Download or read book When the Jacaranda Petals Fall written by David Barnato and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-04-29 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Barnato was born in England in 1942 of Irish, Scottish, Welsh and English ancestry. He attended King James The First., school in Newport, Isle of Wight. After extensive travelling around the world he started and sold several businesses including a publishing company, insurance brokerage and fi nally a debt advisory service based in a remote Scottish castle. Rather than retire completely, he and his wife Jane decided to retire to South Africa and buy a farm and grow olives. Despite fires and floods David and Jane won a silver award for their olive oil, but sadly Jane suffered strokes and died of a heart attack in 2010. David’s passions are his five dogs, several of whom were rescued. He is also a great fan of opera and loves blues, especially when sung by Bessie Smith. He is now a full time writer. When the Jacaranda Petals Fall, is David’s first novel.
Download or read book My Empress Is Not Simple written by San San and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was 19 years old, a direct descendant of the Su Clan of the Western Lion Country. He had a devastatingly beautiful appearance, was proficient in zither, chess, painting, calmness, wittiness, cunning and had a person he liked and a person he didn't like that would be tortured to death. He was somewhat crazy, but he was very deep in love and had excellent medical skills. Her father was Prime Minister Su Qian, and her mother came from a foreign land. She had an immortal body, so Su Xueli also had an immortal body. She had liked the Fourth Prince from a young age, Mu Rong Chen. When he was 15, his entire family was executed. He was saved by Mu Rong Chen and lived in seclusion on the mountain outside the imperial city. When she was twenty, Murong Chen was ordered to marry the direct daughter of the Public Office's Assistant Minister. Su Xueli jumped off the cliff to commit suicide out of grief, but because she had an immortal body, she revived. She was saved by the passing Emperor of the Western Lion Country, Murong Chen.
Download or read book Pocket Rough Guide Tenerife La Gomera Travel Guide eBook written by Rough Guides and published by Apa Publications (UK) Limited. This book was released on 2022-10-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the best of Tenerife & La Gomera with this compact, practical, entertaining Pocket Rough Guide. This slim, trim treasure trove of trustworthy travel information is ideal for travellers on short trips, and covers all the key sights such as Mount Teide, Icod de los Vinos, El Encantadora, restaurants, shops, cafes and bars, plus inspired ideas for day-trips, with honest independent recommendations from expert authors. The Pocket Rough Guide Tenerife & La Gomera covers: Santa Cruz; La Laguna; the Anaga; Candelaria and Güímar; Puerto de la Cruz; La Orotava; Garachico; the Teno; the West Coast; the Southwest resorts; the South Coast; Teide; the Interior; San Sebastián and Playa de Santiago; Valle Gran Rey; Northern La Gomera. Inside this travel guide you will find: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR EVERY TYPE OF TRAVELLER Experiences selection for every kind of trip to Tenerife & La Gomera, from off-the-beaten-track adventures in Santa Cruz to family activities in child-friendly places, like La Laguna or chilled-out breaks in popular tourist areas, like Puerto de la Cruz. INCISIVE AREA-BY-AREA OVERVIEWS Covering the Anaga, San Sebastián, Valle Gran Rey and more, the practical Places section provides all you need to know about must-see sights and the best places to eat, drink, sleep and shop. TIME-SAVING ITINERARIES The routes suggested by Rough Guides' expert writers cover top attractions like Barranco del Infierno and Costa Martiánez and hidden gems like Teide National Park and Parque García Sanabria. DAY-TRIPS Venture further afield to Los Gigantes or El Sauzal. This tells you why to go, how to get there, and what to see when you arrive. HONEST INDEPENDENT REVIEWS Written with Rough Guides' trademark blend of humour, honesty and expertise, our expert writers will help you make the most of your trip to Tenerife & La Gomera. COMPACT FORMAT Packed with pertinent practical information, this is a convenient companion when you're out and about exploring Agulo. HANDY PULL-OUT MAP With every major sight and listing highlighted, the pull-out map makes on-the-ground navigation easy. ATTRACTIVE USER-FRIENDLY DESIGN Features fresh magazine-style layout, inspirational colour photography and colour-coded maps throughout. PRACTICAL TRAVEL TIPS Includes invaluable background information on how to get to Tenerife & La Gomera, getting around, health guidance, tourist information, festivals and events, plus an A-Z directory and a handy language section and glossary.
Download or read book Jacaranda written by Zhao Crowley and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 110 201611201711. This bilingual poem collection contains one hundred and ten poems; most of the poems are in middle-to-long length. It was written by the author from November 2016 to November 2017. During this time, the life experience stirred up the authors strong feelings about immigration life, love, relationship, and others. Reading these poems, you can experience emotions about falling in love from first glance to the sadness of separation or break up. In the poems, the author expressed her feelings of joy, loneliness, sadness, moral struggling, and other emotions. Every page has just one single poem; however, the whole poem collection has a clue to be a love story from beginning to the end. This poem collection may let you think about the life of human being, how to find yourself, the complex feature of love relationship and moral, the conflict of finding your real self, and the life under social rules. Everyones thought may be different, but the answer is in your heart.
Download or read book Na ve Abroad Mexico written by Marcus Henderson Wilder and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reader comments about Marcus Wilder travel columns in the San Antonio EXPRESS~News. Marcus Wilder is a consummate traveler and a one of a kind yarn spinner.Tracy Barnett, Travel Editor, San Antonio EXPRESS-News Mark is Mencken, Ann Coulter, and Chaucer rolled into one.Joseph Columbus Smith, Journalist Love what you are doing with your stories of the Camino. I live the Camino every day in my own way.Sue Kenney, Canadian author, Lecturer, and Pilgrim I read your reports with pleasure. Met een vriendelijke groet.Pieter, The Netherlands I have been reading with interest your story in the newspaper and sharing with my students. I teach Spanish my students follow the Camino via the Internet. Cesiah, International Languages Department Coordinator We are living it through Marcus Wilders eyes. Thank you for a lovely armchair travel adventure.Elizabeth, San Antonio My mother forwarded one of your travel stories to me. I enjoyed it immensely. Your writing is refreshing because you notice the details that make places, people, and events come alive.JoeLyn, Dallas I am fascinated by your stories.Memo, Laredo I bookmarked your page. I was captured.Waltrud, Chicago I love learning about other cultures and have really reveled in the sense of interacting with the people in your narrative.J.J., San Antonio
Download or read book The Ghost at the Wedding written by Shirley Walker and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1914, in the canefields of northern New South Wales, the young men couldn't wait to set off for the adventure of war. The women coped as best as they could, raised the children, lived in fear of being the next to receive an official telegram. They grieved their dead, and came to learn that for returned men there are worse things than death in combat. They bore more children to replace those lost in the First World War, and the sons were just the right age to go off to the second. The Ghost at the Wedding is like no other account of war, chronicling events from both sides - the horror of the battlefields and the women who were left at home. Shirley Walker's depictions of those battles - Gallipoli, the Western Front, the Kokoda Track - are grittily accurate, their reverberations haunting. Written with the emotional power of a novel, here is a true story whose sorrow is redeemed by astonishing beauty and strength of spirit.
Download or read book Muscular Poetry 2020 written by Kemo Chen and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All years present challenges, but, none more than 2020. Everything seems frozen, danger and doubt prevailed over reason and civility. Finding your way, staying in touch with your essential being requiring all your energy and sapped your passion. This is where poetry enters, to offer humor, perspective and grit. And this, Muscular Poetry is not flowers, roses, sweet kisses and birds singing. It is about the bumps and curves of a life lived real, hard and honestly. It is all our lives, the unvarnished truth.
Download or read book Mr Liang s Wife Escapes Again written by Xiao ManShiTai and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five years ago, five years after he had put her in prison with his own hands, he had ruined her innocence at her wedding. The misunderstanding was resolved. A certain male transformed into his beloved wife, the Berserk Demon. Mr. Liu, let's celebrate such a good day like the Seventh Festival ~ How do we celebrate? For example, let's get married first. A man pondered for a few seconds, celebrating a bed was enough.
Download or read book Wild Princess Marrying an Ugly Prince 08 Anthology written by San Yue Jing Zhe and published by BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.. This book was released on 2022-12-22 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bai Aoxue, the best mercenary in the 21st century, is accidentally sent back to the Chengxi Dynasty in Great Continent due to an explosion in her mission, and trapped in the first daughter of Prime Minister. After her rebirth, she is set up by her father to marry the 5th prince Jun Yeyan who wears a mask all day long. In the face of bloodthirsty enemies, discord between brothers, collusion among courtiers and invasion of enemy state, can Bai and Jun resolve the crises? What will happen to their political marriage? How will the fierce battle for the throne end? With many twists and turns, the book brings you to experience palace revolution, love and hatred thousands of years ago.
Download or read book Drinking from Graveyard Wells written by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Even in death, who has ownership over Black women's bodies?" Questions like this lurk between the lines of this stunning collection of stories that engage with African women's histories, both personal and generational. Their history is not just one thing: there is heartbreak and pain, and joy, and flying and magic, so much magic. An avenging spirit takes on the patriarchy from beyond the grave. An immigrant woman undergoes a naturalization ceremony in an imagined American state that demands that immigrants pay a toll of the thing they love the most. A first-generation Zimbabwean-American woman haunted by generational trauma is willing to pay the ultimate price to take her pain away—giving up her memories. A neighborhood gossip wakes up to find that houses are mysteriously vanishing in the night. A shapeshifting freedom fighter leaves a legacy of resistance to her granddaughter. In Drinking from Graveyard Wells, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu assembles poignantly reflective stories that center the voices of African women charting their own Black history through the ages. Ndlovu's stories play with genre, from softly surreal to deeply fantastical. Each narrative is wrapped in the literary eloquence and tradition of southern African mythology, transporting readers into the lives of African women who have fought across space and time to be seen. Drawing on her own early experiences as a Zimbabwean living under the Mugabe dictatorship, Ndlovu's stories are grounded in truth and empathy. Ndlovu boldly offers up alternative interpretations of a past and a present that speculates upon the everyday lives of a people disregarded. Her words explore the erasure of African women while highlighting their beauty and limitless magic. Immersed in worlds both fantastical and familiar, readers find themselves walking alongside these women, grieving their pain, and celebrating their joy, all against the textured backdrop of Zimbabwe.
Download or read book Sarcophagus written by Jean-Pierre Chevalier and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this stunning work of contemporary fiction, Chevalier has succeeded in illuminating one of the unspeakable tragedies of our age: the exploitation of illness. Rendering the depravity and misfeasance of our modern-day temples of medicine with scholarly aplomb, the gripping narrative in Sarcophagus chronicles the journey of an inspired physician and an intrepid biophysicist as they strive against all odds to develop the world's first effective targeted, injectable gene delivery system-the coveted holy grail of genetic medicine. It is a time in history when terminal cancer patients languish on the chain while medical institutions, academic research centers, and giant pharmaceutical companies struggle in unison against the emerging tide of genetic medicine in a misguided effort to maintain the authority and applications of their loathsome poisonous treatments. Written with the passion of a patient advocate and the omniscience of an astute insider, and set against the bleak and timely backdrop of clinical pathos, Sarcophagus is a compelling journey of discovery and descent into the netherworld of modern medicine as it stands poised at the threshold of history.
Download or read book Young Knowledge written by Robin Hyde and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full chronological record of the poems of Robin Hyde, a New Zealand journalist, novelist, dramatist, and poet active in the 1930s, is presented in this book. The 300 poems chosen show Hyde's growth as a poet and her response to the painful events of her personal life and to the political and social world around her. The poems are remarkable both for their acute observation of the physical and emotional world and for their powerful prophetic and visionary elements.
Download or read book In the Shadow of the Cypress written by Thomas Steinbeck and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Steinbeck has been praised by Publishers Weekly for his stylistic brilliance and “accomplished voice.” Now, his enthralling novel In the Shadow of the Cypress blends history and suspense with literary mastery and brings vivid realism to California’s rich heritage. In 1906, the Chinese in California lived in the shadows. Their alien customs, traditions, and language hid what they valued from their neighbors . . . and left them open to scorn and prejudice. Their communities were ruled—and divided—by the necessity of survival among the many would-be masters surrounding them, by struggles between powerful tongs, and by duty to their ancestors. Then, in the wake of natural disaster, fate brought to light artifacts of incredible value along the Monterey coast: an ancient Chinese jade seal and a plaque inscribed in a trio of languages lost to all but scholars of antiquity. At first, chance placed control of those treasures in the hands of outsiders—the wayward Irishman who’d discovered them and a marine scholar who was determined to explore their secrets. The path to the truth, however, would prove to be as tangled as the roots of the ancient cypress that had guarded these treasures for so long, for there are some secrets the Chinese were not ready to share. Whether by fate, by subtle design, or by some intricate combination of the two, the artifacts disappeared again . . . before it could be proved that they must have come there ages before Europeans ever touched the wild and beautiful California coast. Nearly a century would pass before an unconventional young American scientist unearths evidence of this great discovery and its mysterious disappearance. Taking up the challenge, he begins to assemble a new generation of explorers to resume theperilous search into the ocean’s depth . . . and theshadows of history. Armed with cutting-edge, moderntechnology, and drawing on connections to powerful families at home and abroad, this time Americans and Chinese will follow together the path of secrets that have long proved as elusive as the ancient treasures that held them. This striking debut novel by a masterful writer weaves together two fascinating eras into one remarkable tale. In the Shadow of the Cypress is an evocative, dramatic story that depicts California in all its multicultural variety, with a suspense that draws the reader inexorably on until the very last page.
Download or read book Flow Chart written by John Ashbery and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quintessentially American epic poem that rewrites all the rules of epic poetry—starting with the one that says epic poetry can’t be about the writing of epic poetry itself The appearance of Flow Chart in 1991 marked the kickoff of a remarkably prolific period in John Ashbery’s long career, a decade during which he published seven all-new books of poetry as well as a collected series of lectures on poetic form and practice. So it comes as no surprise that this book-length poem—one of the longest ever written by an American poet—reads like a rocket launch: charged, propulsive, mesmerizing, a series of careful explosions that, together, create a radical forward motion. It’s been said that Flow Chart was written in response to a dare of sorts: Artist and friend Trevor Winkfield suggested that Ashbery write a poem of exactly one hundred pages, a challenge that Ashbery took up with plans to complete the poem in one hundred days. But the celebrated work that ultimately emerged from its squared-off origin story was one that the poet himself called “a continuum, a diary.” In six connected, constantly surprising movements of free verse—with the famous “sunflower” double sestina thrown in, just to reinforce the poem’s own multivarious logic—Ashbery’s poem maps a path through modern American consciousness with all its attendant noise, clamor, and signal: “Words, however, are not the culprit. They are at worst a placebo, / leading nowhere (though nowhere, it must be added, can sometimes be a cozy / place, preferable in many cases to somewhere).”
Download or read book Salamander written by Thomas Wharton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholas Flood, an unassuming eighteenth-century London printer, specializes in novelty books -- books that nestle into one another, books comprised of one spare sentence, books that emit the sounds of crashing waves. When his work captures the attention of an eccentric Slovakian count, Flood is summoned to a faraway castle -- a moving labyrinth that embodies the count's obsession with puzzles -- where he is commissioned to create the infinite book, the ultimate never-ending story. Probing the nature of books, the human thirst for knowledge, and the pursuit of immortality, Salamander careens through myth and metaphor as Flood travels the globe in search of materials for the elusive book without end.
Download or read book Duet written by Kimberley Freeman and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of passion, greed, secrets and lies. Present day: A reclusive woman living in outback Australia receives a letter acknowledging a terrible secret from her past. Thirty years before, she stole another woman's life. From the moment the letter is opened two women are on a collision course with destiny. From the London pop scene, to the opera stages of Europe; from a tiny Greek island, to a stifling manor house full of secrets and deceptions; from the sun-drenched Queensland coast, to the silent outback; Angela and Ellie are two women both looking for something. One in search of her identity and her memory; the other in search of the love that she had and lost; theirs is a duet whose last note will not be sung until the heart-stopping climax, when a shadow from the past returns to claim them both.
Download or read book Riddle Child written by Annelie Botes and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2012-10-03 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander is autistic. When he is nine years old he is found dead in a bath of water. The only other person in the house at the time is his mother Ingrid. The circumstances arouse suspicion and the police take Ingrid into custody. Did she murder her child? And who could blame her if she did? She has had nine years of hell with her uncontrollable child, all those she cares about have deserted her, and not even the church has come to her assistance. Her efforts to find help for Alexander have left her bankrupt and she is emotionally and physically depleted. If it were not for Miriam and Gunter, she would surely never have endured the nine years... In this haunting novel Annelie Botes exposes the tragedy of autism and its devastating effect on families. Searingly honest, it brings home the inescapable truth that society can be cruelly indifferent to whatever it perceives to be aberrant.