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It seemed since the day I was created that everything was set in
stone. My monthly to yearly routines of finding that once person to
share the same fate as I have for the rest of eternity, and then
move on to the next just to do it all over again felt like nothing
more than just a mundane job. But from the moment I was told about
a girl named Anna, I knew this was different, this time I had to
protect the only person on earth who stood between living to see
another day or having a knife stabbed in my heart. The only problem
is...she has no idea what's coming.
Collection of eight fan favourite episodes of the acclaimed US
sitcom about the middle-aged Seattle psychiatrist. Having recently
moved from Boston to his former hometown of Seattle, Dr Frasier
Crane (Kelsey Grammer) soon finds himself on the radio as the host
of his own call-in advice show. When he's not dealing with his
listeners' problems, he's getting caught up in disputes involving
his retired police detective father, Martin (John Mahoney), his
father's physical therapist, Daphne (Jane Leeves), his younger
brother, Niles (David Hyde Pierce), his radio show producer, Roz
(Peri Gilpin), and his father's mischievous dog, Eddie. The
episodes are: 'A Midwinter Night's Dream', 'Frasier Crane's Day
Off', 'Daphne's Room', 'Moon Dance', 'The Two Mrs. Cranes', 'Ham
Radio', 'Ski Lodge' and 'Three Valentines'.
Misfits are often confused with outcasts. Yet misfits rather find
themselves in-between that which fits and that which does not. This
volume is interested in this slipperiness of misfits and explores
the blockages and the promises of such movements, as well as the
processes and conditions that produce misfits, the means that
enable them to undo their denomination as misfits, and the
practices that turn those who fit into misfits, and vice versa.
This collection of essays on misfit children produces transmissible
motions across and engages in scholarly conversations that unfold
betwixt and between in order to make rigid concepts twist and
twirl, and ultimately fail to fit.
For the past 25 years Daniel Butler has lived in a sixteenth
century farmhouse in the Cambrian Mountains near Rhayader, where he
has kept hawks for almost as long. The Owl House, however, is his
account of his relationship with two wild birds, barn owls which
have nested at the farm over the years. In that time they have
become tame, allowing unusually close observation, and Butler is
able to record the lives of these two birds and his familiarity
with them in extraordinary detail. This intimate relationship
becomes the starting point for an exploration of how the landscape
around Butler's farmhouse - and further afield - has altered over
the years, and with it the fortunes of all kinds of wildlife, and
in particular those of birds. The changing face of the British
countryside is a story of habitat loss, human development and
increased traffic and roads; increased housing; noise pollution
(especially important for owls); changing farming techniques and
land use; the use of agrochemicals; and human indifference to the
effects of this. The Cambrian Mountains may be one of the most
remote and sparsely populated parts of Britain but it is not immune
to physical change and the loss of local tradition and ways of
living. The Owl House is a book of multiple but interwoven themes,
including pastoral writing; the relationship between man and bird;
environmental exploration. Daniel Butler's knowledge of birds, the
natural world and his particular locale meld these into an
evocative and informative book.
Just before midnight on April 14, 1912, the ocean liner Titanic
struck an iceberg. Less than three hours later, she lay at the
bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, having taken with her more than 1,500
of the roughly 2,200 people on board. Even now, a century later, no
other ship in history has attracted so much attention, stirred up
such powerful emotion, or accumulated as many legends. Unsinkable"
provides a fresh look at the Titanic 's incredible story. Following
the great ship from her conception to her fateful collision to the
ambitious attempts to salvage her right up to the present day,
Daniel Allen Butler draws on thirty years of research to explore
the tragedy and its aftermath in remarkable depth and detail. The
result is a must-read for anyone interested in the Titanic .
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Zoe's Bun (Paperback)
Suzanne Horwitz; E Danielle Butler
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