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The Life of a Banana

P. P. Wong
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Author : P. P. Wong
Publisher : Legends Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06
Category : Chinese fiction
ISBN : 1787198561

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Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Xing Li is what some Chinese people call a banana - yellow on the outside and white on the inside. Although born and raised in London, she never feels like she fits in. When her mother dies, she moves with her older brother to live with venomous Grandma, strange Uncle Ho and Hollywood actress Auntie Mei. Her only friend is Jay - a mixed raced Jamaican boy with a passion for classical music. . Then Xing Li's life takes an even harsher turn: the school bullying escalates and her uncle requests she assist him in an unthinkable favour. Her happy childhood becomes a distant memory as her new life is infiltrated with the harsh reality of being an ethnic minority. Consumed by secrets, violence and confusing family relations, Xing Li tries to find hope wherever she can. In order to find her own identity, she must first discover what it means to be both Chinese and British. PP Wong has delivered a unique and realistic young adult drama that is bursting with original content style and emotion. What Reviewers and Readers Say: 'PP Wong has blazed a trail for future British Chinese novelists ... bursting with original and exciting flavours, ' The Independent 'A moving and optimistic debut about orphaned siblings coping with a new strict home and racial bullying, ' The Guardian 'Life of a Banana is so refreshingly distinct. Read it, and you will soon find yourself wanting more, ' Daily Mail 'Impeccably observed, often hilarious, and deeply moving... pitch-perfect, ' David Henry Hwang

Banana

Dan Koeppel
Banana Book PDF

Author : Dan Koeppel
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781101213919

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Banana by Dan Koeppel Pdf

A gripping biological detective story that uncovers the myth, mystery, and endangered fate of the world’s most humble fruit To most people, a banana is a banana: a simple yellow fruit. Americans eat more bananas than apples and oranges combined. In others parts of the world, bananas are what keep millions of people alive. But for all its ubiquity, the banana is surprisingly mysterious; nobody knows how bananas evolved or exactly where they originated. Rich cultural lore surrounds the fruit: In ancient translations of the Bible, the “apple” consumed by Eve is actually a banana (it makes sense, doesn’t it?). Entire Central American nations have been said to rise and fall over the banana. But the biggest mystery about the banana today is whether it will survive. A seedless fruit with a unique reproductive system, every banana is a genetic duplicate of the next, and therefore susceptible to the same blights. Today’s yellow banana, the Cavendish, is increasingly threatened by such a blight—and there’s no cure in sight. Banana combines a pop-science journey around the globe, a fascinating tale of an iconic American business enterprise, and a look into the alternately tragic and hilarious banana subculture (one does exist)—ultimately taking us to the high-tech labs where new bananas are literally being built in test tubes, in a race to save the world’s most beloved fruit.

The Fish That Ate the Whale

Rich Cohen
The Fish That Ate the Whale Book PDF

Author : Rich Cohen
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429946292

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The Fish That Ate the Whale by Rich Cohen Pdf

Named a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle and The Times-Picayune The fascinating untold tale of Samuel Zemurray, the self-made banana mogul who went from penniless roadside banana peddler to kingmaker and capitalist revolutionary When Samuel Zemurray arrived in America in 1891, he was tall, gangly, and penniless. When he died in the grandest house in New Orleans sixty-nine years later, he was among the richest, most powerful men in the world. Working his way up from a roadside fruit peddler to conquering the United Fruit Company, Zemurray became a symbol of the best and worst of the United States: proof that America is the land of opportunity, but also a classic example of the corporate pirate who treats foreign nations as the backdrop for his adventures. Zemurray lived one of the great untold stories of the last hundred years. Starting with nothing but a cart of freckled bananas, he built a sprawling empire of banana cowboys, mercenary soldiers, Honduran peasants, CIA agents, and American statesmen. From hustling on the docks of New Orleans to overthrowing Central American governments and precipitating the bloody thirty-six-year Guatemalan civil war, the Banana Man lived a monumental and sometimes dastardly life. Rich Cohen's brilliant historical profile The Fish That Ate the Whale unveils Zemurray as a hidden power broker, driven by an indomitable will to succeed.

My Dog Banana

Roxane Brouillard
My Dog Banana Book PDF

Author : Roxane Brouillard
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781771647946

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My Dog Banana by Roxane Brouillard Pdf

This silly yet sophisticated picture book will make kids AND parents laugh—the perfect story for reading aloud! For fans of Strictly No Elephants A child takes a dog for a walk. At least, so the child insists. But nobody else sees a dog! Neighbors try to figure out why a child is walking a banana on a leash, while the child tries to make them understand that the banana is really a dog. A dog named Banana! But…it can’t be. Can it? My Dog Banana is a jewel of absurdity that brings to life a diverse group of characters, filled with classic charm and endless humour.

If I Was a Banana

Alexandra Tylee
If I Was a Banana Book PDF

Author : Alexandra Tylee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Imagination
ISBN : 9781776570331

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A boy's-eye-view of the everyday brings alive all the wonder and oddity of the world inside our own heads.

How Bad Are Bananas?

Mike Berners-Lee
How Bad Are Bananas Book PDF

Author : Mike Berners-Lee
Publisher : Greystone Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781553658320

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How Bad Are Bananas? by Mike Berners-Lee Pdf

Part green-lifestyle guide, part popular science, How Bad Are Bananas? is the first book to provide the information we need to make carbon-savvy purchases and informed lifestyle choices and to build carbon considerations into our everyday thinking. The book puts our decisions into perspective with entries for the big things (the World Cup, volcanic eruptions, the Iraq war) as well as the small (email, ironing, a glass of beer). And it covers the range from birth (the carbon footprint of having a child) to death (the carbon impact of cremation). Packed full of surprises — a plastic bag has the smallest footprint of any item listed, while a block of cheese is bad news — the book continuously informs, delights, and engages the reader. Solidly researched and referenced, the easily digestible figures, statistics, charts, and graphs (including a section on the carbon footprint of various foods) will encourage discussion and help people to make up their own minds about their consumer choices.

The Life of a Banana

P. P. Wong
The Life of a Banana Book PDF

Author : P. P. Wong
Publisher : Legend Press Collection
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-13
Category : Chinese fiction
ISBN : 1785079794

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The Life of a Banana by P. P. Wong Pdf

Xing Li is what some Chinese people call a banana - yellow on the outside and white on the inside. Although born and raised in London, she never feels like she fits in. When her mother dies, she moves with her older brother to live with venomous Grandma, strange Uncle Ho and Hollywood actress Auntie Mei. Her only friend is Jay - a mixed raced Jamaican boy with a passion for classical music. Then Xing Li's life takes an even harsher turn: the school bullying escalates and her uncle requests she assist him in an unthinkable favour. Her happy childhood becomes a distant memory as her new life is infiltrated with the harsh reality of being an ethnic minority. Consumed by secrets, violence and confusing family relations, Xing Li tries to find hope wherever she can. In order to find her own identity, she must first discover what it means to be both Chinese and British.

Notes on a Banana

David Leite
Notes on a Banana Book PDF

Author : David Leite
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062414397

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Notes on a Banana by David Leite Pdf

A FINALIST FOR THE NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD FOR NON FICTION A PASTE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF TIMEOUT NEW YORK’S BEST SUMMER BEACH READS OF 2017 ONE OF REAL SIMPLE’S 25 FATHER’S DAY BOOKS THAT COVER ALL OF DAD’S INTERESTS The stunning and long-awaited memoir from the beloved founder of the James Beard Award-winning website Leite’s Culinaria—a candid, courageous, and at times laugh-out-loud funny story of family, food, mental illness, and sexual identity. Born into a family of Azorean immigrants, David Leite grew up in the 1960s in a devoutly Catholic, blue-collar, food-crazed Portuguese home in Fall River, Massachusetts. A clever and determined dreamer with a vivid imagination and a flair for the dramatic, “Banana” as his mother endearingly called him, yearned to live in a middle-class house with a swinging kitchen door just like the ones on television, and fell in love with everything French, thanks to his Portuguese and French-Canadian godmother. But David also struggled with the emotional devastation of manic depression. Until he was diagnosed in his mid-thirties, David found relief from his wild mood swings in learning about food, watching Julia Child, and cooking for others. Notes on a Banana is his heartfelt, unflinchingly honest, yet tender memoir of growing up, accepting himself, and turning his love of food into an award-winning career. Reminiscing about the people and events that shaped him, David looks back at the highs and lows of his life: from his rejection of being gay and his attempt to “turn straight” through Aesthetic Realism, a cult in downtown Manhattan, to becoming a writer, cookbook author, and web publisher, to his twenty-four-year relationship with Alan, known to millions of David’s readers as “The One,” which began with (what else?) food. Throughout the journey, David returns to his stoves and tables, and those of his family, as a way of grounding himself. A blend of Kay Redfield Jamison’s An Unquiet Mind, the food memoirs by Ruth Reichl, Anthony Bourdain, and Gabrielle Hamilton, and the character-rich storytelling of Augusten Burroughs, David Sedaris, and Jenny Lawson, Notes on a Banana is a feast that dazzles, delights, and, ultimately, heals.

World of Bananas in Hawai'i

Angela Kay Kepler,Francis G. Rust
World of Bananas in Hawai i Book PDF

Author : Angela Kay Kepler,Francis G. Rust
Publisher : Pali-O-Waipio Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0983726604

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World of Bananas in Hawai'i by Angela Kay Kepler,Francis G. Rust Pdf

Winner of the 2012 Ka Palapala Po'okela Award for Excellence in Natural Science The World of Bananas in Hawai'i: Then and Now--unique, comprehensive, colorful, authoritative, readable and with over 1,900 color illustrations--culminates nine years of exhaustive library research coupled with painstaking field and agricultural investigations in Hawai'i and other Pacific islands. It is the first book about bananas in Hawai'i and a major contribution to Hawaiian culture. It is also the first attempt to trace banana/plantain evolution within the Pacific. Truly a "banana bible," it is written in highly accessible prose embracing a broad array of topics. Lavishly illustrated, it covers virtually every edible and inedible banana in Hawai'i, Polynesian introduced and international, including the spectacular ornamentals and fe'i. The World of Bananas reflects a deep respect for Hawaiian oral history and esteemed post-contact literature, reviving long-forgotten traditional foods, chants, crafts, and everyday clothing woven from bananas. As a result of Angela Kepler's 30-year Pacific-wide ecological research, readers will encounter original ideas (e.g., how migrant seabirds likely guided Marquesan seafarers to colonize Hawai'i) and delight in the multihued tapestry of true-to-life banana tales from the nebulous dawn of Hawaiian history to the present (e.g., the rediscovery of legendary banana groves). The authors shed fascinating new light on Hawai'i's little-known "pregnant" banana, mai'a hāpai, and resurrect a long-forgotten minor goddess, Hina-'ea, whose curative mai'a lele banana once healed vitamin A deficiencies in children. Interweaving extensive original research with judicious gleanings from a tiny worldwide network of banana specialists, this book provides new, dependable, and pictorial descriptions for 140 living varieties and 22 kinship groups, illustrated keys separating similar cultivars, hundreds of name synonyms, and information on pesticide-free care and maintenance, nutritional deficiencies, and troubleshooting pests/diseases. The mouth-watering recipe chapter includes savory dishes such as banana mayonnaise and meat-plantain casseroles.

Banana

Ed Vere
Banana Book PDF

Author : Ed Vere
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780241325520

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Getting what you want can be tricky, especially if you don't ask in quite the right way. Follow one little monkey's journey through many emotions as he tries every trick in the book to get hold of his friend's banana, until he finally hits on the magic word - please! Using only two words, this is a fantastic introduction to the value of manners and compromise for young children. Packed with humour, colour and exuberance, this is a brilliant observation of toddler behaviour.

Second Banana

Blair Thornburgh
Second Banana Book PDF

Author : Blair Thornburgh
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781647001520

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A girl is disappointed with her “rotten” role in the school play—but the show must go on The kids in Mrs. Millet’s class are putting on their annual nutrition pageant. Every kid plays a food. Every kid gets a line. It is a big deal. But this year, there aren’t quite enough parts for everybody. So the class is cast: Fish, Cheese, Broccoli, Blueberry, Banana, and . . . Second Banana. Second Banana feels rotten. She wants to be the ONLY banana! In this deliciously original school story, Blair Thornburgh and Kate Berube recognize the dreadful disappointment that a casting list can cause—as well as the power of friendship, creative thinking, and a good attitude to turn a rotten situation into one that’s quite ap-peel-ing. Showtime!

Banana Boys

Leon Aureus
Banana Boys Book PDF

Author : Leon Aureus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Drama
ISBN : UCSC:32106019027041

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Adapted from the novel by Terry Woo

The Banana of Life

Rian Charleton Craypo
The Banana of Life Book PDF

Author : Rian Charleton Craypo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Bassoon
ISBN : 0989310914

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A comprehensive exploration of reed making for the bassoon in the style of Norman Herzberg and Benjamin Kamins -- Back cover.

The Banana Empire

Dr. Richard Edgar Zwez
The Banana Empire Book PDF

Author : Dr. Richard Edgar Zwez
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781794846937

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The Banana Empire by Dr. Richard Edgar Zwez Pdf

The author's family life as a youth in Honduras where his father worked for the United Fruit Company.

The Day The Banana Went Bad

Michelle Robinson
The Day The Banana Went Bad Book PDF

Author : Michelle Robinson
Publisher : Scholastic UK
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780702301148

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The Day The Banana Went Bad by Michelle Robinson Pdf

A fantastically funny book about loving what makes you YOU! When Banana is thrown into the 'reject' bin with the other mis-shapen fruit and veg, he decides that enough is enough - he may be a little bit bruised but that doesn't mean he's any less brilliant! So be proud of your bumps! Because going bad can sometimes be very, very good.