Download or read book We Are Not Shining Stars written by Kennedy Darling and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-09-21 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We Are Not Shining Stars is a collection of writings I penned over the duration of two and half to three years. They are not all fiction, nor are they all non-fiction. Instead, this book contains both, although most are based on real-life events as seen through my teenage eyes.
Download or read book The Tortilla Children written by Anna-Marie Lopez de Leon and published by Rose Contreras. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Deep Run Roots written by Vivian Howard and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 843 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivian Howard, star of PBS's A Chef's Life, celebrates the flavors of North Carolina's coastal plain in more than 200 recipes and stories. This new classic of American country cooking proves that the food of Deep Run, North Carolina -- Vivian's home -- is as rich as any culinary tradition in the world. Organized by ingredient with dishes suited to every skill level, from beginners to confident cooks, Deep Run Roots features time-honored simple preparations alongside extraordinary meals from her acclaimed restaurant Chef and the Farmer. Home cooks will find photographs for every single recipe. Ten years ago, Vivian opened Chef and the Farmer and put the nearby town of Kinston on the culinary map. But in a town paralyzed by recession, she couldn't hop on every new culinary trend. Instead, she focused on rural development: If you grew it, she'd buy it. Inundated by local sweet potatoes, blueberries, shrimp, pork, and beans, Vivian learned to cook the way generations of Southerners before her had, relying on resourcefulness, creativity, and the traditional ways of preserving food. Deep Run Roots is the result of years of effort to discover the riches of Eastern North Carolina. Like The Fannie Farmer Cookbook, The Art of Simple Food, and The Taste of Country Cooking before it, this is landmark work of American food writing. Recipes include: Family favorites like Blueberry BBQ Chicken Creamed Collard-Stuffed Potatoes Fried Yams with Five-Spice Maple Bacon Candy Chicken and Rice Country-Style Pork Ribs in Red Curry-Braised Watermelon Show-stopping desserts like Warm Banana Pudding, Peaches and Cream Cake, Spreadable Cheesecake, and Pecan-Chewy Pie. You'll also find 200 more quick breakfasts, weeknight dinners, holiday centerpieces, seasonal preserves, and traditional preparations for all kinds of cooks.
Download or read book Humiliation written by Paulina Flores and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Humiliation is a brilliant book that captures the volatility of misunderstandings, the moment when failures matter less than the need to share them.” —Alejandro Zambra, author of Multiple Choice The nine mesmerizing stories in Humiliation, translated from the Spanish by Man Booker International Prize finalist Megan McDowell, present us with a Chile we seldom see in fiction: port cities marked by poverty and brimming with plans of rebellion; apartment buildings populated by dominant mothers and voyeuristic neighbors; library steps that lead students to literature, but also into encounters with other arts—those of seduction, self–delusion, sabotage. In these pages, a father walks through the scorching heat of Santiago’s streets with his two daughters in tow. Jobless and ashamed, he takes them into a stranger’s house, a place that will become the site of the greatest humiliation of his life. In an impoverished fishing town, four teenage boys try to allay their boredom during an endless summer by translating lyrics from the Smiths into Spanish using a stolen dictionary. Their dreams of fame and glory twist into a plan to steal musical instruments from a church, an obsession that prevents one of them from anticipating a devastating ending. Meanwhile a young woman goes home with a charismatic man after finding his daughter wandering lost in a public place. She soon discovers, like so many characters in this book, that fortuitous encounters can be deceptions in disguise. Themes of pride, shame, and disgrace—small and large, personal and public—tie the stories in this collection together. Humiliation becomes revelation as we watch Paulina Flores’s characters move from an age of innocence into a world of conflicting sensations.
Download or read book Grazie Dio written by Ric Romano and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a child of Italian heritage, brought into this world from January 7, 1935, to 2020. Feel the joy the pain, the tears, the fears through five significant emotional events and period in a life that was lived to the fullest, not always in the straightest line and sometimes without boundaries, without caring or fearing, but that is who I am. The underlying philosophy in my heart and mind: “Life is for living and loving...everything else is BS.” Love can be expressed in many ways and forms. From a simple smile of recognition or understanding, a handshake, a hug, a pat on the back...perhaps a kiss or warm embrace, or to total committed love. All are acts of love... Have a love affair with everyone you meet. The world will love you, and God will smile.
Download or read book Where the Stone Flowers written by Thanakvaro Thyl de Lopez and published by Blue Reamker. This book was released on 2007 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chronicle of a Last Summer written by Yasmine El Rashidi and published by Crown. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young Egyptian woman recounts her personal and political coming of age in this brilliant debut novel. Cairo, 1984. A blisteringly hot summer. A young girl in a sprawling family house. Her days pass quietly: listening to a mother’s phone conversations, looking at the Nile from a bedroom window, watching the three state-sanctioned TV stations with the volume off, daydreaming about other lives. Underlying this claustrophobic routine is mystery and loss. Relatives mutter darkly about the newly-appointed President Mubarak. Everyone talks with melancholy about the past. People disappear overnight. Her own father has left, too—why, or to where, no one will say. We meet her across three decades, from youth to adulthood: As a six-year old absorbing the world around her, filled with questions she can’t ask; as a college student and aspiring filmmaker pre-occupied with love, language, and the repression that surrounds her; and then later, in the turbulent aftermath of Mubarak’s overthrow, as a writer exploring her own past. Reunited with her father, she wonders about the silences that have marked and shaped her life. At once a mapping of a city in transformation and a story about the shifting realities and fates of a single Egyptian family, Yasmine El Rashidi’s Chronicle of a Last Summer traces the fine line between survival and complicity, exploring the conscience of a generation raised in silence.
Download or read book Loving Grace written by April Smith and published by Ambassador International. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grace Summer lands herself in a melon load of trouble when she becomes torn between the boy of her dreams and the boy almost next door. As the newly crowned Watermelon Queen, she is thrust into the spotlight, meets the dreamy Warren Hartley, and continues trying to get over an accident that rocked her world. Mix in working with Beau Baron who Grace happens to fight with just about as much as breathing and the metaphorical sparks fly. Like most things in life, Grace must learn to take the good with the bad. While the good is the handsome and fun Warren Hartley, the bad is Beau Baron—or at least being around his annoying and rude self way more than she would like. For Beau, Grace is nothing more than aggravating and an irritating reminder from the night of the accident. Tensions soar as Grace and Beau fight to love themselves and maybe, just maybe, each other.
Download or read book The American Optic written by Mikko Tuhkanen and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-07-02 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together critical race theory and psychoanalysis to examine African American and other diasporic African cultural texts.
Download or read book Fortune Smiles written by Adam Johnson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Book Award–winning story collection from the author of The Orphan Master’s Son offers something rare in fiction: a new way of looking at the world. “MASTERFUL.”—The Washington Post “ENTRANCING.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “PERCEPTIVE AND BRAVE.”—The New York Times Throughout these six stories, Pulitzer Prize winner Adam Johnson delves deep into love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes the personal, giving voice to the perspectives we don’t often hear. In “Nirvana,” a programmer whose wife has a rare disease finds solace in a digital simulacrum of the president of the United States. In “Hurricanes Anonymous,” a young man searches for the mother of his son in a Louisiana devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. “George Orwell Was a Friend of Mine” follows a former warden of a Stasi prison in East Germany who vehemently denies his past, even as pieces of it are delivered in packages to his door. And in the unforgettable title story, Johnson returns to his signature subject, North Korea, depicting two defectors from Pyongyang who are trying to adapt to their new lives in Seoul, while one cannot forget the woman he left behind. WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Miami Herald • San Francisco Chronicle • USA Today AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR • Marie Claire • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • BuzzFeed • The Daily Beast • Los Angeles Magazine • The Independent • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews “Remarkable . . . Adam Johnson is one of America’s greatest living writers.”—The Huffington Post “Haunting, harrowing . . . Johnson’s writing is as rich in compassion as it is in invention, and that rare combination makes Fortune Smiles worth treasuring.”—USA Today “Fortune Smiles [blends] exotic scenarios, morally compromised characters, high-wire action, rigorously limber prose, dense thickets of emotion, and, most critically, our current techno-moment.”—The Boston Globe “Johnson’s boundary-pushing stories make for exhilarating reading.”—San Francisco Chronicle
Download or read book A Distant Summer written by Karen Toller Whittenburg and published by Belgrave House. This book was released on 2012-10-20 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kristina DuMont couldn’t forget that long-ago summer weekend she’d spent with Tucker McCain. Seeing him now, it’s as if the intervening years never happened. She knows she’s in danger of falling in love with him all over again, but if Tucker discovers the secret she’s kept from him all this time, can he ever forgive her? Can they start anew and find a future together? Contemporary Romance by Karen Toller Whittenburg; originally published by Dell Candlelight Ecstasy
Download or read book Octopus Summer written by Malcolm Dorson and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Callum Littlefield walks a fine line between arrogant overconfidence and self-deprecating insecurity. After being ostracized by his peers and getting thrown out of his New England boarding school, Callum’s parents exile him to his aging grandmother’s Gold Coast estate on Long Island. He is promptly put to work with her smattering of servants, and is forced to interact with his old Macumba-practicing Brazilian nanny. Though Callum reunites with old friends and tries his hand at the prep school party scene, he soon tires of his duties and escapes back to his family's empty Manhattan townhouse. There he meets a young girl named Layla, who changes his life in more ways than even he can understand. In one summer, Callum finds love, adventure, death, and heartbreak, all the while offering us a detailed social commentary on his blue blood, eastern surroundings.
Download or read book Indian Summer written by Arthur J. Frankel and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the shadow of the turbulent 1960s, this is my story of a journey through village India as an American Peace Corp Volunteer. I graduated college in 1966 with no idea of what I wanted to do in life. I asked the Peace Corps to send me to a place that was more different than anything I had ever known. I got what I asked for. India unfolded into a kaleidoscope of fascinating people and unforgettable scenes in a culture that never failed to amaze me. The sights, smells, and sounds of village India offer the backdrop of what happened, some stories quite incredible, but all true. After two years, I was infused with the spiritual and mystical quality that was, and still is, India--something that is almost beyond explaining. It cannot be found by touring India or even visiting an ashram, but only by living there, learning the local language, and being with Indians in their homes and work. Forty-four years after leaving the Peace Corps I returned to village India. Surprisingly, very little had changed. All of the profits from the sale of this book will be donated to the Vishwa Bharati non-profit village school in Anavatti, India; and to the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, to support students and faculty in visiting India.
Download or read book Pulchrichudinous Poems for All Ages written by Sidhartha Mishra and published by SIDHARTHA MISHRA. This book was released on 2023-04-20 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book "Pulchritudinous Poems for All Ages" is a collection of beautifully crafted poems that can be enjoyed by readers of any age. The poems are carefully written and contain a wide range of themes and subjects that are sure to appeal to a broad audience. The book is an excellent choice for anyone who loves poetry or is looking for a collection of inspiring and thought-provoking poems. Overall, this book is a must-read for anyone who appreciates the beauty of language and the power of poetry.
Download or read book The Last Summer in the Old Bazaar written by Vera Bužarovska and published by Saguaro Books, LLC. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful autobiographical story of the author’s childhood and her home town Bitola, Macedonia in the period before and during the Second World War
Download or read book Found Objects written by Zane Dacus and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2023-09-23 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow Martin Davis as this unusually gifted young boy fights his way through the continuing challenges that confront him. Martin has special gifts that he is gradually learning as he uses them to overcome substantial obstacles in his own life and that of his family and friends. Martin also learns of mysteries related to his family heritage which presents obstacles and opportunities in equal measure.
