I'll Take what She Has

I'll Take what She Has
Author: Samantha Wilde
Publisher: Bantam
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2013-02-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0385342675

After being befriended by the stylish and exciting Cynthia, drab, clumsy Nora comes to realize that the grass might not always be greener on the more glamorous-seeming side in this new novel by the author of This Little Mommy Stayed Home. Original. 15,000 first printing.

The Bear

The Bear
Author: Claire Cameron
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2014-02-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316230103

A powerful suspense novel narrated by a young girl who must fend for herself and her little brother after a brutal bear attack. While camping with her family on a remote island, five-year-old Anna awakes in the night to the sound of her mother screaming. A rogue black bear, three hundred pounds of fury, is attacking the family's campsite -- and pouncing on her parents as prey. At her dying mother's faint urging, Anna manages to get her brother into the family's canoe and paddle away. But when the canoe runs aground on the edge of the woods, the sister and brother must battle hunger, the elements, and a wilderness alive with danger. Lost and completely alone, they find that their only hope resides in Anna's heartbreaking love for her family, and her struggle to be brave when nothing in her world seems safe anymore. This is a story with a small narrator and a big heart. Cameron gracefully plumbs Anna's young perspective on family, responsibility, and hope, charting both a tragically premature loss of innocence and a startling evolution as Anna reasons through the impossible situations that confront her. Lean and confident, and told in the innocent and honest voice of a five-year-old, The Bear is a transporting tale of loss -- but also a poignant and surprisingly funny adventure about love and the raw instincts that enable us to survive.

Smooch & Rose

Smooch & Rose
Author: Samantha Wheeler
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2013-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0702251690

This is an inspiring tale about one girl and her fight to make a difference for koalas. When Rose and Gran save a baby koala from a pack of blood-hungry dogs, he’s named Smooch because he loves to cuddle. With the help of wildlife caretaker Carol, Rose and her dog Lizzie look after Smooch until he is old enough to make the trees on their strawberry farm his home. Rose is deliciously happy—caring for bush babies is her dream come true. But things change for the worse when Gran gets a letter from the bank. Does this mean they have to sell the farm? Then Uncle Malcolm mentions bulldozers and Rose realizes it’s not just her home that’s at stake. Rose has a voice and wants to make a difference but what can one girl and her koala do? Like Gran always said, things don’t have to be big to be special.

The Keeper's Secret

The Keeper's Secret
Author: Penelope Marzec
Publisher: Pelican Ventures Book Group
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2024-10-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1522304592

Shucker' s Point, New Jersey never had a murder until now. Jack St. Marie, a well-known research scientist is missing, and Trooper Bryce Johnson believes the worst of Jack' s wife, Evie. In high school, Bryce loved Evie--enough to want to marry her, but that was before he witnessed her phone in a bogus bomb scare. And only two months before Jack disappeared, Bryce saw Evie aiming a gun at her husband. Can Bryce believe in Evie's innocence when her husband' s body is found in a fishing dredge twenty miles out at sea? Could the most beautiful woman in Shucker' s Point be capable of such a heinous crime? He doesn't want to believe it. Bryce refuses to let his heart guide the investigation...until someone shoots at Evie. Then he must protect her. But can he protect his heart?

Understanding Art in Primary Schools

Understanding Art in Primary Schools
Author: Les Tickle
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2014-01-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317858018

Even the youngest children in primary schools are now required not only to make art, but also to study it, developing an understanding of the huge variety of art and craft from different times and places. But how do teachers actually tackle this, when most have not studied art themselves? This collection brings together case studies to show how a variety of teachers have used one particular art collection as a focus for practical art. Throughout, the voices of the children involved show us how they react to their encounters with art objects. This wealth of first hand evidence and practical experience will benefit all teachers.

Camille Claudel

Camille Claudel
Author: Alma H. Bond
Publisher: Alma Bond
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2006
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781424116706

Camille Claudel, an old lady confined to the Asylum for the Insane in Montdevergues, France, reviews her life. She says, aI hope my memoir will illustrate the heights of passion Rodin and I reached, and unravel the mystery of why they were transformed into vinegar and ashes.a The tragedy is not only hers, she adds, but that of many female artists who found it impossible to achieve the success of men artists of lesser ability. The book illuminates her childhood and the rise of her career in the setting of her ecstatic life with Rodin. Their ten years of bliss are followed by the disintegration of her love for him, and its evolution into hatred and psychosis. The last third of the book describes the horrors of Claudelas life in the asylum, ending with the highly original manner in which she comes to terms psychologically with Rodin and the other important figures in her life.

Author: Sharon Nobilio
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2010-10-01
Genre:
ISBN: 1452074968

What do you call a cult leader who makes you hurt the one who loves you and love the one who hurts you? An Irish mother.And what do you call the devoted children of an Irish mother?Disowned.Ah, but this can't be my mother. My mother is so sweet, so cute, so TINY. Why, she's more like the Little People of her girlhood stories than some ominous Jim Jones figure...Isn't she?While this family history has all the elements of a sad childhood -- alcoholism, neglect, divorce -- the mother is so oddball-amusing, you scarcely notice the devastation of her children, even as they help to destroy their father. Unlike Frank McCourt's claim that there is no childhood more miserable than an poor Irish childhood, this is a chronicle of how true misery is more insidious. For it's when an Irish parent puts down the whiskey, and drags her children into her version of the American dream, that they will pine for the good old days when their mother was just a drunk and their daddy a happy deadbeat. BACKWARDS is a story of loyalty. And betrayal. Set in the innocent fifties and turbulent sixties, this childhood memoir traces an Irish war bride's pursuit of success. And when this poor country girl finally lands wealth and prestige, despite the hindrance of her backward children and their lazy father, surely that's a happy ending.Isn't it?

The Embedding

The Embedding
Author: Ian Watson
Publisher: Gateway
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2011-09-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0575114525

Ian Watson's brilliant debut novel was one of the most significant publications in British SF in the 1970s. Intellectually bracing and grippingly written, it is the story of three experiments in linguistics, and is driven by a searching analysis of the nature of communication. Deep in the Brazilian jungle, an isolated tribe face eviction from their ancestral lands - and the psychedelic fungus that makes their religious language possible. In a British laboratory, a brilliant linguist conducts cutting-edge experiments - but does his search for answers come at too high a cost? And in the ultimate test of linguistics, First Contact presents a challenge unlike any humanity has faced before . . . Fiercely intelligent, energetic and challenging, The Embedding immediately established Watson as a writer of rare power and vision, and is now recognized as a modern classic of SF.

Lake of the Cedars

Lake of the Cedars
Author: Patricia Spencer
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Total Pages: 604
Release: 2021-04-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1977213464

Rebecca Smally knows that she has a complex family history. In some ways, it’s typical of the American melting pot, with ancestors who came from England and Germany at the turn of the century, looking for new opportunities and a different life. But in other ways, they are anything but typical . . . a close-knit clan shielding explosive family secrets from generation to generation. Rebecca is determined to not only embrace her family’s proud heritage but also learn what really happened. From the awestruck hope of Ellis Island to the pride of becoming US citizens; from the lonely courage of establishing homesteads in the Midwest to embracing the community and caring of the church; from bonds of love to the burdens of shared secrets, Lake of the Cedars is a multi-generational American family saga that will keep you enthralled.

Clang and the Party

Clang and the Party
Author: Lorna Louise Gray
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2021-09-30
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 178848309X

It is summer in the sleepy village of Much Moaning. Clang the tufty-pawed dog and his pals, Soot the Greyhound, Twinkle the Great Dane and Bodger the King-size Poodle, are planning a party at Silly Sausage Cottage. It is to be DOGS-ONLY! No humans will be allowed to join in the fun. To have the cottage empty for the party, Clang needs the three humans he lives with to go to Lord Actually's Summer Ball, but there is a HUGE problem! Lady Esme Her Silliness, Lady Lavinia Her Unusualness and Lady Wallopy Thump have no new dresses to wear. Lady Wallopy Thump won’t go to the party in an old dress. Clang twitches his ears, whirrs his tail and thinks up what seems to be a wonderful plan to make the ladies leave the cottage. With Clang planning everything, what could possibly go wrong?! Join Clang and his pals on a hilarious party adventure that you won’t forget!