A Good Year For The Roses

Author : Amanda J Field
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1911105566
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Good Year for the Roses written by Amanda J Field and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derek doesn’t have much going for him. He only puts up with the long hours minding his brother’s strawberry stall because at night he can become a different person... calling himself ‘Hank’, donning a Stetson and fronting a country-and-western band. Derek has modelled his voice on that of his idol, Nashville star George Jones, and fantasizes that one day he might fl y to the United States of America to see him sing at the Grand Ole Opry. But with a council house, four kids and no money it seems like an impossible dream. Taking a break one hot summer’s day in the forest opposite the strawberry stall, Derek overhears something that will put him in grave danger; something that will bind him to a man he has never even met.

Author : Gil McNeil
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1401330703
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Good Year for the Roses written by Gil McNeil and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life hasn't been a bed of roses for Londoner Molly Taylor lately. Newly divorced and struggling to find a new home and a way to support her three boys, she's stunned when her beloved Aunt Helena dies and leaves her Harrington Hall, a three-hundred-year-old manor house on the Devon coast, where Molly grew up. But does Molly really want to run a bed-and-breakfast in an old house where the only thing that doesn't need urgent attention is Aunt Helena's beautiful rose garden? Or care for Uncle Bertie, an eccentric former navy officer with a cliff-top cannon? Or Betty, his rude parrot that bites whomever annoys it? Yet Molly's best friend Lola is all for the plan. "My heart bleeds. Your very own beach, the beautiful house, and Helena's garden. All you have to do is grill a bit of bacon." But with Molly's conniving brother running the family hotel nearby, the return of a high school flame with ulterior motives, and three sons whose idea of a new country life seems to involve vast quantities of mud, this is not going to be easy. And then Harrington Hall begins to work its magic, and the roses start to bloom... Warm, witty, and chock-full of quintessential British charm, A GOOD YEAR FOR THE ROSES is a story for anyone who has ever dreamed of starting over...with or without bacon.

Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593083377
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orwell's Roses written by Rebecca Solnit and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography “An exhilarating romp through Orwell’s life and times and also through the life and times of roses.” —Margaret Atwood “A captivating account of Orwell as gardener, lover, parent, and endlessly curious thinker.” —Claire Messud, Harper's “Nobody who reads it will ever think of Nineteen Eighty-Four in quite the same way.” —Vogue A lush exploration of politics, roses, and pleasure, and a fresh take on George Orwell as an avid gardener whose political writing was grounded by his passion for the natural world “In the spring of 1936, a writer planted roses.” So be-gins Rebecca Solnit’s new book, a reflection on George Orwell’s passionate gardening and the way that his involvement with plants, particularly flowers, illuminates his other commitments as a writer and antifascist, and on the intertwined politics of nature and power. Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the roses he reportedly planted in 1936, Solnit’s account of this overlooked aspect of Orwell’s life journeys through his writing and his actions—from going deep into the coal mines of England, fighting in the Spanish Civil War, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left) to his analysis of the relationship between lies and authoritarianism. Through Solnit’s celebrated ability to draw unexpected connections, readers are drawn onward from Orwell‘s own work as a writer and gardener to encounter photographer Tina Modotti’s roses and her politics, agriculture and illusion in the USSR of his time with forcing lemons to grow in impossibly cold conditions, Orwell’s slave-owning ancestors in Jamaica, Jamaica Kincaid’s examination of colonialism and imperialism in the flower garden, and the brutal rose industry in Colombia that supplies the American market. The book draws to a close with a rereading of Nineteen Eighty-Four that completes Solnit’s portrait of a more hopeful Orwell, as well as offering a meditation on pleasure, beauty, and joy as acts of resistance.

Author : Amanda J Field
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1911105574
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Good Year for the Roses written by Amanda J Field and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derek doesn't have much going for him. He only puts up with the long hours minding his brother's strawberry stall because at night he can become a different person... calling himself ‘Hank’, donning a Stetson and fronting a country-and-western band. Derek has modelled his voice on that of his idol, Nashville star George Jones, and fantasizes that one day he might fl y to the United States of America to see him sing at the Grand Ole Opry. But with a council house, four kids and no money it seems like an impossible dream. Taking a break one hot summer’s day in the forest opposite the strawberry stall, Derek overhears something that will put him in grave danger; something that will bind him to a man he has never even met.

Author : Julie Garwood
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 067187098X
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book For the Roses written by Julie Garwood and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1996-02 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1860s New York, an abandoned baby girl is found by four boys and they adopt her. In time, the boys start a ranch in Montana and she grows up to be a beautiful woman. One day there arrives at the ranch a handsome Scottish lawyer, looking for an English lord's daughter kidnaped two decades earlier. By the author of Prince Charming.

Author : Rose Marie
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813133294
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hold the Roses written by Rose Marie and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen Scanniello
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Inc
ISBN 13 : 1591862485
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Year of Roses written by Stephen Scanniello and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2006 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rosarian of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's celebrated Cranford Rose Garden, has put his year-round advice into a book, charting month to month the tasks necessary to keep roses healthy and beautiful. Color photos.

Author : Lisa Wingate
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593438523
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tending Roses written by Lisa Wingate and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Friends and Before We Were Yours comes a heartfelt novel about the bonds of family and the power of second chances. When Kate Bowman temporarily moves to her grandmother’s Missouri farm with her husband and baby son, she learns that the lessons that most enrich our lives often come unexpectedly. The family has given Kate the job of convincing Grandma Rose, who’s become increasingly stubborn and forgetful, to move off her beloved land and into a nursing home. But Kate knows such a change would break her grandmother’s heart. Just when Kate despairs of finding answers, she discovers her grandma’s journal. A beautiful handmade notebook, it is full of stories that celebrate the importance of family, friendship, and faith. Stories that make Kate see her life—and her grandmother—in a completely new way....

Author : George Jones
Publisher : Dell
ISBN 13 : 0804180865
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Lived to Tell It All written by George Jones and published by Dell. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boozing. Womanizing. Brawling. Singing. For the last forty years George Jones has reigned as the country's king--the singer many have called the Frank Sinatra of country. And for most of that time, his career has been marked by hard-living, hard-loving, and hard luck. From his early east Texas recordings through his marriage with Tammy Wynette to his latest acclaim as a solid citizen and "high-tech red-neck," Americans have been fascinated with Jones, never even knowing whether he's going to show up for his next concert. Now, in I Lived To Tell It All, George Jones supplies a no-holds-barred account of his excesses and ecstasies. How alcohol ruled his life and performances. How violence marred many friendships and relationships. How money was something to be made but never held on to. And, finally, how the love of a good woman can ultimately change a man, redeem him, and save his life.

Author : Mark Timlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780552133340
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Good Year for the Roses written by Mark Timlin and published by . This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: