Author: Lois Braun
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
These stories display again Braun's skill at evoking haunting images which recall a vanishing prairie ethos."Braun's tales are peopled with characters who, in an instant, turn the world upside down or make a reader stop to contemplate human nature."--Small Press Magazine
The Pumpkin Eater
Author: Penelope Mortimer
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 024124031X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
In this extraordinary, semi-autobiographical novel, Penelope Mortimer depicts a married woman's breakdown in 1960s London. With three husbands in her past, one in her present and a numberless army of children, Mrs Mortimer is astonished to find herself collapsing one day in Harrods. This strange, unsettling novel, shot through with black comedy, is a moving account of one woman's realisation that marriage and family life may not, after all, offer all the answers to the problems of living. 'Beautiful ... almost every woman I can think of will want to read this book' Edna O'Brien
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 024124031X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
In this extraordinary, semi-autobiographical novel, Penelope Mortimer depicts a married woman's breakdown in 1960s London. With three husbands in her past, one in her present and a numberless army of children, Mrs Mortimer is astonished to find herself collapsing one day in Harrods. This strange, unsettling novel, shot through with black comedy, is a moving account of one woman's realisation that marriage and family life may not, after all, offer all the answers to the problems of living. 'Beautiful ... almost every woman I can think of will want to read this book' Edna O'Brien
Spiders, Bats, and Pumpkin Eaters
Author: Jerry Smath
Publisher: Cartwheel Books
ISBN: 9780439623339
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 5
Book Description
Babies and toddlers can join in on the Halloween fun with this glittery, die-cut board book that features favorite Mother Goose rhymes.
Publisher: Cartwheel Books
ISBN: 9780439623339
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 5
Book Description
Babies and toddlers can join in on the Halloween fun with this glittery, die-cut board book that features favorite Mother Goose rhymes.
Pumpkin
Author: Cindy Ott
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295804440
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Why do so many Americans drive for miles each autumn to buy a vegetable that they are unlikely to eat? While most people around the world eat pumpkin throughout the year, North Americans reserve it for holiday pies and other desserts that celebrate the harvest season and the rural past. They decorate their houses with pumpkins every autumn and welcome Halloween trick-or-treaters with elaborately carved jack-o'-lanterns. Towns hold annual pumpkin festivals featuring giant pumpkins and carving contests, even though few have any historic ties to the crop. In this fascinating cultural and natural history, Cindy Ott tells the story of the pumpkin. Beginning with the myth of the first Thanksgiving, she shows how Americans have used the pumpkin to fulfull their desire to maintain connections to nature and to the family farm of lore, and, ironically, how small farms and rural communities have been revitalized in the process. And while the pumpkin has inspired American myths and traditions, the pumpkin itself has changed because of the ways people have perceived, valued, and used it. Pumpkin is a smart and lively study of the deep meanings hidden in common things and their power to make profound changes in the world around us.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295804440
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Why do so many Americans drive for miles each autumn to buy a vegetable that they are unlikely to eat? While most people around the world eat pumpkin throughout the year, North Americans reserve it for holiday pies and other desserts that celebrate the harvest season and the rural past. They decorate their houses with pumpkins every autumn and welcome Halloween trick-or-treaters with elaborately carved jack-o'-lanterns. Towns hold annual pumpkin festivals featuring giant pumpkins and carving contests, even though few have any historic ties to the crop. In this fascinating cultural and natural history, Cindy Ott tells the story of the pumpkin. Beginning with the myth of the first Thanksgiving, she shows how Americans have used the pumpkin to fulfull their desire to maintain connections to nature and to the family farm of lore, and, ironically, how small farms and rural communities have been revitalized in the process. And while the pumpkin has inspired American myths and traditions, the pumpkin itself has changed because of the ways people have perceived, valued, and used it. Pumpkin is a smart and lively study of the deep meanings hidden in common things and their power to make profound changes in the world around us.
Ghost Eaters
Author: Clay McLeod Chapman
Publisher: Quirk Books
ISBN: 1683692187
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
“A Gothic-punk graveyard tale about what haunts history and what haunts the human soul. An addicting read that draws you into its descent from the first page.”—Chuck Wendig, New York Times best-selling author of The Book of Accidents One of Vulture's Best Horror Novels of 2022, this terrifying supernatural page-turner will make you think twice about opening doors to the unknown. Erin hasn’t been able to set a single boundary with her charismatic but reckless college ex-boyfriend, Silas. When he asks her to bail him out of rehab—again—she knows she needs to cut him off. But days after he gets out, Silas turns up dead of an overdose in their hometown of Richmond, Virginia, and Erin’s world falls apart. Then a friend tells her about Ghost, a new drug that allows users to see the dead. Wanna get haunted? he asks. Grieving and desperate for closure with Silas, Erin agrees to a pill-popping “séance.” But the drug has unfathomable side effects—and once you take it, you can never go back.
Publisher: Quirk Books
ISBN: 1683692187
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
“A Gothic-punk graveyard tale about what haunts history and what haunts the human soul. An addicting read that draws you into its descent from the first page.”—Chuck Wendig, New York Times best-selling author of The Book of Accidents One of Vulture's Best Horror Novels of 2022, this terrifying supernatural page-turner will make you think twice about opening doors to the unknown. Erin hasn’t been able to set a single boundary with her charismatic but reckless college ex-boyfriend, Silas. When he asks her to bail him out of rehab—again—she knows she needs to cut him off. But days after he gets out, Silas turns up dead of an overdose in their hometown of Richmond, Virginia, and Erin’s world falls apart. Then a friend tells her about Ghost, a new drug that allows users to see the dead. Wanna get haunted? he asks. Grieving and desperate for closure with Silas, Erin agrees to a pill-popping “séance.” But the drug has unfathomable side effects—and once you take it, you can never go back.
All the World
Author: Liz Garton Scanlon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442436727
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
This simple, profound, Caldecott Honor story is now available as a Classic Board Book. All the world is here. It is there. It is everywhere. All the world is right where you are. Now. Following a circle of family and friends through the course of a day from morning until night, this book affirms the importance of all things great and small in our world, from the tiniest shell on the beach, to the warmth of family connections, to the widest sunset sky. Now available as a Classic Board Book, this Caldecott Honor picture book written by Liz Garton Scanlon and illustrated by Marla Frazee is perfect for the youngest of readers.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442436727
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
This simple, profound, Caldecott Honor story is now available as a Classic Board Book. All the world is here. It is there. It is everywhere. All the world is right where you are. Now. Following a circle of family and friends through the course of a day from morning until night, this book affirms the importance of all things great and small in our world, from the tiniest shell on the beach, to the warmth of family connections, to the widest sunset sky. Now available as a Classic Board Book, this Caldecott Honor picture book written by Liz Garton Scanlon and illustrated by Marla Frazee is perfect for the youngest of readers.
French Kids Eat Everything
Author: Karen Le Billon
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062103318
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
French Kids Eat Everything is a wonderfully wry account of how Karen Le Billon was able to alter her children’s deep-rooted, decidedly unhealthy North American eating habits while they were all living in France. At once a memoir, a cookbook, a how-to handbook, and a delightful exploration of how the French manage to feed children without endless battles and struggles with pickiness, French Kids Eat Everything features recipes, practical tips, and ten easy-to-follow rules for raising happy and healthy young eaters—a sort of French Women Don’t Get Fat meets Food Rules.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062103318
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
French Kids Eat Everything is a wonderfully wry account of how Karen Le Billon was able to alter her children’s deep-rooted, decidedly unhealthy North American eating habits while they were all living in France. At once a memoir, a cookbook, a how-to handbook, and a delightful exploration of how the French manage to feed children without endless battles and struggles with pickiness, French Kids Eat Everything features recipes, practical tips, and ten easy-to-follow rules for raising happy and healthy young eaters—a sort of French Women Don’t Get Fat meets Food Rules.
Shaking the Pumpkin
Author: Jerome Rothenberg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
'This book represents a major effort to bring Amerindian poetry to the reader in such a way that the total poetry, the dance, the vowel changes, the pauses, the movement, the interaction between speaker and audience is made evident...' -John Demos, Library Journal
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
'This book represents a major effort to bring Amerindian poetry to the reader in such a way that the total poetry, the dance, the vowel changes, the pauses, the movement, the interaction between speaker and audience is made evident...' -John Demos, Library Journal
The Handyman
Author: Penelope Mortimer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780312358631
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Three British women, a widow, her daughter, and a writer, try to cope with a handyman's unwelcome advances, a husband's infidelity, and loneliness.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780312358631
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Three British women, a widow, her daughter, and a writer, try to cope with a handyman's unwelcome advances, a husband's infidelity, and loneliness.
The Pumpkin-eaters
Author: Lois Braun
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
These stories display again Braun's skill at evoking haunting images which recall a vanishing prairie ethos."Braun's tales are peopled with characters who, in an instant, turn the world upside down or make a reader stop to contemplate human nature."--Small Press Magazine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
These stories display again Braun's skill at evoking haunting images which recall a vanishing prairie ethos."Braun's tales are peopled with characters who, in an instant, turn the world upside down or make a reader stop to contemplate human nature."--Small Press Magazine
Delicious!
Author: Helen Cooper
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 055254874X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Every day, Cat, Squirrel and Duck make pumpkin soup - the best you've ever tasted. But one day, disaster strikes - there's not a single ripe pumpkin to be found! So, they make fish soup, mushroom soup and beetroot soup, but will the new soups be as delicious as their favourite? Duck doesn't think so - in fact he won't even try them! Poor Duck gets hungrier and hungrier and grumpier and grumpier, until at last Cat comes up with a soup that might just be . . . delicious!
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 055254874X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Every day, Cat, Squirrel and Duck make pumpkin soup - the best you've ever tasted. But one day, disaster strikes - there's not a single ripe pumpkin to be found! So, they make fish soup, mushroom soup and beetroot soup, but will the new soups be as delicious as their favourite? Duck doesn't think so - in fact he won't even try them! Poor Duck gets hungrier and hungrier and grumpier and grumpier, until at last Cat comes up with a soup that might just be . . . delicious!