Bøger af Sally Kilpatrick

From a USA Today bestselling author comes a poignant, funny, and heartfelt novel about a wife and mother grabbing hold of a second chance she never saw coming.Vivian Quackenbush enjoys a typical life. She has winesday evenings with her two best friends. Her son is in college. She and her husband, Mitch, are planning the next move for their empty-nester future. But to Vivian's blindsided surprise...not together.After nearly twenty-five years of marriage, Mitch wants a divorce. He confesses that he doesn't love her anymore. He never even liked her chicken salad! Brutal. What is Vivian to do but channel her anger, frustration, and pain into a video she posts online. Ill advised? Perhaps. Cathartic? Absolutely. Overnight, Vivian goes viral. Millions of views and counting--to Mitch's fury, her son's embarrassment, her mother's support, and the media's delight. For Vivian, it's a moment of truth: hide or lean into it. Vivian 2.0 chooses to lean--maybe even toward the younger single father next door.Now Vivian is wondering where she goes from here. She's discovering that somewhere in her trending if upended life, she'll have to figure out who she really wants to be.

This book, written by a dog trainer and behaviourist who runs her own dog school in South Africa is a practical guide to training your dog or puppy. The training she describes is easy, straightforward and strictly rewards-based training. It can be used for older dogs as well as puppies and even provides the steps to house-training for puppies and older rescue dogs. The book is above all, practical and provides basic background to training theory that ensures you know the basics without getting bogged down by the research. A four-week training program is provided and describes exactly how to teach the basics. Each week is carefully explained and the exercises build up from the previous week until you are training more and more complex behaviour. You begin with the attention and sit, and move on through the weeks to teach down and stay. The tools that are learned during the four-week training course can then be used to train any behaviours or tricks that you might want to teach your dog. As part of the book, and separate from the training session, are ways I which to teach your dog everything from how to walk loosely on a lead to the basics of house training. Using the guides for general good behaviour as well as the four-week training program will get your dog trained in no time. The practical solutions and hints also ensure that you build up a great relationship with your dog. The book also provides solutions to a variety of common problems that dog owners have with their dogs including stealing socks, not coming when called and stealing food from counter tops. This book will help you to teach your dog the basic obedience commands as well as ensure that you are capable of sorting out any issues that may arise. It also makes sure that you finish the course sufficiently accomplished in training to start training your dog more and more complicated tricks.

Truvy Fuller is dreading her turn as Maid of Honor at her best friend's tiny Gatlinburg wedding thanks to the pompous best man, Geo Russo, the mastermind behind her Worst First Date Ever. He's sure to gloat about all of his successes, and she's got no way to hide all the left-turns her life has taken. The best she can hope for is to get through the wedding, spruce up the honeymoon cabin per the bride's instructions, and get back to her Netflix ASAP. Geo has accomplished more in his life than he ever expected-except for a failed marriage and a painful past that still haunts him. He aches for a meaningful relationship, but it's sure as heck not going to be with Truvy, cause of his Worst First Date Ever. But when the bride and groom play matchmaker again and strand the unlikely pair in a cabin called Las Vegas, sparks begin to fly between Geo and Truvy. Will what happens in Vegas stay in Vegas? Or will they find true love in a place where they least expected it?

Aubrey Longfellow has to do three selfless things by Christmas Day or be doomed to the Naughty List. Could helping her worst enemy be her ticket to making the Nice List?

Return to Ellery, Tennessee for Sally Kilpatrick's saucy new novel about two warring barbecue houses.Emma Sutton promised herself three things: she would never move back to Ellery, never work in the family barbecue restaurant, and never have anything to do with Ben Cates ever again. Losing her job and her home might've forced her to break the first two, but she's determined to keep the third.Unlike Emma, Ben Cates has made peace with his hometown. He wants nothing more than to make his restaurant something his father couldn't: a success. But between his hellraising little sister and Emma Sutton's return to Ellery, his dream could easily be snatched away.Emma and Ben might've made each other's childhood a living hell with their endless pranks, but the only way to finally get rid of the other is to win the coveted contract for Ellery's annual barbecue festival. Seems easy enough-until attraction ignites like a charcoal flame, and happiness seeps in like a surprising new flavor.Can they find the courage to forgive bitter past mistakes and let trust into the mix, or will devastating secrets burn everything down again?