Author: Hilary Scharper
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476700141
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 365
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Love won’t let her go. Marged Brice is 134 years old. She’d be ready to go, if it weren’t for Perdita... The Georgian Bay lighthouse’s single eye keeps watch over storm and calm, and Marged grew up in its shadow, learning the language of the wind and the trees. There’s blustery beauty there, where sea and sky incite each other to mischief…or worse… Garth Hellyer of the Longevity Project doesn’t believe Marged was a girl coming of age in the 1890s, but reading her diaries in the same wild and unpredictable location where she wrote them might be enough to cast doubt on his common sense. Everyone knows about death. It’s life that’s much more mysterious.
Author: Perdita Felicien
Publisher: Anchor Canada
ISBN: 0385689985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A phenomenal, human story. . . . I could not put this book down." —CLARA HUGHES An instant national bestseller, this raw and affecting memoir is the story of a mother and daughter who beat the odds together. Decades before Perdita Felicien became a World Champion hurdler running the biggest race of her life at the 2004 Olympics, she carried more than a nation's hopes—she carried her mother Catherine's dreams. In 1974, Catherine is determined and tenacious, but she's also pregnant with her second child and just scraping by in St. Lucia. When she meets a wealthy white Canadian family vacationing on the island, she knows it's her chance. They ask her to come to Canada to be their nanny—and she accepts. This was the beginning of Catherine's new life: a life of opportunity, but also suffering. Within a few years, she would find herself pregnant a third time—this time in her new country with no family to support her, and this time, with Perdita. Together, in the years to come, mother and daughter would experience racism, domestic abuse, and even homelessness, but Catherine's will would always pull them through. As Perdita grew and began to discover her preternatural athletic gifts, she was edged onward by her mother's love, grit, and faith. Facing literal and figurative hurdles, she learned to leap and pick herself back up when she stumbled. This book is a daughter's memoir—a book about the power of a parent's love to transform their child's life.
Author: Barry Gifford
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802134837
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Bad girl Perdita Durango and her dealer boyfriend Romeo Dolorosa get their kicks on a journey from Louisiana to Los Angeles that involves santeria rituals and kidnapping.
Author: Sarah Gristwood
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0553816179
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 575
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Few women's lives have described such an arc as that of Mary Robinson. She began her career as an actress, became a royal mistress and blackmailer, and ended it just two decades later as a Romantic poet. This biography explores Georgian England during a period of extreme political, social and cultural upheaval through the life of this woman.
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Category : Hymenoptera
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Author: Susan Stanford Friedman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521255790
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Penelope's Web, published in 1991, was the first book to examine fully the brilliantly innovative prose writing of Hilda Doolittle. H. D.'s reputation as a major modernist poet has grown dramatically; but she also deserves to be known for her innovative novels and essays.
Author: Charles Duncan Michener
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801861338
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 972
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"It is a masterpiece, an instant classic of entomology." -- Edward O. Wilson "This definitive reference by an acclaimed expert accounts for 1200 genera/subgenera and 16,000 species of bees in the world... Useful guide for entomologists, biologists, botanists, ecologists, and students." -- Southeastern Naturalist
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Category : Insects
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Author: United States. Department of Agriculture
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1436
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