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Publisher
Film Movement Classics
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Ono Masahiko is an unlucky gas station attendant who belongs to a losing junior baseball team. When the local yakuza threaten and capture his coach, he and a friend get more than they bargained for when they travel to Okinawa seeking revenge. This is the second feature film from renowned action auteur Takeshi "Beat"Kitano.
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
On the busiest day of the year, long-simmering tensions between Chef Andy Jones (Stephen Graham), his staff and management threaten to boil over into full scale war. Adding to his shift from Hell, a former mentor's attempted hostile takeover of the restaurant threatens to derail his livelihood and his life.
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A visceral TV adaptation of the hit film - the team juggle their personal lives alongside the challenge of running a new kitchen. Eight months after her mentor Andy Jones suffered a heart attack, head chef Carly is battling to forge a name for new London-based restaurant Point North alongside her old kitchen crew. We follow the team as the stresses of keeping the restaurant running bear down on them amidst a hospitality industry in crisis. With the...
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English
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In the summer of 1944, a shocking murder rocked the fledgling Beats. William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, both still unknown, we inspired by the crime to collaborate on a novel, a hard-boiled tale of bohemian New York during World War II, full of drugs and art, obsession and brutality, with scenes and characters drawn from their own lives. Finally published after more than sixty years, this is a captivating read, and incomparable literary artifact,...
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Series
Cupcake diaries volume 10
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
There's a new girl in town, and Mia tries to take her under her wing. But Olivia Allen is not so nice; as a matter of fact, she might be even meaner than Sydney Whitman! Mia's been saving for weeks to buy a new pair of shoes, but when Olivia asks to borrow money, Mia gives it to her, only to find out Olivia spends the cash on the exact same shoes Mia has been saving up for! Plus she makes fun of the other Cupcake girls and tells Mia she shouldn't...
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Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Allie Larkin was living her dream as a ballet dancer when a bad fall put her out of business. Now she's back home in Mystic Bay to heal a broken ankle while also helping her dear Aunt Gully get her Lazy Mermaid Lobster Shack off the ground. Nothing would help Gully more than winning the local food festival's Best Lobster Roll contest. The competition is sure to be killer-especially after one of the contest judges dies after eating a roll from one...
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Publisher
Pop!, a division of Abdo
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
This book introduces readers to the Boiling River found in Yellowstone National Park and why this natural phenomenon exists. Features include a table of contents, fun facts, infographics, Making Connections questions, a glossary, and an index. QR Codes in the book give readers access to book-specific resources to further their learning. --from Amazon.
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Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Crime fiction expert Susanna Lee tracks the evolution of the hard-boiled character type over time and media in the United States. She shows how crime fiction rose in popularity at times of national conflict. Readers and viewers crave the sort of grit and independence that the hard-boiled detective offers when reality may leave them feeling they lack control over their own lives. This is a study of literature and film and also a work of cultural studies"--...
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Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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During his journey with Whitebeard's crew, Oden encounters the legendary future pirate king Gold Roger! What does their meeting mean for the world? And what has Orochi been up to while Oden was gone from Wano?!...
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Series
Nursery-Rhyme mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
In this pun-filled nursery rhyme mashup, hard-boiled detective Joe Dumpty (brother of Humpty Dumpty) is called upon to solve the mystery of what made Jack and Jill fall down the hill--and who took Jack's prized crown after the fall.
Author
Series
Nursery-Rhyme mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Charlesbridge Pub
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Detective Joe Dumpty rushes to investigate the mysterious circumstances under which his older brother, Humpty, fell from a wall on his first day as captain of the new Neighborhood Watch program.
13) Boiled Over
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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In this cozy mystery, a young woman in Maine must protect her family's clambake business when an employee is accused of murder.
For Julia Snowden, the Founder's Day summer celebration in Busman's Harbor, Maine, means helping her family's clambake company to prepare an authentic taste of New England seafood. Any Mainer will tell you that a real clambake needs wood for the fire . . .so why is there a foot sticking out of the oven?...
For Julia Snowden, the Founder's Day summer celebration in Busman's Harbor, Maine, means helping her family's clambake company to prepare an authentic taste of New England seafood. Any Mainer will tell you that a real clambake needs wood for the fire . . .so why is there a foot sticking out of the oven?...
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Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Tough gumshoes, rotten yeggs, and dangerous dames
In the 1930s and '40s, Black Mask was the single most important magazine for the modern mystery field. In its pages writers such as Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Earl Stanley Gardner reshaped the established view of mystery fiction, creating the "hard-boiled" private eye. Now comes this series in which the toughest of tough detectives are resurrected from its pages in sonic dramatization
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Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"You say potato...? Not anymore. You'll say, Wow! Fantastic! Incredible! You'll say, Who knew you could make a potato taste so good? Raghavan knew. A master teacher and beloved and award-winning cookbook author, Raghavan Iyer celebrates his favorite ingredient in Smashed, Mashed, Boiled, and Baked--And Fried, Too!, a continent-by-continent celebration of the amazing potato. Its recipes, inspired by a diversity of cuisines, are accompanied by enticing...
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Publisher
Secant Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
For close to fifty years, three masters of the hard-boiled detective novel dispatched intrepid gumshoes into upper-crust homes and seedy back alleys, peeling back and exposing all the pretexts of polite society. Or did they? Were there even closer, darker secrets they never quite copped to? In Hard-Boiled Anxiety, Karen Huston Karydes offers a new and unsettling reading of the classic pairings: Dashiell Hammett and his successive shamuses, the...
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Publisher
The Countryman Press, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, Independent Publishers Since 1923
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"From Rhode Island to Maine-80 locally inspired seafood recipes that honor the coastal traditions of America's northeast. Few dishes conjure as much New England nostalgia as clam chowder. But the northeast coast of America can stir up even more creative soups and stews than this traditional favorite. From forgotten classics like clam chowder's Portuguese-influenced cousin, and fresh new flavors like Autumn Monkfish Stew, Malty Mussels Soup, and seasonal...
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English
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"More than 100 funny new poems from Jack Prelutsky, the nation's first children's poet laureate, in a wide array of poetic forms, from haiku to concrete poems and everything in between, and hilariously illustrated in black-and-white on every page"--
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English
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The last surviving victim of an experiment that implanted the subjects' heads with electrodes that decipher coded messages is the unnamed narrator. Half the chapters are set in Tokyo, where the narrator negotiates underground worlds populated by INKlings, dodges opponents of both sides of a raging high-tech infowar, and engages in an affair with a beautiful librarian with a gargantuan appetite. In alternating chapters he tries to reunite with his...
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Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Shin faces off with a strange assassin who's targeting Mr. Sakamoto, but how will he manage against a foe whose thoughts are unreadable? Then, the Sakamoto gang does their best to enjoy a peaceful family outing at the amusement park, only to be rudely interrupted by a pair of menacing assassins. Can Mr. Sakamoto and his buddies take care of them without his family noticing?...Rated:T+ SAKAMOTO DAYS © 2020 by Yuto Suzuki/SHUEISHA Inc.
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