A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations With startling beauty and sardonic wit, Anya von Bremzen tells an intimate yet epic story of life in that vanished empire known as the USSR--a place where every edible morsel was packed with emotional and political meaning. Born in 1963, in an era of bread shortages, Anya grew up in a communal Moscow apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen. She sang odes to Lenin, black-marketeered Juicy Fruit gum at school, watched her father brew moonshine, and, like most Soviet citizens, longed for a taste of the mythical West. It was a life by turns absurd, drab, naively joyous, melancholy--and ultimately intolerable to her anti-Soviet mother, Larisa. When Anya was ten, she and Larisa fled the political repression of Brezhnev-era Russia, arriving in Philadelphia with no winter coats and no right of return. Now Anya occupies two parallel food universes: one where she writes about four-star restaurants, the other where a taste of humble "kolbasa" transports her back to her scarlet-blazed socialist past. To bring that past to life, in its full flavor, both bitter and sweet, Anya and Larisa, embark on a journey unlike any other: they decide to eat and cook their way through every decade of the Soviet experience--turning Larisa's kitchen into a "time machine and an incubator of memories." Together, mother and daughter re-create meals both modest and sumptuous, featuring a decadent fish pie from the pages of Chekhov, "chanakhi "(Stalin's favorite Georgian stew), blini, and more. Through these meals, Anya tells the gripping story of three Soviet generations-- masterfully capturing the strange mix of idealism, cynicism, longing, and terror that defined Soviet life. We meet her grandfather Naum, a glamorous intelligence chief under Stalin, and her grandmother Liza, who made a perilous odyssey to icy, blockaded Leningrad to find Naum during World War II. We meet Anya's hard-drinking, sarcastic father, Sergei, who cruelly abandons his family shortly after Anya is born; and we are captivated by Larisa, the romantic dreamer who grew up dreading the black public loudspeakers trumpeting the glories of the Five-Year Plan. Their stories unfold against the vast panorama of Soviet history: Lenin's bloody grain requisitioning, World War II hunger and survival, Stalin's table manners, Khrushchev's kitchen debates, Gorbachev's disastrous anti-alcohol policies. And, ultimately, the collapse of the USSR. And all of it is bound together by Anya's passionate nostalgia, sly humor, and piercing observations. " Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking" is that rare book that stirs our souls and our senses.
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Автор: Summers Anya Название: Her Rockstar Dom ISBN: 1682597806 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682597804 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1792.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Julia Dailey has a secret. She's an imposter planted on Pleasure Island, an undercover agent who's investigating visitors to the exotic, exclusive getaway. Until now, she's been able to pretend at face value that she is part of the lifestyle. But that all changes when she receives a new set of instructions from headquarters. She's to get close enough to their latest suspect that she will be forced to do something she's never considered herself capable of doing - submit.
Collum Robinson is an Australian guitarist with the band The Harbingers, with a dark and lonely past he's never fully escaped. At clubs around the world, he has women fighting over the chance to end up in his bed for the night. Never one to turn down a willing, soft body, he enjoys the fairer sex, frequently. But he's never met a woman who wanted more than a night with the fabled rock star - or one he wanted to keep. Until he meets Julia.
As they become intricately intertwined, Collum wants to make Julia his, but when her identity is revealed, can he forgive her betrayal? And will Julia be able to convince him where her loyalties lie and that he is the only man for her?
Publisher's Note: Book five in Anya Summers' bestselling Pleasure Island series contains explicit scenes and adult language.
Автор: Luscombe, Anya Название: Forty years of bbc radio news ISBN: 3631627599 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631627594 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 9118.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This case study of BBC Radio News shows how radio journalism has changed since the 1960s, describes the changing nature of the profession and the style of writing. It concerns interviews with practitioners, BBC official documents, style guides and news bulletins of the BBC Radio Newsroom and BBC Radio One News between 1966 and 2008.
Автор: Emmanuel Nathan, Anya Topolski Название: Is there a Judeo-Christian Tradition?: A European Perspective ISBN: 3110416476 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110416473 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Цена: 18586.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The term ‘Judeo-Christian’ in reference to a tradition, heritage, ethic, civilization, faith etc. has been used in a wide variety of contexts with widely diverging meanings. Contrary to popular belief, the term was not coined in the United States in the middle of the 20th century but in 1831 in Germany by Ferdinand Christian Baur. By acknowledging and returning to this European perspective and context, the volume engages the historical, theological, philosophical and political dimensions of the term’s development. Scholars of European intellectual history will find this volume timely and relevant.
Автор: Anya von Bremzen Название: Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking ISBN: 0552777471 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780552777476 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1979.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: And yet, the flavour of Soviet kolbasa, like Proust`s madeleine, transports her back to that vanished Atlantis known as the USSR . In this sweeping, tragicomic memoir, Anya recreates seven decades of the Soviet experience through cooking and food, and reconstructs a moving family history spanning three generations.
Автор: M Rim Che, Anya Название: Twenty old summers ISBN: 9948373669 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789948373667 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1235.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: It will all go downhill once you hit the twenty bar, youll see, the prophecy said.Inside this collection lay the tribulations of a soon-to-be twenty-year-old, on herUtopian quest to fight off ticking clocks and clicking locks.Twenty slam poems and ten essays of emotional highs and lows.
Автор: Summers Anya Название: Lone Survivor ISBN: 1947132628 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781947132627 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1930.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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She needed a fresh start...
ICU Nurse Sadie Montgomery moved to New Orleans after her entire world fell apart. The idea was borne of desperation as she sank further into a depression so deep and dark, she had stopped feeling. It isn't until she crosses paths with Ram that she finally feels a spark of life return. The only problem is, she doesn't want to be dependent upon anyone. The pain of losing it all is still too fresh. Not to mention, in Ram's world, the women submit themselves body and soul.
He wasn't looking for love...
Former Army Ranger, Ramsey O'Malley, is not looking for a long-term commitment from a woman beyond a scene or two at Club Underworld. He doesn't have the time nor the inclination to begin something he cannot finish, not as a single dad with a thriving psychology practice. Except, he is drawn to his newest patient. She's forbidden, like the apple in the garden of Eden, and all he wants to do it take a bite.
But they could not deny their desire...
When Sadie makes a surprise appearance at Club Underworld looking to take a walk on the wild side, Ram knows he cannot let another man have her. He wants to be the one to introduce her to submission. But can he convince her to submit to his brand of lovemaking? And will just one night be enough?
Publisher's Note: This steamy contemporary romance contains elements of power exchange.
Автор: Summers Anya Название: Her Lawful Master ISBN: 1682591387 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682591383 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1792.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Piper Delaney keeps men - Dominants in particular - at arm's length. There are dark secrets in her past that have been keeping her from willingly submitting, or forging any type of intimate relationship with anyone. That all changes when she is hired to photograph Pleasure Island for a brochure and she runs headlong into Theo, a Master who stirs her body and challenges her lonely existence.
Theo Brown is a lead solicitor who hasn't ever found a submissive he wanted to keep. Most were rather dull and insipid once he got them out of their knickers. Then he runs into the sexy as hell Piper, a professional photographer on assignment and submissive with claws, who makes him burn with desire for her.
When Piper asks Theo to pose for her, he turns the tables and makes a proposition: Submit to him while they are on the island and at the end of the week, they go their separate ways. No harm, no foul, no attachments. Sparks fly when Piper hesitantly agrees.
But what starts as a simple arrangement morphs into something a lot deeper as Piper surrenders more than just her body to Theo's skillful mastery. When her secret is revealed, will it tear their fledgling relationship apart? Or will Theo be able to convince Piper that he should be Her Lawful Master?
Publisher's Note: This dramatic, sexy tale is the fourth book in Anya's bestselling Pleasure Island series. While we do recommend reading all of them, it can be enjoyed as a standalone.
Автор: Summers Anya Название: His Christmas Love ISBN: 1947132687 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781947132689 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2389.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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His Christmas Love
One seductress. Two firemen. One Christmas night to remember.
On Christmas day, Hannah finds herself home alone, believing her boyfriend and the love of her life has forgotten her. Yet Brady has a special gift for Hannah: one night in which to experience her naughtiest fantasy - a m nage with Brady and his best pal, Gavin. Will this one night of ecstasy turn into something magical?
His Unexpected Love
Carter Jones is the owner and founder of the exclusive Cuffs and Spurs Club in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He's been invited to Pleasure Island, a lifestyle themed resort on a private island in the Bahamas, to experience what the all-inclusive getaway has to offer. His plans for the week include indulging in the finer points of life - beautiful woman, and lots of them. He's a man used to dominating a woman in every way imaginable, and then receiving praise and thanks from his selected bed mate for his prowess. That all changes when he literally runs into Jenna. She's beautiful and headstrong, and turns his world upside down with merely a pout of her gorgeous lips. Lips he can imagine on various parts of his body. Carter devises a plan to claim the feisty woman. But will he be able to keep it strictly physical, or will her surrender to his touch affect him in unexpected ways?
Автор: Summers Anya Название: Love me, Master Me ISBN: 1682598039 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682598030 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1792.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Delilah Gregory is an opera superstar, enchanting the world with her soaring voice and voluptuous form. When her long-time friend, Declan, asks her to perform at his wedding, she can't refuse, and heads to Mullardoch Manor in Scotland. She's looking forward to finding a Dom to play with while she's there, although with the demands of her career, and still recovering from her ex's betrayal, the last thing on earth she's looking for is an actual relationship.
Bastian Dean is a rock star, playing to sold-out stadiums worldwide. His bedroom tastes have always been on the wild side, and the only way he can find satisfaction is when he has a bound submissive begging for his touch. Unlike most rock stars, he keeps his dalliances to bona fide members of the Dungeon Fantasy Club - and as far away from the tabloids as possible. When he meets the ethereal beauty Delilah at the manor, Bastian is determined to enjoy the beautiful, submissive woman's bounty.
Delilah is stunned by the ecstasy she finds within Bastian's arms. She doesn't even like the man much - aside from what he can make her feel even as he disciplines her bare bottom. But despite her misgivings about him, what starts out as a bit of fun and play in the dungeon soon turns into a relationship, where Delilah finds herself healing under Bastian's passionate touch.
When the demands of her career and a threat from her past intervene, Bastian must use every note in his arsenal to convince Delilah that theirs is a duet worth singing. But can she be convinced to trust him with her heart?
Описание: Charles Sweeny was the heir to a fortune, but instead of a life of comfort, he became a warrior for causes he believed in. This richly detailed book uses Sweeny`s personal papers, historical documents and photos to tell the amazing true story of America`s most celebrated soldier of fortune, who was a life-long friend of Ernest Hemingway and a role model for the novelist`s fictional manly heroes.
Автор: Achtenberg Anya Название: I Know What the Small Girl Knew ISBN: 161599517X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781615995172 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2062.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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This early collection of Achtenberg's poetry treats the intersection of the inner and the outer life through issues of social justice that remain crucial, and the ways history and its traumas sit in us. Her themes include women's rights, poverty, war, racism, and sexual abuse. Her vision of concern spans the world, from her own inner city neighborhoods to the wider world, anywhere people are oppressed.
"I can't tell you how wonderful and naked these poems are and a rare thing for a woman to be able to give it. What you are writing is not just something for this day you are wringing ringing out a cry you are privy to a great cry out a wonderful vision of a woman's agony. You have a witch's terrible straight look and you must go on with this vision . . . to show the utter depravity and cruelty of the oppressors, amidst screams of destruction, the past and future hiroshimas. This is the poetry of our resurrection. For the blood, for the healing. For love." -- Meridel Le Sueur (excerpts from letters to the author)
"I didn't know how much I needed this book until I read it. And I didn't know how much I'd been longing for a northamerican poetry that speaks with passion and authority of both the inner and outer life, as well as the point where they intersect; that place that is 'political' understood in its most fierce and fearful, sad and triumphant sense. Achtenberg's eye for detail is accurate and often startling, both compassionate and ironic; the rhythms of her language are resonant and complex beyond what we have come to expect from northamerican poetry. Anya Achtenberg's poetry gives both pleasure and courage." -- Jim Moore, author of Invisible Strings
ANYA ACHTENBERG is an award-winning author of the novel Blue Earth, and novella, The Stories of Devil-Girl (both with Modern History Press); and poetry books, The Stone of Language (West End Press 2004; MHP 2020); and I Know What the Small Girl Knew (Holy Cow Press; MHP 2020). Her fiction and poetry have received numerous prizes and distinctions, and been published in numerous literary journals, including Harvard Review; Malpaís Review; Gargoyle; Tupelo Quarterly; Hinchas de poesía; Poet Lore; and many more. Learn more at TheDisobedientWriter.com
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