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Author :Stephanie Johnson Publisher :Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited ISBN 13 :1775532623 Total Pages :248 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (755 download)
Book Synopsis The Heart's Wild Surf by : Stephanie Johnson
Download or read book The Heart's Wild Surf written by Stephanie Johnson and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romantic, funny and surprising, this novel is a bold exploration of love in a time of confusion. In Fiji at the end of 1918, the distant Great War is drawing to a close and Spanish flu is raging. Twelve-year-old Olive McNab is sent from Suva to stay wih her aunt and uncle on a plantation on Tavenui. On this magical and mysterious island she uncovers some startling, well-kept secrets. The death of her mother, her friendship with two independent women, and a series of adventures change Olive's life for ever. 'Johnson's work is marked by a dry irony, a sharp-edged humour that focuses unerringly on the frailties and foolishness of her characters . . . There is compassion, though, and sensitivity in the development of complex situations . . . A purposeful sense of such larger concerns balances Johnson's precision with the small details of situation, character and voice that give veracity and colour.' - The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature
Book Synopsis The Sailmaker's Daughter by : Stephanie Johnson
Download or read book The Sailmaker's Daughter written by Stephanie Johnson and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2003-07-14 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1918 and Spanish Flu is epidemic in Suva, the capital of Fiji. Twelve year old Olive is sent with her brothers and grandmother to Taveuni to stay with her childless aunt and uncle on their sugar plantation to escape the disease as her mother lies dying of the flu in their family home. The months that follow hold magic and sorrow for Olive, as she uncovers well kept family secrets and grieves for her dying mother. The Sailmaker's Daughter is dedicated to the memory of Stephanie Johnson's grandmother, who was born in Fiji in 1905. Like Olive in the book, her grandmother was one of a large family; her father was the sailmaker in Suva and her mother died of the Spanish Flu at the end of the Great War. The Sailmaker's Daughter is both a tribute to Stephanie Johnson's grandmother and a powerful evocation of a mystical paradise lived and lost.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English by : Eugene Benson
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English written by Eugene Benson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-30 with total page 1950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... Documents the history and development of [Post-colonial literatures in English, together with English and American literature] and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.
Book Synopsis Big waves, wild hearts by : Josie Charles
Download or read book Big waves, wild hearts written by Josie Charles and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Heart of Devin Mackade by : Nora Roberts
Download or read book The Heart of Devin Mackade written by Nora Roberts and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts continues the beloved MacKade Brothers series with Devin, the handsome and dependable sheriff! Since he was a young man, Devin MacKade has always known his destiny was to become sheriff of his small town, to serve and protect Antietam, Maryland. For a long while he thought his future would also include Cassie Connor—the woman he’s known, and certainly loved, forever. But when Cassie married the wrong man, Devin did the honorable thing and kept his feelings to himself. Twelve years later, Cassie’s divorced and Devin can finally follow his heart. The question is, can Cassie? Previously published.
Book Synopsis CONCEPTS OF SOCIAL SCIENTISTS AND GREAT THINKERS by : Andreas Sofroniou
Download or read book CONCEPTS OF SOCIAL SCIENTISTS AND GREAT THINKERS written by Andreas Sofroniou and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, CONCEPTS OF SOCIAL SCIENTISTS AND GREAT THINKERS, encompasses nine titles of different subjects and their issues, namely: PSYCHOLOGY, CONCEPTS OF BEHAVIOUR, PSYCHOLOGY OF CHILD CULTURE, PSYCHOTHERAPY, CONCEPTS OF TREATMENT, FREUDIAN ANALYSIS, JUNGIAN SYNTHESIS, SOCIOLOGY, CONCEPTS OF GROUP BEHAVIOUR, PHILOLOGY, CONCEPTS OF EUROPEAN LITERATURE, SOCIAL SCIENCES, CONCEPTS OF BRANCHES AND RELATIONSHIPS, PHILOSOPHY FOR HUMAN BEHAVIOUR. As such, the author attempts to bring together the concepts and thoughts of social scientists and the values of philosophical endea
Author :Stephanie Johnson Publisher :Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited ISBN 13 :177553023X Total Pages :414 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (755 download)
Download or read book Belief written by Stephanie Johnson and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic novel of love and religion that sweeps across New Zealand and America at the turn of the nineteenth century. In 1899 William McQuiggan leaves his young Australian wife and new-born twins in New Zealand and travels to America in search of God. Belief is the story of his journey and of his marriage to Myra, who follows him from Auckland to Salt Lake City, Utah, and to Zion City, Illinois. With each leg of the journey the family grows until William is the reluctant father of six, and Myra's understanding of her husband deepens and matures. Belief is a vivid evocation of a way of life that has passed, a tale told on a grand scale: the story spans seventeen years, three countries and three religions. More than that, it is the story of how love and patience may triumph over violence and despair.
Author :Stephanie Johnson Publisher :Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited ISBN 13 :1869796365 Total Pages :327 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (697 download)
Book Synopsis The Shag Incident by : Stephanie Johnson
Download or read book The Shag Incident written by Stephanie Johnson and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darkly satirical and wickedly funny, this prize-winning novel takes a tilt at a wide range of contemporary matters. What happened that connects a diverse group of characters, along with an ex-All Black and an elephant? The people who committed the act of revenge in 1985 thought it was perfectly executed. Twenty years on, the truth is revealed, the truth about the deception that started it all. From sexual stereotyping to militant feminism, the machismo of the All Blacks to new age beliefs, psychiatry to womb burial and naming ceremonies, nothing is safe from the razor-sharp wit of this superb writer. This novel won the Deutz Medal for Fiction in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards.
Author :Stephanie Johnson Publisher :Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited ISBN 13 :0143775545 Total Pages :231 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (437 download)
Book Synopsis Everything Changes by : Stephanie Johnson
Download or read book Everything Changes written by Stephanie Johnson and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buying a rundown motel to start a new life — what could possibly go wrong? In this funny and moving novel, prize-winning author Stephanie Johnson turns her wry eye on us. ‘What a fabulous read. Stephanie Johnson’s characters choose an old motel with little to offer except an amazing view in order to start a ‘new life’. Their first guests are a classic cast of the sorrowful and dysfunctional that every-day life throws at us these days. They are joined by their pregnant daughter, a mysterious young criminal from next door and a dog that knows more than all of them put together. The story is fast paced, and unpredictable, it’s smart, contemporary and heartbreaking all at once. And, just when it was about to make me cry, Johnson startled me into wild laughter. This is her best book ever, and I loved every page of it.’ – Fiona Kidman
Author :Stephanie Johnson Publisher :Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited ISBN 13 :1775530248 Total Pages :277 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (755 download)
Download or read book The Whistler written by Stephanie Johnson and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant novel about history, the forgetting and rewriting of it, and a satire on a society that has lost compassion in the process. Smooch is a 'Whistler', a genetically altered lapdog with special talents, including the ability to remember his previous incarnations and to communicate directly from his brain by electronically downloading his thoughts onto disc. Smooch has been reincarnated many times, and has lived on many of the great laps of history, past and future. He can recall many of history's key moments, such as the birth of Jesus and the imprisonment of Mary Queen of Scots. The Whistler is a virtuosic feat: wise, funny and intelligent. Smooch's current reincarnation is in Sydney in the year 2318. The world has gone to hell: democratic government worldwide has given way to a society run by corporations, pollution is everywhere, and society is heavily stratified between the haves and have nots.
Author :Stephanie Johnson Publisher :Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited ISBN 13 :1775530256 Total Pages :214 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (755 download)
Book Synopsis Drowned Sprat and Other Stories by : Stephanie Johnson
Download or read book Drowned Sprat and Other Stories written by Stephanie Johnson and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories to dip into and devour, by a prize-winning writer. These 23 stories show the breadth of Stephanie Johnson's fine writing. It features poignant insights as well as her sharp wit, with characters as diverse as a woman arranging a second wife for her husband, a criminal returning to the care of his mother, and a widow who hears an octopus call her name.
Book Synopsis Fierce Heart by : Stuart Holmes Coleman
Download or read book Fierce Heart written by Stuart Holmes Coleman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Although Makaha is a small, isolated town on the Western coast of O'ahu, it has produced some of the most intriguing Hawaiians of the twentieth century: world-class surfers Buffalo Keaulana and his sons Rusty and Brian; beautiful skin diver and surfing pro Rell Sunn; and larger-than-life singer and songwriter Israel Kamakawiwo'ole. What connects them is a love for their culture, their people, and water sports. Fierce Heart combines stories of exciting surfing competitions, dramatic water rescues, and deep friendships with a look at the history and origins of one of the world's most thrilling extreme sports." --
Author :Stephanie Johnson Publisher :Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited ISBN 13 :1869792416 Total Pages :320 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (697 download)
Book Synopsis Swimmers' Rope by : Stephanie Johnson
Download or read book Swimmers' Rope written by Stephanie Johnson and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful novel about friendship, guilt and sex and our changing notions of loyalty and culpability. Friends since childhood, Norman and Lyn grow up as next-door neighbours at the turn of the twentieth century. When Lyn is sent to manage a central North Island timber mill at the tender age of fourteen, Norman goes to visit him. There he is forced to confront a mysterious adult truth. Later, in their twenties, the two men commit an act so appalling that it ruptures their friendship for many years. In 1972 the elderly Norman meets a young woman in a pub. Burdened by the memory he must at long last assuage, he presses Bronwyn into becoming his unwilling confessor.
Book Synopsis A Long Slow Affair of the Heart by : Bruce Ansley
Download or read book A Long Slow Affair of the Heart written by Bruce Ansley and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wine, food, love, a canal boat and France. Craving adventure, a writer goes in search of happiness on the French canals. Will his marriage make it home again? Craving adventure, Bruce Ansley goes in search of happiness on the French canals. He and his wife Sally buy a canal boat, the River Queen, in Holland and sail it through Belgium to France. They travel through old battlefields, the great vineyards and wineries of Burgundy, and find the ideal way to live in Paris: on a boat. La Belle France seems flawlessly to live up to Bruce’s expectations. The journey takes the couple through quaint villages and picturesque countryside; it introduces them to colourful people, excellent food and lots and lots of wine. Bruce and Sally find themselves part of a floating community whose people range from hilarious to eccentric to astonishing. Yet aboard the River Queen another drama plays out. Fault lines appear in the perfect life, threatening the ideal escape with an unhappy ending. Throwing the cards in the air is one thing, but knowing how they will land is another. With humour and a poignantly candid touch, Ansley documents a journey within a journey: the internal shifts of a marriage that just might not make it home. This acclaimed travel memoir by award-winning New Zealand writer takes us vividly and unforgettably to France. But it also takes us further than that — deep into the winding, secret interior of the heart.
Download or read book Long Beach Wild written by Adrienne Mason and published by Greystone Books. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year, more than a million people visit the spectacular sweep of sand that stretches along Vancouver Island's west coast between Tofino and Ucluelet to watch waves crash ashore on a series of beaches-essentially one long beach separated by small rocky headlands, a shoreline steps away from howling wolves and towering red cedars. In Long Beach Wild: A Celebration of People and Place on Canada's Rugged Western Shore, local resident Adrienne Mason uses her intimate knowledge of the area and a selection of historic and contemporary photos to explore the region's rich natural and cultural history. Mason shows how Long Beach was shaped by many forces, including volcanoes, glaciers, and torrents of water. She describes how the deposits of gravel and silt that this tumult left behind allowed offshore kelp beds and sea otters to thrive and supported the growth of countless other organisms, from lichens and ferns to waterfowl and deer. She also describes how First Nations people found inspiration and sustenance in the area for thousands of years, hunting whales on the open ocean using harpoons with mussel-shell blades and great lengths of cedar bark rope. As well as describing the traditions of the area's First Nations, Mason
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Book Synopsis The Heart of the Wild by : Ben A. Minteer
Download or read book The Heart of the Wild written by Ben A. Minteer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-08-13 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timely and provocative reflections on the future of the wild in an increasingly human world The Heart of the Wild brings together some of today’s leading scientists, humanists, and nature writers to offer a thought-provoking meditation on the urgency of learning about and experiencing our wild places in an age of rapidly expanding human impacts. These engaging essays present nuanced and often surprising perspectives on the meaning and value of “wildness” amid the realities of the Anthropocene. They consider the trends and forces—from the cultural and conceptual to the ecological and technological—that are transforming our relationship with the natural world and sometimes seem only to be pulling us farther away from wild places and species with each passing day. The contributors make impassioned defenses of naturalism, natural history, and nature education in helping us to rediscover a love for the wild at a time when our connections with it have frayed or been lost altogether. Charting a new path forward in an era of ecological uncertainty, The Heart of the Wild reframes our understanding of nature and our responsibility to learn from and sustain it as the human footprint sinks ever deeper into the landscapes around us. With contributions by Bill Adams, Joel Berger, Susan Clayton, Eileen Crist, Martha L. Crump, Thomas Lowe Fleischner, Harry W. Greene, Hal Herzog, Jonathan B. Losos, Emma Marris, Ben A. Minteer, Kathleen Dean Moore, Gary Paul Nabhan, Peter H. Raven, Christopher J. Schell, Richard Shine, and Kyle Whyte.
