Download or read book Coffee House Confessions written by Ellaraine Lockie and published by . This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coffee House Confessions is a collection of poems written in and about coffee houses throughout the world. "I know no one else who manages to combine quantity of poems with quality the way Ellaraine Lockie does. She is a font of creative ideas and brings the ultimate in craft and experience to the realizing of those products of inspiration, observation, and research. I admire her work immensely." GERALD LOCKLIN, Professor Emiritus of English at California State University, Long Beach "This collection deserves a wide audience...once coffee houses were locales for galvanizing live poetry readings, now we can achieve almost the same nirvana by reading this witty book." Christine Pacosz, FutureCycle Press "...a very well done collection of poems... there's something for everyone in this collection. If you love contemporary poetry, you are sure to find some gems here that speak to you. If you don't know if you love contemporary poetry, this might be a good place to start finding out." Marcia Meara, Bookin' It "...a really great read." Jessie Carty, Review Wrap-Up, jessiecarty.com

Download or read book Whitecup Confessions written by Adina Gallegos and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spilling the beans on a Coffee House Giant

Download or read book Fifty Shades of Green Or Coffeehouse Confessions of the Uncommon Joe written by Judith Sessler and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-09 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four-thirty in the morning was an ungodly time of day in mid-February. It was dark. It was cold. There wasn't a single, solitary person on the road apart from an occasional drunk or delivery man...and Randy. As assistant manager, she was on her way to open up the local coffeehouse. It was the place where the early risers, the ones who desperately needed a cup of coffee to jump-start their day, would congregate. Randy's car was particularly persnickety that morning. After the initial click-click-click, the motor turned over and she cranked up the heater, even though she knew it would never actually heat up the car more than lukewarm. She really needed a new a new car and it was on her agenda: after she paid this semester's college tuition for her son, patched the roof on her 150 year-old house, paid off the new water heater... Yes, she really needed a new car. Randy was always baffled that anyone would want to brave the cold and snow just for a cup of coffee. Personally, she would have preferred to stay nestled under a cozy, warm blanket in front of the wood stove at home. She knew that for some of the customers, the coffeehouse culture had little to do with coffee. Coffee was just a secondary benefit. It was the atmosphere of urbanity and sophistication that the twenty and thirty-somethings craved. For the mere price of a cup of coffee, albeit an expensive one, they could feel like they were transported to a New York City cafe, hobnobbing with famous writers and theater people. One by one, the baristas and customers would come and go, each revealing the shades of their own different and unique lives for any coffee-loving person to share."

Download or read book Confessions from a Coffee Shop written by T. Markinson and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-11 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cori Tisdale was on top of the world. A basketball star at Harvard and a promising author with a lucrative book deal. A few years later, Cori's life is falling apart. Her beautiful girlfriend, Kat Finn, has a shopping addiction. To make ends meet, Cori takes a part-time job at a coffee shop. Just when Cori thinks her life can't get any worse, an old crush appears out of the blue. Cori's friendship with Samantha Clarke pushes Cori further into a dangerous abyss when Sam reveals two secrets to Cori and asks her not to tell a soul, including Kat. Will this be the end of Cori's and Kat's relationship?

Download or read book Coffee Cup Confessions written by Trish Williford and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-29 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MishaMy sister has been pressuring me to jump into the dating pool after my last relationship ended, so I agree to be set up on a blind date.Except when I arrive to the coffee house, I'd rather spend the evening with my hot as sin barista. Not only is he attractive, but he's charming and hilarious as well. When I realize that my date has stood me up, I'm humiliated in front of my gorgeous barista. That is until he asks me out...Jake This isn't happenstance. I knew she would arrive at seven to meet her blind date. I knew her date wouldn't show. It was my job to ask her out, to be the knight in shining armor. It needs to be believable...I am getting paid, after all.

Download or read book Confessions of a Coffee Bean written by Marie Nadine Antol and published by Square One Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to coffee covers its history, including the evolution of coffehouses and other aspects of coffee culture, along with recipes for different kinds of coffee and desserts.

Download or read book Common Grounds written by Lee Warren and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Am I the only one?" That question sent Lee Warren on a pilgrimage in which he visited thirty coffee shops in Omaha, Nebraska. This collection of heartfelt insights about love, loss, loneliness, and the deep need for connection is the result. He ended up spending $136.42 on coffee and a few donuts, but it was a small price to pay for the commonality he felt between the patrons, baristas, and himself. And standing on common ground gave him strength in the most unexpected of ways. Maybe it will do the same for you.

Download or read book Writing in Coffee Shops written by Ryan Craig and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes someone a playwright? How do their identities and ideas interweave and co-exist? What permanent truths can we discern from examining existing texts? How can we write theatre that encapsulates the contemporary moment? How do we develop an idea from the embryonic impulse to a full and robust piece of theatre? In this fresh, lively and often very funny book, playwright Ryan Craig makes a case for the vitality of playwriting in our contemporary world and offers a way into writing those plays. From the very first moment of the process, as you sit in a coffee shop, staring at your 'laptop yawning open like some big, gormless mouth, the screen a flickering blank', to seeing your play staged and reviewed, the author takes you through the complete journey. Drawing on his own experience of writing for theatres such as the National, Hampstead and Tricycle and Menier Chocolate Factory, TV drama scripts for BBC, ITV and Channel Four, radio plays and adaptation, as well as commercial theatre, the author explores what practical tools the dramatist can use to write plays that build bridges between us. Full of practical advice for the aspiring - and practising - playwright, this book is also an important call-to-arms for playwrights everywhere, arguing for its necessity in the context of an increasingly fractured, distracted, disconnected world.

Download or read book After Thoughts Cafe 2 written by Christopher Alexander Hall and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-03-11 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Confessions written by M.G. Heise and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confessions explores a woman’s pursuit of the truth about her broken and dysfunctional family. Very early in her childhood, Debbie had discovered that her life was being controlled by some old and very dark secrets. Then one day her father calls and summons her to come back to Missouri to discuss “some family business.” She arrives to find he is in a hospice, dying, and he wants to make a deathbed confession. Upon hearing her father’s story, Debbie believes her father’s actions were justifiable. Then she learns he confessed it once before—to her mother forty years ago. What was in that confession that destroyed her mother? Every time her father visited Debbie, her mother would go into hysterics, sometimes for weeks. Her mother and father had kept secret the story of their romance and his confession from Debbie for decades. Now she had her father’s story. Would her mother be able to tell her side of the story? Confessions as a novel addresses the relationship between a sin, a confession, and forgiveness. Which is worse, the original sin if kept a secret or the confession of the sin to the recipient? We are taught to confess, to seek forgiveness from the person we have sinned against. But is that always the right choice? What if the confession does not generate the forgiveness we desire? What if the confession destroys that person, ruins their life and the lives of others? What if the confession was given for that purpose, not seeking forgiveness but seeking revenge? Confessions have consequences that can’t always be controlled.

Download or read book Confessions written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it was first published in 1781, The Confessions scandalised Europe with its emotional honesty and frank treatment of the author's sexual and intellectual development. Since then, it has had a more profound impact on European thought. Rousseau left posterity a model of the reflective life - the solitary, uncompromising individual, the enemy of servitude and habit and the selfish egoist who dedicates his life to a particular ideal. The Confessions recreates the world in which he progressed from incompetent engraver to grand success; his enthusiasm for experience, his love of nature, and his uncompromising character make him an ideal guide to eighteenth-century Europe, and he was the author of some of the most profound work ever written on the relation between the individual and the state.

Download or read book Love Between The Pages written by Albert Scales III and published by Albert Scales. This book was released on 2024-09-30 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into a world where romance leaps off the pages and into real life! Albert Scales III's "Love Between the Pages" is a delightful journey through the ups, downs, and unexpected twists of modern love. From bookshop meet-cutes to wine-fueled revelations, this charming tale reminds us that the best love stories are the ones we write ourselves – with a little help from our favorite novels.

Download or read book Confessions of a Barista on Platform 1 written by Joanna Murray and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confessions of a Barista on Platform 1 Set in a tiny coffee shop on the London-bound platform of St Leonards Warrior Square station and told by the female owner, Confessions of a Barista on Platform 1 is a current portrayal of an eccentric community, a how-to business book, and an uplifting story of healing. It's about how the narrator (Jo Murray) unwittingly became a therapist to her customers - and how in turn - they changed her life for the better. Coffee, trains and travellers prove to be a powerful combination. The narrator, the customers, the vignettes are all real people and their stories are true, some funny, some incredulous, some simply heart-breaking. The coffee shop is still very much 'business as usual' - new customers have become regulars - old regulars have remained loyal - the door opens promptly at 6am - as do the conversations. The narrator writes as she is: practical, straight talking, compassionate, and with a dry sense of humour. A middle-aged single mother of three, she was broke and broken-hearted when she threw her all into starting up her coffee shop. With no entrepreneurial experience, within a year she'd made it a great success. Part of the reason was her coffee and work ethic - but the other part was the amazing trust and human interactions that happened across the counter in the time it takes to pull a flat white before the Charing Cross train. And also, the extraordinary true stories that people shared with her. We all know how we become anonymous strangers when we travel - and this funny compassionate book reveals just how much we all share, how we all have our private struggles and joys - and how the most unlikely looking person might actually be a hero.

Download or read book Confessions of a Caffeine Addict written by Al Kushner and published by Scr Media Inc. This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an anthology written by a diverse group of 40 individuals from around the world. They come from all walks of life, yet they are all united by the choices they have made. Confessions of a Caffeine Addict covers all major products including coffee, tea, yerba mate, energy and sport drinks, soda, caffeine pills, diuretics, medicine, chocolate, and other foods containing the drug. All have acted from their hearts and here, they have written from their hearts, telling the stories of what brought them along to their own conclusions about their use of caffeine. This book was written to inspire more people to make informed choices, to know that their actions do make a difference, and to know that, in their efforts to tell their tales anonymously, that they are not alone.

Download or read book Confessions of a Prayer Wimp written by Mary Pierce and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is your spiritual life more like a fast-food run than an intimate dinner for two?Whether it’s the busy mother’s wish to be Wonder Woman—minus the metal bra—or battles with an exploding hot water heater, or fighting the “Resolutionary War” of New Year’s Day, Mary Pierce understands the dilemmas of being a woman in today’s 24/7 world. From disorganized misery to extreme organizational mania (she used to refer to her children by their household chores: Cat Box Boy, Dishwasher Girl, and Garbage Can Baby), Pierce deals with our fumbling attempts to grow closer to God, encouraging us as she invites us to laugh, cry, love, embrace life, and pray!In her humorous, conversational style, Pierce laughs at her mistakes and her prayers that seem more like advertising jingles (Lord, I need a break today, and Can you hear me now, Lord?). In Confessions of a Prayer Wimp, you’ll come to understand that faith is less about what you are or do or say, and more about who God is—someone who loves you no matter what you do.

Download or read book Writing in Coffee Shops written by Ryan Craig and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What makes someone a playwright? How do their identities and ideas interweave and co-exist? What permanent truths can we discern from examining existing texts? How can we write theatre that encapsulates the contemporary moment? How do we develop an idea from the embryonic impulse to a full and robust piece of theatre? In this fresh, lively and often very funny book, playwright Ryan Craig makes a case for the vitality of playwriting in our contemporary world and offers a way into writing those plays. From the very first moment of the process, as you sit in a coffee shop, staring at your 'laptop yawning open like some big, gormless mouth, the screen a flickering blank', to seeing your play staged and reviewed, the author takes you through the complete journey. Drawing on his own experience of writing for theatres such as the National, Hampstead and Tricycle and Menier Chocolate Factory, TV drama scripts for BBC, ITV and Channel Four, radio plays and adaptation, as well as commercial theatre, the author explores what practical tools the dramatist can use to write plays that build bridges between us. Full of practical advice for the aspiring - and practising - playwright, this book is also an important call-to-arms for playwrights everywhere, arguing for its necessity in the context of an increasingly fractured, distracted, disconnected world"--

Download or read book Scott s Shadow written by Ian Duncan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scott's Shadow is the first comprehensive account of the flowering of Scottish fiction between 1802 and 1832, when post-Enlightenment Edinburgh rivaled London as a center for literary and cultural innovation. Ian Duncan shows how Walter Scott became the central figure in these developments, and how he helped redefine the novel as the principal modern genre for the representation of national historical life. Duncan traces the rise of a cultural nationalist ideology and the ascendancy of Scott's Waverley novels in the years after Waterloo. He argues that the key to Scott's achievement and its unprecedented impact was the actualization of a realist aesthetic of fiction, one that offered a socializing model of the imagination as first theorized by Scottish philosopher and historian David Hume. This aesthetic, Duncan contends, provides a powerful novelistic alternative to the Kantian-Coleridgean account of the imagination that has been taken as normative for British Romanticism since the early twentieth century. Duncan goes on to examine in detail how other Scottish writers inspired by Scott's innovations--James Hogg and John Galt in particular--produced in their own novels and tales rival accounts of regional, national, and imperial history. Scott's Shadow illuminates a major but neglected episode of British Romanticism as well as a pivotal moment in the history and development of the novel.