Sips Swipes Tales Of Love Libations And Drama

Author : Spencer whitelow
Publisher : Spencer Whitelow
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Sips & Swipes: Tales of Love, Libations, and Drama by Spencer whitelow Pdf

"Sips & Swipes: Tales of Love, Libations, and Drama" delves into the exhilarating and tumultuous world of modern dating, where the search for love intersects with the age of digital connectivity. This captivating collection of stories navigates through the heart-fluttering highs and heart-wrenching lows experienced by a diverse cast of characters, each trying to find their place in the romance spectrum. From the cozy corners of dimly lit bars where love is often kindled over shared drinks, to the endless swiping on dating apps where hope and despair dance in the palms of seeking hands, these tales encapsulate the essence of seeking connection in today's world. With each story, readers are invited to explore the nuanced emotions and complex dynamics that define contemporary relationships. Whether it's the story of a first date ignited by the shared love for a rare cocktail, or the unraveling of a relationship under the weight of unmet expectations fueled by social media illusions, "Sips & Swipes" offers a mirror to the soul of modern love. The collection not only highlights the influence of libations in loosening tongues and lowering guards, allowing for authentic connections, but also the drama that often follows when reality fails to match the curated images online. Through a blend of humor, heartache, and hopeful endings, "Sips & Swipes" provides a multifaceted look at love in the era of instant gratification. It's a toast to the beauty of fleeting moments, the resilience required to navigate the swipe culture, and the endless quest for love that, despite the odds, remains a fundamental human desire.

Author : Esther Armah
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781523003389

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Emotional Justice by Esther Armah Pdf

It is time for an emotional reckoning on our path to racial healing, sustainable equity, and the future of DEI. Here's the tool to help us navigate it. In this groundbreaking book, Esther Armah argues that the crucial missing piece to racial healing and sustainable equity is emotional justice-a new racial healing language to help us do our emotional work. This work is part of the emotional reckoning we must navigate if racial healing is to be more than a dream. We all-white, Black, Brown-have our emotional work that we need to do. But that work is not the same for all of us. This emotional work means unlearning the language of whiteness, a narrative that centers white people, particularly white men, no matter the deadly cost and consequence to all women and to global Black and Brown people. That's why a new racial healing language is crucial. Emotional Justice grapples with how a legacy of untreated trauma from oppressive systems has created and sustained dual deadly fictions: white superiority and Black inferiority that shape-and wound-all of us. These systems must be dismantled to build a future that serves justice to everyone, not just some of us. We are the dismantlers we have been waiting for, and emotional justice is the game changer for a just future that benefits all of us.

Author : Steven Borsman,Brittany Buchanan,Crystal Collett,Keri N. Collins,Danny Dyar,Katie Frensley,Yvonne Godfrey,Ethan Hamblin,Silas House,Megan Rebecckiah Jones,Liz Kilburn,George Ella Lyon,Zoe Minton,Kia L. Missamore,Desirae Negron,Marcus Plumlee,Emily Grace Sarver-Wolf,Lesley Sneed,Cassie Walters,Lucy Weakley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : American poetry
ISBN : OCLC:711622569

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Where I'm from by Steven Borsman,Brittany Buchanan,Crystal Collett,Keri N. Collins,Danny Dyar,Katie Frensley,Yvonne Godfrey,Ethan Hamblin,Silas House,Megan Rebecckiah Jones,Liz Kilburn,George Ella Lyon,Zoe Minton,Kia L. Missamore,Desirae Negron,Marcus Plumlee,Emily Grace Sarver-Wolf,Lesley Sneed,Cassie Walters,Lucy Weakley Pdf

"In the Fall of 2010 I gave an assignment in my Appalachian Literature class at Berea College, telling my students to write their own version of "Where I'm From" poem based on the writing prompt and poem by George Ella Lyon, one of the preeminent Appalachian poets. I was so impressed by the results of the assignment that I felt the poems needed to be preserved in a bound document. Thus, this little book. These students completely captured the complexities of this region and their poems contain all the joys and sorrows of living in Appalachia. I am proud that they were my students and I am very proud that together we produced this record of contemporary Appalachian Life" -- Silas House

Author : Trader Vic
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Alcoholic beverages
ISBN : UCSD:31822042773838

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Trader Vic's Book of Food & Drink by Trader Vic Pdf

Trader Vic's extensive travel throught the Hawaiian and South Pacific islands was the source of his interest in Polynesian food and drink (especially rum). He gives menus and recipes for south Sea dishes and suggestions for party and room decorations.

Author : Lloyd C. Douglas
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 723 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544050020

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The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas Pdf

More than 6 million copies sold! The classic Christian novel of the crucifixion and one Roman soldier’s transformation through faith. At the height of his popularity, Lloyd C. Douglas was receiving an average of one hundred letters a week from fans. One of those fans, a department store clerk in Ohio named Hazel McCann, wrote to Douglas asking what he thought had happened to Christ’s garments after the crucifixion. Douglas immediately began working on The Robe, sending each chapter to Hazel as he finished it. It is to her that Douglas dedicated this book. A Roman soldier wins Christ’s robe as a gambling prize. He then sets forth on a quest to find the truth about the Nazarene—a quest that reaches to the very roots and heart of Christianity. Here is the fascinating story of this young Roman soldier, Marcellus, who was in charge at the crucifixion of Jesus. After he won Christ’s robe in a game of dice on Calvary, he experienced a slow and overpowering change in his life. Through the pages of this great book, the reader sees how a pagan Roman was eventually converted to Christ. Set against the vividly drawn background of ancient Rome, this is a timeless story of adventure, faith, and romance, a tale of spiritual longing and ultimate redemption . . .

Author : Wu Cheng'en
Publisher : Asiapac Books Pte Ltd
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9789812298898

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Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en Pdf

The bestselling Journey to the West comic book by artist Chang Boon Kiat is now back in a brand new fully coloured edition. Journey to the West is one of the greatest classics in Chinese literature. It tells the epic tale of the monk Xuanzang who journeys to the West in search of the Buddhist sutras with his disciples, Sun Wukong, Sandy and Pigsy. Along the way, Xuanzang's life was threatened by the diabolical White Bone Spirit, the menacing Red Child and his fearsome parents and, a host of evil spirits who sought to devour Xuanzang's flesh to attain immortality. Bear witness to the formidable Sun Wukong's (Monkey God) prowess as he takes them on, using his Fiery Eyes, Golden Cudgel, Somersault Cloud, and quick wits! Be prepared for a galloping read that will leave you breathless!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Adams Media
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781592538768

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48th Publication Design Annual by Anonim Pdf

The 48th annual edition of SPD celebrates the journalists, editorial directors, photographers, and other talented individuals who brought events of the year 2013 to our doorsteps and computer screens.

Author : David Stockman
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781586489137

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The Great Deformation by David Stockman Pdf

A New York Times bestseller The Great Deformation is a searing look at Washington's craven response to the recent myriad of financial crises and fiscal cliffs. It counters conventional wisdom with an eighty-year revisionist history of how the American state—especially the Federal Reserve—has fallen prey to the politics of crony capitalism and the ideologies of fiscal stimulus, monetary central planning, and financial bailouts. These forces have left the public sector teetering on the edge of political dysfunction and fiscal collapse and have caused America's private enterprise foundation to morph into a speculative casino that swindles the masses and enriches the few. Defying right- and left-wing boxes, David Stockman provides a catalogue of corrupters and defenders of sound money, fiscal rectitude, and free markets. The former includes Franklin Roosevelt, who fathered crony capitalism; Richard Nixon, who destroyed national financial discipline and the Bretton Woods gold-backed dollar; Fed chairmen Greenspan and Bernanke, who fostered our present scourge of bubble finance and addiction to debt and speculation; George W. Bush, who repudiated fiscal rectitude and ballooned the warfare state via senseless wars; and Barack Obama, who revived failed Keynesian “borrow and spend” policies that have driven the national debt to perilous heights. By contrast, the book also traces a parade of statesmen who championed balanced budgets and financial market discipline including Carter Glass, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Bill Simon, Paul Volcker, Bill Clinton, and Sheila Bair. Stockman's analysis skewers Keynesian spenders and GOP tax-cutters alike, showing how they converged to bloat the welfare state, perpetuate the military-industrial complex, and deplete the revenue base—even as the Fed's massive money printing allowed politicians to enjoy “deficits without tears.” But these policies have also fueled new financial bubbles and favored Wall Street with cheap money and rigged stock and bond markets, while crushing Main Street savers and punishing family budgets with soaring food and energy costs. The Great Deformation explains how we got here and why these warped, crony capitalist policies are an epochal threat to free market prosperity and American political democracy.

Author : Jean-Pierre Vernant,Pierre Vidal-Naquet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Greece
ISBN : UOM:39076000549324

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Tragedy and Myth in Ancient Greece by Jean-Pierre Vernant,Pierre Vidal-Naquet Pdf

Author : Jacqueline Carey
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698158634

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Poison Fruit by Jacqueline Carey Pdf

The hot-as-Hel series with the “Sookie Stackhouse type of vibe” (Paranormal Haven) is back—but this time the paranormal Midwestern town of Pemkowet is feeling a frost in the air and the residents are frozen in fear.... The Pemkowet Visitors Bureau has always promoted paranormal tourism—even if it has downplayed the risks (hobgoblins are unpredictable). It helps that the town is presided over by Daisy Johanssen, who as Hel’s liaison is authorized by the Norse goddess of the dead to keep Pemkowet under control. Normally, that’s easier to do in the winter, when bracing temperatures keep folks indoors. But a new predator is on the prowl, and this one thrives on nightmares. Daisy is on her trail and working intimately with her partner and sometime lover from the Pemkowet PD, sexy yet unavailable werewolf Cody Fairfax. But even as the creature is racking up innocent victims, a greater danger looms on Pewkowet’s horizon. As a result of a recent ghost uprising, an unknown adversary—represented by a hell-spawn lawyer with fiery powers of persuasion—has instigated a lawsuit against the town. If Pemkowet loses, Hel’s sovereignty will be jeopardized, and the fate of the eldritch community will be at stake. The only one who can prevent it is Daisy—but she’s going to have to confront her own worst nightmare to do it.

Author : Katie West,Jasmine Elliott
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781633411388

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Becoming Dangerous by Katie West,Jasmine Elliott Pdf

"A fierce and voluble refutation of the patriarchy and its soul-crushing oppression of female power. These writers make clear that as witches, femmes, and queers, they will use their own strength, ingenious rituals, beauty routines, and spells to rise above and beyond the limits of racism/classism and objectifications set by a male-dominated society. While bound by a thread of magic, these are inspiring feminist writings for readers of feminist literature, however identified.” --Library Journal Edgy and often deeply personal, the twenty-one essays collected here come from a wide variety of writers. Some identify as witches, others identify as writers, musicians, game developers, or artists. What they have in common is that they’ve created personal rituals to summon their own power in a world that would prefer them powerless. Here, they share the rituals they use to resist self-doubt, grief, and depression in the face of sexism, slut shaming, racism, patriarchy, and other systems of oppression. Contents Introduction Notes from the Editors Content Warning Unfuckable—Cara Ellison Trash-Magic: Signs & Rituals for the Unwanted—Maranda Elizabeth Uncensoring My Ugliness—Laura Mandanas Femme as in Fuck You: Fucking with the Patriarchy One Lipstick Application at a Time—Catherine Hernandez Before I Was a Woman, I Was a Witch—Avery Edison Undressing My Heart—Gabriela Herstik Garden—Marguerite Bennett Reddit, Retin-A, and Resistance: An Alchemist’s Guide to Skincare—Sam Maggs The Future is Coming for You—Deb Chachra My Witch’s Sabbath of Short Skirts, Long Kisses, and BDSM—Mey Rude Buzzcut Season—Larissa Pham The Harpy—Meredith Yayanos Fingertips—merritt Red Glitter—Sophie Saint Thomas Touching Pennies, Painting Nails—Sim Bajwa Ritual in Darkness—Kim Boekbinder Gayuma—Sara David Pushing Beauty Up Through the Cracks—Katelan Foisy Ritualising My Humanity—J. A. Micheline Simulating Control—Nora Khan I Am, Myself, a Body of Water—Leigh Alexander Contributors Acknowledgements

Author : Daniel Okrent
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1439171696

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Last Call by Daniel Okrent Pdf

A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages. From its start, America has been awash in drink. The sailing vessel that brought John Winthrop to the shores of the New World in 1630 carried more beer than water. By the 1820s, liquor flowed so plentifully it was cheaper than tea. That Americans would ever agree to relinquish their booze was as improbable as it was astonishing. Yet we did, and Last Call is Daniel Okrent’s dazzling explanation of why we did it, what life under Prohibition was like, and how such an unprecedented degree of government interference in the private lives of Americans changed the country forever. Writing with both wit and historical acuity, Okrent reveals how Prohibition marked a confluence of diverse forces: the growing political power of the women’s suffrage movement, which allied itself with the antiliquor campaign; the fear of small-town, native-stock Protestants that they were losing control of their country to the immigrants of the large cities; the anti-German sentiment stoked by World War I; and a variety of other unlikely factors, ranging from the rise of the automobile to the advent of the income tax. Through it all, Americans kept drinking, going to remarkably creative lengths to smuggle, sell, conceal, and convivially (and sometimes fatally) imbibe their favorite intoxicants. Last Call is peopled with vivid characters of an astonishing variety: Susan B. Anthony and Billy Sunday, William Jennings Bryan and bootlegger Sam Bronfman, Pierre S. du Pont and H. L. Mencken, Meyer Lansky and the incredible—if long-forgotten—federal official Mabel Walker Willebrandt, who throughout the twenties was the most powerful woman in the country. (Perhaps most surprising of all is Okrent’s account of Joseph P. Kennedy’s legendary, and long-misunderstood, role in the liquor business.) It’s a book rich with stories from nearly all parts of the country. Okrent’s narrative runs through smoky Manhattan speakeasies, where relations between the sexes were changed forever; California vineyards busily producing “sacramental” wine; New England fishing communities that gave up fishing for the more lucrative rum-running business; and in Washington, the halls of Congress itself, where politicians who had voted for Prohibition drank openly and without apology. Last Call is capacious, meticulous, and thrillingly told. It stands as the most complete history of Prohibition ever written and confirms Daniel Okrent’s rank as a major American writer.

Author : Alice Louise Kassens
Publisher : Springer
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030253288

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Intemperate Spirits by Alice Louise Kassens Pdf

Using the basic economic principle of making decisions using a cost-benefit framework—and how changes in one or the other can result in a different decision—this book uncovers how various groups responded to incentives provided by the Prohibition legislation. Using this calculus, it is clear that even criminals are rational characters, responding to incentives and opportunities provided by the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act. The book begins with a broad look at the adaptations of the law’s targets: the wine, beer, and liquor industries. It then turns to specific people (Violators, Line Tip-Toers, Enablers, and Hypocrites), sharing their stories of economic adaptation to bring economic lessons to life. Due to its structure, the book can be read in parts or as a whole and is suitable for short classroom reading assignments or individual pleasure reading.

Author : J.R. Ward
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451465221

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Possession by J.R. Ward Pdf

#1 New York Times bestselling author J. R. Ward explores what really happens when good and evil toy with humanity in her new novel of the Fallen Angels.... When Cait Douglass resolves to get over her broken heart and lose her inhibitions, she’s unprepared for the two sensual men who cross her path. Torn between them, she doesn’t know which to choose—or what kind of dire consequences could follow. Jim Heron, fallen angel and reluctant savior, is ahead in the war, but he puts everything at risk when he seeks to make a deal with the devil—literally. As yet another soul is unwittingly caught in the battle between him and the demon Devina, his fixation on an innocent trapped in Hell threatens to sidetrack him from his sacred duty.... Can good still prevail if true love makes a savior weak? And will a woman’s future be the key, or the curse, for all of humanity? Only time, and hearts, will tell.

Author : Janet Chapman
Publisher : Thorndike Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1410475352

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The Highlander Next Door by Janet Chapman Pdf

From the "New York Time" bestselling Janet Chapman comes this delightful tale of a young woman who's had enough of men...until she meets her spectacular new neighbor. "Legend has it love is carried on the rising mists of Spellbound Falls, and not even time-traveling highlanders are immune to its magic..." Birch Callahan has seen the trouble men can cause. After witnessing her mother's four marriages, Birch now runs a women's shelter and doesn't want a man in her life. But there's something about her neighbor, Niall MacKeage. Birch can't figure out how the cop can be so big and gruff and yet so insightful and compassionate--and sexy. Or how she's falling for a man who acts like someone from the twelfth century. Niall knows that Birch is attracted to him, even if she seems to distrust all men. Yet he also knows she has a secret--something that drives her to place herself in harm's way for the women of her shelter. Niall would gladly rush to Birch's side to protect her from harm, but with their secrets standing between them, he'll have to reveal his own truth if he wants to keep her...