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Beyond Southern is a perfect description for the eclectic recipes inside: your country grandma's down-home style to cuisine for the modern palate. As a little girl, Debbie Martin watched her grandmother prepare family favorites which equipped her for the serious cooking and baking she took up when she entered her teens.This native Southern author is passionate about flavor. Her dishes are the ones partygoers eagerly anticipate for scrumptious tastes and elegant presentations. Appearing on the Food Network's Ultimate Recipe Showdown came as no surprise to her friends.Now, she shares her favorites along with helpful hints and her personal stories about a recipe. Inside are original, hand-me-down recipes like Mother's Chili, Granny's Southern Biscuits, and Chicken Pot Pie. Straying away from country cooking, you'll find dishes such as Raspberry Carrots, Blueberry Barbecue Sauce, and Herb Tomato Tart. The Sweet Endings are Debbie's specialties. Her passion for baking gives you Apple Crumble, Connor's Brownies, and the comforting Hug Me Pie--and much more.Beyond Southern is a great addition to your cookbook collection. These are the recipes that will make you the hit of the potluck, the queen of cuisine, or the blue-ribbon champion of baking.

Ellen Mackay never imagined herself a widow at forty-nine. After nearly thirty years of being a socialite wife and mother, Ellen is left alone to rattle around a mansion of a house with only the dog for company. It''s time to make a change, but to what?While she ponders what to do, she starts hearing her dog talk. Is Has she finally lost it? No, according to her mother. It''s an inherited gift that usually manifests at menopause, but, well, Ellen isn''t there, yet. And it''s not just the dog, but most animals. Then there''s the ability to actually see paranormal species, like gnomes, fairies, and yes, vampires. Lucky her.She finally moves to what she thinks is the perfect house in the mountains. But it''s not all peace and quiet when people start getting killed on the hiking path just beyond her property a few months after she relocates.Most of the local sheriff''s department don''t believe in the paranormal but one handsome sergeant does. Can they figure out who - or what - the perpetrator is and stop the carnage?

What is the child for Latin American cinema? This book aims to answer that question, tracing the common tendencies of the representation of the child in the cinema of Latin American countries, and demonstrating the place of the child in the movements, genres and styles that have defined that cinema. Deborah Martin combines theoretical readings of the child in cinema and culture, with discussions of the place of the child in specific national, regional and political contexts, to develop in-depth analyses and establish regional comparisons and trends. She pays particular attention to the narrative and stylistic techniques at play in the creation of the child's perspective, and to ways in which the presence of the child precipitates experiments with film aesthetics.Bringing together fresh readings of well-known films with attention to a range of little-studied works, The Child in Contemporary Latin American Cinema examines films from the recent and contemporary period, focussing on topics such as the death of the child in 'street child' films, the role of the child in post-dictatorship filmmaking and the use of child characters to challenge gender and sexual ideologies. The book also aims to place those analyses in a historical context, tracing links with important precursors, and paying attention to the legacy of the child's figuring in the mid-century movements of melodrama and the New Latin American Cinema.

The cinema of Lucrecia Martel provides a comprehensive analysis of the work of the acclaimed Argentine director, whose elusive and elliptical feature films have garnered worldwide recognition since her 2001 debut La cinaga. The book situates Martel's features and unstudied short films in relation to trends in recent national and international filmmaking.

A timely analysis of the rise of female-led transnational film in Latin America that takes account of the production histories, aesthetics and socio-political contexts of key industry figures.

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