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By Rosanna Ley. 2016
From the #1 Kindle Bestseller comes an exotic tale of love, family and friendship'The perfect holiday companion' - Heat'The ultimate…
feel-good read' - Candis'Sun-soaked escapism' - Best**********Cuba, 1958Elisa is only sixteen years old when she meets Duardo and she knows he's the love of her life from the moment they first dance the rumba together in downtown Havana. But Duardo is a rebel, determined to fight in Castro's army, and Elisa is forced to leave behind her homeland and rebuild her life in distant England. But how can she stop longing for the warmth of Havana, when the music of the rumba still calls to her?England, 2012Grace has a troubled relationship with her father, whom she blames for her beloved mother's untimely death. And this year more than ever she could do with a shoulder to cry on - Grace's career is in flux, she isn't sure she wants the baby her husband is so desperate to have and, worst of all, she's begun to develop feelings for their best friend Theo. Theo is a Cuban born magician but even he can't make Grace's problems disappear. Is the passion Grace feels for Theo enough to risk her family's happiness?********SEE WHAT EVERYONE IS SAYING ABOUT ROSANNA LEY:'An impeccably researched and deftly written narrative that kept me hooked until the end' - Kathryn Hughes, bestselling author of The Letter 'Loved it from start to finish. A brilliant holiday read' - Amazon reviewer 'Perfect for fans of Santa Montefiore, Victoria Hislop and Leah Fleming' - Candis 'On so many levels a fantastic read' - Amazon reviewer'A fascinating story with engaging themes' - Dinah Jefferies, bestselling author of The Tea Planter's Wife 'Warm, enthralling, one of my favourite authors' - Amazon reviewerBy Thornton W. Burgess. 2003
Renowned naturalist and author of children's books on wildlife successfully blends information and entertainment in his book about birds, among…
them saucy Jenny Wren, Redwing the Blackbird, Melody the Wood Thrush, Spooky the Screech Owl, Creaker the Purple Grackle, Downy the Woodpecker, and other feathered friends. 32 black-and-white illustrations.By Joseph Lincoln, Freeman Lincoln. 2018
In this novel which was first published in 1939 author Joseph C Lincoln collaborated with his son…
Freeman to produce the sort of fresh and salty tale of Cape Cod that has made him so famous and well-loved Dick Clarke in disgrace because of the theft of a valuable book from the Knowlton Library finds himself on old Sepatonk Island staying at the Ownley Inn run by Seth Hammond Ownley who when asked the reason for the cannon on the front lawn invariably replies To repel boarders Then things begin to happen A hurricane isolates the island and a wrecked cruising launch starts a train of events which keeps Anne Francis a charming girl who has quarrelled with Clarke Perry Hale a none-too-scrupulous book collector and most of the other boarders in a state of commotion and at times fearBy Edgar Masters. 1991
The memoirs of one of Illinois great poets author of Spoon River Anthology with many…
vignettes of the Chicago Renaissance This intimate and provocative autobiography first published in 1936 reveals the innermost thoughts of a great American poet Edgar Lee Masters was a transitional figure in American literature with one foot planted in the nineteenth century and the other firmly placed on the path of what we now think of as the modern period Richly illustrated throughout with black and white photographs Across Spoon River An Autobiography is blunt and cranky about a life Masters saw as largely scrappy and unmanageable Emphasizing life on his grandfather s farm his school days his political battles the workday world and the growth of a poet s mind through wide reading the book is a valuable record of Masters s work habits and offers considerable insight on his position as a critic and his place in American literature Ronald Primeau American National BiographyBy F Wilson. 2018
William Butler Yeats 1865-1939 was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature…
A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments he helped to found the Abbey Theatre and in his later years served as an Irish Senator for two terms Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923 Yeats along with Lady Gregory Edward Martyn and others was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival This study is a sequel to my W B Yeats And Tradition and the Yeats scholar may like to take all my work in conjunction but I have tried to make it possible for the two books to be read independently The aim of this book is to interpret what Yeats meant by the symbolism of five of his plays Four Plays for Dancers and The Cat and the Moon also by that of a number of related lyrics I should stress once and for all that I am concerned primarily with what the symbols meant for the poet himself Yeats of course hoped that the words on the page would work for him and he also believed in a collective unconscious which would operate to suggest his archetypal meanings to all readers but it can of course be maintained that communication fails I myself doubt whether this ever happens but I cannot prove this statement in a book not concerned with technique and this is why I define my field as I have done What Yeats believed his plays and poems to mean is a valid field for scholarship and the meaning he attached is certainly the archetypal meaning which is therefore my main preoccupation F A C WilsonBy G. A. Henty. 2015
It was early in December that H.M.S. Perseus was cruising off the mouth of the Canton River. War had been…
declared with China in consequence of her continued evasions of the treaty she had made with us, and it was expected that a strong naval force would soon gather to bring her to reason. In the meantime the ships on the station had a busy time of it, chasing the enemy's junks when they ventured to show themselves beyond the reach of the guns of their forts, and occasionally having a brush with the piratical boats which took advantage of the general confusion to plunder friend as well as foe.By Candice Leathem, Michael Head. 2015
The narrative Rainbow Custodians describes the incredible efforts of creatures to rise against the environmental destruction caused since the European…
invasion of Australia. The central characters Bert and Bennie Koala rally all manner of wildlife to jolt humans into growing a conscience and acting to save endangered creatures and the environment. Rainbow Custodians is designed to link to school curriculum and focuses on important issues such as indigenous people's relationship to land, creation, spiritual connection to mother earth and custodianship. The text exposes environmental degradation, human apathy towards extinct and endangered species and sustainability. Cultural inclusion, sustainability and right relationship are further topics that can be used to enhance the application of this book. Australian wildlife is proudly paraded throughout to familiarise the reader with our unique and wonderful creatures. Poetry is woven throughout the text to enchant the audience with this tale of perplexing complications, intelligent solutions and climactic inspirational codas. The text assumes a life of its own through the brilliant illustrations of Candice Leathem that adorn the cover and each of the ten chapters. These images are designed to delight viewers, provoke discussion and are superb teaching tools. The intended audience ranges from middle - upper primary to early secondary levels, as the text relates to key concepts explored within educational curriculum, but it also has inherent appeal for an older audience. The issues explored within this book have global appeal and it is hoped that a wider audience may enjoy this text and learn from the experience. Thank you for taking the time to read Rainbow Custodians.By Anne Warne. 2015
Balthazar's Crystal is magical and through its power we go on journeys to countries we may know little about and…
are asked to think about some big questions; questions like: How do we treat bears, one of our largest mammals? Why are they becoming endangered? Could we use land on our shared planet to make the world a better place for humans and animals? Should large animals such as bears be kept in zoos? These are huge questions and there are no easy or quick answers but they are questions that should at least be asked. To help us think about questions like these we journey with Balthazar (his nickname's Zar), his brother Zachary (or Zach for short) and their young friend Tae to the home of the Royal Clan of Bears from the country of Bhutan, to Far East Russia and to other places in our amazing planet. Through the power of Balthazar's Crystal we also Time Travel to learn some of the history of bears and humans in an effort to gain greater understanding of how humans and large animals interact on a planet that is seeing more and more natural habitats disappearing. Our journey begins when Zach sees a cloud in the exact shape of a bear and when he tells Zar they both have a sense of knowing that awakens in them all sorts of feelings - feelings of excitement, anxiety, hope and also courage and sorrow. Then when a man bumps into Zar and tells him urgently to go to the Crystal Shoppe not far away he realises that an adventure is about to begin for he and his brother. The brothers are joined by their friend Tae and as they enter the Crystal Shoppe they are greeted by the man who had just earlier bumped into Zar. He introduces himself as Ursus and he also introduces his brother Bhu, informing the boys that he is actually a bear who can transform into a human when required. Zar, Zach and Tae are asked by Ursus and Bhu to journey with them on the Path of Remembering to learn more about the history of bear and human interactions and that is when Balthazar's Crystal appears, glimmering and glinting, wielding its magic to lift boys and bear-men into the vortex of air created by its power and into the first stage of the Path of Remembering.By Graeme Arnold. 2015
Austinn Baeder arrived in the Port of Geelong in 1845 with his two adult sons to start a new life.…
The Swiss winemaker planned to open a new vineyard and winery on the banks of the Barwon River. The retired soldier came looking for new opportunities, but to also leave a troubled past behind. Mitchell Baeder, a modern-day descendant of Austinn continues the winemaking tradition on the original property Austinn and his sons established, Cressier. Mitchell is a bit old-fashioned and slow to embrace modern techniques. His son, Adam is a wayward adolescent, and causes Mitchell and his wife Fiona much grief. Adam's on and off relationship with Jenny, a girl from the adjacent winery, has the potential to bring the family together. A series of unfortunate events unwittingly brings the modern day Baeder family far closer to their ancestors than they could ever imagine. It could even expose a dreadful family secret that lay dormant for over 100 years: the true reason behind Austinn's emigration.By Joan Jackson. 1998
Elim, The Determined Athlete is based on a true story and told according to the pup. Elim, The Determined Athlete,…
reveals the real reason a four month old Alaska village husky joined champion musher, Jeff King's team on the Iditarod trail. Uplifting and motivating, the reader learns about setting goals, working hard, proving oneself, and ignoring peer rebuffs. Jeff King assisted the pup in becoming a real athlete -- a sled dog, instead of just another basketball wanna-be.By B. Barker. 2015
Blackbeard was one of the most feared and notorious of the historical pirates. His ledged still resonates some three hundred…
years after his bloody and courageous end. Here is his fantastic story of piracy, loyalty, and betrayal.By Arie Komalasari. 2012
Kiki is bored. And hungry! His family is busy, he wants to play, but no one has the time. So…
Kiki goes for a walk...and that's where all the trouble begins!Kiki the Orangutan is the charming tale of a naughty but good-natured orangutan who simply cannot resist stealing a bunch of ripe bananas from his neighbor's tree. After he has eaten them, however, he finds out that the bananas were going to be used to make banana bread-his favorite food-for the Banana Festival the next day. Now his poor neighbor has no bananas left to make any bread! Can Kiki make up for his actions and find a new bunch of bananas in time?By Rachel Bomalaski. 2016
Join Mariposa on a bilingual journey, as she discovers the joy of creativity! Mariposa is a young girl who loves…
music. She loves music so much, she wants to make up a song of her very own! She learns a new word, "composer," from her guitar teacher. She decides on the spot that she wants to be a composer, someone who writes their own music! Mariposa follows her heart and sings her own song, in which she expresses her love of music in a way that will have you singing like "the wind through the chimes, bright and clear." Let Mariposa's imaginative adventure inspire you, in both English and Spanish!By James Hilton. 2001
Full of enthusiasm, young English schoolmaster Mr. Chipping came to teach at Brookfield in 1870. It was a time when…
dignity and a generosity of spirit still existed, and the dedicated new schoolmaster expressed these beliefs to his rowdy students. Nicknamed Mr. Chips, this gentle and caring man helped shape the lives of generation after generation of boys. He became a legend at Brookfield, as enduring as the institution itself. And sad but grateful faces told the story when the time came for the students at Brookfield to bid their final goodbye to Mr. Chips.There is not another book, with the possible exception of Dickens's A Christmas Carol, that has quite the same hold on readers' affections. James Hilton wrote Goodbye, Mr. Chips in loving memory of his schoolmaster father and in tribute to his profession. Over the years it has won an enduring place in world literature and made untold millions of people smile--with a catch in the throat."Warming to the heart and nourishing to the spirit...The most profoundly moving story that has passed this way."--So said usually cynical critic Alexander Woollcott when GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS was first published in 1934, and his openhearted welcome to this delightful, memorable, moving novel has been echoed through the years by millions of readers as well as two generations of film-goers.The gentle, lovable, tough English schoolmaster is one of America's favorite people. Who can forget the image of "Chips" on the day when he took a young and radical bride; the sad April Fools' Day when he lost her; the little jokes his classes came to expect; the boy whose father sailed on the Titanic; the intrusion of World War I into the peace and seclusion of Brookfield...all the pleasures and pains of a lifetime rich in teaching with love.GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS is one of the most beloved books of our time.By Ethel C. Brill. 2016
WORKING with feverish haste, Madeleine selected muskets, pistols, powder and bullets. The sight of a man's hat, an old one…
that had belonged to her father, lying on a powder cask, gave her an idea. She pulled off her linen cap and put on the hat. It was not too large over her heavy hair, and, seen above the pickets, it would deceive the Indians. She was adjusting powder horn and bullet pouch when Louis and Alexandre ran in with Laviolette at their heels."Arm yourselves quickly," Madeleine ordered."What is your plan, Ma'm'selle?" the old soldier inquired."To defend the seigneury to the last. The little children must stay in the blockhouse and their mothers with them. That leaves only six of us to guard the palisades. We must try to make the Mohawks believe that we have a strong garrison. If they attack, we can only do our best. We are fighting for our people--what there are left of them--for our country and our faith. Let us fight to the death if need be."AND SO MADELEINE and her small force begin their harrowing vigil--hoping against all hope that help will come in time.By Merle Miller. 2016
First published in 1948, Merle Miller's first novel, That Winter, is a book of disillusioned youth, of veterans in the…
post-war world, in a story of personal despair, individual tragedy. It is the winter after the war has ended. Peter lets his inaction lead to writing for a magazine in which he has no faith. Lew renounces his Jewish name and family. Ted realizes that his only home was the Army. Through Westing, a phony novelist, who serves as catalytic agent, Ted suicides, Peter throws up his job, Lew realizes he cannot pass as a Christian.Widely considered to be one of the best novels about the post-war readjustment of World War II veterans, this classic novel will have you captivated from the first page."Here is the clarification of unresolved drives, problems, incidents, of the push and pull of Fitzgerald, in the recording of the cracking of foundations, security, personal affairs, of hard reality edged with the passion of beliefs, with the gentleness of characterization."--Kirkus ReviewBy Paul Bowles. 2016
First published in 1950, this book is a collection of exemplary short stories that reveal the bizarre, the disturbing, the…
perilous, and the wise in other civilizations--from one of America's most important writers of the twentieth century."Paul Bowles has opened the world of Hip. He let in the murder, the drugs, the incest, the death of the Square...the call of the orgy, the end of civilization."--NORMAN MAILER"Paul Bowles's sense of what can go wrong is as acute as that of any American writer since Poe....Bowles's sensibility is classical in its aloofness, his prose as hard-edged and dazzling as a desert landscape at noon."--JAY McINERNEY"The Delicate Prey is in fact one of the most profound, beautifully wrought, and haunting collections in our literature....Bowles's tales arc at once austere, witty, violent, and sensuous. They move with the inevitability of myth."--TOBIAS WOLFFBy James Hilton. 2016
First published in 1933, this novel by award-winning author James Hilton tells the story of Hugh Conway, a veteran member…
of the British diplomatic service who finds inner peace, love, and a sense of purpose in Shangri-La, an Eden-like valley high in the Himalayas in Tibet.Said to have been inspired by reading the National Geographic Magazine articles of a botanist and ethnologist who explored the southwestern Chinese provinces and Tibetan borderlands, the name "Shangri-La" has become a by-word for a mythical utopia, a permanently happy land, isolated from the world, and one that captivated the world's imagination--from Roosevelt naming his Maryland presidential retreat "Shangri-La" to the Zhongdian mountain region of Southwest China being renamed Shangri-La (Xianggelila).The novel won James Hilton the Hawthornden Prize in 1934 and was also immortalized in a movie version in 1937 by influential director Frank Capra."Hilton's premise strikes a deep chord in today's 'everything is relative' society. His utopia retains all its charm and, in his creation of Shangri-La, he added something permanently to the language"--Guardian"Lost Horizon introduced the world to a Tibetan paradise where people live extraordinarily long lives of peace, harmony and wisdom. Expertly plotted and deftly written, Hilton's book suggests mysteries without spelling them out - and leaves us wanting more"--New York Times"James Hilton invented the name Shangri-La for a paradise on earth in a book that captured the imagination of a public dealing with financial hardships and the threat of Nazism"--Observer"The important thing to note about this very fine novel--the tale of an adventure in Tibet--is that it is unusual and the product of a first-class mind...a wildly exciting story, nightmare, fantasy, or what you will"--Daily ExpressBy Jessamyn West. 2016
The tenderly funny story of a modern girl's growing up.Cress Delahanty, growing up on a California ranch, might have been…
you at sixteen, your teenage daughter or niece, or the girl next door. You will watch her progress, as her parents did, with amusement and an occasional touch of exasperation and a twinge of heartache at the memory of your own growing pains.She's the girl who invented Delahanty's Law for Saving Time. The high-school kid who decided craziness would be her trademark. The love-smitten adolescent who found a unique way to attract the boys.Not since Penrod--that classic by another Indiana author--has the magic, the humor and the seriousness of adolescence been so warmly and sympathetically portrayed in an American novel."An enchanting novel...those still capable of feeling the absurdity and the beauty of growing up will find it a book well worth treasuring in that library of libraries, the heart."--CLIFTON FADIMAN, The book-of-the-Month Club News"Cress Delahanty has all the makings of a classic."--Hartford Courant"An extraordinarily engaging, humorous and touching book about a teenage girl."--The New York Times"It does for an adolescent girl what Salinger's Catcher in the Rye did for her male counterpart."--Los Angeles MirrorBy Reginald Arkell. 2016
"Old Herbaceous," they called him when they thought he wasn't listening. But crusty Bert Pinnegar, head gardener at the Manor,…
didn't care what liberties they took. His first love had always been his lady's garden, throughout his eighty years on God's green earth; and if he had made it a little greener, why, that was all that mattered.This is the story of a gardener, from the day when he won a prize for wild flowers at the village show, to the day when he himself was judging flower shows all over the county; from the day when he refused to follow his schoolmates to a job as a farmhand and won the post of garden boy at the Big House, to the day when he could sit back among his cushions in his little cottage and criticize the younger generation's attitude towards tulips.Old Herbaceous is more than a story of gardeners and gardening. Times changed in England, and even a village institution like Old Herbaceous found himself--the symbol of a more gracious era--with no place to go; for even gardens can change hands.Anyone who loved the England of Goodbye Mr. Chips and Mrs. Miniver will love Mr. Arkell's England, too. But the central character is not peculiar to the English countryside; wherever there is a garden, there you will find Old Herbaceous."Old Herbaceous is delightful. A book to warm the heart of anyone who loves earth or gardens!"--Loui Bromfield"Old Herbaceous is enchanting--fresh as an English spring, fragrant as sweet lavender!"--A. J. Cronin"What a great pair of cronies Old Herbaceous and Mr. Chips would make! There are chuckles and heart-tugs in these pages. The perfect book to give your friends!"--John Kieran