Author : Rebecca Promitzer
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 24,5 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0545170877
Bea lives in the nowhere town of Elbow. Its closest claim to fame is a giant pickle factory, owned by Herman, the Pickle King. Herman's a local celebrity--until he turns up dead. With a mystery to solve, maybe this summer won't be such a bore after all.
Author : Jacob Rajan
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,81 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780864734976
The most significant works in recent New Zealand theatre, Krishnan's Dairy, The Candlestickmaker, and The Pickle King form a loose trilogy connected by theme and theatrical style that explores three eternal questions: Will I find love? How can I find happiness? and What is worth preserving? Western theatrical traditions fuse with Indian flavors in the telling of three stories that are accessible to all cultures.
Author : Joshua Kendall
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 49,69 MB
Release : 2013-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1455502367
When most of us think of Charles Lindbergh, we picture a dashing twenty-five-year-old aviator stepping out of the Spirit of St. Louis after completing his solo flight across the Atlantic. What we don't see is the awkward high school student, who preferred ogling new gadgets at the hardware store to watching girls walk by in their summer dresses. Sure, Lindbergh's unique mindset invented the pre-flight checklist, but his obsession with order also led him to demand that his wife and three German mistresses account for all their household expenditures in detailed ledgers. Lucky Lindy is just one of several American icons whom Joshua Kendall puts on the psychologist's couch in America's Obsessives. In this fascinating look at the arc of American history through the lens of compulsive behavior, he shows how some of our nation's greatest achievements-from the Declaration of Independence to the invention of the iPhone-have roots in the disappointments and frustrations of early childhood. Starting with the obsessive natures of some of Silicon Valley's titans, including Steve Jobs, Kendall moves on to profile seven iconic figures, such as founding father Thomas Jefferson, licentious librarian Melvil Dewey, condiment kingpin H. J. Heinz, slugger Ted Williams, and Estee Lauder. This last personality was so obsessed with touching other women's faces that she transformed her compulsion into a multibillion-dollar cosmetics corporation. Entertaining and instructive, Kendall offers up a few scoops along the way: Little do most Americans know that Charles Lindbergh, under the alias Clark Kent, sired seven children with his three German "wives." As Lindbergh's daughter Reeve told Kendall, "Now I know why he was gone so much. I also understand why he was delighted when I was learning German."
Author : Paloma Fresno-Calleja
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 37,89 MB
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000702979
This book examines the global/local intersections and tensions at play in the literary production from Aotearoa New Zealand through its engagement in the global marketplace. Combining postcolonial and world literature methodologies contributors chart the global relocation of national culture from the nineteenth century to the present exploring what "New Zealand literature" means in different creative, teaching, and publishing contexts. They identify ongoing global entanglements with local identities and tensions between national and post-national literary discourses, considering Aotearoa New Zealand’s history as a white settler colony and its status as a bicultural nation and a key player in the Asia-Pacific region, active on the global stage. Topics and authors include: Stefanie Herades on colonial New Zealand literature and the global marketplace; Claudia Marquis on David Hare’s "Aotearoa series" as exotic reading for adolescents; Paloma Fresno-Calleja on the exoticizing landscape novels of Sarah Lark; James Wenley on Indian Ink Theatre company as hybrid export; Janet M. Wilson on the globalization of the New Zealand short story; Chris Prentice on pedagogic articulations of New Zealand literature; Leonie John on the challenges of teaching Māori literature in Germany; Dieter Riemenschneider on New Zealand literature at the Frankfurt Book Fair; Paula Morris on Commonwealth writers and the Booker Prize; Selina Tusitala Marsh on contemporary Pasifika poetry; and Chris Miller on the afterlife of Allen Curnow. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing.
Author : Timothy Dexter
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 47,30 MB
Release : 1848
Category : Newburyport (Mass.)
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Page : 500 pages
File Size : 11,37 MB
Release : 1869
Category : Costume
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Author : Dan Buchanan
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,25 MB
Release : 2015-07-25
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1459730771
In the 1850s, Dr. William Henry King murdered his wife and nearly got away with it. His capture, trial, and shocking execution riveted the countryside, but left questions that still linger. Now, based on original documents from witnesses, forensics, and sensational media coverage, Dan Buchanan finally lays bare the whole story of the King case.
Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 18,78 MB
Release : 2023-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
"The companions of Pickle" by Andrew Lang. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Edward Butts
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 12,40 MB
Release : 2011-01-10
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1554888468
Who committed Toronto's Silk Stocking Murder? Why did a quiet accountant in Guelph, Ontario, murder his wife and two daughters? When did police in Alberta hire a self-styled mind reader to solve a mass murder? How did an American confidence man from Arizona find himself facing a murder charge in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia? These questions and more are answered in Murder: Twelve True Stories of Homicide in Canada, the latest collection of thrilling true Canadian crime stories by Edward Butts. The keenly researched chapters tell the stories behind some of Canada's most fascinating murder cases, from colonial times to the 20th century, and from the Atlantic provinces, to the West Coast, and up to the Arctic. You'll meet John Paul Radelmuller, the Gibraltar Point lighthouse keeper whose murder remains an unsolved mystery; wife-killer Dr. William Henry King; and Sinnisiak and Uluksuk, Inuit hunters whose trial for the murder of two priests became a national sensation. Butts also profiles the investigators who tracked the killers down, and in some cases sent them to the gallows in this collection of true tales that range from shocking and macabre to downright weird.
Author : Kory Varlen
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 10,38 MB
Release : 2023-10
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0892542314
Astrologers use lunar eclipses for timing and prediction. Our birth charts reveal we belong to a heavenly family--a family of dragons, a family of galvanizing lunar eclipse patterns, many of which are ancient and have been returning for centuries. Get ready to meet your dragon family and discover life patterns unknowable by any conventional means of astrological analysis. The ancient Chinese believed that lunar eclipse occurred when a dragon ate the moon. Our birth charts reveal we belong to a heavenly family--a family of dragons, or galvanizing lunar eclipse patterns, many of which are ancient and have been returning for centuries to check up on us, their earthly kin. Get ready to meet your dragon family and discover life patterns that have been dancing you through elaborate cosmic steps heretofore unknowable by any conventional means of astrological analysis. Who wouldn't want to dance with dragons? Nothing has captured their essence more than this book. Who are these dragons? Which Dragon family do you belong to? Which Dragon owns the Astrological DNA of your soul? How are Dragons influencing your life? If you're looking for a precision instrument that is useful, reliable and will function 100 percent of the time, the forty-seven families of lunar eclipses outlined in this book have quite the stories to tell. Some are ancient, some are new, and some have yet to be born. But they each have the power to illuminate your sphere of influence. We all want to fulfill the highest, truest expression of ourselves as human beings and a knowledge of how these Lunar Saros Series eclipses work shines a special quality of light upon our personality and our pathway through the world. You will see how the eclipses have impacted lives and brought fame, fortune and sometimes despair. The author's captivating humor takes the technical astrological data and makes it interesting to even those who are not astrology buffs. Every Astrologer needs this book. It is as essential as the Ephemerides. It will make your practice come alive in ways you have never experienced.
