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Brightfire: A Tale of Sutton Hoo
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99Born in Zambia, I lived in Cape Town, before leaving on a transport ship in 1944 to return ‘home’ to England. My parents wanted to be with their families, even though World War 2 had not ended.
We lived in Kent, Surrey, Yorkshire and Norfolk before I went to Royal Holloway College, University of London, to read English (including Old English and Modern Drama). I have lived and taught in Suffolk since my marriage in 1964, and eventually became Head of English and Drama at Woodbridge School.
What is important to me? My family; literature, both reading and writing; theatre, on both sides of the curtain and travel. I am very fortunate to have travelled almost worldwide, from Iceland to Australia.
I am a National Trust volunteer at Sutton Hoo (site of the famous ship burial and treasure) and a Sutton Hoo Society Guide. I thoroughly enjoy sharing the history of Sutton Hoo with thousands of visitors each year. Renewing my acquaintance with the Anglo-Saxons re-awakened my interest in their language, culture and customs, and lead me to write two Anglo-Saxon historical novels based in the land of the Wuffings in the 7th century AD.
Apart from this writing, among the most exciting things I have done are swimming with dolphins on the Florida Keys, scuba-diving on the Great Barrier Reef and acting in the National Drama Festivals, where I was lucky enough to get a nomination in the Final.
Writing is something of a fourth career, as I have also worked as a TV film extra and run a local bookshop. As our forebears knew, life is for living and knowledge is for sharing: I enjoy giving talks to local societies and book clubs as well as doing book-signings.
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The Bloke’s Guide To Brilliant Cooking: And How To Impress Women
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99The Bloke’s Guide To Brilliant Cooking And How To Impress Women is a humorous do it yourself guide to two of the most important things in any man’s
life, the love of great food and impressing women. This book will show anyone how to impress like a chef by thinking the way a Bloke naturally thinks; like a Bloke. It will take you on a larrikins own adventure into the mysteries of brilliant cooking enabling anyone willing to think differently about cooking to tap into their cooking genius By the time you have finished reading this book you will be able to create unlimited amazing meals all from an idea in your head and you’ll have great laugh as you do it. Brilliant cooking is what happens when the instincts, imagination, and the head get together on the same plate and tell the hands what to do in the kitchen. If you want to learn how to cook brilliant meals using the knowledge, imagination and instincts you already have whilst simultaneously learning how to impress women in your life then read on. If not, it’s ok to go, we won’t tell anyone?
The Bloke’s Guide To Brilliant Cooking And How To Impress Women is perfect for anyone who loves cooking and women, and is looking for something unique.
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Frolicking Friends
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99Frolicking Friends is a delightful, entertaining rhyming picture book that tells about a boy who is looking for his unusual friends after a rain storm. He finds them in a most delightful place and joins in frolicking with them. When the storm clouds come again, the boy is quick to help get his friends home. The illustrations and the elements of literature including rhyme, onomatopoeia, character traits and imagination are sure to delight the young reader.
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C is for Cat: An Easy Guide to Veterinary Care For Cats
Price range: $3.99 through $24.99C is for Cat is just the book for you and your family. Whether you are a new cat owner, have children you would like to introduce to a new pet, a student seeking information on cat care, or a longtime pet owner, this book has basic information about cat and kitten care that is in an east to understand format with colorful illustrations to make the information interesting and engaging.
Topics to include:
•bringing a pet home
•supplies for cats and kittens
•vaccines and cat diseases
•spaying and neutering
•pregnancy in cats
•dental care
•nutrition
•behavior issues
•arthritis
•testing for cats
•finding lost pets
•and more:
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Storm Frost
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99There exists an Anglo-Saxon manuscript, where we hear of an outcast wife, a husband, his messenger, a lover and a baby. Merge these tales with what we know of the royal family buried at Sutton Hoo in East Anglia, including Raedwald and his brother, Eni, living at the end of the 6th century AD.They believe in the old gods, like Woden, and have not yet encountered Christianity. Their culture is vibrant, exciting, terrifying in its cruelty, and uninhibited in its morality. Travel from the East Anglian fenlands, over northern moors to the remote Northumbrian river where the story reaches its climax. Along the way, discover life in a royal hall or a hovel; cure wounds or inflict them; share a feast or scrape a meal; work fertility charms or protect your folk from evil. Here is a tale of love and betrayal, courage and fear. Niartha, the fictional heroine, outcast from her people, encounters hardship, abuse and loss as she seeks her exiled lover; her survival depends on her practical skills, unexpected in a king’s daughter. In their desires and social lives, Anglo-Saxons, although separated from us by fourteen hundred years, are not so very alien, after all.
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Wedding Planning Guide, A Brides Work Book
Price range: $3.99 through $17.99Tanya Porter her experience as a wedding coordinator to produce thus resource for brides, grooms, parents, and other wedding planners/coordinators. If the steps are followed, anyone can plan a beautiful event with less stress and expense. Now retired from coordinating weddings, she still does consulting.
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The Sweetie Jar
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99This book is targeted primarily at younger children, but will certainly be enjoyed by older ones as well, and even parents and guardians alike.
This is a book to which most children could relate, in that, sweets, sweeties or candies – by whichever name they are known – are well liked by children the world over.
As they read the story, or, in some instances, the story is read to them, their imagination will come alive as they see their favourite sweets come to life as they speak from within the sweetie jar.
This book is vividly creative, and one that every child would enjoy and treasure.
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D is for Dog: An Easy Guide to Veterinary Care for Dogs
Price range: $3.99 through $25.99D is for Dog is just the book for you and your family. Whether you are a new dog owner, have children you would like to introduce to a new pet, a student seeking information on dog care, or a longtime pet owner, this book has basic information about dog and puppy care that is in an easy-to-understand format with colorful illustrations to make the information interesting and engaging.
Topics to include:
•bringing a pet home
•supplies for dogs and puppies
•vaccines and dog diseases
•spaying and neutering
•pregnancy in dogs
•dental care
•nutrition
•behavior issues
•arthritis
•testing for dogs
•finding lost pets
•and more
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The Book About Branka
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99This is the story of one life, one girl , woman, mother, a highly educated person, who wove her threads into one ball called family and tried to be and remain happy in all of this. A woman who had great influence on the family. A woman on whom a lot depended in the home. To a wise woman who knew this well, and that knowledge is not an easy task for a woman. A wife and mother knows that happiness in the home literally depends on her, and then she creates and builds that happiness… because she loves her family. It used to be understood that the husband should create a roof over his head, but what is under the roof-peace, well-being, harmony, health, togetherness … is what depends a lot on a woman’s life. It is a big task, which requires a lot of effort.
This is a book about a woman, a wife, as a rescue from chaos, a light at the end of the tunnel. . . .
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Metamorphosis of a Young Maiden
Price range: $9.99 through $18.99From December 1969 until June 1970, Dr. Wm. Patric Leedom’s love interest, Shelley, allowed herself to go through major changes-from a naïve, shy recluse who never considered sex in relation to herself, to a more sophisticated young woman trusting another for the first time, feeling completed and totally loved for the first time. Metamorphosis of a Young Maiden is a collection of love letters between the two from 47 years ago. It is a powerful example of two lovers going deep into life and making themselves vulnerable to each other as they build toward an intense relationship. We should all remember to take risks with our partners and be encouraged to seek the deeper meanings and experiences that life can offer.
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Scrutineer’s Wake: Discovery in D.C.
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99For Jalen Harkness, the challenges of a new and bullied student provides a teaching challenge which threatens his own desire to develop and grow as a historian.
James Gholson is a product of Fairmont High School in the D.C. metro area. He has served as clarinetist with the U.S Navy Band, Professor of Clarinet at the University of Memphis, and Principal Clarinetist with the Memphis Symphony. Currently, he is a board member with the Eroica Ensemble of Memphis and performs with that group. He has authored Feets, Tight, Reading Rampage, and The Seasoned Clarinetist.
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The Wonderments of Life
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99The Wonderment of Life connects spirituality, political thoughts, and coming of life as a young man and woman experience it in this world with the promise that there is more; a return to The Source. This man faces an athletic endeavor and gradually seeks a life of service in politics. The woman dedicates her life to loving her husband, her family, and giving back to the homelessness issue. This book is about the wonderment of life.
