Barbed Wire and Roses
Barbed Wire and Roses

Author: Peter Yeldham

Publisher: For Pity Sake Publishing

Published: 2016-12-12

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 0992521882

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From the bestselling author of Above the Fold, Dragons in the Forest and The Last Double Sunrise. Like many young and idealistic Australian men, Stephen Conway rushed to enlist in the ‘the war to end all wars’ in 1914. After a hasty marriage, Stephen leaves his new wife with a baby on the way and is shipped to Gallipoli. Very soon, though, the promise of adventure and glory of battle vanish completely as the reality of war sets in. After four nightmarish years, Stephen is the lone survivor of his platoon fighting in the trenches of France’s bloody battlefields. Traumatised and exhausted he inexplicably disappears and the official record of his life comes to an abrupt end – that is until his grandson, Patrick, discovers his diary more than 80 years later. This personal account of the horrors of World War I propels Patrick on a journey to uncover the truth of his grandfather’s fate – which is more disturbing than he could have ever imagined. Set against true historical events, Barbed Wire and Roses deftly brings together past and present, ancestor and descendant, in a gripping tale of war and its aftermath.

Roses of Blood on Barbwire Vines
Roses of Blood on Barbwire Vines

Author: D. L. Snell

Publisher: Permuted Press

Published: 2007-04

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0978970713

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Zombies have devoured mankind. And the few survivors would be better off dead because a clan of vampires, bloodthirsty and vicious, have captured the remnants of humanity for livestock. In an apartment building barricaded with wrecked cars, concrete rubble, and snarls of barbwire, the vampires breed lobotomized amputees. Ann, the secret blood slave of the maternity doctor, has evaded this fate, yet her sister Ellie has not. Though she longs to escape, Ann cannot abandon her sibling and unborn niece. But she may have to if she wants to survive. The living dead have found a weak spot in the barricade and are quickly invading the building. Shade, the vampire monarch, defends her kingdom, while Frost, Shade's general, plans to migrate to an island where they can breed and hunt humans. In their path stands a legion of corpses, just now evolving into something far more lethal, something with tentacles--and that's just the beginning.

A Bouquet of Barbed Wire
A Bouquet of Barbed Wire

Author: Andrea Newman

Publisher: Profile Books

Published: 2010-09-02

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1847656544

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Peter Manson's apparently successful life is turned upside down when his beloved teenage daughter Prue reveals she's pregnant by her teacher, Gavin Sorenson. The very heart of the family is threatened as Peter has an intuitive sense that Gavin is on a personal quest for revenge. As Peter becomes consumed by anxiety for his daughter, hatred of his son in law and lust for his secretary, his relationship with his wife, Cassie, becomes increasingly distant. With Peter's marriage at breaking point and facing financial ruin, it's only a matter of time before secrets from the past return to haunt their lives. Famously controversial, the 1970s TV adaptation of A Bouquet of Barbed Wire was watched by 26 million people. ITV's new version is written by Guy Andrews (Lost in Austen, Prime Suspect) and will star Trevor Eve, Hermione Norris and Imogen Poots.

Briar Rose
Briar Rose

Author: Jane Yolen

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2002-03-15

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780765342300

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An American journalist is trapped in Nazi Germany in this variation on the Sleeping Beauty theme.

Thunder Rose
Thunder Rose

Author: Jerdine Nolen

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780152060060

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Thunder Rose vows to grow up to be more than just big and strong, thank you very kindly--and boy, does she ever But when a whirling storm on a riotous rampage threatens, has Rose finally met her match?

Cosmologies
Cosmologies

Author: P. K. Page

Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher

Published: 2003-06

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9781567922455

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P.K. Page writes ... poetry unencumbered by the freight of biography or gossip, poems that don't invite speculation about the poet or her personae, but arise from a bigger sense of the world, and our more universal concerns. ... She's a poet with great empathy for humanity. Her poems reach always for the light in darkness; in this sense they are moral poems. --The New Brunswick Reader.

Rose Blanche (Paperback)
Rose Blanche (Paperback)

Author: Christophe Gallaz

Publisher: The Creative Company

Published: 2011-02-02

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780898123852

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During World War II, a young German girl's curiosity leads her to discover something far more terrible than the day-to-day hardships and privations that she and her neighbors have experienced.

The Purpose of Futility
The Purpose of Futility

Author: Clare Rhoden

Publisher: Apollo Books

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9781742586625

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In The Purpose of Futility, Clare Rhoden surveys Australian Great War narratives, demonstrating their particularly Australian features which help to explain the unique and disputed position of the Great War in Australian history.--Provided by publisher

Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope

Author: Patricia Kathleen Page

Publisher: The Porcupine's Quill

Published: 2014-05-14

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 112300384X

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The name P. K. Page is synonymous with ‘artist’: she won the Governor General’s award for poetry in 1957, was appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1999, and her paintings are found in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario, among others. Her voice is luminous, her focus grounded in reality, and her mastery of poetic form is nigh unmatched in Canadian literature. Selected by Zailig Pollock, the poetry in Kaleidoscope is elegant, technically exquisite and full of marvels, and the chronological presentation reveals Page’s growth as a poet over her long lifetime. This collection is more than a mere re-publishing of previous work; Kaleidoscope includes poetry hitherto unpublished, and Page involved herself with the process of editing certain pieces until her death in January 2010. Kaleidoscope: Selected Poems is the first in a series of volumes to be published over the next ten years as a complement to an online hypermedia edition of the Collected Works of P. K. Page. The online edition is intended for scholarly research, while Kaleidscope offers a beautiful and inspiring text to be enjoyed by those who love and wonder at the achievement of Canada’s greatest poet.