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Convenience Store Woman

by Sayaka Murata

Published: 2018-06-12

Hardcover: 176 pages

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The English-language debut of one of Japanâ??s most talented contemporary writers, selling over 650,000 copies there, Convenience Store Woman is the heartwarming and surprising story of thirty-six-year-old Tokyo resident Keiko Furukura. Keiko has never fit in, neither in her family, nor i...

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Sick: A Memoir

by Porochista Khakpour

Published: 2018-06-05

Paperback: 272 pages

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Boston Globe's 25 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018Buzzfeed's 33 Most Exciting New BooksBustle’s 28 Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2018 listNylon’s 50 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2018Electric Literature’s 46 Books to Read By Women of Color in 2018Huffington Post’s 60 B...

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The 158-Pound Marriage (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

by John Irving

Published: 2018-05-15

Kindle Edition: 176 pages

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"Irving looks cunningly beyond the eye-catching gyrations of the mating dance to the morning-after implications." --The Washington Post The darker vision and sexual ambiguities of this erotic, ironic tale about a ménage a quatre in a New England university town foreshadow those of The Wo...

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Rum Curious: The Indispensable Tasting Guide to the World's Spirit

by Fred Minnick

Published: 2017-06-01

Hardcover: 240 pages

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Best Spirits Book of 2017, Atlanta Journal-Constitution One of the Best Drinks Books, Summer of 2017, Punch.comRum Curious takes the you on a tour of the world of rum by teaching you how to taste and appreciate all of its glorious variety. Once the drink of sailors and swashbuckling p...

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The New Rum: A Modern Guide to the Spirit of the Americas

by Bryce T. Bauer

Published: 2018-06-05

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Nine countries, forty producers, and ten classic cocktailsRum, traditionally relegated to cloying cocktails or tropical- themed novelty drinks, is undergoing a global renaissance. In bars and distilleries across the world, rum is being defined as a dynamic, complex, and versatile drink. Ne...

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Short Course in Rum: A Guide to Tasting and Talking about Rum

by Lynn Hoffman

Published: 2015-02-24

Hardcover: 224 pages

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From swashbuckling pirates and Caribbean sugar plantations to rum punch and trendy tiki bars, rum is one of our best loved and most historic liquors. The Short Course in Rum began, naturally, as a look at noble, fragrant, complex, wood-aged rum: the type of liquor that's served in snifter...

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Smuggler's Cove: Exotic Cocktails, Rum, and the Cult of Tiki

by Martin Cate, Rebecca Cate

Published: 2016-06-07

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Martin and Rebecca Cate, founders and owners of Smuggler’s Cove (the most acclaimed tiki bar of the modern era) take you on a colorful journey into the lore and legend of tiki: its birth as an escapist fantasy for Depression-era Americans; how exotic cocktails were invented, stolen, and ...

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Caribbean Rum: A Social and Economic History

by Prof. Frederick H. Smith

Published: 2008-11-06

Paperback: 360 pages

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"The most significant contribution to the history of Caribbean rum since John McCusker's Rum and the American Revolution. . . . It adds significantly to McCusker’s work by analyzing the Caribbean environment in greater depth and by bringing the story forward by two centuries."--Anthony P...

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And a Bottle of Rum, Revised and Updated: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails

by Wayne Curtis

Published: 2018-06-05

Paperback: 320 pages

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Now revised, updated, and with new recipes, And a Bottle of Rum tells the raucously entertaining story of this most American of liquorsFrom the grog sailors drank on the high seas in the 1700s to the mojitos of Havana bar hoppers, spirits and cocktail columnist Wayne Curtis offers a histor...

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Winter Sisters

by Robin Oliveira

Published: 2018-02-27

Hardcover: 416 pages

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“Stunning. . . Oliveira writes with feeling.”—The New York Times Book Review“[An] engrossing story. . . that feels utterly timely.”—People, “The Best New Books”New York, 1879: An epic blizzard descends on Albany, devastating the city. When the snow finally settles, two newl...