Michael Gets Suspended

Michael Gets Suspended
Author: Eric Monte
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 26
Release: 1975
Genre: American drama
ISBN: 9780573623271

God in a Cup

God in a Cup
Author: Michaele Weissman
Publisher: HMH
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2011-06-01
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0544186613

Follow the ultimate coffee geeks on their worldwide hunt for the best beans. Can a cup of coffee reveal the face of God? Can it become the holy grail of modern-day knights errant who brave hardship and peril in a relentless quest for perfection? Can it change the world? These questions are not rhetorical. When highly prized coffee beans sell at auction for $50, $100, or $150 a pound wholesale (and potentially twice that at retail), anything can happen. In God in a Cup, journalist and late-blooming adventurer Michaele Weissman treks into an exotic and paradoxical realm of specialty coffee where the successful traveler must be part passionate coffee connoisseur, part ambitious entrepreneur, part activist, and part Indiana Jones. Her guides on the journey are the nation’s most heralded coffee business hotshots: Counter Culture’s Peter Giuliano, Intelligentsia’s Geoff Watts, and Stumptown’s Duane Sorenson. With their obsessive standards and fiercely competitive baristas, these roasters are creating a new culture of coffee connoisseurship in America—a culture in which $10 lattes are both a purist’s pleasure and a way to improve the lives of third-world farmers. If you love a good cup of coffee—or a great adventure story—you’ll love this unprecedented up-close look at the people and passions behind today’s best beans. “Weissman illustrates how the origin, flavor compounds and socioeconomic impact of a cup of coffee are relevant now more than ever. . . . Tagging along behind the main characters in today’s specialty coffee scene, [she] travels from the exotic to the expected to artfully deconstruct the connoisseur’s cup of coffee.” —Publishers Weekly

Greener Pastures

Greener Pastures
Author: Michael Wehunt
Publisher: Apex Publications
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2017-03-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

In his striking debut collection, Greener Pastures, Michael Wehunt shows why he is a powerful new voice in horror and weird fiction. From the round-robin, found-footage nightmare of “October Film Haunt: Under the House” to the jazz-soaked “The Devil Under the Maison Blue,” selected for both The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror and Year’s Best Weird Fiction, these beautifully crafted, emotionally resonant stories speak of the unknown encroaching upon the familiar, the inscrutable power of grief and desire, and the thinness between all our layers. Where nature rubs against small towns, in mountains and woods and bedrooms, here is strangeness seen through a poet’s eye. They say there are always greener pastures. These stories consider the cost of that promise.

Queer as Folk

Queer as Folk
Author: Paul Ruditis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2003
Genre: Homosexuality on television
ISBN: 0743476360

The ultimate companion to the TV series "Queer as Folk."

Cows and Cats Eating Cabbages

Cows and Cats Eating Cabbages
Author: Jeff Schilling
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2007-12
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0595474950

Mired in his last year of high school, Matthew decides he needs a senior project. He chooses Michael, the school punching bag. Matthew's renovation begins with Gut, Michael's stepfather. Phase II addresses Michael's place in the high school pecking order. At first, the renovations seem successful, but when the project begins to unravel around him, Matthew suddenly realizes that he is in too deep to get out before it collapses. Unable to salvage his relationship with Michael, Matthew begins a second, this time with Michael's half-sister, Chrissy. The second collapse, however, is more devastating than the first, and amid the wreckage, Matthew desperately wonders if he will eventually find a way out or remain buried forever.

Fight to the End

Fight to the End
Author: David J. Gregory
Publisher: David Gregory
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2005-11
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1453707808

At Michael's private school, both the students and staff harass him for reasons nobody can pinpoint. He has no friends until he meets Xavier, two years younger and also bullied by the same people. When violent and vicious bullying continues to intensify, Michael knows he must leave to survive; Xavier, accepting Michael is his only protection, flees with him.

Handbook of Addictive Disorders

Handbook of Addictive Disorders
Author: Robert Holman Coombs
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 600
Release: 2004-04-28
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0471652334

The most comprehensive source for the latest research and practicetechniques for diagnosing and treating addictive disorders "This book brings together an array of international experts onaddictive disorders. Robert Coombs's Handbook of AddictiveDisorders discusses the contemporary issues surrounding theunderstanding of addiction, from diagnosis to treatment of anaddicted client. The Handbook of Addictive Disorders is anexample of practical and clinical information at its best." -Lorraine D. Grymala, Executive Director American Academy of HealthCare Providers in the Addictive Disorders The Handbook of Addictive Disorders: A Practical Guide toDiagnosis and Treatment is a comprehensive, state-of-the-artresource, featuring valuable contributions from a multidisciplinaryteam of leading experts. This unique guide deftly defines addictionand examines its comorbidity with other problems. Subsequentchapters present an overview of addictive disorders coupled withstrategies for accurately diagnosing them, planning effectivetreatment, and selecting appropriate interventions. Chapters onpublic policy and prevention are of indispensable value in light ofthis growing health concern. The only reference available to cover the full spectrum ofaddictions and addictive behaviors, the Handbook of AddictiveDisorders provides the most current research and treatmentstrategies for overcoming: Chemical dependency Workaholism Compulsive gambling Eating disorders Sex addiction Compulsive buying This useful guide features case studies, figures and diagrams,lists of practical interventions for each disorder, andself-assessment exercises for clients. Psychologists, addiction counselors, social workers, and othersworking in the addictions field will find the Handbook ofAddictive Disorders to be an essential resource for practical,validated information on all types of addictions and their relatedproblems.

Brothers and Keepers

Brothers and Keepers
Author: John Edgar Wideman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780618509638

A haunting portrait of lives arriving at different destinies, this is the author's seminal memoir about two brothers, one an award-winning novelist, the other a fugitive wanted for robbery and murder. He recalls the capture of his younger brother Robby, details the subsequent trials that resulted in a sentence of life in prison, and provides vivid views of the American prison system. A gripping, unsettling account, it weighs the bonds of blood, tenderness, and guilt that connect the author to his brother and measures the distance that lies between them.

Shadows of Slaughterhouse Five

Shadows of Slaughterhouse Five
Author: Ervin E. Szpek
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 670
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1440105677

Shadows of Slaughterhouse Five chronicles the story of 150 American POWs captured in the Battle of the Bulge and eventually caught up in one of the greatest tragedies of World War II - the firebombing of Dresden. This collection includes oral histories, previously unpublished memoirs, and letters from home and from the front that together tell their compelling story in their own words. From simple hometown beginnings through the awakenings of military life in basic training, from assignment on the supposed "quiet zone" in Belgium to the unexpected Battle of the Bulge, from forced march and entrainment to eventual assignment on work details in Dresden - the "Florence of the Elbe," to the inferno of Dresden on February 13-14, 1945, and the gruesome work details to follow, the individual and collective recollections and reflections of these 150 young men, the men housed in the famed Slaughterhouse Five, reveal a very personal side of war and the struggle for survival. Yet repatriation did not bring closure to this chapter of their young lives for like shadows their memories would forever be part of them. Today more than sixty years after the firebombing of Dresden, the statue of a steer wishing health and happiness to the citizens of Dresden still stands at the entrance to the public slaughterhouse, a silent witness to the maelstrom that descended upon Dresden and this group of 150 American POWs housed within. Now after more than 60 years of silence for most of these men, Kurt Vonnegut's fellow POWs tell their story of Slaughterhouse Five, in their words as they saw it - dog face young soldiers assured that the war was soon to be over!

Peer Mediation

Peer Mediation
Author: Fred Schrumpf
Publisher: Research Press
Total Pages: 108
Release: 1997
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780878223671

Program for helping secondary school students acquire skills in conflict resolution.