As Meat Loves Salt
Title | As Meat Loves Salt PDF eBook |
Author | Maria McCann |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | 548 |
Release | 2011-04-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0007394446 |
A sensational tale of obsession and murder from a wonderful writer. ‘An outstanding novel, fresh and unusual [with] all the dirt, stink, rasp and flavour of the time.’ Daily Telegraph
The Way Meat Loves Salt
Title | The Way Meat Loves Salt PDF eBook |
Author | Nina Jaffe |
Publisher | Henry Holt and Company (BYR) |
Total Pages | 43 |
Release | 2016-08-02 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1250131251 |
Many years ago in Poland, there lived a rabbi who had a wife and three daughters. One day, the rabbi asks his children a powerful question: "How much do you love me?" His older daughters profess their love in gold and diamonds, but his youngest daughter, Mireleh, declares she loves her father the way meat loves salt. For this remark, she is banished from her father's home. In this flavorful Jewish Cinderella tale, Mireleh's courageous journey is peppered with a perfect blend of magic and romance, leading to a reconciliation with her beloved father. Lavishly illustrated in Louise August's bold linocuts, The Way Meat Loves Salt will make a wonderful gift for the Jewish holidays.
English Passengers
Title | English Passengers PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Kneale |
Publisher | Anchor Canada |
Total Pages | 465 |
Release | 2011-02-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0385673698 |
Narrated by over twenty distinct voices and full of dangerous humour, English Passengers combines wit, adventure and historical detail in a mesmerizing display of storytelling. When Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley and his band of smugglers have their contraband confiscated they are forced to put their ship, Sincerity, up for charter. The only takers are two Englishmen, the Reverend Geoffrey Wilson, who believes that the Garden of Eden was on the island of Tasmania, and Dr. Thomas Potter who is developing his sinister thesis concerning the races of man. Meanwhile an aboriginal in Tasmania, Peevay, recounts his people's struggles against the invading British. As the English passengers haplessly approach his land, their bizarre notions ever more painfully at odds with reality, we know a mighty collision is looming.
Ace, King, Knave
Title | Ace, King, Knave PDF eBook |
Author | Maria McCann |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Interpersonal relations |
ISBN | 9780571297627 |
Sophia - rational, demure, and hiding a 'little weakness' - has recently married the charismatic Edward. But Edward has secrets of his own and Sophia comes to suspect that her marriage is not what it seems. In cramped rooms in Covent Garden, Betsy-Ann shuffles a pack of cards. A gambler, dealer in second-hand goods and living with a grave robber, her life could not be more different to Sophia's - but she too discovers that she's been lied to. As both women take steps to discover the truth, their lives come together through a dramatic series of events.
Beef
Title | Beef PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Rimas |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Total Pages | 258 |
Release | 2008-09-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0061353841 |
Describes the importance of cattle throughout history as well as the state of the beef industry in the twenty-first century.
The Wilding
Title | The Wilding PDF eBook |
Author | Maria McCann |
Publisher | Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | 354 |
Release | 2010-02-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0571253148 |
A novel of secrets and revenge within a 17th century English family. Longlisted for the Orange Prize 1672. A generation after the Civil War, Jonathan Dymond, a cider maker, has so far enjoyed a quiet life. But when he discovers a letter from his dying uncle, hinting an inheritance and revenge, he is determined to unravel the mystery in his family. Under the pretence of his cider business, Jonathan visits his newly widowed aunt and there meets her unruly servant girl, Tamar, who soon reveals that she has secrets of her own...
The Advocate
Title | The Advocate PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 72 |
Release | 2003-02-04 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.