The Forgotten Farm
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Publisher :
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 28,89 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Black Mountains (Wales and England)
ISBN : 9780955361852
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 28,89 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Black Mountains (Wales and England)
ISBN : 9780955361852
Author : Thomas Debrisay
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 12,40 MB
Release : 2016-11-19
Category :
ISBN : 9781540443694
Join Jasper, his wife, Norah, and the plethora of talking (and squabbling) animals that live on The Forgotten Farm, where there is never a dull moment. What with Jasper's forgetfulness, his runaway cart, market day antics, the village fair, nosey authority figures, and a tractor that's well passed its sell-by-date, you'll find adventure and entertainment at every turn. Follow fox's unlikely (but lovely) friendship with the goat, discover how tricky it is for a homeless kitten to find a safe haven, find out why piglets shouldn't climb trees and learn that competitiveness isn't just for humans. Every story will have you hooting with laughter. Traditional children's fiction at its best, this is a colourful mix of nine stories - all of which are linked by a common plot - and a few poems thrown in for good measure. And whether you're 5 or 95, you will find something that tickles your funny bone all the way from beginning to end.
Author : David Hill
Publisher : Atlantic Books
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 24,39 MB
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1760638773
In 1959 David Hill's mother - a poor single parent living in Sussex - reluctantly decided to send her sons to Fairbridge Farm School in Australia where, she was led to believe, they would have a good education and a better life. David was lucky - his mother was able to follow him out to Australia - but for most children, the reality was shockingly different. From 1938 to 1974 thousands of parents were persuaded to sign over legal guardianship of their children to Fairbridge to solve the problem of child poverty in Britain while populating the colony. Now many of those children have decided to speak out. Physical and sexual abuse was not uncommon. Loneliness was rife. Food was often inedible. The standard of education was appalling. Here, for the first time, is the story of the lives of the Fairbridge children, from the bizarre luxury of the voyage out to Australia to the harsh reality of the first days there; from the crushing daily routine to stolen moments of freedom and the struggle that defined life after leaving the school. This remarkable book is both a tribute to the children who were betrayed by an ideal that went terribly awry and a fascinating account of an extraordinary episode in British history.
Author : C. S. Manegold
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 21,77 MB
Release : 2009-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1400831814
The untold story of how colonial New England was built on the Atlantic slave trade Ten Hills Farm tells the powerful saga of five generations of slave owners in colonial New England. Settled in 1630 by John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Ten Hills Farm, a six-hundred-acre estate just north of Boston, passed from the Winthrops to the Ushers, to the Royalls—all prominent dynasties tied to the Native American and Atlantic slave trades. In this mesmerizing narrative, C. S. Manegold exposes how the fortunes of these families—and the fate of Ten Hills Farm—were bound to America’s most tragic and tainted legacy. Manegold follows the compelling tale from the early seventeenth to the early twenty-first century, from New England, through the South, to the sprawling slave plantations of the Caribbean. John Winthrop, famous for envisioning his "city on the hill" and lauded as a paragon of justice, owned slaves on that ground and passed the first law in North America condoning slavery. Each successive owner of Ten Hills Farm—from John Usher, who was born into money, to Isaac Royall, who began as a humble carpenter’s son and made his fortune in Antigua—would depend upon slavery’s profits until the 1780s, when Massachusetts abolished the practice. In time, the land became a city, its questionable past discreetly buried, until now. Challenging received ideas about America and the Atlantic world, Ten Hills Farm digs deep to bring the story of slavery in the North full circle—from concealment to recovery.
Author : Erin French
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,94 MB
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0553448439
An evocative, gorgeous four-season look at cooking in Maine, with 100 recipes No one can bring small-town America to life better than a native. Erin French grew up in Freedom, Maine (population 719), helping her father at the griddle in his diner. An entirely self-taught cook who used cookbooks to form her culinary education, she now helms her restaurant, The Lost Kitchen, in a historic mill in the same town, creating meals that draw locals and visitors from around the world to a dining room that feels like an extension of her home kitchen. The food has been called “brilliant in its simplicity and honesty” by Food & Wine, and it is exactly this pure approach that makes Erin’s cooking so appealing—and so easy to embrace at home. This stunning giftable package features a vellum jacket over a printed cover.
Author : Gus Leodas
Publisher : AmazonCreateSpace/Gus Leodas
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 34,10 MB
Release : 2014-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1499664451
A Romance Mystery - Harry Stone begs his investigator friend Mitchell Pappas to help him solve a personal crisis because he does not want the police involved. Harry needs to protect his family dilemma from public exposure. After Harry explains the problem, Mitchell needs to help, but has no idea where to begin to find a solution to the baffling mystery. He searches for answers that hide in the Cayman Islands, Florida, England, Switzerland, Egypt, and Greece. Mitchell and Harry are in constant life-threatening danger as they travel in a world of lies and deception from unexpected sources to lead to the solution and dramatic conclusion. Along the way, and surprisingly, they find that the answers lie within classical Plato's writings.
Author : Gus Leodas
Publisher : Gus Leodas/CreateSpace
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 36,43 MB
Release : 2014-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1494935945
Madge's husband and daughter share secrets that exclude her. Exempt from the family mystery she is an outcast, ignored, and treated as nothing more than a household item, a part of the furniture, and a houseplant thirsty for water. Madge's Kiley's daughter is on trial for killing her rapist in self-defense. Madge's husband is a United States senator. The daughter's truth will destroy the senator's career and send the daughter to prison. Her lawyer abandons her trial. The daughter's new attorney asks Mitchell Pappas to help with a case filled with obsessive love and hate that surge the plot to its unexpected conclusion.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
Publisher :
Page : 1010 pages
File Size : 15,36 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Migrant labor
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Author : United States. Congress Senate
Publisher :
Page : 2350 pages
File Size : 15,16 MB
Release : 1961
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ISBN :
Author : Ben Freeth MBE
Publisher : Monarch Books
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 26,55 MB
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0857214837
Ben Freeth established his credentials to write on this topic through his courageous and successful resistance to the bullying tactics employed by the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe to throw him and his family off their land, a story told in Mugabe and the White African. He now throws his net wider to ask: what response should Christians make to corruption and injustice when perpetrated by governments? Justice is a fundamental aspect of the Judeo-Christian faith. Ben explores this theme through his own experience of government oppression in Zimbabwe, and through contemporary instances where Christians have ' or have not ' stood up to be counted. He considers the Biblical injunction to obey your rulers, and examines the issues of fear and complacency: sometimes Christians are compromised by their relationship with the ruling group. What is our duty? Most Christians feel powerless. What can we actually do, as individuals, and as a group?