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The Rat Eater

Anand Ranganathan,Chitra Subramaniam
The Rat Eater Book PDF

Author : Anand Ranganathan,Chitra Subramaniam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789389000184

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'I was born on a bloody road. The blood was my mother's. My sisters couldn't find a midwife in time. There was no way my mother could get relief from the upper-caste well, and so they tell me, that my sisters ran to some puddles to fill their little mouths up and then ran back to where my mother was almost dying of pain and then spat out some water on her face and the rest down below on mine. That is how I came into this world.' Someone is disposing of politicians one by one. And the murderer has borrowed from the genius of Agatha Christie. When a local Mumbai politician is found wrapped in a plastic bag behind a park bench, the dashing and capable DIG Ajay Biswas is told to take over the case. Ajay arrives in Mumbai along with his wife Aparajita and soon discovers he is being misled by his Mumbai compatriots who are determined to save their own skin. Someone is deliberately providing false leads; his presence is not wanted. While in Mumbai, Ajay and Aparajita meet up with their old college friend Akhil Sukumar. Akhil and Aparajita have had a tortuous history, and it appears that the one-time lovers now want nothing more than to let bygones be bygones. Easier said. From the barren lands of rural India to the immaculate lawns of Cambridge, The Rat Eater is a book whose uninhibitedness may offend purists as it lays bare a few uncomfortable truths about India-a country entangled in a web of caste, corruption and cover-ups. The privileged flourish at the cost of the oppressed. The price has to be paid, and someone has decided that it needs to be paid in blood.

Sin Eater

Megan Campisi
Sin Eater Book PDF

Author : Megan Campisi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982124120

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Sin Eater by Megan Campisi Pdf

“For fans of The Handmaid’s Tale...a debut novel with a dark setting and an unforgettable heroine...is a riveting depiction of hard-won female empowerment” (The Washington Post). The Sin Eater walks among us, unseen, unheard Sins of our flesh become sins of Hers Following Her to the grave, unseen, unheard The Sin Eater Walks Among Us. For the crime of stealing bread, fourteen-year-old May receives a life sentence: she must become a Sin Eater—a shunned woman, brutally marked, whose fate is to hear the final confessions of the dying, eat ritual foods symbolizing their sins as a funeral rite, and thereby shoulder their transgressions to grant their souls access to heaven. Orphaned and friendless, apprenticed to an older Sin Eater who cannot speak to her, May must make her way in a dangerous and cruel world she barely understands. When a deer heart appears on the coffin of a royal governess who did not confess to the dreadful sin it represents, the older Sin Eater refuses to eat it. She is taken to prison, tortured, and killed. To avenge her death, May must find out who placed the deer heart on the coffin and why. “Very much reminiscent of The Handmaid’s Tale…it transcends its historical roots to give us a modern heroine” (Kirkus Reviews). “A novel as strange as it is captivating” (BuzzFeed), The Sin Eater “is a treat for fans of feminist speculative fiction” (Publishers Weekly) and “exactly what historical fiction lovers have unknowingly craved” (New York Journal of Books).

Tales for Very Picky Eaters

Josh Schneider
Tales for Very Picky Eaters Book PDF

Author : Josh Schneider
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780547149561

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Tales for Very Picky Eaters by Josh Schneider Pdf

"A father tells outlandish stories while trying to get his young son, who is a very picky eater, to eat foods he thinks he will not like."--Title page verso.

Death Eaters

Kelly Milner Halls
Death Eaters Book PDF

Author : Kelly Milner Halls
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781728412573

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Death Eaters by Kelly Milner Halls Pdf

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! What happens to the bodies of animals and humans after death? Nature's army of death eaters steps in to take care of clean up. Without these masters of decomposition, our planet would be covered in rotting bodies. This high-interest science text dives into the science behind how bodies decompose.

The Sin Eater's Daughter

Melinda Salisbury
The Sin Eater s Daughter Book PDF

Author : Melinda Salisbury
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780545819732

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The Sin Eater's Daughter by Melinda Salisbury Pdf

Seventeen-year-old Twylla lives in the castle. But although she's engaged to the prince, Twylla isn't exactly a member of the court. She's the executioner. As the Goddess embodied, Twylla instantly kills anyone she touches. Each month, she's taken to the prison and forced to lay her hands on those accused of treason. No one will ever love a girl with murder in her veins. Even the prince, whose royal blood supposedly makes him immune to Twylla's fatal touch, avoids her company.But then a new guard arrives, a boy whose easy smile belies his deadly swordsmanship. And unlike the others, he's able to look past Twylla's executioner robes and see the girl, not the Goddess. Yet Twylla's been promised to the prince, and knows what happens to people who cross the queen. However, a treasonous secret is the least of Twylla's problems. The queen has a plan to destroy her enemies, a plan that requires a stomach-churning, unthinkable sacrifice. Will Twylla do what it takes to protect her kingdom? Or will she abandon her duty in favor of a doomed love?

Dim Sum for Everyone!

Grace Lin
Dim Sum for Everyone Book PDF

Author : Grace Lin
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780385754880

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Dim Sum for Everyone! by Grace Lin Pdf

A tasty morsel of a board book all about dim sum from the Newbery Honor–winning author of Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, Grace Lin. A Chinese American family sits down to enjoy a traditional dim sum meal. Dumplings, cakes, buns, and tarts are wheeled out in little dishes on trolleys, and each family member gets to choose a favorite treat! Lin’s bold and gloriously patterned artwork is a feast for the eyes. Her story is simple and tailor-made for reading aloud to young children, and she includes an informative author’s note for parents, teachers, and children who want to learn more about the origins and practice of dim sum.

Rat Island

William Stolzenburg
Rat Island Book PDF

Author : William Stolzenburg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781608193318

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Rat Island by William Stolzenburg Pdf

Rat Island rises from the icy gray waters of the Bering Sea, a mass of volcanic rock covered with tundra, midway between Alaska and Siberia. Once a remote sanctuary for enormous flocks of seabirds, the island gained a new name when shipwrecked rats colonized, savaging the nesting birds by the thousands. Now, on this and hundreds of other remote islands around the world, a massive-and massively controversial-wildlife rescue mission is under way. Islands, making up just 3 percent of Earth's landmass, harbor more than half of its endangered species. These fragile ecosystems, home to unique species that evolved in peaceful isolation, have been catastrophically disrupted by mainland predators-rats, cats, goats, and pigs ferried by humans to islands around the globe. To save these endangered islanders, academic ecologists have teamed up with professional hunters and semiretired poachers in a radical act of conservation now bent on annihilating the invaders. Sharpshooters are sniping at goat herds from helicopters. Biological SWAT teams are blanketing mountainous isles with rat poison. Rat Island reveals a little-known and much-debated side of today's conservation movement, founded on a cruel-to-be-kind philosophy. Touring exotic locales with a ragtag group of environmental fighters, William Stolzenburg delivers both perilous adventure and intimate portraits of human, beast, hero, and villain. And amid manifold threats to life on Earth, he reveals a new reason to hope.

Firmin

Sam Savage
Firmin Book PDF

Author : Sam Savage
Publisher : Delta
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307805096

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Firmin by Sam Savage Pdf

In the basement of a Boston bookstore, Firmin is born in a shredded copy Finnegans Wake, nurtured on a diet of Zane Grey, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, and Jane Eyre (which tastes a lot like lettuce). While his twelve siblings gnaw these books obliviously, for Firmin the words, thoughts, deeds, and hopes—all the literature he consumes—soon consume him. Emboldened by reading, intoxicated by curiosity, foraging for food, Firmin ventures out of his bookstore sanctuary, carrying with him all the yearnings and failings of humanity itself. It’s a lot to ask of a rat—especially when his home is on the verge of annihilation. A novel that is by turns hilarious, tragic, and hopeful, Firmin is a masterpiece of literary imagination. For here, a tender soul, a vagabond and philosopher, struggles with mortality and meaning—in a tale for anyone who has ever feasted on a book…and then had to turn the final page. NOTE: This edition does not include illustrations.

Sylvia's Spinach

Katherine Pryor
Sylvia s Spinach Book PDF

Author : Katherine Pryor
Publisher : Lerner Publishing Group
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781430132561

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Sylvia's Spinach by Katherine Pryor Pdf

Sylvia Spivens always says no to spinach. But one day Sylvia's teacher gives her a packet of spinach seeds to plant for the school garden. Overcoming her initial reluctance and giving the seeds a little love and patience, Sylvia discovers the joy of growing food and the pleasure of tasting something new.

The Poison Eaters

Gail Jarrow
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Author : Gail Jarrow
Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781684378951

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The Poison Eaters by Gail Jarrow Pdf

Washington Post Best Children's Book Formaldehyde, borax, salicylic acid. Today, these chemicals are used in embalming fluids, cleaning supplies, and acne medications. But in 1900, they were routinely added to food that Americans ate from cans and jars. In 1900, products often weren't safe because unregulated, unethical companies added these and other chemicals to trick consumers into buying spoiled food or harmful medicines. Chemist Harvey Washington Wiley recognized these dangers and began a relentless thirty-year campaign to ensure that consumers could purchase safe food and drugs, eventually leading to the creation of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, a US governmental organization that now has a key role in addressing the COVID-19/Coronavirus pandemic gripping the world today. Acclaimed nonfiction and Sibert Honor winning author Gail Jarrow uncovers this intriguing history in her trademark style that makes the past enthrallingly relevant for today's young readers.

The fire Dan Division

Zhang Cheng
The fire Dan Division Book PDF

Author : Zhang Cheng
Publisher : Publicationsbooks
Page : 1646 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781304462138

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In Lujiazhuang, at the foot of Dayan Mountain, Du Zhongfu sat up from the wooden bed, looked out of the window, quickly put on coarse cloth in Tsing Yi, touched his face casually with a handful of cold water in his hands, and couldn't wait to go outside. The wooden house where Du Zhongfu lives is a bit weird. There is a simple bed in the house. Except for the bed, this wooden house is a large and small wooden basin, and each wooden basin is filled with clear water. Lujiazhuang, where Du Zhongfu lives, is not a water-deficient village. As for why Du Zhongfu's room is so decorated, Du Zhongfu has its own secrets.

Secret Ingredients

David Remnick
Secret Ingredients Book PDF

Author : David Remnick
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-03
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780812976410

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The New Yorker dishes up a feast of delicious writing–food and drink memoirs, short stories, tell-alls, and poems, seasoned with a generous dash of cartoons. “To read this sparely elegant, moving portrait is to remember that writing well about food is really no different from writing well about life.”—Saveur (Ten Best Books of the Year) Since its earliest days, The New Yorker has been a tastemaker—literally. In this indispensable collection, M.F.K. Fisher pays homage to “cookery witches,” those mysterious cooks who possess “an uncanny power over food,” and Adam Gopnik asks if French cuisine is done for. There is Roald Dahl’s famous story “Taste,” in which a wine snob’s palate comes in for some unwelcome scrutiny, and Julian Barnes’s ingenious tale of a lifelong gourmand who goes on a very peculiar diet. Selected from the magazine’s plentiful larder, Secret Ingredients celebrates all forms of gustatory delight. A sample of the menu: Roger Angell on the art of the martini • Don DeLillo on Jell-O • Malcolm Gladwell on building a better ketchup • Jane Kramer on the writer’s kitchen • Chang-rae Lee on eating sea urchin • Steve Martin on menu mores • Alice McDermott on sex and ice cream • Dorothy Parker on dinner conversation • S. J. Perelman on a hollandaise assassin • Calvin Trillin on New York’s best bagel Whether you’re in the mood for snacking on humor pieces and cartoons or for savoring classic profiles of great chefs and great eaters, these offerings from The New Yorker’s fabled history are sure to satisfy every taste.

Regulus

Aaron Ozee
Regulus Book PDF

Author : Aaron Ozee
Publisher : Lulu Press Inc. & Smashwords Inc.
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781387010790

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Regulus by Aaron Ozee Pdf

King among the mice and eater of all the cheese. Regulus, the lord of all squeaking feuds within the wall, is betrayed by those closest to him for the ego he holds so high. Struggles between the just and wicked come to pass in this paramount tale of the darkest and brightest sights in our lives.

Eat a Peach

David Chang,Gabe Ulla
Eat a Peach Book PDF

Author : David Chang,Gabe Ulla
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781524759223

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Eat a Peach by David Chang,Gabe Ulla Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the chef behind Momofuku and star of Netflix’s Ugly Delicious—an intimate account of the making of a chef, the story of the modern restaurant world that he helped shape, and how he discovered that success can be much harder to understand than failure. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • Fortune • Parade • The New York Public Library • Garden & Gun In 2004, Momofuku Noodle Bar opened in a tiny, stark space in Manhattan’s East Village. Its young chef-owner, David Chang, worked the line, serving ramen and pork buns to a mix of fellow restaurant cooks and confused diners whose idea of ramen was instant noodles in Styrofoam cups. It would have been impossible to know it at the time—and certainly Chang would have bet against himself—but he, who had failed at almost every endeavor in his life, was about to become one of the most influential chefs of his generation, driven by the question, “What if the underground could become the mainstream?” Chang grew up the youngest son of a deeply religious Korean American family in Virginia. Graduating college aimless and depressed, he fled the States for Japan, hoping to find some sense of belonging. While teaching English in a backwater town, he experienced the highs of his first full-blown manic episode, and began to think that the cooking and sharing of food could give him both purpose and agency in his life. Full of grace, candor, grit, and humor, Eat a Peach chronicles Chang’s switchback path. He lays bare his mistakes and wonders about his extraordinary luck as he recounts the improbable series of events that led him to the top of his profession. He wrestles with his lifelong feelings of otherness and inadequacy, explores the mental illness that almost killed him, and finds hope in the shared value of deliciousness. Along the way, Chang gives us a penetrating look at restaurant life, in which he balances his deep love for the kitchen with unflinching honesty about the industry’s history of brutishness and its uncertain future.

The Hungry Brain

Stephan J. Guyenet, Ph.D.
The Hungry Brain Book PDF

Author : Stephan J. Guyenet, Ph.D.
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781250081230

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The Hungry Brain by Stephan J. Guyenet, Ph.D. Pdf

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year From an obesity and neuroscience researcher with a knack for engaging, humorous storytelling, The Hungry Brain uses cutting-edge science to answer the questions: why do we overeat, and what can we do about it? No one wants to overeat. And certainly no one wants to overeat for years, become overweight, and end up with a high risk of diabetes or heart disease--yet two thirds of Americans do precisely that. Even though we know better, we often eat too much. Why does our behavior betray our own intentions to be lean and healthy? The problem, argues obesity and neuroscience researcher Stephan J. Guyenet, is not necessarily a lack of willpower or an incorrect understanding of what to eat. Rather, our appetites and food choices are led astray by ancient, instinctive brain circuits that play by the rules of a survival game that no longer exists. And these circuits don’t care about how you look in a bathing suit next summer. To make the case, The Hungry Brain takes readers on an eye-opening journey through cutting-edge neuroscience that has never before been available to a general audience. The Hungry Brain delivers profound insights into why the brain undermines our weight goals and transforms these insights into practical guidelines for eating well and staying slim. Along the way, it explores how the human brain works, revealing how this mysterious organ makes us who we are.