Skinny Bitch Gets Hitched
Skinny Bitch Gets Hitched

Author: Kim Barnouin

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-05-06

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1476708932

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In this second charming novel in the bestselling Skinny Bitch series surrounding the “clever and…mouth-watering story of a vegan chef with big dreams” (San Francisco Book Review), Clem Cooper juggles running her restaurant with planning the wedding to her carnivorous fiancé. For the second time in just a few short months, Clementine Cooper’s professional reputation hinges on one restaurant review. Clementine’s No Crap Café is poised to score the Holy Grail of publicity—a mention in the New York Times Sunday travel section—if Clem’s veggietastic lasagna can bowl over the food critic. Clem has no time for distractions. Or surprises. But when her meat-eating millionaire boyfriend Zach Jeffries shocks her with a sweet and romantic marriage proposal, of course she says yes! Now, she has to plan the most important menu of her life while fending off her domineering future mother-in-law’s extravagant plans for the wedding. As if there wasn’t enough on her plate, Clem decides to open a second restaurant on her parents’ farm—Clem’s No Crap Outpost—against Zach’s advice. Just when she needs his support the most, Zach grows distant. The only person who really seems to understand is Clem’s friend and biggest competition, the cute vegan chef Alexander Orr. Putting out fires in the kitchen is easy—but in her relationship? Suddenly, her time with Alexander feels…hotter…than usual, and Clem starts to wonder if the charming carnivore she’s engaged to is really the man she should spend her life with.

I Just Hitched in from the Coast
I Just Hitched in from the Coast

Author: Ed McClanahan

Publisher: Catapult

Published: 2011-10-11

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1582437580

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This rollicking collection—personally selected by the author (in collaboration with his editor Tom Marksbury)—gathers the best of Ed McClanahan's work, making it a must–have for both long–time fans and newcomers alike. Comprised of fourteen works, I Just Hitched in from the Coast is an admixture of fiction and non–fiction, memoir and imagination. It includes such classics as "Fondelle, or: The Whore with a Heart of Gold," and the wry essay "The Day the Lampshades Breathed," chronicling McClanahan's time in the 1960s. In "The Essentials of Western Civilization," McClanahan imagines the affairs of Assistant Professor Harrison B. Eastep, MA, of Arbuckle State in Oregon, and of the gradual erosion of his dedication to academia. Weaving together Vietnam, rock and roll, a lackluster counterculture past, and the Great Plague of London, this is storytelling at its best by a master of the craft. The foremost stylist of the Yippie generation, McClanahan writes with bemused affection. He parlays his Southern sensibilities and California experiences with a mastery of language, to tantalize his readers with musings that are absurd, whimsical, outrageous, and, in the words of one reviewer, "wickedly sharp."

My Thai Girl and I
My Thai Girl and I

Author: Andrew Hicks

Publisher: Monsoon Books

Published: 2011-12-01

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 9814358657

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This is about how Andrew Hicks met Cat, a ‘Thai girl’ half his age and how they set up home together in her village out in the rice fields of North Eastern Thailand. He'll tell you of toads in the toilet, of ants' eggs for breakfast, how they took up frog farming and how he got married without really meaning to. It's also a book about the countryside, of the old Thailand where the rhythm of the seasons and belief in the spirits and Buddhism remain strong. Though how could Andrew, a greying English lawyer, ever fit into the lives of a Thai rice farming family? Can Cat and Andrew with their many differences really be compatible?

Contemporary Plays by African American Women
Contemporary Plays by African American Women

Author: Sandra Adell

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2015-12-15

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0252097815

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African American women have increasingly begun to see their plays performed from regional stages to Broadway. Yet many of these artists still struggle to gain attention. In this volume, Sandra Adell draws from the vital wellspring of works created by African American women in the twenty-first century to present ten plays by both prominent and up-and-coming writers. Taken together, the selections portray how these women engage with history as they delve into--and shake up--issues of gender and class to craft compelling stories of African American life. Gliding from gritty urbanism to rural landscapes, these works expand boundaries and boldly disrupt modes of theatrical representation. Selections: Blue Door, by Tanya Barfield; Levee James, by S. M. Shephard-Massat; Hoodoo Love, by Katori Hall; Carnaval, by Nikkole Salter; Single Black Female, by Lisa B. Thompson; Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine, by Lynn Nottage; BlackTop Sky, by Christina Anderson; Voyeurs de Venus, by Lydia Diamond; Fedra, by J. Nicole Brooks; and Uppa Creek: A Modern Anachronistic Parody in the Minstrel Tradition, by Keli Garrett.

Adjustment Day: A Novel
Adjustment Day: A Novel

Author: Chuck Palahniuk

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2018-05-01

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0393652602

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New York Times Bestseller "An irreverent satirical fantasy about a sudden and violent upheaval.…Think Tom Robbins channeling Jonathan Swift." —David Takami, Seattle Times Adjustment Day is an ingenious darkly comic work in which Chuck Palahniuk does what he does best: skewer the absurdities in our society. Geriatric politicians bring the nation to the brink of a third world war to control the burgeoning population of young males, while working-class men dream of burying the elites. Adjustment Day’s arrival makes real the logical conclusion of every separatist fantasy, alternative fact, and conspiracy theory lurking in the American psyche.

BeefCake, Inc., Volume 2
BeefCake, Inc., Volume 2

Author: Judi Fennell

Publisher: Mergenie Books

Published: 2021-06-02

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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Meet the men of BeefCake, Inc.! Girls' Night Out never tasted so good! Volume Two - A two-book collection from the BeefCake, Inc. series, with a bonus short story! Beefcake & Mistakes But when Juliet's beloved grandmother has a stroke, Tanner agrees to pretend to be a happily married couple one last time, just until she's well enough to handle the news that her favorite couple is calling it quits for good. But seven years of separation have changed a lot of things. Is it enough for the once-bitten-twice-shy Tanner to reconsider and risk a retake on the one woman who never stopped loving him? Beefcake & Snowflakes Gina had a crush on Darien since before she could remember until the day he'd humiliated her in school. Fifteen years later, the sight of him still leaves her cold. Exotic dancer Darien has come back to town to set a few things to rights. One of those is the mess he made for Gina during their teenage years... and maybe rekindle the flames they'd once had. But the only way to melt the snow around Gina's heart is to turn up the heat, both on the job... and off. Sweet as Candy Candy has been misjudged her entire life, thanks to the blonde hair, pretty face, and kickass body Mother Nature has bestowed upon her, and, in her experience, most men can't see beyond them to the woman inside. So when sexy exotic dancer Jaden Carter offers her some dopey pick-up line, she's not interested—well, in the pick-up line. In him? Totally different story. But only the man who appreciates her brains will be the guy to win her heart. But then Jaden proves he's more than a pretty face, and she realizes no one should ever judge a book by its (very sexy) cover.

Sailor & Lula
Sailor & Lula

Author: Barry Gifford

Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Published: 2010-05-04

Total Pages: 626

ISBN-13: 1583229108

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On the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Barry Gifford's international bestseller, Wild at Heart, as well as the anniversary of the Palme d'Or–winning film adaptation by director David Lynch, Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels presents all of the novels and novellas that comprise the saga of Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune, "the Romeo and Juliet of the South": Wild at Heart, Perdita Durango (also made into a feature film), Sailor’s Holiday, Sultans of Africa, Consuelo’s Kiss, Bad Day for the Leopard Man, and The Imagination of the Heart.

Oxford Thesaurus of English
Oxford Thesaurus of English

Author: Maurice Waite

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2009-08-13

Total Pages: 1074

ISBN-13: 0199560811

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"The leading single-volume English thesaurus explores the richness of the English language with hundreds of thousands of synonyms and antonyms, and thousands of example sentences drawn from the Oxford English Corpus; finds the word you need quickly with carefully chosen and arranged synonyms; broadens your vocabulary and finds solutions to word puzzles and crosswords with hundreds of thematic word lists; and helps express yourself more accurately with hundreds of 'Choose the Right Word' boxes exploring the difference between similar words." --Book Jacket.