Author: Wynter Sommers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780979108020
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 49
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This is the 2nd book in "Daisy's Adventures", a collection of stories about an orphan adopted in the United States during WWII. After Daisy has been adopted, she is scheduled to attend a picnic hosted by her former orphanage. This will be the first time Daisy and her newly adopted mother will be in public as a family.At this picnic, Daisy greets familiar friends and meets somebody new, who may change Daisy's life, yet again.
Author: Margaret O'Connor
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781974374984
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Daisy's new mother accompanies her to an Independence Day picnic. There she reunites with her friends from the Bide-A-While Home, and learns about gratitude, compassion, and hope.
Author: Lisa Plumley
Publisher: Lisa Plumley
ISBN: 1370822650
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Category : Sports
Languages : en
Pages : 884
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Author: Michael Symons
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN: 9780522853230
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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2007 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first publication of One Continuous Picnic, a frequently acclaimed Australian classic on the history of eating in Australia. The text remains gratifyingly accurate and prescient, and has helped to shape subsequent developments in food in Australia. Until recently, historians have tended to overlook eating, and yet, through meat pies and lamingtons, Symons tells the history of Australia gastronomically. He challenges myths such as that Australia is 'too young' for a national cuisine, and that immigration caused the restaurant boom. Symons shows us that Australia is unique because its citizens have not developed a true contact with the land, have not had a peasant society. Australians have enjoyed plenty to eat, but food had to be portable: witness the weekly rations of mutton, flour, tea and sugar that made early settlers a mobile army clearing a whole continent; and the tins of jam, condensed milk, camp pie and bottles of tomato sauce and beer that turned its citizens into early suburbanites. By the time of screw-top riesling, takeaway chicken and frozen puff pastry, Australians were hypnotised consumers, on one continuous picnic. But good food has never come from factory farms, process lines, supermarkets and fast-food chains. Only when we enjoy a diet of fresh, local produce treated with proper respect, when we learn from peasants, might we at last have found a national cuisine and cultivated a continent.
Author: Billy Collins
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822991055
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 117
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Winner of the 1999 Paterson Poetry Prize Over the past decade, Billy Collins has emerged as the most beloved American poet since Robert Frost, garnering critical acclaim and broad popular appeal. Annie Proulx admits, "I have never before felt possessive about a poet, but I am fiercely glad that Billy Collins is ours." John Updike proclaims his poems "consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides." This special, limited edition celebrates Billy Collins's years as U.S. Poet Laureate. Picnic, Lightning—one of the books that helped establish and secure his reputation and popularity during the 1990s—combines humor and seriousness, wit and sublimity. His poems touch on a wide range of subjects, from jazz to death, from weather to sex, but share common ground where the mind and heart can meet. Whether reading him for the first time or the fiftieth, this collector's edition is a must-have for anyone interested in the poet the New York Times calls simply "the real thing."
Author: Peggy Orenstein
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408820811
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Buffeted by one jaw-dropping obstacle after another, Orenstein seeks answers both medical and spiritual, all the while trying to save a marriage threatened by cycles, appointments, procedures, and disappointments. Her journey takes her around America and as far as East Asia - on the way she visits an ex-boyfriend who now has fifteen children; encounters 'parasite singles' in Tokyo, women who are rejecting marriage and motherhood in favour of shopping sprees and foreign travel; and shares stories with survivors of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. The world's professional women are only now beginning to become aware of the risks and realities of 'having it all', and Orenstein's saga unfolds as infertility is developing into a boom industry, with over a million women a year seeking treatment. Waiting for Daisy is a profoundly honest, wryly funny report from the front, a story about doing all the things you swore you'd never do to get something you hadn't even been sure you wanted; it's about being a woman, about trying to become a mother, and above all, about the ambivalence, obsession and sacrifice that characterises the struggles of so many modern couples.
Author: Diane Schwemm
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442498749
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149
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Daisy Walker is tired of her goodie two-shoes image and she’s ready to break loose! Her new boyfriend Peter has really opened her eyes and convinced her to be more daring. The only problem is that her sisters—Rose, Laurel, and Lily—want the old Daisy back.
Author: K.R. Hall
Publisher: Karen Hall
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Abused and Neglected After years of being held captive and abused by a wolf pack Libby Hoffman takes fate into her own hands and escapes, her sanity barely intact. Desperate for a place to hide she stumbles upon a bear shifter that brings her to stay with one of his friends. Omega of the Black Bear Clan, Jase Stewart's reputation proceeds him. With an appetite for women, he rarely turns down the offer of no-strings-attached sex, especially with a worthy partner. There is more to him than meets the eye though, and as Omega, the weight of the entire clan weighs heavy on his shoulders. When the two of them are thrust together, again and again, Libby does everything she can to stay away from him, not wanting any more trouble. Jase can’t seem to help himself, he wants her, even though her scent is blocked from him. She is a mystery he can’t unravel, why the secrets? With her safety threatened, Jase has to make a decision, and now that the mystery man has upped the ante with a whole militia to go against the Black Bear Clan, he has to do it fast. Pickens didn’t think the Clan would fight back, but now he has pushed too far and is about to find out he was wrong. Dead wrong.
Author: Sofia Grant
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 006269345X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Inspired by true events, in Sofia Grant’s powerfully moving new novel a young woman peels back the layers of her family’s history, discovering a tragedy in the past that explains so much of the present. This unforgettable story is one of hope, healing, and the discovery of truth. Sometimes the untold stories of the past are the ones we need to hear... When Katie Garrett gets the unexpected news that she’s received an inheritance from the grandmother she hardly knew, it couldn’t have come at a better time. She flees Boston—and her increasingly estranged husband—and travels to rural Texas. There, she’s greeted by her distant cousin Scarlett. Friendly, flamboyant, eternally optimistic, Scarlett couldn’t be more different from sensible Katie. And as they begin the task of sorting through their grandmother’s possessions, they discover letters and photographs that uncover the hidden truths about their shared history, and the long-forgotten tragedy of the New London school explosion of 1937 that binds them. .
