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Iceland’s Relationship with Norway c.870 – c.1100
In Iceland’s Relationship with Norway c.870 – c.1100: Memory, History and Identity, Ann-Marie Long reassesses the development of Icelandic society from the earliest settlements to the twelfth century. Through a series of thematic studies, the book discusses the place of Norway in Icelandic cultural memory and how Icelandic authors envisioned and reconstructed their past. It examines in particular how these authors instrumentalized Norway to explain the changing parameters of Icelandic autonomy. Over time this strategy evolved to meet the needs of thirteenth-century Icelandic politics as well as the demands posed by the transition from autonomous island to Norwegian dependency.
Adult Onset
'Ann-Marie MacDonald captures the dark hilarity of parenthood like nobody else. I gulped down Adult Onset in a single day.' Emma Donoghue, author of Room A NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER IN CANADA Mary Rose McKinnon has two children with her partner Hilary and a fractured relationship with her mother Dolly; she also has issues with anger management and lives in fear of hurting the children and these feelings seem somehow rooted in a part of her childhood she has trouble remembering. Is Dolly - the kind of big personality who makes all Mary Rose's friends, and even waiters in coffee shops, exclaim 'I love your Mum!' - really harbouring a dark secret about what caused Mary Rose's childhood injuries, and is Mary Rose doomed to follow the same path with her own children? ADULT ONSET is a heartbreaking, hilarious, hugely satisfying novel about family ties and the joy and agony of parenthood. Ann-Marie MacDonald gets under the reader's skin and gives voice to the feelings we have all experienced but may never have examined.
Get Up and Grow
"Clear, modern and inspiring" - Alan Titchmarsh, gardener and broadcaster In this truly innovative book Lucy Hutchings – aka She Grows Veg – proves that vegetable gardening doesn't always require outdoor space. Through clever uses of space and containers, understanding of growing conditions and a unique, design-led approach, Lucy showcases how anyone can grow pretty much anything in their back garden, courtyard, balcony or kitchen. Lucy creates 19 projects, from living vegetable walls and hydroponics basics, to indoor greenhouses and hanging herb racks that have all the decorative style and visual interest of ornamental house plants. With step-by-step illustrations and stunning photography, with Get Up and Grow, you can go from gardening novice to growing pro in a matter of weeks. Lucy is blazing a trail for new-wave gardening with a mantra of anything is possible, for anyone.
Sorry for Your Trouble
The Irish do death differently. Funeral attendance is a solemn duty - but it can also be a big day out, requiring sophisticated crowd control, creative parking solutions and a high-end sound system. Despite having the same basic end-of-life infrastructure as other Western countries, Irish culture handles death with a unique blend of dignified ritual and warm sociability. In Sorry for Your Trouble, Ann Marie Hourihane holds up a mirror to the Irish way of death: the funny bits, the sad bits, and the hard-to-explain bits that tell us so much about who we are. She follows the last weeks of a woman's life in hospice; she witnesses an embalming; she attends inquests; she talks to people working t...
A One Man Woman
Ann Marie Williams has been married and divorced twice. When the story begins in 1997, she is 56 years old, feminine, passionate, cheerful and optimistic. She misses married life and has become a serial monogamist and a self-proclaimed 'one man woman'. Ann Marie is also afflicted with health problems, and poor health is a continuing source of trial and anxiety for her. She places an in-search-of advertisement in the newspaper and meets Hank with whom she has a six-year relationship. This is the story of Ann Marie and Hank during that time. It is an active time; they take trips to Paris, San Francisco and South America, and, closer to home in Virginia they discover romantic B and B's. There is companionship and shared interests, humor and love. But she is no closer to marriage. Ann Marie is still 'a one man woman'. Will she ever find a way to end it with Hank and find someone more marriageable?
Search to Witness
Timothy Flynn Farrell wondered if he was alive and living this experience, if he was dead and this was the afterlife he had earned or if he was only unconscious and this was all a dream. The pain he could feel from the struggle he’d gone through last night made him truly believe that this was all real. He’d operate on that premise and that meant that he’d better be on guard. Flynn, as he preferred to be called, had begun his month on the battlefield of Kuwait. It had been September of 1991. Over the last ten days he had traveled halfway around the world with his Marine unit and ended up in San Diego. From there he had traveled back east to Boston and from there up north to North Conway...
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The Great and the Small
Percy Brandston and Archibald Prescott are two men who lead lives that are poles apart. One is rich and discontented the other is poor but at peace with himself. One will achieve great happiness and fulfilment the other will die a death too horrible to contemplate. In this novel where stark reality and fantasy are intertwined, the reader is taken on a journey from the corridors of power to a council estate, from England to New Zealand and back again, in the company of a cast of larger-than-life characters, both human and supernatural. And if you thought you knew all there is to know about garden gnomes, you are gravely mistaken...
The DeLashmutt Story
Elias Delashmutt Sr. (1710-1778) went from Gloucester, New Jersey to Kent, Maryland. Descendants lived in Maryland, migrating mainly through the Midwest and ultimately reaching Oregon and California by 1850.
Down Along the Haw
North Carolina's Haw River has a rich geographic, ecological and cultural history, tracked here from its source to its confluence with the Atlantic Ocean. From grinding mills to algae science, this popular history features interviews with mill owners and workers, archaeologists, environmentalists, farmers, water treatment managers and many others whose lives have been connected to this river. Additionally, it explores life on the river's banks and humans' place in its rich ecology.
