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WAR

by Sebastian Junger

Published: 2011-05-17

Paperback: 320 pages

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In WAR, Sebastian Junger (The Perfect Storm) turns his brilliant and empathetic eye to the reality of combat--the fear, the honor, and the trust among men in an extreme situation whose survival depends on their absolute commitment to one another. His on-the-ground account follows a single ...

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The Sackett Brand (The Sacketts #10)

by Louis L'Amour

Published: 1985-11-01

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In The Sackett Brand, Louis L’Amour spins the story of a courageous man who must face overwhelming odds to track down a killer.Tell Sackett and his bride, Ange, came to Arizona to build a home and start a family. But on Black Mesa something goes terribly wrong. Tell is ambushed and badly...

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Belle Cora

by Phillip Margulies

Published: 2014-10-07

Paperback: 608 pages

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In the home where Arabella Godwin was raised it is forbidden to speak her name, and her picture is turned to the wall. But in the turbulent America of the 1850s, everyone knows her as "Belle Cora," madam of San Francisco's finest bordello. Judges and senators do her bidding; a vicious news...

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The Road to Burgundy: The Unlikely Story of an American Making Wine and a New Life in France

by Ray Walker

Published: 2014-06-03

Paperback: 304 pages

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An intoxicating memoir of an American who discovers a passion for French wine and gambles everything to chase a dream of owning a vineyard in Burgundy  Ray Walker had a secure career in finance until a wine-tasting vacation ignited a passion he couldn’t stifle. He quit his job and moved...

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Adventures on the Wine Route: A Wine Buyer's Tour of France

by Kermit Lynch

Published: 2013-11-12

Hardcover: 288 pages

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When Adventures on the Wine Route was first published, Victor Hazan said, “In Kermit Lynch’s small, true, delightful book there is more understanding about what wine really is than in everything else I have read.” A quarter century later, this remarkable journey of wine, travel, and ...

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Vino Italiano: The Regional Wines of Italy

by Joseph Bastianich, David Lynch

Published: 2005-08-02

Paperback: 544 pages

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At one time, Italian wines conjured images of cheap Chianti in straw-wrapped bottles. More recently, expensive “Super Tuscans” have been the rage. But between these extremes lay a bounty of delicious, moderately priced wines that belong in every wine drinker’s repertoire.Vino Italian...

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Making Sense Of Wine

by Matt Kramer

Published: 2004-12-01

Paperback: 240 pages

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The paperback edition of this highly praised wine classic includes a new preface and an all-new chapter that covers changes and advances in winemaking since the book’s initial publication in 1989. Kramer explores connoisseurship through the practical devices of ?thinking wine” and ?dri...

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The New California Wine: A Guide to the Producers and Wines Behind a Revolution in Taste

by Jon Bonne

Published: 2013-11-05

Hardcover: 304 pages

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A comprehensive guide to the must-know wines and producers of California's "new generation," and the story of the iconoclastic young winemakers who have changed the face of California viniculture in recent years. The New California Wine is the untold story of the California wine industry:...

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The Daring Ladies of Lowell

by Kate Alcott

Published: 2014-10-28

Paperback: 304 pages

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Eager to escape life on her family’s farm, Alice Barrow moves to Lowell in 1832 and throws herself into the hard work demanded of “the mill girls.”  The hours are long and the conditions are bad, but Alice soon finds a true friend in Lovey Cornell, a saucy, strong-willed girl who is...

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Lisette's List: A Novel

by Susan Vreeland

Published: 2014-08-26

Hardcover: 432 pages

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From Susan Vreeland, bestselling author of such acclaimed novels as Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Luncheon of the Boating Party, and Clara and Mr. Tiffany, comes a richly imagined story of a woman’s awakening in the south of Vichy France—to the power of art, to the beauty of provincial life, ...