Download or read book No More Time written by Suzanne Trauth and published by Lyrical Underground. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death Takes A Holiday Restaurant manager Dodie O’Dell has found her niche in the cozy New Jersey town of Etonville, creating menus that make a delicious double-act with the community theater’s productions. Now she’s ready for a vacation at the Jersey Shore town she called home before a hurricane hit. Sun, salty air, and seagulls make for a nostalgic escape from regular life—until a contingent from Etonville arrives to compete in a Jersey Shore theater festival. Roped into helping her former boss cater the event, Dodie also gets a visit from her old flame, Jackson, who’s hoping to revive his charter boat business and is looking for a place to crash. Before Dodie can tell him that ship has sailed, Jackson’s partner is found murdered on his boat. Dodie knows her ex is a mooch, but she’s sure he’s no killer. But as she follows a trail of evidence that leads into her own past, Dodie stumbles on a dangerous conspiracy theory that could bring the festival to a shocking finale...

Download or read book Gumbo Tales Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table written by Sara Roahen and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-04-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Makes you want to spend a week—immediately—in New Orleans.” —Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, Wall Street Journal A cocktail is more than a segue to dinner when it’s a Sazerac, an anise-laced drink of rye whiskey and bitters indigenous to New Orleans. For Wisconsin native Sara Roahen, a Sazerac is also a fine accompaniment to raw oysters, a looking glass into the cocktail culture of her own family—and one more way to gain a foothold in her beloved adopted city. Roahen’s stories of personal discovery introduce readers to New Orleans’ well-known signatures—gumbo, po-boys, red beans and rice—and its lesser-known gems: the pho of its Vietnamese immigrants, the braciolone of its Sicilians, and the ya-ka-mein of its street culture. By eating and cooking her way through a place as unique and unexpected as its infamous turducken, Roahen finds a home. And then Katrina. With humor, poignancy, and hope, she conjures up a city that reveled in its food traditions before the storm—and in many ways has been saved by them since.

Download or read book Love Benjamins written by Wynette A. Hoffman and published by Alien Perspective. This book was released on 2003 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darkly humorous, cynical, non-PC, action-packed story about love, sex, money, espionage, moral flexibility and gender politics. Three unsuspecting women, one suicidal, one na?ve, and one far too romantic, meet four KGB agents who are trying to keep an ex-CIA crony away from the hundred million dollars they stole and finish one last job so they can retire. Men make you crazy. Women make you stupid. It's never about the Benjamins.

Download or read book Cataqueria Island written by Tabatha Taylor and published by Paragon Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a long voyage, well to do English cats Tibby, Musette and Pillow sail overboard and wind up on Cataqueria Island, a tropical paradise ... until they face the nasty leader of the island’s cat colony, a huge hurricane, and Chinese hunters looking for dinner ... and fur!

Download or read book Vinnie Star of the Show written by Chantelle Saumier and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Vinnie! The best pest in the world! Oops – pet. The best pet in the world. As the year goes by, Vinnie grows – and grows. Soon, this sweet, adorable puppy is a great big adorable handful with a great big taste for trouble ... and four lanky legs he’s still getting the hang of. Can his family withstand this doggy mayhem?

Download or read book Children s Free Play and Participation in the City written by Raymond Lorenzo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an interplay of imaginative memoir-telling, action research data and future projection that reminds and inspires experiences academics, researchers, professionals, as well as a wider public to recognize the fundamental importance and the impellent need for more and better work in favour of true political and societal recognition of the needs and rights of children to play freely, to participate, to live fully and enjoy their neighbourhoods and cities, and to imagine and construct alternative futures, together with adults. The book's abundant spoken dialogue is, in effect, storytelling between children (and youth) on their own and with adults (especially the elderly). It conveys an appreciation of children’s special capacities to think critically about their everyday places—and the greater world around them—and to develop solutions (or ‘projects’) for the problems they identify. This book serves an effective catalyst for stimulating rich discussion of the theoretical and practical bases of the many themes, or areas of study, which are treated in the story.

Download or read book Harbinger of the Storm written by Elle Wolfson and published by Salty Rogue Press. This book was released on 2023-06-05 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her extraordinary powers put her in danger, but she’s not going down without a fight. Vinnie lives in a world where people like her are feared and hunted. She and her friends are Twisted, gifted with extraordinary abilities that they must keep hidden at all costs. When Vinnie agrees to help a mysterious stranger who wants to stop a serial killer, she may have bitten off more than she can chew. But the killer is preying on the vulnerable and Vinnie can’t stand by and do nothing. With the stranger’s help, Vinnie delves deep into her powers and learns new skills that help her track down the murderer. But when the killer strikes back, Vinnie's world is shattered and she must use every ounce of power at her disposal to save herself and her friends. In this gritty Urban Fantasy, Vinnie must confront her inner demons, navigate dangerous alliances, and learn to use her unique abilities — before it's too late.

Download or read book Emily s House written by Amy Belding Brown and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was Emily Dickinson’s maid, her confidante, her betrayer… and the savior of her legacy. An evocative new novel about Emily Dickinson's longtime maid, Irish immigrant Margaret Maher, whose bond with the poet ensured Dickinson's work would live on, from the USA Today bestselling author of Flight of the Sparrow, Amy Belding Brown. Massachusetts, 1869. Margaret Maher has never been one to settle down. At twenty-seven, she's never met a man who has tempted her enough to relinquish her independence to a matrimonial fate, and she hasn't stayed in one place for long since her family fled the potato famine a decade ago. When Maggie accepts a temporary position at the illustrious Dickinson family home in Amherst, it's only to save money for her upcoming trip West to join her brothers in California. Maggie never imagines she will form a life-altering friendship with the eccentric, brilliant Miss Emily or that she'll stay at the Homestead for the next thirty years. In this richly drawn novel, Amy Belding Brown explores what it is to be an outsider looking in, and she sheds light on one of Dickinson's closest confidantes—perhaps the person who knew the mysterious poet best—whose quiet act changed history and continues to influence literature to this very day.

Download or read book Connecticut Hurricanes Drum Bugle Corps written by John M. Fisher and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Connecticut Hurricanes Drum & Bugle Corps was founded in Derby, Connecticut, in 1932 as the John H. Collins Post Fife, Drum, and Bugle Corps. Since its transformation to a competitive drum and bugle corps in 1955, the group has garnered notoriety throughout the region as well as national acclaim for its competitive success. Over the course of their 87-year history, the Hurricanes have become a highly regarded institution of the Lower Naugatuck Valley. They were first sponsored by the John H. Collins American Legion Post 24 and subsequently by the Sutter-Terlizzi American Legion Post 16 of Shelton, Connecticut. They are currently sponsored by the Emil Senger American Legion Post 10 of Seymour, Connecticut, and have continued to maintain strong community ties across the Naugatuck Valley region for nearly nine decades.

Download or read book Canterbury written by Amy E. Orlomoski and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003-07-30 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canterbury: The First 300 Years provides glimpses of the people, places, and events that have given this town on the west bank of the Quinebaug River a rich and interesting history-three hundred years of history. Beyond the well-known account of Prudence Crandall's opening of New England's first academy for young black women, and fellow citizen Andrew Judson's efforts to close it down, are the stories of Moses Cleaveland, namesake of Cleveland, Ohio; Lillian Frink, one of the first women elected to the state legislature; and Benedict Arnold, Canterbury student and notorious traitor. Canterbury: The First 300 Years reveals a town of industrious businesspeople who have produced items as varied as textiles, fly-fishing rods, mast hoops, and rare orchids, and of farmers who have raised everything from potatoes to skunks.

Download or read book GreenKnight written by Allen R. Pedrick and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-01-29 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GreenKnight is a thriller of love, patriotism, and corruption within the Executive branch of the government, and is the second novel in the Green trilogy, the first being GreenCove. In GreenKnight, Sheldon Flagler Scott finds himself on the Tamiami Trail in southern Florida heading west out of Miami with a hurricane at his back. Hurricane Kitty, a slow-moving, immense storm is approaching the southeast coast of the state. Shell is a special agent for the United States Secret Service pledged to keep the President out of trouble politically. On the way to Tampa, Shell sees a burning car, a white Mercedes, on the edge of the Trail with two dead bodies inside. The trunk is open and inside is a rather large footlocker filled with a fortune in cash and diamonds. The novel concerns itself with drugs, shoot-outs and murders, bombings and waterspouts. Shell discovers a Cuban plot to become a world power and traces the problem to the DEA and a nest of dishonesty, graft, bribery, and fraud in high places.

Download or read book Manly Art written by George Kimball and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation of boxing-related commentary, criticism, reportage, and analysis represents the decade's best from award-winning sports journalist George Kimball. With selections culled from a wide array of publications including Boxing Digest, the Irish Times, ESPN.com, and TheSweetScience.com, this is a hard-hitting look at the current state of the sport. Kimball pulls no punches as he dissects the triumphs, defeats, and mistakes of the major figures in boxing from yesterday and today—including Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Manny Pacquiao, Oscar de la Hoya, and dozens more—bringing all the controversies and personalities vividly to life.

Download or read book Vinnie Got Blown Away written by Jeremy Cameron and published by HopeRoad. This book was released on 2015-05-28 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darkly comic, stylish and violent,Vinnie Got Blown Awayoffers a radical contrast from the British tradition of a murder mystery among the middle classes. It mixes without discrimination among black, white and Asian communities; it follows their speech patterns: cockney and Caribbean unite. It demonstrates the resilience in these communities, an ability to survive against all outside pressures and values.Nicky Burkett finds his childhood friend Vinnie dead at the bottom of a tower block. He and his mates have a code of conduct which makes revenge inevitable. They have to find the villains - much more serious criminals than themselves - and then they have to take them on. The result is a hilarious hybrid of Elmore Leonard and Quentin Tarantino, with dialogue that crackles off the page and a wonderfully authentic sense of place.Brilliantly reviewed on its initial release in 1995,Vinnie Got Blown Awayholds a unique place in the British crime fiction canon, and is ripe for rediscovery by a new generation of readers.‘Audacious and outrageous.’Daily Telegraph‘Jaunty, exhilarating and original, with a feeling for street life that renders it sexy and poignant.’Literary Review‘A fast, funny trawl through the territory of London's new outlaw underclass. It is a masterly piece of storytelling.’Financial Times‘A short, sharp shock of a novel.’GQ‘Funny, violent and vivid.’Sunday Times

Download or read book The Gangster s Cousin written by Salvatore "Sal" Lucania and published by WildBlue Press. This book was released on 2019-06-21 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography of a member of Charles “Lucky” Luciano’s Mafia family. “The reader gets a real sense of code, of honor, courage and commitment” (London TV). “I was born an outlaw in outlaw culture. I refused to be forced into the powerless class of the ordinary, law-abiding citizen. I always saw things from outside the box because I was born outside the box, so I was free to think for myself.” Born in 1942, Salvatore “Sal” Lucania was not only raised but educated by the streets of East Harlem. Dropping out of his Catholic high school at fifteen after punching out a priest, a formal education was not Sal’s future. As such, it would have been easy to fall into the trappings of “made man” status in the mafia, like his cousin Charles “Lucky” Luciano. But Sal had a different vision of the future, if he could just escape the confines of his neighborhood and defy the ways of the people in power: the bullies, the “ruling class,” local government corruption and his own mafia family culture—in order to create a different life than the one fate might have otherwise intended. The Gangster’s Cousin is a wonderfully different take on the usual Mafia story. Sal’s memoir takes the reader on a sometimes exciting, sometimes poignant, and often humorous adventure as he finds himself in unbelievable situations and meeting an array of unique and funny characters along the way. Follow Sal’s one-of-a-kind perspective and find out why he strives so hard to stay ahead of a different type of criminal class—the people who make the rules.

Download or read book Tales from the Miami Hurricanes Sideline written by Jim Martz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: University of Miami football is more than national championships, thirty-game winning streaks, and being a pipeline to the NFL. It’s the Gator Flop, defeating Tulane on a fifth down, and playing three games in eight days. It’s converting third and 44 against Notre Dame, Michael Irvin talking smack with Florida State’s Deion Sanders, and Vinny Testaverde being sacked by hamburgers. It’s the Jet Lag Kids playing seven road games in one season, including one in Tokyo, and it’s the Ibis mascot being arrested on the field in Tallahassee and being nicked by a bullet on Bourbon Street. Tales from the Miami Hurricanes Sideline is a collection of the greatest anecdotes and stories ever told about ’Canes football. In this newly updated edition, Jim Martz, who has covered the team for more than three decades, chronicles the ups, downs, and sideways of this spirited program that has produced five national championship teams under four different coaches since 1983. They have won under charismatic coaches and under low-key coaches. More than anything, they have won with colorful players. In an age of parity and just a few years removed from the program nearly being dropped, the Hurricanes have defied the odds and become a dynasty of modern college football.

Download or read book Vinnie the Hurricane written by Chantelle Saumier and published by . This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look out! Hurricane Vinnie is in full force! For the very first time, Vinnie is free to explore every inch of the house all by himself. But will there be anything left by the time his family gets home? From the plant pots, to the kids' toys, to the tastiest ink pen, if there's trouble to be found, Vinnie has it covered.

Download or read book Vinnie s War written by David McRobbie and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just then came: crump, CRUMP, CRUMP! Three bombs in quick succession, coming frighteningly close. With each explosion, the ground shook. Dust and chips fell from the ceiling. Everyone in the shelter gasped at the same time. Vinnie held his breath, waiting for the fourth bomb, but it didn't come.When Vinnie is sent away from the bombs in London, he has no idea what awaits him. All he has left of his old life is his harmonica.On the train, Vinnie meets fierce Kathleen, sweet Joey and gangly Dobbs. The evacuee children find themselves thrown together in the country town of Netterfold, which seems beautiful and peaceful - until they meet the locals.There is a war raging across Europe, but Vinnie and his friends soon find they have their own war to fight as they face up to terrifying teachers, bad billets, and hostile neighbourhood kids who set out to make their lives as 'vaccies' miserable. And when things start to go missing, they discover that there are mysteries lurking in Netterfold's shadows, just waiting to be solved...Through music and friendship, can Vinnie make peace and finally find a place where he belongs?