Wine. All the Time.
Wine. All the Time.

Author: Marissa A. Ross

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2017-06-27

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0399574174

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“Can I just be Marissa, please? I want to be hilarious and sexy and smart and insanely knowledgeable about wine.” —Mindy Kaling A fresh, fun, and unpretentious guide to wine from Marissa A. Ross, official wine columnist for Bon Appétit. Does the thought of having to buy wine for a dinner party stress you out? Is your go-to strategy to pick the bottle with the coolest label? Are you tired of choosing pairings based on your wallet, instead of your palate? Fear not! Bon Appétit wine columnist and Wine. All The Time. blogger Marissa A. Ross is here to help. In this utterly accessible yet comprehensive guide to wine, Ross will walk you through the ins and outs of wine culture. Told in her signature comedic voice, with personal anecdotes woven in among its lessons, Wine. All the Time. will teach you to sip confidently, and make you laugh as you're doing it. In Wine. All The Time., you’ll learn how to: • Describe what you’re drinking, and recognize your preferences • Find the best bottle for you budget and occasion • Read and understand what’s written on a wine label • Make the perfect pairings between what you’re drinking and what you’re eating • Throw the best damn dinner party your guests will ever attend • And much more

Commonsense Book of Wine
Commonsense Book of Wine

Author: Leon D. Adams

Publisher: Board and Bench Publishing

Published: 1991-05-01

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 0932664768

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A popular wine appreciation guide for the novice and expert, this book is a concise, no-nonsense work that makes sense out of often confusing wine information. From understanding wine labels and making sense of wine rituals to understanding how to apply the methods of expert wine tasters to identify good wine values, this book is the perfect resource for anyone with an interest in wine.

T.C. Boyle Stories II
T.C. Boyle Stories II

Author: T.C. Boyle

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2014-09-30

Total Pages: 944

ISBN-13: 0143125869

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A second volume of collected short fiction—from the bestselling author and winner of the 2015 Rea Award for the Short Story Few authors write with such sheer love of story and language as T.C. Boyle, and that is nowhere more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and always entertaining short stories. In 1998, T.C. Boyle Stories brought together the author’s first four collections to critical acclaim. Now, T.C. Boyle Stories II gathers the work from his three most recent collections along with fourteen new tales previously unpublished in book form as well as a preface in which Boyle looks back on his career as a writer of stories and the art of making them. By turns mythic and realistic, farcical and tragic, ironic and moving, Boyle’s stories have mapped a wide range of human emotions. The fifty-eight stories in this new volume, written over the last eighteen years, reflect his maturing themes. Along with the satires and tall tales that established his reputation, readers will find stories speaking to contemporary social issues, from air rage to abortion doctors, and character-driven tales of quiet power and passion. Others capture timeless themes, from first love and its consequences to confrontations with mortality, or explore the conflict between civilization and wildness. The new stories find Boyle engagingly testing his characters’ emotional and physical endurance, whether it’s a group of giants being bred as weapons of war in a fictional Latin American country, a Russian woman who ignores dire warnings in returning to her radiation-contaminated home, a hermetic writer who gets more than a break in his routine when he travels to receive a minor award, or a man in a California mountain town who goes a little too far in his concern for a widow. Mordant wit, emotional power, exquisite prose: it is all here in abundance. T.C. Boyle Stories II is a grand career statement from a writer whose imagination knows no bounds.

The Orange Cat Bistro
The Orange Cat Bistro

Author: Nancy Linde

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 149763444X

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Claire leaves her pretentious and arty husband because he declared that her dream journal did not have enough Freudian imagery. Claire realizes that her dream is actually to spend some time alone on her personal and artistic development as a novelist. She rents an apartment above a bistro in New York City’s Greenwich Village. Claire pours all of her pain and doubt into a first novel featuring an unconventional heroine named Nevada whose trials mirror Claire’s own. As the novel progresses and Nevada takes on a life of her own, Claire finds herself changing as she realizes how much her life has been affected by a dark secret from her past. As she struggles to fully become her own woman within the whirlwind of the Manhattan art scene, Claire knows that the character she has created will only be able to come to life when she acknowledges her difficult past.

Malibu Summer
Malibu Summer

Author: Libby Gill

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2024-05-21

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0593512014

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Lose yourself in this opposites-attract romance set on a sunny Malibu hillside Ivy Bauer is a young, bright soil scientist and inventor of a game changing organic irrigation system. She’s on top of the world when, suddenly, her husband is killed in a biking accident. Needing space to grieve, she takes a summer job as a gardener in Malibu. Conrad Reed is a wealthy Hollywood has-been who, after the death of his wife, feels overwhelmed by the care of his anxious stepson Hudson, massive cliffside estate, and deteriorating career. He hopes Ivy will help take at least one thing off his plate. But the bossy, opinionated Ivy isn’t making things any easier for him. Sparks fly—and not the good kind. But it’s when Ivy finds the key to Hudson’s heart that Conrad’s own heart begins to melt as well—and then the sparks that fly are the ones that kindle the best kind of love affair . . .

The Darkest Corners
The Darkest Corners

Author: Sydney Jamesson

Publisher: SJ Publishing

Published: 2018-11-20

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 0957585063

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After surviving a life changing event, celebrated artist Maxwell Grant has not touched a paintbrush or a woman in four years. During that time, he has tormented himself over an unspeakable act he dare not admit to, even to himself. His one chance at redemption comes through a journal left behind by Harriet Harper, a mysterious woman in his night school class. Shocked by what he reads about her tortured existence, he becomes obsessed by her and falls headfirst into a dangerous game of he said, she said, not knowing who to believe—who to trust. When a dangerous character from Harriet’s past appears, events take a turn for the worse and he must say and do whatever necessary to save his sanity and, more importantly, his four year old daughter, Poppy. Some secrets never get to see the light of day; others are just waiting to be uncovered … with shocking consequences.

SURVIVING HER DOMINANT
SURVIVING HER DOMINANT

Author: T E Kessler

Publisher: Wise Publishing

Published: 2019-08-01

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 1393725953

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Life in the 21st century is tough due to the conflict between Jelvias and Humans. But Courtney, once consumed in a violent relationship, thought that was the least of her problems. But she escaped Greg and moved in with her best friend, Macy, telling her only the bare minimum of what happened. Macy has also been hiding a secret and hasn’t told Courtney how embroiled she is in the Jelvain culture. And although worried about her friend, she’s more worried about herself when Jelvian boss, Aldarn, takes an interest in her. She’s had enough of dangerous men. Courtney escapes by returning to her childhood home in Sleepy Name to be with her mum. But unbeknown to Courtney, two men followed her to Cornwall. Greg. Aldarn. They say that out of fear, the abused may settle for someone “safe” or who isn’t right. Courtney is going to make the biggest mistake of her life.

The Cat Tender
The Cat Tender

Author: Martin Drapkin

Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing

Published: 2016-07-19

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1457547767

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Maggie Mullen is an overweight twenty-seven-year-old woman who has built a quiet, simple life for herself that revolves around her cat-tending business, the time she spends with her own faithful feline Lucy, and her enduring love for Frank Sinatra. But things are quickly becoming complicated. Maggie is asked to be the maid of honor at her younger sister’s wedding: a nightmare prospect that threatens to take Maggie from her carefully constructed comfort zone and force her to face her past, present, and future. The life she’s been leading is her own . . . but is it enough? Maggie Mullen is an overweight twenty-seven-year-old woman who has built a quiet, simple life for herself that revolves around her cat-tending business, the time she spends with her own faithful feline Lucy, and her enduring love for Frank Sinatra. But things are quickly becoming complicated. Maggie is asked to be the maid of honor at her younger sister’s wedding: a nightmare prospect that threatens to take Maggie from her carefully constructed comfort zone and force her to face her past, present, and future. The life she’s been leading is her own . . . but is it enough? Maggie Mullen is an overweight twenty-seven-year-old woman who has built a quiet, simple life for herself that revolves around her cat-tending business, the time she spends with her own faithful feline Lucy, and her enduring love for Frank Sinatra. But things are quickly becoming complicated. Maggie is asked to be the maid of honor at her younger sister’s wedding: a nightmare prospect that threatens to take Maggie from her carefully constructed comfort zone and force her to face her past, present, and future. The life she’s been leading is her own . . . but is it enough?

On Second Thought
On Second Thought

Author: Kristan Higgins

Publisher: HQN Books

Published: 2017-01-31

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1460397789

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New York Times–Bestselling Author: “Emotional depth is seared into every page along with wry banter, bringing readers to tears and smiles.” —Library Journal (starred review) Ainsley O’Leary is so ready to get married—she’s even found the engagement ring her boyfriend has stashed away. What she doesn’t anticipate, after eleven years together during which she nursed him through cancer, is being blindsided by a breakup that he chronicles in a blog . . . which (of course) goes viral. Devastated and humiliated, Ainsley moves in with her older half sister, Kate, who’s struggling with a sudden loss of her own in upstate New York. Kate’s always been the poised, self-assured sister, but becoming a newlywed—and a widow—in the space of four months overwhelms her. Though the sisters were never close, she starts to confide in Ainsley, especially when she learns her late husband was keeping a secret from her. Despite the murky blended-family dynamic that’s always separated them, Ainsley’s and Kate’s heartaches will bind their summer together as they come to terms with the inevitable imperfection of relationships and family—and the possibility of one day finding love again . . . . “Higgins’s page-turner highlights both the complexity of family relationships and the intense power of love.” —Publishers Weekly “A captivating read about two sisters dealing with love, loss and new beginnings. What sets this book apart is how one event changes both women’s lives. Kate is refreshingly frank in her inner monologue, and Ainsley is charmingly self-aware and wry.” —RT Book Reviews, 5 stars (Top Pick) “Higgins’ complex, witty characters will seem like close friends, and readers will savor each and every page . . . [Higgins is a] women’s-fiction star.” —Booklist (starred review)

The Cat Who Solved Three Murders
The Cat Who Solved Three Murders

Author: L T Shearer

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2023-10-26

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1529098076

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'A terrific read - murder, arson and a cat who is so much more than he seems!' – J. M. Hall, author of A Spoonful of Murder The Cat Who Solved Three Murders by L T Shearer is a charming cosy crime read for fans of Richard Osman and S. J. Bennett. Retired police detective Lulu Lewis’s life changed forever when she met a street cat named Conrad. There’s something very special about Conrad, but it’s a secret she has to keep to herself. When Lulu takes her narrowboat to Oxford, she is planning nothing more stressful than attending a friend’s birthday party. And drinking a few glasses of Chardonnay. But a brutal murder and a daring art theft means her plans are shattered – instead, she and Conrad find themselves on the trail of a killer . . . A killer who may well strike again. 'A charming, off-beat story with some great characters and wonderful locations' – S. J. Bennett on The Cat Who Caught a Killer