Author: Helen Peppe
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 0306822725
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Recounts the author's haphazard youth as the youngest member of an eccentric, nine-child family on a hardscrabble Maine farm, where her siblings and her were raised in an atmosphere of sibling rivalry, poverty, male chauvinism and absurd interactions with their animals and pets. 30,000 first printing.
Pigs Can't Swim
Author: Helen Peppe
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 0306822725
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Recounts the author's haphazard youth as the youngest member of an eccentric, nine-child family on a hardscrabble Maine farm, where her siblings and her were raised in an atmosphere of sibling rivalry, poverty, male chauvinism and absurd interactions with their animals and pets. 30,000 first printing.
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 0306822725
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Recounts the author's haphazard youth as the youngest member of an eccentric, nine-child family on a hardscrabble Maine farm, where her siblings and her were raised in an atmosphere of sibling rivalry, poverty, male chauvinism and absurd interactions with their animals and pets. 30,000 first printing.
Pigs Can't Swim
Author: Helen Peppe
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0306822733
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
An outrageous, hilarious, and touching memoir by the youngest of nine children in a hardscrabble, beyond-eccentric Maine family. With everything happening on Helen Peppe's backwoods Maine farm, life was wild -- and not just for the animals. Sibling rivalry, rock-bottom poverty, feral male chauvinism, sex in the hayloft: everything seemed--and was -- out of control. In telling her wayward family tale, Peppe manages deadpan humor, an unerring eye for the absurd, and poignant compassion for her utterly overwhelmed parents. While her feisty resilience and candor will inevitably remind readers of Jeannette Walls or Mary Karr, Peppe's wry insight and moments of tenderness with family and animals are entirely her own. As Richard Hoffman, the author of Half the House: A Memoir puts it: "Pigs Can't Swim -- is an unruly, joyous troublemaker of a book."
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0306822733
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
An outrageous, hilarious, and touching memoir by the youngest of nine children in a hardscrabble, beyond-eccentric Maine family. With everything happening on Helen Peppe's backwoods Maine farm, life was wild -- and not just for the animals. Sibling rivalry, rock-bottom poverty, feral male chauvinism, sex in the hayloft: everything seemed--and was -- out of control. In telling her wayward family tale, Peppe manages deadpan humor, an unerring eye for the absurd, and poignant compassion for her utterly overwhelmed parents. While her feisty resilience and candor will inevitably remind readers of Jeannette Walls or Mary Karr, Peppe's wry insight and moments of tenderness with family and animals are entirely her own. As Richard Hoffman, the author of Half the House: A Memoir puts it: "Pigs Can't Swim -- is an unruly, joyous troublemaker of a book."
Pigs of Paradise
Author: T. R. Todd
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 151073886X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
“The Bahamas are famous for sun, sand—and swimming pigs.” —National Geographic In the middle of paradise, with billionaires and celebrities for neighbors, is an island populated only by swimming pigs. For decades, this archipelago of 365 islands would remain largely unknown to the world. It would not be a ruthless pirate, pioneering loyalists, a notorious drug kingpin, or the infamous Fyre Festival that would unveil Exuma to the world, but rather the most unlikely of creatures. Appearing in magazines, videos, newspapers, commercials, TV shows, and countless selfies, the Swimming Pigs of Exuma, in the Bahamas, have become a bucket-list sensation and have been named one of the marvels of the universe. But how did they reach this celebrity status? What made them so famous? And why, in February 2017, did so many of them die? Pigs of Paradise is an unlikely story of humble beginnings and a swift rise to stardom. With interviews from historians, world-renowned ecologists, famous pig owners, and boat captains, it thoughtfully considers what this phenomenon says about not only these animals but also about us.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 151073886X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
“The Bahamas are famous for sun, sand—and swimming pigs.” —National Geographic In the middle of paradise, with billionaires and celebrities for neighbors, is an island populated only by swimming pigs. For decades, this archipelago of 365 islands would remain largely unknown to the world. It would not be a ruthless pirate, pioneering loyalists, a notorious drug kingpin, or the infamous Fyre Festival that would unveil Exuma to the world, but rather the most unlikely of creatures. Appearing in magazines, videos, newspapers, commercials, TV shows, and countless selfies, the Swimming Pigs of Exuma, in the Bahamas, have become a bucket-list sensation and have been named one of the marvels of the universe. But how did they reach this celebrity status? What made them so famous? And why, in February 2017, did so many of them die? Pigs of Paradise is an unlikely story of humble beginnings and a swift rise to stardom. With interviews from historians, world-renowned ecologists, famous pig owners, and boat captains, it thoughtfully considers what this phenomenon says about not only these animals but also about us.
Sink Or Swim
Author: Valerie Coulman
Publisher: Lobster Press
ISBN: 9781894222549
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Determined to learn how to swim, Ralph the cow turns to his water-friendlyriends, such as the ducks and turtles, to give him pointers on how to stayfloat.
Publisher: Lobster Press
ISBN: 9781894222549
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Determined to learn how to swim, Ralph the cow turns to his water-friendlyriends, such as the ducks and turtles, to give him pointers on how to stayfloat.
SEAsoned
Author: Victoria Allman
Publisher: NorlightsPress
ISBN: 1935254375
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Victoria's Recipe for Marriage: Take two adventurous newlyweds and place them on a floundering yacht where the wife is the chef, and her boss, the captain, is also her husband. Add two inexperienced crew members, an anorexic diva and her bully of a husband, a CEO who thinks he's in charge, a drunken first mate, and a randy wife looking for diversion. Stir with a violent storm and a rapidly flooding engine room. Apply pressure and watch the situation simmer to a boil. Sprinkled with over 30-mouthwatering recipes and spiced with tales of adventure, SEAsoned is the hilarious look at a yacht chef's first year working for her husband while they cruise from the Bahamas to Italy, France, Greece and Spain, trying to stay afloat.
Publisher: NorlightsPress
ISBN: 1935254375
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Victoria's Recipe for Marriage: Take two adventurous newlyweds and place them on a floundering yacht where the wife is the chef, and her boss, the captain, is also her husband. Add two inexperienced crew members, an anorexic diva and her bully of a husband, a CEO who thinks he's in charge, a drunken first mate, and a randy wife looking for diversion. Stir with a violent storm and a rapidly flooding engine room. Apply pressure and watch the situation simmer to a boil. Sprinkled with over 30-mouthwatering recipes and spiced with tales of adventure, SEAsoned is the hilarious look at a yacht chef's first year working for her husband while they cruise from the Bahamas to Italy, France, Greece and Spain, trying to stay afloat.
Read It To Me Now!
Author: Minns, Hilary
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN: 0335197612
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Minns charts the emergent literacy learning of 5 four-year-old children from different cultural backgrounds in their crucial move from home to school, and shows how children's early understanding of reading is learnt within their family.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN: 0335197612
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Minns charts the emergent literacy learning of 5 four-year-old children from different cultural backgrounds in their crucial move from home to school, and shows how children's early understanding of reading is learnt within their family.
It Just Isn't Cricket
Author: Cecil Johnson
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1466917652
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
This little book continues the story of the Lizzie, a tiny community around the site of the old coal mine of the same name in a corner of North West Durham. Its original stalwarts have long since gone, but, as a native of this village, I like to think that their spirit and resilience live on. Perhaps the indulgent reader would care to take this small volume in conjunction with one of my earlier offerings, "The Sum of Two Squares", thereby acquiring a fuller picture of this little mining community of years gone by. Cecil Johnson, March 2012
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1466917652
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
This little book continues the story of the Lizzie, a tiny community around the site of the old coal mine of the same name in a corner of North West Durham. Its original stalwarts have long since gone, but, as a native of this village, I like to think that their spirit and resilience live on. Perhaps the indulgent reader would care to take this small volume in conjunction with one of my earlier offerings, "The Sum of Two Squares", thereby acquiring a fuller picture of this little mining community of years gone by. Cecil Johnson, March 2012
The Animal Anthology Project
Author: Christine Catlin
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1479707481
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
At sixteen years old, Christine Catlin is the founder of The Animal Anthology Project, a project that has received nearly a thousand submissions, and donates all of its profi ts to Best Friends Animal Society. As a young author, Catlin has been published in Chicken Soup: Just for Teenagers (2011), Chicken Soup: Boost Your Brain Power and Chicken Soup: Tough Times for Teens (2012). She has also been published in popular magazines such as New Moon, Cicada, Bird Watcher s Digest, and Creative Kids and is a three-times Gold Medalist in the National Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. In addition, her fi rst book Raising Monarchs for Kids was published when she was only twelve years old. Her next book, Walks of Life , a memoir of her life as a triplet and young daredevil, will be published in 2014.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1479707481
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
At sixteen years old, Christine Catlin is the founder of The Animal Anthology Project, a project that has received nearly a thousand submissions, and donates all of its profi ts to Best Friends Animal Society. As a young author, Catlin has been published in Chicken Soup: Just for Teenagers (2011), Chicken Soup: Boost Your Brain Power and Chicken Soup: Tough Times for Teens (2012). She has also been published in popular magazines such as New Moon, Cicada, Bird Watcher s Digest, and Creative Kids and is a three-times Gold Medalist in the National Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. In addition, her fi rst book Raising Monarchs for Kids was published when she was only twelve years old. Her next book, Walks of Life , a memoir of her life as a triplet and young daredevil, will be published in 2014.
The Crocodile Who Couldn't Swim
Author: Lee Attard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781838135508
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781838135508
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Trust
Author: Rita Dallas
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1803138068
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Dorothy Osborne, the daughter of a staunch Royalist, met William Temple, whose father favoured Oliver Cromwell, towards the end of the Civil War. Despite strong opposition from both families, the couple embarked on a secret, seven-year courtship, mostly through letters – many now found in the British Library.
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1803138068
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Dorothy Osborne, the daughter of a staunch Royalist, met William Temple, whose father favoured Oliver Cromwell, towards the end of the Civil War. Despite strong opposition from both families, the couple embarked on a secret, seven-year courtship, mostly through letters – many now found in the British Library.