Author: JK Ireland
Publisher: Jonny K. Ireland
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18
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This is a Christmas special in the Floppy and Bertie adventure series. A delightful tale that will enchant children (and parents!) of all ages.
Author: JK Ireland
Publisher: JK Ireland Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 101
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The complete collection of 5 Floppy and Bertie adventures in one fantastic, great value box-set. A fun series of short stories aimed at children aged 4-8. Each story follows a different theme (animals, pirates, vacations, Christmas, the Royal Family) and is written in a lighthearted style. The first in the series follows Floppy and Bertie on a day out to the zoo. The boys meet and have fun with lots of animals. The second adventure in the series takes the boys to Pirate Bay where the boy's ship becomes stranded in a storm. Will they find the pirate treasure and can they repair their boat? In the third adventure, Floppy and Bertie take a day out to London, visiting several London landmarks, including Buckingham Palace. They get into trouble on a Royal tour and seek help from the Queen's corgis. Next in the series, Floppy And Bertie Go To Lapland, Floppy and Bertie go to Lapland and meet Santa Claus. In their fifth and final adventure, Floppy and Bertie fly to New York. Will they find the big apples? Each story is aimed at children aged 4-8 but I hope that adults have as much fun as the kids!
Author: David Mitchell
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 158836528X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize Selected by Time as One of the Ten Best Books of the Year | A New York Times Notable Book | Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post Book World, The Christian Science Monitor, Rocky Mountain News, and Kirkus Reviews | A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist | Winner of the ALA Alex Award | Finalist for the Costa Novel Award From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new. Black Swan Green tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. But the thirteen chapters, each a short story in its own right, create an exquisitely observed world that is anything but sleepy. A world of Kissingeresque realpolitik enacted in boys’ games on a frozen lake; of “nightcreeping” through the summer backyards of strangers; of the tabloid-fueled thrills of the Falklands War and its human toll; of the cruel, luscious Dawn Madden and her power-hungry boyfriend, Ross Wilcox; of a certain Madame Eva van Outryve de Crommelynck, an elderly bohemian emigré who is both more and less than she appears; of Jason’s search to replace his dead grandfather’s irreplaceable smashed watch before the crime is discovered; of first cigarettes, first kisses, first Duran Duran LPs, and first deaths; of Margaret Thatcher’s recession; of Gypsies camping in the woods and the hysteria they inspire; and, even closer to home, of a slow-motion divorce in four seasons. Pointed, funny, profound, left-field, elegiac, and painted with the stuff of life, Black Swan Green is David Mitchell’s subtlest and most effective achievement to date. Praise for Black Swan Green “[David Mitchell has created] one of the most endearing, smart, and funny young narrators ever to rise up from the pages of a novel. . . . The always fresh and brilliant writing will carry readers back to their own childhoods. . . . This enchanting novel makes us remember exactly what it was like.”—The Boston Globe “[David Mitchell is a] prodigiously daring and imaginative young writer. . . . As in the works of Thomas Pynchon and Herman Melville, one feels the roof of the narrative lifted off and oneself in thrall.”—Time
Author: Lyndall Gordon
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1405517549
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 249
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Lyndall Gordon was born in 1941 in Cape Town, a place from which `a ship takes fourteen days to reach anywhere that matters'. Born to a mother whose mysterious illness confined her for years to life indoors, Lyndall was her secret sharer, a child who grew to know life through books, story-telling and her mother's own writings. It was an exciting, precious world, pure and rich in dreams and imagination - untainted by the demands of reality. But a daughter grows up. Despite her own inability to leave home for long, Lyndall's mother believed in migration, a belief that became almost a necessity once the horrors of apartheid gripped their country. Lyndall loves the rocks, the sea, the light of Cape Town, but, struggling to achieve a life approved by her mother, she tries and makes a failure of living in Israel and then, back once again in her beloved South Africa she marries and moves with her husband to New York. It's in America in 1968 when suddenly Lyndall realises she cannot be, and does not want to be, the woman, the daughter and the mother her mother wants her to be. This is a wonderfully layered memoir about the expectations of love and duty between mother and daughter. The particular time and place, the people and the situation are Lyndall's, but the division between generations, the pain and the joy of being a daughter are everywoman's.
Author: Mather Byles DesBrisay
Publisher: W. Briggs ; Montreal : C.W. Coates ; Halifax : S.F. Huestis
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Category : Lunenburg (N.S. : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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Author: John Philipot
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Heraldry
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Author: London (England). Merchant Taylors' School
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Schools, British
Languages : en
Pages : 650
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Author: Dianne Wolfer
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 0143780549
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 179
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Only a twin from a shark calling family can appease the ancestors and bring a community back together in this powerful and haunting story. Isabel is on a plane heading back to her island birthplace in Papua New Guinea. Izzy is looking forward to seeing her family again, but there’s another tragic reason for the trip. Izzy’s twin brother, Ray, died in a freak diving accident, and Izzy and her mum are taking his ashes home for traditional death ceremonies. After they arrive, Izzy realises things have changed since their last visit. Logging threatens the community’s way of life and sharks no longer answer the song of the shark callers. Izzy’s cousin Noah explains that the clan needs someone to undertake a traditional diving ritual. The person must be a twin from the shark calling lineage. The dive will be perilous. And Izzy is the last twin. Will she have the courage to attempt the dive? And what deep, dark secrets will the ocean reveal if she does?
Author: Albert Barrère
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cant
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Author: John Malcolm Bulloch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789354033308
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 612
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