Dinner with the Smileys

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Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 1401305342
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Dinner with the Smileys by : Sarah Smiley

Download or read book Dinner with the Smileys written by Sarah Smiley and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty-two guests take turns filling a military father's chair at his family's dinner table while he serves his yearlong deployment. The week before Thanksgiving 2011, Dustin Smiley left for a yearlong military deployment. Soon after, his son Ford, eleven, invited Senator Susan Collins to fill his dad's chair at dinner. On January 3, 2012, Senator Collins came to dinner ... and brought brownies. So began Dinner with the Smileys, nationally syndicated columnist Sarah Smiley's fifty-two-week commitment to fill her husband's place at the family dinner table with interesting people--from schoolteachers to Olympians, professional athletes to famous authors, comedians to politicians--and unique role models for her three sons, even as she knows Dustin's seat cannot truly be "filled" until he is home again for the fifty-third dinner. Why dinner? Because dinnertime is often the loneliest time for people living alone. If houses and apartments were like dollhouses with one side totally exposed, Sarah says, we'd see plenty of people eating alone to the glow of a television. That was the fate Sarah feared for herself and her children during Dustin's absence. So she opened her home, and she and the kids sent invitations. And they found that a surprising number of people really are available for dinner. You just have to ask. In a time when popular culture leads us to believe that the family dinner table is dead, Dinner with the Smileys shows people that time spent with family, friends, and neighbors is still very much part of the American lifestyle.

Moo

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Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307805298
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Book Synopsis Moo by : Jane Smiley

Download or read book Moo written by Jane Smiley and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-08-24 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes “an uproariously funny and at the same time hauntingly melancholy portrait of a college community in the Midwest" (The New York Times). In this darkly satirical send-up of academia and the Midwest, we are introduced to Moo University, a distinguished institution devoted to the study of agriculture. Amid cow pastures and waving fields of grain, Moo’s campus churns with devious plots, mischievous intrigue, lusty liaisons, and academic one-upmanship, Chairman X of the Horticulture Department harbors a secret fantasy to kill the dean; Mrs. Walker, the provost's right hand and campus information queen, knows where all the bodies are buried; Timothy Monahan, associate professor of English, advocates eavesdropping for his creative writing assignments; and Bob Carlson, a sophomore, feeds and maintains his only friend: a hog named Earl Butz. Wonderfully written and masterfully plotted, Moo gives us a wickedly funny slice of life.

Addiction on Trial

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Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1491825324
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (918 download)

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Book Synopsis Addiction on Trial by : Steven Kassels

Download or read book Addiction on Trial written by Steven Kassels and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addiction on Trial is a legal thriller/medical murder mystery that is true-to-life and a page-turner. The story revolves around drug addiction and the murder cases of Attorney Marks, an egotistical yet likable high-powered attorney who can juggle an array of female companions without taking his eye off the legal challenges.

Eats, Shoots & Leaves

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101218290
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis Eats, Shoots & Leaves by : Lynne Truss

Download or read book Eats, Shoots & Leaves written by Lynne Truss and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-04-12 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in email, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss dares to say, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. From the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon, this lively history makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with.

My Life in Smiley

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Publisher : My Life in Smiley
ISBN 13 : 9781449489878
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book My Life in Smiley written by Anne Kalicky and published by My Life in Smiley. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven-year-old Max is a middle-schooler who's written a personal journal that covers every noteworthy event of his life; however, he doesn't want it read before 2126.

Falling Through Clouds

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Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250026237
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Falling Through Clouds by : Damian Fowler

Download or read book Falling Through Clouds written by Damian Fowler and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mommy burned up." On a cloudy day in August 2003, Grace and Lily Pearson, 4 and 3, were flying in their uncle's plane along with their mother on their way to their grandpa's birthday party near Lake Superior, when Lily noticed the trees out the window were growing close; so close she could almost touch them. Before the trees tore into the cabin, Grace had the strange sensation of falling through clouds. A story of tragedy, survival, and justice, Damian Fowler's Falling Through Clouds is about a young father's fight for his family in the wake of a plane crash that killed his wife, badly injured his two daughters, and thrust him into a David-vs-Goliath legal confrontation with a multi-billion dollar insurance company. Blindsided when he was sued in federal court by this insurance company, Toby Pearson made it his mission to change aviation insurance law in his home state and nationally, while nursing his daughters to recovery and recreating his own life. Falling Through Clouds charts the dramatic journey of a man who turned a personal tragedy into an important victory for himself, his girls, and many other Americans.

The Age of Grief

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Publisher : Mantle
ISBN 13 : 176078558X
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Grief written by Jane Smiley and published by Mantle. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliant collection of five short stories and a novella, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley presents six unforgettable portraits exploring the perils of domestic life. I am thirty-five years old, and it seems to me that I have reached the age of grief. Others arrive there sooner. Almost no one arrives much later . . . In the title novella, a man who has reached the 'age of grief' slowly realizes that his wife is in love with someone else. Unsure whether his marriage is best protected by confronting her or by feigning ignorance, he struggles to repress his anguish and to prevent his wife discovering that he is aware of her infidelity . . . Accompanying this novella are five short stories, including The Pleasure of Her Company, in which a lonely, single woman befriends the married couple next door, hoping to learn the secret to their happiness. And Long Distance, in which a man finds himself relieved of the obligation to continue an affair that is no longer compelling to him, only to be waylaid by the guilt he feels at his easy escape.

Prune

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0812994108
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Book Synopsis Prune by : Gabrielle Hamilton

Download or read book Prune written by Gabrielle Hamilton and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Gabrielle Hamilton, bestselling author of Blood, Bones & Butter, comes her eagerly anticipated cookbook debut filled with signature recipes from her celebrated New York City restaurant Prune. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE SEASON BY Time • O: The Oprah Magazine • Bon Appétit • Eater A self-trained cook turned James Beard Award–winning chef, Gabrielle Hamilton opened Prune on New York’s Lower East Side fifteen years ago to great acclaim and lines down the block, both of which continue today. A deeply personal and gracious restaurant, in both menu and philosophy, Prune uses the elements of home cooking and elevates them in unexpected ways. The result is delicious food that satisfies on many levels. Highly original in concept, execution, look, and feel, the Prune cookbook is an inspired replica of the restaurant’s kitchen binders. It is written to Gabrielle’s cooks in her distinctive voice, with as much instruction, encouragement, information, and scolding as you would find if you actually came to work at Prune as a line cook. The recipes have been tried, tasted, and tested dozens if not hundreds of times. Intended for the home cook as well as the kitchen professional, the instructions offer a range of signals for cooks—a head’s up on when you have gone too far, things to watch out for that could trip you up, suggestions on how to traverse certain uncomfortable parts of the journey to ultimately help get you to the final destination, an amazing dish. Complete with more than with more than 250 recipes and 250 color photographs, home cooks will find Prune’s most requested recipes—Grilled Head-on Shrimp with Anchovy Butter, Bread Heels and Pan Drippings Salad, Tongue and Octopus with Salsa Verde and Mimosa’d Egg, Roasted Capon on Garlic Crouton, Prune’s famous Bloody Mary (and all 10 variations). Plus, among other items, a chapter entitled “Garbage”—smart ways to repurpose foods that might have hit the garbage or stockpot in other restaurant kitchens but are turned into appetizing bites and notions at Prune. Featured here are the recipes, approach, philosophy, evolution, and nuances that make them distinctively Prune’s. Unconventional and honest, in both tone and content, this book is a welcome expression of the cookbook as we know it. Praise for Prune “Fresh, fascinating . . . entirely pleasurable . . . Since 1999, when the chef Gabrielle Hamilton put Triscuits and canned sardines on the first menu of her East Village bistro, Prune, she has nonchalantly broken countless rules of the food world. The rule that a successful restaurant must breed an empire. The rule that chefs who happen to be women should unconditionally support one another. The rule that great chefs don’t make great writers (with her memoir, Blood, Bones & Butter). And now, the rule that restaurant food has to be simplified and prettied up for home cooks in order to produce a useful, irresistible cookbook. . . . [Prune] is the closest thing to the bulging loose-leaf binder, stuck in a corner of almost every restaurant kitchen, ever to be printed and bound between cloth covers. (These happen to be a beautiful deep, dark magenta.)”—The New York Times “One of the most brilliantly minimalist cookbooks in recent memory . . . at once conveys the thrill of restaurant cooking and the wisdom of the author, while making for a charged reading experience.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Got Here As Soon As I Could

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Publisher : Down East Books
ISBN 13 : 1608935779
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Got Here As Soon As I Could written by Sarah Smiley and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I’m not from Maine… but I got here as soon as I could. Six years ago, a family from Florida fell in love with “the way life should be,” and although they’ve never seen a moose, the Smileys intend to stay. Because say what you will about the cold winters and the messy mud season, there is no other place to raise a kid than in the great state of Maine. Got Here As Soon As I Could is a collection of syndicated columnist Sarah Smiley’s most-loved columns about raising a family in Maine. In these 100 essays, readers will laugh, cry and nod their head “yes” as they remember a time when all of America was as simple and beautiful as it still is today in Vacationland.

Night of the Twisters

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0064401766
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (644 download)

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Book Synopsis Night of the Twisters by : Ivy Ruckman

Download or read book Night of the Twisters written by Ivy Ruckman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1986-09-25 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a tornado watch is issued one Tuesday evening in June, twelve-year-old Dan Hatch and his best friend, Arthur, don't think much of it. After all, tornado warnings are a way of life during the summer in Grand Island, Nebraska. But soon enough, the wind begins to howl, and the lights and telephone stop working. Then the emergency siren starts to wail. Dan, his baby brother, and Arthur have only seconds to get to the basement before the monstrous twister is on top of them. Little do they know that even if they do survive the storm, their ordeal will have only just begun. . . .

Some Luck

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Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385350392
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Book Synopsis Some Luck by : Jane Smiley

Download or read book Some Luck written by Jane Smiley and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes the first volume of an epic trilogy that takes us on a literary adventure through cycles of birth and death, passion and betrayal that will span a century in America. “Intimate.... Miraculous.... Staggering.... A masterpiece in the making.” —USA Today 1920, Denby, Iowa: Rosanna and Walter Langdon have just welcomed their firstborn son, Frank, into their family farm. He will be the oldest of five. Each chapter in this extraordinary novel covers a single year, encompassing the sweep of history as the Langdons abide by time-honored values and pass them on to their children. With the country on the cusp of enormous social and economic change through the early 1950s, we watch as the personal and the historical merge seamlessly: one moment electricity is just beginning to power the farm, and the next a son is volunteering to fight the Nazis. Later still, a girl we’d seen growing up now has a little girl of her own.

Girl In Room 105

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9354899161
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (548 download)

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Book Synopsis Girl In Room 105 by : Chetan Bhagat

Download or read book Girl In Room 105 written by Chetan Bhagat and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2024-02-23 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hi, I'm Keshav, and my life is screwed. I hate my job and my girlfriend left me. Ah, the beautiful Zara. Zara is from Kashmir. She is a Muslim. And did I tell you my family is a bit, well, traditional? Anyway, leave that. Zara and I broke up four years ago. She moved on in life. I didn't. I drank every night to forget her. I called, messaged, and stalked her on social media. She just ignored me. However, that night, on the eve of her birthday, Zara messaged me. She called me over, like old times, to her hostel room 105. I shouldn't have gone, but I did... and my life changed forever. This is not a love story. It is an unlove story. From the author of Five Point Someone and 2 States, comes a fast-paced, funny and unputdownable thriller about obsessive love and finding purpose in life against the backdrop of contemporary India.

Emoji Adventures Volume 1

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Publisher : Montage Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780692651025
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis Emoji Adventures Volume 1 by : Pt Evans

Download or read book Emoji Adventures Volume 1 written by Pt Evans and published by Montage Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get ready for Emoji adventures! Follow Annie Emoji, her devilish brother, Kevin, and her BFF's Dot and Billy as they maneuver their way through life in a land of emojis. In Book #1, Annie desperately wants to get invited to the popular kids' party - but will she be one of the lucky ones to get an invitation?

A Murder of Quality

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141967455
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Book Synopsis A Murder of Quality by : John le Carré

Download or read book A Murder of Quality written by John le Carré and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A murder mystery in the finest tradition of English detective novels, John le Carré's A Murder of Quality is an ingenious puzzle featuring his best-loved character George Smiley. Stella Rode has twice disturbed the ancient cloisters of Carne School: firstly by being the wrong sort, with her doilies and china ducks, and secondly by being murdered. George Smiley, who has his own connection with the school, is asked by an old Service friend to investigate. Smiley knows that Stella feared her husband would murder her, but as he probes further beneath Carne's respectable veneer, he uncovers far more than a simple crime of passion. In his second George Smiley novel, le Carré moves outside the world of espionage to reveal the secrets at the heart of another particularly English institution. The result is a pitch-perfect murder mystery, with Smiley as master detective. If you enjoyed A Murder of Quality, you might like le Carré's Call for the Dead, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'Beautifully intelligent, satiric and witty' Daily Telegraph

Fifty Classic Climbs of North America

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Publisher : San Francisco : Sierra Club Books
ISBN 13 : 9780871562920
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Fifty Classic Climbs of North America written by Steve Roper and published by San Francisco : Sierra Club Books. This book was released on 1979 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes recommended mountain climbing routes, lists equipment requirements, and rates mountains for difficulty. Includes chapters on mountaineering in Alaska and Yukon, and in western Canada.

Dressing for Dinner in the Naked City

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Publisher : Hyperion
ISBN 13 : 9780786880133
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Dressing for Dinner in the Naked City written by Jane Berentson and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 1994-06-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never mind who's buying and who's selling. The feature that millions of Wall Street Journal readers look for first is the "middle column," a healthy dose of the exotic, intriguing, and entertaining in the midst of the everyday. This first-ever collection brings together the very best of the column's offbeat offerings.

The North Branch Murders

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Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595321933
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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