Download or read book Liquor Stores and Detours written by Matt Oswalt and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photos of liquors stores in Southern California accompanied with writing by Matt Oswalt

Download or read book Rubber Balls and Liquor written by Gilbert Gottfried and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobody ever reads this part of the book. Somebody at the publishing house explained to me that it's actually called the book flap. That sounded dirty, so I giggled for three hours. But it says in my contract that I have to write something over here in this tiny space, even though I don't think anyone will notice. Some people might open up to the middle of the book and start flipping through pages, but nobody will read this part. In fact, I'll bet anything that you're not reading this part now. And if it turns out that you are . . . well, the guy in the bookstore is probably staring at you, saying, "Stop reading that book!" I guess there's a reason bookstores are going out of business, left and right. Cheap fucks like you think it's okay to stand in the aisles and read to your heart's content. So for the sake of bookstores everywhere, buy this fucking book. I myself don't care. I only care about the poor working man. Oh, and the sanctity of the written word. I care about that, too. And in my case, those written words, of course, include fuck, dick, and pussy. In the early 1970s, as our nation's youth railed against every conceivable societal norm, a funny-looking teenage Jew started turning up at open mike nights in various New York City comedy clubs. Surprisingly, he didn't suck. That funny-looking teenage Jew is now the even funnier-looking middle-aged comedian Gilbert Gottfried, who despite his transparent shortcomings has managed to carve out a hardly-respectable career—and a reputation for shock and awe unrivaled outside the Bush administration. With this scathingly funny book of rants and musings, Gottfried sullies an entirely new medium with his dysfunctional worldview. HILARIOUS HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE: • Gut-wrenching stories from his bizarre childhood • A list of celebrities Gilbert would like to have sex with • A somewhat shorter list of celebrities who would like to have sex with Gilbert • An even shorter list of Gilbert's comely co-stars who have been forced to have sex with him on- screen • Side-splitting tales of the worst gigs he's ever performed • Incredibly awkward encounters with famous people from Gilbert's years as a celebrity (of sorts), including Harrison Ford, Keifer Sutherland, Hugh Hefner and one wildly offensive exchange with Marlee Matlin that left the actress speechless • Signature takes on timeless jokes, presented in a clip‘n save format so humorless readers can commit them to memory or tear them from the book's spine and carry them around in their wallets to amuse their friends • The story behind Gilbert's infamous retelling of the classic "Aristocrats" routine that defined the most recent phase of his career • And much more!

Download or read book Savage Detours written by Lisa Morton and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length study of the career and life of Ann Savage, whose performance in Detour earned her a place in Time Magazine’s list of the top 10 greatest movie villains. The biography covers her abused childhood and her career as a studio contract player, pin-up queen, B movie star, jetsetter and award-winning aviatrix. A complete annotated filmography with release date, credits, cast, synopsis and commentary for each of her films is included.

Download or read book Around the World in Eighty Wines written by Mike Veseth and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by Jules Verne’s classic adventure tale, celebrated editor-in-chief of The Wine Economist Mike Veseth takes his readers Around the World in Eighty Wines. The journey starts in London, Phileas Fogg’s home base, and follows Fogg’s itinerary to France and Italy before veering off in search of compelling wine stories in Syria, Georgia, and Lebanon. Every glass of wine tells a story, and so each of the eighty wines must tell an important tale. We head back across Northern Africa to Algeria, once the world’s leading wine exporter, before hopping across the sea to Spain and Portugal. We follow Portuguese trade routes to Madeira and then South Africa with a short detour to taste Kenya’s most famous Pinot Noir. Kenya? Pinot Noir? Really! The route loops around, visiting Bali, Thailand, and India before heading north to China to visit Shangri-La. Shangri-La? Does that even exist? It does, and there is wine there. Then it is off to Australia, with a detour in Tasmania, which is so cool that it is hot. The stars of the Southern Cross (and the title of a familiar song) guide us to New Zealand, Chile, and Argentina. We ride a wine train in California and rendezvous with Planet Riesling in Seattle before getting into fast cars for a race across North America, collecting more wine as we go. Pause for lunch in Virginia to honor Thomas Jefferson, then it’s time to jet back to London to tally our wines and see what we have learned. Why these particular places? What are the eighty wines and what do they reveal? And what is the surprise plot twist that guarantees a happy ending for every wine lover? Come with us on a journey of discovery that will inspire, inform, and entertain anyone who loves travel, adventure, or wine.

Download or read book Republic of Detours written by Scott Borchert and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice | Winner of the New Deal Book Award An immersive account of the New Deal project that created state-by-state guidebooks to America, in the midst of the Great Depression—and employed some of the biggest names in American letters The plan was as idealistic as it was audacious—and utterly unprecedented. Take thousands of hard-up writers and put them to work charting a country on the brink of social and economic collapse, with the aim of producing a series of guidebooks to the then forty-eight states—along with hundreds of other publications dedicated to cities, regions, and towns—while also gathering reams of folklore, narratives of formerly enslaved people, and even recipes, all of varying quality, each revealing distinct sensibilities. All this was the singular purview of the Federal Writers’ Project, a division of the Works Progress Administration founded in 1935 to employ jobless writers, from once-bestselling novelists and acclaimed poets to the more dubiously qualified. The FWP took up the lofty goal of rediscovering America in words and soon found itself embroiled in the day’s most heated arguments regarding radical politics, racial inclusion, and the purpose of writing—forcing it to reckon with the promises and failures of both the New Deal and the American experiment itself. Scott Borchert’s Republic of Detours tells the story of this raucous and remarkable undertaking by delving into the experiences of key figures and tracing the FWP from its optimistic early days to its dismemberment by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. We observe notable writers at their day jobs, including Nelson Algren, broke and smarting from the failure of his first novel; Zora Neale Hurston, the most widely published Black woman in the country; and Richard Wright, who arrived in the FWP’s chaotic New York City office on an upward career trajectory courtesy of the WPA. Meanwhile, Ralph Ellison, Studs Terkel, John Cheever, and other future literary stars found encouragement and security on the FWP payroll. By way of these and other stories, Borchert illuminates an essentially noble enterprise that sought to create a broad and inclusive self-portrait of America at a time when the nation’s very identity and future were thrown into question. As the United States enters a new era of economic distress, political strife, and culture-industry turmoil, this book’s lessons are urgent and strong.

Download or read book Silence on the Mountain written by Daniel Wilkinson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a young human rights worker, "Silence on the Mountain" is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemala's 36-year internal war, a conflict that claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people.

Download or read book Detours written by Tim Rogers and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charming, honest, funny, sad, tender and beautiful literary memoir, from Tim Rogers of You Am I. Think Patti Smith meet Dylan Thomas, by way of Banjo Paterson. 'Rogers is a beautiful writer, both literate and lyrical ... Detours makes most rock memoirs look like How to Hypnotise Chooks. A heartbreaking work of staggering honesty.' West Australian 'Of all the utterances delivered to me by strangers, my least favourite after "We can no longer legally serve you" would have to be, "Well, that isn't very rock'n'roll."' Tim Rogers of You Am I has always been a complicated man: a hard-drinking musician with the soul of a poet; a flamboyant flâneur; a raconteur, a romantic and a raffish ne'er-do-well. In this offbeat, endearing memoir, Tim walks us through years jam-packed with love, shame, joy, enthusiasms, regrets, fights, family - and music, always music. A work of real grace and tenderness, Detours is often impossibly sad and beautiful - but also full of wit, wordplay and punching jolts of larrikin energy to make you laugh out loud. 'Rogers is a beautiful memoirist ... [Detours is] an authentic, beautiful, unusual - and yes, brave - book that stands up on its own as a strong work of literature.' The Guardian 'The good news is that our Tim can write. Every sentence trails a floaty scarf. A few of them have a floppy hat over one eye.' Don Walker 'A beautiful writer, Tim Rogers takes you where you want to go.' Robert Forster 'Artfully written and reflective ... descriptive, insightful and anecdote-rich' Herald Sun 'Bitter-sweet ... a twisty, soulful ramble through a life. He writeswith wistful passion about his loves, wishes and shortcomings.' Australian Women's Weekly

Download or read book Better Than My Own Life written by Laura Weddle and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2014-12-29 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like Chekhov’s short stories, Laura Weddle’s writing proves that all literature is local somewhere, and all great stories are happening right around us. In Better than My Own Life, Weddle’s subjects are nearly always women whose career (teacher or mother), economic station (lower middle class) and region (the rural South) render them invisible in literature as in life. Many of the stories in this collection revolve around people who have lost or might lose the thing they love best. When tragedy arrives unexpectedly, it is both inevitable and impossible to comprehend, as are the ordinary losses and disappointments these quiet stories render. But love and forgiveness arrive just as unexpectedly and are equally impossible to credit. Or so Laura Weddle’s stories teach us, and in this teaching rise above mere writing to live in the reader’s mind and heart. —Leatha Kendrick, author of Second Opinion Laura Weddle’s stories in Better than My Own Life show an acute awareness of the human condition; and, as one of Weddle’s characters in “Epiphanies” says, “The awful, unbearable irony of it all.” Weddle reflects an insight into people from various walks of life and an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of everyone. Her poignant stories help us to understand her characters so well that the reader perhaps knows them “better than my own life.” Her characters, who remain with us long after we read about them, remind us that loving involves both embracing others and letting them go when we must. —Mary Bozeman Hodges, author of Tough Customers Weddle’s subject is love—remembered, gone awry, cherished, broken—and her vision is witty, complex, and tough. The stories in Better than My Own Life have a heart-felt power. They’ll stay with you long after the last page is turned. —George Ella Lyon, author of Many-Storied House

Download or read book Trafficked written by Alexis Abbott and published by Pathforgers Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-25 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mafia has secrets. This one is flesh and blood. Stealing a yacht from the Russian mob is complicated and dangerous enough. I had no idea that there was a captive on board, hidden within the walls of a red room that would make even the hardest Alpha Dom pause. We’re in the middle of the Black Sea, with the mafia breathing down our necks. There’s no going back. I’ll protect her from the men who kidnapped her, but I won’t let my guard down. I’m not going to get her hurt. And I’m not going to let her go. Trafficked is a standalone dark romance novel from bestselling romance author Alexis Abbott! Safe from cheating. ___ Search Tags: dark mafia, bdsm romance, bratva romance, romantic suspense, anti-hero romance, obsession, possessive alpha male, captive romance, abducted romance, bondage, submissive, alpha male, dominant bad boy, russian hitman, steamy age gap romance, mafia romance good girl, russian mafia romance, russian mafia romance books, a dark mafia romance, mafia romance russian, dark russian mafia romance, bratva mafia romance, mafia romance hea, mafia romance suspense, dark mafia romance age gap, dark mafia captive romance, captive romance, hostages romance, erotic thriller You might enjoy Alexis Abbott's novels if you're a fan of: Jane Henry, Nora Ash, Natasha Knight, Renee Rose, Anna Zaires, Winter Sloane, Julia Sykes, A. Zavarelli, Kitty Thomas, CD Reiss, Jeanne St. James, Nicole Fox, Clarissa Wild, and Chelle Bliss

Download or read book You Had Me at Pet Nat written by Rachel Signer and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the publisher of Pipette Magazine, discover a natural wine-soaked memoir about finding your passion—and falling in love. It was Rachel Signer's dream to be that girl: the one smoking hand-rolled cigarettes out the windows of her 19th-century Parisian studio apartment, wearing second-hand Isabel Marant jeans and sipping a glass of Beaujolais redolent of crushed roses with a touch of horse mane. Instead she was an under-appreciated freelance journalist and waitress in New York City, frustrated at always being broke and completely miserable in love. When she tastes her first pétillant-naturel (pét-nat for short), a type of natural wine made with no additives or chemicals, it sets her on a journey of self-discovery, both deeply personal and professional, that leads her to Paris, Italy, Spain, Georgia, and finally deep into the wilds of South Australia and which forces her, in the face of her "Wildman," to ask herself the hard question: can she really handle the unconventional life she claims she wants? Have you ever been sidetracked by something that turned into a career path? Did you ever think you were looking for a certain kind of romantic partner, but fell in love with someone wild, passionate and with a completely different life? For Signer, the discovery of natural wine became an introduction to a larger ethos and philosophy that she had long craved: one rooted in egalitarianism, diversity, organics, environmental concerns, and ancient traditions. In You Had Me at Pét-Nat, as Signer begins to truly understand these revolutionary wine producers upending the industry, their deep commitment to making their wine with integrity and with as little intervention as possible, she is smacked with the realization that unless she faces, head-on, her own issues with commitment, she will not be able to live a life that is as freewheeling, unpredictable, and singular as the wine she loves.

Download or read book Alcoholics Anonymous written by Bill W. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 75th anniversary e-book version of the most important and practical self-help book ever written, Alcoholics Anonymous. Here is a special deluxe edition of a book that has changed millions of lives and launched the modern recovery movement: Alcoholics Anonymous. This edition not only reproduces the original 1939 text of Alcoholics Anonymous, but as a special bonus features the complete 1941 Saturday Evening Post article “Alcoholics Anonymous” by journalist Jack Alexander, which, at the time, did as much as the book itself to introduce millions of seekers to AA’s program. Alcoholics Anonymous has touched and transformed myriad lives, and finally appears in a volume that honors its posterity and impact.

Download or read book Goodbye Natalie Goodbye Splendour written by Marti Rulli and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shocking true crime story of a beloved Hollywood star gone too soon—told by the captain of the boat on which Natalie Wood spent her last night. Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour is the long‐awaited, detailed account of events that led to the mysterious death of Hollywood legend Natalie Wood off the coast of Catalina Island on November 28, 1981. It is a story told by a haunted witness to that fateful evening: Dennis Davern, the young captain of Splendour, the yacht belonging to Wood and husband Robert Wagner. Davern initially backed up Wagner’s version of that evening’s events through a signed statement prepared by attorneys. But Davern’s guilt over failing Natalie tormented him. Davern reached out to his old friend Marti Rulli, and little by little, at his own emotional pace, he revealed the details of his years in Wood’s employ, of the fateful weekend that Natalie died, and of the events following her death that prevented him from telling the whole story—until now.

Download or read book Smashing the Liquor Machine written by Mark Lawrence Schrad and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the history of temperance and prohibition as you've never read it before: redefining temperance as a progressive, global, pro-justice movement that affected virtually every significant world leader from the eighteenth through early twentieth centuries. When most people think of the prohibition era, they think of speakeasies, rum runners, and backwoods fundamentalists railing about the ills of strong drink. In other words, in the popular imagination, it is a peculiarly American history. Yet, as Mark Lawrence Schrad shows in Smashing the Liquor Machine, the conventional scholarship on prohibition is extremely misleading for a simple reason: American prohibition was just one piece of a global phenomenon. Schrad's pathbreaking history of prohibition looks at the anti-alcohol movement around the globe through the experiences of pro-temperance leaders like Vladimir Lenin, Leo Tolstoy, Thomás Masaryk, Kemal Atatürk, Mahatma Gandhi, and anti-colonial activists across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Schrad argues that temperance wasn't "American exceptionalism" at all, but rather one of the most broad-based and successful transnational social movements of the modern era. In fact, Schrad offers a fundamental re-appraisal of this colorful era to reveal that temperance forces frequently aligned with progressivism, social justice, liberal self-determination, democratic socialism, labor rights, women's rights, and indigenous rights. Placing the temperance movement in a deep global context, forces us to fundamentally rethink its role in opposing colonial exploitation throughout American history as well. Prohibitionism united Native American chiefs like Little Turtle and Black Hawk; African-American leaders Frederick Douglass, Ida Wells, and Booker T. Washington; suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Frances Willard; progressives from William Lloyd Garrison to William Jennings Bryan; writers F.E.W. Harper and Upton Sinclair, and even American presidents from Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Progressives rather than puritans, the global temperance movement advocated communal self-protection against the corrupt and predatory "liquor machine" that had become exceedingly rich off the misery and addictions of the poor around the world, from the slums of South Asia to the beerhalls of Central Europe to the Native American reservations of the United States. Unlike many traditional "dry" histories, Smashing the Liquor Machine gives voice to minority and subaltern figures who resisted the global liquor industry, and further highlights that the impulses that led to the temperance movement were far more progressive and variegated than American readers have been led to believe.

Download or read book Everybody A Book about Freedom written by Olivia Laing and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Astute and consistently surprising critic" (NPR) Olivia Laing investigates the body and its discontents through the great freedom movements of the twentieth century. The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to explore gay rights and sexual liberation, feminism, and the civil rights movement. Drawing on her own experiences in protest and alternative medicine, and traveling from Weimar Berlin to the prisons of McCarthy-era America, Laing grapples with some of the most significant and complicated figures of the past century—among them Nina Simone, Christopher Isherwood, Andrea Dworkin, Sigmund Freud, Susan Sontag, and Malcolm X. Despite its many burdens, the body remains a source of power, even in an era as technologized and automated as our own. Arriving at a moment in which basic bodily rights are once again imperiled, Everybody is an investigation into the forces arranged against freedom and a celebration of how ordinary human bodies can resist oppression and reshape the world.

Download or read book DIY Bitters written by Jovial King and published by Fair Winds Press (MA). This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIY Bitters a how-to-guide that explores the history and health benefits of bitters, and shows you how to make your own bitters at home.

Download or read book Raise A Glass Box Set 1 written by Mary E Thompson and published by BluEyed Press. This book was released on with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This boxed set contains books 2-4 of the Raise A Glass series. Included titles are Never A Bridesmaid, Always A Bride; Love At First Fight; and Everything She Never Wanted. Never A Bridesmaid, Always A Bride Alyssa left fifteen years ago after falling in love with Jake. Now she's back with a string of failed marriages and more baggage than an airport. Jake found the family he'd always dreamed of having when he moved to Bereton. Losing Alyssa hurt, but he couldn't bring himself to leave her home after it became his, too. They both know rehashing the past is a bad idea, but they can't resist the pull that drew them together all those years ago. Maybe time does heal all wounds. Love At First Fight Andie never let anyone in. Even her best friend didn't know the secrets she hid. No one knew the real her. Not really. Cody loved Andie for as long as he could remember. As his best friend's little sister, he knew she was hands off, but that didn't stop him from loving her. When they're thrown together during his renovation of her house, Cody's feelings and Andie's secrets are revealed. Together they have to decide if they're meant for each other, or if it's not worth the fight. Everything She Never Wanted Henry lost his best friend years ago. She walked out of his life and never looked back. It didn't help that she left right after he confessed he was in love with her. Cynthia had big dreams of places far from her small town home. But when those big dreams blow up in her face, home is the only place left to go. She never forgot Henry, or the friendship they shared as kids, and when he needs her, she vows to make up for the hurt she caused him years earlier and be there for him. Henry knows getting involved with Cynthia will only bring him pain, but he has a hard time resisting the woman he's always loved. Especially when she seems to want him just as much.

Download or read book Raise A Glass Full Series box set written by Mary E Thompson and published by BluEyed Press. This book was released on with total page 2882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the entire Raise A Glass series in one full set. Join these cousins as they build their futures, learn what really matters, and find love. Love The Wine You're With - Alyssa has one goal before she leaves for college: lose her V-card. Never A Bridesmaid, Always A Bride - Alyssa is back fifteen years later with a broken heart. Jake isn't interested, but neither can resist the pull that brought them together the first time. Love At First Fight - Cody has always loved Andie, but she only saw him as her brother's best friend. Until he starts working on her house and sees there's so much more to him. Everything She Never Wanted - Cynthia left when they were young and took Henry's heart with her. Now, she's back, just when he needs someone to lean on. Too True To Be Good - Zach was not looking for love, until it showed up on his doorstep. Walk Of Fame - When Dillon's one night stand turns up at his house the next day, he knows he can't let her go. Fake It Till You Break It - Kristen is only looking to lose herself in a man, not lose her heart. But Zane is hard to resist. Sealed With A Slap - Sean found The One when he was young, but now he's found the one...who makes him crazy. He can't resist her, or resist fighting with her. All's Fair In Love And Wine - Leo has too much to do, but when a beautiful woman walks in and sits down at his bar, he knows she's special. Too bad his best friend wants her, too. Love Is Thicker Than Water - Ryan is still recovering from the loss of his father, but a late night encounter with a stranger makes him smile. Until he learns she's the daughter of his father's enemy.