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Drive-Thru Dreams

Author : Adam Chandler
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781250090737

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“This is a book to savor, especially if you’re a fast-food fan.”—Bookpage "This fun, argumentative, and frequently surprising pop history of American fast food will thrill and educate food lovers of all speeds." —Publishers Weekly Most any honest person can own up to harboring at least one fast-food guilty pleasure. In Drive-Thru Dreams, Adam Chandler explores the inseparable link between fast food and American life for the past century. The dark underbelly of the industry’s largest players has long been scrutinized and gutted, characterized as impersonal, greedy, corporate, and worse. But, in unexpected ways, fast food is also deeply personal and emblematic of a larger than life image of America. With wit and nuance, Chandler reveals the complexities of this industry through heartfelt anecdotes and fascinating trivia as well as interviews with fans, executives, and workers. He traces the industry from its roots in Wichita, where White Castle became the first fast food chain in 1921 and successfully branded the hamburger as the official all-American meal, to a teenager's 2017 plea for a year’s supply of Wendy’s chicken nuggets, which united the internet to generate the most viral tweet of all time. Drive-Thru Dreams by Adam Chandler tells an intimate and contemporary story of America—its humble beginning, its innovations and failures, its international charisma, and its regional identities—through its beloved roadside fare.

Never In Your Wildest Dreams

Author : Natalie Ledwell
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-21
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780982985076

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Never In Your Wildest Dreams by Natalie Ledwell Pdf

In Never in Your Wildest Dreams, Natalie Ledwell takes you on the journey of Katherine Murray, who moves from extreme debt, depression, and despair to superstar award-winning screenwriter status in record time. Ledwell’s book reveals the exact steps, inspired by her own quest for success, to achieving any goal you set or have never even dreamed of yet. This unique Interactive System not only tells a captivating, awe-inspiring story, but also provides everything readers need to transform their own dreams into reality. Included in the book is a backstage pass to each chapter with videos from Ledwell herself. Between the spellbinding story, the life-altering secrets to success, and the immediate impact it will have on their lives, readers will quickly find themselves inspired by Ledwell’s words as they turn to this book as a life resource again and again. From a life of money problems, relationship struggles, and the desperate yearning for happiness that anyone can relate to, Ledwell tells the story of one woman’s path to success. There is no luck involved. It doesn’t have to happen to just a few. Astonishing success can happen to anyone if they just follow these secrets and insights.

The Cost of These Dreams

Author : Wright Thompson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780525505662

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The instant New York Times bestseller! From one of America's most beloved sportswriters and the bestselling author of Pappyland, a collection of true stories about the dream of greatness and its cost in the world of sports. "Wright Thompson's stories are so full of rich characters, bad actors, heroes, drama, suffering, courage, conflict, and vivid detail that I sometimes thinks he's working my side of the street - the world of fiction." - John Grisham There is only one Wright Thompson. He is, as they say, famous if you know who he is: his work includes the most read articles in the history of ESPN (and it's not even close) and has been anthologized in the Best American Sports Writing series ten times, and he counts John Grisham and Richard Ford among his ardent admirers (see back of book). But to say his pieces are about sports, while true as far as it goes, is like saying Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove is a book about a cattle drive. Wright Thompson figures people out. He jimmies the lock to the furnaces inside the people he profiles and does an analysis of the fuel that fires their ambition. Whether it be Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods or Pat Riley or Urban Meyer, he strips the away the self-serving myths and fantasies to reveal his characters in full. There are fascinating common denominators: it may not be the case that every single great performer or coach had a complex relationship with his father, but it can sure seem that way. And there is much marvelous local knowledge: about specific sports, and times and places, and people. Ludicrously entertaining and often powerfully moving, The Cost of These Dreams is an ode to the reporter's art, and a celebration of true greatness and the high price that it exacts.

Necessary Dreams

Author : Anna Fels
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307834133

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In this groundbreaking book about how women perceive, are prepared for, and cope with ambition and achievement, psychiatrist Anna Fels examines ambition at the deepest psychological level. Cutting to the core of what ambition can provide—the essential elements of a fulfilling life—Fels describes why, for women but not for men, ambition still remains fraught with often painful conflict. Fels draws on case studies, research, interviews, and autobiographies of accomplished and celebrated women past and present—writers, artists, architects, politicians, actors—to explore the ways in which women are brought up to avoid recognition and visibility in favor of traditional feminine values and why they often choose to nurture and defer to rather than compete with men. She poses invaluable questions: What is the nature of ambition and how important is it in a woman’s life? What are the forces that promote or impede its development? To what extent does ambition go against a woman’s very nature? And she challenges currently held theories about the state of mind and the needs of men. Incisive and highly readable, Necessary Dreams is a unique exploration of the options and obstacles women face in the pursuit of their goals. It is a book that every woman will want—and need—to read.

Fast Food Maniac

Author : Jon Hein
Publisher : Crown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780553418033

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The beloved personality from The Howard Stern Show celebrates American fast food, exploring the history and secret menu items of both national and regional chains, ranking everything from burgers and fries to ice and mascots, and offering his own expert tips on where to go and what to order. Jon Hein is the ultimate fast food maniac, and in this book he draws on his extensive knowledge of, and love for, both nationwide chains and regional gems, from McDonald’s and KFC to In-N-Out Burger and Carvel. He digs into their origin stories; reveals secret menu items; includes best lists for everything from fried chicken and shakes to connoisseur concerns such as straws and biscuits; takes a nostalgic look back at the best giveaways, slogans, and uniforms; and even provides a battle-tested drive-thru strategy. With behind-the-counter looks at places like the Dunkin' Donuts headquarters and Nathan's original hot dog stand, Fast Food Maniac is the definitive, cross-country guide to some of America's best-loved guilty pleasures.

Sweet Dreams, Sarah

Author : Vivian Kirkfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781939547316

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Describes the life of Sarah Goode, who was born a slave and grew up to invent a space-saving foldable bed and became the first African American woman to obtain a patent in the United States.

Drive Thru America

Author : Sean Condon
Publisher : Lonely Planet
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Automobile travel
ISBN : 0864425066

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Pop-culture junkie and self-described Americaphile Sean Condon, along with his calm friend David, set out on a journey from New York to San Francisco. Along the way Sean investigates the legendary people, places, and TV programs that sustained him through his difficult pre-pubescent years. Will he survive the channel-switching, the miles of highway, the country & western radio station, and the all-you-can-eat fast-food joints? Sean behaves unwisely and risks several ironic remarks in this very funny take on life in the United States.

Sea Of Dreams

Author : Adam Mayers
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781551996103

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Sea Of Dreams by Adam Mayers Pdf

The biennial Around Alone yacht race (now known as the 5-Oceans Challenge) is the most thrilling adventure in the world for the sailors passionate enough to undertake it. Among the competitors in 2002 was Derek Hatfield, a former fraud-squad Mountie, whose forty-foot Spirit of Canada had cost him almost everything he had. In this nail-biting account of the race, Adam Mayers brings to life the joys and the agonies of racing alone — and the dreams that drive these men and women to sail around the world solo. Watch for Hatfield when he competes again in 2006.

Fever Dream

Author : Samanta Schweblin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780399184611

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Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin Pdf

“A wonderful nightmare of a book: tender and frightening, disturbing but compassionate. Fever Dream is a triumph of Schweblin’s outlandish imagination.” –Juan Gabriel Vasquez, author of The Sound of Things Falling and Reputations A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She’s not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family. Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story and a cautionary tale. One of the freshest new voices to come out of the Spanish language and translated into English for the first time, Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of strange psychological menace and otherworldly reality in this absorbing, unsettling, taut novel.

Slow Moving Dreams

Author : Tom Hardy
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780875654904

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Tom Hardy’s new novel, Slow Moving Dreams, tells the story of Tom Carter, a city man who is forced by the death of a cousin to return to his rural roots in West Texas. Hardy takes his readers along two journeys in this novel: the first is the physical journey that Tom takes as he drives to the funeral in Alpine, and the second is an exploration of Tom’s life as a child growing up in the country that the adult Tom is now passing through. But not all of those memories are happy ones, as Tom and his cousins soon find out. The funeral starts to unravel a dark secret that could change everything Tom thought he knew about his family. Hardy breathes life into all of his characters with his witty dialogue and nostalgic memory sequences. Slow Moving Dreams is a story of homecoming and family bonds that, in this age of consumerism and technology, is a refreshing change of pace. For those familiar with the lifestyle of the modern cowboy, the life Tom Carter remembers is a reminder of the old days, when nature provided everything one could ever need. But all readers, new to the cowboy’s world or not, are in for a fun, heart-warming tale as they follow Tom’s exploration of his past and realizations about his future.

The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams

Author : . Nasdijj
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001-09-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780547904825

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THE BLOOD RUNS LIKE A RIVER THROUGH MY DREAMS transports readers to the majestic landscapes and hard Native American lives of the desert Southwest and into the embrace of a way of looking at the world that seems almost like revelation. Born to a storytelling Native mother and a roughneck, song-singing cowboy father, Nasdijj has lived on the jagged-edged margins of American society, yet hardship and isolation have only brought him greater clarity--and a gift for language that is nothing short of breathtaking. Nasdijj tells of his adopted son, Tommy Nothing Fancy, of the young boy's struggle with fetal alcohol syndrome, and of their last fishing trip together. It is a heartbreaking story, written with great power and a diamondlike poetry. But whether Nasdijj is telling us about his son, about the chaotic, alternately harrowing and comical life he led with his own parents, or about the vitality and beauty of Native American culture, his voice is always one of searching honesty, wry humor, and a nearly cosmic compassion. While Nasdijj struggles with his impossible status as someone of two separate cultures, he also remains a contradiction in a larger sense: he cares for those who often shun him, he teaches hope though he often has none for himself, and he comes home to the land he then must leave. THE BLOOD RUNS LIKE A RIVER THROUGH MY DREAMS is the memoir of a man who has survived a hard life with grace, who has taken the past experience of pain and transformed it into a determination to care for the most vulnerable among us, and who has found an almost unspeakable beauty where others would find only sadness. This is a book that will touch your soul.

Coconut Dreams

Author : Derek Mascarenhas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1771664819

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Coconut Dreams explores the lives of the Pinto family through seventeen linked short stories. Starting with a ghost story set in Goa, India in the 1950s, the collection weaves through various timelines and perspectives to focus on two children, Aiden and Ally Pinto. These siblings tackle their adventures in a predominantly white suburb with innocence, intelligence and a timid foot in two distinct cultures. In these stories, Derek Mascarenhas takes a fresh look at the world of the new immigrant and the South Asian experience in Canada, as a daughter questions her father's love at an IKEA grand opening; an aunt remembers a safari-gone-wrong in Kenya; an uncle's unrequited love is confronted at a Goan Association picnic; a boy tests his faith amidst a school-yard brawl; and a childhood love letter is exchanged during the building of a backyard deck. Singularly and collectively, these stories will move the reader with their engaging narratives and authentic voices. "This charming collection of stories resides between a suburban childhood in Canada and inherited, often mythic, tales from Goa that belong to the elders. Characters decide on love with rings lost at sea and soothe babies with stories of elephants in mountains. The voices in these stories are from people who seem far away and yet are inside us. Prepare to be delighted." --Kim Echlin, author of Under the Visible Life "The stories in Derek Mascarenhas's Coconut Dreams remind one of the high stakes in a child's world, the way that danger looms just fractionally outside safety. Like all proper enchantments, these vignettes are dark, light, strange, and vivid such that they delight and charm in equal portions." --Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, author of All the Broken Things, Perfecting, and The Nettle Spinner. "In this evocative collection, Derek Mascarenhas takes up the fictional Pinto family and turns it gently in his hands, revealing new truths--and new questions--with every shift in point of view. A moving, multifaceted debut." --Alissa York, author of The Naturalist

Test Drive Your Dreams

Author : Jennifer Blanchard
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798743302437

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JOURNAL PROMPTS, EXAMPLES AND ACTION STEPS SO YOU CAN TEST DRIVE YOUR DREAM NOW, NOT SOMEDAYLet's face it, there are a lot of things you want to do in your life, you're just not doing most of them. Most are just dreams or desires that you've put on the backburner for someday. But the problem with putting things off is you could spend your entire life dreaming of something that you really don't want when all is said and done. For example, Test Drive Your Dreams author, Jennifer Blanchard, dreamed of starting a handmade jewelry business for years, but when she finally did it, she discovered she didn't enjoy it, so she gave it up, not long after she started. By test-driving the dream, she was able to get clear that handmaking jewelry wasn't a good fit for her, and that freed her up to do something else that was.When it comes to test driving your dreams, there are really two main options you can go with: Option 1: Do things the way society says you should do themThis is the option most people choose, often subconsciously. They've just been programmed for so long that this is the right path they don't question it, even when they should. Society says if you want something you must: -Figure out how you'll do it-Map out every step along the way-Work hard for it-Sacrifice-Toil away for years-Earn itThese are the beliefs that most people hold about going after their dreams, and that's also why a lot of people put their dreams off for "someday" or don't ever go after them at all. You've been convinced and/or somehow convinced yourself that getting what you want equals having to do things you don't want to do. And so it's easier to hide out, play small or put your dreams and desires off for later. But there's another option.There's another way to approach living your dreams and desires, and it doesn't have to look like hard work, sacrifice, toiling away or earning anything. Option 2: Do things the Test Drive Your Dreams way This is the road less traveled, simply because most people don't understand it and it's not common, but it's always been available to you, and it can be yours the moment you choose for it to be. In this new realm, if you want something you must: -Know that the How is never up to you-Trust that if you take the first step you can think of, the next step will show itself to you -Take aligned actions (aka actions that feel good to you)-Be clear on your values and standards so you live by them in all areas-Co-create with the Universe -Believe that you always have been and always will be worthy of your dreams and desiresLooks a little different than Option 1, huh? This is the more empowering, intentional way to live your dreams. It takes bravery to step outside of the societal box and do something different, but it's worth everything you get on the other side. Freedom. Fun. Certainty. Knowing. Clarity. Connection. Synchronicity. Ease. Flow. Satisfaction. Receiving.It can all be yours when you buy your copy of "Test Drive Your Dreams" and begin giving your dreams a test drive.

Of Dreams and Angels

Author : Jared Morrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1777534607

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A man dreams through the eyes of a woman he's never met, setting out to find love that could be just a figment of his imagination.

Helping Howard

Author : Sally Schloss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1637527837

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From the moment the Author hustles Howard out of bed and into the kitchen to make breakfast, we know we're on a literary adventure like no other. The Author wants her story; Howard wants to understand who he is and what he's done with his one wild and precious life. By turns comic, poignant, lacerating and profound, HELPING HOWARD probes the complex and ever-changing nature of love, and seeks to understand, in the deepest way possible, the ties that bind. Schloss has written a remarkable story; hers is a nimble, inventive and wholly original voice. -Kitty Zeldis, author of Not Our Kind What a gorgeous novel! Romantic, deeply humane, astonishingly clever and moving - this is a love story between author and character that continually makes one gasp, even as it delivers great truths. Thank you, Sally Schloss, for writing it. -Bonnie Friedman, bestselling author of Writing Past Dark In Sally Schloss's insightful and engrossing novel, an Author writes a novel while regularly checking in with its real-life titular character. Howard is a kind and singularly tolerant man who has greatly compromised himself within his marriage. He nervously waits as the Author unveils each new phase of his life. Their ongoing conversation affords Howard-and the reader-a unique chance to see how his choices have at once enriched and undermined him. Schloss's writing is meticulous. -Patricia Grossman, author of Radiant Daughter. For those of you who delve into transactional dynamics as a profession this book is a fascinating must read. The characters engage in the all too typical tendencies of repeating the same patterns of behavior, thoughts, and feelings with their inevitable undesirable outcomes. The book sympathetically dramatizes how these underlying negative core beliefs affect these characters' lives over the course of their thirty-five-year marriage. -Robert Pazulinec Ed.D. Licensed Psychologist --- Helping Howard explores the fraught lifetime marriage of a straight older man, his younger gay wife, and the daughter that survives them. An anti-romantic romance, this book tells the tale of The Author who awakens Howard into consciousness in order to become her accomplice in figuring out what happens next. Their ongoing dialogue pushes the story forward through quarrelsome, humorous, psychological cliffhangers. Playing with, and exposing, the creative process adds another dimension to the narrative as The Author creates a relationship with her main character, which in turn, reflects on who she is. Helping Howard is about people struggling with understanding their own barriers to achieving and sustaining intimacy. It's a complex story of human longing and unmet desire.