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Beer School
Brad Evans, Jonny Garrett
Embark on a craft beer journey—from the science and art of brewing to glassware, storing, and tasting—from the men behind The Craft Beer Channel.
Beer has come a long way in the 6,000 years since the first taste. The legends of the craft beer industry have made sure everyone's within reach of the perfect pint. But how do you get the right brew for you? And can you learn to make a beer that will add to the lager legacy?
Welcome to Beer School, brought to you by the heroes of YouTube sensation The Craft Beer Channel, a guide to everything you need to know about the wide and wonderful beers of the world. In Beer School, Jonny and Brad explain the intricacies of the finest artisan craft brews including: ales, lagers, porters, stouts, IPSs, and bitters.
The lads have the inside scoop on everything from hop varieties and barrel aging, to serving temperatures and glassware. Beer School helps you learn how to make beer and how to get the most out of every sip. You will learn about: grain, mash, water, hops, boil, yeast,
Any Last Words?
Joseph Hayden
A lighthearted look at the stories behind legendary last words—from heartwarming tales of final moments to hilarious last laughs.
Last words are never easy—since, let’s face it, they’re mostly spoken by people in the worst health of their lives. But even if they aren’t eloquent, they can offer a glimpse into the speaker’s true self. Some are clever, others are loving, heartbreaking, or occasionally shocking. In Any Last Words?, Joseph Hayden explores the last words of more than two hundred actors, athletes, writers, musicians, politicians, intellectuals, criminals, and more.
What was the last thing Bogart said to Bacall? What did Marie Antoinette say to her executioner? What were the final thoughts of great thinkers like Charles Darwin and Marie Curie? Or baseball legends like Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle? Joseph Hayden reveals all these stories and much more in a book that you’ll wish would never end.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Brothers Grimm
Grimms' Fairy Tales, also known as Kinder- und Hausmärchen, is a collection of fairy tales by the German siblings Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. The first edition of the book was published in 1812, and contained 86 stories. The brothers eventually ended the series having published seven editions totaling 200 fairy tales.
It would be difficult to understate the significance of the stories found within: many of them are familiar to households the world over, including Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Hansel and Gretel. Those, and many more, have directly inspired or been adapted into a number of works of popular culture, including TV shows and movies.
The Grimms' stories are notable for their focus on magic and the supernatural, as well as their dark and sometimes gruesome themes. Nevertheless, the stories remain timeless classics that continue to captivate readers of all ages.
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
Though Upton Sinclair worked as both a novelist and a journalist (his contemporaries accused him of muckraking), The Jungle is a bit of both, and is arguably his most famous work.
Following the fictional story of Lithuanian immigrants, The Jungle delves into the real world of the Chicago meatpacking industry, and describes—in obscene detail—its unsanitary and inhumane working conditions. It offers to the reader a stark contrast between the corrupt capitalists and the weary workers who make possible the massive fortunes of their employers. Additionally, it all but highlights the link between a corrupt government that operates at the behest of the rich and powerful.
Sinclair's socialist motivations in writing The Jungle were no secret, but the real impact of his work was realized in the social upheaval against the mistreatment of laborers. Reform and regulation swept the country, and inspired other global entities to examine their own practices. The Jungle shocked and inspired the world, and paved the way for a thousand manifestos for working class citizens.
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
From Wikipedia:
The Sun Also Rises the first novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway. It portrays American and British expatriates who travel along the Camino de Santiago from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona and watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights. An early modernist novel, it received mixed reviews upon publication. Hemingway biographer Jeffrey Meyers writes that it is now "recognized as Hemingway's greatest work" and Hemingway scholar Linda Wagner-Martin calls it his most important novel. The novel was published in the United States in October 1926 by Scribner's. A year later, Jonathan Cape published the novel in London under the title Fiesta. It remains in print.
The novel is a roman à clef: the characters are based on people in Hemingway's circle and the action is based on events, particularly Hemingway's life in Paris in the 1920s and a trip to Spain in 1925 for the Pamplona festival and fishing in the Pyrenees. Hemingway converted to Catholicism as he wrote the novel, and Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera notes that protagonist Jake Barnes, a Catholic, was "a vehicle for Hemingway to rehearse his own conversion, testing the emotions that would accompany one of the most important acts of his life." Hemingway presents his notion that the "Lost Generation"—considered to have been decadent, dissolute and irretrievably damaged by World War I—was in fact resilient and strong. Hemingway investigates the themes of love and death, the revivifying power of nature and the concept of masculinity. His spare writing style, combined with his restrained use of description to convey characterizations and action, demonstrates his "Iceberg Theory" of writing.
The Mistresses of Henry VIII
Kelly Hart
Seventeen-year-old Henry VIII was ‘a youngling, he cares for nothing but girls and hunting.’ Over the years, this didn’t change much. Henry was considered a demi-god by his subjects, so each woman he chose was someone who had managed to stand out in a crowd of stunning ladies. Looking good was not enough (indeed, many of Henry’s lovers were considered unattractive); she had to have something extra special to keep the king’s interest. And Henry’s women were every bit as intriguing as the man himself. In this book, Henry’s mistresses are rescued from obscurity. The sixteenth century was a time of profound changes in religion and society across Europe – and some of Henry’s lovers were at the forefront of influencing these events. Kelly Hart gives an excellent insight into the love life of our most popular king, and the twelve women who knew the man behind the mask.
Enchanted
Dani Hoots
Chrys has been captured by Prometheus and Huntley and the others are searching all around the world for where he could have taken her. The clock is ticking, however, as Zeus is also searching for her, so that he may put an end to her life. Will they be able to find her before Zeus does? Or will this turn into an all-out battle until the end?
This is the conclusion of the Daughter of Hades series.
Entangled
Dani Hoots
Two weeks remain until Chrys, the daughter of Hades, is forced to marry Zeus.
Huntley knows time is running out to save Chrys from the marriage, and everything is riding on the mysterious box Hades has given Prometheus. Now all they have to do is sneak into Olympus, find Chrys, and convince Zeus she is already married to Prometheus. Easy as that.
The problem is, Chrys has no knowledge of the plan. She feels all alone in a new world, surrounded by gods who are selfish and out to get her. Will she be able to last long enough for Huntley and the others to find her? Or will she take matters into her own hands?
Engaged
Dani Hoots
It's been three months since Chrys agreed to marry Zeus, and so far she hasn't figured out how to get out of this engagement. Not to mention she's fighting with her father, Hades, constantly and doesn't know if anything will be able to go back to normal.
Meanwhile, Huntley is still in London and is trying his best to help Chrys. He will stop at nothing to get her back, and to finally tell her how he truly feels.
The clock is ticking until the Summer Solstice. Will either of them be able to free Chrys from her marriage with Zeus?
Endangered
Dani Hoots
Hidden in the Underworld for thousands of years by her father Hades, Chrys wishes she could leave and see the human world. However, she knows that if any of the gods find her, and discover her dichotomous power over life and death, they will destroy her. So she has remained in the Underworld Palace for her entire life, making very few friends, and always bored as hell, no pun intended.
Huntley never imagined that after he died, he would wake up with a magnificent girl standing over him, especially one claiming to be the daughter of Hades. The Greek gods are real, and the god of the Underworld apparently has a daughter. Instead of sending him to the afterlife, she keeps him around to be her “tutor”, even though he obviously doesn’t have any expertise in anything other than being a punk. It is clear she wants him around to be her friend, and it is a task Huntley has no problem taking.
But after a big fight with her mother Persephone, Chrys can’t take it anymore and has to see what the human world is all about. Her and her two best friends decide to check out London, since that seems to be her mother’s favorite place recently.
It would just be for a couple of days, so nothing could go wrong on the streets of London, right?
Fans of Lore Olympus, Percy Jackson, and The Faerie Games will enjoy!
Daughter of Hades Series:
Book 1: Endangered
Book 2: Engaged
Book 3: Entangled
Book 4: Enchanted
Cover artist: Biserka Designs
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
From Wikipedia:
Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best-known full-length work and a classic of English literature. Swift claimed that he wrote Gulliver's Travels "to vex the world rather than divert it".
The book was an immediate success. The English dramatist John Gay remarked, "It is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery." In 2015, Robert McCrum released his selection list of the 100 best novels of all time, where he called Gulliver's Travels "a satirical masterpiece".
The Return
Dani Hoots
Everything is riding on the races.
As planned, I have entered the races to get back the map to Sanshli. Everything is riding on this and I cannot lose. Torn between my brother, Nygard, and Jack, I didn't know who to trust. The more I thought about it, the more I wondered if Nygard had it right—maybe we were more powerful and deserved to rule. Only time would tell, and the winner of the races would be able to find Sanshli and end this once and for all.