Morning Gift

Author : Eva Ibbotson
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780330477376

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The Morning Gift by Eva Ibbotson Pdf

A richly imagined story of unexpected love, independence, and belonging – The Morning Gift is a classic WWII romance from Eva Ibbotson. With an introduction from Sarra Manning, author of Diary of a Crush. Eighteen-year-old Ruth lives in the sparkling city of Vienna with her family, where she delights in its music, energy and natural beauty. She is wildly in love with the brilliant young pianist Heini Radik and can't wait until they are married. But Ruth's world is turned upside down when the Nazis invade Austria and her family are forced to flee to England, and through a devastating misunderstanding she is left behind. Her only hope to escape Vienna comes from Quin, a young English professor, who unexpectedly offers her a marriage of convenience to bring her back to London. Ruth throws herself into her new life – but a secret marriage is more difficult than she expected, especially as she and Quin find themselves drawn together. 'I have binged on Eva Ibbotson . . . her elegantly written, witty and well-observed fables' – Nigella Lawson, The Times Rediscover Eva Ibbotson, award-winning author of Journey to the River Sea, in her sweeping historical romances, including The Morning Gift, A Song For Summer and The Secret Countess.

Author : Ruth Burn
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781839524264

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Morning Gift by Ruth Burn Pdf

This story is a work of historical fiction based on real people and events. It describes a troubled royal marriage during the course of one year in AD 675. Mercia and Northumbria have long been at war. There is an unexpected romance. King Aethelred of Mercia and Osryth of Northumbria decide to marry. Aethelred gives Osryth a wedding gift of valuable treasure gleaned from the battlefields of the past. She decides in secret to take the treasure along with the remains of her long-dead uncle to a shrine in Bardney in Lincolnshire.Osryth faces many challenges and setbacks on her long journeys to places such as Whitby, Lincoln and later York. The loss of the gold, silver and jewels causes a rift in her marriage. The mystery looks unlikely to be solved. Will the treasure ever be found and will the couple ever be reconciled?

Author : Thomas Aquinas Devlin
Publisher : Father Thomas Devlin
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780963384300

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The Gift of Morning Star by Thomas Aquinas Devlin Pdf

Author : Gabrielle Stanley Blair
Publisher : Artisan
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781579656553

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Design Mom by Gabrielle Stanley Blair Pdf

New York Times best seller Ever since Gabrielle Stanley Blair became a parent, she’s believed that a thoughtfully designed home is one of the greatest gifts we can give our families, and that the objects and decor we choose to surround ourselves with tell our family’s story. In this, her first book, Blair offers a room-by-room guide to keeping things sane, organized, creative, and stylish. She provides advice on getting the most out of even the smallest spaces; simple fixes that make it easy for little ones to help out around the house; ingenious storage solutions for the never-ending stream of kid stuff; rainy-day DIY projects; and much, much more.

Author : Ian McDonald
Publisher : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781625674159

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King of Morning, Queen of Day by Ian McDonald Pdf

Winner of the Philip K Dick Award “Filled with wondrous language, marvelous events.” —Science Fiction Chronicle In Ireland, three generations of young women fight to control the powers coursing through their blood: the power to bring the mystical Otherworld into our world, and change it. Emily, Jessica and Enye must each face their dark side of human mythoconsciousness–and their own personal histories. But the forces of faerie are ever treacherous... Filled with vivid, passionate characters you will never forget, King of Morning, Queen of Day is a spellbinding fantasy of the real Ireland. “McDonald’s power as a storyteller lies in his stylistic versatility and intensity of language as well as in his capacity to create vivid and memorable characters. Highly recommended.” —Library Journal “A brilliant book.” —Charles de Lint

Author : Peter Gierch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1941243312

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Day by Day with St. Francis by Peter Gierch Pdf

Author : Joni Mitchell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780358181729

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Morning Glory on the Vine by Joni Mitchell Pdf

A gorgeous compendium of Joni Mitchell's handwritten lyrics and drawings, originally handcrafted as a gift for a select group of friends in 1971 and now available to the public for the first time In 1971, as her album Blue topped charts around the world, Joni Mitchell crafted one hundred copies of Morning Glory on the Vine as a holiday gift for her closest friends. For this stunningly beautiful book, Joni hand-wrote an exquisite selection of her own lyrics and poems and illustrated them with more than thirty of her original pictures. Handcrafted, signed, and numbered in Los Angeles, the existing copies of this labor of love have rarely been seen in the past half-century. Now, during Joni's seventy-fifth birthday year, Morning Glory on the Vine: Early Songs and Drawings will be widely available for the first time. In this faithfully reproduced edition, Joni's best-loved lyrics and poems spill across the pages in her own elegant script. The lively, full-color drawings depict a superb array of landscapes, still lifes, portraits of friends, self-portraits, innovative abstractions, and more. All the artwork from the original book is included, along with several additional pictures that Joni drew of her friends from the same period. Finally, the refreshed volume features an original introduction written by Joni. Morning Glory on the Vine is a gorgeous and intimate keepsake and an invitation to explore anew the dazzling, visionary world of Joni Mitchell.

Author : Paul Sant Cassia,Constantina Bada
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0521400813

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The Making of the Modern Greek Family by Paul Sant Cassia,Constantina Bada Pdf

This 1991 study deals with a specific set of institutions in nineteenth-century Athens. Relying on matrimonial contracts, travellers' accounts, memoirs and popular literature, the authors show how distinctive forms of marriage, kinship and property transmission evolved in Athens in the nineteenth century. These forms then became a feature of wider Greek society which continued into the twentieth century. Greece was the first post-colonial modern nation state in Europe whose national identity was created largely by peasants who had migrated to the city. As Athenian society became less agrarian, a new mercantile group superseded and incorporated previous elites and went on to dominate and control the new resources of the nation state. Such groups developed their own, more mobile, systems of property transmission, mostly in response to external pressures of a political and economic character. This is a persuasive piece of detective work which has advanced our knowledge of modern Greece. It is a model for scholarship on the development of family and other 'intimate' ideologies where nation states encroach upon local consciousness.

Author : Robin Sharma
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781443456630

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The 5AM Club by Robin Sharma Pdf

Legendary leadership and elite performance expert Robin Sharma introduced The 5am Club concept over twenty years ago, based on a revolutionary morning routine that has helped his clients maximize their productivity, activate their best health and bulletproof their serenity in this age of overwhelming complexity. Now, in this life-changing book, handcrafted by the author over a rigorous four-year period, you will discover the early-rising habit that has helped so many accomplish epic results while upgrading their happiness, helpfulness and feelings of aliveness. Through an enchanting—and often amusing—story about two struggling strangers who meet an eccentric tycoon who becomes their secret mentor, The 5am Club will walk you through: How great geniuses, business titans and the world’s wisest people start their mornings to produce astonishing achievements A little-known formula you can use instantly to wake up early feeling inspired, focused and flooded with a fiery drive to get the most out of each day A step-by-step method to protect the quietest hours of daybreak so you have time for exercise, self-renewal and personal growth A neuroscience-based practice proven to help make it easy to rise while most people are sleeping, giving you precious time for yourself to think, express your creativity and begin the day peacefully instead of being rushed “Insider-only” tactics to defend your gifts, talents and dreams against digital distraction and trivial diversions so you enjoy fortune, influence and a magnificent impact on the world Part manifesto for mastery, part playbook for genius-grade productivity and part companion for a life lived beautifully, The 5am Club is a work that will transform your life. Forever.

Author : John Baillie
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781476754703

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A Diary of Private Prayer by John Baillie Pdf

The classic collection of personal prayers updated in modern, accessible language.

Author : Jake Swamp
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0613050614

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Giving Thanks by Jake Swamp Pdf

A Native American Thanksgiving address, offered to Mother Earth in gratitude for her bounty and for the variety of her creatures

Author : Francis James Child,George Lyman Kittredge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Ballads, English
ISBN : HARVARD:32044100878594

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The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis James Child,George Lyman Kittredge Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951001906958H

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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tammy Duckworth
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781538718490

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Every Day Is a Gift by Tammy Duckworth Pdf

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Learn the incredible story of Illinois senator and Iraq War veteran Tammy Duckworth and see what inspired her to follow the path that made her who she is today. In Every Day Is a Gift, Tammy Duckworth takes readers through the amazing—and amazingly true—stories from her incomparable life. In November of 2004, an Iraqi RPG blew through the cockpit of Tammy Duckworth's U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter. The explosion, which destroyed her legs and mangled her right arm, was a turning point in her life. But as Duckworth shows in Every Day Is a Gift, that moment was just one in a lifetime of extraordinary turns. The biracial daughter of an American father and a Thai-Chinese mother, Duckworth faced discrimination, poverty, and the horrors of war—all before the age of 16. As a child, she dodged bullets as her family fled war-torn Phnom Penh. As a teenager, she sold roses by the side of the road to save her family from hunger and homelessness in Hawaii. Through these experiences, she developed a fierce resilience that would prove invaluable in the years to come. Duckworth joined the Army, becoming one of a handful of female helicopter pilots at the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom. She served eight months in Iraq before an insurgent's RPG shot down her helicopter, an attack that took her legs—and nearly took her life. She then spent thirteen months recovering at Walter Reed, learning to walk again on prosthetic legs and planning her return to the cockpit. But Duckworth found a new mission after meeting her state's senators, Barack Obama and Dick Durbin. After winning two terms as a U.S. Representative, she won election to the U.S. Senate in 2016. And she and her husband Bryan fulfilled another dream when she gave birth to two daughters, becoming the first sitting senator to give birth. From childhood to motherhood and beyond, Every Day Is a Gift is the remarkable story of one of America's most dedicated public servants.

Author : Henry Bellyse Baildon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : English poetry
ISBN : OXFORD:600084066

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Morning Clouds by Henry Bellyse Baildon Pdf