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Download or read book Cold Comfort Farm written by Clare West and published by . This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A school reader for secondary pupils, in the OXFORD BOOKWORMS. BLACK SERIES STAGE 6. This new series offers students at all levels the opportunity to extend their reading and appreciation of English.
Book Synopsis Cold Comfort & Other Tales by : David McDonald
Download or read book Cold Comfort & Other Tales written by David McDonald and published by Clan Destine Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strap yourself in as three tales from award winning speculative fiction author David McDonald take you on a tour of time and space. Visit a frozen post apocalyptic Earth, a galactic delivery service, and very Australian dystopia to discover what happens to ordinary people faced with extraordinary choices or challenges. Cold Comfort Ice spiders, snow bears and deadly cold are only most obvious of the dangers a young trader faces as she searches for the secrets of the Elders on a post-apocalyptic Earth. Deck the Halls A rebellious pilot races against time to make a vital delivery to a planet in need. But in the face of the worst solar storm in years, his only ally is a sentient spaceship who is an outcast even to its own kind. Our Land Abounds In a world divided by war and wracked by food shortages, the Republic of Australasia is an oasis protected by its isolation and the Border Patrol. But, a chance encounter leaves a weary veteran asking whether the price of plenty is too high. Praise for Cold Comfort "What a great story. A believable world of snow and ice, and a tough, engaging protagonist. Vanja is a trader moving between isolated settlements, navigating the hazards of a harsh environment and sometimes prejudiced attitudes towards women as she searches for relics relating to the mysterious 'Builders'. This story has it all: ice spiders, snow bears, and terrific action sequences - immersive and beautifully paced. More! More! More!" - Ambelin Kwaymullina, author: The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf
Book Synopsis Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm by : Stella Gibbons
Download or read book Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm written by Stella Gibbons and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indulge in a feel-good collection of stories from the author of Cold Comfort Farm. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH The title story tells of a typical Christmas at the farm before the coming of Flora Poste. It is a parody of the worst sort of family Christmas: Adam Lambsbreath dresses up as Father Christmas in two of Judith's red shawls. There are unsuitable presents, unpleasant insertions into the pudding and Aunt Ada Doom orders Amos to carve the turkey, adding: 'Ay, would it were a vulture, 'twere more fitting!' 'Stella Gibbons is the Jane Austen of the 20th century' Lynne Truss, author of the Constable Twitten series.
Book Synopsis Cold comfort farm by : Stella Gibbons
Download or read book Cold comfort farm written by Stella Gibbons and published by Aegitas. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cold Comfort Farm is a comic novel by English author Stella Gibbons, published in 1932. It parodies the romanticised, sometimes doom-laden accounts of rural life popular at the time, by writers such as Mary Webb. Following the death of her parents, the book and 's heroine, Flora Poste, finds she is possessed "of every art and grace save that of earning her own living". She decides to take advantage of the fact that "no limits are set, either by society or one and 's own conscience, to the amount one may impose on one and 's relatives", and settles on visiting her distant relatives at the isolated Cold Comfort Farm in the fictional village of Howling in Sussex. The inhabitants of the farm – Aunt Ada Doom, the Starkadders, and their extended family and workers – feel obliged to take her in to atone for an unspecified wrong once done to her father.
Author :Nancy Kilpatrick Publisher :Kansas City, Mo : Dark Tales Publications ISBN 13 :9781930997097 Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.9/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Cold Comfort written by Nancy Kilpatrick and published by Kansas City, Mo : Dark Tales Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-seven chilling tales from a modern master of the erotic and the bizarre. "Nancy Kilpatrick is never afraid to take risks, and her risks pay off".--Poppy Z.
Download or read book Light on Snow written by Anita Shreve and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a family? That's what twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon wonders after she and her widowed father discover a wailing abandoned baby in the snow-filled woods near their New Hampshire home. Through the days that follow, the Dillons and an unexpected visitor who soon turns up at their door-a young woman evidently haunted by her own terrible choices-face a thicket of decisions, each seeming to carry equal possibilities of heartbreak and redemption. Writing with all the emotional resonance that has drawn millions of readers around the world to her fiction, Anita Shreve unfolds in Light on Snow a tender and surprising novel about love and its consequences.
Book Synopsis Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love by : Lara Vapnyar
Download or read book Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love written by Lara Vapnyar and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of Lara Vapnyar's six stories invites us into a world where food and love intersect, along with the overlapping pleasures and frustrations of Vapnyar's uniquely captivating characters. Meet Nina, a recent arrival from Russia, for whom colorful vegetables represent her own fresh hopes and dreams . . . Luda and Milena, who battle over a widower in their English class with competing recipes for cheese puffs, spinach pies, and meatballs . . . and Sergey, who finds more comfort in the borscht made by a paid female companion than in her sexual ministrations. They all crave the taste and smell of home, wherever—and with whomever—that may turn out to be. A roundup of recipes are the final taste of this delicious collection.
Book Synopsis Queen of Broken Hearts by : Cassandra King
Download or read book Queen of Broken Hearts written by Cassandra King and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The national bestselling author of The Same Sweet Girls and The Sunday Wife returns with another compulsively readable novel It's not easy being the Queen of Broken Hearts. Just ask Clare, who has willingly assumed the mantle while her career as a divorce coach thrives. Now she's preparing to open a permanent home for the retreats she leads, on a slice of breathtaking property on the Alabama coast owned by her mother-in-law. Make that former mother-in-law, a colorful eccentric who teaches Clare much about love and sacrifice and living freely. When Clare's marriage ends in tragedy, her work becomes the sole focus of her life. While Clare has no problem helping the hundreds of men and women who seek her advice to mend their broken hearts, healing her own is another matter entirely. Falling in love again is the last thing she wants. So when Lex -- a charismatic, charming, burly sea captain -- moves to town to run the marina, Clare insists they remain friends and nothing more. But even though she fights it, she begins to fall for him -- and then finds she has a rival, his estranged wife Annalee. A story infused with all the flavors, textures, and intrigues of a small Southern town, with a rich, resonant center, Queen of Broken Hearts is a bold step forward for Cassandra King.
Download or read book Cold Kiss written by Amy Garvey and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a beautiful, warm summer day, the day Danny died. Suddenly Wren was alone and shattered. In a heartbroken fury, armed with dark incantations and a secret power, Wren decides that what she wants—what she must do—is to bring Danny back. But the Danny who returns is just a shell of the boy Wren fell in love with. His touch is icy; his skin, smooth and stiff as marble; his chest, cruelly silent when Wren rests her head against it. Wren must keep Danny a secret, hiding him away, visiting him at night, while her life slowly unravels around her. Then Gabriel DeMarnes transfers to her school, and Wren realizes that somehow, inexplicably, he can sense the powers that lie within her—and that he knows what she has done. And now Gabriel wants to help make things right. But Wren alone has to undo what she has wrought—even if it means breaking her heart all over again.
Download or read book Little Comfort written by Edwin Hill and published by Kensington. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a brilliantly twisted debut set among Boston’s elite, Edwin Hill introduces unforgettable sleuth Hester Thursby—and a missing persons case that uncovers a trail of vicious murder . . . Harvard librarian Hester Thursby knows that even in the digital age, people still need help finding things. Using her research skills, Hester runs a side business tracking down the lost. Usually, she’s hired to find long-ago prom dates or to reunite adopted children and birth parents. Her new case is finding the handsome and charismatic Sam Blaine. Sam has no desire to be found. As a teenager, he fled his small New Hampshire town with his friend, Gabe, after a haunting incident. For a dozen years, Sam and Gabe have traveled the country, reinventing themselves as they move from one mark to another. Sam has learned how trusting wealthy people can be—especially the lonely ones—as he expertly manipulates his way into their lives and homes. In Wendy Richards, the beautiful, fabulously rich daughter of one of Boston’s most influential families, he’s found the perfect way to infiltrate the milieu in which he knows he belongs—a world of Brooks Brothers suits, Nantucket summers, and effortless glamour. As Hester’s investigation closes in on their brutal truth, the bond between Sam and Gabe is tested and Hester unknowingly jeopardizes her own safety. While Gabe has pinned all his desperate hopes of a normal life on Hester, Sam wants her out of the way for good. And Gabe has always done what Sam asks . . .
Book Synopsis Nightingale Wood by : Stella Gibbons
Download or read book Nightingale Wood written by Stella Gibbons and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sly and satirical fairytale by the author of Cold Comfort Farm Unavailable for decades, Stella Gibbons's Nightingale Wood is a delightfully modern romance ripe for rediscovery by the many fans of Cold Comfort Farm. Poor, lovely Viola has been left penniless and alone after her late husband's demise, and is forced to live with his family in their joyless home. Its occupants are nearly insufferable: Mr. Withers is a tyrannical old miser; Mrs. Withers dismisses her as a common shop girl; and Viola's sisters-in-law, Madge and Tina, are too preoccupied with their own troubles to give her much thought. Only the prospect of the upcoming charity ball can lift her spirits-especially as Victor Spring, the local prince charming, will be there. But Victor's intentions towards the young widow are, in short, not quite honorable.
Book Synopsis The Brilliant Career of Sajur Golu, and Other Tales of Azara by : Kyra Halland
Download or read book The Brilliant Career of Sajur Golu, and Other Tales of Azara written by Kyra Halland and published by Kyra Halland. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine Companion Stories to Chosen of Azara The Brilliant Career of Sajur Golu The rise of Sajur vo Udrun from petty official's son to High Priest of the Madrinan Empire. Coming Home In a last, desperate effort to save her life, young Juzeva arrives at Source Azara. Turn the Heart Torn between love and duty, Prince Idan must make a choice. Comfort Enough Several years after his deal with Azara, Sevry comes to terms with one of the sacrifices demanded by his new life. Baby Steps A widowed baron must find the courage to love again. Mothers, Daughters, and Dreamers All Lillia wants is for her mother to pay attention to her instead of to her dreams of a long-lost land. The Man in the Woods Lucie's visions over the years of a mysterious man in the woods. What A Man Has to Do Estefan's future father-in-law assigns him an almost impossible task. Homecoming Lillia struggles to come to terms with the truth of her mother's life.
Book Synopsis A Legend of Pembroke Castle, and Other Tales by : Frances Georgiana Herbert
Download or read book A Legend of Pembroke Castle, and Other Tales written by Frances Georgiana Herbert and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fortune Smiles written by Adam Johnson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Book Award–winning story collection from the author of The Orphan Master’s Son offers something rare in fiction: a new way of looking at the world. “MASTERFUL.”—The Washington Post “ENTRANCING.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “PERCEPTIVE AND BRAVE.”—The New York Times Throughout these six stories, Pulitzer Prize winner Adam Johnson delves deep into love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes the personal, giving voice to the perspectives we don’t often hear. In “Nirvana,” a programmer whose wife has a rare disease finds solace in a digital simulacrum of the president of the United States. In “Hurricanes Anonymous,” a young man searches for the mother of his son in a Louisiana devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. “George Orwell Was a Friend of Mine” follows a former warden of a Stasi prison in East Germany who vehemently denies his past, even as pieces of it are delivered in packages to his door. And in the unforgettable title story, Johnson returns to his signature subject, North Korea, depicting two defectors from Pyongyang who are trying to adapt to their new lives in Seoul, while one cannot forget the woman he left behind. WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Miami Herald • San Francisco Chronicle • USA Today AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR • Marie Claire • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • BuzzFeed • The Daily Beast • Los Angeles Magazine • The Independent • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews “Remarkable . . . Adam Johnson is one of America’s greatest living writers.”—The Huffington Post “Haunting, harrowing . . . Johnson’s writing is as rich in compassion as it is in invention, and that rare combination makes Fortune Smiles worth treasuring.”—USA Today “Fortune Smiles [blends] exotic scenarios, morally compromised characters, high-wire action, rigorously limber prose, dense thickets of emotion, and, most critically, our current techno-moment.”—The Boston Globe “Johnson’s boundary-pushing stories make for exhilarating reading.”—San Francisco Chronicle
Book Synopsis In bad hands, and other tales by : Frederick William Robinson
Download or read book In bad hands, and other tales written by Frederick William Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain, and Other Tales by : Hannah More
Download or read book The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain, and Other Tales written by Hannah More and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is divided in an unusual way into three sections: Tales for the common people; Stories for persons of middle rank; Allegories. They were arranged thus in order to improve the reading material of the common people in particular, by providing them with " a new direction to their taste, and abate their relish for those corrupt and inflammatory publications which the consequences of the French Revolution have been so fatally pouring in upon us." All the stories and allegories are informed by Christian principles.
Book Synopsis Milly Darrell and Other Tales by : Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Download or read book Milly Darrell and Other Tales written by Mary Elizabeth Braddon and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
