BY JOANNA FARROW
Over 50 original cakes to suit any occasion from weddings and birthdays to festive gatherings and celebratory parties. Create beautiful designs in no time at all using shop-bought or home-made cakes. Included are basic cake and icing recipes, and tips on how to add finishing touches to make your celebration cake extra special.
by KATE FOX
I became even more conscious of my surroundings,of my English colleagues, of the English people around me.. It made me understand why, among others, they would insist on saying “You’re alright?” or “How are you?” even when it was clear that the asker was rushing for his/her lecture, accidentally I was prone to behave like Kate Fox , of what she did best prior to the book – eavesdropping and Watching The English! ~adibah~
by LESLEY PEARSE
When Daisy Buchan is 25, her beloved mother dies, and as she is reeling from this trauma, she is shocked to be told by her father that she is adopted – that her real mother was a poor young teenager from Cornwall. She does not know who her father is. Eventually Daisy finds out more about her mother, Ellen Pengelly, a farmer’s daughter from a remote Cornish village, and as the layers of her family history are stripped away Daisy is horrified by what she learns. She is taken on a journey back to the past, a journey that uncovers a gripping story of innocence corrupted, and a family torn apart by greed and misery
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by WASHINGTON IRVING
Washington Irving’s dreamlike description of Spain’s Granada and the beautiful Moorish castle, the Alhambra, remains one of the most entertaining travelogues ever written. Enhanced here with exquisite Spanish guitar music, the narrative is a heady mix of fact, myth, and depictions of secret chambers, desperate battles, imprisoned princesses, palace ghosts, and fragrant gardens, described in a wistful and dreamlike eloquence, will transport listeners to a paradise of their own. –This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
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by ARTHUR GOLDEN
“I wasn’t born and raised to be a Kyoto geisha….I’m a fisherman’s daughter from a little town called Yoroido on the Sea of Japan.” How nine-year-old Chiyo, sold with her sister into slavery by their father after their mother’s death, becomes Sayuri, the beautiful geisha accomplished in the art of entertaining men, is the focus of this fascinating first novel. Narrating her life story from her elegant suite in the Waldorf Astoria, Sayuri tells of her traumatic arrival at the Nitta okiya (a geisha house), where she endures harsh treatment from Granny and Mother, the greedy owners, and from Hatsumomo, the sadistically cruel head geisha.
Source: Library Journal Review
by NELL FREUDENBERGER
Nell Freudenberger knows from lucky girls. She has had a lot of luck herself in her short writing career: Her debut story was featured in The New Yorker, with a glossy full-color author photo alongside; a quick book contract ensued, on the strength of that one published story; and now comes a debut collection full of stories that are actually good. The Lucky Girls collected here are far-flung Americans, young women trying to figure out where they belong in the world.
Source: Amazon.com review
by JESSICA BLAIR
In the early days of the 19th Century Whitby is a thriving port. Both the Coulson and the Campion families make a living by the sea. Sam Coulson has three sons: Martin, Ben and Eric. He has grand plans for expanding his whaling business; and as Seaton Campion has no sons, a marriage between Martin and Campion’s eldest daughter, Alicia, will aid the fortunes of both families duty
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