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Author: Nicholas Halliday
Publisher:
Published: 2007-04
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780953945986
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This life-affirming story follows the first year of a lone evergreen growing in the heart of the ancient oak woodland of the New Forest.
Author: Yael Politis
Publisher: Youwriteon
Published: 2008-12-01
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9781849230896
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tonia Shulman does not share her father's dream - forging a Jewish State out of the chaos of British Mandate Palestine. She hates the hardships of life in an isolated kibbutz south of Jerusalem -- clearing rocky hillsides, washing in rationed cups of trucked-in water, and being confined behind barbed wire. Her own dreams have nothing to do with national self-realization; she longs for steaming bubble baths and down comforters, but most of all for a place on earth where she can feel safe. She falls in love with Amos but refuses to acknowledge these feelings. She knows he will never leave his homeland, and Tonia plans to emigrate to America. But can she really begin a new life there? The beginning of The Lonely Tree is interwoven with the true story of Kfar Etzion, a kibbutz that was overrun by the Arab Legion during pre-War of Independence hostilities. Yael Politis is a native of Michigan and has lived in Israel since 1973. In her spare time from writing fiction, she is employed as a Proposal Writer, Editor, and Hebrew-English Translator.
Author: Bruce Brown
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780517569870
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Combining the journalistic approaches of Friendly Fire and In Cold Blood, an award-winning journalist focuses on the pivotal 1985 triple murder/suicide in Lone Tree, Iowa, as a means of exploring the social, political, economic, and human roots of the American farming crisis.
Author: Natalie S. Hardiman
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2011-11
Total Pages: 31
ISBN-13: 1467039128
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Pearl the Squirrel, had lost her tail and Hal the Owl's hootie was broke. The both lived in the forest of The Fine Pine Trees. But now that Pearl looked different from the other squirrels and Hal didn't sound like the other owls, the Pine Master said to them: practically perfect you must be, to live among the Fine Pine Trees. Pearl and Hal had to leave their home just because they were now different. Follow them both as they meet The Only Lonely Tree who shows them how to love their differences.
Author: Harley Rustad
Publisher: House of Anansi
Published: 2018-09-04
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1487003129
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Finalist, Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing Finalist, Banff Mountain Book Competition Finalist, BC Book Prize Globe and Mail best books of 2018 CBC best Canadian non-fiction of 2018 In the tradition of John Vaillant’s modern classic The Golden Spruce comes a story of the unlikely survival of one of the largest and oldest trees in Canada. On a cool morning in the winter of 2011, a logger named Dennis Cronin was walking through a stand of old-growth forest near Port Renfrew on Vancouver Island. He came across a massive Douglas fir the height of a twenty-storey building. Instead of allowing the tree to be felled, he tied a ribbon around the trunk, bearing the words “Leave Tree.” The forest was cut but the tree was saved. The solitary Douglas fir, soon known as Big Lonely Doug, controversially became the symbol of environmental activists and their fight to protect the region’s dwindling old-growth forests. Originally featured as a long-form article in The Walrus that garnered a National Magazine Award (Silver), Big Lonely Doug weaves the ecology of old-growth forests, the legend of the West Coast’s big trees, the turbulence of the logging industry, the fight for preservation, the contention surrounding ecotourism, First Nations land and resource rights, and the fraught future of these ancient forests around the story of a logger who saved one of Canada's last great trees.
Author: Charlotte Emma Gledson
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2009-03-01
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 0955977800
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Charlotte Emma Gledson's The Lonely Tree and Other Twisted Tales of Torment is a collection of dark, disturbing and explicit stories that break the boundaries of usual horror fiction. Touching on subjects that are 'close to home'; these tales will conjure up feelings of agitation, with the lingering unease that will haunt you throughout your day. These stories are based on the horror and madness of the human mind. 'The book that I am reading right now, is Charlotte Gledson's The Lonely Tree. A treasure of dark tales that will keep me far away from England and the horrors that lie there. She has the ability to wrap you with the beauty of her words, and then darken the entire room around you with the meaning behind them. I would suggest this for any fans of horror and dark gothic tales'. JEFF EZELL - Autho
Author: Chris Naylor-Ballesteros
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-11-14
Total Pages: 31
ISBN-13: 1526610566
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A gorgeous gift book to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas – a perfect gift for any Christmas stocking. A lonely tree stands on the cold, frosted hillside gazing at the other trees sparkling in the village below. How it longs to be with them! Then suddenly out reaches a warm friendly hand, and with a wobble and a shake, a very jolly fellow takes the tree on a journey to a new place ... where the tree will feel that it belongs once more, surrounded by old friends and new. A beautiful Christmas gift inspired by the Christmas poem 'Twas the Night Before Christmas. With an uplifting message about overcoming loneliness and celebrating being together.
Author: Tan Twan Eng
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 2009-05-05
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1602860599
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the tradition of celebrated wartime storytellers Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene, Tan Twan Eng's debut novel casts a powerful spell. The recipient of extraordinary acclaim from critics and the bookselling community, Tan Twan Eng's debut novel casts a powerful spell and has garnered comparisons to celebrated wartime storytellers Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene. Set during the tumult of World War II, on the lush Malayan island of Penang, The Gift of Rain tells a riveting and poignant tale about a young man caught in the tangle of wartime loyalties and deceits. In 1939, sixteen-year-old Philip Hutton-the half-Chinese, half-English youngest child of the head of one of Penang's great trading families-feels alienated from both the Chinese and British communities. He at last discovers a sense of belonging in his unexpected friendship with Hayato Endo, a Japanese diplomat. Philip proudly shows his new friend around his adored island, and in return Endo teaches him about Japanese language and culture and trains him in the art and discipline of aikido. But such knowledge comes at a terrible price. When the Japanese savagely invade Malaya, Philip realizes that his mentor and sensei-to whom he owes absolute loyalty-is a Japanese spy. Young Philip has been an unwitting traitor, and must now work in secret to save as many lives as possible, even as his own family is brought to its knees.
Author: Wright Morris
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2017-04
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 149620249X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Although Tom Scanlon would just as soon spend it alone, his ninetieth birthday becomes the occasion for a family gathering in the Midwestern town of Lone Tree. The unlikely celebrants take this opportunity to reconceive their visions of past, future, and family in their own grotesque and ultimately liberating ways. Ceremony in Lone Tree is a spare and beautiful work by one of America's great postwar authors.
Author: Annekarien van de Velde
Publisher: Balboa Press
Published: 2019-05-30
Total Pages: 46
ISBN-13: 1504318080
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Christmas is almost here, and Anna is shopping for a Christmas tree. Instead of picking the most beautiful tree, she falls in love with a lonely little Christmas tree, and it lights up her heart and her home.
