Meadowlands

A compelling first novel which centres on a young woman and the emotional legacy left by her father's death; two widows, his mistress and his wife. Charissa finds herself torn between the two.At 25 yrs, Charissa has her life under control - until ...

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Explores the New Jersey swamp area called the Hackensack Meadowlands, describing its history of pollution, wildlife, abandoned construction projects, criminal activity, and hidden natural beauty.

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_________________ 'BRITAIN'S FINEST LIVING NATURE WRITER' - THE TIMES WINNER OF THE THWAITES WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2015 What really goes on in the long grass? Meadowland gives an unique and intimate account of an English meadows life fro...

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August, 1914. The silver wedding celebrations of Sir George Barsham, MP, and his wife, Lady Adelaide, are overshadowed by the declaration of war with Germany. Over the following months, as the male estate workers head for the Front and the maids d...

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The comfortable, upper-class lives of the aristocratic Barsham family are set to change forever with the onset of World War I. August, 1914. The silver wedding celebrations of Sir George Barsham, MP, and his wife, Lady Adelaide, are overshadowed b...

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In 1037, a senior civil servant of the Byzantine empire faces a tedious journey to Greece, escorting the Army payroll. His only companions are a detachment of the Empire's elite Guard, recruited from Viking Scandinavia. When the wagon sheds a whee...

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To all caring and compassionate environmentalists out there, Fields of Sun and Grass, the latest offering by gifted naturalist, writer, and artist John R. Quinn, is a glorious cry of victory via a remarkable portrayal of some of the most durable a...

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In an astonishing book-length sequence, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Gluck interweaves the dissolution of a contemporary marriage with the story of "The Odyssey." Here is Penelope stubbornly weaving, elevating the act of waiting in...

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This title is the winners of 2005 Southwest Book Award. 'The stories are charmingly frank, unexpectedly humorous, sometimes sad, all reminiscent of a simpler, though not always uncomplicated time...The book brims with anecdotes, folklore, and...

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_________________'BRITAIN'S FINEST LIVING NATURE WRITER' - THE TIMESWINNER OF THE THWAITES WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2015What really goes on in the long grass?Meadowland gives an unique and intimate account of an English meadow s life from January to Decem...

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This book was written on the occasion of Meadowland Community Church in Johnsburg, Illinois celebrating its 15th anniversary, and it offers insight into the history, administration, and ministries of a successful church plant. Beyond the facts and...

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With large-scale, global declines in many species of plants and animals and other disruptions such as climate change and urbanization, we must learn how humans and other species can coexist with one another. In a case study of urban biodiversity, ...

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In a case study of urban biodiversity, Erik Kiviat and Kristi MacDonald present two decades of data and assessment of the habitats and biota of the Meadowlands. Urban Biodiversity: The Natural History of the New Jersey Meadowlands documents the ma...

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Situated in northern New Jersey, the Meadowlands region is one of stark contrasts as more than thirty square miles of protected wetlands sit close to MetLife Stadium and across the Hudson from Midtown Manhattan. From the time the Dutch arrived in ...

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Meadowlands is a compilation of haiku and photographs inspired by walking the meadow paths in my little corner of the world. I started writing haiku and taking photos during the COVID-19 Pandemic as a way to both interpret and find solace in the b...

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Betty Staley, author of books on child, adolescent, and adult development writes this delightful meadowland fable in which the creatures try to guess the owl's riddle-Too hoo, too hoo, a bit of heaven on the earth. Children will join to solve the ...

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Betty Staley, author of books on child, adolescent, and adult development writes this delightful meadowland fable in which the creatures try to guess the owl's riddle-Too hoo, too hoo, a bit of heaven on the earth. Children will join to solve the ...

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Imprisoned by the apartheid regime in South Africa, Verity Saunders endures the daily degradation of her incarceration whilst coming to terms with the disappearance of her activist lover, Tariq Randeree. Thirty years later, Verity sets out to unco...

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A dystopian fantasy following the adventures of four children coming of age in a world of technology and isolation. THE MEADOWLANDS is a dystopian fantasy following the adventures of four children who come from a near future dominated by instituti...

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The comfortable, upper-class lives of the aristocratic Barsham family are set to change forever with the onset of World War I. August, 1914. The silver wedding celebrations of Sir George Barsham, MP, and his wife, Lady Adelaide, are overshadowed b...

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Includes Penelope's Song in which the author interweaves in a book-length sequence an account of the dissolution of a contemporary marriage with the story of Homer's Odyssey. This collection of poetry also explores the notion of the nost...

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The experience of home . . . a sense of place Meadowlands-home to the family of Morris and Harriet Scovil at the beginning of the 20th century; nine hundred acres of interval and forest land at Scovil Point on the St. John River across from Gageto...

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Detta är en gripande diktsamling som fångar essensen av natur och mänskliga känslor, väver samman melankoli och skönhet för att väcka en känsla av längtan, förlust och tillvarons förgängliga natur.

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I Meadowlands skildrar Nobelpristagaren Louise Glück en skilsmässa parallellt med slitningarna i relationen mellan Odysseus och Penelope. Smärtfyllt men med en träffsäker humor fångar Glück på sitt karaktäristiska vis hur kärleken falnar för att f...

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I Meadowlands skildrar Nobelpristagaren Louise Glück en skilsmässa parallellt med slitningarna i relationen mellan Odysseus och Penelope. Smärtfyllt men med en träffsäker humor fångar Glück på sitt karaktäristiska vis hur kärleken falnar för att f...

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20,000 acres of wetlands in northern New Jersey - 5 miles from Times Square in New York City - were once home to hundreds of species of plants and animals. Since European explorers first arrived in the Meadowlands, people have all but destroyed it...

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