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Jack "Wacko" Curran, a rising young player in the Boston underworld, dreams of replacing a drug-dealing Mob boss, and figures that the bankroll from the armored-car heist he's planning will put him on his way. Trouble is, Curran's getaway driver has spilled the beans to the mobster.
It's winter in a seaside town, and some bizarre things are happening. Laura and Alex Carter are eighteen-year-old twins living in a rundown hotel. Laura is found dead, her wrists slashed and a signed sucide note beside her. Tragic but straightforward. Until the twin who is alive claims she's Laura.
Hiccup and Toothless are going on an epic adventure in this Level 2 Ready-to-Read story based on the DreamWorks movie How to Train Your Dragon 2! How to Train Your Dragon 2 flies into theaters on June 13, 2014! In this Ready-to-Read story, Hiccup and Toothless are flying into new adventures! Hiccup meets a death-defying dragon rider, plus all the dragons she keeps protected in her secret dragon hideaway. Hang on for a wild ride! How To Train Your Dragon 2 © 2014 DreamWorks Animation L.L.C.
Gruel and truffles, wine and gin, opium and cocaine. Making a Man: Gentlemanly Appetites in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel addresses consumption of food, drink, and drugs in the conspicuously consuming nineteenth century in order to explore the question of what, in fact, makes a man in novels of the period. Gwen Hyman analyzes the rituals of dining room, drawing room, opium den, and cocaine lab, and the ways in which these alimentary behaviors make, unmake, and remake the gentlemanly body. Making a Man makes use of food history and theory, literary criticism, anthropology, gender theory, economics, and social criticism to read gentlemanly consumers from Mr. Woodhouse, the gruel-eater in Jane Austen's Emma, through the vampire and the men who hunt him in Bram Stoker's Dracula. Hyman argues that appetite is a crucial means of casting light on the elusive identity of the gentleman, a figure who is the embodiment of power and yet is hardly embodied in Victorian literature.
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For Pavement fans and rock enthusiasts comes an engaging profile of the band and their quirkily dark, melodic sound and cryptic, mirth-filled lyrics.
A harrowing chronicle of England's early-eighteenth century 'gin craze.--The Atlantic Monthly
A Dark History of Gin looks at the origins and development of a drink which seems to have a universal and timeless appeal. Historian Mike Rendell explores the origins of distilling in the ancient world and considers the how, when, where and why of the ‘happy marriage’ between distilled spirits and berries from the juniper bush. The book traces the link between gin and the Low Countries (Holland and Belgium) and looks at how the drink was brought across to England when the Dutch-born William of Orange became king. From the tragic era of the gin craze in eighteenth-century London, through to the emergence of ‘the cocktail’, the book follows the story of gin across the Atlantic to Ameri...
The phenomenally successful Jack Higgins teams up with Justin Richards to launch a sure fire best seller for children.