Fiona Travers, single and in her thirties, has a talent for choosing Mr Wrong. One disappointment too many, and she decides to abandon the hunt. Old Maids RIP, the new spinster thrives. Aren't the days long gone when you hooked a husband to acquire a life? What can a man give Fiona that she can't give herself? She voluntarily places herself on the shelf - for good. But there's nothing more unsettling to the miserably married than a woman who trades in happy-ever-after for the chance of a new beginning. Take Jill. She's convinced that Fiona's announcement is just another ploy to help herself to a husband - Jill's. At the same time Claire, Fiona's best friend, has grown weary of coping alone. Secretly, she's arranged a marriage for herself. It ain't love, but when you're hurtling towards middle age, childfree and spouse-less, companionship is good enough . . . Or is it? Yvonne Roberts' wise and witty novel wickedly proposes that the trouble with single women today - is that no one can quite predict what they might do next . . . While the trouble with love - is that it still holds all the best tricks.
Amid corruption, the struggle for power; and the love of money, Darren Doyle, a young private investigator, is challenged to solve his first murder case in Spring Grove, Missouri. Characters create an evil web of deceit expanding the scope of mystery, which hampers his investigation. The compelling plot will demand your attention to the story's end
January 1967: stuck in a Welsh seaside town, seventeen-year-old Lily Tempest longs to break free. Her mother Melodys ambitions for her daughters are summed up in one word: marriage. But Lily would rather die first. Instead she goads her sisters into reaching for far more that they want for themselves with comic but also dark and dangerous results. As winter slides towards the summer of love however, Lily becomes increasingly aware that to leave will mean permanent exile.
Against the backdrop of monumental change taking place in 1956 throughout the world, the cantonment of the British High Commission in Peshawar, Pakistan, remains a corner of traditional England. The Jacksons' working class origins ensure they are kept on the fringe of diplomatic life and, for their nine-year-old daughter, Ella, growing up is a lonely, painful experience. Locked in a sterile marriage, her parents' dissatisfaction with each other finds expression in their neglect of Ella. Left increasingly to her own devices, Ella withdraws, recording the hypocrisy and cruelties of adult behaviour in A History of Insects. Here, among her thoughts, she describes, when no one will believe her, the murder of a native man and a secret capable of destroying the English community.
One of a series of biographies produced by the Yukon-Koyukuk School District, Alaska. Account of the life of an Alaskan Indian woman born in 1922. Suitable for children in grades six and up.
Yvonne Johnson was born in DeKalb County and lived most of her life in the area which her ancestors helped establish. She taught for 50 years in local schools and presented hundreds of workshops to advance science education. She traveled extensively and has been known for her community service & cheerful giving. This is her story as painted by her words & memories."--Back cover.
George Thompson was born in February, 1782 in the parish of Christ Church, County of Surrey. He was a blacksmith by trade and died in 1835. His son Thomas Thompson was born, in February 1782 in County of Middlesex, England. He migrated to Australia on board the "Asia" with his family. There he died in 1854. Descendants live in Victoria and elsewhere.
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