Love under the Texan sky Underneath her bubbly carefree facade, there was more—much more—to the champagne girl. Catherine Blake had high personal standards, including a sense of duty to her widowed mother, which brought her back to Comanche Flats, the family ranch. Once she'd returned, her stepbrother, Matt Kincaid, only complicated matters. Matt demanded that she stay on at the ranch, under his watchful eye. But Catherine had a job offer waiting for her in New York City. There was only one thing that could keep her on a dusty cattle ranch in Texas—the love of the rangiest cowboy in the Lone Star State!
Containing creative recipes the home bartender can make to impress friends--from classics like the Kir Royale to more contemporary pairings like the Ginger Snap--"The Bubbly Bar" also explains how to choose the best champagne in every price range.
Finalist for the 2021 IACP Best Cookbook Award Jam making gets a bad rap for being highly technical, complicated, messy, hot, and sticky; but preserving fruit can be simple and easy. Jordan Champagne unlocks the secrets of mouthwatering fruit sauces and butters, delicious whole-fruit preserves, and fresh-tasting jams and marmalades from the comfort of your home kitchen. It Starts with Fruit features 73 recipes total: master recipes for each type of preserve, followed by recipes for jams, marmalade, juices, syrups, shrubs, whole fruit preserves, butters, pie fillings, and dried fruits, plus a final chapter on baking with preserves. • Great for home cooks who want an easy and approachable guide to making jams and other fruit-based preserves • Jordan's gentle and encouraging methods will guide you through the process of making incredible fruit preserves using seasonal produce. • Learn inventive techniques that are more flavorful and less complicated than traditional methods—with less sugar, too! Jordan Champagne, author and cofounder of Happy Girl Kitchen, learned how to make jam while working on a farm, trying to use up fruits and vegetables that would otherwise go to waste. Now it's your turn to learn. Recipes include Raspberry Lemon Jam, Pink Grapefruit Marmalade, Honeyed Apricots, and Peach Rosemary Syrup, as well as baking recipes to turn your fabulous preserves into Thumbprint Cookies, Jam Bars, Fruit Cobbler, and Homemade Toaster Pastries. • A must-have for anyone who wants to learn about making jam and other preserves, likes experimenting in the kitchen, or enjoys DIY projects • Approachable for first-timers who feel intimidated by jam-making • Perfect for those who loved The Noma Guide to Fermentation by René Redzepi & David Zilber, The Blue Chair Jam Cookbook by Rachel Saunders, and Preserving by the Pint by Marisa McClellan
Young, beautiful, buttressed by the wine fortune of the House of Tramont, the future for Netta and Gabrielle must surely be rosy. They are the Champagne Girls, two cousins who enjoy the finest things in life in La Belle Epoque. Yet for Netta, propriety demands that she give up her one passion - music - to make a socially acceptable marriage, and for Gaby wealth cannot protect her from a broken heart. Meanwhile the family face the threat to the vineyards posed by the phylloxera beetle - and the consequences of their involvement in the scandalous Dreyfus affair.
Roberta Linn tells her life story of growing up as a singer and actress in the Golden Days of Hollywood: sharing a changing room with Shirley Temple, singing for Disney, joining the military at 14, getting the top position for Lawrence Welk and then headlining Las Vegas, falling in love and getting married. But all does not glitter behind the silver scene. She also tells of life's foibles and pitfalls. Read this spectacular biography about how a young girl in her mid-twenties scaled the heights of Tinsel town to win the 1955 Emmy for Best Female Entertainer only to later discover the road of hard knocks and had to to take on a second career selling timeshare for the same person she used to sing for to make a living and how a woman of high moral standards could date a mob connected hotel owner from Palm Springs who was married to another woman only to lose him in a card game gone wrong.
This book is for the woman who wants to feel good about herself and her body, and learn how to start incorporating healthy habits into her life. It's for the woman who doesn't want to trade in her champagne for skinny jeans. It's for the woman who is done with dieting, and ready to start paying attention to her health before that number on the scale. It's for the woman who is ready to stop letting her weight define her, and is ready to understand why it always did. This is not a diet book. This is a lifestyle guide. This book will change the way you view your weight and yourself forever. You will walk away feeling empowered, inspired, and downright sexy (and probably craving a glass of bubbly). You will learn how to celebrate yourself and your body. You will learn to make your health a priority, always. And most importantly - you will learn to love yourself, exactly as you are. So get ready to embark on a complete dieting and lifestyle overhaul, sister. You are now on The Champagne Diet! "The Champagne Diet will resonate with every woman with it's realistic and simple approach to dieting. Alwill delivers a personal, relatable, and funny guide to shedding pounds without deprivation." - Kim Barnouin Co-Author, Skinny Bitch
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The book that launched a French Revolution about how to approach healthy living: the ultimate non-diet book—now with more recipes. “The perfect book.... A blueprint for building a healthy attitude toward food and exercise"—San Francisco Chronicle French women don’t get fat, even though they enjoy bread and pastry, wine, and regular three-course meals. Unlocking the simple secrets of this “French paradox”—how they enjoy food while staying slim and healthy—Mireille Guiliano gives us a charming, inspiring take on health and eating for our times. For anyone who has slipped out of her Zone, missed the flight to South Beach, or accidentally let a carb pass her lips, here is a positive way to stay trim, a culture’s most precious secrets recast for the twenty-first century. A life of wine, bread—even chocolate—without girth or guilt? Pourquoi pas?
In Girl Be Brave Chery Hale shares 100 days of encouragement, quotes, and photos, calling women everywhere to embrace lives of bravery. Inspired by the blog and online community of the same name, Hale helps readers chart their course to a more passionate and satisfying life with reflections like “Not Always Nice,” “No One Gets to Tell You,” and “Self-Care Is Not Vanity, Not Even Close,” accompanied by powerful images of brave women in action. If you’re looking for a little inspiration to pursue your dreams, or if you know someone whose past failures have left her unsure how to navigate her own, let Girl Be Brave help you face your fears, embrace your future, and discover that you are braver than you ever thought possible. Features: One hundred inspirational reflections. Reflections give readers the courage and confidence to move forward. Gift book ties in with existing Girl Be Brave product line. Casebound hardcover with ribbon.
"Fresh, charming, and wholly irresistible, Champagne Baby turns a familiar tale on its head: Instead of yet another American seeking the French secret to good living, a Frenchwoman finds her purpose--much to her surprise--in America,"--Amazon.com.
Divided into three parts, This Woman is Still Girl is a coming of age story told through poetry. Part One (Is Girl) unravels navigating puberty and sexuality, being slut shamed, the exclusion of being a child of mixed race and the strained relationship between mother and daughter. Part Two (Is In-between) shares the shattering, the break that starts the build, a raw picture of mental illness, heartbreak and the loss of a mother. Part Three (Is Woman) is about understanding who you were and who you are now with strength, resilience, healing, bravery and imperfection. Girl is roots, becoming someone. Woman is bloom, coming unleashed. This book is for the girls that lie(d) in bed at night feeling like they are not enough to fill the space that's been given to them, feeling forsaken and aching to be loved. It's to tell women they are not alone.
