Cardinal Points

Literature & Fiction

Aleman, Vincent Orion

Poetry

Athena Press

<p>Reveries [rev-uh-reez]Loose musings; daydreams;The random thoughts of a poet.</p>

Reveries, Book I, With Art by William Blake

Avoiding rape, without putting yourself in protective custody

Molmen, Marcia E. M

Who is My Enemy?

Muriel, Joyce

Contemporary

The story of Harriot Mellon is a unique, individual and perceptive insight into a vanished world of deprivation and privilege. Joan Perkin's book is the amazing story of a remarkable woman: Harriot Mellon, the poor child of strolling players in the late eighteenth century, who rose to become a star at Drury Lane in the heyday of Sarah Siddons and Dorothy Jordan, and the protegee and second wife of Thomas Coutts the royal banker. Annoyed by his three daughters, all married into the aristocracy, who treated her badly, he left her the Bank, which she doubled in value in fifteen years. A famous society hostess, charitable to the poor yet familiar with "Prinny", Prince Regent and later George IV, and pursued as the richest widow in Britain by his brothers the royal dukes and other suitors, she married, secondly, the young Duke of St. Albans, appropriately a descendant of Nell Gwyn and Charles II, and so became "the Merry Duchess". Friend of Sir Walter Scott and satirised by Benjamin Disraeli as "Mrs. Millions", she was savagely attacked by the yellow press and the scurrilous cartoonists of the day, but never ceased her charities to deserving dependents and members of the acting profession down on their luck. Finally, she left her huge fortune to her youngest step-granddaughter Angela, who became Baroness Burdett-Coutts, the greatest philanthropist of the nineteenth century. Thus "the Merry Duchess" became fairy godmother by proxy to the Victorian poor. Joan Perkin is a women's historian, with well-known books on Women and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century England and on Victorian Women. A pioneer of the Welfare State, starting as an Inspector of National Insurance in 1948, she has had a varied career, in industrial relations in the rayon industry, as a magistrate, and a university teacher in a top-ten American university. As a latecomer to higher education, she used her experience to write an advice book for other

The Merry Duchess

Biographies & Memoirs

Perkin, Joan

Historical

Romantic Attraction

Ezedom, Lucklyn

Parenting & Relationships

POEMS OF PEAK AND DALE is a collection of poems on subjects associated with Derbyshire and the Peak District. The poems, which vary in form and style, refelect the author's love of his surroundings. They are grouped thematically. For example, some are inspired by the beautiful Derbyshire landscape and local places of interest. Famous people associated with the area are not neglected and there are poems, for example about Bonny Prince Charlie and the romantic Dorothy Vernon. The author has lived in the attractive town of Matlock for many years and has written books on a variety of subjects.

Poems of Peak and Dale

Robinson, Alan

Ruth and her friends are like any other kids - their main instinct is to have fun! So, when Ruth has her eleventh birthday party, everyone's invited. However, this is not just any ordinary group of friends . . . all of them are unique in their own way. Some might call theirs 'Special Needs', but they prefer just special friends . . . The author explores the issues surrounding disability in a sensitive and clear way, enhancing the reader's understanding of those young people who don't see their impairments as a problem, only the way society fails to deal with them.

Ruth's Party

Gillespie, Desi

Children's Books

<p>Trevor Vanderputt is a household name in Calcutta Anglo-Indian circles - a coach's coach, teacher of future champions, Bengal State Team Selector, and Director of Coaching, ACT Hockey Association, Canberra, Australia. Judge for yourself from the list of Australian greats featured in this book: Mike Nobbs; Don Smart; Terry Walsh; Bob Andrew; Merv Adams; Syd Johnson; Richard Charlesworth; Dick Aggiss. And that is only half of Trevor's remarkable legacy! For before Australia, there was India - unparalleled Olympic custodian of hockey glory. Dhyan Chand, Leslie Claudius, Joe Gallibardy, Dick Carr, Balbir and Gurbux are some of the hockey legends of the sub-continent to figure in this book. HOCKEY'S ODYSSEY is biography, autobiography and chronicle. In the end, it isn't only about hockey. It's about life and sportsmanship in two hockey-loving nations - India and Australia. Trevor Vanderputt has always loved hockey. His contribution at many levels of hockey will probably never be fully appreciated, except for those who knew. I am fortunate enough to be one of them. I am sure his book will raise a lot of interest, be full of great memories and as usual with Trevor, just sprinkled with a small amount of controversy. Richard Aggiss, AM Australian Coach '81-88, AIS Head Coach '84-94. Had only every hockey enthusiast like Vanderputt put together their lifetime experience, the hockey world would have had plenty of useful literature. But not many have done that. Vanderputt deserves cornucopia of encomiums for just doing the same. I repeat it is a humble hockey lover's lifetime story, told in a humbler way. K. Arumugam, Recognised Chronicler of Indian Hockey.</p>

Hockey's Odyssey

Vanderputt, Trevor

Pink Feathers, Murky Pools and a Witch: A Lellaland Adventure

Masters, Hugh

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