![]() ![]() awful and terrifying and beyond compare." He traveled 20,000 miles in researching this adrenaline-filled book, wading into his subject neck-deep and capturing its mystique. The reader joins him on a caffeinated trip from Harrar, Ethiopia, where coffee was discovered, to Adrien, Texas, where Allen finds what he dubs the "all-American joe. This is the work of a traveler who braves bandits, border skirmishes and life-threatening sea voyages to sample exotic (and often wretched) brews that have played a role in the history of coffee. Stewart Lee Allen's "The Devil's Cup" is one-third history of coffee, two-thirds gonzo travelogue. Recently that literature has seen two notable additions. (The modern insurance industry was born in a London coffeehouse that grew into Lloyd's of London.) The world's most widely consumed psychoactive drug has also fueled artists, musicians and writers - and inspired a plethora of books on coffee itself. ![]() Since its discovery some 2,000 years ago, coffee has given the authorities pause, for wherever people gather to drink it, you will find controversy, political debate and innovative ideas. Frederick the Great followed suit in 1777, forbidding coffee roasting in Prussia except in official government establishments. In 1675, Charles II banned coffeehouses from England. Coffee was first banned in 1511, by the head of Mecca's religious police. ![]()
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5/11/2023 0 Comments Firestarter book stephen king![]() ![]() ![]() The memory haunts her father Andy (Zac Efron, going against type as a suburban dad), who still has nightmares about the incident.Ĭharlie is in elementary school now, but the problem hasn’t gone away. It began when she was a baby, engulfing her mobile in flames while she squirmed in her crib. ‘Love Again’ Review: Not Even Celine Dion Can Save This Wildly Contrived Rom-Com from Its Own SadnessĬharlie (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) is a little girl who, as savvy literary minds could probably deduce from the title, starts a lot of fires. What should be an intense chase movie is essentially 90 minutes of Zac Efron and his daughter hanging out in rooms lit like a senior citizen’s kitchen before their adult kid opens the blinds. Yet director Keith Thomas and writer Scott Teems found a way to turn the fun source material into a lethargic parenting drama that’s completely devoid of warmth. An adaptation of the pulpy novel might not be good, but one would think it would at least be entertaining. A Stephen King book about a kid who starts fires should be a B-movie producer’s dream. To call Universal’s take on the Stephen King novel generic would be an insult to generic cinema everywhere, as the film’s inability to make a single distinct choice is almost impressive. ![]() ![]() Repeat that process 999 more times and show those movies to the same AI, and you’ll probably get “ Firestarter.” If you forced an extremely smart AI to watch 1,000 direct-to-VOD horror movies, then asked it to generate one of its own, you’d end up with something that resembles the worst Blumhouse fare from the past decade. ![]() ![]() ![]() But this is not just a biography of Benjamin Franklin but rather a fascinating look at American and European political history at that time. In this riveting new biography Walter Isaacson provides readers with a full portrait of Franklin's public and private life - his loyal but neglected wife, his bastard son with whom he broke over going to war with England, his endless replacement families and his many amorous, but probably unconsummated, liaisons. America's first great publicist, he carefully crafted his own persona, portrayed it in public and polished it for posterity. ![]() He was also one of its most practical political thinkers. During his 84-year life Benjamin Franklin was America's best scientist, inventor, publisher, business strategist, diplomat, and writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() High-stakes spy game, the boundaries of her two lives are beginning to blur. Reports, and an increasingly suspicious boyfriend-and her mission in this Girls Life 'I couldnt put They Call Me Alexandra Gastone down-Maclagans clever. Perun no longer needs her at the CIA in fiveīetween her cover as a high school girl-juggling a homecoming dance, history Maclagan, author of They Call Me Alexandra Gastone After the terrible battle against the Enhanced Ones, Seven and Corin find themselves on the run. Praise for They Call Me Alexandra Gastone: 'Death-threats, global takeover, double-agents, hidden files and a blown cover-by the time you get to the shocking conclusion of this cliff-hanger. ![]() GrandpaĪlbert loves her, and her strategically chosen boyfriend, Grant, is amazing.īut things are about to change. ![]() There, Milena learned everything she needed to infiltrate the life of CIA analyst Albert Gastone, Alexandra’s grandfather, and the ranks of America’s top intelligence agency.įor seven years, “Alexandra” has been on standby and life’s been good. Milena was trained to be a sleeper agent by Perun, a clandestine organization from her true homeland of Olissa. She was told the plan back when her name was Milena Rokva, back before the real Alexandra and her family were killed in a car crash. When your life is a lie, how do you know what’s real?Alexandra Gastone has a simple plan: graduate high school, get into Princeton, work for the CIA, and serve her great nation. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Tao tzu![]() ![]() ![]() “A refreshing new translation… Highly recommended.” - Library Journal Mair, Professor of Chinese Language and Literature, University of Pennsylvania “Read it in confidence that it comes as close as possible to expressing the Chinese text in English.” -Victor H. “Red Pine’s revised edition of this ancient Chinese classic is a welcome addition to our on-going love affair with this extraordinary document… The uniqueness of Porter’s edition, however, does not lie in comparisons between versions of the text but in Porter’s use of excerpts from China’s vast commentarial tradition… What is notable about this translation is the range, in terms of both historical era and perspective, of the sources that Porter has culled from China’s rich history.” -Tom Pynn, Southeast Review of Asian Studies ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Keeper by kim chance![]() When the ghost of a 200-year-old witch attacks her, sixteen-year-old bookworm Lainey Styles is determined to find a logical explanation. This great query connected her with Cate Rubino-Bradway at LKG Agency. With that in mind, I’m pleased to share today’s successful query from Kim Chance. ![]() Some people have the talent of being able to summarize their book in a few sentences, but for those who don’t I wanted to provide a resource where writers could learn what works, and what doesn’t, in a query. In fact, I’ve heard more than a few authors say writing their query took them almost as long as drafting their book! Not only the actual process of sending out the letters/emails, but formulating the query itself. ![]() If you ask any writer about the process of connecting with their agent (or publisher), the majority will say the most difficult part was querying. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Cynthia ('Cimmie') married Oswald Mosley, joining him first in the Labour Party, where she became a popular MP herself, before following him into fascism. ![]() Irene, intensely musical and a passionate foxhunter, had love affairs in the glamorous Melton Mowbray hunting set. The three sisters were at the very heart of the fast and glittering world of the Twenties and Thirties. Irene (born 1896), Cynthia (b.1898) and Alexandria (b.1904) were the three daughters of Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India 1898-1905 and probably the grandest and most self-confident imperial servant Britain ever possessed.Īfter the death of his fabulously rich American wife in 1906, Curzon's determination to control every aspect of his daughters' lives, including the money that was rightfully theirs, led them one by one into revolt against their father. The lives of the three daughters of Lord Curzon: glamorous, rich, independent and wilful. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() EAN 978–1570039195 Kelly Pemberton’s book is a solid ethnographic study of contemporary Sufi communities in northern India, with a particular focus on the sometimes paradoxical roles of women in the life of those communities. of Anthropology, Macquarie University, Australia E-mail: doi:10.1093/jis/ets080 Published online 13 October 2012 Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in India By Kelly Pemberton (Columbia, SC: The University of South Carolina Press, 2010) xxviiiþ 233 pp., notes, glossary, bibliography, index. ![]() Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in India By Kelly Pemberton Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in India By Kelly Pembertonīook reviews 109 ideas that turned into a work that may sit on the shelf but not be given much attention. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Clique lit fans will recognize the familiar mix of label-dropping and mean girl behavior, but the dark mystery adds a compelling layer. Kicked out of her foster home and mistaken for Sutton by Sutton's friends and family, Emma starts living her privileged life the stakes rise dramatically when she learns her other half is dead. She tries to contact her, but a planned reunion goes awry when Sutton never shows up (readers know this is because she has been killed Sutton narrates the book as a ghost, unable to communicate with Emma, but eager to "solve my own murder"). ![]() Foster kid Emma never knew she had an identical twin until she sees an online video of a girl named Sutton being choked by a masked figure. Those who get past the improbable premise of Shepard's (the Pretty Little Liars books) series debut will find a fun and fast-moving mystery. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Aaricia by Grzegorz Rosiński![]() Initially, the project only intended to embellish empty walls and gables of buildings in the city. The project began in 1991 as an initiative of the local authorities of the City of Brussels in collaboration with the Belgian Comic Strip Center. The large comic strip murals depict scenes from various popular Belgian comics, for instance The Adventures of Tintin, The Smurfs, Lucky Luke, Gaston, Marsupilami and Gil Jourdan. Comic mural in the Stoofstraat depicting a scene from The Calculus Affair, featuring Tintin and Captain Haddockīrussels' Comic Book Route (or The comic strip route in Brussels) is a path composed by several comic strip murals, which cover the walls of several buildings throughout the inner City of Brussels, as well as the neighborhoods of Laeken and Auderghem. ![]() |