing up and finding true love.Aggie is just one girl trying to make a small difference...but like Bernie taught her, "A good deed is never too small."And it works even better when you can do it with a team.
Natalya Stravinsky isn’t your typical Jersey werewolf. A pariah from the South Toms River Pack for many years, Natalya spends her days hoarding holiday trinkets and selling antiques to persnickety paranormal creatures. But everything changes when her ex-boyfriend, and soon-to-be alpha wolf, Thorn Grantham returns to town. Nat still has feelings for him, but his family expects him to marry another woman. Compounding her problems, an attractive, germaphobe wizard is falling for her, her therapy group for anxiety-ridden supernaturals is bringing up a host of issues for her to face, and Nat finds herself bumping heads with her oddball Russian werewolf family. But when Nat finds herself on the front lines in a blood feud against a rival wolf pack, will she be able to protect those she loves the most? Or will the Long Island werewolves destroy all she holds dear? Coveted Series Reading Order: Collected (Prequel Novella) Coveted Kept Compelled Series Continuation - Flea Market Magic Thrift Store Trolls Deceptive Dime Store Demons
Bill Taylor dreams of becoming a world champion rodeo cowboy. To raise a stake toward achieving his goal, Billy follows his brother's advice to "find a rich wife to support your dream." Billy persuades Nicole to elope with him and have his baby. He hopes her rich old granddad will die soon and leave her a bundle. Meanwhile, her kinfolk want their princess back home in the bosom of the family who loves her. Nicole struggles to control her temper--vowing to stop beating up on Billy and endangering her child. She changes her mind almost daily about sticking by her man, because she's afraid of losing little Stevie into the foster care service. In a backwater community where nothing much ever happens, an art gallery owner dabbles in art forgeries. Senator Steve Norman and the U.S. President are two hobby artists whose works of art are at risk. And Aggie Morissey seeks to solve a murder before one of her double cousins is arrested. Key players in the story are Nicole Jacquot Taylor and her husband, Cowboy Billy Taylor; Steve Norman, the man Nickee cannot have. And Aggie Morissey, supportive confidante and grandmother. Plus a supporting case of assorted in-laws and outlaws, the art gallery owner, the bartender, the banker, and the President of the United States.
Jim and Milly. Stan and Jane. Jonathan and Fiona. Winter, 1959. Three married couples: each living in England's Lane, each with an only child, and each attending to family, and their livelihoods--the ironmonger, the sweetshop and the butcher. Each of them hiding their lies, disguising sin, and coping in the only way they know how.
Somebody feels threatened by Aggie's commitment to researching and writing the family history. Leaving threatening phone calls, emails, and faxes, the bad guy doesn't give up. Hiring a killer, a neophyte bad guy, this stalker trails Aggie and her double cousin to France, and on a river cruise, and then on a cross-country drive. The problem-what sort of scandal occured in the recent or distant past to send a family member on such a deadly quest? What could Aggie possibly uncover that's so awful as to require murder most foul? Aggie's research takes her and Lisa back to the past on a historical adventure, where we see the settling of the west, particularly Wyoming, through the eyes of the cousins' great-great-grandmothers. Meanwhile, in this day and age, one wonders what in the world possessed another cousin to marry a real loser, a teller turned bank VP after marrying the secretary of state. Also, Aggie's generation of cousins are bent on playing cupid, except they're in conflict about whom and why. Should they push Senator Steve Norman at Cousin Nasty, or devise romantic scenarios for Steve with Nicole, Aggie's granddaughter? These two sub-plots get in the way of Aggie's quest, one of which contributes to her search and her desperate efforts to save her own life, and the other sub-plot of which must inevitably foil the primary plot. (Aggie's Double Dollies, more than any other of the Aggie Morissey mysteries, helps to unravel the family saga)
Alternately bittersweet and laugh-out-loud funny, a wise, bighearted novel of love, disaster, and unconventional family—from the acclaimed author of Standard Deviation, who has been called the "literary descendant of Jane Austen, sharing Austen's essentially comic world view" (NPR). Jane falls in love with Duncan easily. He is charming, good-natured, and handsome but unfortunately, he has also slept with nearly every woman in Boyne City, Michigan. Jane sees Duncan's old girlfriends everywhere—at restaurants, at the grocery store, even three towns away. While Jane may be able to come to terms with dating the world's most prolific seducer of women, she wishes she did not have to share him quite so widely. His ex-wife, Aggie, a woman with shiny hair and pale milkmaid skin, still has Duncan mow her lawn. His coworker, Jimmy, comes and goes from Duncan's apartment at the most inopportune times. Sometimes Jane wonders if a relationship can even work with three people in it—never mind four. Five if you count Aggie's eccentric husband, Gary. Not to mention all the other residents of Boyne City, who freely share with Jane their opinions of her choices. But any notion Jane had of love and marriage changes with one terrible car crash. Soon Jane's life is permanently intertwined with Duncan's, Aggie's, and Jimmy's, and Jane knows she will never have Duncan to herself. But could it be possible that a deeper kind of happiness is right in front of Jane's eyes? Katherine Heiny's Early Morning Riser is her most astonishingly wonderful work to date.
