Drinking Coffee Elsewhere

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Author: ZZ Packer
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2004-02-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781573223782

The acclaimed debut short story collection that introduced the world to an arresting and unforgettable new voice in fiction, from multi-award winning author ZZ Packer Her impressive range and talent are abundantly evident: Packer dazzles with her command of language, surprising and delighting us with unexpected turns and indelible images, as she takes us into the lives of characters on the periphery, unsure of where they belong. We meet a Brownie troop of black girls who are confronted with a troop of white girls; a young man who goes with his father to the Million Man March and must decide where his allegiance lies; an international group of drifters in Japan, who are starving, unable to find work; a girl in a Baltimore ghetto who has dreams of the larger world she has seen only on the screens in the television store nearby, where the Lithuanian shopkeeper holds out hope for attaining his own American Dream. With penetrating insight, ZZ Packer helps us see the world with a clearer vision. Fresh, versatile, and captivating, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere is a striking and unforgettable collection, sure to stand out among the contemporary canon of fiction.

Amor and Summer Secrets

Amor and Summer Secrets
Author: Diana Rodriguez Wallach
Publisher: Kensington Books
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2008
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780758225535

In the first novel of a sparkling new series that's reminiscent of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants books, Wallach introduces an unforgettable heroine who's learning all about friendship, family, rivalry, and secrets.

Where Am I Eating? An Adventure Through the Global Food Economy

Where Am I Eating? An Adventure Through the Global Food Economy
Author: Kelsey Timmerman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2013-04-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118639863

Bridges the gap between global farmers and fishermen and American consumers America now imports twice as much food as it did a decade ago. What does this increased reliance on imported food mean for the people around the globe who produce our food? Kelsey Timmerman set out on a global quest to meet the farmers and fisherman who grow and catch our food, and also worked alongside them: loading lobster boats in Nicaragua, splitting cocoa beans with a machete in Ivory Coast, and hauling tomatoes in Ohio. Where Am I Eating? tells fascinating stories of the farmers and fishermen around the world who produce the food we eat, explaining what their lives are like and how our habits affect them. This book shows how what we eat affects the lives of the people who produce our food. Through compelling stories, explores the global food economy including workers rights, the global food crisis, fair trade, and immigration. Author Kelsey Timmerman has spoken at close to 100 schools around the globe about his first book, Where Am I Wearing: A Global Tour of the Countries, Factories, and People That Make Our Clothes He has been featured in the Financial Times and has discussed social issues on NPR's Talk of the Nation and Fox News Radio Where Am I Eating? does not argue for or against the globalization of food, but personalizes it by observing the hope and opportunity, and sometimes the lack thereof, which the global food economy gives to the world's poorest producers.

Coffee Self-Talk

Coffee Self-Talk
Author: Kristen Helmstetter
Publisher: Rodale Books
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2020-08-21
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0593580842

Inspiring affirmations to help you boost your self-esteem, find happiness, and attract the magical life of your dreams—all with your next cup of coffee! Do you want to live an inspired life of sparkling adventure and achieve goals you never thought possible? Get started this morning! Coffee Self-Talk introduces an accessible, powerful routine to pair with your morning coffee so you can start every day with positivity and energy. This easy daily ritual only takes five minutes and starts with positive, uplifting thoughts to reframe the way you talk and think about yourself. By priming your brain for happiness, success, and self-love, Coffee Self-Talk helps you take control of your life, increase your confidence, and manifest your dreams. This edition includes self-talk scripts, guidance on how to personalize them for your own goals, new exercises and questions throughout, and blank pages for journaling and creating your own affirmations. Coffee Self-Talk is a gift to yourself or your loved ones and will help you: • Learn to love yourself • Unlock happiness, resilience, and confidence • Change your bad habits • Attract wealth, success, and prosperity No matter your circumstances, now is the time to live your best, most magical life—faster than it takes to finish your first cup of coffee!

You Are the Ultimate Magician

You Are the Ultimate Magician
Author: Alcyoné Sumila Starr
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2019-01-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 198222021X

Alaska, a student at the university, had no interest in spirituality. But her accidental meetings with Maxim De Winter, a billionaire entrepreneur, better known for his spiritual work as “gladiator” around the globe, changed her views completely. Gladiator said his mission was to awaken humanity to their own inherent power. After learning to meditate and other spiritual practices, Alaska knew for sure she was an ultimate magician, as Gladiator said, with unimaginable powers to create anything she desired. Spreading Gladiator’s spiritual message was her passion now. To learn to present spiritual seminars herself, Alaska attended five seminars with Gladiator in different cities with different audiences, at the end of which she was expected to be able to present a seminar. Will she be able to do it? Alaska’s mother worried lest her daughter gets hurt in the process. She thought it was inevitable that Alaska would fall for Maxim De Winter with fancy cars, yachts, businesses around the world, and his spiritual knowledge that gave him an irresistible charismatic personality. So it was a welcome surprise for Alaska’s parents when Maxim De Winter called them one day to say he would be coming to meet them next Saturday. They were overjoyed and were looking forward to his visit, but Alaska was not, although she was curious to know why he always addressed her as princess. And whenever she asked him for anything, his response was “Your wish is my command, princess.” She wondered why.

A Minute to Smile

A Minute to Smile
Author: Barbara Samuel
Publisher: Barbara Samuel
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2012-01-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1937688089

A Minute to Smile Fans of Barbara Freethy, Susan Mallery, and Robyn Carr will love this powerful, full length contemporary romance novel by award-winning Barbara Samuel. How had single mother Esther Lucas become the fix-it lady? Bandaging her sons' scraped knees was on thing; hoping to heal the handsome widower's broken heart was quite another. But Alexander Stone brought out much more than just Esther's maternal instincts. And she knew that loving the tall, dark loner would make her need a fix-it person of her own -- Alexander Stone didn't know if he agreed with that old saying about having loved and lost --he just knew he'd never love again. But how could he resist a warm, sexy woman who always had a minute to smile and two little boys who made him remember what it was like to laugh -- or to long for a family to call his own?

The Game Changer

The Game Changer
Author: Ovid K. Wong
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2023-05-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1475863454

The book appraises the major science education initiatives and policy transformations with supportive qualitative and quantitative data since the 1957 Sputnik crisis. In addition, the book establishes the intellectual and emotional foundations before building the subsequence of what to teach and how to teach effectively in science education. Find out how you can develop the critical game changing traits to beat the status quo and become the celebrated next generation science educators.

The Lost and the Blind

The Lost and the Blind
Author: Curtis Smith
Publisher: Running Wild, LLC
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2023-09-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1955062625

Mark Hayes has come up hard. Poverty. Chaos. Hunger. His mother a junkie. His father serving a life sentence. But as his senior year looms, Mark finds a bit of peace with his mother and her girlfriend in a farmhouse outside town. Here, he hopes to escape the upheaval that has dogged him since the day he was born, but as hard as he tries, he can't outrun his shadows. He is lost, but no more so than many of his friends, no more so than the institutions he navigates or his country as it spirals toward another bloody war. Mark doesn't know God, but as he stumbles through his long, violent night, he is guided by glimmers of kindness, the good souls who reach out to this life's lost sheep. Delivered in prose both terse and lyrical, The Lost and the Blind presents a searing portrait of dopesick, small-town America and a young man desperate to rise above.