Author: J. M. Merrick
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: culture, strawberry
Number of Pages: 140
Published: 2008-11-14
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0559607210
ISBN-13: 9780559607219

Author: Marina Lewycka
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Keywords: novel, fields, strawberry
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-08-16
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1594201374
ISBN-13: 9781594201370

From the author of the international bestseller A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian comes a tender and hilarious novel about a crew of migrant workers from three continents who are forced to flee their English strawberry field for a journey across all of England in pursuit of their various dreams of a better future. Somewhere in the heart of the green and pleasant land called England is a valley filled with strawberries. A group of migrant workers, who hail from Eastern Europe, China, and Africa have come here to harvest them for delivery to British supermarkets, and end up living in t

Author: Darryl Strawberry
Publisher: Ecco
Keywords: way, finding, straw
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2010-05-01
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0061704210
ISBN-13: 9780061704215

Former baseball slugger Darryl Strawberry, whose achievements on the field were often overshadowed by his struggles off the field, recounts the highs, the lows, and the lessons learned along the way that allowed him to survive. The youngest son of Henry and Ruby Strawberry, Darryl grew up in one of Los Angeles’s toughest neighborhoods but channeled his energy into basketball and baseball. The New York Mets drafted him in 1980, and he was voted the National League Rookie of the Year in 1983. Strawberry went on to be the first National League player voted to the All-Star Game in each

Author: Marina Lewycka
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: fields, strawberry
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-04-29
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0143113550
ISBN-13: 9780143113553

The bestselling author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian is back with an “effervescent comedy” (The New Yorker) The follow up to her hugely popular first novel presents a Canterbury Tales–inspired picaresque that is also a biting satire of economic exploitation. When a ragtag international crew of migrant workers is forced to flee the strawberry fields they have been working in, they set off across England looking for employment. Displaying the same sense of compassion, social outrage, and gift for hilarity that she showed in A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, Mar

Author: Charles Snider
Publisher: Strawberry Bricks
Keywords: rock, progressive, guide, bricks, strawberry
Number of Pages: 364
Published: 2008-04-12
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 061517566X
ISBN-13: 9780615175669

Dig out that long lost box of vinyl records, slap on some headphones and travel back to the 1970s. Here’s your definitive guide to progressive rock, with band histories, musical synopses and critical commentary, all presented in the historical context of a timeline. Album by album, we’ll chart each release from the giant dinosaurs of the era and uncover eccentric Eurorock obscurities as we create the ultimate head music playlist. We’ll trip through concept records, indulgent solos and epic album-side long compositions in a definitive reappraisal of rock’s most cerebral

Author: Lee Reich
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Keywords: luscious, arbors, fruits, yard, paradise, edible, grape, hedges, strawberry, fruit, ground, covers, blueberry, landscaping
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2009-02-04
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 1603420967
ISBN-13: 9781603420969

Fruit trees, shrubs, and vines are true two-for-one plants. Many varieties are strikingly beautiful — well suited to doing double duty as delicious sources of sweet, organic fruit and as ornamental additions to the home landscape. Backyard fruit plants also tie in perfectly with the growing locavore movement. It’s difficult to find food that’s more local than one’s own backyard! "Luscious landscaping," as author Lee Reich calls it, takes fruit-bearing plants off the commercial farm and replants the prettiest and tastiest specimens in suburban and rural yards. Spring blosso

Authors:Stephen Church, Stephen Church, Ruth Harvey,
Publisher: Boydell Press
Keywords: strawberry, conference, sixth, papers, knighthood, medieval
Number of Pages: 282
Published: 1995-11-23
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0851156282
ISBN-13: 9780851156286

Studies treating a wide variety of aspects of knighthood. Topics include the way in which the word `knight’ has been used, studying the terminology and ritual concerned with `making a knight’; the circumstances and implications of the knighting of the social elite of England between 1066 and 1272; the difficulties of distinguishing between knight and clerk, as exemplified by Abelard’s multi-faceted image; the debt which Geoffrey de Charny’s treatise on chivalry owes to the ideas and ideals of knighthood in Arthurian prose romances; and the linguistic competence of the t