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Bean Break is all about finding out who people are and what stories they have to tell, over a cup of coffee (or tea). If you want too hear a good chat with plenty of moments that will make you laugh, cry or maybe even both then Bean Break is for you.

Vanilla is one of the most expensive of flavorings—so valuable that it was smuggled or stolen by pirates in the early days—and yet it is everywhere. It is a key ingredient in dishes ranging from crème brûlée to Japanese purin. It is the quintessential ice cream flavor in the United States. Eric T. Jennings explains how the world's only edible orchid, originally endemic to Central America, became embedded in the international culinary and cultural landscape.

Welcome to Brains & Beans where Conner and Holly Polley share their story of when Conner suffered from a stroke at the age of 25. In this podcast, they will discuss their journey of experiencing something so tragic at such a young age as a young married couple. This podcast will include lots of hardships, but also lots of laughs as well.

What up bad bitches! From Hollywoods Haunted, The Podcast, we're leaving the stars behind and moving on to a brand new phase! This time we are getting into some things strange, all things odd, and everything weird! Starring Roxana Sanchez, Teresa O'Hara and the creator Tia Bean!

The Second World War ended over 75 years ago, and the number of men and women who lived through it is rapidly dwindling. But its legacy casts a long shadow, and the memories of those who experienced the conflict left both powerful stories and often a complex inheritance behind for their children and grandchildren. In this series, Sean Bean investigates how the trauma of profound wartime experiences - whether spoken or unspoken - can be transferred down through subsequent generations.

Palestine: A Socialist Introduction systematically tackles a number of important aspects of the Palestinian struggle for liberation, contextualizing it in an increasingly polarized world and offering a socialist perspective on how full liberation can be won.

Our heroes can come from the most ordinary of places. As a shy lad growing up in country Victoria, no one in the district had any idea the man Albert Jacka would become. Albert 'Bert' Jacka was 21 when Britain declared war on Germany in August 1914. Bert soon enlisted in the Australian Imperial...

If you are looking for coffee reviews, this ain't the place. These are the life stories, opinions, and happenings of Fred and Chanell, the founders of Iron Bean Coffee Company. They are as real as it gets. A husband and wife team, taking on the world, trying to run a coffee roasting business, and living a life buried in chaos and work. Yeah, there's coffee...but more importantly, there's a community that Fred and Chanell rely on to get through the dream they are trying to create. The Iron Bean Nation. This is for them!!

“Poignant . . . deeply personal . . . an indelible history of the largely forgotten Jews of Egypt . . . ”—Miami Herald In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years before Gamal Abdel Nasser’s rise to power. With...

When therapist Elizabeth Heaney left her private practice to counsel military service members and their families, she came face-to-face with unheard-of struggles and fears. Emotions run deeply - and often silently - in the hearts of combat veterans in this eye-opening portrait of the complex, nuanced lives of service personnel, who return from battling the enemy and grapple with readjusting to civilian life.

A Brazilian masterpiece, now in English for the first time: a playfully profound chronicle of an urban sophisticate’s misadventures in the Amazon A Penguin Classic “My life’s done a somersault,” wrote Mário de Andrade in a letter, on the verge of taking a leap. After years of dreaming...

The controversy grows with every sale of the best-selling novel. Throughout the contemporary fictional storyline of The Da Vinci Code, author Dan Brown skillfully weaves "historical" assertions intended to shake the very foundations of Christianity. Authors James L. Garlow and Peter Jones present compelling evidence that Brown's assertions are not only historically inaccurate, but may also contain a hidden agenda.