Mrs. Appleyard's Kitchen

Mrs. Appleyard's Kitchen
Author: Louise Andrews Kent
Publisher: Booksales
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999-04
Genre: Cooking, American
ISBN: 9780785810759

Comfort food in all its glory is the focus of this charming all-American cookbook. Mrs. Appleyard on pot roast: "...a dish of such noble nature when it has been given a mother's care for two days..." that it guarantees tender results. Chapters explain weights and measures, extensive baking and dessert recipes, hors d'oeuvres, preserves, salads, soups, and sauces--with great tips on what to do with leftovers. Complete menus are planned out for ladies' luncheons, main meals, and holidays. Presented with wit and practical advice, these savory recipes are tailored to the novice cook and purposefully assume no previous knowledge on the part of the reader. This allows for the most clearly-defined instructions one is likely to find in any cookbook. Originally published in 1942, Mrs. Appleyard's reminiscences evoke the warmth and aromas of Grandma's kitchen while entreating us to cook, "Now with brains, but with love." Book jacket.

The Secret of Hanging Rock

The Secret of Hanging Rock
Author: Joan Lindsay
Publisher: ETT Imprint
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2021-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1922473529

Joan Lindsay's classic novel Picnic at Hanging Rock is a subtle blend of mysterious and sinister events set in a period of Australian social life drawn with loving nostalgia. The final chapter of the novel was removed at the request of her publishers, creating a mystery to which thousands have begged to know the solution. The missing chapter reveals what did happen to the schoolgirls who vanished from the Rock after a St Valentine's Day picnic in 1900, and holds commentaries by John Taylor, Yvonne Rousseau and Mudrooroo.

All About Ella

All About Ella
Author: Meredith Appleyard
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2021-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1867230860

At 70, and widowed, Ella is about to find out that blood is not always thicker than water. A wise and warm-hearted story about aging, family and community for readers of Tricia Stringer and Liz Byrski. At 70, Ella's world is upended, leaving her at odds with her three adult children, whose attention is fixed more firmly on her money than her ongoing welfare. After an argument with her son Anthony, she flees his Adelaide home for Cutlers Bay, a seaside town on the Yorke Peninsula. There she befriends Angie, a 40-year-old drifter, and becomes an irritant to local cop Zach. He's keen to shift Ella off his turf, because Anthony phones daily, demanding his mother be sent home. And besides, Zach just doesn't trust Angie. Ella warms to Cutlers Bay, and it warms to her. In a defiant act of self-determination, she buys an entirely unsuitable house on the outskirts of town, and Angie agrees to help make it habitable. Zach is drawn to the house on the clifftop, and finds himself revising his earlier opinions of Ella, and Angie. A keenly observed story about aging and its inherent vulnerability, about community and chosen family, about how family stressors shape us all, about trust and loyalty, and about standing up for yourself.

Unnatural Causes

Unnatural Causes
Author: P.D. James
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2012-04-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1439144451

The third installment in the classic Adam Dalgliesh mystery series, Unnnatural Causes is another must-read page-turner from bestselling author P.D. James, “the reigning mistress of murder” (Time). Maurice Seton was a famous mystery writer—but no murder he ever invented was more grisly than his own death. When his corpse is found in a drifting dinghy with both hands chopped off at the wrists, ripples of horror spread among his bizarre circle of friends. Now it’s up to brilliant Scotland Yard inspector, Adam Dalgliesh, and his extraordinary aunt to uncover the shocking truth behind the writer’s death sentence, before the plot takes another murderous turn. Unnatural Causes inspired Cosmopolitan to fervently hope, “if we’re lucky, there will always be an England and there will always be a P.D. James.”

All the Days Past, All the Days to Come

All the Days Past, All the Days to Come
Author: Mildred D. Taylor
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2021-01-05
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0425288080

The saga of the Logan family--made famous in the Newbery Medal-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry--concludes in a deeply fulfilling story, now available in paperback. In her tenth book, Mildred Taylor completes her sweeping saga about the Logan family of Mississippi, which is also the story of the civil rights movement in America of the 20th century. Cassie Logan, first met in Song of the Trees and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, is a young woman now, searching for her place in the world, a journey that takes her from Toledo to California, to law school in Boston, and, ultimately, in the 60s, home to Mississippi to participate in voter registration. She is witness to the now-historic events of the century: the Great Migration north, the rise of the civil rights movement, preceded and precipitated by the racist society of America, and the often violent confrontations that brought about change. Rich, compelling storytelling is Ms. Taylor's hallmark, and she fulfills expectations as she brings to a close the stirring family story that has absorbed her for over forty years. It is a story she was born to tell.

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Picnic at Hanging Rock
Author: Joan Lindsay
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2017-10-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0143132059

*Now a six-part TV series starring Natalie Dormer, from Amazon Prime* A 50th-anniversary edition of the landmark novel about three “gone girls” that inspired the acclaimed 1975 film, featuring a foreword by Maile Meloy, author of Do Not Become Alarmed It was a cloudless summer day in the year 1900. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun, pressing on through the scrub into the shadows of the secluded volcanic outcropping. Farther, higher, until at last they disappeared. They never returned. . . . Mysterious and subtly erotic, Picnic at Hanging Rock inspired the iconic 1975 film of the same name by Peter Weir. A beguiling landmark of Australian literature, it stands with Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, and Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Virgin Suicides as a masterpiece of intrigue.

We Don't Go Back

We Don't Go Back
Author: Howard David Ingham
Publisher:
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2018-07-08
Genre: Horror films
ISBN: 9781722748814

Secret, strange, dark, impure and dissonant...Enter the haunted landscapes of folk horror, a world of ­pagan ­village conspiracies, witch finders, and teenagers awakening to evil; of dark fairy tales, backwoods cults and obsolete technologies. Beginning with the classics Night of the Demon, Witchfinder General, The Wicker Man and Blood on Satan's Claw, We Don't Go Back surveys the genre of screen folk horror from across the world. Travelling from Watership Down to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, with every stop inbetween, We Don't Go Back is a thoughtful, funny and essential overview of folk horror in TV and cinema."A beautiful rumination on the dark films and television that shaped me and a generation of odd children, for good or ill, worth a year of your time, because you won't just read the book, you'll feel a burning desire to watch everything mentioned within." - Robin Ince"A comprehensive, accessible and often riotously funny tome weaving together folk horror in all its forms, from British television to the American backwoods, from Eastern European fairytales to the vengeful ghosts of East Asia. Ingham explores uncanny landscapes haunted by things buried, old cultures converging with the reluctance of contemporary reason, that very tension that gives his book its name. He attempts to both define folk horror and free it from definition, creating the ultimate guide to the genre's manifestations on film and offering a convincing argument as to why the genre resonates so compellingly with people today." - Kier-La Janisse, author of House of Psychotic Women

Simple Cooking

Simple Cooking
Author: John Thorne
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 326
Release: 1996-11-16
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0865475040

John Thorne's classic first collection is filled with straightforward eating, home cooking, vigorous opinions, and the gracefully intelligent writing that makes him a cult favorite of people who like to think about food. "Incisive, hilarious and occasionally nostalgic, this volume will delight many readers, reminding them why they enjoy the pleasures of food and cooking."--Publishers Weekly

The Methuen Drama Book of Suffrage Plays

The Methuen Drama Book of Suffrage Plays
Author: Naomi Paxton
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2013-03-28
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1408176580

This anthology presents eight exciting comic pieces that arose from the the Suffrage Movement. Terrific for performance, it provides a variety of strong female parts, while also offering invaluable sources from the period, bringing history to life.