Under the Hawthorn Tree
Author : Marita Conlon-McKenna
Publisher : The O'Brien Press
Release Date : 2013-08-01
ISBN 10 : 9781847176004
Pages : 106 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (847 users)
Download or read book Under the Hawthorn Tree PDF or another Format written by Marita Conlon-McKenna and published by The O'Brien Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in the famine trilogy Under the Hawthorn Tree is Ireland's top selling children's book. The phenomenal success of this original and enthralling book is celebrated with this beautiful hardback gift edition. This novel has become a classic for young readers worldwide. Under the Hawthorn Tree continues to go from strength to strength and this new edition is a must for any collection. Ireland in the 1840s is devastated by famine. When tragedy strikes their family, Eily, Michael and Peggy are left to fend for themselves. Starving and in danger of the dreaded workhouse, they escape. Their one hope is to find the great aunts they have heard about in their mother's stories.With tremendous courage they set out on a journey that will test every reserve of strength, love and loyalty they possess. Also available on DVD.
Under The Hawthorn Tree
Author : Ai Mi
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-01-26
ISBN 10 : 9780748123520
Pages : 368 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (748 users)
Download or read book Under The Hawthorn Tree PDF or another Format written by Ai Mi and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jingqiu, an innocent young woman from a politically questionable family in the city, is selected as one of a small group of students to be sent to the countryside to work on a project that will further the Cultural Revolution. Clever, curious and eager, she tries to fit in with her hosts and the rural way of life, and it isn't appropriate for her to fall in love. But she does, with the son of a mighty army general. This beautiful, simple story of love against the odds will break your heart.
Under the Hawthorn Tree
Author : Marita Conlon-McKenna
Publisher : O'Brien Press
Release Date : 2001
ISBN 10 : 0862787432
Pages : 187 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (787 users)
Download or read book Under the Hawthorn Tree PDF or another Format written by Marita Conlon-McKenna and published by O'Brien Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in the famine trilogy Under the Hawthorn Tree is Ireland's top selling children's book and a classic for young readers worldwide. Ireland in the 1840s is devastated by famine. When tragedy strikes their family, Eily, Michael and Peggy are left to fend for themselves. Starving and in danger of the dreaded workhouse, they escape. Their one hope is to find the great aunts they have heard about in their mother's stories. With tremendous courage they set out on a journey that will test every reserve of strength, love and loyalty they possess. Also available on DVD.
Under the Hawthorn Tree
Author : Irene Barber
Publisher :
Release Date : 1999-02-01
ISBN 10 : 0862785839
Pages : 32 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (785 users)
Download or read book Under the Hawthorn Tree PDF or another Format written by Irene Barber and published by . This book was released on 1999-02-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Green Building, Materials and Civil Engineering
Author : Jimmy C.M. Kao
Publisher : CRC Press
Release Date : 2014-10-21
ISBN 10 : 9781315751986
Pages : 952 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (315 users)
Download or read book Green Building, Materials and Civil Engineering PDF or another Format written by Jimmy C.M. Kao and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains select green building, materials, and civil engineering papers from the 4th International Conference on Green Building, Materials and Civil Engineering (GBMCE), which was held in Hong Kong, August 21-22, 2014. This volume of proceedings aims to provide a platform for researchers, engineers, academics, and industry professionals f
Wildflower Girl
Author : Marita Conlon-McKenna
Publisher : The O'Brien Press
Release Date : 2013-08-01
ISBN 10 : 9781847176011
Pages : 176 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (847 users)
Download or read book Wildflower Girl PDF or another Format written by Marita Conlon-McKenna and published by The O'Brien Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second book in the famine trilogy At seven, Peggy made a terrifying journey through famine-stricken Ireland. Now thirteen, and determined to make a new life for herself, she sets off alone across the Atlantic to America. Will she ever see her family again? An extraordinary story of courage, independence and adventure The other books in the Famine trilogy are Under the Hawthorn Tree and Fields of Home. A study guide to Under the Hawthorn tree is also available.
Download or read book Hawthorn PDF or another Format written by Bill Vaughn and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of humankind’s oldest companions, the hawthorn tree, is bound up in the memories of every recorded age and the plot lines of cultures all across the Northern Hemisphere. Hawthorn examines the little-recognized political, cultural, and natural history of this ancient spiky plant. Used for thousands of years in the impenetrable living fences that defined the landscapes of Europe, the hawthorn eventually helped feed the class antagonism that led to widespread social upheaval. In the American Midwest, hawthorn-inspired hedges on the prairies made nineteenth-century farming economically rewarding for the first time. Later, in Normandy, mazelike hedgerows bristling with these thorns nearly cost the Allies World War II. Bill Vaughn shines light on the full scope of the tree’s influence over human events. He also explores medicinal uses of the hawthorn, the use of its fruit in the world’s first wine, and the symbolic role its spikes and flowers played in pagan beliefs and Christian iconography. As entertaining as it is illuminating, this book is the first full appreciation of the hawthorn’s abundant connections with humanity.
Fields of Home
Author : Marita Conlon-McKenna
Publisher : The O'Brien Press
Release Date : 2013-08-16
ISBN 10 : 9781847176028
Pages : 192 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (847 users)
Download or read book Fields of Home PDF or another Format written by Marita Conlon-McKenna and published by The O'Brien Press. This book was released on 2013-08-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final book in the famine trilogy For Eily, Michael and Peggy the memory of the famine is still strong. But Mary-Brigid, Eily's first child, has the future to look forward to. What kind of future is it? Ireland is in turmoil, with evictions, burnings, secret meetings, fights over land. Eily and her family may be thrown off their farm. Michael may lose his job in the big house. And Peggy, in America, feels trapped in her role as a maid. Will they ever have land and a home they can call their own? Eily, Michael and Peggy have once shown great courage. Now this courage is called on again … The other titles in the Famine trilogy are Under the Hawthorn Tree and Wildflower Girl. A study guide to Under the Hawthorn tree is also available.
Safe Harbour
Author : Marita Conlon-McKenna
Publisher : The O'Brien Press
Release Date : 2012-08-29
ISBN 10 : 9781847174628
Pages : 176 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (847 users)
Download or read book Safe Harbour PDF or another Format written by Marita Conlon-McKenna and published by The O'Brien Press. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophie and Hugh are left homeless when their house is bombed during the London Blitz. Their mother is seriously injured and their Dad is away fighting, so the children are sent to their grandfather in Ireland. Sophie is scared - they have never met grandfather but his letters cause such trouble in the house, and their Dad never speaks of him. How will they live in a strange country, with a man who probably hates them - and will the family ever be together again?
The Stone House
Author : Marita Conlon-McKenna
Publisher : Random House
Release Date : 2014-09-30
ISBN 10 : 9781446437285
Pages : 384 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (446 users)
Download or read book The Stone House PDF or another Format written by Marita Conlon-McKenna and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything changes for Kate, Moya and Romy when they receive word that Maeve Dillon, their mother, is critically ill. It is time to return from Dublin, London and New York to Rossmore and the old stone house overlooking the Irish Sea where they grew up. But ancient jealousies surface as each sister confronts the past and the decisions they have made. For work-driven Kate it is time to take stock of her role as a high-flying ambitious lawyer and single parent; life is a battle between work and looking after Molly with little time for a proper relationship. Even Patrick, the man she once fell for, has ended up marrying her sister. Beautiful and intense Moya must take a hard look at her marriage to the charming but unfaithful Patrick and consider her own worth. For wild child Romy who has travelled the world and hasn't put a foot on Irish soil for years, it is time to finally stop running and find the courage to confront her family. A good and caring mother, Maeve Dillon has somehow over the years labelled each of her three daughters: Moya the beautiful, Kate the brains, and Romy, the bold and wild one. Now it is finally time for all three to break out of the box.
Under Far Horizons - Selected Poetry of Willa Cather
Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Release Date : 2022-09-26
ISBN 10 : 9781528798433
Pages : 90 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (528 users)
Download or read book Under Far Horizons - Selected Poetry of Willa Cather PDF or another Format written by Willa Cather and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2022-09-26 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and author of O Pioneers! (1913) comes this collection of poetry, published between 1892 and 1933. Willa Cather experiments in style and theme, with many of her poems drawing from her own experiences. Willa Cather is known for her remarkable fiction, most notably her Great Plains trilogy and One of Ours (1922), a World War I novel for which she received the Pulitzer Prize in 1923. This collection of her poetry highlights Cather’s unrivalled attention to the small sensory details of everyday life. Utilising traditional Romantic language and often using abstract imagery, Cather’s poetry can be compared to the work of writers who championed the previous century. She explores different forms and styles, experimenting with sonnets, iambic pentameter, and ABAB rhyme schemes. Despite never quite finding her own distinctive voice, Cather’s poetry includes many beautiful passages. The ‘father’ of American literature and author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Mark Twain, praised Cather for her poem ‘The Palatine’, which is featured in this volume. This collection is divided into three sections: - Uncollected poems from 1892 to 1900 - April Twilights (1903) - April Twilights and Other Poems (Poems added in 1923 and 1933) With its name taken from the famous line in Cather’s autobiographical poem ‘Macon Prairie’ (1923), Under Far Horizons - Selected Poetry of Willa Cather has been proudly published by specialist poetry imprint Ragged Hand. The volume features an introductory excerpt by H. L. Mencken and would make the perfect gift for collectors of Cather’s work and those who enjoyed her marvellous novel O Pioneers! (1913).
Three Women
Author : Marita Conlon-McKenna
Publisher : Random House
Release Date : 2012-02-16
ISBN 10 : 9781446487105
Pages : 400 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (446 users)
Download or read book Three Women PDF or another Format written by Marita Conlon-McKenna and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate Cassidy is about to celebrate twenty five years of marriage to Paddy. But the secret she has kept all this time is about to be discovered. Erin Harris has always known that she is different from the rest of her family. Over the years she has begun to put the pieces together and now she has to discover who she really is and where she comes from. Nina Harris has always put her marriage and family before everything. But now she must face up to the truth as her daughter is prepared to run off and search for a woman she doesn't know. There is no escaping the past. Kate, Erin and Nina all have to come to terms with what happened so many years before, and to find their own way of dealing with it.
A Taste for Love
Author : Marita Conlon-McKenna
Publisher : Random House
Release Date : 2011-04-21
ISBN 10 : 9781409030157
Pages : 448 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (49 users)
Download or read book A Taste for Love PDF or another Format written by Marita Conlon-McKenna and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-04-21 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice loves to cook. She believes the secret of good food is to cook with passion. Her love affair with cookery has taken her from her parents' seaside hotel, to Paris and then one of Dublin's finest restaurants. Then she marries Liam, and is happy to hang up her chef's hat and cook for her family and friends instead. But now she's cooking for one! Her marriage to Liam over, it's high time she learns to stand on her own two feet and begin again... Alice opens The Martello School of Cookery and a group of total strangers learn from her to create food that is tasty and delicious. And in the comfort of her kitchen they discover, not only how to cook - but recipes for life... By the number one bestselling author of The Mother of the Bride
The Gardener's Monthly and Horticulturist
Author : Thomas Meehan
Publisher :
Release Date : 1881
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015077059288
Pages : 406 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (39 users)
Download or read book The Gardener's Monthly and Horticulturist PDF or another Format written by Thomas Meehan and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Outlets from the Hills
Author : James Hoggarth
Publisher :
Release Date : 1896
ISBN 10 : UCAL:$B119173
Pages : 200 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 ( users)
Download or read book Outlets from the Hills PDF or another Format written by James Hoggarth and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Songs for British Workmen
Author : Benjamin Gough
Publisher :
Release Date : 1876
ISBN 10 : BL:A0026170168
Pages : 168 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (2 users)
Download or read book Songs for British Workmen PDF or another Format written by Benjamin Gough and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
The Long, Long Life of Trees
Author : Fiona Stafford
Publisher : Yale University Press
Release Date : 2016-08-16
ISBN 10 : 9780300222197
Pages : 297 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (3 users)
Download or read book The Long, Long Life of Trees PDF or another Format written by Fiona Stafford and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lyrical tribute to the diversity of trees, their physical beauty, their special characteristics and uses, and their ever-evolving meanings Since the beginnings of history trees have served humankind in countless useful ways, but our relationship with trees has many dimensions beyond mere practicality. Trees are so entwined with human experience that diverse species have inspired their own stories, myths, songs, poems, paintings, and spiritual meanings. Some have achieved status as religious, cultural, or national symbols. In this beautifully illustrated volume Fiona Stafford offers intimate, detailed explorations of seventeen common trees, from ash and apple to pine, oak, cypress, and willow. The author also pays homage to particular trees, such as the fabled Ankerwyke Yew, under which Henry VIII courted Anne Boleyn, and the spectacular cherry trees of Washington, D.C. Stafford discusses practical uses of wood past and present, tree diseases and environmental threats, and trees’ potential contributions toward slowing global climate change. Brimming with unusual topics and intriguing facts, this book celebrates trees and their long, long lives as our inspiring and beloved natural companions.
