Apple Island Wife

Author : Fiona Stocker
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781912618095

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Apple Island Wife by Fiona Stocker Pdf

What happens when you leave city life and move to five acres on a hunch, with a husband who’s an aspiring alpaca-whisperer, and a feral cockerel for company? Can you eat the cockerel for dinner? Or has it got rigor mortis? In search of a good life and a slower pace, Fiona Stocker upped-sticks and moved to Tasmania, a land of promise, wilderness, and family homes of uncertain build quality. It was the lifestyle change that many dream of and most are too sensible to attempt. Wife, mother and now reluctant alpaca owner, Fiona jumped in at the deep end. Gradually Tasmania got under her skin as she learned to stack wood, round up the kids with a retired lady sheepdog, and stand on a scorpion without getting stung. This charming tale captures the tussles and euphoria of living on the land in a place of untrammelled beauty, raising your family where you want to and seeing your husband in a whole new light. Not just a memoir but an everywoman’s story, and a paean to a new, slower age.

Author : Claire Askew
Publisher : Teach Yourself
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781529384840

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Novelista by Claire Askew Pdf

NOVELISTA is a friendly, straight-talking writing guide for people who want to write a novel but don't know how to begin. It asks all the important questions and gives a host of reassuring answers that demonstrate that anyone can write a novel - even you! To begin with, what the hell is a novel? It's basically a tiny world, where characters are born, live, and (sometimes) die. To write one all you need is a notebook and a pen - but along the way you'll want to learn about good writing habits, planning, mastering descriptions and dialogue and how to pull it all together. This book will guide you through the process and orient you towards the goal of publication. From absolute beginner to novelista, this book will change the way you write and think about writing.

Author : Amity Gaige
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525566922

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Sea Wife by Amity Gaige Pdf

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year “Brilliantly breathes life not only into the perils of living at sea, but also into the hidden dangers of domesticity, parenthood, and marriage. What a smart, swift, and thrilling novel.” —Lauren Groff, author of Florida Juliet is failing to juggle motherhood and her stalled-out dissertation on confessional poetry when her husband, Michael, informs her that he wants to leave his job and buy a sailboat. With their two kids—Sybil, age seven, and George, age two—Juliet and Michael set off for Panama, where their forty-four foot sailboat awaits them. The initial result is transformative; the marriage is given a gust of energy, Juliet emerges from her depression, and the children quickly embrace the joys of being at sea. The vast horizons and isolated islands offer Juliet and Michael reprieve – until they are tested by the unforeseen. A transporting novel about marriage, family and love in a time of unprecedented turmoil, Sea Wife is unforgettable in its power and astonishingly perceptive in its portrayal of optimism, disillusionment, and survival.

Author : Edward Rowe Snow
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781933212852

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The Islands of Boston Harbor by Edward Rowe Snow Pdf

A reissue of Edward Rowe Snow's first book, covering the legends and history of nearly every rock and island in Boston Harbor, including Boston Light and Graves Light. The first (1935) edition resulted from research Snow did at Harvard under the tutelage of the great maritime historian Samuel Eliot Morison. When the 1971 edition of the book was published, a critic for the Boston Post wrote, "Mr. Snow has the gift of making his subject vivid and personal in its anecdotal touches . . . It is a volume of chatty yet dignified essays, with many a light touch brought in." This centennial edition contains the complete 1971 text, with annotations by Jeremy D'Entremont to bring the information up to date.

Author : Judy Fairbairns
Publisher : Charnwood
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1914-09-01
Category : Hebrides (Scotland)
ISBN : 1444820907

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Island Wife by Judy Fairbairns Pdf

ISLAND WIFE tells the story of Judy who, at 19, meets her Wild Pioneer. He whisks her off into an adventure: a marriage of forty years, and life on a remote Hebridean island. Along the way, she bears five children, learns how to run a farm and holiday cottages, and starts a recording studio and the island's first whale-watching business with her husband - all while inventively making fraying ends meet. When her children start to leave home, things fall apart, and there is sadness and joy in how she puts them back together. Judy tells her story in a clear and unique voice - in turns funny, unforgettable and intensely moving.

Author : Dr. Regina Marchi
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-20
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781439652404

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Legendary Locals of East Boston by Dr. Regina Marchi Pdf

Once a rural paradise known as “Noddle’s Island,” East Boston is the site of key developments in the nation’s history, including the first naval battle of the American Revolution, the creation of the world’s fastest sailing ships, the country’s first underwater tunnel, and the nation’s first public branch library. It has had its share of famous residents, from Colonial governor John Winthrop and repentant Salem witch trial judge Samuel Sewall, to clipper ship builder Donald McKay and the world’s first female clipper ship navigator, Mary Patten. Women’s suffrage activist Judith Winsor Smith called East Boston home, as did the first Civil War nurse, Armeda Gibbs; Massachusetts governor John Bates; and Boston mayor Frederick Mansfield. Pres. John F. Kennedy’s paternal grandparents and father were born in East Boston, where they started their first businesses and political ventures, and the neighborhood has produced numerous community activists, musicians, artists, writers, and athletes.

Author : Tasmania. Parliament. Legislative Council
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Tasmania
ISBN : STANFORD:36105126567267

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Journals of the Legislative Council by Tasmania. Parliament. Legislative Council Pdf

Includes its Papers.

Author : Paul Harding
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781324036302

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This Other Eden: A Novel by Paul Harding Pdf

Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction One of Barack Obama's 15 favorite books of 2023 • A New Yorker Best Books of 2023 • An NPR 2023 "Book We Love" Pick and Top 10 Book of 2023 • One of Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 • One of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2023 and Best Historical Fiction of 2023 • A Chicago Public Library Favorite Book of 2023 • A Fresh Air Top 10 Best Book of 2023 • A Publishers Weekly Best Fiction of 2023 "A testament of love." —Danez Smith, New York Times Book Review From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Tinkers, a novel inspired by the true story of Malaga Island, an isolated island off the coast of Maine that became one of the first racially integrated towns in the Northeast. In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together. Over a century later, the Honeys’ descendants and a diverse group of neighbors are desperately poor, isolated, and often hungry, but nevertheless protected from the hostility awaiting them on the mainland. During the tumultuous summer of 1912, Matthew Diamond, a retired, idealistic but prejudiced schoolteacher-turned-missionary, disrupts the community’s fragile balance through his efforts to educate its children. His presence attracts the attention of authorities on the mainland who, under the influence of the eugenics-thinking popular among progressives of the day, decide to forcibly evacuate the island, institutionalize its residents, and develop the island as a vacation destination. Beginning with a hurricane flood reminiscent of the story of Noah’s Ark, the novel ends with yet another Ark. In prose of breathtaking beauty and power, Paul Harding brings to life an unforgettable cast of characters: Iris and Violet McDermott, sisters raising three orphaned Penobscot children; Theophilus and Candace Larks and their brood of vagabond children; the prophetic Zachary Hand to God Proverbs, a Civil War veteran who lives in a hollow tree; and more. A spellbinding story of resistance and survival, This Other Eden is an enduring testament to the struggle to preserve human dignity in the face of intolerance and injustice.

Author : Kevin J. Hallock
Publisher : Kevin J. Hallock
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780985785512

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Eye Spy by Kevin J. Hallock Pdf

Eye Spy is a 106,000-word paranormal thriller about a psychic agoraphobe, the bodies he visits, the sister who saves him, and the people they protect. CJ lives in fear. Fear of the outdoors. Fear of strangers. But his fear disappears when his mind secretly hitchhikes in someone else’s body. Undetectable, he goes where his hosts go, and he senses what they sense. As a spy hidden beyond others’ eyes, he has foiled robberies and solved murders with the support of his sister Steph. Now, they must save a kidnapped teenager from a cult leader who believes the teen is destined to bear his child. But when CJ’s mobile mind is noticed by other psychics, CJ and Steph’s attempted rescue becomes a struggle for survival. Eye Spy is a Sojourning Souls story. Edited by Arlene Prunkl, 2011 Finalist for Canada’s Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence (www.penultimateword.com) Cover art by Steven Novak (www.novakillustration.com) Ebook designed, formatted, and converted by 52 novels (52novels.com) Bonus: This book also includes the short story Dead Doughboy Walking (Sojourning Souls #1). Dead Doughboy Walking can also be downloaded for free from Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Kevin_J_Hallock_Dead_Doughboy_Walking?id=Fe_TAAAAQBAJ

Author : Marion Harland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Women authors, American
ISBN : HARVARD:HN2A2L

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Mr. Wayt's Wife's Sister by Marion Harland Pdf

Author : Coralynn V. Davis
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252096303

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Maithil Women's Tales by Coralynn V. Davis Pdf

Constrained by traditions restricting their movements and speech, the Maithil women of Nepal and India have long explored individual and collective life experiences by sharing stories with one another. Sometimes fantastical, sometimes including a kind of magical realism, these tales allow women to build community through a deeply personal and always evolving storytelling form. In Maithil Women’s Tales, Coralynn V. Davis examines how these storytellers weave together their own life experiences--the hardships and the pleasures--with age-old themes. In so doing, Davis demonstrates, they harness folk traditions to grapple personally as well as collectively with social values, behavioral mores, relationships, and cosmological questions. Each chapter includes stories and excerpts that reveal Maithil women’s gift for rich language, layered plots, and stunning allegory. In addition, Davis provides ethnographic and personal information that reveal the complexity of women’s own lives, and includes works painted by Maithil storytellers to illustrate their tales. The result is a fascinating study of being and becoming that will resonate for readers in women’s and Hindu studies, folklore, and anthropology.

Author : Marion Harland
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752346732

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Mr. Wayt's Wife's Sister by Marion Harland Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Mr. Wayt's Wife's Sister by Marion Harland

Author : Amy Tan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101007150

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The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan Pdf

"Remarkable...mesmerizing...compelling.... An entire world unfolds in Tolstoyan tide of event and detail....Give yourself over to the world Ms. Tan creates for you." —The New York Times Book Review Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must be the one to tell her daughter, Pearl, about the past—including the terrible truth even Helen does not know. And so begins Winnie's story of her life on a small island outside Shanghai in the 1920s, and other places in China during World War II, and traces the happy and desperate events that led to Winnie's coming to America in 1949. The Kitchen God's Wife is "a beautiful book" (Los Angeles Times) from the bestselling author of novels like The Joy Luck Club and The Backyard Bird Chronicles, and the memoir, Where the Past Begins.

Author : Gladys Fullbrook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Large type books
ISBN : 0850464145

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Apple Island by Gladys Fullbrook Pdf

Author : Nathaniel Shurtleff
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382178383

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A Topographical and Historical Description of Boston by Nathaniel Shurtleff Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.