Download or read book A Jay in the Jacaranda Tree written by John Manuel and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a frank, amusing, poignant, hard-hitting, controversial yet always absorbing take on over a decade of life on a Greek island. In "A Jay in the Jacaranda Tree" John tackles such themes as the current economic crisis, the confusing political scene in Greece, refugees, immigrant workers, the health service and the cat and dog situation. He pulls no punches and expresses his views after having lived on Rhodes since 2005. His insight will make you laugh, cry, possibly frown, yet always it will engage you. This is a frank, yet deep down affectionate, look at the Rhodes and the Greece of the past turbulent decade.
Download or read book The Crete Connection written by John Manuel and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-02-26 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In rural Wiltshire, England, a six month-old baby disappears from a stroller while its mother is inside a store for just two minutes. A young Englishman begins a summer of adventure on the Greek island of Crete. By pure chance, the two events, although separated by over twenty years, are irrevocably linked by the taverna where the young Englishman ends up helping out. The result is life-changing, both for the mother of the child that disappeared, and for the young Englishman. A chance visit to the same taverna by these two separate individuals brings on a crisis in both of their lives, but will it end well for either?
Download or read book Two in the Bush written by John Manuel and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adrian Dando has a good marriage, and a steady, if somewhat pedestrian life in the West of England. Without warning it all goes horribly wrong and he is left alone and bereft. Having two friends who have already moved out to Greece, he decides, with their encouragement, to do likewise. After all, a new start, a new life, new experiences, all of these should enable him to kick-start his life again, maybe even bring him some degree of happiness. A 'chance' discovery of a woman's body in a quiet location not far from his home starts a chain of events that just may turn his idyll into a nightmare. But is everything as it seems? With a plot that twists like series of old olive branches, ""Two in the Bush"" carries enough surprises to keep you wondering to the last page.
Download or read book Panayiota written by John Manuel and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-01-18 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the clashes between generations and cultures through the eyes of second and third generation Cypriot-Greek-Australians.
Download or read book The R gime Change Man written by Rory Harden and published by Black Spike Books. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who thinks running guns to Africa should be a nice little earner? Who’s accidentally acquired a soccer-mad private army of child soldiers? What happened at the Glue Factory? Who forgot to switch off the fountains? Oh, and by the way... Why is Africa’s richest country so poor? A deceptive plot to take over the ‘richest country in Africa’ in the name of Democracy. An ethically-challenged businessman on a voyage of self-discovery. A glimpse into the dark heart of the ‘New Democratic Consensus’.
Download or read book Unbroken written by Emily Reilly and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-06-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UNBROKEN is the first of three books written by Emily Reilly. It is based on my life. All names have been changed to safe guard myself, my friends and family. From Teen Mum beaten daily by an Abusive Partner, numerous heart breaks and set backs to CEO of my own Company. By telling my story I hope to help just one person see a light at the end of a tunnel. If I can do it anyone can. Stay UNBROKEN xx Emily xx
Download or read book Whispering Grass written by Mary Hall and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blissfully unaware of what the politicians called "the winds of change" in Africa, many of the delightful characters whom we first came to know in Selengai reappear here, living in that safe pocket of time before the simmering resentment of some of the indigenous Kenyan population escalated into the fanatical hatred that eventually resulted in full-scale terrorist groups, known collectively as the Mau Mau, who demanded independence from British rule. Whispering Grass will take you across the vast, sunburnt plains once more and lead you back to Selengai, Bahati and Saba Saba, the lives of their owners and those of their children. As the gentle breezes ripple the grasses so will it take you on safari into another more tranquil era where only the African wild could disturb the even tenor of their lives.
Download or read book Seed Dispersal written by Andrew J. Dennis and published by CABI. This book was released on 2007 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters of this book on seed dispersal are divided into four parts: (1) frugivores and frugivory (8 chapters); (2) seed and seedling shadows (7 chapters); (3) seed fate and establishment (eight chapters); and (4) management implications and conservation (six chapters). The book presents both recent advances and reviews of current knowledge.
Download or read book Jacaranda Vines written by Tamara McKinley and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacaranda Vines was once the greatest vineyard in Australia, but the death of its owner, Jock Witney, leaves the business in shambles. As the Witney family fight over the future of the winery, Jock's young granddaughter Sophie makes a voyage of historical discovery through the Australian outback, hoping to learn more about her family's past. Set between the 1830s and the modern day, Jacaranda Vines is an exploration of ancestral ties, bitter rivalries and the importance of sharing family history.
Download or read book Stalking Joy written by Margaret Benbow and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1997 Winner Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry"A quest, not for fickle happiness, whose pursuit is unworthy, but joy, more durable and much harder won."--Robert A. Fink"A wild, wild ride. Fierce and chancy, passionate and bawdy, Margaret Benbow's exuberant first book is nothing short of rapturous, enrapturing. . . . She's drawn to the hot, the dangerous, the lush, the profuse. Given the choice of angel or bogeyman, she'll take the bogeyman every time."--Ronald Wallace How to Tell a Bird of PreyGirls weighing less than a hundred pounds, girls who look as though they were raised onmilk veal and summer wine, can chew down through the roofand devour whole families. This one wantsthe man: rank and sexy as an old bobcat.She likes his face, that mess of big prize vegetableswith rooty beard and spud chin, red onion cheeksand hot toad tongue: Wonderful things might happen, she reflects, if I kiss a toad.She doesn't see his nose, that crackbrain crackheart beak.She doesn't mark his gaze, beautiful blood in the raptor's eye.
Download or read book Simple Trust written by Carol Anne Alexander and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simple Trust From the first page it is evident that this is a devotional with a difference. Fifty readable, pithy, and honest devotions draw from Carol’s global experience and her textured life that speak forthrightly about challenging and difficult situations. Having lived on four continents, raised a family, helped lead organizations, and faced some very traumatic events, Carol has the credentials to address life issues with authenticity and raw honesty. Carol’s writing is colorful and descriptive and draws the reader into the story in an engaging way. Biblical reflections provide great insights to the scriptural narrative. Not only will this devotional book inform but it will inspire and it will confront the reader in order to make decisions that will enrich and transform their lives. Deliberately written in a forthright way this book unapologetically calls its readers to courageous life choices through simple trust.
Download or read book Southern Florist and Nurseryman written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants written by Umberto Quattrocchi and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 4038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written as a reference to be used within University, Departmental, Public, Institutional, Herbaria, and Arboreta libraries, this book provides the first starting point for better access to data on medicinal and poisonous plants. Following on the success of the author's CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names and the CRC World Dictionary of Grasses, the author provides the names of thousands of genera and species of economically important plants. It serves as an indispensable time-saving guide for all those involved with plants in medicine, food, and cultural practices as it draws on a tremendous range of primary and secondary sources. This authoritative lexicon is much more than a dictionary. It includes historical and linguistic information on botany and medicine throughout each volume.
Download or read book Across the Divide written by Elizabeth Bernays and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing prepared Liz, the academic scientist (with a background in Australia and UK) for Linda, the quick-witted eighth-grade dropout from Texas excelling in malapropisms and outlandish jokes. Linda was still married and Liz a grieving widow. How could they sustain a relationship when they had such different personalities, backgrounds, and interests? But despite obvious incompatibilities, their chemistry was undeniable, and the extraordinary contrast was exciting for both of them. Over time, each of them enthusiastically engaged the other in different pursuits and each of them bonded over the novelties. They introduced each other to their favorite entertainments, with mixed results (Linda found opera boring; Liz cheered for the wrong team at a University of Arizona basketball game). Linda's jokes kept them constantly alive to humor that offset the complexities of the lives they led when they were apart. But slowly, their shared love of nature, carefree RV trips, and travel abroad (with the help of antianxiety meds for Linda's first time on a plane), brought them ever closer. Maybe, they realized, they were more alike than they thought, as each pondered their love of being rebels. Maybe their differences were to be celebrated rather than overcome. With humor and heart, Across the Divide: The Strangest Love Affair reveals how possibilities unfold when we open ourselves to unlikely opportunities.
Download or read book Pasear written by Sarah Bixby Smith and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Word Like Fire written by Richard G. Barnes and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thank you, other twolegged bare featherless creature, for sharing the jagged horizon of my life. Thank you rainbow over the East Mojave low to the ground so early in the afternoon: thank you for being here with us." - from "Bagdad Chase Road in July" "A Word Like Fire," the first comprehensive selection of his poems, should confirm Dick Barnes's place as one of the most accomplished and likable American poets of the last fifty years. His great subject is the Mojave Desert, the vast basin of ranges and valleys east and north of Los Angeles, with its beautiful shrubs and flowers, magnificent trees, ephemeral grasses, high lakes, rivers and dry river beds, alfalfa farms, and isolated towns with names like Essex, Cadiz Summit, Elephant Butte, Running Springs, Helendale, and often canny and solitary men and women. Of this world, Dick Barnes gives an indelible portrait in poem after poem. But Barnes is more than a regional poet. As Robert Mezey writes in his brilliant Foreword, "He has an engaging variety of subjects, and to almost all of them he gives faithful perception and love." He is a master of the elegy, and wrote love poems, satires, devotional poems, and, Mezey notes, "poems of wry social comment and occasionally anger." In works such as "A Visit to Lonesome John: Autumn Coming," "Few and Far Between," "Clearing the Way," "Example and Admonition," and "Trophy Hunt" surely one of the masterpieces of American poetry the reader encounters a keenly observant, knowledgeable, humane, and passionate poet."
Download or read book Unbridled written by Barbara McNally and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2013-03-17 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone believed Barbara was living the American Dream. She married her college sweetheart, sustained him on his rise to success, and seemed to have the perfect marriage, the perfect family, the perfect home. But when she strayed and her matrimonial cookie crumbled, Barbara realized that to be more than a just a wife... she'd have to get a life.Following the lead of her adventurous late grandmother, she set off to overcome her fears and find her independence. While exploring Ireland, the land of her ancestors, she danced with horsemen and communed with priestesses.Somewhere along the way, she discovered parts of herself that had been missing from her life. Something she'd longed for without knowing it. She tasted freedom and wanted more.
