How Nadine and Libby Escaped Destiny

A precocious child plays dance lesson in the back of an old trailer. Her mother watches from within. In the midst of the bittersweet scene, their lives are about to change forever, and whatever else may happen the image of an innocent child softly singing will haunt you...How Nadine and Libby Escaped Destiny is a short story, a slice of life that looks at the scene rarely focused on when life-changing events may occur. A child is playing and a mother watches her as Fate barrels down to meet them. In the midst of this bittersweet scene, whatever else may happen the image of an innocent child softly singing will haunt you...
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Vampires Don't Cry: Blood Samples

Vampires Don't Cry: Blood Samples is a free sampler of the vampire worlds and writing styles of Ian Hall and April L. Miller.It includes;New Blood 1: Donny KelpNew Blood 2: The Turning of Alan RandSegments/samples of Original Sin, Vampire High School, and Connecticut Vampire series.The first four chapters of Vampire High School (Vampires Don't Cry: Book 1)The first four chapters of A ConneVampires Don't Cry: Blood Samples is a free sampler of the vampire worlds and writing styles of Ian Hall and April L. Miller.It includes;The whole of New Blood 1: Donny KelpThe whole of New Blood 2: The Turning of Alan RandSegments/samples of Original Sin, (the Valerie Lidowitz story)The first four chapters of Vampire High School (Vampires Don't Cry: Book 1)The first four chapters of A Connecticut Vampire in King Arthur's Court (Connecticut Vampire 1)
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From Scratch

Big personalities, high drama—the extraordinary behind-the-scenes story of the Food Network, now about to celebrate its twentieth anniversary: the business, media, and cultural juggernaut that changed the way America thinks about food. In October 1993, a tiny start-up called the Food Network debuted to little notice. Twenty years later, it is in 100 million homes, approaches a billion dollars a year in revenue, and features a galaxy of stars whose faces and names are as familiar to us as our own family’s. But what we don’t know about them, and the people behind them, could fill a book. Based upon extensive inside access, documents, and interviews with hundreds of executives, stars, and employees all up and down the ladder, Allen Salkin’s book is an exhilarating roller-coaster ride from chaos to conquest (and sometimes back). As Salkin takes us inside the conference rooms, studios, homes, restaurants, and after-hours meetings, we see a salty Julia...
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Monster's Chef

From award-winning, Los Angeles Times bestselling author Jervey Tervalon comes a highly clever, twisting tale of suspense involving drugs, perverse sex, and poisonous celebrity worship, in which a man trying to rebuild his life becomes entangled in dangerous and deadly circumstances.Once upon a time, Gibson was a successful chef with a popular restaurant and a beautiful loving wife. He was also a drug addict with a habit that nearly destroyed him.Fresh out of rehab, he's now using his skills to feed his fellow halfway house residents budget gourmet meals--a talent that attracts two shady women who offer him a job cooking for a music superstar named Monster. Though Gibson doesn't have a good feeling about his seeming good fortune, he needs a job.Arriving on Monster's compound, Gibson senses that trouble is still on his tail. First, he's asked to sign a confidentiality agreement. Then he meets the compound's gardener, who warns him not to go outside...
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White Bread

What can the history of America's one-hundred-year love-hate relationship with sliced white bread tell us about contemporary efforts to change the way we eat? Fluffy industrial loaves are about as far from slow, local, and organic as you can get, but the story of social reformers, food experts, and diet gurus who believed that getting people to eat certain food could restore the nation's decaying physical, moral, and social fabric will sound very familiar. White Bread teaches us that when Americans debate what one should eat, they are also wrestling with larger questions of race, class, immigration, and gender. As Bobrow-Strain traces the story of bread, from the first factory loaf to the latest gourmet pain au levain, he shows how efforts to champion "good food" reflect dreams of a better society--even as they reinforce stark social hierarchies.In the early twentieth century, the factory-baked loaf heralded a new future, a world away from the hot, dusty, "dirty"...
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Funny Stories Shade Shorts 2.0

Funny Stories is part of the Shades Short 2.0 series and features four themed short stories each by different Shades authors. These books are perfect for readers with less stamina (just 64pp each) or those simply looking for a quick read. <br><br>Shades Short 2.0 is published by Ransom Publishing, a specialist publisher for reluctant readers and struggling readers. <br><br>Funny Stories is ideal for reluctant readers aged 12+ with a reading ages of 9 - 10.<br>
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Whisky

'The finest whisky book ever' – Dave Broom'If I could take only one whisky book to a desert island it would be Aeneas MacDonald's Whisky' – Charles MacLean'This is a small volume but there are plenty who will love it. It is airy, witty, full of sound knowledge and practical wisdom' – The New York TimesThis is – in the opinion of many whisky writers and experts – the finest whisky book ever written. It is certainly the first written from the point of view of the consumer and is thus historically significant. But more than that, poetic and polemic in style and with its emphasis on the importance of single malt whisky and its concern to protect and inform the consumer, it remains fresh and relevant to the interests of today's whisky drinker. It is a remarkably prophetic book, and with Ian Buxton's shrewd commentary and analysis, combined for the first time with period illustrations, it is brought bang up to date for...
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All the Trouble You Need

Jervey Tervalon delivered "a marvelous read" (USA TODAY) in Dead Above Ground, his national bestselling novel of a troubled Southern family. Now his literary landscape shifts to the West Coast, in this compelling portrayal of a young black university professor living life on his own terms—a life entangled in the complex relationships with the women who desire him. All Jordan Davis wants is a smooth ride, speeding his Triumph along the 101, living the beautiful life among the beautiful people of Santa Barbara. But trouble seems to find him at every turn in the road. There's Trisha, the seductive twenty-two-year-old virgin from the glamorous foothills...Mary, the angry white girl whose defiance is a definite turn-on...and Daphne, an exotic, forbidden student, and keeper of shadowy secrets. They all want to define him, limit him, turn him into what they want him to be. But for Jordan, the ultimate question is what does he want out of life — and can a...
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Bon Appetempt: A Coming-of-Age Story (with Recipes!)

LUNCH IN PARIS meets ADULTING in this funny and poignant memoir about collapsing cakes and coming of age in your twenties and thirties.
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Festivus

A brand-new and revised edition of the hilarious guide to the national anti-holiday made famous by Seinfeld, complete with never-before-seen material, photos, and illustrations on how to prepare and enjoy your very own Festivus.
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The Food Explorer

The true adventures of David Fairchild, a late-nineteenth-century food explorer who traveled the globe and introduced diverse crops like avocados, mangoes, seedless grapes—and thousands more—to the American plateIn the nineteenth century, American meals were about subsistence, not enjoyment. But as a new century approached, appetites broadened, and David Fairchild, a young botanist with an insatiable lust to explore and experience the world, set out in search of foods that would enrich the American farmer and enchant the American eater.Kale from Croatia, mangoes from India, and hops from Bavaria. Peaches from China, avocados from Chile, and pomegranates from Malta. Fairchild's finds weren't just limited to food: From Egypt he sent back a variety of cotton that revolutionized an industry, and via Japan he introduced the cherry blossom tree, forever brightening America's capital. Along the way, he was arrested, caught diseases, and bargained with island...
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Fair Game

It's 2074. Football is only played on screen - and in prison. That's where Billy B learnt to play. Now he wants to play a real football match. But he's playing a dangerous game.
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