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Red Shoes

Mandala Trilogy 2

by Carmel Bird ...

Series Book 87 - Untapped
Petra Penfold-Knight is the leader of a religious cult. Many join because of the persuasive charm of privileged Petra. But not all. Some ‘members’ are babies stolen from their unmarried mothers.Red Shoes—so-called because the wearing of them is a mark of membership —could have been a straightforward thriller or suspense novel. It’s not. Carmel Bird has Petra’s guardian angel tell the story. And ... Read more

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Petra Penfold-Knight is the leader of a religious cult. Many join because of the persuasive charm of privileged Petra. But not all. Some ‘members’ are babies stolen from their unmarried mothers.Red Shoes—so-called because the wearing of them is a mark of membership —could have been a straightforward thriller or suspense novel. It’s not. Carmel Bird has Petra’s guardian angel tell the story. And
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The White Garden

Mandala Trilogy 1

by Carmel Bird ...

Series Book 86 - Untapped
‘It is an intensely emotional experience to read The White Garden; although an intensely aesthetic one as well. Dr. Ambrose Goddard is a psychologist who sadistically abuses his patients. (He is based on a real-life Australian case of about a generation ago). His air of superiority and professional know-how masks a desperate and seemingly imperturbable desire to control others, especially young ... Read more

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‘It is an intensely emotional experience to read The White Garden; although an intensely aesthetic one as well. Dr. Ambrose Goddard is a psychologist who sadistically abuses his patients. (He is based on a real-life Australian case of about a generation ago). His air of superiority and professional know-how masks a desperate and seemingly imperturbable desire to control others, especially young
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Cape Grimm

Mandala Trilogy 3

by Carmel Bird ...

Series Book 88 - Untapped
Caleb Mean is born into a religious community in remote north-west Tasmania and grows up believing he is the Chosen One. On his 33rd birthday, he commits a terrible, destructive act: but why?First published in 2004, Cape Grimm concludes award-winning author Carmel Bird’s compelling Mandala trilogy, which examines the dark danger of charismatic leaders.Novelist, essayist and non-fiction writer ... Read more

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Caleb Mean is born into a religious community in remote north-west Tasmania and grows up believing he is the Chosen One. On his 33rd birthday, he commits a terrible, destructive act: but why?First published in 2004, Cape Grimm concludes award-winning author Carmel Bird’s compelling Mandala trilogy, which examines the dark danger of charismatic leaders.Novelist, essayist and non-fiction writer
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A Little Book of Happiness

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‘To find happiness, look halfway between too little and too much.’—Ruskin Bond• Why be happy and how, and why not to worry if you think you are not.• Why it is easy to be happy, and how you can miss happiness even if it stands before you.• How a bird can fill you with joy and how a stranger’s smile can soothe you.• Why happiness may not even be the word for what we really need.I... ... Read more

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‘To find happiness, look halfway between too little and too much.’—Ruskin Bond• Why be happy and how, and why not to worry if you think you are not.• Why it is easy to be happy, and how you can miss happiness even if it stands before you.• How a bird can fill you with joy and how a stranger’s smile can soothe you.• Why happiness may not even be the word for what we really need.I...
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The Art Of Life

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In The Art of Life Paul Durcan takes us around County Mayo in his "filthy, two-door, bottle-green Opel Astra", stopping off at Westport and Achill Island, where he declares himself to be "globally sad", but "locally glad". Next he travels east to Dublin to hold in his arms his newborn granddaughter and thence to Tuscany, Poland and Japan. Along the way he reflects upon parental pride, the aches ... Read more

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In The Art of Life Paul Durcan takes us around County Mayo in his "filthy, two-door, bottle-green Opel Astra", stopping off at Westport and Achill Island, where he declares himself to be "globally sad", but "locally glad". Next he travels east to Dublin to hold in his arms his newborn granddaughter and thence to Tuscany, Poland and Japan. Along the way he reflects upon parental pride, the aches
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Country Girl

A Memoir

by Edna O'Brien ...

"Country Girl is Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her dashing, barrier-busting, up-and-down life."-National Public RadioWhen Edna O'Brien's first novel, The Country Girls, was published in 1960, it so scandalized the O'Briens' local parish that the book was burned by its priest. O'Brien was undeterred and has since created a body of work that bears comparison with the best writing of the ... Read more

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"Country Girl is Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her dashing, barrier-busting, up-and-down life."-National Public RadioWhen Edna O'Brien's first novel, The Country Girls, was published in 1960, it so scandalized the O'Briens' local parish that the book was burned by its priest. O'Brien was undeterred and has since created a body of work that bears comparison with the best writing of the
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Isla Negra

by Clark M. Zlotchew, Maria Jacketti, Pablo Neruda, Dennis Maloney ...

Series series White Pine Poetry Prize
Few writers are as integrally bound to a place as Pablo Neruda was to the landscape of Isla Negra on Chile’s coast. From his arrival there in the late 1930s to his death in 1973, Neruda captured Isla Negra in images fundamental to an understanding of his work. It was, according to Martin Espada, at Isla Negra where Neruda "in the company of his muse, walked alongside the source of his most lyrical ... Read more

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Few writers are as integrally bound to a place as Pablo Neruda was to the landscape of Isla Negra on Chile’s coast. From his arrival there in the late 1930s to his death in 1973, Neruda captured Isla Negra in images fundamental to an understanding of his work. It was, according to Martin Espada, at Isla Negra where Neruda "in the company of his muse, walked alongside the source of his most lyrical
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The House by the Sea

A Journal

by May Sarton ...

The author and poet's graceful elegy about life, love, work, and growing older: "The most moving and the most thoughtful [of her] journal-memoirs" ( The Plain Dealer, Cleveland).When May Sarton uprooted her life after fifteen years in the refurbished New Hampshire house with the garden she tended so lovingly, she relied solely on instinct. And something told her it was time to move on. Accompanied ... Read more

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The author and poet's graceful elegy about life, love, work, and growing older: "The most moving and the most thoughtful [of her] journal-memoirs" ( The Plain Dealer, Cleveland).When May Sarton uprooted her life after fifteen years in the refurbished New Hampshire house with the garden she tended so lovingly, she relied solely on instinct. And something told her it was time to move on. Accompanied
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The Stories of John Cheever (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

by John Cheever ...

Series series Vintage International
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A seminal collection from one of the true masters of the short story. Spanning the duration of Cheever’s long and distinguished career, these sixty-one stories chronicle and encapsulate the lives of what has been called “the greatest generation.”From the early wonder and disillusionment of city life in “The Enormous Radio” to the surprising discoveries ... Read more

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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A seminal collection from one of the true masters of the short story. Spanning the duration of Cheever’s long and distinguished career, these sixty-one stories chronicle and encapsulate the lives of what has been called “the greatest generation.”From the early wonder and disillusionment of city life in “The Enormous Radio” to the surprising discoveries
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At Seventy

A Journal

by May Sarton ...

Winner of the American Book Award: May Sarton's honest and engrossing journal of her seventieth year, spent living and working on the Maine coast.May Sarton's journals are a captivating look at a rich artistic life. In this, her ode to aging, she savors the daily pleasures of tending to her garden, caring for her dogs, and entertaining guests at her beloved Maine home by the sea. Her reminiscences ... Read more

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Winner of the American Book Award: May Sarton's honest and engrossing journal of her seventieth year, spent living and working on the Maine coast.May Sarton's journals are a captivating look at a rich artistic life. In this, her ode to aging, she savors the daily pleasures of tending to her garden, caring for her dogs, and entertaining guests at her beloved Maine home by the sea. Her reminiscences
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Inside the Wave

COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017

by Helen Dunmore ...

COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017Winner of the 2017 Costa Poetry Award.To be alive is to be inside the wave, always travelling until it breaks and is gone. These poems are concerned with the borderline between the living and the dead – the underworld and the human living world – and the exquisitely intense being of both. They possess a spare, eloquent lyricism as they explore the bliss and anguish of ... Read more

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COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017Winner of the 2017 Costa Poetry Award.To be alive is to be inside the wave, always travelling until it breaks and is gone. These poems are concerned with the borderline between the living and the dead – the underworld and the human living world – and the exquisitely intense being of both. They possess a spare, eloquent lyricism as they explore the bliss and anguish of
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

by GP Editors, Pablo Neruda ...

First published in 1924, ‘Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair’ is a collection of romantic poems by Pablo Neruda, a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.This became Neruda’s most popular book and immediately established his reputation. It also became one of the most widely read collections of poetry written in Spanish. The book stands as an ... Read more

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First published in 1924, ‘Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair’ is a collection of romantic poems by Pablo Neruda, a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.This became Neruda’s most popular book and immediately established his reputation. It also became one of the most widely read collections of poetry written in Spanish. The book stands as an
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