Title Wounded bird of paradise / Mary Essinger.

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London : New York : Jessica Kingsley, 2004.

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Description	1 online resource (142 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
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Summary	When Mabelline sets out on a journey to visit her pen pal Rosa, she doesn't expect to be staying quite so long as she does. Mabelline quickly takes Rosa and her son Carlos to her heart, but she knows right away there is something different about the boy. When tragedy occurs, Mabelline is forced to be responsible for Carlos as he struggles to fit into a world based on rules he doesn't understand, and finds himself in serious trouble. Set in a tropical world of beautiful flowers and dazzling sun, Wounded Bird of Paradise is a story about love in an unlikely family, threaded with problems faced b.
Contents	Cover; Wounded Bird of Paradise; Acknowledgements; Contents; Prologue; 1 Mabelline; 2 Flower Shop; 3 Dinner for Two; 4 Rosa's Bedroom; 5 The Boy Carlos; 6 Storm; 7 Ros a i s I l l; 8 Carlos Starts Work; 9 Second Day at Work; 10 Carlos at Home; 11 Trouble at Work; 12 Jemina; 13 The Tailor's Shop; 14 The Nursery Sheds; 15 Carlos Buys a Tuxedo; 16 Party; 17 Mabelline's Club; 18 Police Station; 19 Supervision Order; 20 In the Café; 21 Plant Inspection; 22 Perspectives; 23 Goats; 24 Brown's Hotel; 25 Goodbye Carlos; 26 Airport.
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Subject	Asperger's syndrome -- Patients -- Fiction.
	Asperger's syndrome -- Patients.
	Tropics.
Genre/Form	Fiction.
Subject	Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction.
	Loss (Psychology)
	Female friendship.
	Mothers and sons -- Fiction.
	Mothers and sons.
	Pen pals -- Fiction.
	Pen pals.
	Female friendship -- Fiction.
	Tropics -- Fiction.
	Boys -- Fiction.
	Boys.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Domestic fiction.
	Psychological fiction.
	Psychological fiction.
	Domestic fiction.
Subject	Women's friendships.
	Boys.
Genre/Form	Novels.
	Novels.
Other Form:	Print version: Essinger, Mary, 1932- Wounded bird of paradise. London : New York : Jessica Kingsley, 2004 1843102560 (DLC) 2003026444 (OCoLC)53900169
ISBN	1423709845 (electronic book)
	9781423709848 (electronic book)
	1846420121
	9781846420122
	1280267194
	9781280267192
	1843102560 (paperback)
	9781843102564 (paperback)

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