Blue Plate Special

Author: Kate Christensen
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307951103
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 370

Book Description
A delectable memoir about the transformative power of food, Blue Plate Special is a deeply personal narrative in which food becomes the vehicle for exploring a life. Here, novelist Kate Christensen tells her own story, from her unorthodox childhood in 1960s Berkeley as the daughter of a legal activist who ruled the house with his fists to her extraordinary success as a PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author. Hungry not just for food, but for love and a sense of belonging, Christensen writes honestly about her struggle to find the contentment she has always yearned for. A beautifully written account of a knockabout life, full of sorrows, pleasures—and, of course, food—Blue Plate Special is a delicious reading experience.

Blue Plate Specials & Blue Ribbon Chefs

Author: Jane Stern
Publisher: Lebhar-Friedman
ISBN: 9780867308402
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
An amazing gastronomic journey across America's heartland, this guide stops at the coziest, friendliest, and busiest diners, cafes and roadside stands in the country. Includes recipes and 75 photos.

The Last Blue Plate Special

Author: Abigail Padgett
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0446562521
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
It seems impossible that two healthy female politicians could have both died from a cerebral hemorrhage within days of each other. The police hire Blue McCarron and Roxie Bouchie as consultants. The two women, who are involved professionally and personally, work with evangelical preachers, former convicts, and paintball playing plastic surgeons in order to find this unorthodox killer.

Blue Plate Special

Author: Frances Norris
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312322321
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description
Both humorous and heartbreakingly bittersweet, "Blue Plate Special" is a funny, sad, and ultimately uplifting exploration of the courage it takes to embrace life after loss.

Blue Plate Special

Author: Susan Page Davis
Publisher: Christian Series Level III (24)
ISBN: 9781638081104
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 500

Book Description
Can Campbell McBride find her father before it's too late? Campbell McBride drives to her father's house in Murray, Kentucky, dreading telling him she's lost her job as an English professor. Private Investigator Bill McBride isn't home or at his office in town. His brash young employee, Nick Emerson, hasn't heard from Bill since the night before when he learned Bill was working on a new case.

How Do You Kill 11 Million People?

Author: Andy Andrews
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 0849949904
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 97

Book Description
How do you get away with the murder of 11 million people? The answer is simple—and disturbing. You lie to them. Learn how you can become an informed, passionate citizen who demands honesty and integrity from your leaders. In this nonpartisan New York Times bestselling book, Andy Andrews emphasizes that seeking and discerning the truth is of critical importance, and that believing lies is the most dangerous thing you can do. You’ll be challenged to become a more careful student of the past, seeking accurate, factual accounts of events that illuminate choices our world faces now. By considering how the Nazi German regime was able to carry out over eleven million institutional killings between 1933 and 1945, Andrews advocates for an informed population that demands honesty and integrity from its leaders and from each other. This short, thought-provoking book poses questions like: What happens to a society in which truth is absent? How are we supposed to tell the difference between the “good guys" and the “bad guys”? How does the answer to this question affect our country, families, faith, and values? Does it matter that millions of ordinary citizens aren't participating in the decisions that shape the future of our country? Which is more dangerous: politicians with ill intent, or the too-trusting population that allows such people to lead them? This is a wake-up call: we must become informed, passionate citizens or suffer the consequences of our own ignorance and apathy. We can no longer measure a leader’s worth by the yardsticks provided by the left or the right. Instead, we must use an unchanging standard: the pure, unvarnished truth.

The Great Man

Author: Kate Christensen
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN: 0385518455
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
Following the death of New York City painter Oscar Feldman, an artist known for his paintings of the female nude, two rival biographers set out to tell his life story, with the help of his wife Abigail, sister Maxine, and Teddy, his longtime mistress.

Just Jones

Author: Andy Andrews
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 0785226575
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
From New York Times bestselling author Andy Andrews comes the return of one of our favorite characters: Jones, the Noticer, whose wise stories have comforted and guided millions of readers. In this third volume of The Noticer series, navigate the hope that the impossible can come true. At 3:29 a.m. on May 22, a telephone rings in Orange Beach, Alabama. Breaking the sleepy silence, a hastily whispered message heralds the news that readers have been waiting on for seven years: Jones is back in town. Apparently, however, he is also in jail. The old man is tight-lipped about the circumstances surrounding his brief incarceration. After arriving to bail him out, Andy is shocked to discover that his trusted friend has already opened an unusual business in one of the resort town’s most high-profile shopping districts. As the town moves from spring to summer, a practical joker is becoming bolder and more inventive with every prank that is pulled. Could Jones be behind some of it? Why? What’s the truth about that four-hundred-pound table in his store? And why does it look as if every person Jones meets has a secret they will reveal only to him? Based on a remarkable true story, Just Jones beautifully blends fiction, allegory, and inspiration. With rare insight, Andy and Jones take us on a journey that proves the importance of perspective, the power of connection, and the ability we all have to make the impossible come true. Standalone fictional novel based on true events Follows the character of Jones, a mysterious elderly man with endless wisdom who appears precisely when needed most Part of the bestselling Noticer series Book 1: The Noticer Book 2: The Noticer Returns Book 3: Just Jones

Blue Plate Special

Author: Michelle D. Kwasney
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 0811867803
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369

Book Description
In alternating chapters, the lives of three teenage girls from three different generations are woven together as each girl learns about forgiveness, empathy, and self-respect.

The Blue Plate Diner Cookbook

Author: Tim Lloyd
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780976145028
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Simple, delicious recipes combine with sassy retro illustrations to make this cookbook fun to use or give as a gift. Featuring favorites from a popular eatery in Madison, Wisconsin, The Blue Plate Diner Cookbook lies flat for easy use and includes Soups, Salads, Big Bowls, Sandwiches, Pasta, Entrees, Kids, and Desserts. (Don't eat the kids!)