The Smell of Apples
Title | The Smell of Apples PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Behr |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780312152093 |
The story of an affluent white South African family during apartheid. Its narrator is the son of an Afrikaner general and he describes his growing disillusion with the cruelty and arrogance of the whites. Set in the 1970s, the novel follows him from boyhood to soldiering in Angola, fighting the blacks.
Scent of Apples
Title | Scent of Apples PDF eBook |
Author | Bienvenido N. Santos |
Publisher | Classics of Asian American Lit |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780295995113 |
This collection of sixteen stories bring the work of a distinguished Filipino writer to an American audience. Scent of Apples contains work from the 1940s to the 1970s. Although many of Santos's writings have been published in the Philippines, Scent of Apples is his only book published in the United States. -- from back cover.
Apples
Title | Apples PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Browning |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 1999-09 |
Genre | Apples |
ISBN | 0865475792 |
Throughout Western memory the apple has been the fruit of trouble, immortality, and temptation: Paris and the Trojan War, Nordic Loki and the apples of eternal life, and, of course, that infamous couple in the Garden.
The Taste of Apple Seeds
Title | The Taste of Apple Seeds PDF eBook |
Author | Katharina Hagena |
Publisher | William Morrow Paperbacks |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014-02-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780062293473 |
Shimmering with the incandescence and irresistible magic of the novels of Alice Hoffman, Joanne Harris, and Aimee Bender, Katharina Hagena's smash international bestseller, The Taste of Apple Seeds, is a story of love and loss that will captivate your heart. When Iris unexpectedly inherits her grandmother's house in the country, she also inherits the painful memories that linger there. Should she keep it or sell it? The choice is not easy, for the cottage is a place of enchantment and sensual mystery where currant jam tastes of tears, blue sparks crackle at the touch of fingertips, love makes apple trees bloom—and dark secrets pulsate in the house's nooks and shadows. . . .
Up, Up, Up! It's Apple-Picking Time
Title | Up, Up, Up! It's Apple-Picking Time PDF eBook |
Author | Jody Fickes Shapiro |
Publisher | Holiday House |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 2008-02-20 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780823421664 |
Myles and Amber wake up early to visit Grandma and Grandpa's California apple orchard. They pick apples all day long, climbing ladders and disappearing into trees to fill bushels of Red and Golden Delicious, McIntosh and Pippins, Gravensteins and Winter Bananas. Grandma makes apple cider, and they snack on fresh apple pie. Before they know it, apple-picking time is over and apple-selling time has begun. Grandpa sets up the roadside apple stand, and neighbors gather to buy the fresh fruit. When the apples have all been sold, the family gathers for one more meal before Myles and Amber make the long trip back home. This warmhearted story brings three generations of a family together to celebrate and share in the working of a fall harvest.
Our Apple Tree
Title | Our Apple Tree PDF eBook |
Author | Gorel Kristina Naslund |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2006-08-08 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781596431911 |
See how amazing an apple tree really is.
No Ordinary Apple
Title | No Ordinary Apple PDF eBook |
Author | Sara Marlowe |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 2013-05-20 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1614290954 |
On an otherwise ordinary day, Elliot discovers something extraordinary: the power of mindfulness. When he asks his neighbor Carmen for a snack, he's at first disappointed when she hands him an apple - he wanted candy! But when encouraged to carefully and attentively look, feel, smell, taste, and even listen to the apple, Elliot discovers that this apple is not ordinary at all. Lushly and humorously illustrated, No Ordinary Apple makes a traditional technique for training mindfulness a fun and enjoyable way for children to learn to slow down and appreciate even the simplest things.