Author: Alissa Callen Publisher: HarperCollins Australia ISBN: 1867215861 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 286
Book Description
A town scandal. A kelpie chaperone. A winter ball. The bush telegraph has never had so much to talk about... A delightfully charming rural story about love and healing from bestselling Australian author Alissa Callen. Hettie Burbrook is the first to admit she's happiest when flying solo through the outback skies. After her hobby of photographing farmers lands her a book deal, it provides the ideal cover story to visit small-town Bundilla. But every photograph brings her closer to uncovering the answers behind why she is really in the mountains... Deer farmer Taite Lancaster is as strong as the tempered steel he welds into lifelike animal sculptures. Unlike his father, he will never allow feelings to break him. But when the old schoolfriend of his twin sister lands on the airstrip of their high-country station, he knows he's in trouble. Hettie is the one woman he can't forget. While they're both determined to keep to themselves, between dog races, a ute muster and a winter ball, Hettie and Taite are forced to face how much they need each other. And when a long-buried scandal erupts into the present, relationships and lives are threatened. Can a man who locks away his emotions reveal his vulnerability before the mountain snow melts? And can a woman intent on righting a decades-old tragedy listen to her heart before history repeats itself? PRAISE FOR ALISSA CALLEN: 'Callen is no stranger to rural life, and it shows in her fiction. Her portrayal of small-town life and the surrounding bush was richly depicted and vividly imagined.' - Better Reading 'Alissa Callen writes such heartwarming, feel-good stories and creates the most appealing communities ... It was wonderful to return to Bundilla and some familiar faces.' - 1girl2manybooks 'A moving story with a touching romance weaving its way around and through the many issues facing a rural community.' - The Burgeoning Bookshelf
Author: Cameron Muir Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317910583 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 230
Book Description
Food and the global agricultural system has become one of the defining public concerns of the twenty-first century. Ecological disorder and inequity is at the heart of our food system. This thoughtful and confronting book tells the story of how the development of modern agriculture promised ecological and social stability but instead descended into dysfunction. Contributing to knowledge in environmental, cultural and agricultural histories, it explores how people have tried to live in the aftermath of ‘ecological imperialism’. The Broken Promise of Agricultural Progress: An environmental history journeys to the dry inland plains of Australia where European ideas and agricultural technologies clashed with a volatile and taunting country that resisted attempts to subdue and transform it for the supply of global markets. Its wide-ranging narrative puts gritty local detail in its global context to tell the story of how cultural anxieties about civilisation, population, and race, shaped agriculture in the twentieth century. It ranges from isolated experiment farms to nutrition science at the League of Nations, from local landholders to high profile moral crusaders, including an Australian apricot grower who met Franklin D. Roosevelt and almost fed the world. This book will be useful to undergraduates and postgraduates on courses examining international comparisons of nineteenth and twentieth century agriculture, and courses studying colonial development and settler societies. It will also appeal to food concerned general readers.
Author: Bill Rushton Publisher: The Institute for Southern Studies ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 228
Book Description
Soil, timber, and minerals have shaped the South inpeculiar ways and continue to stand in a precarious limbo between potential and exploitation. Not only has profit-oriented development devoured the South's natural resources, it has also produced our own home-grown, land-hungry barons. The byproducts of this process are sharecropper and entrepreneur, clea rcut forests and ravaged mountains, the cotton plantation and agribusiness. The gas shortage and oil profits, our electric bills and strip-mined coal, skyrocketing food prices—all accent the critical position of land-based enterprises in our contemporary society. This double issue of Southern Exposure explores this foundation of southern culture.
Author: Veda Taylor Strong Publisher: Author House ISBN: 1452041008 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 214
Book Description
A panic had taken over the country and left everyone in a national financial depression. Money was very short and people were not spending as they had been. The opportunists had packed up and left the Tacoma area and the population fell as thousands of people left to find work elsewhere. John was very sick and worried about what would happen to Jane and the kids. After much thinking and worrying, he contacted his brother in Montana, a wealthy sheep rancher, and his mother and sister. He had many acres for the kids to grow and roam on. After the exchange of letters, Ed was happy to take Jane and the family under his wing and help her out as much as he could. With this done, John made all necessary plans.
Author: Rexanne Becnel Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1501117963 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 288
Book Description
The USA TODAY bestselling “master of her craft” (RT Book Reviews), Rexanne Becnel delivers a special treat just in time for the holidays with this heartwarming story about a family learning the true meaning of Christmas. Having it all—money, health, intelligence, the seemingly perfect family—doesn’t seem to be working for Charles Montgomery. His wife wants a divorce. His children are spoiled rotten. And he has grown blind to the things money can’t buy. In an act of desperation he hopes will bring the family together again, he whisks them away to a mountain retreat for the holidays. But the vacation is a recipe for disaster—especially when a blizzard leaves them stranded without heat or electricity—until the Walker family shows up, seeking shelter. Togetherness has never been so uncomfortable—or enlightening. The blizzard passes, and the Walkers leave…but the Montgomerys’ lives will never be the same.
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Author: Joaquin Miller
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Author: Asiatic Society (Kolkata, India)
Author: Asiatic Society (Kolkata, India)
Author: Joaquin Miller
Author: Rexanne Becnel