Download or read book Chocolagrams The Secret Language of Chocolates written by Bruno D'Arcy and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An amusing and highly entertaining little book about the romantic and not-so-innocent symbolism of chocolates.
Download or read book A Dark History of Chocolate written by Emma Kay and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dark History of Chocolate looks at our long relationship with this ancient ‘food of the Gods’. The book examines the impact of the cocoa bean trade on the economies of Britain and the rest of Europe, as well as its influence on health, cultural and social trends over the centuries. Renowned food historian Emma Kay takes a look behind the façade of chocolate – first as a hot drink and then as a sweet – delving into the murky and mysterious aspects of its phenomenal global growth, from a much-prized hot beverage in pre-Colombian Central America to becoming an integral part of the cultural fabric of modern life. From the seductive corridors of Versailles, serial killers, witchcraft, medicine and war to its manufacturers, the street sellers, criminal gangs, explorers and the arts, chocolate has played a significant role in some of the world’s deadliest and gruesome histories. If you thought chocolate was all Easter bunnies, romance and gratuity, then you only know half the story. This most ancient of foods has a heritage rooted in exploitation, temptation and mystery. With the power to be both life-giving and ruinous.
Download or read book Seducing Mr Darcy written by Gwyn Cready and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-07-29 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second hilarious and sexy novel from author Gwyn Cready, a divorcée suffering from "carnal deprivation" has a racy one-night stand with one of literature's most irresistible heroes -- and learns that you really can't judge a book by its cover. Mr. Darcy just isn't Flip Allison's style. She prefers novels with hot sex on the bathroom sink to the mannerly, high-tension longing of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. That is, until she pays a visit to Madame K, who promises a therapeutic massage with an opportunity to "Imagine Yourself in Your Favorite Book." Somehow, on the way to a sizzling sink-top session with a Venetian Adonis, Flip lands right in the middle of Regency England -- and dangerously close to handsome Mr. Darcy. So close, in fact, that she discovers a side of him even Jane Austen couldn't have imagined. Waking from her massage, Flip is on top of the world and ready for her upcoming book club -- that is, until she notices a new scene in which Darcy and spunky heroine Lizzy Bennet are arguing over...Flip Allison? Her rapturous liaison with Darcy has had disastrous consequences for Austen's characters -- not to mention millions of Pride and Prejudice fans! Flip has twenty-four hours to put the story back on course, and Magnus Knightley, a sexy but imperious scholar whose brooding good looks and infuriating arrogance are decidedly Darcy-like, is the only one who can help. The only problem is, Flip can't keep her hands off him, either....
Download or read book Seeds of the Willow written by Chong Lewe and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the few early Korean foreign students in America, the author has attempted to describe his experience in America as a foreign student, and eventually as a naturalized Asian-American in the 'Melting Pot'that is called the American society. This book is also his Personal Testimonial, which attests to the fact that the author has not ever personally experienced any blatant Racial Discrimination against him in all of his fifty-years of living in these United States, as a student and as a professional person, from Kalamazoo, Michigan to Houston, Texas, and from Walla Walla, Washington to Gaithersburg, Maryland. "Through the author's own personal story, he felt compelled to tell the world that there are many happy minority immigrants' stories, in contrast to many of the complaints and polarizing arguments about how minority groups are discriminated against and are deprived of the opportunity to improve their lot by the majority group in American society." It is true also that there exists one form or another of prejudices and discriminations in the American society. However, it is this author's conviction and experience that there are no insurmountable obstacles for minority immigrants to achieve their dreams and goals in this promised-land of ours, if one strives hard enough. It is also the belief of this author that in order to fully appreciate the opportunities and to make the most of those opportunities, one must be assimilated into American society completely and whole-heartedly without reservation. This does not mean to lose one's heritage completely, but rather to contribute to the unique qualities of each heritage to making of the 'Whole' in the true spirit of our nation, 'E PLURIBUS UNUM'.
Download or read book The City of Ice written by K. M. McKinley and published by Solaris. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Little Bit of Grey written by Meghna Gulati and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: this, is a journey through stories. the living, the loving, the losing and the learning. raw, hard-hitting, jarring. no different than fifty three clocks stopping all at once.
Download or read book Escape from Coolville written by Sherman Sutherland and published by . This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L.J. Davenport is the best telephone psychic at the Appalachian TeleServices call center, if best means most persuasive while offering outlandish advice. When a self-appointed karmic enforcer is among the group of new hires, will L.J. foresee how much his world is about to change? Subconscious monster truck announcers, post-teen angst and cubicles full of telephone psychics--Escape from Coolville has that and more. --So much more. A meth-addicted wookie. --Chewbacca. A beautiful young woman. --Of course. A rogue karma policeman bent on revenge. --Or is he an eccentric holy man here to save your soul? Escape from Coolville follows the zany chain of events that are set in motion when a telephone psychic's flippant advice is taken to heart. --Read it now.
Download or read book Savage Wilder written by Veronica Eden and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Secrecy and Deception written by Donald E. Finegold and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secrecy and Deception, a Samantha Robbins mystery novel, pits the FBI and local police authorities from several cities against a well-entrenched Boston mob dealing in gambling, prostitution, drugs and murder. Samantha Robbins, the clairvoyant Private Inve
Download or read book Companions Nich ooni written by Jed Bryan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of two young men put together as companions by Mormon Church powers in an isolated and largely ignored corner of Arizona. Both, according to dogma, are dual beings, bringers of the holy Word to the Navajo people, and homosexuals, monsters in disguise, murderers of their own posterity. It is a tale of their fight for self-recognition and ultimately, self-determination in a society that either ignores their existence or vehemently wishes them dead. It is also a myriad of other fights, other disasters between people, organizations, traditions and nature itself, swirling around them in a macabre dance of destruction and death. The difference between these unknown people and events and the world at large is scale and the essential things individuals have in their favor against survival of the fittest attitudes and realities: the ability to think, to analyze, and to make choices for themselves.
Download or read book Ripples and Shadows written by Stephen Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History is Professor James Postlethwaite's passion, both personally and professionally. When he, by chance, hears of some old documents that have been festering in the attic of a country house for two centuries he is keen to study them; manorial records together with journals written by the lord and lady, a first-hand view into the life of the Georgian privileged. But he is unprepared for what he finds, for what he reads
Download or read book Trick Me Twice written by Becca Steele and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keep my head down and make it through my final year of school without attracting any attention. That was my plan.The thing about plans? They change.One day, I was an invisible loner, the next, my name was on everyone's lips.Why?I caught the attention of the wrong person.I tricked Carter Blackthorne, the king of Alstone High.He found out.And now?Now, he's making me pay. It's time for you to pay the price.You tricked me once, but you won't trick me twice. Ready or not, here I come... Trick Me Twice is a standalone new adult high school romance with bullying and enemies to lovers themes. This book contains mature situations and content.
