Download or read book Tequila Senoritas and Teardrops written by Adrian Peel and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-12-24 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With opinions and personal testimonies from the artists themselves, this book takes a detailed look at the huge impact that Mexican music and culture has had--and continues to have--on Country music in its various forms. This very American form of cultural expression has changed over the last few years, but Mexico--with its bordertowns, beaches, colonial architecture and ancient ruins conjuring up a range of powerful images--has remained an influential presence in Nashville, Texas, and even places like Australia and South Africa. Featuring contributions from Merle Haggard, Jimmy Buffett, Randy Travis, Dwight Yoakam, Jessi Colter, Johnny Rodriguez and Flaco Jimenez, this book reveals the unique and largely undocumented relationship between "America's Music" and Mexico.

Download or read book Anywhere Tequila Flows written by T.A. Chase and published by Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD). This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two men convinced they'll never find love discover it in the least likely of places. Sidney Richardson has watched his two best friends fall in love, leaving him to wonder if he'll ever find the right man for him. Sure, he's been playing the field since he discovered sex, but he's never taken a chance on one of those one-night stands to see if there might be more. Now he's ready, but is the man he's waiting on ready as well? Tito Perez has had a rough go of it, but he's finally in a good place in his life. He's got a great job and a group of marvellous friends. Who cares that he doesn't have that one special guy in his life? Some people just aren't meant to fall in love. Then a chance meeting between boss and employee gives Sidney and Tito an opportunity to put their hopes and dreams into action. Will love flow as easily as the tequila Tito pours?

Download or read book Margaritaville The Cookbook written by Carlo Sernaglia and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shares recipes influenced by island life, including spicy breakfast quesadillas, blackened chili dogs, jerk chicken, and island rum cake.

Download or read book Toe Tags and Tequila written by William Bryan Layton and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Cain is struggling to adapt in a post Katrina ravaged New Orleans as he ekes out a life as a mortician's assistant. With nowhere else to turn for comfort, he clings to a tequila bottle while he slowly loses his grip on reality. However, Cain is about to find out that alcohol only burns the throat and chest but it's what's in the chest that burns the soul. In this literary horror novel, William Bryan Layton deftly weaves the supernatural into this cautionary tale. Goaded by devils and delusions to seize control of his destiny, Cain devises a covetous scheme to get his life back on track. Yet when his plans come to fruition, Cain finds out that no one escapes their sins. Toe Tags and Tequila shares an ominous tale as Cain's dreams take on a life of their own, his nightmares dogging his waking moments. Cain actions become ever more desperate as he seeks a way out.

Download or read book Body Soul written by Terri Molina and published by Decadent Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiritualist Sylvia Chavez is well-known in the Rio Grande Valley as a gifted clairvoyant who has been helping the families in her community since she was a child. When she learns one of her clients is the latest victim in a series of ritual killings, she inserts herself into the investigation with the man who broke her heart ten years earlier. But what Sylvia doesn’t tell him is that the killer is much more dangerous than he knows, and he wants revenge on her family. Agent Steven Gonzales with the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Criminal Investigations Division believes the murders are connected to a South Texas drug lord rumored to be involved in black magic sacrifices. Although Steven doesn’t believe in the hocus-pocus, he allows Sylvia to consult on the case, as long as she keeps her theories of witches and black magic to herself. Sylvia accepts she will always love Steven, but she won’t risk giving him her heart if he has no faith in her. But when the spirits abandon her and all signs point toward death, can she put the past behind her and help him find the killer before it’s too late?

Download or read book The Hoffman Reports written by Jeffrey Hoffman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an idyllic, early 50's childhood in the Golden Isles of Georgia, to a long relaxing retirement on Sea Island, the author recalls people, places, events and historical details of interest to both visitors and current residents. More than 250 easy-reading articles have been selected from those previously published as ""The Hoffman Reports"" column in the local ""Weekend"" newspaper or as invited articles to the ""Brunswick News,"" ""Elegant Island Living"" and ""The Golden Isles Magazine.""

Download or read book The Collected Works Volume One written by Malcolm Lowry and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 1616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quartet of the British novelist’s finest works of fiction, including “Lowry’s masterpiece,” Under the Volcano (Los Angeles Times). Malcolm Lowry was an author who poured his soul into his prose, including his struggle with his own demons. Of his most famous work, Under the Volcano, Dawn Powell wrote: “You love the author for the pain of his overwhelming understanding.” In the New YorkHerald Tribune, Mark Schorer commented that few novels “convey so feelingly the agony of alienation, the infernal suffering of disintegration.” D. T. Max wrote in the New Yorker: “[Lowry’s] portrait of an unravelling drunk was unnervingly intimate.” Honored by the Modern Library as one of the one hundred best English language novels of the twentieth century, Under the Volcano is widely acknowledged as “Lowry’s masterpiece” (Los Angeles Times). In this novel and the other works of fiction gathered here, the reader follows Lowry as he confronts the abyss, but also shares in his eternal hope for transcendence. Ultramarine: Lowry’s debut novel, and the only book, other than Under the Volcano, published in his lifetime, is the coming-of-age story of Dana Hilliot, who escapes the bourgeois provincialism of his upper-class British upbringing by joining a crew of weathered, world-weary sailors on a freighter bound for South Asia. Part Moby-Dick, part A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ultramarin draws on Lowry’s own early experience on the sea. Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place: Published posthumously, these seven stories and novellas include “Through the Panama,” in which a burned-out, alcoholic writer on a voyage from Vancouver to Europe tries to make sense of the literature that has kept him afloat, while the pulse of his life grows harder to distinguish, and “The Forest Path to Spring,” about a couple that has been through hell finding new life in the beauty and seclusion of a vast forest. “[These] stories and novellas afford glimpses of the whole toward which Lowry was striving.” —The New York Times Under the Volcano: Former British consul Geoffrey Firmin lives alone with his demons in the shadow of two active volcanoes in South Central Mexico. Drowning in alcoholism, Geoffrey makes one last effort to salvage his crumbling life when his estranged wife, Yvonne, arrives in town on the Day of the Dead, 1938. “One of the towering novels of [the twentieth] century.” —The New York Times October Ferry to Gabriola: Edited by Lowry’s widow and frequent collaborator, and released more than a decade after his untimely death, October Ferry to Gabriola is the story of a married couple striving for renewal, sanity, and transcendence in the deep seclusion of the British Columbian forest. “What awaits [the reader] is worth the effort: a species of ecstatic, lyrical prose that has all but gone out of existence.” —The New York Times

Download or read book Overruled written by Emma Chase and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emma Chase, New York Times bestselling author of the Tangled series, returns with the first installment of the Legal Briefs series! A Washington, DC, defense attorney, Stanton Shaw keeps his head cool, his questions sharp, and his arguments irrefutable. They don’t call him the Jury Charmer for nothing—with his southern drawl, disarming smile, and captivating green eyes, he’s a hard man to say no to. Men want to be him, and women want to be thoroughly cross examined by him. Stanton’s a man with a plan. And for a while, life was going according to that plan. Until the day he receives an invitation to the wedding of his high school sweetheart, the mother of his beloved ten-year-old daughter. Jenny is getting married—to someone who isn’t him. That's definitely not part of the plan. *** Sofia Santos is a city-raised, no-nonsense litigator who plans to become the most revered criminal defense attorney in the country. She doesn’t have time for relationships or distractions. But when Stanton, her "friend with mind-blowing benefits," begs her for help, she finds herself out of her element, out of her depth, and obviously out of her mind. Because she agrees to go with him to The-Middle-Of-Nowhere, Mississippi, to do all she can to help Stanton win back the woman he loves. Her head tells her she's crazy...and her heart says something else entirely. What happens when you mix a one-stop-light town, two professional arguers, a homecoming queen, four big brothers, some Jimmy Dean sausage, and a gun-toting Nana? The Bourbon flows, passions rise, and even the best-laid plans get overruled by the desires of the heart.

Download or read book The Lawless Roads written by Graham Greene and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eyewitness account of religious and political persecution in 1930s Mexico inspired the British novelist’s “masterpiece,” The Power and the Glory (John Updike). In 1938, Graham Greene, a burgeoning convert to Roman Catholicism, was commissioned to expose the anticlerical purges in Mexico by President Plutarco Elías Calles. Churches had been destroyed, peasants held secret masses in their homes, religious icons were banned, and priests disappeared. Traveling under the growing clouds of fascism, Greene was anxious to see for himself the effect it had on the people—what he found was a combination of despair, resignation, and fierce resilience. Journeying through the rugged and remote terrain of Chiapas and Tabasco, Greene’s emotional, gut response to the landscape, the sights and sounds, the fears, the oppressive heat, and the state of mind under “the fiercest persecution of religion anywhere since the reign of Elizabeth” makes for a vivid and candid account, and stands alone as a “singularly beautiful travel book” (New Statesman). Hailed by William Golding as “the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man’s consciousness and anxiety,” Greene would draw on the experiences of The Lawless Roads for one of his greatest novels, The Power and the Glory.

Download or read book Raising the Bar written by Brett Adams and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible guide to building a home bar one bottle at a time, this book gives readers tools for mixing fantastic cocktails without investing time and money in niche single-use ingredients. There's a basic cocktail formula for building a bar that is anything but ordinary. Spirit + Sugar + Acidity/Bitterness = Tasty Cocktail Instead of drawing on esoteric bottles of liquor, complicated syrups, and obscure sodas, this book takes readers through the home bar bottle by bottle, ensuring that every ingredient is versatile enough to be used to the last drop. Building on a very basic cocktail pantry, each chapter thoughtfully introduces a new bottle and explains how it opens new possibilities for cocktails. Each chapter builds on the one before, so readers never encounter recipes calling for unfamiliar spirits or ingredients. RAISING THE BAR allows readers to set their own pace and maximize the usefulness of the spirits they bring home. This book will be a go-to reference for the home bartender that is practical enough for the day-to-day and special enough for a party. With handsome graphics and a smart focus on what's already in stock, it's what home mixologists can turn to when they want creative and delightful drinks without a bar cart full of single-use bottles. Perfect for: Those new to cocktail making looking for accessible, easy-to-mix cocktails Cocktail and entertaining enthusiasts, Anyone wanting inspiration on how to set up a well-stocked bar at home

Download or read book Under the Volcano written by Malcolm Lowry and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the Volcano was voted No. 11 in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list. Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. Here the consul's debilitating malaise is drinking, an activity that has overshadowed his life. Under the Volcano is set during the most fateful day of the consul's life—the Day of the Dead, 1938. His wife, Yvonne, arrives in Quauhnahuac to rescue him and their failing marriage, inspired by a vision of life together away from Mexico and the circumstances that have driven their relationship to the brink of collapse. Yvonne's mission is to save the consul is further complicated by the presence of Hugh, the consul's half-brother, and Jacques, a childhood friend. The events of this one day unfold against a backdrop unforgettable for its evocation of a Mexico at once magical and diabolical.

Download or read book Texas Born written by Ann DeFee and published by Harlequin Treasury-Harlequin American Romance 90s. This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does Dr. Olivia Alvarado - full-time vet and part-time coroner for Port Serenity, Texas - do when she discovers that the man she loves is married? She doesn't often give her heart away, and this time she did it in spades. Talk about being annoyed - big time! How dare the scoundrel sweep her off her feet when he already has a wife. Sheriff C.J. Baker has discovered the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished. Back when he was a narcotics cop, he married Selena to get her away from the clutches of a Columbian drug cartel. His relationship with Selena has always platonic, and now that he's divorced he wants to make amends with Olivia, his fiery-tempered brunette beauty. To complicate - or perhaps facilitate - the situation, Olivia and C.J. are working together on a suspicious death case. And to make matters worse, Selena's brother is trying to drag her back to South America. Sparks are flying between C.J. and Olivia, and life in Port Serenity is never dull, especially when mayhem and romance are involved.

Download or read book Unsung written by Shannon Richard and published by Forever Yours. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Night in Nashville Harper Laurence has been jilted on her way to the altar. Desperate for some time away from her friends and family, Harper takes off for Nashville-only to meet a hot, scruffy, tattooed stranger. A man she liked a little too much, and who left her the teeniest bit . . . well, pregnant. Liam James is an up-and-coming country musician, who just found his muse. Ever since their weekend together, Liam hasn't been able to forget the curvy, vivacious woman who left him wanting more, even as she inspired some of the greatest songs he's ever written. He's determined to convince Harper that he's the guy for her . . . and that the best love songs can never be unsung. "Richard's page-turner marks her as a contemporary-romance author to watch." --Publisher's Weekly on Undone

Download or read book The Guest is a Goner written by Carly Winter and published by Westward Publishing / Carly Fall. LLC. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy this humorous, paranormal cozy mystery series by USA Today best selling author Carly Winter... She's never believed in ghosts... until now. As the owner of Sedona Bed and Breakfast, Bernadette Maxwell has always played up the rumors that her business was haunted. She’s never believed it herself, even though she can’t explain the odd odors that sometimes permeate the room or why a blast of cold air comes out of nowhere… until she has an accident and can suddenly see her resident ghost—her crazy, fun-loving, hippie grandmother, Ruby. When a guest is found dead, the police rule it a homicide. It becomes apparent Bernadette is not only a suspect, but also in the crosshairs of the murderer. With no one to turn to for help, she relies on Ruby to assist her in a search for clues to bring the killer to justice. Will Bernadette and Ruby find the murderer before Bernadette becomes the next victim? If you enjoy books by Jane Hinchey, Izzy Wilder, and Angie Fox, you'll love this ghostly paranormal series! 5 Stars - Ind'Tale Magazine: The reader will find themselves laughing and turning the pages to follow along the adventures of Bernie and Ruby as they search out a killer and not get themselves killed in the process. Readers will find will find this story not just a a fun page turner filled with mystery and suspense but will enjoy the relationship between grandmother and granddaughter. Completely unputdownable. Paranormal cozy mystery, small town cozy mystery, cozy mystery animals, cozy mystery ghosts, funny cozy mystery, cozy mystery romance, cozy mystery cat

Download or read book The Last Cruise written by Kate Christensen and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1950s ocean liner Queen Isabella is making her final voyage—a retro cruise from Long Beach to Hawaii and back—before heading to the scrapyard. For the guests on board, it’s a chance to experience a bygone era of decadent luxury, complete with fine dining, classic highballs, string quartets, and sophisticated jazz. Smoking is allowed but not cell phones—or children, for that matter. But this is the second decade of an uncertain new millennium, not the sunny, heedless mid-twentieth century, and certain disquieting signs of strife and malfunction above and below deck intrude on the festivities, throwing a trio of strangers together in an unexpected and startling test of character.

Download or read book Resistance written by Alex Cole and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Marshall is bored and annoyed. He's been bored and annoyed for ages. Everyone thinks he is living a middle class dream. No one has any idea that he isn't happy, or that he is full of hatred. People are parasites. Life isn't fair. Idiots go about their selfish and thoughtless lives and get away with it. One of David's friends has an accident and injures his brain, leaving him with an inability to lie. David watches his friend's life crumble around him as his inability to lie gradually alienates everyone. David is appalled that honesty has such severe consequences in modern society and decides it is time to do something about it. David exposes the liars and the cheats, and makes them face the consequences of their lives and their choices, but with traumatic consequences of his own. A story of obsession and the selfish foundation of human existence.

Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 2009-05-09 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.