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The Walled Orchard

Author : Tom Holt
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0748113517
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book The Walled Orchard written by Tom Holt and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Read THE WALLED ORCHARD so you can tell your descendants, 'I was there when the historical novel started holding its head up with the rest of literature''. - WASHINGTON POST 'This book is a hilarious yet well-researached historical novel.' - HISTORICAL NOVEL REVIEW The hero is Eupolis, weary, cynical and believing only in comedy. The heroine is Athens, at the height of her schizophrenic glory. A startling mixture of comedy and tragedy, THE WALLED ORCHARD is the poignant, charming story of their turbulent relationship. With unforgettable characters and a powerful and moving story, THE WALLED ORCHARD is a wonderful evocation of life in Ancient Greece in the fifth century BC. Books by Tom Holt: Walled Orchard Series Goatsong The Walled Orchard J.W. Wells & Co. Series The Portable Door In Your Dreams Earth, Air, Fire and Custard You Don't Have to Be Evil to Work Here, But It Helps The Better Mousetrap May Contain Traces of Magic Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sausages YouSpace Series Doughnut When It's A Jar The Outsorcerer's Apprentice The Good, the Bad and the Smug Novels Expecting Someone Taller Who's Afraid of Beowulf Flying Dutch Ye Gods! Overtime Here Comes the Sun Grailblazers Faust Among Equals Odds and Gods Djinn Rummy My Hero Paint your Dragon Open Sesame Wish you Were Here Alexander at World's End Only Human Snow White and the Seven Samurai Olympiad Valhalla Nothing But Blue Skies Falling Sideways Little People Song for Nero Meadowland Barking Blonde Bombshell The Management Style of the Supreme Beings An Orc on the Wild Side

The Walled Orchard

Author : Tom Holt
Publisher : Abacus
ISBN 13 : 0748113517
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book The Walled Orchard written by Tom Holt and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Read THE WALLED ORCHARD so you can tell your descendants, 'I was there when the historical novel started holding its head up with the rest of literature''. - WASHINGTON POST 'This book is a hilarious yet well-researached historical novel.' - HISTORICAL NOVEL REVIEW The hero is Eupolis, weary, cynical and believing only in comedy. The heroine is Athens, at the height of her schizophrenic glory. A startling mixture of comedy and tragedy, THE WALLED ORCHARD is the poignant, charming story of their turbulent relationship. With unforgettable characters and a powerful and moving story, THE WALLED ORCHARD is a wonderful evocation of life in Ancient Greece in the fifth century BC. Books by Tom Holt: Walled Orchard Series Goatsong The Walled Orchard J.W. Wells & Co. Series The Portable Door In Your Dreams Earth, Air, Fire and Custard You Don't Have to Be Evil to Work Here, But It Helps The Better Mousetrap May Contain Traces of Magic Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sausages YouSpace Series Doughnut When It's A Jar The Outsorcerer's Apprentice The Good, the Bad and the Smug Novels Expecting Someone Taller Who's Afraid of Beowulf Flying Dutch Ye Gods! Overtime Here Comes the Sun Grailblazers Faust Among Equals Odds and Gods Djinn Rummy My Hero Paint your Dragon Open Sesame Wish you Were Here Alexander at World's End Only Human Snow White and the Seven Samurai Olympiad Valhalla Nothing But Blue Skies Falling Sideways Little People Song for Nero Meadowland Barking Blonde Bombshell The Management Style of the Supreme Beings An Orc on the Wild Side

Alexander at the World's End

Author : Tom Holt
Publisher : Abacus
ISBN 13 : 0748113584
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Alexander at the World's End written by Tom Holt and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his father dies, and he is reduced at a stroke from prosperity to penury, Euxenus decides to leave Athens and seek his fortune elsewhere. As a philosopher and intellectual of some note, he has no difficulty getting a job as tutor to a young prince in the wealthy but utterly provincial court of King Philip of Macedon. The young prince is called Alexander, and the rest is history. Or is it? Alexander conquered Greece, Egypt and the Persian Empire in the course of eight years, amassing a huge army along the way, and leaving behind him the foundations of countless new cities named after him. He proclaimed himself a deity, and died at the age of 33. In ALEXANDER AT THE WORLD'S END, Tom Holt tells the story of two remarkable men, one of whom conquered empires and one of whom struggled to overcome the drainage problems of a small village. It is a story of two men whose paths crossed only briefly, but whose encounter changed both their lives for ever. And it is a story which throws an extraordinary new light on the man who became Alexander the Great.

The Lost Orchard

Author : Raymond Blanc
Publisher : Headline Home
ISBN 13 : 1472267575
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (722 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Orchard written by Raymond Blanc and published by Headline Home. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now with added material about the gardens at Le Manoir. 'Blanc set about the most thorough apple-tasting and cooking project I have heard of . . . [The Lost Orchard] condenses the highlights, his love letters to the forgotten apple breeds.' The Times 'I began to dream about an orchard filled with thousands of fruit trees... Today we have an orchard with over 150 ancient varieties of apple. Each one has its heritage in a village or a county that used to thrive on that particular variety. They tell the story not only of what we have lost in Britain but also what we could regain.' Over the past eleven years, Raymond Blanc has planted an orchard of 2,500 trees in the grounds of his hotel-restaurant in Oxfordshire. Yielding about 30 tonnes of fruit for his kitchen each year, it is full of ancient and forgotten varieties of British apples and pears, along with walnut trees, quince, medlars, apricots, nectarines, peaches, plums, damsons and cherries. A further 600 heritage fruit trees have been added from Raymond's home region of Franche-Comté in France. The Lost Orchard is a love letter to each of these varieties, complete with beautiful black and white drawings, photographs of Belmond Le Manoir and fascinating information and anecdotes about each fruit, along with recipes and stories.

The Apple Orchard

Author : Susan Wiggs
Publisher : MIRA
ISBN 13 : 0778318338
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (783 download)

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Download or read book The Apple Orchard written by Susan Wiggs and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set to inherit half of Bella Vista apple orchard along with a half-sister she's never met, Tess Delaney discovers a world filled with the simple pleasures of food and family.

The Family Orchard

Author : Nomi Eve
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375713999
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book The Family Orchard written by Nomi Eve and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2002-03-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the bestselling tradition of The Red Tent, The Family Orchard is a spellbinding novel of one unforgettable family, the orchard they've tended for generations, and a love story that transcends the ages. Nomi Eve's lavishly imagined account begins in Palestine in 1837, with the tale of the irrepressible family matriach, Esther, who was lured by the smell of baking bread into an affair with the local baker. Esther passes on her passionate nature to her son, Eliezer, whose love for the forbidden Golda threatened to tear the family apart. And to her granddaughter, Avra the thief, a tiny wisp of a girl who thumbed her nose at her elders by swiping precious stones from the local bazaar-and grew to marry a man she met at the scene of a crime. At once epic and intimate, The Family Orchard is a rich historical tapestry of passion and tradition from a storyteller of beguiling power.

The Orchard

Author : Beverly Lewis
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1493439103
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book The Orchard written by Beverly Lewis and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "She realized there was peace right here in the midst of this heavenly sort of place, despite the unpredictable storm churning around her family." For generations, Ellie Hostetler's family has tended their Lancaster County orchard, a tradition her twin brother, Evan, will someday continue. Yet when Evan's draft number is called up in the lottery for the Vietnam War, the family is shocked to learn he has not sought conscientious objector status, despite their Old Order Amish belief in non-resistance. The faraway war that has caused so much turmoil and grief among their Englisher neighbors threatens too close to home. As Evan departs for boot camp, Ellie confides her disappointment to Sol Bontrager, the brother of her best friend and cousin to her new beau, Menno. In contrast to Evan, Sol is a conscientious objector. Despite Ellie's attraction to Menno, she finds herself drawn to Sol's steady presence as they work together in the orchard. Suddenly, it feels as if everything in Ellie's world is shifting, and the plans she held so dear seem increasingly uncertain. Can she and her family find the courage to face a future unlike any they could have imagined?

The Orchard

Author : Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0593356012
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book The Orchard written by Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four teenagers grow inseparable in the last days of the Soviet Union—but not all of them will live to see the new world arrive in this powerful debut novel, loosely based on Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard. “Spectacular . . . intensely evocative and gorgeously written . . . will fill readers’ eyes with tears and wonder.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune Coming of age in the USSR in the 1980s, best friends Anya and Milka try to envision a free and joyful future for themselves. They spend their summers at Anya’s dacha just outside of Moscow, lazing in the apple orchard, listening to Queen songs, and fantasizing about trips abroad and the lives of American teenagers. Meanwhile, Anya’s parents talk about World War II, the Blockade, and the hardships they have endured. By the time Anya and Milka are fifteen, the Soviet Empire is on the verge of collapse. They pair up with classmates Trifonov and Lopatin, and the four friends share secrets and desires, argue about history and politics, and discuss forbidden books. But the world is changing, and the fleeting time they have together is cut short by a sudden tragedy. Years later, Anya returns to Russia from America, where she has chosen a different kind of life, far from her family and childhood friends. When she meets Lopatin again, he is a smug businessman who wants to buy her parents’ dacha and cut down the apple orchard. Haunted by the ghosts of her youth, Anya comes to the stark realization that memory does not fade or disappear; rather, it moves us across time, connecting our past to our future, joys to sorrows. Inspired by Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry’s The Orchard powerfully captures the lives of four Soviet teenagers who are about to lose their country and one another, and who struggle to survive, to save their friendship, to recover all that has been lost.

The Wall

Author : William Sutcliffe
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408838435
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Wall written by William Sutcliffe and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful, searing story of a divided city - where one boy strays on to the wrong side of the wall, and finds his life changed for ever . . .

The Fig Orchard

Author : Layla Fiske
Publisher : Rancho Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780989455404
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (554 download)

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Download or read book The Fig Orchard written by Layla Fiske and published by Rancho Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unforgettable story of a woman splintered by war and cultural mores, desperately struggling to hold her family together, THE FIG ORCHARD is a rich, compelling epic of love, heroism, family and empowerment. In an isolated, tradition-bound village high above the Jordan River, balancing delicately amidst age-old superstitions and religious orthodoxy, Nisrina Huniah, a fifteen-year-old girl, is torn between innocent imaginings and looming apprehensions as she marries a man she has never met, only to fall in love on the night they are wed. Her joy takes a heart-wrenching turn when the encroaching World War fiercely shatters her reality, propelling her on an unexpected journey where she develops friendships that ultimately alter her perception of herself and the world around her. Beautifully written, this sweeping epic of love and friendship, longing, and the hope of redemption is woven into a colorful tapestry that comes alive against the vibrant backdrop of life in early twentieth-century Middle East. With its haunting and deeply affecting ending, THE FIG ORCHARD will remain in the hearts and minds of its readers long after the last page is turned.

The Blue Orchard

Author : Jackson Taylor
Publisher : Touchstone
ISBN 13 : 9781439186688
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book The Blue Orchard written by Jackson Taylor and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 2010-01-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of the Great Depression, Verna Krone, the child of Irish immigrants, must leave the eighth grade and begin working as a maid to help support her family. Her employer takes inappropriate liberties, and as Verna matures, it seems as if each man she meets is worse than the last. Through sheer force of will and a few chance encounters, she manages to teach herself to read and becomes a nurse. But Verna's new life falls to pieces when she is arrested for assisting a black doctor with illegal surgeries. As the media firestorm rages, Verna reflects on her life while awaiting trial.Based on the life of the author's own grandmother and written after almost three hundred interviews with those involved in the real-life scandal, The Blue Orchard is as elegant and moving as it is exact and convincing. It is a dazzling portrayal of the changes America underwent in the first fifty years of the twentieth century. Readers will be swept into a time period that in many ways mirrors our own. Verna Krone's story is ultimately a story of the indomitable nature of the human spirit -- and a reminder that determination and self-education can defy the deforming pressures that keep women and other disenfranchised groups down.

Taming Fruit

Author : Bernd Brunner
Publisher : Greystone Books
ISBN 13 : 9781771644075
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Taming Fruit written by Bernd Brunner and published by Greystone Books. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beautiful ... Brunner is an astute guide to the fascinating relationships between orchards and human culture."--David George Haskell, author of Pulitzer finalist, The Forest Unseen. For readers of Michael Pollan's The Botany of Desire and Mark Kurlansky's Salt. The story of orchards is a human story. It is also a story of how humans have bent and shaped nature to our tastes and desires for millennia. In Taming Fruit, award-winning writer Bernd Brunner interweaves science, literature, art, history, and geography to tell the complete and fascinating story of orchards and humans. The first orchards may have been oases dotted with date trees, where desert nomads stopped to rest. In the Amazon, Indigenous tribes maintained beautiful mosaic gardens centuries before colonization. Modern fruit cultivation developed over thousands of years in the West and the East. As populations expanded, fruit trees sprang from the lush gardens of the wealthy and monasteries to fields and roadsides, changing landscapes as they fed the hungry. When settlers colonized North America, they brought apple orchards and orange groves. Today, rewilding efforts break down fences, encouraging nature to play an active role. But orchards are not only for growing fruit; they are also places of worship and creativity, inspiring poems, music, and art. This sweeping account of orchards explores an overlooked focal point of our relationship to nature. It also offers gorgeous illustrations of orchards past and present, each one more beautiful than the last.

Olympiad

Author : Tom Holt
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0748113770
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Olympiad written by Tom Holt and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-11-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Wry and droll, fascinating and funny, by bringing us Alexander's nether parts this novel gives momentous matters unforgettable life' - Ross Leckie 'Witty, ironic ... and achieves a deeply felt authenticity' - New York Times Two thousand, seven hundred and seventy-six years ago a group of men ran between two piles of stones, and invented sport. If, that is, its history can be believed. The first ever Olympic Games in 776BC were apparently so memorable that all Western chronology is based on them. All we know about them is the name of the man who won the race. Over two and a half millennia later, it's about time somebody told the story. OLYMPIAD is an enthralling and beguiling historical novel full of adventure and misadventure. It will confirm Tom Holt's place as an innovative, challenging and wonderfully entertaining writer of historical fiction. Essential reading for all fans of Tom Holt and historical fiction. A compelling historical novel from the acclaimed author of THE WALLED ORCHARD. Books by Tom Holt: Walled Orchard Series Goatsong The Walled Orchard J.W. Wells & Co. Series The Portable Door In Your Dreams Earth, Air, Fire and Custard You Don't Have to Be Evil to Work Here, But It Helps The Better Mousetrap May Contain Traces of Magic Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sausages YouSpace Series Doughnut When It's A Jar The Outsorcerer's Apprentice The Good, the Bad and the Smug Novels Expecting Someone Taller Who's Afraid of Beowulf Flying Dutch Ye Gods! Overtime Here Comes the Sun Grailblazers Faust Among Equals Odds and Gods Djinn Rummy My Hero Paint your Dragon Open Sesame Wish you Were Here Alexander at World's End Only Human Snow White and the Seven Samurai Olympiad Valhalla Nothing But Blue Skies Falling Sideways Little People Song for Nero Meadowland Barking Blonde Bombshell The Management Style of the Supreme Beings An Orc on the Wild Side

Blood Orchard

Author : S. D. Hintz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615998299
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Blood Orchard written by S. D. Hintz and published by . This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stock trader Coren Raines is regretting his latest investment. Six-month-old triplets vanish a block from his house. The local sheriff is determined to frame him. And the more secrets Coren unearths, the harder it is to prove his innocence.

No, David!

Author : David Shannon
Publisher : Cartwheel Books
ISBN 13 : 9781338299588
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book No, David! written by David Shannon and published by Cartwheel Books. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brand-new board book celebrates 20 years of the bestselling, Caldecott-winning classic featuring America's favorite trouble maker! Full color.

Goatsong

Author : Tom Holt
Publisher : St Martins Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312038380
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book Goatsong written by Tom Holt and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eupolis of Pallene, goatherd, nascent playwright, and contemporary of Pericles, Sophocles, Euripides, and Socrates, spends his days in the company of goats composing comic verse, in a tale of Athens at the height of its glory

Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society

Author : Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society written by Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Society's proceedings and list of members.