Bøger af Margaret Sutherland

Deceptively gentle, Margaret Sutherland's stories hide an undercurrent of sensuality, grit and purpose. Here are seven stories with a medical or nursing unifying theme, which take on the challenging life stages - from infancy to ageing and death. The bedside manner of a charge nurse, abrasive humour from patients ravaged with pain, and hard-edged pragmatic action take the reader behind the bed curtains in hospitals and homes where all stories are personal and heart-catching.

For use in schools and libraries only. A child lists all the things for which he is thankful, especially at Thanksgiving.

Can there be two more different women than Ruth, a vibrant Israeli writer who grew up amid gunfire and grenades, and long-married Barbara, living and painting in her Australian home town? Ruth's independence and her passion for Israel's political cause introduce conflict into the artistic world of Heath and Barbara Barnes. Ruth enters their close, humdrum atmosphere just as Barbara declares war on a life she now sees as subservient and controlled. Perhaps she just craves attention and respect, but Heath can't understand her needs. The newcomer is drawn in to fill a growing rift, until sociable lunches and cosy picnics turn awkward and falter. 'Innocence can be dangerous, ' Ruth points out to her friend. 'What do you mean?' 'We can't deny the dark side's never far away.' Touching and relevant to contemporary fiction readers, Leaving Gaza is a dramatic portrait of women with different pasts in contrasting locations, who confront doubts about their separate fates.

Enjoy a collection of this New Zealand author's work during her years in Australia. Memoir, new short stories and reprints, and extracts from four Australian-set novels, form a sampler of her characteristic empathy, compassion and humour. Margaret Sutherland's characters live in an everyday world where they travel, work and earn. We know these men and women; they might be ourselves. In language described by Kirkus Reviews as graceful and eloquent, her writing leads us through the glories and reverses of human experience. In memoir, she reflects on themes of family bonds, of work and its value, of romantic love and death. The short stories explore the challenges of teenage years and youth, through maturity, late love, parting and death. Fantasy and dreams; love and loss; youth and the road to age - we have been there, we remember and we understand. Finally, brief backgrounds and extracts from her four recent novels provide a tantalising glimpse of further reading available to the lover of a good book.

Early years and primary settings are increasingly required to identify and challenge their gifted pupils. This book, by a hugely popular author, explains how to do just that and provides lots of activities and guidance.

Thanksgiving Is for Giving Thanks has been a perennial best seller since its publication in 2000! Now this sweet follow-up is sure to ?hit the spot? for another holiday?the one on February 14th. Candy hearts, flowers, boxes of chocolate, sure! But most of all, Valentine?s Day is to say ?I LOVE YOU,? loud and clear. In this sweet tale, a little girl makes a special valentine for everyone

Australian romance writer Cathy Carruthers has been avoiding men in the wake of a painful break-up, but when she meets award-winning literary novelist David Hillier, neither can resist their powerful mutual desire. But her ex is hunting her down, and her grandmother's serious accident means Cathy is landed with a slew of responsibilities, including the care of a tiny and courageous chihuahua, Pixel.Meanwhile, David has his own problems: writer's block, the challenge of finding acceptable housing for his father, and the care of his father's elderly yet devoted guide dog. Pressures build on the couple. How can they possibly build a life together?

At twenty-two, Shelby Summers is trying to understand why she attracts men who don't respect her. Her traumatic adolescence has left scars. How can she find romance with a loving partner? But then she is rescued from death by a mysterious stranger... Nathan Monroe, a rural vet, has moved to the city with his four-year-old daughter Caity, seeking to forge a new life. And when he offers Shelby a job as Caity's nanny, she dares to hope for the same...

Sydney, Australia is hot and sultry in more ways than one when a tall, handsome prince fixes the newest lady in his court with a magnetic gaze. Who could say no to a prince-especially a charmer like Will Bradshaw? Vacationing nurse Caitlin has to wonder about the charismatic man she meets at a reenactment masquerade. And Will wonders too, if he might have finally found the woman to banish the hurts of years gone by. But what if the one ill-judged mistake of Caitlin's past happens to be the single fault he can't accept?

Elisabet Delbrueck (1876-1967) was one of a number of Germans who came to New Zealand in the late 1930s. Unlike most, she had not intended to emigrate but was touring the country when World War II broke out. This study explores her early life, her marriage into a prominent German family and her qualification as an artist.