Author: Jack Page
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 149315446X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
As a youngster growing up in a small textile community, Belmont, NC, Jack was exposed to a wide variety of experiences. His mother's only rules for him were, "Be home for meals", and "Don't disgrace the family." This gave Jack freedom to explore his world, and did he ever! After his father died when Jack was twelve years of age, he spent three summers on his uncle's tobacco farm in South Carolina, which gave him lessons in economics, sociology, and human nature. Some episodes are hilarious, some are lessons in life, and all are insightful! br> Not many youngsters have been exposed to such a variety of rich experiences. The book is mainly for adults, however, youngsters can read it with pleasure and envy.
The Heart of the Watermelon
Author: Jack Page
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 149315446X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
As a youngster growing up in a small textile community, Belmont, NC, Jack was exposed to a wide variety of experiences. His mother's only rules for him were, "Be home for meals", and "Don't disgrace the family." This gave Jack freedom to explore his world, and did he ever! After his father died when Jack was twelve years of age, he spent three summers on his uncle's tobacco farm in South Carolina, which gave him lessons in economics, sociology, and human nature. Some episodes are hilarious, some are lessons in life, and all are insightful! br> Not many youngsters have been exposed to such a variety of rich experiences. The book is mainly for adults, however, youngsters can read it with pleasure and envy.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 149315446X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
As a youngster growing up in a small textile community, Belmont, NC, Jack was exposed to a wide variety of experiences. His mother's only rules for him were, "Be home for meals", and "Don't disgrace the family." This gave Jack freedom to explore his world, and did he ever! After his father died when Jack was twelve years of age, he spent three summers on his uncle's tobacco farm in South Carolina, which gave him lessons in economics, sociology, and human nature. Some episodes are hilarious, some are lessons in life, and all are insightful! br> Not many youngsters have been exposed to such a variety of rich experiences. The book is mainly for adults, however, youngsters can read it with pleasure and envy.
Watermelon Pip
Author: Sharna Carter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780648872306
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Blue-eyed pip is juicy-sweet, but mightily sassy, too! She eats watermelon for breakfast, lunch and tea, sharing with no-one, no matter how hard they try. One day, though, the watermelon supply dries up. There are no watermelons at the little shop, the big shop, or the online shop. Not one. Pip has a sinking feeling in her hungry, little tummy.That is, until she remembers all those watermelon pips she used to spit over the fence while swinging on her tyre swing! She scales the fence, and sure enough, right there is a joyous garden of homegrown watermelons! Pip is overjoyed! But, just as she's about to begin devouring that juicy flesh, she remembers all the hungry faces with whom she never shared.She knows what she has to do ? And, so begins one of the most beautiful endings to one of the most heartwarming children's picture books you're ever likely to read.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780648872306
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Blue-eyed pip is juicy-sweet, but mightily sassy, too! She eats watermelon for breakfast, lunch and tea, sharing with no-one, no matter how hard they try. One day, though, the watermelon supply dries up. There are no watermelons at the little shop, the big shop, or the online shop. Not one. Pip has a sinking feeling in her hungry, little tummy.That is, until she remembers all those watermelon pips she used to spit over the fence while swinging on her tyre swing! She scales the fence, and sure enough, right there is a joyous garden of homegrown watermelons! Pip is overjoyed! But, just as she's about to begin devouring that juicy flesh, she remembers all the hungry faces with whom she never shared.She knows what she has to do ? And, so begins one of the most beautiful endings to one of the most heartwarming children's picture books you're ever likely to read.
Where the Watermelons Grow
Author: Cindy Baldwin
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 006266588X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Fans of The Thing About Jellyfish and A Snicker of Magic will be swept away by Cindy Baldwin’s debut middle grade about a girl coming to terms with her mother’s mental illness. An Oregon Spirit Award Honor book. When twelve-year-old Della Kelly finds her mother furiously digging black seeds from a watermelon in the middle of the night and talking to people who aren't there, Della worries that it’s happening again—that the sickness that put her mama in the hospital four years ago is back. That her mama is going to be hospitalized for months like she was last time. With her daddy struggling to save the farm and her mama in denial about what’s happening, it’s up to Della to heal her mama for good. And she knows just how she’ll do it: with a jar of the Bee Lady’s magic honey, which has mended the wounds and woes of Maryville, North Carolina, for generations. But when the Bee Lady says that the solution might have less to do with fixing Mama’s brain and more to do with healing her own heart, Della must learn that love means accepting her mama just as she is.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 006266588X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Fans of The Thing About Jellyfish and A Snicker of Magic will be swept away by Cindy Baldwin’s debut middle grade about a girl coming to terms with her mother’s mental illness. An Oregon Spirit Award Honor book. When twelve-year-old Della Kelly finds her mother furiously digging black seeds from a watermelon in the middle of the night and talking to people who aren't there, Della worries that it’s happening again—that the sickness that put her mama in the hospital four years ago is back. That her mama is going to be hospitalized for months like she was last time. With her daddy struggling to save the farm and her mama in denial about what’s happening, it’s up to Della to heal her mama for good. And she knows just how she’ll do it: with a jar of the Bee Lady’s magic honey, which has mended the wounds and woes of Maryville, North Carolina, for generations. But when the Bee Lady says that the solution might have less to do with fixing Mama’s brain and more to do with healing her own heart, Della must learn that love means accepting her mama just as she is.
Watermelon Snow
Author: Lynne Quarmby
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228005094
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Concern about the climate crisis is widespread as humans struggle to navigate life in uncertain times. From the vantage of a schooner full of artists on an adventure in the high Arctic, biologist Lynne Quarmby explains the science that convinced her of an urgent need to act on climate change and recounts how this knowledge - and the fear and panic it elicited - plunged her into unsustainable action, ending in arrests, lawsuits, and a failed electoral campaign on behalf of the Green Party of Canada. Watermelon Snow weaves memoir, microbiology, and artistic antics together with descriptions of a sublime Arctic landscape. At the top of the warming world, Quarmby struggles with burnout and grief while an aerial artist twirls high in the ship's rigging, bearded seals sing mournfully, polar bears prowl, and glaciers crumble into the sea. In a compelling narrative, sorrow and fear are balanced by beauty and wonder. The author's journey back from a life out of balance includes excursions into evolutionary history where her discoveries reveal the heart of human existence. The climate realities are as dark as the Arctic winter, yet this is a book of lightness and generosity. Quarmby's voice, intimate and original, illuminates the science while offering a reminder that much about the human experience is beyond reason. Inspiring and deeply personal, Watermelon Snow is the story of one scientist's rediscovery of what it means to live a good life at a time of increasing desperation about the future.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228005094
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Concern about the climate crisis is widespread as humans struggle to navigate life in uncertain times. From the vantage of a schooner full of artists on an adventure in the high Arctic, biologist Lynne Quarmby explains the science that convinced her of an urgent need to act on climate change and recounts how this knowledge - and the fear and panic it elicited - plunged her into unsustainable action, ending in arrests, lawsuits, and a failed electoral campaign on behalf of the Green Party of Canada. Watermelon Snow weaves memoir, microbiology, and artistic antics together with descriptions of a sublime Arctic landscape. At the top of the warming world, Quarmby struggles with burnout and grief while an aerial artist twirls high in the ship's rigging, bearded seals sing mournfully, polar bears prowl, and glaciers crumble into the sea. In a compelling narrative, sorrow and fear are balanced by beauty and wonder. The author's journey back from a life out of balance includes excursions into evolutionary history where her discoveries reveal the heart of human existence. The climate realities are as dark as the Arctic winter, yet this is a book of lightness and generosity. Quarmby's voice, intimate and original, illuminates the science while offering a reminder that much about the human experience is beyond reason. Inspiring and deeply personal, Watermelon Snow is the story of one scientist's rediscovery of what it means to live a good life at a time of increasing desperation about the future.
Watermelon
Author: Marian Keyes
Publisher: Clement Wright
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
February the fifteenth is a very special day for me. It is the day I gave birth to my first child. It is also the day my husband left me...I can only assume the two events weren't entirely unrelated. Claire has everything she ever wanted: a husband she adores, a great apartment, a good job. Then, on the day she gives birth to their first baby, James informs her that he's leaving her. Claire is left with a newborn daughter, a broken heart, and a postpartum body that she can hardly bear to look at. She decides to go home to Dublin. And there, sheltered by the love of a quirky family, she gets better. So much so, in fact, that when James slithers back into her life, he's in for a bit of a surprise.
Publisher: Clement Wright
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
February the fifteenth is a very special day for me. It is the day I gave birth to my first child. It is also the day my husband left me...I can only assume the two events weren't entirely unrelated. Claire has everything she ever wanted: a husband she adores, a great apartment, a good job. Then, on the day she gives birth to their first baby, James informs her that he's leaving her. Claire is left with a newborn daughter, a broken heart, and a postpartum body that she can hardly bear to look at. She decides to go home to Dublin. And there, sheltered by the love of a quirky family, she gets better. So much so, in fact, that when James slithers back into her life, he's in for a bit of a surprise.
Eat Yourself Fit
Author: Rosanna Davison
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN: 0717171442
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 571
Book Description
The No1 best-selling author is back with over 100 recipes and tips to help you hit peak performance! Following the success of her debut release, Eat Yourself Beautiful, Rosanna Davison is back to help you get fighting fit fast! With over 100 powerful recipes to complement and enhance your fitness routine and sample diet and exercise plans as well as mental tips and tricks to keep you motivated and build long-term healthy habits that stick, Eat Yourself Fit has everything you need to look and feel your very best. Recipes are designed to give options that are muscle-building, mood-enhancing, sleep-enhancing, calorie-controlled or antioxidant-rich, depending on your fitness goals, and include rawnola parfait with raspberry and vanilla coconut whip, omega-3 gingerbread energy bars, coconut chickpea, spinach and sun-dried tomato stew, skinny cauliflower tabbouleh and treats such as pecan pie truffles.
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN: 0717171442
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 571
Book Description
The No1 best-selling author is back with over 100 recipes and tips to help you hit peak performance! Following the success of her debut release, Eat Yourself Beautiful, Rosanna Davison is back to help you get fighting fit fast! With over 100 powerful recipes to complement and enhance your fitness routine and sample diet and exercise plans as well as mental tips and tricks to keep you motivated and build long-term healthy habits that stick, Eat Yourself Fit has everything you need to look and feel your very best. Recipes are designed to give options that are muscle-building, mood-enhancing, sleep-enhancing, calorie-controlled or antioxidant-rich, depending on your fitness goals, and include rawnola parfait with raspberry and vanilla coconut whip, omega-3 gingerbread energy bars, coconut chickpea, spinach and sun-dried tomato stew, skinny cauliflower tabbouleh and treats such as pecan pie truffles.
In Watermelon Sugar
Author: Richard Brautigan
Publisher: Pan
ISBN: 9780330234436
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Publisher: Pan
ISBN: 9780330234436
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
How to Write & Give a Speech
Author: Joan Detz
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312302733
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Explains how to write and deliver an effective speech, covering such aspects as humor, nervousness, subject research, memorable style, team presentations, international audiences, question and answer sessions, audiovisual tools, and copyright.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312302733
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Explains how to write and deliver an effective speech, covering such aspects as humor, nervousness, subject research, memorable style, team presentations, international audiences, question and answer sessions, audiovisual tools, and copyright.
A Watermelon, a Fish and a Bible
Author: Christy Lefteri
Publisher: riverrun
ISBN: 9781529405637
Category : Cyprus
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A moving novel of love and war by the author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo It is July 1974 and on a bright, sunny morning, the Turkish army has invaded the town of Kyrenia in Cyprus. For many people, this means an end to life as they know it. But for some, it is a chance to begin living again. Everyone has always talked about Koki. They never believed she was her father's daughter and her mother died too soon to quiet their wagging tongues. And when she became pregnant and there was no sign of a husband, her fate was sealed. So she lives outside the town and hides from her neighbours' eyes. But, held captive with the very women who have made her life so lonely, Koki is finally able to tell them the truth. To talk of the Turkish shoe-maker who came to the town and took her heart away with him when he left. And how she has longed for him all these years. Meanwhile, Adem Berker finds himself back in Kyrenia, his former home, now as a member of the invading force. Here he left everything he ever wanted and, by cover of darkness, risking his life, he is searching every house, every cafe, every old pathway, for just a glimpse of the only woman he has ever loved. For readers of The Island, The Book Thief and The Kite Runner.
Publisher: riverrun
ISBN: 9781529405637
Category : Cyprus
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A moving novel of love and war by the author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo It is July 1974 and on a bright, sunny morning, the Turkish army has invaded the town of Kyrenia in Cyprus. For many people, this means an end to life as they know it. But for some, it is a chance to begin living again. Everyone has always talked about Koki. They never believed she was her father's daughter and her mother died too soon to quiet their wagging tongues. And when she became pregnant and there was no sign of a husband, her fate was sealed. So she lives outside the town and hides from her neighbours' eyes. But, held captive with the very women who have made her life so lonely, Koki is finally able to tell them the truth. To talk of the Turkish shoe-maker who came to the town and took her heart away with him when he left. And how she has longed for him all these years. Meanwhile, Adem Berker finds himself back in Kyrenia, his former home, now as a member of the invading force. Here he left everything he ever wanted and, by cover of darkness, risking his life, he is searching every house, every cafe, every old pathway, for just a glimpse of the only woman he has ever loved. For readers of The Island, The Book Thief and The Kite Runner.
The Watermelon Boys
Author: Ruqaya Izzidien
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
ISBN: 1617979007
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
It is the winter of 1915 and Iraq has been engulfed by the First World War. Hungry for independence from Ottoman rule, Ahmad leaves his peaceful family life on the banks of the Tigris to join the British-led revolt. Thousands of miles away, Welsh teenager Carwyn reluctantly enlists and is sent, via Gallipoli and Egypt, to the Mesopotamia campaign. Carwyn’s and Ahmad’s paths cross, and their fates are bound together. Both are forever changed, not only by their experience of war, but also by the parallel discrimination and betrayal they face. Ruqaya Izzidien’s evocative debut novel is rich with the heartbreak and passion that arise when personal loss and political zeal collide, and offers a powerful retelling of the history of British intervention in Iraq.
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
ISBN: 1617979007
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
It is the winter of 1915 and Iraq has been engulfed by the First World War. Hungry for independence from Ottoman rule, Ahmad leaves his peaceful family life on the banks of the Tigris to join the British-led revolt. Thousands of miles away, Welsh teenager Carwyn reluctantly enlists and is sent, via Gallipoli and Egypt, to the Mesopotamia campaign. Carwyn’s and Ahmad’s paths cross, and their fates are bound together. Both are forever changed, not only by their experience of war, but also by the parallel discrimination and betrayal they face. Ruqaya Izzidien’s evocative debut novel is rich with the heartbreak and passion that arise when personal loss and political zeal collide, and offers a powerful retelling of the history of British intervention in Iraq.