Author: Kathryn L. Crouch
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1449094481
Category : Cats
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
These stories are about a group of sweet loving mice called The Nibbly Noshers. They could be made up by anyone with a little bit of imagination and based anywhere in the world. Kathryn happens to live in Morecambe in Lancashire and the best view she can think of is across Morecambe Bay over to the Lake District. This is where the stories are based. These first stories have been written for fun and to capture the imagination of a generation of children, whose main exposure seems to be DVDs, television and computer games. The Nibbly Noshers live in a food orientated world, in which they have lots of adventures. The characters are built upon this devise and the descriptive narrative allows the child's imagination to take over. The mice are tiny creatures who live in a village made up of sweets, for example, their houses are of gingerbread, with rice paper windows and chocolate doors; the roads are of liquorice and the trees are fruit flavoured lollipops. The mice are always hungry and always eating but they get lots of exercise and ALWAYS clean their teeth! They battle with their 'enemies' called the Spice Cats, who shake spices out of their fur and are always after the Nibbly Noshers, although the mice always win!
Nibbly Noshers
Author: Kathryn L. Crouch
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1449094481
Category : Cats
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
These stories are about a group of sweet loving mice called The Nibbly Noshers. They could be made up by anyone with a little bit of imagination and based anywhere in the world. Kathryn happens to live in Morecambe in Lancashire and the best view she can think of is across Morecambe Bay over to the Lake District. This is where the stories are based. These first stories have been written for fun and to capture the imagination of a generation of children, whose main exposure seems to be DVDs, television and computer games. The Nibbly Noshers live in a food orientated world, in which they have lots of adventures. The characters are built upon this devise and the descriptive narrative allows the child's imagination to take over. The mice are tiny creatures who live in a village made up of sweets, for example, their houses are of gingerbread, with rice paper windows and chocolate doors; the roads are of liquorice and the trees are fruit flavoured lollipops. The mice are always hungry and always eating but they get lots of exercise and ALWAYS clean their teeth! They battle with their 'enemies' called the Spice Cats, who shake spices out of their fur and are always after the Nibbly Noshers, although the mice always win!
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1449094481
Category : Cats
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
These stories are about a group of sweet loving mice called The Nibbly Noshers. They could be made up by anyone with a little bit of imagination and based anywhere in the world. Kathryn happens to live in Morecambe in Lancashire and the best view she can think of is across Morecambe Bay over to the Lake District. This is where the stories are based. These first stories have been written for fun and to capture the imagination of a generation of children, whose main exposure seems to be DVDs, television and computer games. The Nibbly Noshers live in a food orientated world, in which they have lots of adventures. The characters are built upon this devise and the descriptive narrative allows the child's imagination to take over. The mice are tiny creatures who live in a village made up of sweets, for example, their houses are of gingerbread, with rice paper windows and chocolate doors; the roads are of liquorice and the trees are fruit flavoured lollipops. The mice are always hungry and always eating but they get lots of exercise and ALWAYS clean their teeth! They battle with their 'enemies' called the Spice Cats, who shake spices out of their fur and are always after the Nibbly Noshers, although the mice always win!
God in a Cup
Author: Michaele Weissman
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0544186613
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Follow the ultimate coffee geeks on their worldwide hunt for the best beans. Can a cup of coffee reveal the face of God? Can it become the holy grail of modern-day knights errant who brave hardship and peril in a relentless quest for perfection? Can it change the world? These questions are not rhetorical. When highly prized coffee beans sell at auction for $50, $100, or $150 a pound wholesale (and potentially twice that at retail), anything can happen. In God in a Cup, journalist and late-blooming adventurer Michaele Weissman treks into an exotic and paradoxical realm of specialty coffee where the successful traveler must be part passionate coffee connoisseur, part ambitious entrepreneur, part activist, and part Indiana Jones. Her guides on the journey are the nation’s most heralded coffee business hotshots: Counter Culture’s Peter Giuliano, Intelligentsia’s Geoff Watts, and Stumptown’s Duane Sorenson. With their obsessive standards and fiercely competitive baristas, these roasters are creating a new culture of coffee connoisseurship in America—a culture in which $10 lattes are both a purist’s pleasure and a way to improve the lives of third-world farmers. If you love a good cup of coffee—or a great adventure story—you’ll love this unprecedented up-close look at the people and passions behind today’s best beans. “Weissman illustrates how the origin, flavor compounds and socioeconomic impact of a cup of coffee are relevant now more than ever. . . . Tagging along behind the main characters in today’s specialty coffee scene, [she] travels from the exotic to the expected to artfully deconstruct the connoisseur’s cup of coffee.” —Publishers Weekly
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0544186613
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Follow the ultimate coffee geeks on their worldwide hunt for the best beans. Can a cup of coffee reveal the face of God? Can it become the holy grail of modern-day knights errant who brave hardship and peril in a relentless quest for perfection? Can it change the world? These questions are not rhetorical. When highly prized coffee beans sell at auction for $50, $100, or $150 a pound wholesale (and potentially twice that at retail), anything can happen. In God in a Cup, journalist and late-blooming adventurer Michaele Weissman treks into an exotic and paradoxical realm of specialty coffee where the successful traveler must be part passionate coffee connoisseur, part ambitious entrepreneur, part activist, and part Indiana Jones. Her guides on the journey are the nation’s most heralded coffee business hotshots: Counter Culture’s Peter Giuliano, Intelligentsia’s Geoff Watts, and Stumptown’s Duane Sorenson. With their obsessive standards and fiercely competitive baristas, these roasters are creating a new culture of coffee connoisseurship in America—a culture in which $10 lattes are both a purist’s pleasure and a way to improve the lives of third-world farmers. If you love a good cup of coffee—or a great adventure story—you’ll love this unprecedented up-close look at the people and passions behind today’s best beans. “Weissman illustrates how the origin, flavor compounds and socioeconomic impact of a cup of coffee are relevant now more than ever. . . . Tagging along behind the main characters in today’s specialty coffee scene, [she] travels from the exotic to the expected to artfully deconstruct the connoisseur’s cup of coffee.” —Publishers Weekly
Soul Taker
Author: David Longhorn
Publisher: Scare Street
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Marcus Mortlake’s greatest fear has returned… For paranormal investigator Marcus Mortlake, the never-ending battle against the supernatural has taken a heavy toll. Despite celebrating another birthday and finding himself in a romantic relationship, he can’t shake the feeling that something is wrong… Then he sees a phantasmal figure from his wounded past. Is it just a restless spirit? Or a harbinger of an ancient evil, lingering in the woods of his childhood home? When the ghost of another old friend appears with dire warnings, Mortlake can no longer ignore the signs. A terrifying nightmare from Mortlake’s past haunts the streets. And its victims are the most innocent of all—young children. Mortlake is determined to put a stop to it before any more blood is spilled. But when all his knowledge and weapons prove useless, Mortlake realizes that his own fractured memories may be the key to stopping this sinister monster. And unless Mortlake can unravel the secret in time, an even darker power will be unleashed upon the world…
Publisher: Scare Street
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Marcus Mortlake’s greatest fear has returned… For paranormal investigator Marcus Mortlake, the never-ending battle against the supernatural has taken a heavy toll. Despite celebrating another birthday and finding himself in a romantic relationship, he can’t shake the feeling that something is wrong… Then he sees a phantasmal figure from his wounded past. Is it just a restless spirit? Or a harbinger of an ancient evil, lingering in the woods of his childhood home? When the ghost of another old friend appears with dire warnings, Mortlake can no longer ignore the signs. A terrifying nightmare from Mortlake’s past haunts the streets. And its victims are the most innocent of all—young children. Mortlake is determined to put a stop to it before any more blood is spilled. But when all his knowledge and weapons prove useless, Mortlake realizes that his own fractured memories may be the key to stopping this sinister monster. And unless Mortlake can unravel the secret in time, an even darker power will be unleashed upon the world…
Bloodlust
Author: David Longhorn
Publisher: Scare Street
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Terror lurks beneath the streets of London… Marcus Mortlake is haunted by the past. No matter how many supernatural menaces he defeats, it is never enough. He is still tortured by nightmares, memories of those he failed to save from a diabolical cult years ago—including Cassandra, the woman he loved… When Mortlake is linked to a series of grisly murders in fog-shrouded London, he is once again compelled to investigate. And what he discovers is a shocking supernatural mystery beyond imagination. Victims, drained of blood, and a series of kidnappings that fit a very select profile… The targets all possess some degree of psychic power. After one of Mortlake’s closest friends goes missing, the case becomes even more personal. The trail of clues leads from the city streets to the dank sewers deep below. And Mortlake must come face-to-face with his deadliest adversary… a man he thought had already died. But this villain is aided by a powerful entity from Mortlake’s past. Something that knows exactly how to hurt him the most… Will Mortlake survive? Or will his past plague the present?
Publisher: Scare Street
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Terror lurks beneath the streets of London… Marcus Mortlake is haunted by the past. No matter how many supernatural menaces he defeats, it is never enough. He is still tortured by nightmares, memories of those he failed to save from a diabolical cult years ago—including Cassandra, the woman he loved… When Mortlake is linked to a series of grisly murders in fog-shrouded London, he is once again compelled to investigate. And what he discovers is a shocking supernatural mystery beyond imagination. Victims, drained of blood, and a series of kidnappings that fit a very select profile… The targets all possess some degree of psychic power. After one of Mortlake’s closest friends goes missing, the case becomes even more personal. The trail of clues leads from the city streets to the dank sewers deep below. And Mortlake must come face-to-face with his deadliest adversary… a man he thought had already died. But this villain is aided by a powerful entity from Mortlake’s past. Something that knows exactly how to hurt him the most… Will Mortlake survive? Or will his past plague the present?
Winning Words for Wordgame Players
Author: Bob Jackman
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291740422
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
A compilation of two, three and four-letter words designed as a learning and reference tool for wordgame players, in particular Scrabble. It groups words according to length, familiarity, part of speech and hook status and contains definitions of all the unusual short words.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291740422
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
A compilation of two, three and four-letter words designed as a learning and reference tool for wordgame players, in particular Scrabble. It groups words according to length, familiarity, part of speech and hook status and contains definitions of all the unusual short words.
The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Author: Tom Dalzell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317625110
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 3622
Book Description
The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English presents all the slang terms from The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English in a single volume. Containing over 60,000 entries, this concise new edition of the authoritative work details the slang and unconventional English of from around the English-speaking world since 1945, and through the first decade of the new millennium, with the same thorough, intense, and lively scholarship that characterized Partridge’s own work. Unique, exciting and, at times, hilariously shocking, key features include: unprecedented coverage of World English, with equal prominence given to American and British English slang, and entries included from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, South Africa, Ireland, and the Caribbean emphasis on post-World War II slang and unconventional English dating information for each headword in the tradition of Partridge, commentary on the term’s origins and meaning. New to this second edition: a new preface noting slang trends of the last eight years over 1,000 new entries from the US, UK and Australia, reflecting important developments in language and culture new terms from the language of social networking from a range of digital communities including texting, blogs, Facebook, Twitter and online forums many entries now revised to include new dating and new glosses, ensuring maximum accuracy of content. The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning – it’s rude, it’s delightful, and it’s a prize for anyone with a love of language.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317625110
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 3622
Book Description
The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English presents all the slang terms from The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English in a single volume. Containing over 60,000 entries, this concise new edition of the authoritative work details the slang and unconventional English of from around the English-speaking world since 1945, and through the first decade of the new millennium, with the same thorough, intense, and lively scholarship that characterized Partridge’s own work. Unique, exciting and, at times, hilariously shocking, key features include: unprecedented coverage of World English, with equal prominence given to American and British English slang, and entries included from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, South Africa, Ireland, and the Caribbean emphasis on post-World War II slang and unconventional English dating information for each headword in the tradition of Partridge, commentary on the term’s origins and meaning. New to this second edition: a new preface noting slang trends of the last eight years over 1,000 new entries from the US, UK and Australia, reflecting important developments in language and culture new terms from the language of social networking from a range of digital communities including texting, blogs, Facebook, Twitter and online forums many entries now revised to include new dating and new glosses, ensuring maximum accuracy of content. The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning – it’s rude, it’s delightful, and it’s a prize for anyone with a love of language.
Yiddish & English
Author: Sol Steinmetz
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817311033
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
"With a collection of quotations from literature and the press, Steinmetz documents the unusually high lexical, semantic, and intonational exchanges between Yiddish and English in America. He offers more than 1,200 Yiddish words, expressions, idioms, and phrases that have melted into the English vernacular.".
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817311033
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
"With a collection of quotations from literature and the press, Steinmetz documents the unusually high lexical, semantic, and intonational exchanges between Yiddish and English in America. He offers more than 1,200 Yiddish words, expressions, idioms, and phrases that have melted into the English vernacular.".
The Synonym Finder
Author: J. I. Rodale
Publisher: Rodale Books
ISBN: 162336759X
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 3402
Book Description
Originally published in 1961 by the founder of Rodale Inc., The Synonym Finder continues to be a practical reference tool for every home and office. This thesaurus contains more than 1 million synonyms, arranged alphabetically, with separate subdivisions for the different parts of speech and meanings of the same word.
Publisher: Rodale Books
ISBN: 162336759X
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 3402
Book Description
Originally published in 1961 by the founder of Rodale Inc., The Synonym Finder continues to be a practical reference tool for every home and office. This thesaurus contains more than 1 million synonyms, arranged alphabetically, with separate subdivisions for the different parts of speech and meanings of the same word.
The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
Author: Eric Partridge
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135795428
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 6031
Book Description
Drawn from the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, with the emphasis on the expressions used or coined before 1914.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135795428
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 6031
Book Description
Drawn from the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, with the emphasis on the expressions used or coined before 1914.
Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink
Author: John F. Mariani
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1620401614
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
Book Description
First published in 1983, John Mariani's Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink has long been the go-to book on all things culinary. Last updated in the late 1990s, it is now back in a handsome, fully illustrated revised and expanded edition that catches readers up on more than a decade of culinary evolution and innovation: from the rise of the Food Network to the local food craze; from the DIY movement, with sausage stuffers, hard cider brewers, and pickle makers on every Brooklyn or Portland street corner; to the food truck culture that proliferates in cities across the country. Whether high or low food culture, there's no question American food has changed radically in the last fourteen years, just as the market for it has expanded exponentially. In addition to updates on food trends and other changes to American gastronomy since 1999, for the first time the Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink will include biographical entries, both historical and contemporary, from Fanny Farmer and Julia Child to the Galloping Gourmet and James Beard to current high-profile players Mario Batali and Danny Meyer, among more than one hundred others. And no gastronomic encyclopedia would be complete without recipes. Mariani has included five hundred classics, from Hard Sauce to Scrapple, Baked Alaska to Blondies. An American Larousse Gastronomique, John Mariani's completely up-to-date encyclopedia will be a welcome acquisition for a new generation of food lovers.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1620401614
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
Book Description
First published in 1983, John Mariani's Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink has long been the go-to book on all things culinary. Last updated in the late 1990s, it is now back in a handsome, fully illustrated revised and expanded edition that catches readers up on more than a decade of culinary evolution and innovation: from the rise of the Food Network to the local food craze; from the DIY movement, with sausage stuffers, hard cider brewers, and pickle makers on every Brooklyn or Portland street corner; to the food truck culture that proliferates in cities across the country. Whether high or low food culture, there's no question American food has changed radically in the last fourteen years, just as the market for it has expanded exponentially. In addition to updates on food trends and other changes to American gastronomy since 1999, for the first time the Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink will include biographical entries, both historical and contemporary, from Fanny Farmer and Julia Child to the Galloping Gourmet and James Beard to current high-profile players Mario Batali and Danny Meyer, among more than one hundred others. And no gastronomic encyclopedia would be complete without recipes. Mariani has included five hundred classics, from Hard Sauce to Scrapple, Baked Alaska to Blondies. An American Larousse Gastronomique, John Mariani's completely up-to-date encyclopedia will be a welcome acquisition for a new generation of food lovers.