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Biscuit feeds the pets
Biscuit the puppy finds his own way to help feed the pets at Mr. Gray's Pet Shop.
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Suckling from the Crocodile's Tit: Wildlife and Nation Formation in Australian Narratives
In his introduction to Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature, Seamus Deane suggests that to escape the ethnic stereotyping created under colonialism, Irish writers produced \"a remarkable literature in which the attempt to overcome and replace the colonial experience with something other, something that would be native and yet not provincial, was a dynamic and central energy.\" This attempt to subvert the stereotypes created by the Empire with a local idea of national communal character is beset with difficulty even in those regions free from systemic genocide. In a nation such as Australia, however, this attempt to define a national character is even more problematic. Here, Highfield examines wildlife and nation formation in Australian narratives.
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The simple art of flying
Alastair the African grey parrot is adopted by elderly dance-enthusiast and pie-baker Albertina Plopky and his sister, Aggie, by twelve-year-old Fritz, spoiling his plans to away fly with Aggie. Told in Alastair, Albertina, and Fritz's voices.
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Reading the \Remembered World\: Carceral Architecture and Cultural Mnemonics in Peter Carey's \Illywhacker\
This essay explores linkages between architecture and memory in the context of Australia's penal-colonial past and postcolonial present. Examining how built spaces \"house\" the past, the essay reads the carcerai architecture in Peter Carey's Illywhacker as a counter-memory, a haunting reminder that the edifice of Australia has been built on (cryptic) lies.
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The time for murder is meow
\"Crishell 'Shell' McMillan sees the cancellation of her TV series as a blessing in disguise. The former actress can now take over her late aunt's pet shop, the Purr N Bark, and do something she loves. While getting the shop ready for re-opening, Shell is asked to loan her aunt's Cary Grant posters to the local museum for an exhibit. She finds the prospect exciting--until a museum board member, who had a long-standing feud with Shell's aunt, votes against it. When she discovers the board member dead in the museum, Shell becomes suspect number one. Can she, her Siamese cat Kahlua, and her new sidekick--her aunt's Persian Purrday--find the real culprit, or will her latest career go up in kitty litter?\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Illywhacker (1985)
WITHIllywhacker, Careyʹs success achieved international dimensions. It was published first in the UK and USA, something of an irony for a novel exposing cultural imperialism.¹ The University of Queensland Press acquired the Australian rights and implemented a wide advertising campaign using international responses as promotion. The effect was to increase Careyʹs profile and sales dramatically in Australia and abroad.² The novel won three of the major Australian literary prizes and was shortlisted for the British Booker Prize.
Illywhackerexamines twentieth-century Australian history with the savage humour and fantasy of the earlier fiction now placed within an epic framework. The
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The Wisconsin State Journal Doug Moe column
Three different members of the same family passed the baton across the decades in helping care for Camp Randall Stadium, the Field House and finally the Kohl Center. Of getting from the Alumni Association's Arlie Mucks a slab of the Camp Randall bleachers when they were replaced in 1973.
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The Hawk Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Rex Troute column
Instead of competing in swimsuits and gowns, each state rolls out its best economic development pitches in order to draw manufacturing and industry inside its borders. Sandy beaches, palm trees and no state income tax can cast a spell on any snowbird eyeing warmer climes.
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