Between a Wok and a Hard Place

Between a Wok and a Hard Place

Author: Tamar Myers

Publisher: NYLA

Published: 1998-03-01

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1625173326

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An Amish Bed and Breakfast Mystery with Recipes – PennDutch Mysteries #5 “Bubbling over with mirth and mystery.” –Dorothy Cannell “A delicious treat.” –Carolyn G. Hart Even though new husband, Aaron (Pooky Bear!), is away, Magdalena Yoder, proprietor of the prosperous Penn-Dutch Inn, is still in a honeymoon haze...until she’s pulled in by Police Chief Stolzfus (her nemesis!) to help investigate the sad demise of an Asian tourist – run over by a horse and buggy! But things really start to sizzle when it’s revealed that the victim was strangled first. And when a young Amish lad is shot, Magdalena must really use her noodle, lest she foul up her first officially deputized investigation. Added to that stress is shocking news from her Pooky Bear that shakes her world. But trust Magdalena to leap from wok to frying pan without a single scorch!


The Wok: Recipes and Techniques

The Wok: Recipes and Techniques

Author: J. Kenji López-Alt

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2022-03-08

Total Pages: 672

ISBN-13: 0393541223

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#1 New York Times Bestseller • #1 Washington Post Bestseller • One of Time's 10 Most Anticipated Cookbooks of 2022 From J. Kenji López-Alt, the author of the best-selling cookbook The Food Lab: the definitive guide to the science and technique of cooking in a wok. J. Kenji López-Alt’s debut cookbook, The Food Lab, revolutionized home cooking, selling more than half a million copies with its science-based approach to everyday foods. And for fast, fresh cooking for his family, there’s one pan López-Alt reaches for more than any other: the wok. Whether stir-frying, deep frying, steaming, simmering, or braising, the wok is the most versatile pan in the kitchen. Once you master the basics—the mechanics of a stir-fry, and how to get smoky wok hei at home—you’re ready to cook home-style and restaurant-style dishes from across Asia and the United States, including Kung Pao Chicken, Pad Thai, and San Francisco–Style Garlic Noodles. López-Alt also breaks down the science behind beloved Beef Chow Fun, fried rice, dumplings, tempura vegetables or seafood, and dashi-simmered dishes. Featuring more than 200 recipes—including simple no-cook sides—explanations of knife skills and how to stock a pantry, and more than 1,000 color photographs, The Wok provides endless ideas for brightening up dinner.


Cleopatra and Frankenstein

Cleopatra and Frankenstein

Author: Coco Mellors

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2022-02-08

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 1635576822

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The smash National bestseller and Goodreads Choice Award finalist--perfect for readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends. An addictive, humorous, and poignant debut novel about the shock waves caused by one couple's impulsive marriage. Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless city when, a few months before her student visa ends, she meets Frank. Twenty years older and a self-made success, Frank's life is full of all the excesses Cleo's lacks. He offers her the chance to be happy, the freedom to paint, and the opportunity to apply for a Green Card. But their impulsive marriage irreversibly changes both their lives, and the lives of those close to them, in ways they never could've predicted. Each compulsively readable chapter explores the lives of Cleo, Frank, and an unforgettable cast of their closest friends and family as they grow up and grow older. Whether it's Cleo's best friend struggling to embrace his gender queerness in the wake of Cleo's marriage, or Frank's financially dependent sister arranging sugar daddy dates to support herself after being cut off, or Cleo and Frank themselves as they discover the trials of marriage and mental illness, each character is as absorbing, and painfully relatable, as the last. As hilarious as it is heartbreaking, entertaining as it is deeply moving, Cleopatra and Frankenstein marks the entry of a brilliant and bold new talent.


Groan And Bear It

Groan And Bear It

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Publisher: Gary Younglove

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0982938349

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If you like word play and puns, you will love this book. Relying on a lifetime of collecting Shaggy Dog Stories, Spoonerisms, and other attacks on the English language, the author has produced a book that is becoming a reference for punsters. This book has over 310 of the best 'Groaners' ever told. Each one is contained on a single page and features an illustration and title relevant to the story. These set-up puns comprise a goldmine of tales that can be stretched in the act of telling, thus making the listener's 'Groan' more significant. Included is a foreword by Stan Kegel, International Punster of the Year and O. Henry Pun-Off Championships Judge. Also included are 6 pages of simple pun statements and many links to pun sites on the web.


The Five-Minute Writer

The Five-Minute Writer

Author: Margret Geraghty

Publisher: How To Books

Published: 2009-01-30

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1848033257

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Suitable for writers, this title includes chapters that offers a writing-related discussion, followed by a five-minute exercise. Five minutes a day spent on an exercise is one of the most effective methods there is to expand your potential and develop self-discipline.


Mystery Women, Volume Three (Revised)

Mystery Women, Volume Three (Revised)

Author: Colleen Barnett

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2010-12-31

Total Pages: 1090

ISBN-13: 1615950109

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Like other fictional characters, female sleuths may live in the past or the future. They may represent current times with some level of reality or shape their settings to suit an agenda. There are audiences for both realism and escapism in the mystery novel. It is interesting, however, to compare the fictional world of the mystery sleuth with the world in which readers live. Of course, mystery readers do not share one simplistic world. They live in urban, suburban, and rural areas, as do the female heroines in the books they read. They may choose a book because it has a familiar background or because it takes them to places they long to visit. Readers may be rich or poor; young or old; conservative or liberal. So are the heroines. What incredible choices there are today in mystery series! This three-volume encyclopedia of women characters in the mystery novel is like a gigantic menu. Like a menu, the descriptions of the items that are provided are subjective. Volume 3 of Mystery Women as currently updated adds an additional 42 sleuths to the 500 plus who were covered in the initial Volume 3. These are more recently discovered sleuths who were introduced during the period from January 1, 1990 to December 31, 1999. This more than doubles the number of sleuths introduced in the 1980s (298 of whom were covered in Volume 2) and easily exceeded the 347 series (and some outstanding individuals) described in Volume 1, which covered a 130-year period from 1860-1979. It also includes updates on those individuals covered in the first edition; changes in status, short reviews of books published since the first edition through December 31, 2008.


Chinese Cooking

Chinese Cooking

Author: Jean Paré

Publisher: Company's Coming Publishing Limited

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9781896891569

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Familiar Chinese dishes in easy-to-follow recipes


Sleuths in Skirts

Sleuths in Skirts

Author: Frances A. DellaCava

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780815338840

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This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality.


The Crepes of Wrath

The Crepes of Wrath

Author: Tamar Myers

Publisher: NYLA

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1625177151

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An Amish Bed and Breakfast Mystery with Recipes – PennDutch Mysteries #9 When kindly Lizzie Mast, a local Amish woman—and Hernia’s worst cook—is found poisoned by a bad plate of crepes, bumbling local police chief, Melvin Stoltzfus, begs Magdalena Yoder, the irrepressible owner (and sleuth extraordinaire!) of the PennDutch Inn, to help him investigate. With her bed and breakfast full of quirky guests, and her handsome new boyfriend to entertain, Magdalena isn’t sure she has time for Stoltzfus’s foolery. Cleverly (and frugally!) she puts her seven guests on A.L.P.O. (the Amish Lifestyle Plan Option), where guests pay an additional fee for the opportunity to cook for themselves, clean for themselves and do Magdalena’s chores for her. Still, solving the crime won’t be a plate of flapjacks; Lizzie’s husband blames the neighbor’s ‘Amish gone wild’ sons; whose rumschpringa exploits are wreaking havoc but even more shocking, the trail of clues leads straight back to the PennDutch Inn...and Magdalena fears that this killer is cooking up something flat-out deadly!!!


The Death of Pie

The Death of Pie

Author: Tamar Myers

Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd

Published: 2014-07-01

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1780105312

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A brand-new quirky mystery with recipes in the longrunning Pennsylvania-Dutch series. When a bestselling novelist falls face-down dead into Magdalena Yoder’s prize-winning apple pie during the village of Hernia’s 110th Annual Festival of Pies, there is no shortage of suspects in the subsequent murder investigation. A former guest at Magdalena’s PennDutch Inn, the author had made many enemies on publication of her subsequent tell-all book, exposing the faults and foibles of members of the local Amish/Mennonite community, and mocking their way of life. But who was enraged enough to want to poison the acid-tongued writer? Hopelessly out of his depth, Hernia’s inexperienced young Chief of Police requests Magdalena’s help in uncovering the answer. As she sets about questioning her friends and neighbours, Magdalena discovers that more than one villager has a secret to hide.