Tales of humanity pushed to its limits, of striving, ingenuity, brilliance, desperate action, violence, and resolution, . Eighteen tales of Conflict, of Science Fiction at its absolute best.Contents:1.Introduction – Ian Whates2.The Wake – Dan Abnett3.Psi.Copath – Andy Remic4.Unaccounted – Lauren Beukes 5.The New Ships – Gareth L Powell6.The Harvest – Kim Lakin-Smith7.The War Artist – Tony Ballantyne8.Proper Little Soldier – Martin McGrath9.The Maker’s Mark – Michael Cobley10.Brwydr Am Ryddid – Stephen Palmer11.Occupation – Colin Harvey12.Sussed – Keith Brooke13.The Soul of the Machine – Eric Brown14.Extraordinary Rendition – Steve Longworth15.The Legend of Sharrock – Philip Palmer16.The Cuisinart Effect – Neal Asher17.The Ice Submarine – Adam Roberts18.War Without End – Una McCormack19.Welcome Home, Janissary – Tim C Taylor

    A man who makes an unscheduled stop gets more than he bargained for in ‘CANDYLAND.’ A Group of teens discover a terrible secret on Samsonite farm in ‘SCARECROWS.’ A Schoolyard bully and his former victim reunite with horrifying results in ‘LONG TALL COFFIN.’ A High school party becomes an arachnid nightmare for one unfortunate guest in ‘THE BOY WHO SAW SPIDERS.’ These are just some of the horrors hidden within the darkest recesses of the funhouse. Look closer if you dare, and indulge in these 16 tales of madness, murder, terror and insanity.

    By tracing the history of the one of Italy's "national dishes"--from Asia to America, from Africa to Europe; from the beginning of agriculture to the Middle Ages and up to the 20th century--he shows that in order to understand who we are (our identity) we almost always need to look beyond ourselves to other cultures, peoples, and traditions.

    With an exhaustive knowledge of popular culture and an almost effortless ability to spin brilliant prose out of unlikely subject matter, Klosterman attacks the entire spectrum of postmodern America: reality TV, Internet porn, Pamela Anderson, literary Jesus freaks, and the real difference between apples and oranges (of which there is none). And don't even get him started on his love life and the whole Harry-Met-Sally situation. Whether deconstructing Saved by the Bell episodes or the artistic legacy of Billy Joel, the symbolic importance of The Empire Strikes Back or the Celtics/Lakers rivalry, Chuck will make you think, he'll make you laugh, and he'll drive you insane -- usually all at once. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs is ostensibly about art, entertainment, infotainment, sports, politics, and kittens, but -- really -- it's about us. All of us. As Klosterman realizes late at night, in the moment before he falls asleep, "In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever 'in and of itself.'" Read to believe.

    “They are mistaken. I have not known you long, but I observe in you a natural dignity that cannot be learnt. To me, ma’am, you are every inch a Queen.”In 1837, less than a month after her eighteenth birthday, Alexandrina Victoria – sheltered, small in stature, and female – became Queen of Great Britain and Ireland. Many thought it was preposterous: Alexandrina — Drina to her family — had always been tightly controlled by her mother and her household, and was surely too unprepossessing to hold the throne. Yet from the moment William IV died, the young Queen startled everyone: abandoning her hated first name in favor of Victoria; insisting, for the first time in her life, on sleeping in a room apart from her mother; resolute about meeting with her ministers alone.One of those ministers, Lord Melbourne, became Victoria’s private secretary. Perhaps he might have become more than that, except everyone argued she was destined to marry her cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. But Victoria had met Albert as a child and found him stiff and critical: surely the last man she would want for a husband….Drawing on Victoria’s diaries as well as her own brilliant gifts for history and drama, Daisy Goodwin, author of the bestselling novels The American Heiress and The Fortune Hunter as well as creator and writer of the new PBS/Masterpiece drama Victoria, brings the young queen even more richly to life in this magnificent novel.

    He's the internet's boyfriend. The poetic petrolhead. The guru on a surfboard. Part samurai, part samaritan. He is, very simply, 'The One'.'James has been my movie guru for years and now he's my spiritual guru too! From now on I'm going to ask myself: 'What would Keanu do?'Jo WhileyIn this hilarious book of pocket philosophy, film critic and Keanu fan James King reveals what makes Mr Reeves so special. He unpacks iconic films from the Bill & Teds to the John Wicks, as well as the star's own free-spirited life, showing us why the great man with the great hair has all the answers.And how everyone can #bemorekeanu.'A handsome, cool, enigmatic Gen X’er who never seems to age, James King is the perfect man to write about Keanu Reeves.'Stephen Merchant

    Coming of age very outrageously as an overweight, soon-to-be gay kid, he learns to relate to others by way of his beloved Melrose Place and Clueless-which serves him well when exiled to fat camp and faced with an opportunity to bribe an adulterous counselor or poison his stepmother by birthday cake-and thinks nothing of dressing as Homey the Clown (in blackface) for Halloween. This sets him up for adulthood in the image-obsessed world of gay men in New York City, where he hires personal trainers he wants to sleep with, applies an X-rated twist to Julie & Julia in an attempt to reach blogger stardom, and has an imaginary relationship with the man on the P90X workout infomercials that becomes a little bit too real. Hilarious, heartwarming (as if), and especially scandalous, Eating My Feelings leaves no stone unturned and no piece of red velvet cake uneaten.

    On those nights when takeout sounds tempting, turn to this cookbook. This collection of 70 delicious recipes will help you create a nutritious meal from scratch in no time. Each recipe meets at least one of these two criteria: It requires five ingredients or fewer (excluding water, cooking spray, salt, pepper, garnishes, and optional ingredients); OR It can be prepared in 15 minutes or less And some of the recipes fall under both. What's more, I will show you that good-for-you ingredients don't have to be pricey. The recipes are simply somewhere to start. Follow them as they are, or substitute shrimp when one calls for scallops, even chicken instead of pork. Use what's in your pantry, and I will help you get dinner on the table in minutes. Perfect for the family or casual, impromptu get-togethers with friends, all of the ideas in this cookbook are shorter, quicker, and faster so you can serve a smart and fabulous dinner any night of the week. With recipes for soups, sandwiches, salads, meatless main dishes, fish, meats, and poultry, this cookbook simply makes healthy taste great. I hope you enjoy my recipes!

    You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

    Here is why:My name is Lisa Brown. I’m working mom of two. Our family lives with precious dog named Archie and “ugly mortgage” in sunny California.I don’t know for sure but it seems to me that I may have tried and collected more really delicious and healthy salad recipes than anyone else that I know. Maybe, I’m exaggerating a little, but here are some proofs:    The Simple Old-Fashioned Greek Salad Has Made Our Guests From Greece Almost Cry With Joy! And you’ll learn the real secret to this salad from recipe #1.The easy-to-prepare recipe #2 will show you the delicious way how you too can easily add to your health and receive all the benefits of…    One Of The World's Most Healing Superfoods! The next 50 recipes should remove almost every single roadblock that has ever stopped you from making healthy and more importantly delicious salads.This is sure to become your go-to resource time and time again! WARNING: This Is NOT A Common Salad Book You May Have Seen This is not just basically ice burg lettuce with different dressings and veggies thrown on top… In this one all the salads are really different from each other.Also, you'll find plenty of useful tips, tricks, and interesting facts… Now… Here Are Some More Important Reasons Why You Might Want To Get This Book: You'll discover how to make regular salad ingredients taste far, far better, by preparing them in a special way… The unexpected way revealed in the first section will enable you to earn a bunch of money trying these recipes for yourself! This collection will prove useful for just about everyone, including vegetarians and vegan.Granted it is NOT strictly vegetarian but most of the salads are vegetarian or vegan and with simple adaptions they can all be. You'll learn what vegetable the French call “The King Of Body Detox”… And…How you can enormously benefit from this superfood, if you eat it every morning. Revealed: What food you must eat every day if you want to be healthy even at age 110! You'll find out the easy way how to workout without working out! It’s obvious, but almost always overlooked… Discover the simple trick that helped my friend lose 35 pounds in just 3 months, almost effortlessly!No diet. No hunger. No workout. No nothing! It’s SO easy you wouldn’t believe it! But, I saw it with my own eyes… Come closer: These recipes have already generated hundreds of compliments from friends and family for me, my friends and that very select group of people who subscribe to my newsletter.

    It was a popular winter destination for North American tourists in the 1950s, and this cookbook recaptures the spirit of Old Havana-- Habana la vieja-- and its celebrated culinary traditions. Cuban cuisine, though derived from its mother country, Spain, has been modified and refined by locally available foods like pork, rice, corn, beans and sugar, and the requirements of a tropical climate. Fine Gulf Stream fish, crabs and lobsters, and an almost infinite variety of vegetables and luscious tropical fruits also have their places on the traditional Cuban table. This cookbook includes over 50 recipes, each in Spanish with side-by-side English translation-- all of them classic Cuban fare and old Havana specialties adapted for the North American kitchen. Among the recipes included are: Ajiaco (famous Cuban Stew), Boiled Pargo with Avocado Sauce, Lobster Havanaise, Tamal en Cazuela (Soft Tamal), Quimbombo (okra), Picadillo, Roast Suckling Pig, and Boniatillo (Sweet Potato Dulce), along with a whole chapter on famous Cuban cocktails and beverages.

    Nina Stibbe's Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life is the laugh-out-loud story of the trials and tribulations of a very particular family.

      This addictive-to-read anthology celebrates yarn—specifically, the knitter’s reputation for acquiring it in large quantities and storing it away in what’s lovingly referred to as a “stash.” Consider contributions from knitting and teaching luminaries, including:    BUST co-founder Debbie Stoller    Meg Swansen, daughter of master knitter Elizabeth Zimmermann    Knitting blogger and author Susan B. Anderson alongside offerings from knitting greats Amy Herzog, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, and Franklin Habit—plus, stories from a romance novelist, an illustrator, a PhD-wielding feminist publisher, a globetrotting textile artist, a licensed clinical social worker, and the people behind the world’s largest collective online stash, Ravelry.com. The pieces range from comical to earnest, lighthearted to deeply philosophical as each seeks to answer the question of how the stash a knitter has accumulated over the years reflects his or her place in universe.   The stories in A Stash of One’s Own represent and provide validation for knitters’ wildly varying perspectives on yarn, from holding zero stash, to stash-busting, to stockpiling masses of it—and even including it in estate plans. These tales are for all fiber artists, spinners, dyers, crafters, crocheters, sheep farmers, shop owners, beginning knitters to yarn experts, and everyone who has ever loved a skein too hard to let it go.

    And what's going on is plotting the revolution, pure and simple.There's lots more. Events in England, shown in "Letters of Trade," happenings in the Caribbean—with pirates, not less. Russia and Czar Mikhail are having their own problems, while certain folks in Grantville are just ticked off. The USE capitol in Magdeburg is a hopping town and we'll be happy to share the news with you. Gustav Adolph may have won the Baltic War, but what happened to the individual soldiers They didn't all come out on top, did they Just how hard is it to navigate the troubled waters of the 1632 Universe No picnic, for sure.Chocolate, steam, railroads and tennis. Revolution, mayhem, ships and planes. What have they got in common It's all happening in seventeenth century Europe.

    Green Smoothies are a mix of greens, vegetables and flavorful fruits making you feel amazing and helping to:Lose WeightDetoxify the BodyIncrease EnergyFight Heart DiseasePrevent Diabetes, Depression and Certain CancersBoost the Immune SystemImprove Skin and HairThese delicious Green Smoothie recipes will help you lose weight, have increased energy, and improve your overall health!