Author: Dunbartonshire (Scotland). County Council
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 374

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Author: Jenny Colgan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743498607
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Meet the Clanswomen... International bestselling authors Jenny Colgan, Isla Dewar, and Muriel Gray lead off this dazzling collection of stories by popular and rising Scottish women authors. A sometimes wild, sometimes poignant romp through the lives of Scotswomen, Scottish Girls About Town revels in the universal hilarity and strife of being a girl! They're looking for something moor. In Jenny Colgan's "The Fringes," a hapless heroine heads to the Edinburgh "Fringe" -- a massive theatrical and musical festival -- for a night of her own disastrous drama. Isla Dewar offers up "In the Garden of Mrs. Pink," one woman's look back at her girlhood and the life lessons she learned from an eccentric neighbor. In Muriel Gray's "School-Gate Mums," a single mother with killer instincts settles the score with one of the mothers at her son's school. Whether they're racing their flatmates in a weight-loss contest, reconnecting with long-lost friends, or grappling with the men in their lives, these daughters of Scotland prove that no one can top their audacious spirit and Highland charm.

Author: Alex Pheby
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1250817234
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 430

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Alex Pheby's Mordew launches an astonishingly inventive epic fantasy trilogy. God is dead, his corpse hidden in the catacombs beneath Mordew. In the slums of the sea-battered city, a young boy called Nathan Treeves lives with his parents, eking out a meagre existence by picking treasures from the Living Mud and the half-formed, short-lived creatures it spawns. Until one day his desperate mother sells him to the mysterious Master of Mordew. The Master derives his magical power from feeding on the corpse of God. But Nathan, despite his fear and lowly station, has his own strength—and it is greater than the Master has ever known. Great enough to destroy everything the Master has built. If only Nathan can discover how to use it. So it is that the Master begins to scheme against him—and Nathan has to fight his way through the betrayals, secrets, and vendettas of the city where God was murdered, and darkness reigns. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author: Kathleen McConnell
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN: 9780738705330
Category : Ghosts
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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"What's wrong, Mommy?" Even a five-year-old could tell something was wrong. There she was-the same little girl I had seen years ago. She was standing at the front window of Duncan's nursery, holding the rag doll from the old toy box in the attic, silently saying, "It's me, it's me..." A true ghost story that will give you chills and warm your heart In 1971, Kathleen McConnell and her family moved into a historic home known as the Fontaine Manse. Two days after moving in, she and her husband had an extraordinary experience that left them with no doubt that unseen residents occupied the house, too. This is the true story of how Kathleen McConnell came to know and care for the spirit children who lived in the attic of the mansion-Angel Girl, Buddy, and The Baby. From playing ball with Kathleen, to saving her son Duncan from drowning, the spirit children became part of the McConnell family in ways big and small. Finally, a heart-wrenching decision triggered an unexpected and dramatic resolution to the spirit children's plight. Don't Call Them Ghosts is the inspiring story of the transcendent and lasting power of a mother's love.

Author: Vernor Vinge
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1429924896
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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This second novel by multiple award-winner Vernor Vinge, from 1976, is a fast-paced adventure where galactic policies collide and different cultures clash as two scientists and their faith in technology are pitted against an elusive race of telekinetic beings. Marooned on a distant world and slowly dying of food poisoning, two anthropologists are caught between warring alien factions engaged in a battle that will affect the future of the world's inhabitants and their deadly telekinetic powers. If the anthropologists can't help resolve the conflict between the feuding alien factions, no one will survive. This edition features sixteen full-page illustrations by Doug Beekman. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author: Joan Archibald Colborne
Publisher: Charlottetown, P.E.I. : Island Studies Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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On Sunday afternoons in the late 1940s, while her husband preached at one of his three rural Prince Edward Island churches, JOAN ARCHIBALD COLBORNE wrote letters on an old portable typewriter. It made a great excuse to not to have to hear the same sermon three times, she says. I made four carbon copies on onion skin: one for his parents, one for his brother (Ed), one for my sister (Budge Wilson), and one for my parents. These charming, insightful letters detail 16 months in the life of a United Church minister's wife. Colborne joined her husband, the Reverend Blair Colborne, in Springfield West on the western end of Prince Edward Island in January 1949. The young Nova Scotian couple was ill prepared for the challenges of an isolated parish. Colborne writers humorously of her difficulties learning to cook, clean, entertain, and care for a baby in a house that seemed to be constantly in need of repair. Add to that a winter climate that played havoc with everything from the plumbing to the newlyweds' sanity, and Letters from the Manse throws open a window onto a fascinating piece of Island social history.

Author: John W. de Gruchy
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1498293115
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317

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"If my life and experience is of some interest, it is chiefly so because I have lived through interesting times, in an interesting country, traveled to many interesting places, and been accompanied along the way by interesting folk." John de Gruchy is a renowned South African theologian and an inspiration to many. An expert on the work of the anti-Nazi theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, De Gruchy is also a local struggle icon in his own right. In this book, we trace his story from his Viking ancestry, via a seafaring grandfather and illegitimate grandmother, to where he became an ecumenical activist for the South African Council of Churches and up to the present. We journey through a South Africa in transition and a rapidly changing global society. Along the way we meet varied, often controversial people, like Albert Luthuli, Jaap Durand, P.W. Botha and Constand Viljoen. With a foreword by his friend Desmond Tutu, this is the tale of an extraordinary life lived to the full.

Author: Scotland. High Court of Justiciary
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 674

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Author: Scotland. High Court of Justiciary
Publisher:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 678

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Author: John McMillan
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514461676
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 367

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UPSTREAM is a powerful portrait of life in Britain and Ireland during the last quarter of the 20th century, acutely observed by aspiring author Jim Mitchell as he and wife Bridget settle into a new life in the West Country. The story centres on the married life of Jim and Bridget, the births of their children and the flow of people and events around them as they make the spiritual journey "upstream" to the source of life and meaning, against an increasingly unfeeling, commercialised world where the individual has come to count less and less.