Download or read book Remembering Poppy Mountain written by Haven Logan and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allie Tabor's life finally seems to be moving in a positive direction. She loves her job as marketing director of Degano Wines, USA, headquartered in Napa Valley, California. Her boss, the handsome Francesco Degano, has just proposed, and they are only waiting for his parents' arrival from Italy to announce their engagement. The past four years have been difficult ones for Allie. When her mother Gina was diagnosed with cancer, Allie chose to return to California to care for her rather than going to England with Jamie McKenzie, the man she loved. Everything changes when Allie opens a letter that shatters her world. Remembering Poppy Mountain will transport you from the wild, hippie days of the 1960s to the lavish world of premier wine production in the 1990s. Travel with Allie from Napa Valley to the East Coast, to Los Angeles, and to the Pacific Northwest as she seeks answers to the mystery that may transform her life. In the process of her search, she must also decide with which of two men she wants to spend her life. This is a story that will delight your senses, intrigue your mind, and touch your heart.

Download or read book Li T ai po Remembered written by Jean Elizabeth Ward and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-08-11 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese Tang Poet, Li T'ai-Po remembered,with Poetry,and Prose, and History, by American Poet Laureate, Jean Elizabeth Ward. Du Fu says, my friend, Li T'ai-Po is best known for the extravagant imagination and striking Taoist imagery in his poetry, and I must add...for his great love of wine. Like me, he spent much of his life travelling, although in his case ... it was because his wealth allowed him to, rather than because his poverty forced him to. It is said that he drowned in the Yangtze River, after falling from his boat, while drunkenly trying to embrace the reflections of the moon. In reality, Li Bai committed suicide, as evidenced by his farewell poem.We only met twice, however, Li Bai was my friend.

Download or read book Mountain Mystery Fairfax Miasma written by Robert L Skidmore and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poppy Gore, a local realtor, discovers the body of a client she had met only once lying on the floor of an isolated cabin on a West Virginia mountaintop with four bullet holes in his chest. Sheriff Billy Jones calls on a fellow law professional, the Chief of the Fairfax Police, who assigns Lieutenant Chase Mansfield of the Criminal Investigations Bureau to the case. The investigation begins with the eccentric Scott family, a clan at war with itself. Mary Scott, the family matriarch, points a finger at Barbara, the tearless widow, and demands that Mansfield arrest the bitch. Barbara indifferently explains that she and Dred Scott, the victim, were legally separated. She denies knowing that Scott had owned a mountain cabin and offers a solid alibi affirmed by a companion, a Russian diplomat with a FBI tail. Before Lieutenant Mansfield can identify the killer, Dreds brother Clayton Scott is murdered in his Fairfax home. High-level corruption, corporate conspiracy, political warfare, and the bitter disintegration of a prominent family greatly complicate the investigation.

Download or read book Handbook of Culture and Memory written by Brady Wagoner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Handbook of Culture and Memory, Brady Wagoner and his team of international contributors explore how memory is deeply entwined with social relationships, stories in film and literature, group history, ritual practices, material artifacts, and a host of other cultural devices. Culture is seen as the medium through which people live and make meaning of their lives. In this book, analyses focus on the mutual constitution of people's memories and the social-cultural worlds to which they belong. The complex relationship between culture and memory is explored in: the concept of memory and its relation to evolution, neurology and history; life course changes in memory from its development in childhood to its decline in old age; and the national and transnational organization of collective memory and identity through narratives propagated in political discourse, the classroom, and the media.

Download or read book The Battle of Junk Mountain written by Lauren Abbey Greenberg and published by Running Press Kids. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Rebecca Stead and Jennifer L. Holm, this is the perfect middle grade summer beach read. Twelve-year-old Shayne Whittaker has always spent summers on the Maine coast, visiting her grandmother Bea and playing with her BFF Poppy. Both Shayne and Bea are collectors, in their own ways: Shayne revels in golden memories of searching for sea glass and weaving friendship bracelets with Poppy, while Bea scours flea markets for valuable finds, much of which she adds to a growing pile in her house that Shayne jokingly calls Junk Mountain. This summer, though, everything has changed. Poppy would rather talk about boys than bracelets, and Bea's collecting mania has morphed into hoarding. Only Linc, the weird Civil War-obsessed kid next door, pays attention to her. Turns out Linc's collected a secret of his own, one that could enrage the meanest lobsterman on the planet, his grandpa. What begins as the worst summer of Shayne's life becomes the most meaningful, as she wages an all-out battle to save her friendships, rescue her grandmother, and protect the memories she loves the most.

Download or read book Nature Talks Naturally written by A. B. Choudhury and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the everyday journey we all take from our all walks of life and sometimes forget that there are other things out there that we miss before we look, The environment we live in and the and the social surroundings we live with, time passing in seconds rather than minutes. The colours of spring is the colour of new beginning and the journey yet to come, we all live in a shell wanting to get out from the hold of winters grasp. The natural and the sub-created environment is there to make as look in to the future with a smile, so I tried to capture the colour that talks to us in the blossom of early spring spirit.

Download or read book Sydney written by Evan McHugh and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous ed.: published by Evan McHugh, 1999.

Download or read book The Sisters Bloom written by Roma Brooks and published by Roma Brooks. This book was released on 2023-07-22 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three estranged sisters meet at a seaside inn to celebrate their mother's 60th birthday. The oldest is struggling with a rocky marriage. Another is at a crossroads after being fired from her job. None of them are prepared for the secrets that are about to be revealed. As one shocking truth after another comes to light, the sisters will forget their differences and come together as a family. The Bloom sisters have forgotten the rapport they once shared. Iris is exhausted from raising four kids and has turned into a controlling woman with an acid tongue. Hyacinth, the academic, faces a void after losing the job she worked hard for. Neither can understand the other's choices in life but they agree on something. Poppy, their youngest sister, needs to stop gallivanting around the world and get serious about her life goals. Mary Bloom has a big surprise in store for her daughters but she can barely get a word in. Saddened by the constant bickering, she decides to remain a silent spectator. Meanwhile, innkeepers Pete and Zadie are doing their best to make their guests feel welcome, plying them with delicious seafood and desserts. As the sisters face one shock after another, they will bond like never before, finally realizing what matters most in life: family. If you like stories about strong women, family life, beach settings and yummy food with a dash of intrigue, you will love The Sisters Bloom. *Contains delicious recipes from the Rising Tides Inn and yummy descriptions of food. . Readers who like Cape Harriet also like books by the following - Michele Gilchrest, Rachel Hanna, Pamela Kelley, Meredith summers, kay Correll, Katie Winters, Amelia Addler, Hope Holloway, Elizabeth Bromke, Maggie Miller, Anne Marie-Meyer, Grace Palmer, Nancy Thayer, Olivia Miles, Nicole Ellis, Jessie Newton, Leigh Duncan, Judith Keim, Fiona Baker, Grace Meyers, Rachel Bloome, Melissa Mcclone, Amy Ashley, Tess Thompson, Sara Jane Bailey, Julia Clemens, Ashley Farley, Merri Mayweather, Stacy Rae, Lindsay Harrel, Kimberly Thomas, Melody Grace, Debbie Macomber, Robyn Carr, Sheryl Woods, Kristin Hanna, Marie Force, Emma Davies, Jill Shalvis, Susan Mallery, Carolyn Brown, Cora Seton, Stacy Claflin, RaeAnne Thayne, Jean Oram, Kate Russel, Melissa Crosby, Melissa Storm, Ruth Ann Nordin . Keywords - Cedar Cove, Hallmark Movies, Hallmark channel, Chesapeake Shores, Virgin River, Sweet Magnolias, sisters fiction, second chance romance, small-town romance, feel-good romance, contemporary romance, series, modern romance, urban romance, cape cod, Virginia, lighthearted romance, light romance, hot romance, contemporary romance 2023, swoonworthy, romance series, romance books, beach reads, free ebook, freebie, free book, free reads, free romance novel, free romance book, free beach read, romance books free, alpha male, dominant male, hot guy, heartwarming, heart-warming romance, family, love, emotional journey, sparks, loyalty, swoon, beach romance, books for summer, books for the beach, beach series, love and friendship, inn, bed and breakfast, foodie fiction, books with food, books with recipes, southern, American, enemies to friends, interracial romance, diversity, diverse characters, women's fiction, contemporary women, strong women, saga, HFN, happily for now, HEA, happily ever after

Download or read book Holding Out For a Hero written by Mari Manning and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-04 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feisty, hot-tempered Seneca Simms has a big problem on her hands. Two birth certificates and two weeks to figure out which is genuine before her wedding to her admittedly self-absorbed fiancé, Michael. She has no time in her tight schedule to deal with the amorous detective she just hired. Rudderless and haunted, Collin Atlee hides behind a handsome face and a cocky attitude. Then he meets a girl who is immune to his charms. Solving the mystery behind her birth is the easy part. The hard part is stealing her heart without exposing his painful past. Sensuality Level:Sensual Mari Manning lives in the Chicago area with her husband. She is a member of the Romance Writers of America and an active member of its Chicago North Chapter.

Download or read book The Poppy Lady written by Heather Johnson and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2023-01-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madame Anna Guérin is the fascinating personality behind the title ‘The Poppy Lady’. Her idea of the ‘Inter-Allied Poppy Day’ gave work to women and children in the devastated areas of France, in addition to offering support for First World War veterans. Born in 1878, she was an early feminist, becoming financially independent. During the First World War, and the immediate years after the Armistice, many people knew of Madame Guérin’s reputation as a selfless fundraiser for French and American charities. Her speeches inspired many people to make generous donations. Having had her name lost in the mists of time, this is the first biography of Madame E. Guérin. The book follows her extraordinary story as ‘The Poppy Lady’, a woman born before her time, but confined to anonymity for too long.

Download or read book Monuments as Cultural and Critical Objects written by Thomas Houlton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monuments as Cultural and Critical Objects explores monuments as political, psychical, social, and mystical objects. Incorporating autoethnography, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, postcolonialism, and queer ecology, Houlton argues for a radical, interdisciplinary approach to our monument-culture. Tracing historical developments in monuments alongside contemporary movements such as Rhodes Must Fall and Black Lives Matter, Houlton provides an in-depth critique of monument sites, as well as new critical and conceptual methodologies for thinking across the field. Alongside analysis of monuments to the Holocaust, colonial figures, and LGBTQIA+ subjects, this book provides new critical engagements with the work of D.W. Winnicott, Marion Milner, Jacques Derrida, Edward Said, Eve Sedgwick, and others. Houlton traces the potential for monuments to exert great influence over our sense of self, nation, community, sexuality, and place in the world. Exploring the psychic and physical spaces these objects occupy—their aesthetics, affects, politics, and powers—this book considers how monuments can challenge our identities, beliefs, and our very notions of remembrance. The interdisciplinary nature of Monuments as Cultural and Critical Objects means that it is ideally placed to intervene across several critical fields, particularly museum and heritage studies. It will also prove invaluable to those engaged in the study of monuments, psychoanalytic object relations, decolonization, queer ecology, radical death studies, and affect theory.

Download or read book Poppy s Progress written by Pat Rosier and published by Spinifex Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poppy Sinclair is approaching fifty and mostly loves her life, teaching young children, living in her Auckland house, intimately connected to family and friends. But things have not turned out as she expected as a young feminist in the 1970s. The story of a woman coming to terms with loss and discovering life can still surprise.

Download or read book The Heart Remembers written by Jan-Philipp Sendker and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highly anticipated final book in the internationally bestselling The Art of Hearing Heartbeats trilogy, a moving story about love’s power to transcend distances and heal seemingly irreparable wounds. Twelve-year-old Ko Bo Bo lives with his uncle U Ba in Kalaw, a town in Burma. An unusually perceptive child, Bo Bo can read people’s emotions in their eyes. This acute sensitivity only makes his unconventional home life more difficult: His father comes to visit him once a year, and he can hardly remember his mother, who, for unclear reasons, keeps herself away from her son. Everything changes when Bo Bo discovers the story of his parents’ great love, which threatens to break down in the whirlwind of political events, and of his mother’s mysterious sickness. Convinced that he can heal her and reunite their family, Bo Bo decides to set out in search of his parents. A gripping, heartwarming tale that takes the reader from Burma to New York and back, The Heart Remembers is a worthy conclusion to Jan-Philipp Sendker’s beloved series.

Download or read book Burma in Revolt written by Bertil Lintner and published by Silkworm Books. This book was released on 1999-05-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1948, Burma was a promising young democracy with a bustling free market economy and a standard of living that surpassed nearly all of its other Asian neighbours. Fifty years later, Burma is one of the poorest nations in the world, with a military dictatorship in Rangoon and 50,000 armed rebels from a myriad of ethnic insurgency groups. In this well documented and detailed account, well-known Burma journalist Bertil Lintner explains the nexus between Burma’s booming drug production and its insurgency and counter-insurgency, providing an answer to the question of why Burma has been unable to shake off thirty-five years of military rule and build a modern, democratic society. Lintner’s lively account is interspersed with numerous anecdotes gleaned from personal research and interviews. Individuals are given features and personality in the complicated “jigsaw” of Burma’s modern history. Beginning with the shock of Aung San’s murder in 1947, Lintner retraces events from the 1920s that led to this disastrous event and continues his narrative up to the present, navigating the reader through webs of intrigue involving power, politics and drugs. Key players are the Rangoon government, the ethnic resistance, the Communists, the Kuomintang, and the US government. This revised and updated edition includes five extensive appendixes for serious readers and Burma scholars alike: a list of acronyms, a chronology of events, a who’s who of important figures in Burma’s insurgency, an annotated list of rebel armies, and biographical sketches of the Thirty Comrades. “Bertil Lintner, one of Burma’s (Myanmar’s) closest and most incisive observers, has written an important book. It is more than a study of the drug trade and the minority rebellions. It is in a sense a history of Burma since independence. No one concerned with Burma, with Southeast Asia, or with international narcotics affairs can neglect this work”. — David I. Steinberg, Georgetown University

Download or read book Hollywood Remembered written by Paul Zollo and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hollywood Remembered, a wide array of Tinseltown veterans share their stories of life in the city of dreams from the days of silent pictures to the present. The 35 voices, many of whom have come to know Hollywood inside-out, range from film producers and movie stars to restaurateurs and preservationists. Actress Evelyn Keyes recalls how, fresh from Georgia, she met Cecil B. DeMille and was soon acting in Gone With the Wind; Blacklisted writer Walter Bernstein tells how he transformed his McCarthy era-experiences into drama with The Front; Steve Allen speaks out on how Hollywood has changed since he first came there in the 1920s; and Jonathan Winters relates how he left a mental institution to come work with Stanley Kramer in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

Download or read book The Collected Novels written by William Styron and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 2151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four novels—including a Pulitzer Prize winner and a National Book Award winner—by the #1 New York Times–bestselling master. Lie Down in Darkness is William Styron’s stunning debut: a classic portrait of one Southern family’s tragic spiral into destruction. Set This House on Fire is a story of evil and redemption involving three American men whose paths converge on a film shoot in Italy at the close of the 1940s, hailed as “one of the finest novels of our time” by the San Francisco Chronicle.Gripping and unforgettable, The Confessions of Nat Turner is the Pulitzer-winning portrait of the leader of America’s bloodiest slave revolt. And Sophie’s Choice is the National Book Award–winning novel of love, survival, and regret, set in Brooklyn in the wake of the Second World War. Taken together, these four novels—exploring themes of good and evil, sin and atonement, and the ineradicable bonds of place and family—represent Styron at the pinnacle of his literary brilliance.

Download or read book Journey Between Mountains written by Kathleen Havens Gezzi and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wouldn''t it be helpful if you knew what the future holds? You could get a jump on your future life and problems. Other than your own personal issues...family, friends, career...there are four issues that will effect your future financially. You''re going to retire some day...possibly live 20 to 25 years in retirement. The four issues that are important, whether you''re rich or poor, whether it''s an individual or entire country, are: 1. Social Security 2. Medicare 3. Health Care 4. Oil /Energy All four are currently in crisis. All four are inter related, or int