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A seasonal food journey with native Kentuckian Maggie Green, The Kentucky Fresh Cookbook takes home cooks through a year of cooking delicious meals. Green guides both aspiring and experienced cooks through the rich variety of Kentucky ingredients and traditions with easy-to-follow instructions. Incorporating seasonal and local Kentucky produce and products in her recipes but also substituting frozen or canned food when necessary, Green makes cooking homemade meals not just tempting but effortless. Combining more than two hundred recipes with menus for daily meals, holiday events, and special family occasions, The Kentucky Fresh Cookbook acknowledges the cycle of Kentucky's culinary and agricultural traditions. Green shows how cooking with regional ingredients, including buttermilk, cornmeal, Bibb lettuce, bourbon, blackberries, pork, fresh herbs, honey, and black walnuts, can shape menus throughout the year.
Mike hasn't spoken to his mother in years, and what few memories he has of her are painful. When Mike's dad is killed in a car wreck, Mike wants to stay in his hometown and live with Maggie, his dad's girlfriend, who has been like a mother to him for the last five years. But Mike's mother reappears in his life and demands that he return to her custody and live on the other side of the country with a family he doesn't know. The law is on his mother's side, and Mike will have to grow up quickly and take on the legal system to have the life he wants. This deeply moving story of a young teen's difficult family relationships reflects the reality of many children and teens with strong emotional ties to adults who have no legal rights in the instance of death or divorce.
In the fourth century, a young man named Augustine turned his back on the Church, plunging into a frenzied life of lust and dissipation. His renunciation left Monica, his pious Catholic mother, weeping and praying for his salvation . . . for more than a decade! Like so many Catholics today – even perhaps like you – Monica wrestled daily with the pain of having a loved one fall away from the Faith. Like us, she often feared that her prayers and tears were of little worth, empty, futile. Not so! After nearly two decades, Augustine returned to the Faith, and in a big way. Revered today as Saint Augustine, he joined in holiness his mother, Monica – now Saint Monica – whose sacrifices, pr...
Book Three in The Maggie Kelly Mystery Series by New York Times Bestselling Author Kasey Michaels. Maggie Kelly writes a best selling Regency Era-set mystery series starring her handsome, witty hero, Alexandre Blake, Viscount St. Just. This works very well, or at least it did until St. Just somehow managed to make the leap between fiction and her New York apartment. You’d have to be there… While considering her growing attraction to a fictional character even as she is romance by Homicide detective Steve Wendell, Maggie is desperate to help her editor, accused of murdering her supposedly long dead husband (yes, you read that correctly), and terrified to learn that Alex’s sidekick, Sterling, has been kidnapped….all while Maggie finds herself stuck in the middle, without a clue…
This warm, anecdotal biography by the Greens' longtime friend, MIT geologist Robert Shrock reveals the human impulses that led to their success, the unique combination of the analytical and the personal that they brought to their business decisions and to their investments in humanity's future.
"Very well written. The high seas vernacular is immersive without being over the top. Give it a go!" - Joshua Mason, Author of the Eight-Bit BastardsLitRPG series It’s a dark tide that turns a pirate into a hero. Captain Grace Deadeye Cortez lives in a virtual game world of magic, monsters and marauding pirates. Atlantis has risen from the depths and Deadeye aims to plunder the city of its ancient riches. With her crew of motley corsairs, Deadeye will shoot and swash her way through any thing that crosses her course. But our plucky pirate captain is in for the shock of her buccaneering life. An ancient sea god is awakening, straining against the arcane chains that were forged in Atlantis to bind him. Should he break free, the whole world will feel the tidal waves of his wrath. Captain Deadeye and her crew will need to look lively and level up if they are to defeat this antediluvian evil... and get mind-bogglingly rich in the process. Brought to you by Edwin McRae, game writer for epic RPGs like Path of Exile, Ashen and Rune 2.
When your ex becomes your client, the only thing more dangerous is the truth. It's 1978, and with the economy on the brink, the glory days seem over for the failing PI agency Jake Horn inherited from his uncle. He's desperate enough to take any job… Except one. When his beautiful and enigmatic ex-fiancée walks into his South Boston office looking to prove her husband's cheating, Jake's best option is to turn her away. He may need the work, but he's no fool. But when a shocking murder turns everything upside down, Jake's ex becomes the prime suspect. Problem is, she's vanished into thin air... The hard nosed detective on the case is convinced Jake knows more than he’s letting on, and is determined to make someone pay for the crime. With a target on his back and his freedom at stake, Jake has to rely on his own investigative skills to find his ex and get to the truth. It's a race against time, and Jake's life won't be the only one on the line if he can't find the real killer.
The James Beard Award–winning, bestselling author of CookWise and KitchenWise delivers a lively and fascinating guide to better baking through food science. Follow kitchen sleuth Shirley Corriher as she solves everything about why the cookie crumbles. With her years of experience from big-pot cooking at a boarding school and her classic French culinary training to her work as a research biochemist at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Shirley looks at all aspects of baking in a unique and exciting way. She describes useful techniques, such as brushing your puff pastry with ice water—not just brushing off the flour—to make the pastry higher, lighter, and flakier. She can help you...