Author: Léon Bing Publisher: First Glance Books ISBN: 9780060925352 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 320
Book Description
Bestselling author Leon Bing--who probed the secret world of black gangs in Do or Die--returns with a shocking, true look at three affluent teenage boys who murdered their girlfriends with a shotgun. Smoked enters these kids' hidden lives, revealing exactly what happened that fateful night--and how it could happen in a world of wealth and privilege.
Author: Patrick Quinlan Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780312349356 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 308
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Smoke Dugan is on the run. A bomb-maker by profession, he dropped out of sight because of a misunderstanding with his employers about an airplane crash and $2.5 million in cash. Unfortunately, they've found out where Smoke's living--a picturesque seaside city in Maine. And Denny Cruz, a highly paid assassin, is on his way from New York to collect him. Smoke's girlfriend, Lola Bell, is unaware of his past. Sexy, smart, and tough, Lola's a weed that grew up through the cracks in an inner-city housing project. Her big eyes belie her secret weapon: she's spent a decade studying the martial arts. The tattoo on her shoulder reads girls kick ass. When Cruz decides to use Lola to get to Smoke, he has no idea what he's taking on. A time bomb is ticking as Smoke, Lola, Cruz, and anyone unlucky enough to come into their orbit are caught up in a drama of abduction, car chases, and triple bluff, where escape or violent death look like the only options. But nothing turns out quite as anyone might expect . . . Patrick Quinlan's fast-paced, edgy, and brilliantly original first novel introduces a cast of characters worthy of Tarantino in their sophistication and resourcefulness, in a stylish thriller that marks the debut of a stunning new talent.
Author: Aaron Franklin Publisher: Ten Speed Press ISBN: 1607747219 Category : Cooking Languages : en Pages : 226
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A complete meat and brisket-cooking education from the country's most celebrated pitmaster and owner of the wildly popular Austin restaurant Franklin Barbecue. When Aaron Franklin and his wife, Stacy, opened up a small barbecue trailer on the side of an Austin, Texas, interstate in 2009, they had no idea what they’d gotten themselves into. Today, Franklin Barbecue has grown into the most popular, critically lauded, and obsessed-over barbecue joint in the country (if not the world)—and Franklin is the winner of every major barbecue award there is. In this much-anticipated debut, Franklin and coauthor Jordan Mackay unlock the secrets behind truly great barbecue, and share years’ worth of hard-won knowledge. Franklin Barbecue is a definitive resource for the backyard pitmaster, with chapters dedicated to building or customizing your own smoker; finding and curing the right wood; creating and tending perfect fires; sourcing top-quality meat; and of course, cooking mind-blowing, ridiculously delicious barbecue, better than you ever thought possible.
Author: Lesley Stern Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226773329 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 252
Book Description
The Smoking Book is a dreamlike structure built on the solid foundation of two questions: how does it feel to smoke, and what does smoking mean? Lesley Stern, in an innovative, hybrid form of writing, muses on these questions through intersecting stories and essays that connect, expand, and contract like smoke rings floating through the air. Stern writes of addictions and passionate attachments, of the body and bodily pleasure, of autobiography and cultural history. Smoking is Stern's seductive pretext, her way of entering unknown and mysterious regions. The Smoking Book begins with intimate and vivid accounts of growing up on a tobacco farm in colonial Rhodesia, reminiscences that permeate subsequent excursions into precolonial tobacco production and postcolonial life in Zimbabwe, as well as dramatic vignettes set in Australia, the United States, Scotland, Italy, Japan, and South America. Stern has written a book, at once intensely personal and kaleidoscopically international, that weaves the intimate act of a solitary person smoking a cigarette into a broad cultural picture of desire, exchange, fulfillment, and the acts that bind people together, either in lasting ways or through ephemeral encounters. The Smoking Book is for anyone who has ever smoked or loved a smoker (against their better judgment); it is for those who have never smoked or for those who mourn the loss of cigarettes as they would grieve for a lost friend. But mostly, The Smoking Book is for all those who are smoldering still.
Author: Ellen Hopkins Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1416983295 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 576
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After the death of her abusive father and loss of her beloved Ethan and their unborn child, Pattyn runs away, desperately seeking peace, as her younger sister, a sophomore in high school, also tries to put the pieces of her life back together.
Author: Dan Vyleta Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 0385540175 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 466
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Readers of the Harry Potter series and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell are sure to be mesmerized by Dan Vyleta’s thrilling blend of historical fiction and fantasy, as three young friends scratch the surface of the grown-up world to discover startling wonders—and dangerous secrets. “Dan Vyleta writes with intricacy and imagination and skillful pacing; never once would I have considered putting his book down. In the manner of both a Dickens novel and the best young adult adventure stories (the Harry Potter series among them). . .his ending, which I wouldn’t dare reveal here, is a real firecracker.”—Jennifer Senior, The New York Times Welcome to a Victorian England unlike any other you have experienced before. Here, wicked thoughts (both harmless and hate-filled) appear in the air as telltale wisps of Smoke. Young Thomas Argyle, a son of aristocracy, has been sent to an elite boarding school. Here he will be purged of Wickedness, for the wealthy do not Smoke. When he resists a sadistic headboy's temptations to Smoke, a much larger struggle beyond the school walls is revealed. Shortly thereafter, on a trip to London, Thomas and his best friend witness events that make them begin to question everything they have been taught about Smoke. And thus the adventure begins... You will travel by coach to a grand estate where secrets lurk in attic rooms and hidden laboratories; where young love blossoms; and where a tumultuous relationship between a mother and her children is the crucible in which powerful passions are kindled, and dangerous deeds must be snuffed out in a desperate race against time.
Author: Denis Johnson Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780374279127 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 638
Book Description
Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That’s me. This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong—and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a story like nothing in our literature. Tree of Smoke is Denis Johnson’s first full-length novel in nine years, and his most gripping, beautiful, and powerful work to date. Tree of Smoke is the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.
Author: Benji O'Day Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 136
Book Description
Are you looking for a practical guide to learn everything you need (and more) to make superb smoky cocktails? If yes, this book is for you, keep reading... Although not new to the world of mixology, the smoking technique is gaining more and more ground and becoming a real trend. The visual effect of the service is combined with the contrast between the scents and taste of the drink, leaving the observer enraptured before and after tasting. There is a balance between adding a creative twist to cocktails for dramatic effect and ensuring techniques that enhance the flavours of your drinks. In this guide you'll hit exactly that point. This guide will take you step-by-step through every aspect of implementing smoking into the toolkit of your mixologist skills. From the various types of wood to garnishing, every aspect is covered in detail to enable you to make eye-catching cocktails as soon as you read on... Here is what you will discover in detail in this guide: The history, origins and legends behind the birth of cocktails and why they are called so. A comprehensive and detailed encyclopaedia of cocktails: families, different glasses, formulas and much more... 14 golden tips from the masters of mixology that will give you an unfair advantage over others. An in-depth analysis of smoked cocktails that will give you an insight into the whole theory around smoky drinks A step-by-step process for creating wonderfully delicious cocktails that will blow your friends or customers' minds Dozens of quick and easy recipes to create steaming cocktails for every taste and preference And much, much more! Whether you are a professional bartender, or just an avid mixologist, smoking is a skill that can really make a big impact. Trial and error (and a good dose of common sense) will take you far when experimenting with smoking of cocktails... Are you ready to start? Click on the "buy now" button and get started today!
Author: Marion Dane Bauer Publisher: Yearling ISBN: 9780440410348 Category : Camping Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Thirteen-year-old Caitlin looks forward to a camping trip with her older sister in the woods of northern Minnesota, but she doesn't count on the intrusion of her sister's boyfriend or the ghost of a boy who died in the fire that destroyed the forest a century before.
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