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The Swansong of Wilbur McCrum

Author : Bronia Kita
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0330506129
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Swansong of Wilbur McCrum written by Bronia Kita and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-11-17 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilbur McCrum has always been a drifter. Abandoned by his parents, one after the other, and subsequently passed from pillar to post, he was still a young lad when he first took to the road, and somehow he's never settled anywhere since. When he meets Ida May, however, that looks set to change: finally, Wilbur's dream of making a home, a family, and a future for himself, looks set to become reality. But fate's a funny old thing, and Wilbur never has had much luck . . . 'With a hugely likeable narrator, and a narrative that gallops along at the breakneck pace of a runaway steer, I loved the energy of the writing, and the way the world of the Wild West is painted so clearly in swift, deft strokes. A terrific and unusual voice' Kate Long 'Kita's gold-rush setting incorporates all the dusty heroism of the Wild West. But Wilbur McCrum is the book's truly unforgettable element. His folksy speech and wry humour are engaging and unrelenting, taking the reader from a troubled childhood to an old age of reminiscence. Few first novels have employed imaginative freedom and picaresque invention with such aplomb' Waterstone’s Books Quarterly

The British National Bibliography

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1922 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Understudy

Author : David Nicholls
Publisher : Villard
ISBN 13 : 1588365050
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book The Understudy written by David Nicholls and published by Villard. This book was released on 2007-01-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently divorced actor Stephen C. McQueen (no relation, unfortunately) seems to have a knack for bad luck. But a failed marriage, a stalled career, a judgmental ex-wife, a distant daughter, a horrid little studio apartment in the far reaches of the London suburbs–all these pathetic elements seem to pale in the chiseled face of his newest tormentor: the Twelfth Sexiest Man in the World, Josh Harper. Josh is the star of Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know, a biographical play about Lord Byron–and Stephen is his understudy. Not only is Josh fantastically, infuriatingly good-looking, internationally renowned, and remarkably talented, he’s also frustratingly healthy. No matter how many all-night booze-and-coke benders Josh goes on, he always shows up at the stage door for his call like clockwork. Stephen doubts he’ll ever get his chance to slip on the puffy shirt and tight breeches of Byron and tread the boards in the role that would certainly be the break he’s always waited for. And just when Stephen’s sure he couldn’t resent Josh more, he meets Josh’s witty, restless American wife, Nora . . . and discovers he likes her a little too much. Another man might curse his luck at finding that his potential dream woman is a rival’s wife, but at this point, Stephen would expect nothing else. Caught between his stirring feelings for Nora, the demands of an insistent and secretive Josh, and his lifelong desire for a real career in show business, Stephen must make a terrible decision: Will it be the girl or the fame? A hapless, bumbling bloke in love, an arrogant megastar with a potpourri of addictions, a sexy married woman out of her element in the fast lane–David Nicholls brings them all together in this knockout romantic comedy.

The First Wife

Author : Paulina Chiziane
Publisher : Archipelago
ISBN 13 : 0914671499
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book The First Wife written by Paulina Chiziane and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After twenty years of marriage, Rami discovers that her husband has been living a double--or rather, a quintuple--life. Tony, a senior police officer in Maputo, has apparently been supporting four other families for many years. Rami remains calm in the face of her husband's duplicity and plots to make an honest man out of him. After Tony is forced to marry the four other women--as well as an additional lover--according to polygamist custom, the rival lovers join together to declare their voices and demand their rights. In this brilliantly funny and feverishly scathing critique, a major work from Mozambique's first published female novelist, Paulina Chiziane explores her country's traditional culture, its values and hypocrisy, and the subjection of women the world over.

London

Author : Edward Rutherfurd
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099551373
Total Pages : 1330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book London written by Edward Rutherfurd and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 1330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The triumphs and failures of seven individual family clans span the history of a city from the third-century Roman occupation of Londinium through such eras as the Norman conquest and the Elizabethan period.

Yvain

Author : Chretien de Troyes
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300187580
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Yvain written by Chretien de Troyes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1987-09-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chrétien’s major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant medieval past.

A Taste for Death

Author : P. D. James
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571248667
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book A Taste for Death written by P. D. James and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2008-11-20 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a major Channel 5 series 'The Queen of Crime.' New York Times Two men lie in a welter of blood in the vestry of St Matthew's Church, Paddington, thier throats brutally slashed. One is Sir Paul Berowne, a baronet and recently-resigned Minister of the Crown, the other an alcoholic vagrant. Dalgliesh and his team, set up to investigate crimes of particular sensitivity, are faced with a case of extraordinary complexity as they discover the Berowne family's veneer of prosperous gentility conceals ugly and dangerous secrets. 'Compulsive . . . heart-pounding suspense.' Sunday Times 'Splendidly suspenseful . . . A triumph and a treat.' Guardian

Miss Bianca in the Antarctic

Author : Margery Sharp
Publisher : Little Brown & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780316782944
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (829 download)

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Download or read book Miss Bianca in the Antarctic written by Margery Sharp and published by Little Brown & Company. This book was released on 1971 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attempting to rescue an old friend from the Antarctic, Miss Bianca and her right-hand-mouse, Bernard, become stranded there themselves.

Bernard the Brave

Author : Margery Sharp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781906763282
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book Bernard the Brave written by Margery Sharp and published by . This book was released on 2009-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the bravery of Bernard, the stalwart friend of the elegant Miss Bianca, President of the Mouse Prisoners' Aid Society. While Miss Bianca is away, Bernard faces the most daring prisoner rescuing mission yet. Miss Thomasina, orphan heiress to the Three Rivers Estate, has been kidnapped by her wicked guardian. With only one clue to follow, Bernard stamps off into the night. And what danger he faces! But with obstinate determination and the help of a most unusual ally, Bernard does not falter from his purpose. The adventures of Miss Bianca and Bernard have been made famous in the Walt Disney film 'The Rescuers'.

The Almond Picker

Author : Simonetta Agnello Hornby
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312425067
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book The Almond Picker written by Simonetta Agnello Hornby and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-02-21 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many memorable works of fiction, this surprising mystery--and love story--set in rural Sicily hinges on a single question, in this case: who is Maria Rosalia Inzerillo, known as Mennulara, the almond picker?

Keeping You a Secret

Author : Julie Anne Peters
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316025755
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Keeping You a Secret written by Julie Anne Peters and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2007-07-31 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award finalist Julie Anne Peters delivers a moving, classic love story between two girls. With a steady boyfriend, the position of Student Council President, and a chance to go to an Ivy League college, high school life is just fine for Holland Jaeger. At least, it seems to be. But when Cece Goddard comes to school, everything changes. Cece and Holland have undeniable feelings for each other, but how will others react to their developing relationship? This moving love story is for fans of Nancy Garden's classic young adult coming out novel, Annie on My Mind. With her characteristic humor and breezy style, Peters has captured the compelling emotions of young love.

The Curriculum

Author : A V Kelly
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446245543
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book The Curriculum written by A V Kelly and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2009-01-19 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ′This book will be of interest to educational practitioners, and many other professionals concerned with the education and development of the young′ - ESCalate `A very well-respected book [and a] Curriculum classic...[which offers] balance to current official publications...One of its strengths is the coherent argument that runs throughout. It is very much a product of the wide knowledge and experience of the author.′ - Jenny Houssart, Senior Lecturer, Department of Learning, Curriculum & Communication, Institute of Education, University of London, UK Praise for previous editions: `I use this book as an essential course text for a module on curriculum theory. It is an excellent text for the whole course′ `Vic Kelly′s writing is always concise and informative, but also at times challenging′ `A most comprehensive text that takes the reader beyond content/balance issues values, beliefs and assumptions on the curriculum′ This is the sixth edition of a book that has been regularly revised and updated since it was first published in the mid-1970s. A V Kelly′s now classic work focuses on the philosophical and political dimensions of curriculum, and especially on the implications for schools and societies of various forms of curriculum. The book outlines what form a curriculum should take if it is concerned to promote a genuine form of education for a genuinely democratic society. Kelly summarises and explains the main aspects of curriculum theory, and shows how these can and should be translated into practice, in order to create an educational and democratic curriculum for all schools at all levels. The book also seeks to show that the politicization of the school curriculum has led to the establishment of policies and practices which demonstrate a failure to understand these principles of curriculum theory and practice. As a result, policies and practices have been implemented which fall short of being adequate. In view of the rapid pace of educational change imposed by various governments over the last 35 years, including New Labour, this book is more relevant than ever.

Waltzing the Cat

Author : Pam Houston
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671026372
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Waltzing the Cat written by Pam Houston and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relationships and extreme adventures collide with deadpan humor and female wisdom in Pam Houston's transcendent follow-up to her bestselling Cowboys Are My Weakness. Through eleven interlinked stories, we follow roving photographer Lucy O'Rourke as she survives a home life where her parents engage in rather peculiar feeding rites for the family cat in a "title story that deserves to be anthologized into eternity" (The Washington Post Book World), a near-drowning on a white water rafting trip, and a grand cayman attack in the Amazon. All the while her search for love continues with a string of rugged, exciting, and usually, it seems, inappropriate men. While it's not always easy for Lucy to find success in either the great outdoors or love, she rolls with the punches, never losing her sassy wit. When a surprise encounter with Carlos Castaneda at an airport boarding gate sets off a series of synchronistic events that lead Lucy to Hope, Colorado, and the life she has been searching for, we know that "Houston's triumph is that she has come to know the quieter adventures of the heart" (Arizona Republic).

Summer of the Fawn

Author : Alain Laboile
Publisher : Kehrer Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783868288957
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book Summer of the Fawn written by Alain Laboile and published by Kehrer Verlag. This book was released on 2019-02 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laboile's timeless and universal images inspire longing for the endless summer days of our childhood.

The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America

Author : Victor Bulmer-Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780521857161
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America written by Victor Bulmer-Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Some Things Matter

Author : James Nash
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781908853042
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Some Things Matter written by James Nash and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leeds-based poet James Nash has spent the last few years writing in the sonnet form almost exclusively, building up a sequence of 63 carefully-crafted pieces on a diverse range of topics - filling the 882 lines of poetry with as many ideas and insights as they can possibly hold.

The Undrowned Child

Author : Michelle Lovric
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 144400414X
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Undrowned Child written by Michelle Lovric and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the beginning of the 20th century; the age of scientific progress. But for Venice the future looks bleak. A conference of scientists assembles to address the problems, among whose delegates are the parents of twelve-year-old Teodora. Within days of her arrival, she is subsumed into the secret life of Venice: a world in which salty-tongued mermaids run subversive printing presses, ghosts good and bad patrol the streets and librarians turn fluidly into cats. A battle against forces determined to destroy the city once and for all quickly ensues. Only Teo, the undrowned child who survived a tragic accident as a baby, can go 'between the linings' to subvert evil and restore order.