The Year Of The Goat

Author : Margaret Hathaway
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 168475075X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Year of the Goat written by Margaret Hathaway and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people dream of leaving the workaday world for a life of simplicity and freedom, and Margaret Hathaway and her then-boyfriend Karl did just that. In The Year of the Goat, the reader can jump in the “goat mobile” with them as they ditch their big-city lifestyle to trek across forty-three states in search of greener pastures and the perfect goat cheese. Along the way, the reader is introduced to a vivid cast of characters—including farmers, breeders, cheese makers, and world-class chefs—and discovers everything there is to know about goats and getting back to the land. But readers beware: When it comes to goat cheese, it can be love at first bite.

Author : Nigel Suckling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780760738139
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Year of the Goat written by Nigel Suckling and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312420277
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Feast of the Goat written by Mario Vargas Llosa and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-11-09 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic - and finds herself reliving the events of l961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of three million. Rafael Trujillo, the depraved ailing dictator whom Dominicans call the Goat, controls his inner circle with a combination of violence and blackmail. In Trujillo's gaudy palace, treachery and cowardice have become a way of life. But Trujillo's grasp is slipping. There is a conspiracy against him, and a Machiavellian revolution already underway that will have bloody consequences of its own. In this 'masterpiece of Latin American and world literature, and one of the finest political novels ever written' (Bookforum), Mario Vargas Llosa recounts the end of a regime and the birth of a terrible democracy, giving voice to the historical Trujillo and the victims, both innocent and complicit, drawn into his deadly orbit.

Author : Nigel Suckling
Publisher : Friedman/Fairfax
ISBN 13 : 9780760738146
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Year of the Goat written by Nigel Suckling and published by Friedman/Fairfax. This book was released on 2002-12-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 2003: the Year of the Goat! Celebrate the occasion with this gorgeously illustrated guide that honors the goat's influence throughout China's mystical past. The enlightening collection covers everything from the animal's earliest appearance in classical literature and folktales right up to its place in contemporary Chinese astrology. Along with an illuminating interpretation of what the goat symbolizes in Chinese society, there's a comprehensive profile of people born under the sign--who are very often highly creative and artistically talented. They'll see how they should approach compatible and incompatible signs, trace conflicts within their chart, and find new strategies for dealing with strengths and weakness. Discover how the elements--wood, fire, earth, metal, and water--have influenced the basic sign, too. Beautiful to look at and engrossing to read, this is a book that even non-Goats will enjoy owning!

Author : Leanne Lauricella
Publisher : Rock Point Gift & Stationery
ISBN 13 : 1631062859
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Goats of Anarchy written by Leanne Lauricella and published by Rock Point Gift & Stationery. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the book Goats of Anarchy, Leanne shares adorable photos of her goats with descriptions of their personalities, touching rescue stories, and funny anecdotes about their antics.

Author : Patricia Polacco
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442498676
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trees of the Dancing Goats written by Patricia Polacco and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trisha loves the eight days of Hanukkah, when her mother stays home from work, her Babushka makes delicious potato latkes, and her Grampa carves wonderful animals out of wood as gifts for Trisha and her brother. In the middle of her family's preparation for the festival of lights, Trisha visits her closest neighbors, expecting to find them decorating their house for Christmas. Instead they are all bedridden with scarlet fever. Trisha's family is one of the few who has been spared from the epidemic. It is difficult for them to enjoy their Hanukkah feast when they know that their neighbors won't be able to celebrate their holiday. Then Grampa has an inspiration: they will cut down trees, decorate them, and secretly deliver them to the neighbors, "But what can we decorate them with?" Babushka asks. Although it is a sacrifice, Trisha realizes that Grampa's carved animals are the perfect answer. Soon her living room is filled with trees -- but that is only the first miracle of many during an incredible holiday season. Based on a long cherished childhood memory, this story celebrates the miracle of true friendship.

Author : Roger Lichtenberg Simon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781081887834
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Goat written by Roger Lichtenberg Simon and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whatever happened to Dan Gelber - the divorced screenwriter who journeyed to Nepal in his seventies only to plunge to his death off of Mt. Everest?And just who is Jay Reynolds - the mysterious twenty-year-old tennis prodigy who appears out of nowhere to battle Rafael Nadal at the French Open and Roger Federer at Wimbledon and become the new hope of American tennis, possibly "the greatest of all time."Award-winning mystery writer (Moses Wine series) and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter ("Enemies, A Love Story," "The Big Fix". "Bustin' Loose,"), Roger L. Simon answers these questions and more in THE GOAT, his first standalone novel in years. If you love sports, if you love life, if you'd like a second life, this book - funny, touching and sometimes scary, already talked about as the greatest novel about tennis ever written - is a page-turning, can't-put-down must.Called the greatest mystery writer of his generation by Ross Macdonald (Lew Archer) and Nicholas Meyer ("The Seven Percent Solution") Roger L. Simon has won or been nominated for multiple awards for his fiction by the Crime Writers of Great Britain and the Mystery Writers of America. As a screenwriter, he has received an Oscar nomination for his adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer's "Enemies, A Love Story" and written for such stars as Richard Pryor, Richard Dreyfuss and Angelica Huston. Also a journalist and columnist, Simon has written for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Real Clear Politics, among many others. He appears frequently as a commentator on talk radio and cable TV.What others have said about Roger L. Simon's work: "The writing, as always in Moses Wine books, is sharp, amusing, and sophisticated." New York Times Book Review"Simon's new novel about Moses Wine tops his prize-winning The Big Fix and The Straight Man." Publisher's Weekly"Roger Simon writes with humor and real energy. Nobody around is better at caricature." San Jose Mercury News"... he can be genuinely funny and, at times, even sensitive and touching." Washington Post Book World"Simon is a brilliant, classy writer..." CosmopollitanFor more on Simon, consult www.rogerlsimon.com. But first, order and read THE GOAT - a riveting and rollicking Faust story for our time.

Author : Anne Fleming
Publisher : Pushkin Press
ISBN 13 : 1782692134
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Goat written by Anne Fleming and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A kid named Kid, a dog named Cat, and a goat on a roof A blind skateboarding writer, an old man who can't speak (and his wife), a smartly dressed non-hamster-owner, plus Kid and her parents, are all apparently sharing their Manhattan apartment building with a mountain goat. But in all the wonders and marvels of New York City, who has time to see this impossible goat? How did the goat even get there? And is the goat really capable of something a little like magic? In this tender and hilarious tale of a misplaced animal, a road trip, and a Broadway show, neighbours who were previously strangers may find the goat is just what they needed... ANNE FLEMING is the author of Pool-Hopping and Other Stories (shortlisted for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, the Danuta Gleed Award and the Governor General's Award), Anomaly and Gay Dwarves of America. She is a long-time and highly regarded teacher of creative writing who has taught at the University of British Columbia, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Douglas College, Kwantlen University College and the Banff Centre for the Arts. The Goat is her first full-length work for young readers. Anne lives in Vancouver.

Author : Patricia Polacco
Publisher : Philomel
ISBN 13 : 9780399245305
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book G Is for Goat written by Patricia Polacco and published by Philomel. This book was released on 2007-06-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rhyming celebration of goats and their antics, from A to Z. On board pages.

Author : Perumal Murugan
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802147526
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of a Goat written by Perumal Murugan and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fantastical . . . Through the thoughts of a rare black goat and the couple who adopt it, readers witness famines, death, and moments of beauty.” —National Geographic Longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature As he did in the award-winning One Part Woman, Perumal Murugan explores a side of India that is rarely considered in the West: the rural lives of the country’s farming community. He paints a bucolic yet sometimes menacing portrait, showing movingly how danger and deception can threaten the lives of the weakest through the story of a helpless young animal lost in a world it naively misunderstands. As the novel opens, a mysterious stranger offers a farmer in Tamil Nadu a black goat kid who is the runt of the litter, surely too frail to survive. The farmer and his wife take care of the young she-goat, whom they name Poonachi, and soon the little goat is bounding with joy and growing at a rate they think miraculous for such a small animal. Intoxicating passages from the goat’s perspective offer a bawdy and earthy view of what it means to be an animal and a refreshing portrayal of the natural world. But Poonachi’s life is not destined to be a rural idyll—dangers can lurk around every corner, and may sometimes come from surprising places, including a government that is supposed to protect the weak and needy. Is this little goat too humble a creature to survive such a hostile world? “The title character of Murugan’s elegant new novel is indeed a joy . . . through Poonachi’s tale we are reminded how much bonds us with the animal world.” —USA Today