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| Author | : Janice Hadlow |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780007165209 |
An intensely moving account of George III's doomed attempt to create a happy, harmonious family, written with astonishing emotional force by a stunning new history writer. George III came to the throne in 1760 as a man with a mission. He was determined to break with the extraordinarily dysfunctional home lives of his Hanoverian predecessors. He was sure that as a faithful husband and a loving father, he would be not just a happier man but a better ruler as well. During the early part of his reign it seemed as if, against all the odds, his great family project was succeeding. His wife, Queen Charlotte, shared his sense of moral purpose, and together they raised their fifteen children in a climate of loving attention. But as the children grew older, and their wishes and desires developed away from those of their father, it became harder to maintain the illusion of domestic harmony. 'The Strangest Family' is an epic, sprawling family drama, filled with intensely realised characters who leap off the page as we are led deep inside the private lives of the Hanoverians. Written with astonishing emotional force by a stunning new voice in history writing, it is both a window on another world and a universal story that will resonate powerfully with modern readers.
| Author | : Ronda Armitage |
| Publisher | : Orchard Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2010-08-11 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9781408301876 |
When Monkey finds a strange creature in the jungle he's very puzzled, and he calls the other animals to help. It doesn't have a tail for swinging, a trunk for washing, a long neck for reaching the high trees or even webbed feet for swimming. Whatever could it be? Toddlers and parents alike will love this refreshing take on the classic 'new-baby' theme. With wonderfully warm, humorous text from Ronda Armitage, author of family favourite The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch. 'Perfect reading for toddlers with a new baby in the house' - Junior
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 2008-06-01 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 9780803217485 |
Americans decry the decline of family farming but stand by helplessly as industrial agribusiness takes over. The prevailing sentiment is that family farms should survive for important social, ethical, and economic reasons. But will they? This timely book exposes the biases in American farm policies that irrationally encourage expansion, biases evident in federal commodity programs, income tax provisions, and subsidized credit services. Family Farming also exposes internal conflicts, particularly the conflict between the private interests of individual farmers and the public interest in family farming as a whole. It challenges the assumption that bigger is better, critiques the technological basis of modern agriculture, and calls for farming practices that are ethical, economical, and ecologically sound. The alternative policies discussed in this book could yet save the family farm, and the ways and means of saving it are argued here with special urgency. ø This Bison Books edition includes a new introduction by the author providing a more national perspective, underscoring the repetitive cycles of American agriculture over the decade, and assessing the major policy issues that have dominated agriculture in recent years.
| Author | : John Hemingway |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2007-05-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1461749948 |
A family memoir revealing the fascinating dynamics between Ernest Hemingway and his youngest son, Gregory, written by John Hemingway (grandson of Ernest and son of Gregory).
| Author | : Tash Aw |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 80 |
| Release | : 2016-03 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1632060450 |
A whirlwind personal history of modern Asia, as told through his Malaysian and Chinese heritage
| Author | : Janice Hadlow |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 704 |
| Release | : 2014-11-18 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0805096566 |
"Originally published as The strangest family in the U.K. in 2014 by William Collins"--Title page verso.
| Author | : Gerald Durrell |
| Publisher | : Penguin Books Limited |
| Total Pages | : 307 |
| Release | : 2011-04-07 |
| Genre | : Corfu Island (Greece) |
| ISBN | : 9780241951460 |
'What we all need,' said Larry, 'is sunshine . . . a country where we can grow.' 'Yes, dear, that would be nice,' agreed Mother, not really listening. 'I had a letter from George this morning - he says Corfu's wonderful. Why don't we pack up and go to Greece?' 'Very well, dear, if you like,' said Mother unguardedly. Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist Gerry, along with their long-suffering mother and Roger the dog - take off for the island of Corfu. But the Durrells find that, reluctantly, they must share their various villas with a menagerie of local fauna - among them scorpions, geckos, toads, bats and butterflies. Recounted with immense humour and charm My Family and Other Animals is a wonderful account of a rare, magical childhood. 'Durrell has an uncanny knack of discovering human as well as animal eccentricities' Sunday Telegraph
| Author | : Qing TianWuWei |
| Publisher | : Funstory |
| Total Pages | : 615 |
| Release | : 2020-04-08 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1648843387 |
He was a young master, but he did not have the least bit of freedom! He had extraordinary ability, but it was useless! More than once, he had asked himself, just who am I? One day, he finally knew who he was. But it turned out that this was not the end of the suffering, but merely the beginning! Why was all this happening? He didn't know ... "Young Master" will go on stage today, everyone support, like friends can add group QQQ134160402, everyone discuss! Close]
| Author | : Sonia C Ruiz |
| Publisher | : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 495 |
| Release | : 2022-12-28 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1638747067 |
From a small farmhouse in Ashburn, Virginia at only nine years old, Frawny, who was almost abducted and experience an apparition of a young girl at a lake by her farm and helped a detective friend in the captured of her presumed killer on this twenty-five-year-old case. She left the farm, her mother, and friends to attend the University of Karlton, Virginia to pursue her education in criminology; while there she encountered a mysterious enemy, whose intentions to kill her goes after her friends first; injuring one and killing another. In going after her friend's killer and finding clues that leads her to her hometown in Ashburn; she encounters FBI files of cold cases of missing six nine-year-old girls and she decides to follow the clues and, in the process, finds connections to the previous twenty-five year remains of the girl in the lake. Frawny's obsession to find more clues takes her to an elderly lady's old house, a shed behind it and an old green truck. The killer aware of her pursuit tries to find ways to avoid it, but soon falls into her trap.
| Author | : Donal Ryan |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2021-06-15 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0525507922 |
AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARD NOVEL OF THE YEAR Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Awards “Mr. Ryan writes conspicuously beautiful prose… The fleeting happiness and abiding melancholy of the asymmetry, heightened by the intimately rendered surroundings, brings out Mr. Ryan’s most sensuous and emotive writing.” –The Wall Street Journal From the Booker nominated author of From a Low and Quiet Sea, Donal Ryan's new novel follows the Gladney family across three generations seeking the true meaning of what it is to find home and love. In 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home in Ireland and disappears. Bewildered and distraught, Paddy and Kit must confront an unbearable prospect: that they will never see their daughter again. Five years later, Moll returns from London. What - and who - she brings with her will change the course of her family's life forever. Beautiful and devastating, this exploration of loss, alienation and the redemptive power of love reaffirms Donal Ryan as one of the most talented and empathetic writers at work today.
