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Get It While It's Hot

Gas Station, Roadside, and Convenience Cuisine in the U.S. South

by Autumn Arnett, Bailey Benson, Peter Jay Ingrao, Jaime Cantrell, Joseph T. Carson, Bruce A. Craft, Khirsten Doolan, Na'Imah Ford, Mystery Harwood, Lucy M. Long, Emily Whittington, Psyche A. Williams-Forson ...

Get It While It’s Hot brings together scholars, food writers, influencers, and even a CEO to discuss the phenomenon of eating by the side of the road. This innovative collection examines an increasingly commonplace belief across the U.S. South—that some of the best, most enjoyable food comes from places you would not expect: a gas station, the back of a pickup truck, or a ramshackle building made ... Read more

$18.99 USD

Get It While It’s Hot brings together scholars, food writers, influencers, and even a CEO to discuss the phenomenon of eating by the side of the road. This innovative collection examines an increasingly commonplace belief across the U.S. South—that some of the best, most enjoyable food comes from places you would not expect: a gas station, the back of a pickup truck, or a ramshackle building made
... Read more
Night Terrors Vol. 1

Short Horror Stories Anthology

by Scare Street, Peter Cronsberry, Tarphy W. Horn, K. M. McKenzie, Emil Pellim, Ryan Benson, Rosie O'Carroll, C. B. Channell, A. M. Todd, Karl Melton, J. M. White, Bob Johnston, Warren Benedetto, Ron Ripley ...

Series Book 1 - Night Terrors
Terror stalks the night…An old woman’s obsession with youth leads her to purchase a cursed appliance from a sinister antique shop. A new homeowner discovers her property comes with a deadly addition. And dark forces stalk a troop of innocent boy scouts when they spend the night on a haunted aircraft carrier…Scare Street delves into the darkness to bring you a new collection of spine-tingling ... Read more

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Terror stalks the night…An old woman’s obsession with youth leads her to purchase a cursed appliance from a sinister antique shop. A new homeowner discovers her property comes with a deadly addition. And dark forces stalk a troop of innocent boy scouts when they spend the night on a haunted aircraft carrier…Scare Street delves into the darkness to bring you a new collection of spine-tingling
... Read more
The Stromness Dinner

by Peter Benson ...

Ed Beech is one half of Beech Building Services. He's based in Bermondsey but no job's too small, no distance too great. So when he's asked to do some work on a house in Orkney, he loads the van with paint, tools and sandwiches, and takes off. He gets nervous around farm animals and large ships, and he's never been so far north, but when he's joined by Claire, his client's city banker sister, he ... Read more

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Ed Beech is one half of Beech Building Services. He's based in Bermondsey but no job's too small, no distance too great. So when he's asked to do some work on a house in Orkney, he loads the van with paint, tools and sandwiches, and takes off. He gets nervous around farm animals and large ships, and he's never been so far north, but when he's joined by Claire, his client's city banker sister, he
... Read more
Laughter Therapy: 63 Classic Books of Humorous Tales

The Wrong Twin, Perkins of Portland, Alex the Great, On With Torchy, Love Among the Lions, etc.

by Ellis Parker Butler, Honoré de Balzac, Mark Twain, John Kendrick Bangs, Thorne Smith, Robert Fitzgerald, Harry Leon Wilson, H. C. Witwer, F. Anstey, S. R. Crockett, Marietta Holley, Sewell Ford, A. S. M. Hutchinson, Anne Warner, Dornford Yates, Charles Heber Clark, Rudolf Erich Raspe, Finley Peter Dunne, Robert W. Chambers, W. W. Jacobs, F. Morton Howard, Richard Marsh, H. H. Sir Bashford, J. Storer Clouston, O. Henry, Charles Battell Loomis, E. F. Benson, Anita Loos, Wallace Irvin, Lawrence Daniel Fogg, Terry Southern, Henry Wallace Phillips, George V. Hobart, Stephen Leacock, Daisy Ashford, W. A. Darlington, Kendell Foster Crossen, Israel Zangwill, Ring Lardner, Charles Eustace Merriman, Wallace Irwin, Howard Roger Garis, W. Heath Robinson, Lucretia P. Hale, Richmal Crompton, Peter Newell ...

Laughter Therapy: 63 Classic Books of Humorous Tales is a vast and vibrant anthology that explores the rich tradition of humorous literature. Spanning a wide range of styles from satirical wit to slapstick humor, this collection features stories that highlight human folly and celebrate life's absurdities through laughter. This anthology skillfully brings together works from the golden age of humor ... Read more

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Laughter Therapy: 63 Classic Books of Humorous Tales is a vast and vibrant anthology that explores the rich tradition of humorous literature. Spanning a wide range of styles from satirical wit to slapstick humor, this collection features stories that highlight human folly and celebrate life's absurdities through laughter. This anthology skillfully brings together works from the golden age of humor
... Read more
Two Cows and a Vanful of Smoke

by Benson, Peter ...

When young Elliot gets a labourers job at Mr Evanss after being sacked from a pig farm for liberating six of its sows, he thinks hell have even more opportunities to lean on gates or stare at fields. But his best mate Spike keeps getting him into trouble, first by showing him what is being grown in a tucked-away polytunnel, and then turning up at his caravans door with a van full of weed. As ... Read more

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When young Elliot gets a labourers job at Mr Evanss after being sacked from a pig farm for liberating six of its sows, he thinks hell have even more opportunities to lean on gates or stare at fields. But his best mate Spike keeps getting him into trouble, first by showing him what is being grown in a tucked-away polytunnel, and then turning up at his caravans door with a van full of weed. As
... Read more
Kidnap Fury of the Smoking Lovers

by Peter Benson ...

"Engaging and entertaining, it's the perfect read to provide a bit of escapism." – Rhianon Holley; Buzz Magazine. Fargo Hawkins is 20, he's Harry Swaine's gardener. One day, after he sees a fight between Harry and his wife Anne, Fargo steals a car and he, Anne and a dog called Radar go on the run. They are chased across England by Harry, a firm of detectives and their emotions. Eventually, at a ... Read more

$10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

"Engaging and entertaining, it's the perfect read to provide a bit of escapism." – Rhianon Holley; Buzz Magazine. Fargo Hawkins is 20, he's Harry Swaine's gardener. One day, after he sees a fight between Harry and his wife Anne, Fargo steals a car and he, Anne and a dog called Radar go on the run. They are chased across England by Harry, a firm of detectives and their emotions. Eventually, at a
... Read more
Managing Blind: A Data Quality and Data Governance Vade Mecum

by Peter Benson ...

The literal translation of the Latin vade mecum is "go with me", a small reference book that you carry with you. Managing Blind is a small, easy to read guide to the real life challenges of data quality and data governance. With over thirty years of experience working in six of the seven continents (he has not made it to Antarctica yet) and across a wide range of industries from agriculture, ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The literal translation of the Latin vade mecum is "go with me", a small reference book that you carry with you. Managing Blind is a small, easy to read guide to the real life challenges of data quality and data governance. With over thirty years of experience working in six of the seven continents (he has not made it to Antarctica yet) and across a wide range of industries from agriculture,
... Read more
American Artists in Postwar Rome

Art and Cultural Exchange

by Peter Benson Miller ...

Series series Visual Cultures and Italian Contexts
Drawing on unpublished archival sources, this book reconstitutes the experiences of a wide range of American artists, critics, and writers working in Rome in a charged environment of “Cold War cosmopolitanism.”After the Second World War, American artists flocked to Rome in record numbers, even as the United States shored up Italy as a bulwark against the spread of Communism. While the market for ... Read more

$105.29 USD

Drawing on unpublished archival sources, this book reconstitutes the experiences of a wide range of American artists, critics, and writers working in Rome in a charged environment of “Cold War cosmopolitanism.”After the Second World War, American artists flocked to Rome in record numbers, even as the United States shored up Italy as a bulwark against the spread of Communism. While the market for
... Read more
Bioavailability

Physical, Chemical, and Biological Interactions

by Jerry Hamelink, Peter F. Landrum, Harold Bergman, William H. Benson ...

Practical and provocative, Bioavailability reviews prevalent understanding of the physical-chemical-biological mechanisms that control the bioavailability of both organic and inorganic contaminants in aquatic environments.Discusses the complex issues that surround many regulatory issuesEmphasizes the need to identify and control that portion of the total concentration that is biologically ... Read more

$345.00 USD

Practical and provocative, Bioavailability reviews prevalent understanding of the physical-chemical-biological mechanisms that control the bioavailability of both organic and inorganic contaminants in aquatic environments.Discusses the complex issues that surround many regulatory issuesEmphasizes the need to identify and control that portion of the total concentration that is biologically
... Read more
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Night Terrors Vol. 1

Short Horror Stories Anthology

by Peter Cronsberry, Tarphy W. Horn, A. M. Todd, Bob Johnston, C. B. Channell, Emil Pellim, J. M. White, K. M. McKenzie, Karl Melton, Ron Ripley, Rosie O'Carroll, Ryan Benson, Warren Benedetto, Scare Street ...

Narrated by Johnny Raven, Stephanie Shade ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Night Terrors
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7 hours 31 min

Terror stalks the night…An old woman’s obsession with youth leads her to purchase a cursed appliance from a sinister antique shop. A new homeowner discovers her property comes with a deadly addition. And dark forces stalk a troop of innocent boy scouts when they spend the night on a haunted aircraft carrier…Scare Street delves into the darkness to bring you a new collection of spine-tingling ... Read more

$14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Terror stalks the night…An old woman’s obsession with youth leads her to purchase a cursed appliance from a sinister antique shop. A new homeowner discovers her property comes with a deadly addition. And dark forces stalk a troop of innocent boy scouts when they spend the night on a haunted aircraft carrier…Scare Street delves into the darkness to bring you a new collection of spine-tingling
... Read more
The South in Winter

by Peter Benson ...

Matthew Baxter was almost there. Almost a writer, almost a lover, almost a traveller. He wrote for the Tread Lightly range of travel guides, he loved his boss and he was about to catch a plane to the south. His job was to give an out-of-season slant to the Italian guide, and he was ready. Almost. For everything wasn't exactly as it should have been. In fact, nothing was exactly as it should have ... Read more

$2.58 USD

Matthew Baxter was almost there. Almost a writer, almost a lover, almost a traveller. He wrote for the Tread Lightly range of travel guides, he loved his boss and he was about to catch a plane to the south. His job was to give an out-of-season slant to the Italian guide, and he was ready. Almost. For everything wasn't exactly as it should have been. In fact, nothing was exactly as it should have
... Read more
The Whittling Handbook

20 Charming Projects for Carving Wood by Hand

by Peter Benson ...

A refreshed edition of a practical and charming introduction to the time-honored craft of whittling—now with brand-new step-by-step illustrations.Whittling can help you relax even as you create useful and beautiful art with just a knife and some timber. The Whittling Handbook helps beginners explore this time-honored craft and learn foundational skills, from gathering the basic tools to choosing ... Read more

$9.99 USD

A refreshed edition of a practical and charming introduction to the time-honored craft of whittling—now with brand-new step-by-step illustrations.Whittling can help you relax even as you create useful and beautiful art with just a knife and some timber. The Whittling Handbook helps beginners explore this time-honored craft and learn foundational skills, from gathering the basic tools to choosing
... Read more

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