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Jean Scott, born Merla McCormick in 1938, is a retired teacher, an advantage player/comp hustler, and a gambling author who is best known for her 1998 book The Frugal Gambler. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The book features gambling advice for novice gamblers, including money management strategies and how to procure the best casino comps and discounts.
The book strongly influenced the first cookery book by an American author, Amelia Simmons's American Cookery (1796), in parts almost identical content. An appendix was added to the 1803 American edition, supplementing "receipts" [recipes] "adapted to the American mode of cooking", such as Indian puddings, buckwheat cakes, pumpkin pie , maple ...
It's rare that the media accurately portrays what it's like to live cheaply, but this collection of movies, books, and series on frugal living offers a genuine look at life as a penny pincher.
Two Solitudes was selected as one of the five novels to be discussed in the 2013 Canada Reads "battle of the books", broadcast by CBC Radio. [1] It was defended by Canadian actor Jay Baruchel but it lost to Lisa Moore's February. [2] In 1978 it was made into a motion picture, written and directed by Lionel Chetwynd.
[1] The book was the first anti-slavery work printed in America in book form. She followed it with several smaller works on the same subject. Her Appeal attracted much attention, and William Ellery Channing, who attributed to it part of his interest in the slavery question, walked from Boston to Roxbury to thank Child for the book. She had to ...
The cover of the first book of the series. Jacob Two-Two is a series of children's books written by Canadian author Mordecai Richler: Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang (1975), Jacob Two-Two and the Dinosaur (1987) and Jacob Two-Two's First Spy Case (1995) written by Mordecai Richler, and Jacob Two-Two on the High Seas (2009) written by Cary Fagan.
A Kid for Two Farthings is a 1953 novel by the British writer Wolf Mankowitz, based on the author's experiences of growing up within a Jewish community in London's East End. The title is a reference to the traditional Passover song, Chad Gadya , which begins "One little goat which my father bought for two zuzim ". [ 1 ]
Two Complete Science-Adventure Books was an American pulp science fiction magazine, published by Fiction House, which lasted for eleven issues between 1950 and 1954 as a companion to Planet Stories. Each issue carried two novels or long novellas.