The Bird in the Tree


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An impossible choice . . . and a lifetime of care and nurture could vanish in a moment. Matriarch of the family, Lucilla has spent a lifetime making the Hampshire estate of Damerosehay a haven for the Eliots. When her favorite grandson, David, falls in love with a woman who belongs to another, Lucilla sees her most cherished ambitions put at risk. But can she persuade David and Nadine to put duty before love?




The Bird in the Tree


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About a family who lives in an 18th-century house at Damerosehay on the Hampshire coast.




The Short Tree and the Bird that Could Not Sing


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Long on charmconsiderable entertainment value.--Seattle Times




Have You Heard the Nesting Bird?


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In this nonfiction picture book for young readers, we learn just why the mother nesting bird stays quiet and still while sitting on her eggs. Shh. . . .




Waiting on the Word


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For every day from Advent Sunday to Christmas Day and beyond, the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses a favourite poem from across the Christian spiritual and English literary traditions and offers incisive seasonal reflections on it. A scholar of poetry as well as a renowned poet himself, his knowledge is deep and wide and he offers readers a soul-food feast for Advent. Among the classic writers he includes are: George Herbert, John Donne, Milton, Tennyson,and Christina Rossetti,as well as contemporary poets like Scott Cairns, Luci Shaw, and Grevel Lindop. He also includes a selection of his own highly praised work.




The Bird and the Tree


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A children's entertaining short story about compassion for animals and appreciation of wild life and its freedom. It tells a story about a young boy who takes care of an injured bird. With guidance from his mom, he brings back the bird to health and recognizes that the bird's place is in nature and not in a cage inside the house. The story has an Arabic language version following the English version for young learners of the Arabic language.




The Humming-bird Tree


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"Alan was too young to understand why his parents preferred him to play with the other white boys on the estate. But gradually, he learned that if he was going to meet Kaiser and Jaillin, he had to pretend he was going to meet someone else, he had to pretend he didn't enjoy spending time with his friends, he had to pretend he didn't mind when he wasn't allowed to invite them to his party. Sometimes, horribly, the pretending became real, and Alan found himself in betrayal of the friendship that meant so much to him."--Goodreads.




Night Tree


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A family makes its annual pilgrimage to decorate an evergreen tree with food for the forest animals at Christmastime.




A Bird in a Nest in a Tree


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Provides an introduction to the basic concept of nouns by showing simple nouns, indicated by bold type, being used in sentences.




The Day I Became a Bird


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What will a boy do for love? The day he starts school, a young boy falls in love for the very first time. He’s so in love, in fact, that Sylvia is all he can see. But Sylvia doesn’t see him. Sylvia has eyes only for birds. So in a bold gesture to get her attention, the boy goes to school dressed up as a bird. It isn’t easy, but he doesn’t care. When your heart takes flight, playing it safe is for the birds!