Author : Kim Norman
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 20,8 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781402744600
An imaginative boy goes on a hunt for his crocodile dad.
Author : Amy Myers
Publisher :
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 30,20 MB
Release : 2010-05-04
Category : Friendship
ISBN : 9780578058924
"For years, people have been reporting seeing 'something' in the waters of Lake Norman. Now, for the first time in print, we tell the story of Normie the Lake Norman monster. In our story, a young Normie looks for friends in and around the lake, but all the animals are too busy to play. Will Normie ever find someone to play with?"--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Norman Van Aken
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 36,53 MB
Release : 2013-12-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1589799151
No Experience Necessary is Chef Norman Van Aken’s joyride of a memoir. In it he spans twenty-plus years and nearly as many jobs—including the fateful job advertisement in the local paper for a short-order cook with “no experience necessary.” Long considered a culinary renegade and a pioneering chef, Van Aken is an American original who chopped and charred, sweated and seared his way to cooking stardom with no formal training, but with extra helpings of energy, creativity, and faith. After landing on the deceptively breezy shores of Key West, Van Aken faced hurricanes, economic downturns, and mercurial moneymen during the decades when a restaurant could open and close faster than you can type haute cuisine. From a graveyard shift grunt at an all-night barbeque joint to a James Beard–award finalist for best restaurant in America, Van Aken put his trusting heart, poetic soul, natural talent, and ever-expanding experience into every venture—and helped transform the American culinary landscape along the way. In the irreverent tradition of Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential,and populated by a rogues’ gallery of colorful characters—including movie stars, legendary musicians, and culinary giants Julia Child, Emeril Lagasse, and Charlie Trotter—No Experience Necessary offers a uniquely personal, highly-entertaining under-the-tablecloth view of the high-stakes world of American cuisine told with wit, insight, and great affection by a natural storyteller.
Author : Norman MacLean
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 17,96 MB
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 022645049X
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner: “The terrifying story of the worst disaster in the history of the US Forest Service’s elite Smokejumpers.” —Kirkus Reviews A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, Young Men and Fire describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of fifteen of the US Forest Service’s elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of the men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts together the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch tragedy in this extraordinary book. Alongside Maclean’s now-canonical A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Young Men and Fire is recognized today as a classic of the American West. This edition of Maclean’s later triumph—the last book he would write—includes a powerful new foreword by Timothy Egan, author of The Big Burn and The Worst Hard Time. As moving and profound as when it was first published, Young Men and Fire honors the literary legacy of a man who gave voice to an essential corner of the American soul. “A moving account of humanity, nature, and the perseverance of the human spirit.” —Library Journal “Haunting.” —The Wall Street Journal “Engrossing.” —Publishers Weekly
Author : Nancy Lipetri
Publisher : Timeless Love
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 32,3 MB
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781610091626
"They say most of life's problems involve sex or money. Spoiler alert-this one isn't about money. And it isn't about sex, exactly, unless one counts all those delicious degrees surrounding "the deed." The omniscient, edgy tone of the Wooded Path gives the reader a sensation of watching trains hurtling down the track toward each other... Cute, clever dialogue, and lots of real life issues pepper the page and make this a must-read for women struggling with middle age itch, the need for meaningful friendship bonds and the illusion that the marital grass is greener outside. The reader is allowed a peek into the different characters' seemingly perfect lives in the aftermath of the inciting incident that bonds them all together. In the end I was reminded how similar we are all, and that we are all our sister's keepers, but not their judges." -Anne Schroeder, author of Cholama Moon and soon Maria Ines ..".a psychological romance. A friend's mysterious disappearance pushes Laine McClelland into a midlife crisis. The author's stream of consciousness account of Laine's quandary about the direction of the rest of her life, particularly her love life, reveals a lot about marriage and relationships in modern suburban neighborhoods. It's a quick read, but makes you think." -Janet Greger, author of medical mystery/thrillers - Coming Flu, Ignore the Pain, Murder: A New Way to Lose Weight, and now, Malignancy About the Author... Nancy LiPetri lives on Lake Norman, North Carolina, the setting of The Wooded Path. Originally from landlocked Iowa, she has enjoyed living on both coasts as well as in her husband's native Chicago, taking her family and copywriting career with her and gathering inspiration for her fiction along the way.
Author : Jerry Leiber
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 25,13 MB
Release : 2009-06-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1416566805
The hitmakers behind Elvis Presley’s “Hound Dog” and “Jailhouse Rock” recount their rise to songwriting stardom while authoring the classic American R&B sound of countless chart-topping singles. In 1950 a couple of rhythm and blues–loving teenagers named Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller met for the first time. They discovered their mutual affection for R&B and, as Jerry and Mike put it in this fascinating autobiography, began an argument that has been going on for over fifty years with no resolution in sight. Leiber and Stoller were still in their teens when they started working with some of the pioneers of rock and roll, writing such hits as "Hound Dog," which eventually became a #1 record for Elvis Presley. Jerry and Mike became the King’s favorite songwriters, giving him "Jailhouse Rock" and other #1 songs. Their string of hits with the Coasters, including "Yakety Yak," "Poison Ivy," and "Charlie Brown," is a part of rock ’n’ roll history. They founded their own music label and introduced novel instrumentation into their hits for the Drifters and Ben E. King, including "On Broadway" and "Stand by Me." They worked with everyone from Phil Spector to Burt Bacharach and Peggy Lee. Their smash musical Smokey Joe’s Café became the longest-running musical revue in Broadway history. Lively, colorful, and irreverent, Hound Dog describes how two youngsters with an insatiable love of good old American R&B created the soundtrack for a generation.
Author : India Hill Brown
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 24,3 MB
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1338678906
For fans of Small Spaces, Doll Bones, and Mary Downing Hahn, a truly chilling (and historically inspired) ghost story from the talented author of The Forgotten Girl. Celeste knows she should be excited to spend two weeks at her grandparents' lake house with her brother, Owen, and their cousins Capri and Daisy, but she's not. Bugs, bad cell reception, and the dark waters of the lake... no thanks. On top of that, she just failed her swim test and hates being in the water—it's terrifying. But her grandparents are strong believers in their family knowing how to swim, especially having grown up during a time of segregation at public pools. And soon strange things start happening—the sound of footsteps overhead late at night. A flickering light in the attic window. And Celete's cousins start accusing her of pranking them when she's been no where near them! Things at the old house only get spookier until one evening when Celeste looks in the steamy mirror after a shower and sees her face, but twisted, different... Who is the girl in the mirror? And what does she want? Past and present mingle in this spine-tingling ghost story by award-winning author India Hill Brown.
Author : Garrison Keillor
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 39,30 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780571171200
Author : Chuck McShane
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 15,18 MB
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1625850220
Journalist and historian Chuck McShane traces the triumphs and troubles of Lake Norman from the region's colonial beginnings to its modern incarnation. On a muggy September day in 1959, North Carolina governor Luther Hodges set off the first charge of dynamite for the Cowan's Ford Dam project. The dam channeled Catawba River waters into the largest lake in North Carolina: Lake Norman. The project was the culmination of James Buchanan Duke's dream of an electrified South and the beginning of the region's future. Over the years, the area around Lake Norman transformed from a countryside of cornstalks and cattle fields to an elite suburb full of luxurious subdivisions and thirty-five-foot sailboats.
Author : Jake Bussolini
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 35,41 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 1425980805
HOW TO PLAY BASKETBALL This book is for anyone that wants to Coach or play Basketball. It's for College Coaches, High School Coaches, Middle School Coaches, Elementary Coaches, and Recruitment Coaches. With this book you will win at least 75% of your games if you have a supportive team to Coach.
