Download or read book Tough Guys Don t Dance written by Norman Mailer and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Spectacular . . . [Norman Mailer] makes every word count, like a master knife thrower zinging stilettos in a circle around your head.”—People Norman Mailer peers into the recesses and buried virtues of the modern American male in a brilliant crime novel that transcends genre. When Tim Madden, an unsuccessful writer living on Cape Cod, awakes with a gruesome hangover, a painful tattoo on his upper arm, and a severed female head in his marijuana stash, he has almost no memory of the night before. As he reconstructs the missing hours, Madden runs afoul of retired prizefighters, sex addicts, mediums, former cons, a world-weary ex-girlfriend, and his own father, old now but still a Herculean figure. Stunningly conceived and vividly composed, Tough Guys Don’t Dance represents Mailer at the peak of his powers. Praise for Tough Guys Don’t Dance “As brash, brooding and ultimately mesmerizing as the author himself . . . [Mailer strikes a] dazzling balance between humor and horror.”—New York Daily News “A first-rate page-turner of a murder mystery . . . full of great characters, littered with dead bodies and replete with plausible suspects.”—Chicago Tribune “[Tough Guys Don’t Dance] has that charming Mailer bravado.”—The New York Times

Download or read book Tough Guys Don t Dice written by James A. Thorson and published by William Morrow & Company. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pared down reference teaches those with little or no knowledge of cooking how to begin, offering such simple but hearty recipes as stew, turkey soup, corned-beef hash, French toast, and meatloaf

Download or read book The Houstiliad written by Michael Lieberman and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this savage yet beautiful book length poem Michael Lieberman captures the rage of men in modern society. He reimagines the characters of Homer's Iliad, recasts them, and sets them in conflict in today's Houston. Unflinching is its descriptions of violence, The Houstiliad implicitly contrasts the rage of Homer's Achilles which was specific and focused with the free-floating rage of contemporary men. Though unsparing in its descriptions, Lieberman's portrait is leavened by lovely lyric passages, reflection, and humor. For those who care about the complicated role of men in modern society this book is revelatory without promising an easy path to redemption or honor. Achilles' wrath is where our tale begins then spools out venom and men's mortal sins. It's tempered true yet riffs on Homer's style, suffused with guile, grit, and mordant wile. * * * Men savage men in violent travails though in the end it's humor that prevails.

Download or read book Dinner Roles written by Sherrie A. Inness and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who cooks dinner in American homes? It's no surprise that “Mom” remains the overwhelming answer. Cooking and all it entails, from grocery shopping to chopping vegetables to clearing the table, is to this day primarily a woman's responsibility. How this relationship between women and food developed through the twentieth century and why it has endured are the questions Sherrie Inness seeks to answer in Dinner Roles: American Women and Culinary Culture. By exploring a wide range of popular media from the first half of the twentieth century, including cookbooks, women's magazines, and advertisements, Dinner Roles sheds light on the network of sources that helped perpetuate the notion that cooking is women's work. Cookbooks and advertisements provided valuable information about the ideals that American society upheld. A woman who could prepare the perfect Jell-O mold, whip up a cake with her new electric mixer, and still maintain a spotless kitchen and a sunny disposition was the envy of other housewives across the nation. Inness begins her exploration not with women but with men-those individuals often missing from the kitchen who were taught their own set of culinary values. She continues with the study of juvenile cookbooks, which provided children with their first cooking lessons. Chapters on the rise of electronic appliances, ethnic foods, and the 1950s housewife all add to our greater understanding of women's evolving roles in American culinary culture.

Download or read book A Rich and Fertile Land written by Bruce Kraig and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The small ears of corn once grown by Native Americans have now become row upon row of cornflakes on supermarket shelves. The immense seas of grass and herds of animals that supported indigenous people have turned into industrial agricultural operations with regular rows of soybeans, corn, and wheat that feed the world. But how did this happen and why? In A Rich and Fertile Land, Bruce Kraig investigates the history of food in America, uncovering where it comes from and how it has changed over time. From the first Native Americans to modern industrial farmers, Kraig takes us on a journey to reveal how people have shaped the North American continent and its climate based on the foods they craved and the crops and animals that they raised. He analyzes the ideas that Americans have about themselves and the world around them, and how these ideas have been shaped by interactions with their environments. He details the impact of technical innovation and industrialization, which have in turn created modern American food systems. Drawing upon recent evidence from the fields of science, archaeology, and technology, A Rich and Fertile Land is a unique and valuable history of the geography, climate, and food of the United States.

Download or read book Threadbare written by Monica Ferris and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As full-time owner of the Crewel World needlework shop and part-time sleuth, Betsy Devonshire has unraveled more than her share of tangled clues in the USA Today bestselling Needlecraft Mysteries. But a cryptic embroidered message on a dead woman’s blouse may prove her greatest challenge yet… When an elderly homeless woman is found dead on the shore of Lake Minnetonka, she’s wearing a blouse embroidered with her will, which bequeaths everything she owns to her niece, Emily Hame—a member of the Monday Bunch at Betsy Devonshire’s Crewel World needlework shop! But Emily’s aunt is the second homeless woman to be found dead in Excelsior, Minnesota. Is someone targeting the homeless, or is it related to a sizable inheritance? Emily seeks the help of her fellow needlecrafter Betsy to discover the common thread between the deaths—and to determine if a murderer may strike again…

Download or read book American Roulette written by Richard Marcus and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In American Roulette, Richard Marcus tells his never-before-heard story, of ripping off casinos. The book follows Marcus, along with several of the world's great professional casino cheaters, as he travels from Las Vegas to London and Monte Carlo, pilfering large sums of money from casinos by performing sleight of hand magic tricks with gaming chips. As skilled cheaters, they back up their moves with psychological setups to convince pit bosses that they're watching legitimate high rollers getting lucky, while in fact they're being ripped off blind. With the exploding growth of casino gambling, heightened by Indian reservation and riverboat expansion, more and more elaborate casino cheaters are illegally assaulting the green-felt, getting rich off of novice casino personnel. Richard Marcus's insider story is a window into the hidden world of intriguing personalities and tense situations he encounters as a member of expert casino-cheating teams who use their wits to turn the odds upside down and "earn" millions. American Roulette is a fascinating story not only for those who occasionally casino-gamble, but for everyone with a little larceny in their heart.

Download or read book The Brotherhood of the Gemin written by Chuck Bisbee and published by Chuck Bisbee. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gijar, a distant planet similar to Earth, has a virus and only one person can cure it. He's an 18 year old vegetable lying in a hospital bed here on Earth. While in a coma, Dice learns that his dreams become reality and the Gemin on Gamgijar desperately need his help to battle the virus that we know as Vampyr. Will he make it in time to save Gijar or will the virus challenge him on his death bed? The prophecy has been laid out, the battle lines have been drawn. Are you in?

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Download or read book Starting the Game written by Shawn L. Hunter and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale from the hood with true experiences. People who interact like this from day to day in the hood. It’s also a tale of a few blocks and corners of a neighborhood that people have no reason to leave because food, drugs, bills, are all in the same vicinity. I’ve witnessed this first hand. Open your eyes, ears and mind and absorb the story.

Download or read book Buck s War written by William F. Kelly and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-10-06 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buck Jones was a high school student and athlete consumed with the patriotic desire to join the military to help defeat the enemy in World War II. Upon graduation in 1942 from Mineola High School on Long Island he enlisted in the marines. When his patrol plane was shot down over the Pacific, the family was notified that the entire crew was missing in action and presumed dead. One person refused to accept that determination as final. Bucks mother, Lena, told him before he left home that he would survive the war and return home safely. She continued to pray that he would live and not for an instant did her faith waver. Buck, using his intelligence and following an inner voice, not only survived on an island in the Pacific but dealt a severe blow to the Japanese war effort. He returned home to a few surprises.

Download or read book Fallen Angel written by Jerry Langton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-12-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Stadnick is not an imposing man. At five-foot-four, his face and arms scarred by fire in a motorcycle accident, he would not spring to mind as a leader of Canada's most notorious biker gang, the Hells Angels. yet through sheer guts and determination, intelligence and luck, this Hamilton-born youth who had the nickname of "Nurget" rose in the Hells Angels ranks to become national president. Not only did he lead the Angels through the violent war with their rivals the rock machine in Montreal in the Nineties, Stadnick saw opportunity to grow the Hells Angels into a national criminal gang. he was a visionary--and a highly successful one. Bikers are not known for their fondness for rival gangs. Stadnick and the Angels fought and defeated rival gangs, or used power of persuasion to patch them over. As Stadnick's influence spread, law enforcement took notice of the growing presence of the Angels in Ontario, Manitoba and British Columbia. However, Stadnick's success did not come without a price. Arrested and charged with 13 counts of first-degree murder, stadnick beat the murder charges but was convicted of gangsterism and is currently serving time. Fallen Angel details one man's improbable rise to power in one of the world's most violent organizations, while shedding light on how this enigmatic and dangerous biker gang operated and why it remains so powerful.

Download or read book The Dice Man written by Luke Rhinehart and published by Abrams. This book was released on 1998-05-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the fifty most influential books of the last half of the twentieth century,” a comic novel about a therapist making life choices by rolling dice. (BBC) The cult classic that can still change your life . . . Let the dice decide! This is the philosophy that changes the life of bored psychiatrist Luke Rhinehart―and in some ways changes the world as well. Because once you hand over your life to the dice, anything can happen. Entertaining, humorous, scary, shocking, subversive, The Dice Man is one of the cult bestsellers of our time. “A fine piece of fiction . . . touching, ingenious and beautifully comic.” —Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange “Luke Rhinehart and THE DICE MAN have launched a psychiatric revolution.” —London Sunday Telegraph “A blackly comic amusement park of a book.” —TIME Magazine “Weird, hilarious . . . an outlandishly enjoyable book.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Witty reckless clever . . . . a caper at the edge of nihilism.” —LIFE Magazine “Brilliant . . . much like CATCH-22 . . . the sex extra-juicy.” —The Houston Post “Outrageously funny.” —Fort Worth Star-Telegram “Hilarious and well-written . . . A brilliant summary of modern nihilism. Dice living will be popular, no doubt of that.” —Time Out (London)

Download or read book Doctor Who Hunter s Moon written by Paul Finch and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'There's no end to the horror in this place - it's like Hell, and there are devils round every corner.' On Leisure Platform 9 gamblers and villains mix with socialites and celebrities. It's a place where you won't want to win the wrong game. With Rory kidnapped by a brutal crime lord, the Doctor and Amy infiltrate a deadly contest where fugitives become the hunted. But how long before they realise the Doctor isn't a vicious mercenary and discover what Amy is up to? It's a game that can only end in death, and time for everyone is running out. A thrilling, all-new Doctor Who adventure featuring the Doctor, Amy and Rory, as played by Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television.

Download or read book The Gambler s Toolbox written by Joe Raccuia and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-03-20 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: STOP BEING A SUCKER FOR THE CASINOS! In this book, casual and steady gamblers alike will gain some clear insight on how to consistently have more wins and break evens, than losses. How many times have you have heard people say “I have only brought a certain amount of money with me to lose”, while they were away on vacation in a Casino? This book will change your way of thinking when gambling, and will teach you to become a highly skilled gambler whose goal is to take the Casino’s money home and/or have anything you can get for free. It will show you how to improve your complimentary giveaways from the Casino. Everything from room, food and beverage, to free gifts, shows, golf, shopping, entire vacations and more. You don’t have to be a professional gambler to understand the methods shown here, and it doesn’t require a lot of time to learn or a lot of time in the Casino. Besides learning skills for Craps, Poker, and several other Casino games, you will learn a Blackjack system which will turn you into what the Casino’s call a “Highly Skilled Gambler” and fear almost as much as card counters!

Download or read book Jason Samuels written by Jason Samuels and published by Writers Republic LLC. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When prison life fails you… you can always count on your crew to have your back. But, on the streets it’s a different story… Avanti left his pregnant girlfriend Staci on the streets for prison hoping their love would last forever. After meeting Xavier, Shellz, Tricks and Dice in prison they form a street bond that couldn’t be broken. Avanti also learn that you can’t hold on to anything while serving time and when his return to the streets causes chaos between Staci’s new love, a deadly kingpin name Gutterman, Avanti leans on his crew to have his back. But… there are secrets amongst the squad and Avanti’s first love, Staci. A secret that forces Avanti to question his loyalty to all of them. The Perfect Squad is based on two love stories into one. When one person love for his crew and a woman is tested… what do you do? Enjoy the truth about urban life and what’s it like to survive in the mean streets of Philly.