Polly's Perilous Pleasures
Polly's Perilous Pleasures

Author: Daisy Dester Dobbs

Publisher: Ellora's Cave

Published: 2010-07

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9781419960659

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Busting at the seams after months of feeding her face with chocolate, untold carbs and a gazillion calories, Polly Patrick is on a mission. She has just three months to lose weight and get in shape before a very special reunion. Nikolas Kokoris, Polly's personal trainer, is determined to help the sassy, full-figured beauty attain her goal-if his inappropriate, chronic case of lust doesn't kill him first. After three excruciating months of watching her generous breasts jiggle and bounce, and that enticing bottom swing and sway, the handsome Greek is about to detonate. With hot sex at the forefront of Nick's thoughts, he doesn't need exercise to feel the burn. Of course, things aren't always as they seem. Nick has no idea that Polly's been plagued with highly improper thoughts of a distinctly carnal nature about her charming personal trainer. But that's about to change... A seemingly innocent bottle of ouzo, a hilarious case of mistaken identity and Polly's hazardous penchant for role playing all have a hand in turning life as they know it upside down. And oh what a wild ride!

Dangerous Pleasures
Dangerous Pleasures

Author: Patrick Gale

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2016-08-30

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1504038649

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Eleven electric stories of lost women, gay men, curious children, and nostalgic adults from the bestselling author of Notes from an Exhibition. A woman tries on a wig and it unlocks a side of herself she never knew existed. Visiting his old boarding school, a man is nearly undone by memories of a romantic encounter with a former classmate. When she introduces her girlfriend to her family, a young woman is shocked by her mother’s all-too-welcoming reaction. These are the stories of Patrick Gale: loving and warm, familiar and surprising, and all crafted with the precise wit that has made him one of Britain’s most beloved authors of short fiction. The eleven stories that make up Dangerous Pleasures reveal the hidden joys and buried agonies that lie behind our friends’ and neighbors’ happy smiles. Gale understands that the moments that can alter our lives forever come quietly, unexpectedly—as soft and innocuous as a platinum-blond wig. The Sunday Times calls Gale’s short fiction “nattily subversive, sexually ambiguous, intelligent and disturbing.” More than anything, his prose displays an unerring sense of humanity, in every brilliant story, and every perfect line.

Polly's Angel
Polly's Angel

Author: Katie Flynn

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2011-06-30

Total Pages: 517

ISBN-13: 1446427501

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Liverpool, 1936 Polly's guardian angel has to work overtime when her large family is forced to move to central Liverpool. With a hardworking mother, a sick father and her family close to ruin, Polly is easily led astray by the handsome, Sunny Anderson. But soon war looms, and Sunny joins the navy to train as a signaller. After the horrors of the May blitz, Polly decides she too wants to help her country and goes into the WRNS. She hears that an old flame, Tad Donoghue, is now in the Royal Air Force. Tad hopes to be reunited with his Polly, but she is in love with Sunny . . . isn't she?

Pie (Scholastic Gold)
Pie (Scholastic Gold)

Author: Sarah Weeks

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2011-10-01

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0545388228

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From the award-winning author of SO B. IT, a story about family, friendship, and...pie! When Alice's Aunt Polly, the Pie Queen of Ipswitch, passes away, she takes with her the secret to her world-famous pie-crust recipe. Or does she? In her will, Polly leaves the recipe to her extraordinarily fat, remarkably disagreeable cat, Lardo . . . and then leaves Lardo in the care of Alice.Suddenly, the whole town is wondering how you leave a recipe to a cat. Everyone wants to be the next big pie-contest winner, and it's making them pie-crazy. It's up to Alice and her friend Charlie to put the pieces together and discover the not-so-secret recipe for happiness: Friendship. Family. And the pleasure of donig something for the right reason. With Pie, acclaimed author Sarah Weeks has baked up a sweet and satisfying delight, as inviting as warm pie on a cold day. You'll enjoy every last bite.

Polly's War
Polly's War

Author: Freda Lightfoot

Publisher: Canelo

Published: 2023-09-25

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 1804365572

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Will she lose everything she’s worked so hard for? The Second World War may be over, but the war in Polly Pride’s home is only just beginning, and it will test her like never before. Her son, Benny, never seems to be far from trouble, spending all his time with shady characters and winding up in the wrong places at the wrong times. Her daughter, Lucy, is seeing another man behind her husband’s back and leaving her children to run riot. And Charlie, Polly’s beloved husband, is battling ill health and doesn’t want her interfering. Polly refuses to go back to a life of poverty – but managing a business, a family, and the trials of living in post-war Manchester might prove to be too much, even for her... An inspiring, gritty family drama set in the 1940s, perfect for fans of Ruth Hamilton, Emma Hornby and Kitty Neale.

Clever Polly And the Stupid Wolf
Clever Polly And the Stupid Wolf

Author: Catherine Storr

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2015-08-06

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 0141360240

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CLEVER POLLY AND THE STUPID WOLF by Catherine Storr has twelve stories written for the author's daughter, who was scared of the wolf under the bed! Drawing occasionally on well-known fairy tales, and skillfully blending fantasy and reality, these stories are bursting with humour, originality and charm. And Polly, not scared at all, outwits the wolf on each and every occasion! There is a sequel called POLLY AND THE WOLF AGAIN, also published in the A Puffin Book series of children's modern classics.

Fire and Hemlock
Fire and Hemlock

Author: Diana Wynne Jones

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2012-04-12

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 110156699X

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A fantastic tale by the legendary Diana Wynne Jones—with an introduction by Garth Nix. Polly Whittacker has two sets of memories. In the first, things are boringly normal; in the second, her life is entangled with the mysterious, complicated cellist Thomas Lynn. One day, the second set of memories overpowers the first, and Polly knows something is very wrong. Someone has been trying to make her forget Tom - whose life, she realizes, is at supernatural risk. Fire and Hemlock is a fantasy filled with sorcery and intrigue, magic and mystery - and a most unusual and satisfying love story. Widely considered to be one of Diana Wynne Jones's best novels, the Firebird edition of Fire and Hemlock features an introduction by the acclaimed Garth Nix - and an essay about the writing of the book by Jones herself.