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Bitter Almonds

2015-11-10 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2015-11-10
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 25X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Bitter Almonds by : Mary Taylor Simeti

Download or read book Bitter Almonds written by Mary Taylor Simeti. This book was released on 2015-11-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of eleven, the daughter of a Sicilian sharecropper, Maria Grammatico, entered the San Carlo Institute in the mountaintop town of Erice, an orphanage run by nuns who were famous throughout Sicily for their almond pastries, but who were less adept at dealing with young girls. After ten years of hard work and harsh discipline, Maria emerged with the secrets of the nuns’ pastries hidden inside her head. This is the story of her carefree country childhood—her Dickensian life in the orphanage with no heat, no running water, and only wood-burning ovens—and her triumphs as an entrepreneur and a world-famous pastry chef. Bitter Almonds includes 46 of the recipes that she ‘stole’ from the nuns, committed to writing for the first time in these pages.

Bitter Almonds

2007-04-01 True Crime
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Release : 2007-04-01
Genre : True Crime
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Book Rating : 517/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Bitter Almonds by : Gregg Olsen

Download or read book Bitter Almonds written by Gregg Olsen. This book was released on 2007-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stella Nickell's small-time world was one of big-time dreams. In 1986, her biggest one came true when her husband died during a seizure, making her the beneficiary of a $175,000-plus insurance payoff—until authorities discovered Bruce Nickell's headache capsules had been laced with cyanide. In an attempt to cover her tracks, Stella did the unconscionable. She saw to it that a stranger would also become a "random casualty" of cyanide-tainted painkillers. But Stella's cunning plan came undone when her daughter Cynthia notified federal agents. And troubling questions lingered like the secret of bitter almonds... What would turn a gregarious barfly like Stella into a cold-hearted killer overnight? Why would Cynthia, a mirror image of her mother, turn on her own flesh and blood? Did Cynthia reveal everything she knew about the crimes? The stunning answers would unfold in a case that sparked a national uproar, dug deep into a troubled family history, and exposed an American mother for the pretty poison she was. Gregg Olsen's Bitter Almonds is true crime writing at its best.

Bitter Almonds

2015-08-13 Fiction
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Release : 2015-08-13
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 015/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Bitter Almonds by : Lilas Taha

Download or read book Bitter Almonds written by Lilas Taha. This book was released on 2015-08-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A LOVE STORY AND AN ENTHRALLING MIX OF HISTORY AND PALESTINIAN CULTURE... RIVETING' - The Lady 'A BEAUTIFUL AND MOVING TRIBUTE TO THE ENDURING POWER OF LOVE' - Ann Weisgarber, The Personal History of Rachel Dupree He is orphaned at birth, born into displacement and chaos. He has only one thing to hold on to: a love beyond his reach that propels him forward. She is young and idealistic, and tries to break out of the mould to create her own destiny. Will they be able to overcome their bleak realities amid war and tragedy? Heartbreaking and moving, Bitter Almonds is about displacement and exile, family duty and honour, and the universal feelings of love and loss.

Bitter Almonds

2013-04-02 Fiction
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Release : 2013-04-02
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 112/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Bitter Almonds by : Laurence Cossé

Download or read book Bitter Almonds written by Laurence Cossé. This book was released on 2013-04-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the pen of Laurence Cossé, author of A Novel Bookstore, comes this delightful story about friendship across racial and economic barriers set in contemporary paris. Édith can hardly believe it when she learns that Fadila, her sixty-year-old housemaid, is completely illiterate. How can a person living in Paris in the third millennium possibly survive without knowing how to read or write? How does she catch a bus, or pay a bill, or withdraw money from the bank? Why, it's unacceptable! She thus decides to become Fadila’s French teacher. But teaching something as complex as reading and writing to an adult is rather more challenging that she thought. Their lessons are short, difficult, and tiring. Yet, during these lessons, the oh-so-Parisian Édith and Fadila, an immigrant from Morocco, begin to understand one other as never before, and from this understanding will blossom a surprising and delightful friendship. Édith will enter into contact with a way of life utterly unfamiliar to her, one that is unforgiving at times, but joyful and dignified.

A Taste of Bitter Almonds

2016 Civilization
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Release : 2016
Genre : Civilization
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Book Synopsis A Taste of Bitter Almonds by : Michael Schmidt (Anarchist-communist journalist)

Download or read book A Taste of Bitter Almonds written by Michael Schmidt (Anarchist-communist journalist). This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1994 symbolized the triumphal defeat of almost three and a half centuries of racial separation since the Dutch East India Company planted a bitter almond hedge to keep indigenous people out of 'their' Cape outpost in 1659. But for the majority of people in the world's most unequal society, the taste of bitter almonds linger as their exclusion from a dignified life remain the rule. In the year of South Africa's troubled coming-of-age, veteran investigative journalist Michael Schmidt brings to bear 21 years of his scribbled field notes to weave a tapestry of the view from below.

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