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  Hot Coals - A User's Guide to...

  Jeroen Hazebroek, Leonard Elenbaas

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  Two of the world’s foremost kamado grilling experts show you how to get the most out of this amazing, adaptable cooker—includes thirty recipes! 
   
  In Hot Coals, chefs Jeroen Hazebroek and Leonard Elenbaas show you why everyone's obsessed with the kamado grill. They lay out thirteen techniques that showcase the grill's range: You can bake a savory quiche, grill a flank steak, and sear Moroccan-style lamb—all in the same device.  
   
  Hot Coals is packed with essential kamado techniques and information, including thirty recipes, the science behind the cooker, and the key to infusing specific flavors into your dishes. With this indispensable grilling guide, you'll be a kamado master in no time.

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  The East Kent Railway - The Line...

  John Scott-Morgan

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  The East Kent Railway was one of Britain's less well known light railways, a part of the Colonel Stephens group of lines, the East Kent Railway was meant to open up the newly discovered Kent coal field and help to make its shareholders wealthy, however things took a different turn, when the projected colliery's along the line did not materialise the way the promoters had first envisaged.  The only colliery to produce quantities of coal being Tilmanstone near Shepherdswell, which opened in 1912.  There were other pits started along the formation of the line from Shepherdswell to Wingham, but in the cases of the other pits, only the surface buildings or test shafts were constructed, before the work was abandoned.  This was largely due to flooding and the poor calorific quality of East Kent coal, which had to be mixed with other coal to be effectively used.  There were four colliery's completed in Kent, the East Kent Railway only served one of them and this together with the other three lasted until the latter part of the 20th century.  The railway operated a loss making passenger service to Wingham and for a few years to Sandwich Road halt on the line to Richborough Port line, however the service to Wingham Canterbury Road came to an end in October 1948, after British Railways had taken control.  The East Kent Railway lasted through two world wars and was nationalised in 1948, becoming part of the Southern Region of British Railways, it closed to traffic in 1984, during the coal strike.

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  Dueling the Dragon - Adventures...

  Abdiel LeRoy

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  China — Superpower or Basket Case? You decide!  
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  A wide-eyed expat is detained by Beijing cops and told to sign a false confession. Will he make it out of China alive? 
  Dueling the Dragon is a great adventure story, but this one just happens to be true! 
  With a journalist's eye and lively wit, LeRoy exposes the deep levels of corruption tearing at China's social fabric. You will learn of college students sold into slavery, media suppression of pollution reports, and persecution of a broadcaster just trying to do his job! 
  Yet there is delight amid the despair, reverie amid the revulsion, as LeRoy encounters China's "raven-haired beauties". You'll laugh away the tears with this riveting memoir! 
  "An adventure, a memoir, and certainly one of the more entertaining books about China before us today." 
  San Francisco Review of Books 
  “Shows China in a ‘behind-the-curtain’ way that is informative, entertaining, and absolutely thrilling, even with the despairs and triumphs.” 
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  “A fascinating portrait of a time, a place, and a man for readers who want to know more about the ‘real’ China. Very well written and revealing.” 
  G. Miki Hayden

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  Uncle John's Bathroom Reader:...

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  With this volume filled with thousands of bizarrely fascinating facts, we’re on a roll!   Is there any other single book in the universe with this many awesome tidbits of bite-sized information? Nope. And that’s a fact! At nearly 400 pages (with a handy index for your fact-seeking convenience), Wise Up! is a must-have for anyone who likes their information on the go. It’s organized into hundreds of topics—everything from sports and entertainment to word origins and science. Here are but a few of the facts awaiting you:   * More women than men talk to their cars. * The melody for Nat King Cole’s 1954 hit “Smile” was composed by Charlie Chaplin. * Acid rain was first identified and named in 1852. * What is your buccal cavity? Your mouth. * There are no skunks in Newfoundland. * The average Super Bowl party has 18 people. * When dropped in water, a fresh egg will sink; a stale one won’t. * The average newborn baby spends 113 minutes a day crying. * Pepper was so valuable during Elizabethan times that it was sold by the grain. * Fossilized termite farts have been preserved in amber. And thousands more!

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  Bill Hicks: The Essential...

  Bill Hicks

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  The Essential Collection encompasses Bill Hicks’ short but powerful career as a satirist, social critic, and stand-up comedian. It features over two hours of Bill’s best stand up material spanning his entire career including never-before-released bits from a San Ramon, CA performance, a collection of 11 original songs entitled “Lo-Fi Troubadour”, and two digital exclusives- a song called “Ice Cold Macaroni”, and “The Adventure”, a 30 minute travelogue of Hicks talking into a tape recorder on a car trip from New York City to Little Rock, Arkansas.

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  Laughing to America

  Gina Yashere

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  Filmed live in San Francisco, CA, UK's premier black female comedian, Gina Yashere, has come to America! Her unique take on being a cultural insider and outsider never fails to raise the roof as she gives us her take on the news gripping the nation.

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