After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student.
The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee...
Farm life
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Auteur:Silverthorne, JudithSommaire:How can the remains of long-dead dinosaurs help save a modern family farm?
For Daniel, things can't get a lot worse. First of all, he's an amateur palaeontologist but his dad's always on his case about it. They live on a busy...
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Auteur:Burrow, ZalieSommaire:Living with her mole-obsessed, gun-happy father on a farm, Sally has her work cut out. But with the love of local farm boy Johnny Hutchins, life can be full of frolics. Devon Girl is a light-hearted look at farming with a fair...
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Auteur:Campbell, Rod.Sommaire:Join in the fun with Rod Campbell's Dear Zoo and Friends Audio , perfect for car journeys and bedtimes. I wrote to the zoo to send me a pet . . . Rod Campbell's classic story Dear Zoo has been a firm favourite with toddlers...
- Auteur:Lawson, MarySommaire:
In the rural farm country of northern Ontario, the lives of two families--the farming Pye family, and zoologist Kate Morrison and her three brothers--are brought together and torn apart by misunderstanding, resentment, family love, and...
- Auteur:White, E. B.Sommaire:
Brought to life by Meryl Streep and a full cast, this beloved book by E.B. White, author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children's literature that is "just about perfect."*Some Pig. Humble....
- Auteur:White, E. B.Sommaire:
For decades, E.B. White's charming, bittersweet tales of friendship and adventure have enchanted audiences young and old alike. The magic of "Charlotte's web" comes to life in a delightful-and completely unabridged-...
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Auteur:Stuchner, Joan BettySommaire:On a small farm in Chelm, a man and his daughter set out to find a way to get milk from their hens, and the results are not only funny, they're wacky. This edition combines both written and spoken words.
- Auteur:FRANCIS, Stella M.Sommaire:
Teenager Hazel Edwards and the other twelve members of the Flamingo Camp-Fire Girls experience some real adventure when they are invited to spend part of their summer as guests of Hazel’s elderly aunt on her large country...
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Auteur:Beck, CarolynSommaire:Wend your way through Buttercup's lovely day. This edition combines both written and spoken words.
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Called a "read-aloud gem" by Quill & Quire, this picture book will delight children with its creative use of language and endearing illustrations. In rhyming text that winds like a creek through a farmer's field, the...
- Auteur:Doig, IvanSommaire:
Set in the 1930s, Doig's novel follows the Duff clan during the construction of the Fort Peck Dam. Hugh Duff is angry that the dam will flood his farm, yet his sons hasten to get jobs working on the project.
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Auteur:Bar-El, DanSommaire:"Audrey is a cow with poetry in her blood, who yearns for the greener pastures beyond Bittersweet Farms. But when Roy the horse tells this bovine dreamer that she is headed for Abbot's War, the slaughter house, Audrey knows that she...
- Auteur:Bergeron, Emilie, Villeneuve, CorineSommaire:
Un joyeux classique, Animaux de la ferme présente chacun des membres des différentes familles d’animaux qu’on retrouve à la ferme. Les illustrations attrayantes et les cris réalistes capteront l’attention des tout-petits et amuseront...
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Auteur:Kingsolver, BarbaraSommaire:Kingsolver and her family sweep readers along on their journey away from the industrial-food pipeline to a rural life in which they vow to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it....
- Auteur:Snelling, LauraineSommaire:
After the loss of her first love, is Ingeborg Strand willing to marry a stranger--however kind--for the promise of a new life in America?
- Auteur:Jones, SadieSommaire:
The author of the highly acclaimed, bestselling novel The Uninvited Guests returns with a captivating coming of age story told by Amy and Lan, two children whose journey from innocence to moving experience is shaped by their families'...
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Auteur:Grey, AndrewSommaire:Geoff vit en ville où il vit une homosexualité totalement assumée, quand la mort de son père le pousse à retourner à la ferme familiale. Découvrant un jeune Amish dans la grange, Geoff apprend qu’Eli passe une année hors de sa...
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Auteur:Grey, AndrewSommaire:Geoff vive appieno la sua vita omosessuale nella metropoli, finché la morte di suo padre lo convince a tornare nella tenuta di famiglia. Dopo aver scoperto un ragazzo Amish dormire nel fienile, Geoff viene a sapere che Eli sta...
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Auteur:Turner, SteveSommaire:Telling stories specific to Columbia Plateau farmers and farmland, this journalist puts the lives and difficulties of individual farmers into national and global contexts. He interweaves family narratives, historical episodes and his...
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