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Booker Prize-winning Works
Booker may refer to: Places * Booker, Buckinghamshire, a hamlet in England * Booker, Texas, a town in the United States * RAF Booker, a Royal Air Force airfield from 1941 to 1963 People * Booker (name), a list of people with the surname or given name Arts and entertainment * ''Booker'' (TV series), a spin-off of ''21 Jump Street'' * , a fictional character in ''Case Closed'' * Booker Prize, presented annually for the best original full-length novel * Booker, a character in the comic strip '' U.S. Acres'' * Booker DeWitt, protagonist of the video game ''BioShock Infinite'' * Booker Baxter-Carter, son of Raven Baxter in the television series ''Raven's Home'' Brands and enterprises * Booker Group, the United Kingdom 's largest food wholesale operator * Booker Software, a software company headquartered in New York City * Booker's, a bourbon produced by the Jim Beam distillery Roles * Booker, one who plans the order of and events within pro wrestling matches. * Booking agent, or t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Booker, Buckinghamshire
Booker is a hamlet within the parish of West Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England, which has absorbed into the expanding suburbs of High Wycombe. There are several housing areas in Booker, mainly modern estates. At the 2011 Census the hamlet was included in the High Wycombe Ward of Booker and Cressex. Booker is also the name frequently given to the local airfield, more properly known as Wycombe Air Park, one of the busiest general aviation airfields in the South East of England. The airfield is used for general aviation General aviation (GA) is defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) as all civil aviation aircraft operations with the exception of commercial air transport or aerial work, which is defined as specialized aviation services ... and gliding and is home to both helicopters and fixed wing planes. The airfield is home to the Airways Flying Club and Wycombe Air Centre. Main parts are mistaken for Cressex, the neighbouring village to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Booker, Texas
Booker is a town in Lipscomb and Ochiltree counties in the U.S. state of Texas. It was named for B.F. Booker, a civil engineer for the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway. The population was 1,516 at the 2010 census. Geography Booker is located at . It is incorporated in Lipscomb County, and most of its territory lies in the northwest corner of that county; only a small portion extends west into Ochiltree County. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.0 square miles (2.7 km2), all of it land. History Booker was founded seven miles north of where it currently sits as La Kemp, Oklahoma, in 1909. However, ten years later when the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway was built from Shattuck, Oklahoma, to Spearman, Texas, the entire town moved seven miles across the state line to be near the railroad. The town was platted shortly before the move in 1917 by Thomas C. Spearman who had Spearman, Texas named after him. La Kemp was renamed Booker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RAF Booker
Royal Air Force Booker or more simply RAF Booker is a former Royal Air Force installation located south west of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire and north east of Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England. Booker was opened as a flying training school in 1941 on the site of a civilian flying school requisitioned and closed on the outbreak of war in 1939. In 1965 the site was taken over by Airways Aero Associations (now the Airways Flying Club), who have operated the airfield as an increasingly commercial training and recreational field, now called Wycombe Air Park. Booker featured in many of the airfield scenes in the 1965 feature film ''Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines''. History RAF Booker was opened as the home of No. 21 Elementary Flying Training School RAF in 1941. The flying school operated 72 de Havilland Tiger Moths and Miles Magisters. No. 21 EFTS trained 120 pupils on a seven-week course - later to become 11 weeks. In May 1942, training was also started ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Booker (name)
Booker is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Charles Booker (American politician), (born 1984) member of the Kentucky House of Representatives * Charles Booker (Australian politician) (1865-1925), member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly * Charles Dawson Booker (1897–1918), English World War I ace fighter pilot * Charles Goodenough Booker (1859–1926), Canadian politician, mayor of Hamilton, Ontario * Chris Booker (born 1971), American radio and television personality * Chris Booker (baseball) (born 1976), American former Major League Baseball pitcher * Chris Booker (basketball) (born 1981), American former basketball player * Christopher Booker (1937–2019), English journalist and author * Cory Booker (born 1969), American politician, U.S. Senator from New Jersey and former mayor of Newark, New Jersey * Devin Booker (basketball, born 1991), American basketball player * Devin Booker (born 1996), American basketball player in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Booker (TV Series)
" performed by Billy Idol , composer = Mike Post , country = United States , language = English , num_seasons = 1 , num_episodes = 22 , list_episodes = #Episodes , executive_producer = Bill Nuss , producer = Carleton EastlakeBrooke KennedyJo Swerling, Jr. , location = Vancouver , runtime = 45–48 minutes , company = Stephen J. Cannell Productions , network = Fox , picture_format = Color , audio_format = Stereo , first_aired = , last_aired = , related = '' 21 Jump Street'' ''Booker'' is an American crime drama series starring Richard Grieco that aired on the Fox Network from September 24, 1989, to May 6, 1990. The series is a spin-off of '' 21 Jump Street'' and the second installment of the ''Jump Street'' franchise. The character of Dennis Booker was originally a recurring character on that police drama during its third se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Booker Kudo
The manga series '' Case Closed'', known as in Japan, features a large number of recurring fictional characters created by Gosho Aoyama. The series takes place in modern-day Japan and follows an amateur detective Jimmy Kudo (Japanese name: Shinichi Kudo) who solves cases in an episodic fashion while in his childhood body and under the alias Conan Edogawa. He is joined by childhood friend Rachel Moore (Ran Mori) and her father Richard Moore (Kogoro Mori), who runs a detective agency. Throughout the series, Conan interacts and befriends many characters from various groups: the Tokyo Metropolitan Police, the local police in Conan's prefecture; The Junior Detective League, a group of children who solves mysteries for their clients and the FBI. He also befriends a few individuals who know of his true identity: Dr. Agasa, who provides Jimmy with various spy gadgets; Harley Hartwell (Heiji Hattori), a high school detective from Osaka; and Anita Hailey (Ai Haibara), the original dev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Booker Prize
The Booker Prize, formerly known as the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a Literary award, literary prize awarded each year for the best novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland. The winner of the Booker Prize receives international publicity which usually leads to a sales boost. When the prize was created, only novels written by Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth, Irish, and South African (and later Zimbabwean) citizens were eligible to receive the prize; in 2014 it was widened to any English-language novel—a change that proved controversial. A five-person panel constituted by authors, librarians, literary agents, publishers, and booksellers is appointed by the Booker Prize Foundation each year to choose the winning book. A high-profile literary award in British culture, the Booker Prize is greeted with anticipation and fanfare. Literary critics have noted that it is a mark of distinction fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BioShock Infinite
''BioShock Infinite'' is a first-person shooter video game developed by Irrational Games and published by 2K Games. The third installment in the ''BioShock'' series, ''Infinite'' was released worldwide for the Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and OS X platforms in 2013. The game is set in the year 1912 and follows its protagonist, Booker DeWitt, who is sent to the airborne city of Columbia to retrieve a young woman held captive, named Elizabeth. Booker rescues Elizabeth and the two become involved in a class war between the nativist Founders that rule Columbia and the rebel Vox Populi representing the city's underclass. Elizabeth possesses the ability to manipulate "Tears" in the space-time continuum that ravage Columbia, and Booker and Elizabeth discover she is central to the city's dark secrets. The player controls Booker Dewitt throughout the game, fighting enemies and scavenging supplies, while the AI-controlled Elizabeth provides assistance. Irrational Games and creati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raven's Home
''Raven's Home'' is an American family sitcom television series developed by Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas that premiered on Disney Channel on July 21, 2017. The series stars Raven-Symoné, Issac Ryan Brown, Navia Robinson, Jason Maybaum, Sky Katz, and Anneliese van der Pol for its first four seasons. Raven-Symoné and Issac Ryan Brown returned for the fifth season, alongside Mykal-Michelle Harris, Felix Avitia, Emmy Liu-Wang and Rondell Sheridan. Based on the characters created by Michael Poryes and Susan Sherman, the series is a spinoff of ''That's So Raven'', the second spinoff from that series after ''Cory in the House''. The series centers on Raven Baxter, a divorced mother of preteen twins Booker and Nia, living with her childhood best friend Chelsea and her son Levi in Chicago, Illinois. Premise Best friends Raven and Chelsea, both divorced single mothers, are now raising their children in an apartment together in Chicago. Their house is turned upside down when they rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Booker Group
Booker Group Limited is a British food wholesale operator and subsidiary of Tesco. In January 2017, it was announced that the British multinational supermarket retailer Tesco had agreed to purchase the company for £3.7 billion. It was confirmed on 5 March 2018 that Tesco had completed its acquisition of Booker. History Origins The company was founded by George and Richard Booker in 1835, when they bought their first ship and established the Booker Line, which focused on shipping goods. It later diversified into the distribution of goods, and gradually disposed of its fleet of ships. With a new focus on wholesale food distribution, the company had over 100 warehouses across the United Kingdom by 1978, and was trading as Booker McConnell Ltd. Among other interests, it operated the sugar industry in Guyana ( British Guiana before independence in 1966), running five Booker Line ships, until it was nationalised around 1970. After six months, Booker was called back to market the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Booker Software
Booker Software, Inc. is a software company headquartered in New York City. Its products are cloud-based management systems for spas and salon stores. History Booker is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Irvine, California, Scottsdale, Arizona, the United Kingdom, and Singapore. Booker was started in 2007 by Peter Ellis and Daniel Lizio-Katzen as SpaBooker, a division of SpaFinder. SpaBooker was its initial software product. In October 2010, SpaBooker spun off to a separate company called GramercyOne. During this time, the company continued to add features to the SpaBooker platform and market it to other appointment-based service businesses such as hotels, medical practices, dance studios, and repair shops. In November 2012, GramercyOne changed its name to Booker Software, Inc. As of March 2015, Booker has over 270 employees and is under the leadership of CEO Josh McCarter. In February 2017, Booker expanded its new 10,000-square-foot office at SkySong. Financials a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Booker's
Booker's bourbon is one of the small batch bourbons produced by the Jim Beam distillery, which is owned by Beam Suntory (a subsidiary of Suntory Holdings of Osaka, Japan). Having the highest alcohol content of the brands in the Jim Beam "Small Batch Bourbon Collection", it is a cask strength bourbon. Booker's bourbon is aged between six and eight years and is bottled un-cut and without chill filtering at its natural proof between 121 and 130.6. The brand began as bottlings of bourbon personally selected from barrels by Jim Beam's grandson, the late distiller emeritus Booker Noe Jim Beam is an American brand of bourbon whiskey produced in Clermont, Kentucky, by Beam Suntory. It is one of the best-selling brands of bourbon in the world. Since 1795 (interrupted by Prohibition), seven generations of the Beam family have b .... Noe originally bottled his straight-from-the-barrel bourbon as gifts to close friends and family, and launched his selections as a brand available to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
