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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...

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* * * * * Inspiring,
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Tin Man: A Novel

by Sarah Winman

Published: 2018-05-15

Hardcover: 224 pages

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From internationally bestselling author Sarah Winman comes an unforgettable and heartbreaking novel celebrating love in all its forms, and the little moments that make up the life of one man."My favorite book of the year was Tin Man. Sparsely written and achingly beautiful...The most power...

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Beatrix Potter the Complete Tales (Peter Rabbit)

by Beatrix Potter

Published: 2006-10-19

Hardcover: 400 pages

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This complete and unabridged collection contains all 23 of Beatrix Potter's Tales in one deluxe volume with all their original illustrations. The stories are arranged in the order in which they were first published so they may be read in their proper sequence. A special section at the end of this volume...

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The Warden's Daughter

by Jerry Spinelli

Published: 2018-05-01

Paperback: 368 pages

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From Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli (Maniac Magee, Stargirl) comes the "moving and memorable" (Kirkus Reviews, starred) story of a girl searching for happiness inside the walls of a prison.   Cammie O'Reilly lives at the Hancock County Prison--not as a prisoner, she's the warden's daught...

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Terminal City (An Alexandra Cooper Novel)

by Linda Fairstein

Published: 2015-08-04

Paperback: 512 pages

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Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper returns in the new breakneck thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of Death Angel who once again captures the essence of New York City—its glamour, its history, its possibilities, and its endless capacity for darkness. Grand Central Station is hi...

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City of Friends

by Joanna Trollope

Published: 2018-01-01

Paperback: 304 pages

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The day Stacey Grant loses her job feels like the last day of her life. Or at least, the only life she'd ever known. For who was she if not a City high-flyer, Senior Partner at one of the top private equity firms in London? As Stacey starts to reconcile her old life with the new—one with...