Sommelier of Deformity
Sommelier of Deformity

Author: Nick Yetto

Publisher: Turner Publishing Company

Published: 2018-07-24

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1684421462

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"I'm a connoisseur of the unwanted; a sommelier of deformity; a coveter of the unloved. I am forever chased by the shadow of my ugliness. In darkness, no shadow remains, and it's all diamonds." Buddy Hayes is an ugly, defiant little man, a would-be Don Juan trapped in Quasimodo's body. He lives with his mother and ailing grandfather in a decaying, post-industrial city. The mother is Emily Post with a color changing and a mood-indicating scar. The grandfather is a one-eyed double amputee, who spends his days happily dangling in a hydraulic patient lift. Their life is a working-class hallucination of blueblood extravagance. They luxuriate over gourmet meals and perform dramatic readings. At night, Buddy slips away for covert liaisons with women he meets on the internet. Buddy is at war with his neighbor over a stolen book. There are frequent outrageous acts of casual sex. There's a love interest, a librarian, who tempts Buddy with desires for the "normal" kind of love he knows he cannot have. So it goes, until a new nurse arrives to care for Buddy’s grandfather. Enter Terrance: a tall, impossibly handsome black man, a lapsed Broadway performer, virtuoso singer, and banjo player. Buddy and Terrance strike up an unlikely friendship that drives Yetto's surreal, tawdry, and poignant debut novel.

Dancing Somm
Dancing Somm

Author: Sandrew Montgomery

Publisher: Outskirts Press

Published: 2018-12-16

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9781977204059

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Dancing Somm is a unique composition of intellectual property on how to create wine and food pairings that will knock it out of the park every time, including recipes and the explanation as to why and how they work in harmony. It is also the story of a forty year journey of passion and history of the incredible California wine pioneers who I have had the great fortune of working with and for, including Robert Mondavi, Peter Mondavi, Francis Ford Coppola, Christian Moueix, Eileen Crane, Jack Davies, Charlie and Chuck Wagner, John and Doug Shafer, Donald Hess, Merry Edwards, Tony and John Terlato, Gil Nickel, Robert Sinskey, Ray Signorello, Sandra McKeiver, Joe Heitz, Ramona Nicholson, Mike Benziger, Jeff Kunde, Bruce Cohn, Tom Mazzocco, Marimar Torres, Sam Sebastiani, Jess Jackson, Bill and Will Phelps. Over my years in the wine industry, I have taken to heart the wisdom and knowledge that these dynamic wine visionaries have imparted to me as mentors. Within these pages are behind the scenes previously untold stories, inspirations, humorous anecdotes and proprietary intellectual property that I have developed since becoming a Wine Educator and Sommelier since 1982. In turn, I have been delighted to play to thousands of audiences, with my passionate, driving quest to engage, entertain and enlighten, by sharing these insights and observations with a little twisted, smart-ass sense of humor. This has been my life's mission. In so doing, I have come to meet people from all walks of life-Rock Stars, comedians, Movie Stars, celebrity chefs, politicians and major professional sports figures. All because of wine. Wine brings us together to share inspired conversations, learn of new gastronomic delights, creates new friendships and strengthen human bonds like no other libation. After all, it is a beverage of pleasure! This is a book about wine and food pairings, drilling down on the "how tos" and "whys" with compelling recipes. Dancing Somm is also about the Golden Years of the California Wine Industry, famous people, anecdotes, and a very lucky guy, who has had the great fortune to be the Napa and Sonoma Wine Sherpa, guiding wine enthusiasts for 4 decades through new wine ventures, livin' le reve, living the dream as the Dancing Sommelier.

The Death Sommelier
The Death Sommelier

Author: Frank Stephenson

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2016-04-05

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 151447610X

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This is the third novel featuring USGS geologist Dr. Fred Sager as the protagonist. Set on the Navajo Reservation in northeast Arizona, Fred is sent to examine the deaths of several Navajo people because their demise was originally believed to be caused by contaminated groundwater, a subject which he knows well. Through his association with the Indian Public Health Hospital in Shiprock, N.M. Fred suspects otherwise. His major distraction, however, is related to a Navajo girlfriend from his past: what's become of her? Where is she?

First Light
First Light

Author: Sunil Gangopadhyay

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2000-12-01

Total Pages: 995

ISBN-13: 9351188884

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The sequel to the award-winning and critically-acclaimed Those Days, First Light is a magnificent novel set at the turn of the twentieth century in a Bengal where the old and young India are jostling for space. Prominent among its many characters are Rabindranath Tagore or Robi, the young, dreamy poet, torn between his art and the love for his beautiful, ethereal sister-in-law, Kadambari Devi, and the handsome, dynamic Naren Datta, later to become Swami Vivekananda, who abandons his Brahmo Samaj leanings and surrenders himself completely to his Guru, Sri Ramakrishna. The story also touches upon the lives of the men and women rising to the call of nationalism; the doctors and scientists determined to pull their land out of the morass of superstition and blind beliefs, and the growing theatre movement of Bengal, with its brilliant actors and actresses who leave behind the squalor of their lives every night to deliver lines breathtaking in their beauty. Through all this runs the story of Bharat and Bhumisuta - one an illegitimate prince, the other a slave who rises to become the finest actress of her age - who cling to their self-respect and love in a society which has little time for people like them. Grand in its scale and crackling with the energy of its prose, First Light is a rich and comprehensive portrait of Bengal, from its sleepy, slow-changing villages to the bustling city of Calcutta where the genteel and the grotesque live together. Equally, it is a chronicle of a whole nation waking up to a new, modern sensibility.

Teutonic Mythology
Teutonic Mythology

Author: Jacob Grimm

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-12-11

Total Pages: 642

ISBN-13: 3368636057

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1888.

Classic Sunil Gangopadhyay
Classic Sunil Gangopadhyay

Author: Sunil Gangopadhyay

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2013-06-01

Total Pages: 2008

ISBN-13: 8184759983

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This special omnibus edition brings together the three great historical novels Sunil Gangopadhyay wrote. The Bengal Renaissance forms the backdrop to the Sahitya Akademi Award-winning Those Days, in which a feudal aristocracy awakens to its social obligations. In its sequel First Light, a turn-of-the-century Bengal, led by Rabindranath Tagore and Swami Vivekananda, awakens to a new, modern sensibility. And in The Lonely Emperor, the story of India’s greatest professional stage actor Sisir Bhaduri, the past gives way to the present as the country gains independence. Those Days (Sei Somoy), First Light (Prothom Alo), The Lonely Emperor (Nisshongo Samrat) Translated by Aruna Chakravarti and Sreejata Guha

Dancing for Dollars
Dancing for Dollars

Author: Victoria M. Howard

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2017-10-18

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1546210857

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Dancing for Dollars is a raucous, intoxicating novel about four prodigious women who originate from different backgrounds and lifestyles. As fate would have it, they meet at an upscale gentlemans club in South Florida and develop a strong friendship, peregrinating through the journey called life. Dancing for Dollars takes you into the exciting and dangerous world of exotic dancers, modeling, Hollywood, and hermaphrodites. This book is a combination of a modern day Valley Of The Dolls, Fifty Shades of Grey and Magical Mike. Florida Author Dubbed The New Jacqueline Susann BOCA RATON, Fla., Nov. 14, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Victoria M Howard, author of the best seller WHY WOMEN LOVE BAD BOYS has just published her 16th book titled DANCING FOR DOLLARS. It is the compelling story of four ecdysiasts that dance for dollars in a gentleman's club in the dazzling backdrop of the South Beach nightclub scene. Although the book is fiction, Ms. Howard interviewed dozens of ecdysiasts, bouncers, barmaids and patrons who visited the billion-dollar business of strip clubs---- relaying the hair-raising question of what goes on 'behind the curtains.' You'll meet 'the John's', the Junkies, the mega-rich and powerful through the eyes of the four main characters: Francesca Falconi, Mika Wu, Abella Erikkson and Abigail Jones-- each a composite of the real life dancers Ms. Howard came in contact with. After a brief career of 'Dancing for Dollars' the girls go separate ways, each becoming rich and famous. Francesca is Hollywood's new Marilyn Monroe; Abella launches a glittering New York modeling agency with her loverthe nations #1 model. Mika moves to Washington D.C. and becomes Madam and Dominatrix to the political elite, and Abigail, a hermaphrodite evades a life-threatening secret. "DANCING FOR DOLLARS" is a combination of Valley of the Dolls, Magic Mike, and Fifty Shades of Grey," says Howard. It has everything of a contemporary bestseller --- including sex, drugs, rock-n-roll, espionage and murder. Emmy Award Winning Producer Allan Jay Friedman calls it "one of Howards' best" and actor Michael Callan cited, "If I were still acting, I would ask for a role in the movie." The book is available at Author House, Amazon and Barnes & Noble.