Savage Feast

Author : Boris Fishman
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062867911
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Savage Feast written by Boris Fishman and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of A Replacement Life shifts between heartbreak and humor in this gorgeously told recipe-filled memoir. A story of family, immigration, and love—and an epic meal—Savage Feast explores the challenges of navigating two cultures from an unusual angle. A revealing personal story and family memoir told through meals and recipes, Savage Feast begins with Boris’s childhood in Soviet Belarus, where good food was often worth more than money. He describes the unlikely dish that brought his parents together and how years of Holocaust hunger left his grandmother so obsessed with bread that she always kept five loaves on hand. She was the stove magician and Boris’ grandfather the master black marketer who supplied her, evading at least one firing squad on the way. These spoils kept Boris’ family—Jews who lived under threat of discrimination and violence—provided-for and protected. Despite its abundance, food becomes even more important in America, which Boris’ family reaches after an emigration through Vienna and Rome filled with marvel, despair, and bratwurst. How to remain connected to one’s roots while shedding their trauma? The ambrosial cooking of Oksana, Boris’s grandfather’s Ukrainian home aide, begins to show him the way. His quest takes him to a farm in the Hudson River Valley, the kitchen of a Russian restaurant on the Lower East Side, a Native American reservation in South Dakota, and back to Oksana’s kitchen in Brooklyn. His relationships with women—troubled, he realizes, for reasons that go back many generations—unfold concurrently, finally bringing him, after many misadventures, to an American soulmate. Savage Feast is Boris’ tribute to food, that secret passage to an intimate conversation about identity, belonging, family, displacement, and love.

Author : Jane Haddam
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480462470
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feast of Murder written by Jane Haddam and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former FBI agent gets entangled in a financial mogul’s murder in this “superior” whodunit series (Publishers Weekly). Once one of Wall Street’s most powerful forces, Donald McAdam’s life changed when he found himself in a tight spot with the SEC. Either give up everything, they told him, or inform on your friends. Never one for loyalty, McAdam chose the wire, and sent half the stockbrokers in New York to prison. Now he’s filthy rich, isolated, and so paranoid that he buys his cocaine laced with strychnine, in hopes of building up a tolerance for the poison. His caution doesn’t help him, however, when he tumbles off his high-rise balcony and falls headfirst back down to Wall Street. Soon afterward, one of the men McAdam put away invites ex–FBI investigator Gregor Demarkian on a very peculiar cruise—onboard a cramped precise replica of the Mayflower. But when the behavior of the passengers proves rather un-Puritan, Demarkian discovers something that would have shocked Columbus: a New World murder.

Author : Robert A. Williams, Jr.
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0230338763
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Savage Anxieties written by Robert A. Williams, Jr. and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an intellectual history of the West's bias against tribalism that explains how acts of war and dispossession have been justified in the name of civilization and have typically victimized tribal groups.

Author : G. Willow Wilson
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802146848
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bird King written by G. Willow Wilson and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of NPR’s 50 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of the Decade: A fifteenth-century palace mapmaker must hide his powers in the time of the Inquisition . . . Award-winning author G. Willow Wilson’s debut novel Alif the Unseen was an NPR and Washington Post Best Book of the Year and established her as a vital American Muslim literary voice. Now she delivers The Bird King, an epic journey set during the reign of the last sultan in the Iberian peninsula at the height of the Spanish Inquisition. Fatima is a concubine in the royal court of Granada, the last emirate of Muslim Spain. Her dearest friend, Hassan, the palace mapmaker and the one man who doesn’t leer at her with desire, has a secret—he can draw maps of places he’s never seen and bend the shape of reality. When representatives of the newly formed Spanish monarchy arrive to negotiate the sultan’s surrender, Fatima befriends one of the women, not realizing that she will see Hassan’s gift as sorcery and a threat to Christian Spanish rule. With their freedoms at stake, what will Fatima risk to save Hassan and escape the palace walls? As the two traverse Spain with the help of a clever jinn to find safety, The Bird King asks us to consider what love is and the price of freedom at a time when the West and the Muslim world were not yet separate. “Wilson has a deft hand with myth and with magic, and the kind of smart, honest writing mind that knits together and bridges cultures and people.” —Neil Gaiman, author of Norse Mythology “A triumph . . . one of the best fantasy writers working today.” —BookPage “A treasure-house of a novel, thrilling, tender, funny, and achingly gorgeous. I loved it.” —Lev Grossman, author of the Magicians trilogy

Author : Keith McCarthy
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 : 9780786712229
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Feast of Carrion written by Keith McCarthy and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forensic science and law enforcement do not prove to share the same conclusions in this darkly plotted debut novel by Keith McCarthy, himself a practicing pathologist. His suspenseful and ingeniously twisted tale opens inside the walls of the venerable St. Benjamin's Museum of Pathology, where any death would send shock waves through the academic community. But the death of Nikki Exner is far from ordinary. Not only raped and murdered, she has been grotesquely executed. That the museum employs a formerly convicted rapist and drug addict, Tim Bilroth, leads the police easily to their prime suspect, and Bilroth's suicide while in their custody serves only to confirm his guilt. But Helena Flemming, the Bilroth family's solicitor, is not so sure, and to help her determine Tim's innocence, she calls upon former crack forensic pathologist John Eisenmenger. He performs a second autopsy on the victim's drawn-and-quartered body, and his findings stand almost completely at odds with the police department's medical examiner.As Eisenmenger and Flemming set out to discover who really killed Nikki Exner, they uncover a trail littered with drugs, blackmail, sexual favors, and suspects, and they fear that they and the police may not be on the same side.

Author : Patricia Hagan
Publisher : ePublishing Works!
ISBN 13 : 1947833332
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Savage Heart (The Souls Aflame Series, Book 2) written by Patricia Hagan and published by ePublishing Works!. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I was hooked and became caught up in their journey, fleeing the war torn south during the American Civil War . . ." ~Sharon Thomas, eBook Discovery Reviewer Passions Rekindled and Love Reclaimed in THIS SAVAGE HEART by Patricia Hagan --1864, Georgia, and The Way West-- Separated from her lover, Captain Derek Arnhardt, by a cruel twist of fate, when Julie Marshal joins a wagon train heading west, she's astonished to discover Derek as the wagon master. Love renewed, Derek and Julie make plans to marry upon reaching Arizona. But fate deals a different hand when the wagon train is attacked by Indians, Derek is captured, and Julie is kidnapped by a sinister gun runner. Unwilling to live without each other, Julie and Derek brave the worst the untamed West has to offer, to win their happily ever after. Publisher's Note: This is an Author's Cut edition of a previously published work, revised and updated for today's audience. Contains graphic sexual situations and violence in keeping with the era. This story will be enjoyed by fans of Scarlett Scott, Kathryn Kelly, Paula Millet, Kathleen E. Woodiwiss and pioneer wagon train romance with a gritty edge. "An epic, dark historic wagon train romance . . ." ~Holly Lenz, eBook Discovery THE SOULS AFLAME SERIES by Patricia Hagan This Rebel Heart This Savage Heart OTHER TITLES by Patricia Hagan Say You Love Me Starlight SimplyHeaven Orchids in Moonlight Final Justice

Author : Carl Hoffman
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062116185
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Savage Harvest written by Carl Hoffman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mysterious disappearance of Michael Rockefeller in New Guinea in 1961 has kept the world and his powerful, influential family guessing for years. Now, Carl Hoffman uncovers startling new evidence that finally tells the full, astonishing story. Despite exhaustive searches, no trace of Rockefeller was ever found. Soon after his disappearance, rumors surfaced that he'd been killed and ceremonially eaten by the local Asmat—a native tribe of warriors whose complex culture was built around sacred, reciprocal violence, head hunting, and ritual cannibalism. The Dutch government and the Rockefeller family denied the story, and Michael's death was officially ruled a drowning. Yet doubts lingered. Sensational rumors and stories circulated, fueling speculation and intrigue for decades. The real story has long waited to be told—until now. Retracing Rockefeller's steps, award-winning journalist Carl Hoffman traveled to the jungles of New Guinea, immersing himself in a world of headhunters and cannibals, secret spirits and customs, and getting to know generations of Asmat. Through exhaustive archival research, he uncovered never-before-seen original documents and located witnesses willing to speak publically after fifty years. In Savage Harvest he finally solves this decades-old mystery and illuminates a culture transformed by years of colonial rule, whose people continue to be shaped by ancient customs and lore. Combining history, art, colonialism, adventure, and ethnography, Savage Harvest is a mesmerizing whodunit, and a fascinating portrait of the clash between two civilizations that resulted in the death of one of America's richest and most powerful scions.

Author : Robert Dunn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935512363
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Savage Joy written by Robert Dunn and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Savage Joy the narrator, Cole Whitman, straddles his uptown literary world and the budding Lower Manhattan punk scene. When an apartment in his building at 340 East 11th Street opens up, musician Slater Martin moves in, sweeping Cole along into his CBGBs world. Also moving into 340 is Cole's elegant and mysterious literary editor pal Emily Prosser, whom Cole desires unrequitedly. Cole needs a girlfriend, Slater needs a new band, Emily needs a new life. Together the three of them, along with a fiery female drummer called Sailor and a dweeby bassist, Wendell Walter, get a new punk group going, named, by Cole, Savage Joy. What follows among the five of them is both joyful and savage, a feast of love, music, sex, violence, blood, and madness.

Author : Brian Moore
Publisher : Boston ; Toronto : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Feast of Lupercal written by Brian Moore and published by Boston ; Toronto : Little, Brown. This book was released on 1957 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of Diarmuid Devine, a shy teacher in a Catholic boys' school in Belfast.

Author : Stephen “Steve-O” Glover
Publisher : Hyperion
ISBN 13 : 9781401310790
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Professional Idiot written by Stephen “Steve-O” Glover and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's mind-blowing to me how utterly far gone Steve-O was, and how he looks back on it in this book with such intelligence, humor, and searing honesty. What a truly unbelievable life." --Johnny Knoxville From his early days videotaping crazy skateboard stunts to starring in the Jackass movies, there was little that Stephen "Steve-O" Glover wouldn't do. Whether it was stapling his nutsack to his leg or diving into a pool full of elephant crap, almost nothing was out of bounds. As the stunts got crazier, his life kept pace. He developed a crippling addiction to drugs and alcohol, and an obsession with his own celebrity that proved nearly as dangerous. Only an intervention and a visit to a psychiatric ward saved his life. Today he has been clean and sober for more than three years. Professional Idiot recounts the lunacy, the debauchery, the stunts, the drug addiction, and the path to recovery with bravado, humor, and heart. "A great book to read before you get on the roller coaster to hell, if you plan on surviving to tell about it like Steve-O did." --Nikki Sixx, author of The Heroin Diaries "This is the perfect book for people who hate reading." --Tommy Lee, author of Tommyland The feedback I've gotten on Facebook and Twitter from those of you who've read this book has been fascinating, heartwarming, and hilarious. I'm happy to keep answering your questions on there, and I encourage more of you to join in the discussion. Hope to hear from you soon, and thank you all so much. Love, Steve-O