Download or read book Lethal Vintage written by Nadia Gordon and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2011-05-27 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Napa Valley chef turns up the heat on a killer at a billionaire’s pool party in this mystery from the author of Murder Alfresco. A decadent day of poolside sunbathing turns into a scandalous night—culminating in murder. By morning, the police are pounding on Sunny McCoskey’s door, and she is thrust into the center of a tense investigation involving a hedge-fund billionaire with a spectacular estate in California’s Napa Valley. Restaurant owner Sunny McCoskey and her usually fun-loving friends must juggle their culinary pursuits and a variety of suspicious characters in this delicious mystery. Steeped in good food, great wine, and plenty of summer heat, Lethal Vintage offers a fascinating look at what goes on in those mansions above the vines. Praise for Sharpshooter “[Sunny] is bright, tenacious, and extremely likable, and Gordon paints a vivid portrait of the Napa Valley and its wine-and-food culture. I’m looking forward to many more novels in this intriguing new series.” —Marcia Muller, New York Times–bestselling author of the Sharon McCone mysteries “Napa Valley, the good life, sunny skies, fine cuisine, and fleshy reds. But, isn’t there something murky at the bottom of the bottle? Yes, and it is murder, no less. The mystery of wine . . . If a wine does not have some mystery to it, we call it plonk. Sharpshooter is not plonk. A crime novel with taste.” —Kermit Lynch, author of Adventures on the Wine Route “Those of us who enjoy an authentic look into another culture while reading a mystery are going to enjoy joining Nadia Gordon in the wild, weird wine industry.” —Tony Hillerman, New York Times–bestselling author of the Leaphorn and Chee novels

Download or read book Lethal Passage written by Erik Larson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1995-01-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This devastating book illuminates America's gun culture -- its manufacturers, dealers, buffs, and propagandists -- but also offers concrete solutions to our national epidemic of death by firearm. "Touches on all aspects of the gun issue in this country. Gives great voice to that feeling...that something real must be done." --San Diego Union-Tribune "One of the most readable anti-gun treatises in years." --Washington Post Book World It begins with an account of a crime that is by now almost commonplace: on December 16, 1988, sixteen-year-old Nicholas Elliot walked into his Virginia high school with a Cobray M-11/9 and several hundred rounds of ammunition tucked in his backpack. By day's end, he had killed one teacher and severely wounded another. In Lethal Passage Erik Larson shows us how a disturbed teenager was able to buy a weapon advertised as "the gun that made the eighties roar." The result is a book that can -- and should -- save lives, and that has already become an essential text in the gun-control debate.

Download or read book Home written by Toni Morrison and published by Knopf Canada. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest novel from Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison. An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America after enduring trauma on the front lines that left him with more than just physical scars. His home--and himself in it--may no longer be as he remembers it, but Frank is shocked out of his crippling apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and take her back to the small Georgia town they come from, which he's hated all his life. As Frank revisits the memories from childhood and the war that leave him questioning his sense of self, he discovers a profound courage he thought he could never possess again. A deeply moving novel about an apparently defeated man finding himself--and his home.

Download or read book Sequels written by Janet G. Husband and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2009-07-30 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.

Download or read book Wine Fiction A Bibliography 4th Edition written by Warren R. Johnson and published by Second Harvest Books. This book was released on with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wine Fiction: A Bibliography 4th Edition will appeal to you who like to read fiction books with a wine, winery or vineyard theme. This 98-page book lists 2500 eBooks in 13 categories including Mystery, Novel, Romance, Story, Fantasy, Horror, to name six of the generas. These may be new, old, or hard-to-find books. New to this edition is a list of movies based on a wine fiction book. Click on a category in the Table of Contents to move to your genera of choice. Happy reading.

Download or read book The Baby Chase written by Jennifer Greene and published by Silhouette. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All she wanted was a baby. And if that meant falling into bedwith rugged P.I. Gabriel Devereaux, then Rebecca Fortunewould swallow her pride and seduce her nemesis. She knewhe would soon be gone from her life, so her secret would besafe. But then the eternally single Rebecca was shocked torealize her passion for Gabriel had gone beyond pretense.Would the father of her child ever feel the same way…especially with the lie between them?

Download or read book If You Can t Stand the Heat written by Robin Allen and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2011-05-08 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poppy Markham practically grew up at the family restaurant in Austin, Texas, and, until recently, worked as a sous chef under her surly stepsister, Ursula. Poppy's not sure if her dad will ever forgive her for leaving the family business to become a public health inspector-the most reviled figure in the restaurant industry-but when he asks her back into the kitchen to help out during the restaurant's grand re-opening, she can't refuse. Chaos ensues when the guest of honor, Michelin-rated chef Évariste Bontecou, is found stabbed to death with Ursula's knife. Sacrebleu! Sorting through everyone who had it in for the hot-headed, philandering French chef is worse than deboning a Coho salmon. Could it be the bad-boy sous chef eyeing his chance at the top or the conniving waitress rumored to be Évariste's paramour du jour? The closer Poppy gets to solving the mystery, the hotter things get. And as everyone knows: if you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen.

Download or read book Stick a Fork In It written by Robin Allen and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2012-07-08 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the owner of a new restaurant is found hanging from a rope, it's up to Poppy Markham to discover who sizzled his steak. As a health inspector and former chef, Poppy Markham thought she'd seen it all—until she steps into Capital Punishment. The restaurant's twisted concept—last meals of death row inmates—could be a hit only in outlandish Austin, Texas. But the macabre theme becomes all too real when co-owner Troy Sharpe is found dangling from a hangman's noose in the cinder block dining room. Discovering that Troy was a hard-drinking jerk leads Poppy to the rub: if Troy had more enemies than a jail has bars, which one sent him to the land of rigor-mortised restaurateurs? Praise: "A must-read for cozy lovers."—Publishers Weekly "An entertaining mystery set in the modern, dynamic city of Austin, Stick a Fork in It demonstrates Robin Allen's knowledge and skill as she masters her craft and entertains her readers."—Texas Books in Review

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Download or read book Vintage Hairstyles written by Emma Sundh and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the finger waves of the romantic 1910s to the beehive of the rebellious 1960s, retro hair has made a comeback. Vintage Hairstyles presents all the tools, techniques, and step-by-step instructions needed to achieve eye-catching looks for every occasion. Trendsetters, hairstylists, and fashionistas will love creating elegant updos for special events or playful curls for everyday excursions. Featuring a history of beauty trends by the decades, a list of must-have hair products, and projects for making chic hair accessories, Vintage Hairstyles showcases classic beauty with a fresh twist.

Download or read book The Winnowing Flame Trilogy written by Jen Williams and published by Headline. This book was released on 2022-12-01 with total page 1513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join the heroes of the THE WINNOWING FLAME TRILOGY as they battle a terrible and ancient evil, in the complete collection from the two-time British Fantasy Award-winning author Jen Williams. Perfect for fans of Adrian Tchaikovsky, Brandon Sanderson and Scott Lynch. 'Diverse, different and intriguing . . . this is fantasy at its very best' STARBURST _______________ THE NINTH RAIN The great city of Ebora once glittered with gold. Now its streets are stalked by wolves. Tormalin the Oathless has no taste for sitting around waiting to die - and when eccentric explorer, Lady Vincenza 'Vintage' de Grazon, offers him employment, he sees an easy way out. Joined by a fugitive witch with a tendency to set things on fire, the adventurers are quickly drawn into a tangled conspiracy of magic and war. For the Jure'lia are coming, and the Ninth Rain must fall... THE BITTER TWINS The Ninth Rain has fallen. The Jure'lia are awake. Tormalin the Oathless and the fell-witch Noon must rally the first war-beasts to be born in Ebora for three centuries - hatched too soon and with no memory of their past incarnations, these winged creature are unprepared to face an ancient enemy who grow stronger each day. Vintage believes the key to uniting the war-beasts may lie on a distant and mysterious island. A perilous journey lies ahead, while new monsters lie in wait for those left behind. THE POISON SONG The war is far from over. In Ebora, all is chaos, all is confusion. The connection that Tormalin, Noon and Vintage share with their war-beasts has kept them alive so far, but with Tor's sister Hestillion hell-bent on bringing ruthless order to the next enemy attack - the people of Sarn will need all the help they can get. Noon knows just where to recruit a new - and powerful - army. But even she underestimates the epic quest that is to come: a reckoning that will change Sarn forever. _______________ ⭐ READERS LOVE THE WINNOWING FLAMES TRILOGY ⭐ 'One of my FAVOURITE epic fantasies. . . takes all the old favourite conventions and tropes, and changes them, for the better' 'Jen William's takes world building to a different level entirely' 'A fantastic unique world, wonderful characters, plenty of snark and humour, weird and wonderful monsters, and some brutal plot twists' 'One of my favourite fantasy series in years. I could not put my Kindle down' 'One of the best combinations of stunning world-building, epic storytelling and memorable characters I've ever read!' 'The kind of inventive, diverse, and emotional fantasy writing the genre really needs . . . so creative, so vibrant and refreshingly different' 'Quite simply one of the best fantasy novel trilogies I have read in a long time' 'The kind of fantasy that makes you feel really, really good. It gives you hope. It feeds your soul'

Download or read book The Ninth Rain The Winnowing Flame Trilogy 1 written by Jen Williams and published by Headline. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel** The first book in the award-winning Winnowing Flame trilogy. Epic fantasy for fans of Robin Hobb and Jay Kristoff. 'Fantasy adventure at its very best' Starburst 'Williams excels at eldritch world-building' Guardian 'An original new voice in heroic fantasy' Adrian Tchaikovsky The great city of Ebora once glittered with gold. Now its streets are stalked by wolves. Tormalin the Oathless has no taste for sitting around waiting to die while the realm of his storied ancestors falls to pieces - talk about a guilt trip. Better to be amongst the living, where there are taverns full of women and wine. When eccentric explorer, Lady Vincenza 'Vintage' de Grazon, offers him employment, he sees an easy way out. Even when they are joined by a fugitive witch with a tendency to set things on fire, the prospect of facing down monsters and retrieving ancient artefacts is preferable to the abomination he left behind. But not everyone is willing to let the Eboran empire collapse, and the adventurers are quickly drawn into a tangled conspiracy of magic and war. For the Jure'lia are coming, and the Ninth Rain must fall... What readers are saying about THE NINTH RAIN: 'The Ninth Rain was an amazing and captivating start to a trilogy; simple as that. I have a really good feeling that The Winnowing Flame Trilogy will become a new and long-awaited addition to my list of favorite trilogies of all time' 'What a world! What characters! What beasties! WHAT A BOOK!' 'I loved everything about this book: the characters, the plot, the monsters, the twists and turns. Masterfully handled and beautifully written'

Download or read book Lethal Treasure written by Jane K. Cleland and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Josie Prescott, an abandoned storage unit is the perfect place to find some killer treasure. In the auction crowd is local interior designer Henri Dubois, bidding against a stranger. Josie is thrilled to win a small unit filled with Depression-era glassware and stunning vintage jewelry. Henri's unit includes hand-painted silent movie posters, which he asks Josie to appraise. But the next morning, she receives a frantic call from Henri's wife: he never made it home.

Download or read book VINTROPEDIA Vintage Computer and Retro Console Price Guide 2009 written by Michael Starr and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-07-09 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering a time span of 1968 to 1998, and encompassing a spectrum of over 14,000 items across the history of the computer, console, accessories and software markets, the Vintropedia 2009 Price Guide is the definitive resource to a collector's needs.Included within are prices (in GBP), machine specifications, regions of origin, release dates, model names, publishing companies, old ads and more! Look no further than Vintropedia, a guide created by collectors, for collectors.

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Download or read book Going Vintage written by Lindsey Leavitt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Live like it's 1962 in this fun, contemporary YA read from the never-out-of-date Lindsey Leavitt.