Olive of Groves and the Great Slurp of Time

Olive of Groves and the Great Slurp of Time
Author: Katrina Nannestad
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2016-05-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1460703553

'Exciting, imaginative, charming and very, very funny' - Judith Rossell, award-winning author of Withering-by-Sea on Olive of Groves Olive is gobsmacked. Basil Heffenhuffenheimer has just hiked out of the Black Forest in 1857 and into Mrs Groves' Boarding School for Naughty Boys, Talking Animals and Circus Performers. When he offers to take Olive into the past, she cannot resist a time-travelling adventure. After all, what could possibly go wrong? Plenty, dear reader. Plenty! Multi-award-winning author Katrina Nannestad charms with a series that will keep you giggling, gasping and sighing with delight.

Olive of Groves

Olive of Groves
Author: Katrina Nannestad
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2015-10-19
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1460703537

Shortlisted for the 2016 Indie Book Awards Olive has always dreamed of attending boarding school, but Mrs Groves' Boarding School for Naughty Boys, Talking Animals and Circus Performers is not what she expected. The headmistress is completely befuddled and Pig McKenzie, school bully, is determined to make Olive's life unbearable. Olive, clever and kind, soon gains the loyalty of three rats, a short-sighted moose, a compulsive liar and a goose who faints at the sight of cherries. But will friendship and wits be enough when Pig McKenzie puts his Truly Wicked Plan into gear? Or will Olive be cast out of Groves forever? Multi-award-winning author Katrina Nannestad charms with a series that will keep you giggling, gasping and sighing with delight. PRAISE 'Exciting, imaginative, charming and very, very funny' - Judith Rossell, award-winning author of Withering-by-Sea

We Are Wolves

We Are Wolves
Author: Katrina Nannestad
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2022-03-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1665904240

This haunting, heart-stopping middle grade novel follows three of the Wolfskinder, German children left to fend for themselves in the final days of World War II, as they struggle to hold onto themselves and each other while surviving in the wild. Sometimes it’s good to be wild. Sometimes, you have to be. When the Russian Army marches into East Prussia at the end of World War II, the Wolf family must flee. Being caught by the Russians or Americans would be the end for them. Liesl, Otto, and baby Mia’s father has already been captured, and they get separated from their mother in a blizzard after only a few days on the run. Liesl promised Mama that she’d keep her brother and sister safe, no matter what. They’ll forage in the forests if they have to. Little do they know at the start that there are hundreds of other parentless children doing the same thing. And they far too quickly learn that, sometimes, to survive, you have to do bad things. Dangerous things. Wild things. Sometimes you must become a wolf.

Olive of Groves and the Great Slurp of Time (Olive of Groves, #2)

Olive of Groves and the Great Slurp of Time (Olive of Groves, #2)
Author: Katrina Nannestad
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-07-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9780733342646

'Exciting, imaginative, charming and very, very funny' - Judith Rossell, award-winning author of Withering-by-Sea on Olive of Groves Olive is gobsmacked. Basil Heffenhuffenheimer has just hiked out of the Black Forest in 1857 and into Mrs Groves' Boarding School for Naughty Boys, Talking Animals and Circus Performers. When he offers to take Olive into the past, she cannot resist a time-travelling adventure. After all, what could possibly go wrong? Plenty, dear reader. Plenty! Multi-award-winning author Katrina Nannestad charms with a series that will keep you giggling, gasping and sighing with delight.

Withering-by-Sea

Withering-by-Sea
Author: Judith Rossell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2016-03-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1481443690

A stalwart orphan sets out on a spine-tingling adventure in this wildly imaginative and darkly funny Victorian middle grade novel. High on a cliff above the gloomy Victorian town of Withering-by-Sea stands the Hotel Majestic. Inside the walls of the damp, dull hotel, eleven-year-old orphan Stella Montgomery leads a miserable life with her three dreadful aunts. Stella dreams of adventuring on the Amazon—or anyplace, really, as long as it isn’t this dreary town where nothing ever happens. Then one night Stella sees something she shouldn’t have. Soon she finds herself on the run from terrifying Professor Stark and his gang of thugs. But how can one young girl outwit an evil magician, much less rescue his poor, mistreated assistant? With the help of a mysterious maestro, his musical cats, and a lively girl named Gert, Stella Montgomery sets out to do the impossible.

Real Gardens Grow Natives

Real Gardens Grow Natives
Author: Eileen M Stark
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
Total Pages: 645
Release: 2014-09-24
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1594858675

CLICK HERE to download sample native plants from Real Gardens Grow Natives For many people, the most tangible and beneficial impact they can have on the environment is right in their own yard. Aimed at beginning and veteran gardeners alike, Real Gardens Grow Natives is a stunningly photographed guide that helps readers plan, implement, and sustain a retreat at home that reflects the natural world. Gardening with native plants that naturally belong and thrive in the Pacific Northwest’s climate and soil not only nurtures biodiversity, but provides a quintessential Northwest character and beauty to yard and neighborhood! For gardeners and conservationists who lack the time to read through lengthy design books and plant lists or can’t afford a landscape designer, Real Gardens Grow Natives is accessible yet comprehensive and provides the inspiration and clear instruction needed to create and sustain beautiful, functional, and undemanding gardens. With expert knowledge from professional landscape designer Eileen M. Stark, Real Gardens Grow Natives includes: * Detailed profiles of 100 select native plants for the Pacific Northwest west of the Cascades, plus related species, helping make plant choice and placement. * Straightfoward methods to enhance or restore habitat and increase biodiversity * Landscape design guidance for various-sized yards, including sample plans * Ways to integrate natives, edibles, and nonnative ornamentals within your garden * Specific planting procedures and secrets to healthy soil * Techniques for propagating your own native plants * Advice for easy, maintenance using organic methods

The Skeleton Revealed

The Skeleton Revealed
Author: Steve Huskey
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2017-02-15
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1421421488

Come along--let's take a voyage through the boneyard.

The Queen of the Damned

The Queen of the Damned
Author: Anne Rice
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2010-11-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307575896

“With The Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice has created universes within universes, traveling back in time as far as ancient, pre-pyramidic Egypt and journeying from the frozen mountain peaks of Nepal to the crowded, sweating streets of southern Florida.”—Los Angeles Times In a feat of virtuoso storytelling, Anne Rice unleashes Akasha, the queen of the damned, who has risen from a six-thousand-year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. Akasha has a marvelously devious plan to “save” mankind and destroy the vampire Lestat—in this extraordinarily sensual novel of the complex, erotic, electrifying world of the undead. Praise for The Queen of the Damned “Mesmerizing . . . a wonderful web of dark-side mythology.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Imaginative . . . intelligently written . . . This is popular fiction of the highest order.”—USA Today “A tour de force.”—The Boston Globe

Nourished

Nourished
Author: Lia Huber
Publisher: Convergent Books
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2017-10-24
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 045149881X

A noted entrepreneur, food writer, and recipe developer serves up an evocative adventure story abouther quest to find healing, meaning, and a place at the table. Hunger comes to us in many forms, writes Lia Huber—we long to be satisfied not just physically, but emotionally and spiritually as well. Nourished invites readers on Huber’s world-roaming search to find the necessary ingredients to nurture all three. She begins her quest with an Anthony Bourdain moment in a Guatemalan village: she's slipping fresh vegetables into a communal pot of soup she's cooking up for chronically undernourished children. Village grannies look on disapprovingly... until the kids come back for more. From there, Huber takes readers to the Greek island of Corfu, where she learns the joys of simple food and the power of unconditional love; to a Costa Rican jungle house (by way of an 8,000-mile road trip), where she finds hope and healing; and finally to California's wine country, where she steps into the person she was meant to be and discovers her calling to nourish others.

Habitation of the Blessed

Habitation of the Blessed
Author: Catherynne M. Valente
Publisher: Night Shade
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-10-26
Genre: Books and reading
ISBN: 9781597801997

Brother Hiob, on missionary work in the Himalayan wilderness, discovers a village guarding a miraculous tree whose branches sprout books instead of fruit. These books chronicle the history of the kingdom of Prestor John, and Hiob becomes obsessed with the tales they tell.