The Peacock

The Peacock

Author: Isabel Bogdan

Publisher: V&Q Books

Published: 2021-03-01

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 3863913086

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Take a dilapidated castle in the Scottish Highlands; add a peacock gone rogue, a group of bankers on a teambuilding trip, an overwhelmed psychologist, a housekeeper with a broken arm, and an ingenious cook; get Lord and Lady McIntosh to try and keep it all together; and top it off with all sorts of animals – soon no one will know exactly what's going on. Selling 500,000 copies, Isabel Bogdan's book is a big hitter in Germany – and now it's coming home to roost.


The Parable of the Peacock

The Parable of the Peacock

Author: Brent Bohlen

Publisher: Salvage America Publishing

Published: 2019-11-05

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13: 9781733575799

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The Parable of the Peacock takes a satirical look at the state of American politics as we approach the critical 2020 presidential election. Written in the style of a children's picture book, the work's rhyming couplets are best enjoyed read aloud. The book serves up ridicule to deserving parties, but it saves a heaping plateful for the Mocker-in-Chief.


The Peacock's Stone

The Peacock's Stone

Author: Faith Richardson

Publisher: Fox Song Books

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780974498904

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Eleven-year-old Shahumin, who has just begun learning the wisdom of the elders, befriends an odd-looking youth whom she meets in the woods, not realizing he is an Other, one of the people not created by YAWH, and an enemy of her people.


The Peacock's Pearl

The Peacock's Pearl

Author: Sally Odgers

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-09-16

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1326790765

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I was hanging out with Elizabeth when I saw the boy again. Not just a boy, but that boy, the one you sort-of notice, but only to think, hey, wasn't he here yesterday? He glided by Elizabeth's hedge on his bike once too often, giving that sliding sideways glance he hoped (I expect) looked casual, disinterested and, oh, there's that chick again, hanging out with her big sister...or is it her auntie? Too old to be a friend. Elizabeth is my great-great-great-great-great granny, for your information, Bike Boy, I thought-spoke to him on the fourth bypass of the week. He toed his pedal down and skimmed away before getting into some serious calf-work as he headed up the hill towards Caroline Court. Cat Mahal has an ordinary life in the suburbs. She is also an ethical witch


Ruffling the Peacock’S Feathers

Ruffling the Peacock’S Feathers

Author: David Howard Day

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2010-09-15

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 1453572104

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Book description: In fifteen stories unified by a piquant sense of place and vivid dialogue,readers are immediately taken away from Indias teeming cities to a single mud-walled village, "Saratpur", and its rich panoply of memorable characters. The author introduces you to his Hindu and Muslim neighbors,their customs, family life, conflicts and their hopes for the future. These are timeless stories of family feuds, the force of the supernatural,marriage rituals, struggles of life in both drought and monsoon, the role of caste and the perils of revenge. Read along with us as we meet cooks, Indian civil servants, blacksmiths, lawyers, village sweepers, cycle-repairmen, camel drivers, local politicians and others whose lifestyles are seldom highlighted in much current literature about India. The first-person perspective I adopt offers frank intimacy and a freshness that comes from being a young American living for two years in a small village on the cusp of dramatic social and cultural change.


The Peacock's Feather

The Peacock's Feather

Author: Sarah Woodhouse

Publisher: Romaunce Books

Published: 2023-01-28

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13:

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Unlucky in love, Dr Alexander French, a gruff but likeable surgeon travels to Suffolk to start a new life. There, in a small country village, he meets the rich and impulsive Jardine Savage newly arrived from Jamaica and the new owner of Ramillies, the elegant but now dilapidated ancestral home of the Raynor family. Nearby lives Lizzie Raynor a feisty and brilliant artist who at one stroke lost her father, home and lover and is now forced to be one of Jardine’s tenants. Neither she nor the neighbourhood takes kindly to Ramillies new and exotic occupants. ‘This has been an unlucky house since my father died,’ she said quietly to herself, ‘or before that, since … since he killed the peacock. They all said it would bring bad luck. I used to tell myself it was all the fault of the peacock; it was a kind of comfort. But now this: perhaps the house is cursed after all.’ ‘A delightful book’ The Times ‘A delightful novel, full of humour and poignancy and rich in period detail’ Douglas Reeman, Novelist Winner Boots Romantic Novel of the Year Award


The Peacock's Cry

The Peacock's Cry

Author: Karuna Sivasailam

Publisher: unisun publications

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9788188234233

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Features twelve poets on a single theme, India and things that evoke our land and the myriad of different ways to live and die.


The Peacock Room

The Peacock Room

Author: Linda Merrill

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 0300076118

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En gennemgang af Smithsonian Institutions Peacock Room, indrettet af J.A.M. Whistler (1834-1903)