Author: Francis Lam
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820346667
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The latest collection of the best in Southern foodways writing, on what food means to outsiders, insiders, and everyone in between. Edited by Francis Lam, it brings together the best Southern food writing from recent years, including well-known food writers such as Sara Roahen and Brett Anderson.
Waiting For Snow In Havana
Author: Carlos Eire
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 147110835X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 579
Book Description
A childhood in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous and cruel, like any other-but with certain differences. The neighbour's monkey was liable to escape and run across your roof. Surfing was conducted by driving cars across the breakwater. Lizards and firecrackers made frequent contact. Carlos Eire's childhood was a little different from most. His father was convinced he had been Louis XVI in a past life. At school, classmates with fathers in the Batista government were attended by chauffeurs and bodyguards. At a home crammed with artifacts and paintings, portraits of Jesus spoke to him in dreams and nightmares. Then, in January 1959, the world changes: Batista is suddenly gone, a cigar-smoking guerrilla has taken his place, and Christmas is cancelled. The echo of firing squads is everywhere. And, one by one, the author's schoolmates begin to disappear-spirited away to the United States. Carlos will end up there himself, without his parents, never to see his father again. Narrated with the urgency of a confession, WAITING FOR SNOW IN HAVANA is both an ode to a paradise lost and an exorcism. More than that, it captures the terrible beauty of those times in our lives when we are certain we have died-and then are somehow, miraculously, reborn.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 147110835X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 579
Book Description
A childhood in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous and cruel, like any other-but with certain differences. The neighbour's monkey was liable to escape and run across your roof. Surfing was conducted by driving cars across the breakwater. Lizards and firecrackers made frequent contact. Carlos Eire's childhood was a little different from most. His father was convinced he had been Louis XVI in a past life. At school, classmates with fathers in the Batista government were attended by chauffeurs and bodyguards. At a home crammed with artifacts and paintings, portraits of Jesus spoke to him in dreams and nightmares. Then, in January 1959, the world changes: Batista is suddenly gone, a cigar-smoking guerrilla has taken his place, and Christmas is cancelled. The echo of firing squads is everywhere. And, one by one, the author's schoolmates begin to disappear-spirited away to the United States. Carlos will end up there himself, without his parents, never to see his father again. Narrated with the urgency of a confession, WAITING FOR SNOW IN HAVANA is both an ode to a paradise lost and an exorcism. More than that, it captures the terrible beauty of those times in our lives when we are certain we have died-and then are somehow, miraculously, reborn.
Full Court Flash
Author: Scott Ciencin
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 143422225X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Dash the Flash is taller and faster than everyone else. There's just one problem - his teammates are having a hard time keeping up!
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 143422225X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Dash the Flash is taller and faster than everyone else. There's just one problem - his teammates are having a hard time keeping up!
Cornbread Nation 7
Author: Francis Lam
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820346667
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The latest collection of the best in Southern foodways writing, on what food means to outsiders, insiders, and everyone in between. Edited by Francis Lam, it brings together the best Southern food writing from recent years, including well-known food writers such as Sara Roahen and Brett Anderson.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820346667
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The latest collection of the best in Southern foodways writing, on what food means to outsiders, insiders, and everyone in between. Edited by Francis Lam, it brings together the best Southern food writing from recent years, including well-known food writers such as Sara Roahen and Brett Anderson.
Quarterback Scramble
Author: Brandon Terrell
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1434222209
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Ben Paulson rides the bench while Wes Blake gets the glory - until Wes gets benched for pulling poor grades, and Ben is thrust into the spotlight.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1434222209
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Ben Paulson rides the bench while Wes Blake gets the glory - until Wes gets benched for pulling poor grades, and Ben is thrust into the spotlight.
Remain in Love
Author: Chris Frantz
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250209234
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Two iconic bands. An unforgettable life. One of the most dynamic groups of the ‘70s and ‘80s, Talking Heads, founded by drummer Chris Frantz, his girlfriend Tina Weymouth, and lead singer David Byrne, burst onto the music scene, playing at CBGBs, touring Europe with the Ramones, and creating hits like “Psycho Killer” and “Burning Down the House” that captured the post-baby boom generation’s intense, affectless style. In Remain in Love, Frantz writes about the beginnings of Talking Heads—their days as art students in Providence, moving to the sparse Chrystie Street loft Frantz, Weymouth, and Byrne shared where the music that defined an era was written. With never-before-seen photos and immersive vivid detail, Frantz describes life on tour, down to the meals eaten and the clothes worn—and reveals the mechanics of a long and complicated working relationship with a mercurial frontman. At the heart of Remain in Love is Frantz’s love for Weymouth: their once-in-a-lifetime connection as lovers, musicians, and bandmates, and how their creativity surged with the creation of their own band Tom Tom Club, bringing a fresh Afro-Caribbean beat to hits like “Genius of Love.” Studded with memorable places and names from the era—Grace Jones, Andy Warhol, Stephen Sprouse, Lou Reed, Brian Eno, and Debbie Harry among them—Remain in Love is a frank and open memoir of an emblematic life in music and in love.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250209234
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Two iconic bands. An unforgettable life. One of the most dynamic groups of the ‘70s and ‘80s, Talking Heads, founded by drummer Chris Frantz, his girlfriend Tina Weymouth, and lead singer David Byrne, burst onto the music scene, playing at CBGBs, touring Europe with the Ramones, and creating hits like “Psycho Killer” and “Burning Down the House” that captured the post-baby boom generation’s intense, affectless style. In Remain in Love, Frantz writes about the beginnings of Talking Heads—their days as art students in Providence, moving to the sparse Chrystie Street loft Frantz, Weymouth, and Byrne shared where the music that defined an era was written. With never-before-seen photos and immersive vivid detail, Frantz describes life on tour, down to the meals eaten and the clothes worn—and reveals the mechanics of a long and complicated working relationship with a mercurial frontman. At the heart of Remain in Love is Frantz’s love for Weymouth: their once-in-a-lifetime connection as lovers, musicians, and bandmates, and how their creativity surged with the creation of their own band Tom Tom Club, bringing a fresh Afro-Caribbean beat to hits like “Genius of Love.” Studded with memorable places and names from the era—Grace Jones, Andy Warhol, Stephen Sprouse, Lou Reed, Brian Eno, and Debbie Harry among them—Remain in Love is a frank and open memoir of an emblematic life in music and in love.
Accidental Empires
Author: Robert X. Cringely
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0887308554
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Computer manufacturing is--after cars, energy production and illegal drugs--the largest industry in the world, and it's one of the last great success stories in American business. Accidental Empires is the trenchant, vastly readable history of that industry, focusing as much on the astoundingly odd personalities at its core--Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mitch Kapor, etc. and the hacker culture they spawned as it does on the remarkable technology they created. Cringely reveals the manias and foibles of these men (they are always men) with deadpan hilarity and cogently demonstrates how their neuroses have shaped the computer business. But Cringely gives us much more than high-tech voyeurism and insider gossip. From the birth of the transistor to the mid-life crisis of the computer industry, he spins a sweeping, uniquely American saga of creativity and ego that is at once uproarious, shocking and inspiring.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0887308554
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Computer manufacturing is--after cars, energy production and illegal drugs--the largest industry in the world, and it's one of the last great success stories in American business. Accidental Empires is the trenchant, vastly readable history of that industry, focusing as much on the astoundingly odd personalities at its core--Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mitch Kapor, etc. and the hacker culture they spawned as it does on the remarkable technology they created. Cringely reveals the manias and foibles of these men (they are always men) with deadpan hilarity and cogently demonstrates how their neuroses have shaped the computer business. But Cringely gives us much more than high-tech voyeurism and insider gossip. From the birth of the transistor to the mid-life crisis of the computer industry, he spins a sweeping, uniquely American saga of creativity and ego that is at once uproarious, shocking and inspiring.
Skateboard Sonar
Author: Eric Stevens
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1434219100
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
Matty Lyon's skateboard tricks are even more impressive since he's blind.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1434219100
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
Matty Lyon's skateboard tricks are even more impressive since he's blind.
My Kind of Place
Author: Susan Orlean
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0812974875
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
New Yorker writer and author of The Library Book takes readers on a series of remarkable journeys in this uniquely witty, sophisticated, and far-flung travel book. In this irresistible collection of adventures far and near, Orlean conducts a tour of the world via its subcultures, from the heart of the African music scene in Paris to the World Taxidermy Championships in Springfield, Illinois—and even into her own apartment, where she imagines a very famous houseguest taking advantage of her hospitality. With Orlean as guide, lucky readers partake in all manner of armchair activity. They will climb Mt. Fuji and experience a hike most intrepid Japanese have never attempted; play ball with Cuba’s Little Leaguers, promising young athletes born in a country where baseball and politics are inextricably intertwined; trawl Icelandic waters with Keiko, everyone’s favorite whale as he tries to make it on his own; stay awhile in Midland, Texas, hometown of George W. Bush, a place where oil time is the only time that matters; explore the halls of a New York City school so troubled it’s known as “Horror High”; and stalk caged tigers in Jackson, New Jersey, a suburban town with one of the highest concentrations of tigers per square mile anywhere in the world. Vivid, humorous, unconventional, and incomparably entertaining, Susan Orlean’s writings for The New Yorker have delighted readers for over a decade. My Kind of Place is an inimitable treat by one of America’s premier literary journalists.
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0812974875
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
New Yorker writer and author of The Library Book takes readers on a series of remarkable journeys in this uniquely witty, sophisticated, and far-flung travel book. In this irresistible collection of adventures far and near, Orlean conducts a tour of the world via its subcultures, from the heart of the African music scene in Paris to the World Taxidermy Championships in Springfield, Illinois—and even into her own apartment, where she imagines a very famous houseguest taking advantage of her hospitality. With Orlean as guide, lucky readers partake in all manner of armchair activity. They will climb Mt. Fuji and experience a hike most intrepid Japanese have never attempted; play ball with Cuba’s Little Leaguers, promising young athletes born in a country where baseball and politics are inextricably intertwined; trawl Icelandic waters with Keiko, everyone’s favorite whale as he tries to make it on his own; stay awhile in Midland, Texas, hometown of George W. Bush, a place where oil time is the only time that matters; explore the halls of a New York City school so troubled it’s known as “Horror High”; and stalk caged tigers in Jackson, New Jersey, a suburban town with one of the highest concentrations of tigers per square mile anywhere in the world. Vivid, humorous, unconventional, and incomparably entertaining, Susan Orlean’s writings for The New Yorker have delighted readers for over a decade. My Kind of Place is an inimitable treat by one of America’s premier literary journalists.
The Swiss Family Robinson Or, Adventures in a Desert Island
Author: Johann David Wyss
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Gerardo Deniz, Poemas
Author: Gerardo Deniz
Publisher: Lost Roads Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Bilingual edition, translated and edited by Monica de la Torre. One of the great poets of Mexico, Gerardo Deniz immediately draws his reader into what is an explosive lyric -- a lyric that can be wildly comic, deeply cynical, but also passionate and sexy -- Marjorie Perloff. The sarcasm of Gerardo Deniz is the art of opening one's eyes in the midst of collapse. The art of decomposition untangles the ramblings of composition and cures it of its illusions. Also includes an epilogue by Josu' Ramirez, translated by Jen Hofer.
Publisher: Lost Roads Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Bilingual edition, translated and edited by Monica de la Torre. One of the great poets of Mexico, Gerardo Deniz immediately draws his reader into what is an explosive lyric -- a lyric that can be wildly comic, deeply cynical, but also passionate and sexy -- Marjorie Perloff. The sarcasm of Gerardo Deniz is the art of opening one's eyes in the midst of collapse. The art of decomposition untangles the ramblings of composition and cures it of its illusions. Also includes an epilogue by Josu' Ramirez, translated by Jen Hofer.