Mickey Acuña is a man suspended between a vague past and a vaguer future. Emerging from the landscape of the Southwest, buffeted by life and licking his wounds, he moves into a YMCA to wait for a check that is coming to save him and that demands an address. As days and then weeks pass without its arrival, he picks up work - first odd jobs and then shifts at the cash register of the Y - and hangs out with his neighbors, playing handball, drinking coffee, shooting pool, getting drunk, falling in love or lust with women he meets, works with, passes on the street. In the vacuum of the Y, Mickey finds himself becoming the unwitting center of a community starved for human contact and for meaning: Sarge, with his fast-food coupons; Omar, with his drunken rages and obsession with the vanished Lucy; Rosemary, whose abundant physical presence both attracts and repels him. Mickey fights to maintain his distance and his freedom, until the narrative converges abruptly around him in a profound and shocking conclusion.

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Who better than food and cocktails columnist Hayley Powell to book a caterer for the Island Times holiday party? But Hayley's quest for a cook turns into the pursuit of a killer who caters to no one. Office Christmas parties can sometimes mean career suicide-but they rarely lead to murder. Hayley thought Garth Rawlings would be the perfect caterer for this year's bash, but when the gourmet sees her budget, he goes galloping. Unfortunately his run is short-lived. Garth is found dead on the floor of his kitchen, with his delectable creations burning in the oven. Faced with a spread of suspects, Hayley is determined to discover who would want to take out the Christmas caterer, because-no matter what the season-justice must be served. Includes seven delectable recipes from Hayley's kitchen! Praise for Death of a Coupon Clipper"Hayley is a likable heroine that readers will cheer for as she manages to save the day and pay her bills." -Parkersburg News and Sentinel

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Tales of an Ironman" is abook about author's journey from childhood to adulthood. It narrates author's family background, their struggles, hardships and happiness that they've meet along the way. The author recalls her Mom's daily trip to the corner store for groceries wherein there was food rationing during the early years of World War II, and coupons were required to purchase meat, sugar and dairy products. It also highlights author's journey where he met interesting things as he travelled from places to places.

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What if you could save over 70% on your monthly grocery budget and build a stockpile of food at the same time? Don t be a skeptic! Pick Another Checkout Lane, Honey will jumpstart your journey to saving $600 per month! If you re interested in the idea but overwhelmed by the logistics, you ll love our step-by-step approach that transforms even the most timid shopper from coupon-shy to coupon-savvy. Authors Joanie Demer and Heather Wheeler share their expertise along with hundreds of tried and true coupon tips in a fun, user-friendly format that will have you high-fiving the grocery store cashier in no time.

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Hayley Powell, food and cocktails columnist for Bar Harbor's Island Times, is. well, kind of broke. So when she's selected for that extreme coupon-clipping reality game show coming to town. she's thrilled, especially when her competition is nasty nurse Candace Culpepper. But when Haley stumbles across a face-down-in-the-snow Candace-scissors gleaming between her shoulders-she knows the next thing she'll be selected for will probably be a police line-up. Meanwhile, though Hayley's BFF Mona was only joking about "taking Candace out," Bruce Linney, the Island Times crime reporter, definitely isn't laughing. And what about the smarmy, cold-hearted host of the show, Drew Nickerson, who may have been having a steamy affair with the intentionally-iced nurse? Hayley needs to cut to the chase and find the killer. Everything may hinge on a stray coupon, but Hayley better keep her eyes on the real grand prize: staying out of permanent cold storage! Includes seven delectable recipes from Hayley's kitchen! Praise for Death of a Kitchen Diva"Delicious and satisfying. Another course, please." -Carolyn Hart"Readers will be calling for a second round from author Lee Hollis." -Leslie Meier, author of Chocolate Covered Murder

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Sir George Maxon, a wealthy Englishman, sends his ne'er-do-well son to Australia with a shipload of women who have been procured from jails and workhouses. The knight puts his heir entirely in charge of the whole unusual project. His son is to oversee the auctioning of the women to the male Australian colonists. Primarily, however, the father thinks this experience will guide his wastrel son toward a life pattern of maturity, acceptance of responsibility, and faithfulness to commitments. In his heart, Sir George knows the money gained means nothing. On board Expectant, so named by the waggish Sir George, the young George creates distractions for the cargo and crew to help ease the boredom of the long voyage. Underway across the wide Pacific Ocean, all goes well until a storm of death-dealing force dooms the ship. Many lives are lost. What survivors there are manage to reach the shore of a small island. This group includes George and Tommie, the ship's cabin boy. Work begins to make the island habitable for humans-food, fire, and sharks present enduring problems. After many weeks of waiting for news of Expectant and his son, Sir George makes a bold decision-he will search for his boy. In the company of his two closest friends, the knight sets sail on a quest that suggests little hope for success. Ever present is the evil shadow of Sir Barton Blackmer hanging over the heads of everyone. Blackmer is constantly obsessed by his hatred of Sir George, whom he blames for all the troubles besetting him. When the Black Knight and his band of cutthroats come face-to-face with the defenseless castaways, the senseless slaughter begins.

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Considered high-priced delicacies or waste material to be tossed away, the use and value of offal-edible and inedible animal by-products-depend entirely on the culture and country in question. The skin, blood, bones, meat trimmings, fatty tissues, horns, hoofs, feet, skull, and entrails of butchered animals comprise a wide variety of products including human or pet food or processed materials in animal feed, fertilizer, or fuel. Regardless of the final product's destination, it is still necessary to employ the most up-to-date and effective tools to analyze these products for nutritional and sensory quality as well as safety. Providing a full overview of the analytical tools currently available, the Handbook of Analysis of Edible Animal By-Products examines the role and use of the main techniques and methodologies used worldwide for the analysis of animal by-products. Divided into four parts, this unique handbook covers the chemistry and biochemistry involved in the fundamentals of the field and considers the technological quality, nutritional quality, and safety required to produce a viable product. Beginning with an introduction to the chemical and biochemical compounds of animal by-products, the book details the use and detection of food-grade proteins, rendered fats, and cholesterol. It discusses how to determine oxidation in edible by-products, measurement of color in these products, and the analysis of nutritional aspects such as essential amino acids, fatty acids, vitamins, minerals, and trace elements. The latter portion of the book deals with safety parameters, particularly the analytical tools for the detection of pathogens, toxins, and chemical toxic compounds usually found in muscle foods. Specific chapters highlight the detection of tissues typically found in animal by-products, such as neuronal tissues, non-muscle tissues, and bone fragments.

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SAVE YOUR CASH SAVE YOUR TIME SAVE YOUR SANITY! Perfect for anyone who wants to buy smarter, spend less on food, and get the best nutritional and economic value for their buck, Instant Bargains offers more than 600 tips and tricks from Coupons.com family savings expert and mommysavers.com founder Kimberly Danger. No time for coupon clipping? No room to stockpile? No problem! * Harness dozens of ways to save online * Use technology to make menu planning and shopping easier * Shop and cook efficiently by spotting inexpensive ingredients * Create homemade versions of your favorite grocery items like sauces * Make the most of leftovers * Use couponing in a way that works for you * Beat supermarket marketing tricks and capitalize on loyalty programs * Eat healthier while spending less A must-have collection that fits in your purse, Instant Bargains features one-stop shopping for savings ideas you can use today.

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Tax payers got a really good deal on investment in USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS). Most ARS projects successfully pay off for food processors, farmers, and the general public. ARS scientists are highly respected members of Interactive Communities governing agriculture. These communities unite processors, farms, universities, and government agencies in fruitful innovation. They encourage projects that have promise, and do whatever is necessary to make promising technologies successful. This book documents this amazing system, shows how it works, and outlines how it could be more successful.

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There are those stories that are hidden away within the Kreme Kollections that readers might not be aware of. Selfies is a series where the most popular of these hidden stories are brought out for readers to enjoy! In Passion Fruit, meet Mike, a man who has a job in the tropics but spends most his days locked in a stuffy office. When the company Mike works for plans a Corporate Adventure, a retreat where randomly selected employees will join together in a team building weekend, he wonders just who he might end up with. Naturally Mike briefly fantasizes about ending up out in the wild with two tropically steamy female employees. However reality is cold but not as cold as the one female employee who ends up leading he and fellow employee Jim out into the exotic landscape. Cherry Long is nowhere near as tasty as her name might indicate. Outside she's attractive, nothing over the top, but inside her small chest beats the chilled heart of an icy queen who has only ever gotten by in the office using her looks. Cherry is an exotic beauty that every man fears being trapped with and so a weekend of team building might just be a test of survival where nature is not the primary force to deal with. After a grueling slave drive by Cherry, Mike and Jim end up on an island, forced to work together to build shelter and find food, all while the leader of their group lounges and does nothing but spout off orders. It's during the scavenging that Mike discovers an ancient looking fruit tree surrounded by even more ancient ruins. Is it all the heat and exhaustion causing him to hallucinate or is the encounter with a mysterious entity within that tree real? Find out just what holds the power of the passion fruit and just what that fruit can do to thaw the inner ice of a tropical girl like Cherry. Passion Fruit cums in many flavors and all of them might taste delicious.

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Growing your own food at home is not only a great way to commune with nature, but it can also save you a great deal of money on your grocery bills. Unfortunately, many gardening methods require special containers, tools, and equipment which can be quite costly. Straw bale gardening, on the other hand, is very affordable and easy to do! In this book you will receive the following: An introduction to straw bale gardening Step-by-step instructions for starting and maintaining your own straw bale garden Tips for selecting plants and for harvesting your crops Answers to common questions about straw bale gardening If you are ready to give this simple but effective gardening method a try, this book is the perfect place to start!

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Don't be a killer. In 2015, home-canned potatoes killed one and sickened a dozen. Don't let this incident scare you away from home-canning either. There are many reasons to home-can. Perhaps you have embarked on a sustainable self-sufficient homesteading lifestyle. You may have a healthy edible garden filled with organic produce free from chemicals and dangerous additives. You may have fished, hunted or raised chickens or rabbits for meat. Perhaps you're a survival prepper wanting to stock up on cheap, seasonal food in preparation of a zombie apocalypse or an economic collapse. Or perhaps you've simply found a good deal on groceries and want to stock up to save money and to help with the family budget. Unfortunately, your abundant harvest will not last long unless it is safely preserved. In addition to drying, freezing, fermenting and pickling, canning is a good way to store your food long term. The question is how do you start? Home canning is not as straightforward as some of the other preservation methods and carries the risk of botulism contamination if not processed correctly. Unfortunately, not all canning sources or recipes, not even your "tried and true" family recipes, can be trusted. The environment, bacterial strains and even our food itself has changed over the years. Produce has become less acidic while bacterial strains have evolved. Canning techniques that were once safe may no longer be. Home canning can be economical, healthier, tasty, nutritious and fun. Lucky ones may have fond childhood memories of the best of summer's harvest being home canned. Unfortunately, some canning recipes and methods that proliferate the internet are downright dangerous. ~ This book does not contain recipes but contains links to SAFE FREE researched-backed canning recipes from University Extension offices as well as the USDA ~ In this book you will learn the do's and don'ts of home canning fruits, vegetables, salsas, meat, seafood and fish as recommended by the Master

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W.H. Auden (1907-1973) was an English poet, playwright, and essayist. His work, from his early strictly metered verse, plays, and libretti written in collaboration with Chester Kallman, to his later dense poems and penetrating essays, represents one of the major achievements of twentieth-century literature. The book " W.H. Auden, The Life and Love of a Poet" is a series of interviews with friends and family and provides a unique, fascinating and invaluable insight into the private world of W.H.Auden. It is of interest both to scholars and general readers and deals with themes as varied as: sex, love, religion, ideas, poetry, craft and art. The work is essentially a prose poem. The members of the "chamber orchestra", the voices in the book: Amerigo Franchetti, Lord Gowrie, Rita & Anita Auden, Matthew Spender and Thekla Clark, are perspicacious, wise, and brilliant. They not only provide one with stimulating and rich food for thought, they are also a pleasure to listen to in their own right.

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Humankind has had a long and intimate association with gourds, and one of them, the bottle gourd, or calabash, may have been man's first cultivated plant. Although grown in the United States today primarily as ornamentals, in other parts of the world gourds have many other important uses. With charming text and stunning black-and-white photographs, The Gourd Book provides fascinating scientific information and folklore about these remarkable plants and keys for identifying species. The first part of the book deals with tree gourds, widely used as containers and for decoration; the Cucurbita gourds, including the buffalo gourd, the Turk's turban, the silver-seed gourd, and the Malabar gourd, all utilized as food, and the beautiful ornamental gourds; the loofah gourds, popular as cosmetic sponges; minor gourds, such as the snake, wax, bitter, teasel, and hedgehog gourds, sometimes used as food or medicine; and gourds mentioned in the Bible. The second part takes up the bottle gourd, which have been used for thousands of years. Even today this gourd is almost indispensable in many parts of the tropics, where species are used to make containers, musical instruments, and clothing, as food and medicine, and in art. The book concludes with a discussion of the gourd in folklore and myth and an appendix on growing, hybridizing, and preserving gourds for decoration. Delightfully written for general readers, this book will also appeal to botanists, anthropologists, horticulturists, and everyone interested in plants or gardening.

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PCOS- POLYCYSTIC OVARIAN SYNDROME is for life and so needs a solution that works! Long-term solutions take time & genuine change. Woman with PCOS have a higher risk of obesity and as a result of our dodgy hormones, we also struggle to lose that weight. So, diet, nutrition & exercise play a key role in Treating & MANAGING PCOS & WEIGHT LOSS. This is a guide to end most of the suffering from serious symptoms, such as infertility, early miscarriage, chronic pelvic pain, weight gain, high blood pressure, acne, and abnormal hair growth. Learn a great deal about PCOS- from identifying warning signs and seeking a diagnosis to finding emotional support in recovery with DELISH 80 RECIPES, SAMPLE MENU, FOOD LIST, and TIPS TO BEAT PCOS. Manage PCOS to take hold of your health & hormones, restore a normal cycle, be able to conceive a child, lose weight, reduce acne & hair loss, and protect yourself from future diabetes & heart problems.

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This book aims to help plant breeders by reviewing past achievements, currently successful practices, and emerging methods and techniques. Theoretical considerations are also presented to strike the right balance between being as simple as possible but as complex as necessary. The United Nations predicts that the global human population will continue rising to 9.0 billion by 2050. World food production will need to increase between 70-100 per cent in just 40 years. First generation bio-fuels are also using crops and cropland to produce energy rather than food. In addition, land area used for agriculture may remain static or even decrease as a result of degradation and climate change, despite more land being theoretically available, unless crops can be bred which tolerate associated abiotic stresses. Lastly, it is unlikely that steps can be taken to mitigate all of the climate change predicted to occur by 2050, and beyond, and hence adaptation of farming systems and crop production will be required to reduce predicted negative effects on yields that will occur without crop adaptation. Substantial progress will therefore be required in bridging the yield gap between what is currently achieved per unit of land and what should be possible in future, with the best farming methods and best storage and transportation of food, given the availability of suitably adapted cultivars, including adaptation to climate change. My book is divided into four parts: Part I is an historical introduction; Part II deals with the origin of genetic variation by mutation and recombination of DNA; Part III explains how the mating system of a crop species determines the genetic structure of its landraces; Part IV considers the three complementary options for future progress: use of sexual reproduction in further conventional breeding, base broadening and introgression; mutation breeding; and genetically modified crops.

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Follow two scientists as they spend a night in the Everglades collecting water samples, photographing wildlife, and sloshing through marshes in an attempt to understand this mysterious ecosystem. Part of a long-term effort to return the Everglades to a natural state after a century of development, the scientists try to figure out what the "river of grass" was like prior to human settlement. Along the way, they deal with razor-sharp sawgrass and alligators and turtles and are even surprised by the sudden presence of what is known in the Everglades as a "frog gigger"-one who hunts and collects frogs for food! Published in cooperation with the Long Term Ecological Research Network, which is funded by the National Science Foundation. In this enhanced edition, enjoy read-along and colorful animations that bring this story to life!

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This book represents years and years of individual and collaborative efforts by its authors to both develop techniques that bring life to dining as well as to share the authors' and their respective family members' love of food. It reflects a great deal of experimentation and refinement. Most importantly, the recipes in the book are only a starting point and users are encouraged to add their own twists (and turns) to its contents. Bon appetit!

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This is a book centered on a love story but also has rape and murder. Some of the plots were based on the author's real life experiences. 'Recently I moved from the beautiful Island of Cyprus to live in the County of Devon, U.K. with my husband David and am 78 years old. I have 3 children, 9 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren so feel very blessed! Sadly my eldest grandson died at the young age of 32. I have written stories and poems all my life but now being retired have more time to take my writing seriously. Doug and Elisha were married and found happiness in their relationship. They sold Rose Cottage, and Doug's antique shop Caprice was bought by Doug's assistant, Norman. They eventually purchased a large Victorian house in Cornwall, which they named Evergreen due to the numerous trees and greenery that lined the house on either side of the long winding driveway leading up to this magnificent house. Three gardeners were employed to deal with the four acres of land that accompanied the house. When one entered the front door, there was a long hallway, a huge lounge, a separate dining room, a smaller room named the Snug, a slightly larger room next to the Snug, a gigantic country kitchen, and a downstairs toilet. Six bedrooms, three en suites, and a games room. Elisha employed two cleaners and a housekeeper. It was ideal, very private, and situated miles away from civilization. Food and drink and other amenities were ordered from the village shop five miles away.

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Biosecurity and Bioterrorism, Second Edition, takes a holistic approach to biosecurity, with coverage of pathogens, prevention, and response methodology. It addresses these hazards in the context of vulnerability assessments and the planning strategies government and industry can use to prepare for and respond to such events. The book is organized into four thematic sections: Part I provides a conceptual understanding of biowarfare, bioterrorism and the laws we have to counteract this; Part II investigates known bioagents and the threat from emerging diseases; Part III focuses on agricultural terrorism and food security; and Part IV outlines international, US, and local initiatives for biodefense and biosecurity. Case studies illustrate biodefense against both intentional terrorism and natural outbreaks. Covers emerging threats of pandemic influenza, antibiotic resistant strains of bacterial pathogens, and severe respiratory diseases caused by novel viruses Offers increased international coverage, including initiatives to counter biological weapons and threats, and food security Updated throughout with latest protocols for dealing with biological threats and new case studies Includes online instructor ancillaries - PowerPoint lecture slides, test questions, and an instructor manual, for increased classroom functionality

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