The Panther In My Kitchen

Author : Brian Blessed
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781509841592

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The Panther In My Kitchen by Brian Blessed Pdf

Brian Blessed has a lifelong love of animals and over the years has rescued cats and dogs, horses and ponies, and even a very ungrateful fighting cock. All were characters in their own right, such as Jessie, a dog left languishing for a year at the local RSPCA, who ruled the entire household with a rod of iron, when she wasn’t out harassing the local vicar. Then there was Bodger, an abused terrier cross breed, was nursed back to health by Brian and his wife, and Peppone, a stray cat and notorious thief, was responsible for a crime epidemic in the Bagshot area. Most of all there was Misty, a soul mate and the first Jack Russell Brian met who didn’t take an instant dislike to him. Over the years Brian has encountered more exotic animals too, from Kali the black panther who had free run of his kitchen and the gentle boa constrictor Bo Bo who went for walks with him in Richmond Park to the female gorillas who found him incredibly attractive. Written with all of Brian’s ebullience, The Panther in My Kitchen is a laugh out loud, life affirming book about the joy animals bring and why we should care for them.

Author : Lisa Anne Nisula
Publisher : Lisa Anne Nisula
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Ella and the Panther's Quest & The Wizard at Pembrook by Lisa Anne Nisula Pdf

Ella and the Panther's Quest After a terrible day, Ella Peterson goes to the library to escape in a book. Instead she literally ends up in another world after being taken through an enchanted mirror by a footstool. On the other side, she finds a panther trapped in a cage. He is waiting for a hero to free him and help him reach the cursed castle he can see through the prison window. Ella is taken home and the first opportunity, but, unable to ignore the panther’s sad eyes, Ella packs up her knitting bag with what she thinks she’ll need for a journey in a strange land, and goes back through the mirror to find a way to free the panther and help him on his quest. The Wizard at Pembrook Janet Wrenford had an ordinary life, living in the capital with her sister and brother-in-law and working as a secretary, until she was offered a job as assistant to the wizard Lord Fairfax at Pembrook. Now she’s living in a mysterious house, surrounded by magic, and possibly being followed by a stranger. Can she unravel the secrets of the wizard at Pembrook?

Author : Brian Blessed
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780283072307

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Absolute Pandemonium by Brian Blessed Pdf

There is no one quite like Brian Blessed. He's an actor, film star, trained undertaker, unlikely diplomat, secret romantic, martial artist and mountaineer. He's also a brilliant storyteller who will – and you must brace yourself – simply leap out of the pages at you. Ready? Then start Absolute Pandemonium and you'll be taken on a riotous journey from his childhood, growing up the son of a miner in Goldthorpe, to finding fame in Z-Cars. You'll see Brian falling for Katharine Hepburn on the set of The Trojan Women, suffering wires strapped round his wotsits as he was hoisted into the heavens on Flash Gordon, almost causing an international incident when meeting the Emperor and Empress of Japan, and winning round George Lucas to get the role of Boss Nass on Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Along the way he takes secret revenge on headmistress Mrs Jarman and her very big bottom, punches Harold Pinter, loves and hates Peter O'Toole, woos his beautiful wife Hildegard Neil and braves the shocking death toll on cosy TV drama My Family and Other Animals. Crammed with anecdotes from his illustrious career, this is a funny, warm-hearted, life-affirming, LOUD and unique memoir from a much-loved figure.

Author : Ed McClanahan
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781582437583

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I Just Hitched in from the Coast by Ed McClanahan Pdf

This rollicking collection—personally selected by the author (in collaboration with his editor Tom Marksbury)—gathers the best of Ed McClanahan's work, making it a must–have for both long–time fans and newcomers alike. Comprised of fourteen works, I Just Hitched in from the Coast is an admixture of fiction and non–fiction, memoir and imagination. It includes such classics as "Fondelle, or: The Whore with a Heart of Gold," and the wry essay "The Day the Lampshades Breathed," chronicling McClanahan's time in the 1960s. In "The Essentials of Western Civilization," McClanahan imagines the affairs of Assistant Professor Harrison B. Eastep, MA, of Arbuckle State in Oregon, and of the gradual erosion of his dedication to academia. Weaving together Vietnam, rock and roll, a lackluster counterculture past, and the Great Plague of London, this is storytelling at its best by a master of the craft. The foremost stylist of the Yippie generation, McClanahan writes with bemused affection. He parlays his Southern sensibilities and California experiences with a mastery of language, to tantalize his readers with musings that are absurd, whimsical, outrageous, and, in the words of one reviewer, "wickedly sharp."

Author : Flores Alexander Forbes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1416525238

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Will You Die with Me? by Flores Alexander Forbes Pdf

Amid the social turmoil of the 1960s and ,70s, a young man in California found his purpose in the rise of the Black Panther Party, made a deadly mistake that cost him his freedom, and ultimately got his life back, having learned the true lessons of the Buddha Samurai. By the time Flores Forbes was twenty-five years old, he had just a GED and sixty college credits to his name. But he had gone far in his chosen profession as a revolutionary. In 1977, Forbes had been in the Black Panther Party for almost a decade and had become the youngest member of the organization's central committee. In this remarkable memoir, Forbes vividly describes his transformation from an angry youth into a powerful partisan in the ranks of the black liberation movement. Disillusioned in high school by the racism in his native San Diego, he began reading Black Panther literature. Drawn to the Panthers' mission of organizing resistance to police brutality, he eagerly joined and soon found himself immersed in a culture of Mao-inspired rigor. His dedication ultimately earned him a place in the Party's elite inner circle as assistant chief of staff, charged with heading up the "fold" -- the heavily armed military branch dubbed by Huey P. Newton the "Buddha Samurai." "My job was one of the most secretive in the party," writes Forbes, "and to this day most of the people who were in the Party over the years had not a clue as to what I really did..." With intimate portraits of such BPP leaders as Elaine Brown, Eldridge Cleaver, and Huey P. Newton, Will You Die with Me? is a riveting firsthand look at some of the most dramatic events of the last century and a brutally honest tale of one man's journey from rage to redemption.

Author : Caitlyn Henry
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781291607918

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Dark Expectations by Caitlyn Henry Pdf

Author : James Hamilton-Paterson
Publisher : Europa Editions
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609450953

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Cooking with Fernet Branca by James Hamilton-Paterson Pdf

“A very funny sendup of Italian-cooking-holiday-romance novels” (Publishers Weekly). Gerald Samper, an effete English snob, has his own private hilltop in Tuscany where he whiles away his time working as a ghostwriter for celebrities and inventing wholly original culinary concoctions––including ice cream made with garlic and the bitter, herb-based liqueur known as Fernet Branca. But Gerald’s idyll is about to be shattered by the arrival of Marta, on the run from a crime-riddled former Soviet republic, as a series of misunderstandings brings this odd couple into ever closer and more disastrous proximity . . . “Provokes the sort of indecorous involuntary laughter that has more in common with sneezing than chuckling. Imagine a British John Waters crossed with David Sedaris.” —The New York Times

Author : Sharon Farrow
Publisher : Kensington Cozies
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496722638

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Mulberry Mischief by Sharon Farrow Pdf

Autumn has arrived on the shores of Lake Michigan, but Marlee Jacob, proprietor of The Berry Basket, is feeling a chill for other reasons ... With the Harvest Health Fair in full swing, Marlee makes sure to stock up on elderberry products for cold and flu season. But this year there's also a run on mulberry when an eccentric customer wants to use the dried berries to ward off evil forces. True, it's almost Halloween, but something else seems to be spooking Leticia the Lake Lady, Oriole Point's oddest resident. She believes someone plans to kill her—and the ghost. Only mulberries can protect them. Marlee doesn't take her fears seriously until a man named Felix Bonaventure arrives in the village, asking questions about a mysterious woman. The next day, Marlee finds Bonaventure dead on Leticia's property—shot through the heart with an arrow made of mulberry wood. And Leticia has disappeared. Marlee soon learns the Lake Lady has a deadly past that is connected to the famous Sable family who are in town for the health fair. A bunch of clues start to come together—and figuring out what's going on puts Marlee in a real jam ... Includes Berry Recipes!

Author : Olivia Cole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0991615530

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Panther in the Hive by Olivia Cole Pdf

Author : Delia Parr
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780764200878

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Refining Emma by Delia Parr Pdf

A charming drama in rural 1840's New York. A fire at the local match factory creates chaos in the town.

Author : Marcus Reeves
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781466822153

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Somebody Scream! by Marcus Reeves Pdf

For many African Americans of a certain demographic the sixties and seventies were the golden age of political movements. The Civil Rights movement segued into the Black Power movement which begat the Black Arts movement. Fast forward to 1979 and the release of Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight." With the onset of the Reagan years, we begin to see the unraveling of many of the advances fought for in the previous decades. Much of this occurred in the absence of credible, long-term leadership in the black community. Young blacks disillusioned with politics and feeling society no longer cared or looked out for their concerns started rapping with each other about their plight, becoming their own leaders on the battlefield of culture and birthing Hip-Hop in the process. In Somebody Scream, Marcus Reeves explores hip-hop music and its politics. Looking at ten artists that have impacted rap—from Run-DMC (Black Pop in a B-Boy Stance) to Eminem (Vanilla Nice)—and puts their music and celebrity in a larger socio-political context. In doing so, he tells the story of hip hop's rise from New York-based musical form to commercial music revolution to unifying expression for a post-black power generation.

Author : Joseph Stroud
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781556592850

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Of this World by Joseph Stroud Pdf

"Like all of the best poets, Stroud makes the earth again consolable."--Jim Harrison

Author : Jetta Grace Martin,Joshua Bloom,Waldo E. Martin Jr.
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781646142170

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Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party by Jetta Grace Martin,Joshua Bloom,Waldo E. Martin Jr. Pdf

Booklist Editors’ Choice WINNER of the Russell Freedman Award for Non-Fiction for a Better World Knowledge is power. The secret is this. Knowledge, applied at the right time and place, is more than power. It’s magic. That’s what the Black Panther Party did. They called up this magic and launched a revolution. In the beginning, it was a story like any other. It could have been yours and it could have been mine. But once it got going, it became more than any one person could have imagined. This is the story of Huey and Bobby. Eldridge and Kathleen. Elaine and Fred and Ericka. This is the story of the committed party members. Their supporters and allies. The Free Breakfast Program and the Ten Point Program. It’s about Black nationalism, Black radicalism, about Black people in America. From the authors of the acclaimed book, Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party, and introducing new talent Jetta Grace Martin, comes the story of the Panthers for younger readers—meticulously researched, thrillingly told, and filled with incredible photographs throughout. P R A I S E ★ “A passionate, honest, and intimate look into an important time in civil rights history.” —Booklist (starred) ★ “Impeccable writing and stellar design make this title highly recommended.” —School Library Journal (starred) “Detailed, thoroughly researched...A valuable addition to the history of African American resistance.” —Kirkus

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555031382

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the ladies treasury and treasury of literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nancy Martin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440624230

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Have Your Cake and Kill Him Too by Nancy Martin Pdf

When the tycoon owner of a spectacularly tacky sports bar is killed, Nora Blackbird suspects a secretive politician, a shady former rock star doubling as a pastry chef, and a dangerous aristo-brat on the verge of stardom.