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Author: Mark Behr Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780312152093 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 210
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The story of an affluent white South African family during apartheid. Its narrator is the son of an Afrikaner general and he describes his growing disillusion with the cruelty and arrogance of the whites. Set in the 1970s, the novel follows him from boyhood to soldiering in Angola, fighting the blacks.
Author: Mark Behr Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780312152093 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 210
Book Description
The story of an affluent white South African family during apartheid. Its narrator is the son of an Afrikaner general and he describes his growing disillusion with the cruelty and arrogance of the whites. Set in the 1970s, the novel follows him from boyhood to soldiering in Angola, fighting the blacks.
Author: Mark Behr Publisher: Little Brown ISBN: 9780349107561 Category : Apartheid Languages : en Pages : 200
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This remarkable novel evokes the twilight of South Africa's apartheid society in the early 1970s as seen through the eyes of a young Afrikaner boy, Marnus Erasmus. From the story of a seemingly stable and affluent family, whose self-delusion and arrogance masks a troubling undercurrent, comes a harrowing parallel tale of a childhood corrupted and a society beginning to crumble.
Author: Mark Behr Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 0312152094 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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The harsh realities of 1970s South African apartheid are witnessed by young narrator Marnus Erasmus, in a story of racial oppression, sexual abuse, lost innocence, and a society driven to the edge of dispair
Author: Bienvenido N. Santos Publisher: Classics of Asian American Lit ISBN: 9780295995113 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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This collection of sixteen stories bring the work of a distinguished Filipino writer to an American audience. Scent of Apples contains work from the 1940s to the 1970s. Although many of Santos's writings have been published in the Philippines, Scent of Apples is his only book published in the United States. -- from back cover.
Author: Frank Browning Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 0865475792 Category : Apples Languages : en Pages : 258
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Throughout Western memory the apple has been the fruit of trouble, immortality, and temptation: Paris and the Trojan War, Nordic Loki and the apples of eternal life, and, of course, that infamous couple in the Garden.
Author: Katharina Hagena Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks ISBN: 9780062293473 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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Shimmering with the incandescence and irresistible magic of the novels of Alice Hoffman, Joanne Harris, and Aimee Bender, Katharina Hagena's smash international bestseller, The Taste of Apple Seeds, is a story of love and loss that will captivate your heart. When Iris unexpectedly inherits her grandmother's house in the country, she also inherits the painful memories that linger there. Should she keep it or sell it? The choice is not easy, for the cottage is a place of enchantment and sensual mystery where currant jam tastes of tears, blue sparks crackle at the touch of fingertips, love makes apple trees bloom—and dark secrets pulsate in the house's nooks and shadows. . . .
Author: Ruth Reichl Publisher: Random House ISBN: 0375507043 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 383
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this beloved memoir from the author of Tender at the Bone, “Reichl writes with gusto, and her story has all the ingredients of a modern fairy tale: hard work, weird food, and endless curiosity” (The New Yorker). “[Comfort Me with Apples] reminds you of a really great meal, well balanced and well seasoned, leaving you satisfied and wanting more.”—New York A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly Comfort Me with Apples recounts Ruth Reichl’s transformation from chef to food writer, a process that led her through restaurants from Bangkok to Paris to Los Angeles and brought lessons in life, love, and food. Her pursuit of good food and good company leads her to New York and China, France and Los Angeles, and her stories of cooking and dining with world-famous chefs range from the madcap to the sublime. Through it all, Reichl makes each and every course a hilarious and instructive occasion for novices and experts alike. She shares some of her favorite recipes while also sharing the intimacies of her personal life in a style so honest and warm that readers will feel they are enjoying a conversation over a meal with a friend. Featuring a special Afterword by the author and more than a dozen personal family photos
Author: Bill Cullen Publisher: Mercier Press Ltd ISBN: 1856354008 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 385
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Paperback edition of the number one best-seller that made Bill Cullen a household name. The Bill Cullen story is an account of incredible poverty and deprivation in the Dublin slums. It highlights the frustration of a mother and father feeling their relationship crumble as they fight to give their children a better life. It's a story of courage, joy and happiness. Of how a mother gave inspiration and values to her children saying, 'The best thing I can give you is the independence to stand on your own feet'.
Author: Martha E. H. Rustad Publisher: Millbrook Press ™ ISBN: 1541503783 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 25
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Let's go to the apple orchard! Find out how apples grow. See the many things we do with apples. Taste some cider and apple pie. Yum! What happens in fall? Find out in the Fall's Here! series, part of the Cloverleaf BooksTM collection. These nonfiction picture books feature kid-friendly text and illustrations to make learning fun!
Author: Jody Fickes Shapiro Publisher: Holiday House ISBN: 9780823421664 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 44
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Myles and Amber wake up early to visit Grandma and Grandpa's California apple orchard. They pick apples all day long, climbing ladders and disappearing into trees to fill bushels of Red and Golden Delicious, McIntosh and Pippins, Gravensteins and Winter Bananas. Grandma makes apple cider, and they snack on fresh apple pie. Before they know it, apple-picking time is over and apple-selling time has begun. Grandpa sets up the roadside apple stand, and neighbors gather to buy the fresh fruit. When the apples have all been sold, the family gathers for one more meal before Myles and Amber make the long trip back home. This warmhearted story brings three generations of a family together to celebrate and share in the working of a fall harvest.
Author: Mark Behr
Author: Mark Behr
Author: Mark Behr
Author: Mark Behr
Author: Bienvenido N. Santos
Author: Frank Browning
Author: Katharina Hagena
Author: Ruth Reichl
Author: Bill Cullen
Author: Martha E. H. Rustad
Author: Jody Fickes Shapiro