Download or read book One Crazy Weekend written by McKensie Sage and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2019-01-23 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dennis is a high school student who hides from bullies in a formal dress shop. The shop ladies have figured out a way for Dennis to escape. It involves a whole new wardrobe and maybe a new life.
Download or read book Crazy Weekend written by Gary Soto and published by Persea Books. This book was released on 2003-05-27 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hector and Mando, two Chicano seventh graders from East Los Angeles, visit Hector's uncle in Fresno and find plenty of excitement after they witness a robbery and are chased by the dim-witted criminals.
Download or read book The Game Jam Survival Guide written by Christer Kaitila and published by Packt Pub Limited. This book was released on 2012 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Game Jam Survival Guide is an insider view of game jams packed full of expert advice; leading with tips and tricks on how to build a great game with just 48 hours; but clearly defining what should be avoided at all costs during Game Jam mayhem. The reader is led through each half-day phase; from the beginning of your quest in hours 1-12 to breaking through "the wall" on day two and finally reaching the finishing line in hours 37-48. Although the book is intended for beginners and experts alike, the reader will already know how to program (in any language). He or she will love games and want to learn how to best make their own game in a wild and crazy 48-hour period.
Download or read book Michigan Ensian written by and published by UM Libraries. This book was released on with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas written by Hunter S. Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2003-04-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reissue of the novel inspired by Hunter S. Thompson's ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream: We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold... And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas.
Download or read book Nothing Fancy written by Diana Kennedy and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International favorite dishes and personal stories from a celebrated food writer and foremost authority on traditional Mexican cooking. Diana Kennedy is the world’s preeminent authority on authentic Mexican cooking and one of its best-known food writers. Renowned for her uncompromising insistence on using the correct local ingredients and preparation techniques, she has taught generations of cooks how to prepare traditional dishes from the villages of Mexico, and in doing so, has documented and helped preserve the country’s amazingly diverse and rich foodways. Kennedy’s own meals for guests are often Mexican, but she also indulges herself and close friends with the nostalgic foods in Nothing Fancy. This acclaimed cookbook—now expanded with new and revised recipes, additional commentary, photos, and reminiscences—reveals Kennedy’s passion for simpler, soul-satisfying food, from the favorite dishes of her British childhood (including a technique for making clotted cream that actually works) to rare recipes from Ukraine, Norway, France, and other outposts. In her inimitable style, Kennedy discusses her addictions—everything from good butter, cream, and lard to cold-smoked salmon, Seville orange marmalade, black truffle shavings, escamoles (ant eggs), and proper croissants—as well as her bêtes noires—kosher salt, nonfat dairy products, cassia “cinnamon,” botoxed turkeys, and nonstick pans and baking sprays, among them. And look out for the ire she unleashes on “cookbookese,” genetically modified foods, plastic, and unecological kitchen practices! The culminating work of an illustrious career, Nothing Fancy is an irreplaceable opportunity to spend time in the kitchen with Diana Kennedy, listening to the stories she has collected and making the food she has loved over a long lifetime of cooking. “Diana’s recipe for her most personal cookbook includes equal parts passion, creativity, and humor, with a soupçon of provocation. I love the way she’s so blunt in her comments about food and the food world, her bêtes noires, in this book—it’s exactly the way we cooks talk to each other in private, and it rarely gets into our books.” —Paula Wolfert, author of The Food of Morocco “Nothing Fancy gives us access to the razor-sharp wit and wisdom of one of the great intuitive cooks of our time.” —Zak Pelaccio, chef and owner of Fish & Game, Hudson, New York, and author of Eat With Your Hands “Diana Kennedy is the most serious food writer in Mexico, but what many people won’t know—until they read this book—is that she’s an extraordinary cook of all sorts of cuisines. Cooking casually with her at home is to know her keen palate and deep understanding of how food works. It’s also great fun.” —Gabriela Cámara, chef and owner of Contramar, Mexico City, and Cala, San Francisco
Download or read book Warrior Women written by Mary Isabelle Young and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Warrior Women" makes visible the ongoing intergenerational narrative reverberations (Young, 2003; 2005) shaped through Canada's residential school era which denied the communal and cultural, economic, educational, human, familial, linguistic, and spiritual rights of Aboriginal people.
Download or read book The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol 1 written by Ryan North and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2015-08-19 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doctor Doom, Deadpool, even Thanos: Theres one hero whos beaten them all and now shes starring in her own series! Thats right, its SQUIRREL GIRL! The nuttiest and most upbeat super hero in the world is starting college! And as if meeting her new roommate and getting to class on time isnt hard enough, now she has to deal with Kraven the Hunter, too? At least her squirrel friend Tippy-Toe is on hand to help out. But what can one girl, and one squirrel, do when a hungry Galactus heads toward Earth? Youd be surprised! With time running out and Iron Man lending a helping hand (sort of), who will win in the battle between the Power Cosmic and the Power Chestnut? Plus: Squirrel Girls classic debut! Collecting UNBEATABLE SQUIRREL GIRL #1-4 and material from MARVEL SUPER-HEROES (1990) #8.
Download or read book The Mocking Man written by Leslie Georgeson and published by Leslie Georgeson. This book was released on 2024-08-15 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A teenage pact. A dangerous deception. A woman who could ruin it all... Deception. Lies. Corruption. I was innocent once. Not today. My carefree days vanished the night my best friend was kidnapped, and my world fell apart. I built it up again, weaving a web of deceit. Now I survive in the shadows, surrounded by danger. Watching over her. My best friend’s sister. Isabella. A woman who burns me alive even from afar. She doesn’t know how my heart longs for her. She doesn’t even know I exist. A pact from my childhood has been rekindled. And she is in the center of it all. I must keep my distance, remain out of sight. But I can’t seem to let her go. She’s my world even when I have none. But in this life of ghosts, how can I give her a future when I can be nothing but a Mocking Man?
Download or read book One Crazy Summer written by Rita Williams-Garcia and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven-year-old Delphine has it together. Even though her mother, Cecile, abandoned her and her younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern, seven years ago. Even though her father and Big Ma will send them from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to stay with Cecile for the summer. And even though Delphine will have to take care of her sisters, as usual, and learn the truth about the missing pieces of the past. When the girls arrive in Oakland in the summer of 1968, Cecile wants nothing to do with them. She makes them eat Chinese takeout dinners, forbids them to enter her kitchen, and never explains the strange visitors with Afros and black berets who knock on her door. Rather than spend time with them, Cecile sends Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern to a summer camp sponsored by a revolutionary group, the Black Panthers, where the girls get a radical new education. Set during one of the most tumultuous years in recent American history, one crazy summer is the heartbreaking, funny tale of three girls in search of the mother who abandoned them—an unforgettable story told by a distinguished author of books for children and teens, Rita Williams-Garcia.
Download or read book Hot Soapy Water written by Auguste Knuckles and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-06-23 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So, I see you’ve picked up Hot Soapy Water, a bubble bath that’s not for kids. It’s okay, no need to look over your shoulder, I’m not there, I’ve never been there. Well, you’ve taken the first step. I suppose the question is, are you really going to do that old cliché and judge? “Hot Soapy Water, someone’s fetish with bath time?” Nope. I haven’t diluted the contents of this book with fragrant bath bombs, candles and Barry White playing in the background. It’s mustard gas in the eyeballs, salt on an open wound. It’s utter modern-day carnage. Stories within stories, short poems. War, death, destruction, a chef’s journey, addiction, hedonism, mental health, trauma, the cold dark blanket of suicide, bravery, courage, bewilderment and some funny shit. It’s a book you will not put down if you are brave enough to start. Why? Because I’m the voice in your head telling you this. My name is Auguste Knuckles, and you will ask yourself a question when the last page is turned: ‘how am I alive? Am I alive or has an alien written this nuclear bomb narrative fired into a volcano?’
Download or read book The Steel Bankeress written by M.M Fahm and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young nave woman desiring the elusive 6 digit salary would grab at the good fortune of starting a career in banking. However that corporate glitter and professional glamour comes with a hefty price as three bankeresses find themselves in a maze of mental bondage, limitless deceit, and extreme personal sacrifices. Pamela is a hardened ambitious bankeress haunted by nightmares of a secret and shameful past. Her devious scheming puts her far ahead of her other colleagues and gets her the promotion that might ultimately push her over the edge of normalcy. Rachael is the weak minded ambitious bankeress. Like the proverbial sheep that devours the faeces of the dog it follows around. She is desperate to succeed Pamela. On the verge of a nervous breakdown, an additional burden of guilt could finally cause her mind to collapse. After losing out to Pamela, Enitan is the bankeress that desires to replace her fevered ambition with a change in her personal life. She however has to face a different kind of crisis, being trailed by the diabolical rituals of her mother after the adoption of a baby boy from an unscrupulous doctor. Beneath a faade of Nigerian corporate sophistication is a disturbing and desperate story of The Steel Bankeress.
Download or read book A Life Without Limits written by Chrissie Wellington and published by Center Street. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2007, Chrissie Wellington shocked the triathlon world by winning the Ironman World Championships in Hawaii. As a newcomer to the sport and a complete unknown to the press, Chrissie's win shook up the sport. A LIFE WITHOUT LIMITS is the story of her rise to the top, a journey that has taken her around the world, from a childhood in England, to the mountains of Nepal, to the oceans of New Zealand, and the trails of Argentina, and first across the finish line. Wellington's first-hand, inspiring story includes all the incredible challenges she has faced--from anorexia to near--drowning to training with a controversial coach. But to Wellington, the drama of the sports also presents an opportunity to use sports to improve people's lives. A LIFE WITHOUT LIMITS reveals the heart behind Wellington's success, along with the diet, training and motivational techniques that keep her going through one of the world's most grueling events.
Download or read book Between Two Evils written by Lynne Stevie and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-01-03 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beware the blue moon, for on its eve a beast will come. With eight eccentric clients ready to meet-and mate-Dracula's Daughter plans a weekend retreat at her ancestral home in Romania. Everyone's thrilled with the arrangements-until the prophecy comes true. Zev thought he knew-and hated-everything about vampires. But to gain his freedom from a life of servitude he agrees to protect Lavanya while she's in Romania. In more than two hundred years, Zev's never met a vampire like Lavanya and he can't deny the powerful attraction he feels for her. But between his demons and the threats from Dracula and the witch, he'll be lucky to survive long enough to claim her. For Lavanya, Zev awakens an insatiable passion that defies her psychic powers and tests her beliefs. However, after a shocking betrayal, Lavanya learns that controlling a beast isn't the same as taming it. With her life and her heart in danger, Lavanya must choose between two evils to seize the love she craves.
Download or read book Dark Obsessions written by Delphine McClelland and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark Obsessions By: Delphine McClelland Skylar was a Montgomery and with that came power and prestige among the wealthy in Charlotte, North Carolina. From the outside looking in, she had it all, the perfect life. For Skylar, being a Montgomery, a socialite, was not who she wanted to be. Skylar was different, she was weird and a bit of a dreamer. For as long as she could remember, she had an obsession with the supernatural world. Vampires were her favorite of all the supernatural creatures and she could not get enough of them. She read almost every book, watched every movie, and even wished they were real because she had dreams of becoming one. On the annual Montgomery Family Vacation, Skylar's world was turned upside down. Her life was further changed the moment she laid eyes on him. He was the most intriguing and striking man that she had ever seen. In one night, he would change Skylar’s world forever. Kairo was in need of a change. After living for over 300 years and always staying one step ahead of the Council of Truth Seekers, a vigilante group whose sole mission in life was to kill all supernaturals. Kairo needed a new scene away from it all. Along his travels, he heard that Charlotte was becoming an epicenter of fun. It was a city full of life and the perfect place for a vampire to hunt without the watchful eye of the Council. From the moment that Kairo stepped foot in Charlotte things were very different for him. The city made every fiber of his being come alive with an energy unlike anything that he had ever known. Kairo would find the source of that energy no matter what it cost him and when he did, his world would change forever.
Download or read book Waiter written by Matthew K. Foster and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: yHi, my name is Matt, and I'll be your waiter tonight.y Since becoming a waiter, Matthew Foster has uttered these words 67,892 times, he has cried on the job 11 times, has had two nervous breakdowns, and has committed 27 acts of anonymous revenge on rude restaurant patrons. Now this comic essayist brings you his take on the modern American dining experience. In the comic spirit of Dave Barry and Drew Carey comes a humorous look into the trenches of Americays true favorite pastime: dining out. From tales of waiting on the Reverend Jimmy Swaggart to a commentary on the nature of germs in the bathrooms of fast food restaurants, Matthew Foster strips away the garnishes and leaves us with the meat: the humor and pathos beyond the call for the yWaiter!y
Download or read book Susanna Sees Stars written by Mary Hogan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susanna's walking on air. With some nifty self-promotion using a locked box and a key she has managed to win herself a work experience placement at a celebrity news magazine in New York. It's her foot into the door of journalism as well as an opportunity to indulge her serious celebrity obsession. But the reality of the job is not quite what she expects. The editor, Nell, treats her like a skivvy, personal shopper and all-round dogsbody and the rest of her fellow office workers aren't much nicer. However the job does have a few perks, such as being sent out celebrity-hunting with the hot magazine photographer, and spotting her heart-throb, Randall Sanders. And when she gets the scoop of the summer, finally Susanna has the chance to shine...
