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Kensington Books
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English
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Booklover Sadie Coleman knows that in life, as in fiction, the right setting can make a world of difference. The small town of Shady Creek, Vermont, seems like the perfect place to start over after losing her Boston job to a merger and her relationship to her ex's gambling addiction. She's bought and redecorated the old grist mill pub, transforming the Inkwell into a cozy spot where tourists and regulars alike can enjoy a pint or a literary-themed...
2) The cocktail dictionary: an A-Z of cocktail recipes, from Daiquiri and Negroni to Martini and Spritz
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Mitchell Beazley
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Molly Forrester mysteries volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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Princeton Architectural Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Mixology in a minute! This cocktail recipe book from award-winning drink experts offers 60 delicious cocktails you can create in 60 seconds or less. Whether you have classic or adventurous taste, this guide to easy cocktail creation is the perfect addition to your home bar. The recipes include original drinks as well as tasty twists on the classics"--
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Publisher
Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From seasoned New York City bartender Natalie Jacob, founder of the blog Arsenic Lace, comes timeless cocktail recipes from the '40s, '50s and '60s, revamped with delightful contemporary flourishes. These unique recipes perfect midcentury and tiki-bar classics, while sprinkling in Natalie's cutting-edge twists to create heavenly cocktails that marry new and nostalgic flavors. Whether you're new to bartending, a seasoned professional or simply looking...
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English
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Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. Tom has lived history--performing with Shakespeare, exploring the high seas with Captain Cook, and sharing cocktails with Fitzgerald. Now, he just wants an ordinary life. So Tom moves back to London, his old home, to become a high school history teacher--the perfect job for someone who has witnessed the city's...
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English
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"In Death of a Christmas Mitten Knitter by Lee Hollis, food writer Hayley Powell discovers the dead body of a local knitter with a homemade mitten stuffed in her mouth. In Two Christmas Mittens by Lynn Cahoon, Mia Malone finds a dead body near one red mitten in the snow. Learning that an ancient curse is at play, Mia must find the missing mitten and solve the murder before someone she loves is the next victim. In Murderous Mittens by Maddie Day, after...
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Pub. Date
2013
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English
Description
Spring has sprung in Tinker's Cove, and Lucy Stone has a mile-long to-do list from painting eggs with her grandson, to preparing the perfect Easter feast, to reviving her garden after a long, cold winter, she hardly has time to search for a killer with a deadly case of spring fever. Lucy has always loved covering the annual Easter egg hunt for the Pennysaver. Hosted by elderly socialite Vivian Van Vorst at Pine Point, her luxurious oceanfront estate,...
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Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Reporter-turned-mixologist Samantha Warren has already thwarted one murder. Now, her world is shaken--definitely not stirred--once again as another killing throws her world into chaos. Samantha is mixing up traditional cocktails at the German Texan Lodge's Fourth of July festival--a gig she was roped into by her mother. But amidst the bratwurst and brass bands, trouble is brewing. Lodge loyalties are divided over a proposal to build a private, country-club-style...
12) Scone cold dead
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Liss MacCrimmon misses the life of a professional dancer with Strathspey, the Scottish dance company she belonged to before her knee injury forced her into early retirement. When the company goes on tour, Liss is instrumental in bringing the show to her hometown of Moosetookalook, Maine. But when the company manager collapses and dies after biting into one of Liss's prized cocktail scones, it's up to Liss to find out whodunit before the killer makes...
13) Yerba Buena
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English
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Cuando Sara Foster se escapa de casa con dieciséis años, deja atrás a la niña que un día fue, capaz de desarrollar vínculos de confianza e intimidad. Años después, ya establecida en Los Ángeles, se ha convertido en una codiciada barman, conocida tanto por sus brillantes cócteles como por el misterio que le rodea. Al otro lado de la ciudad, Emilie Dubois está estancada, anhelando la belleza y la comunidad que sus abuelos criollos cultivaron,...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata, whose Convenience Store Woman has now sold more than a million copies worldwide, returns with a brilliant and wonderfully unsettling collection, her most recent fiction to be published in Japan. In these twelve stories, Murata mixes an unusual cocktail of humor and horror and turns the norms and traditions of society on their head to better question them. In "A First-Rate Material," Nana and Naoki...
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English
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Desperate to obliterate her past, a young widow flees California for the French Riviera in this compelling debut, a tale of loss, rebirth, modern friendship, and romance that blends Sally Rooney's wryness and psychological insight with Emma Straub's gorgeous scene-setting and rich relationships. Just days after her young, handsome husband dies in a car accident, Ellie Huang discovers that he had a mistress--one of her own colleagues at a prestigious...
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When her boyfriend, Grayson Blake, is accused of murdering a food critic, who was linked to his past as a private investigator, pub proprietor Sadie Coleman, while serving up literary-themed cocktails during the A Taste of Shady Creek festival, shakes things up while trying to clear Grayson's name.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Blake Tarbell has a town to save. Rich, carefree, and used to the Vegas party lifestyle, Blake is thrown for a curve when his former cocktail-waitress mother pleads he go back to her roots to save the town she grew up in. Blake's used to using money to solve his problems, but when he arrives in Sweetheart, North Dakota, this city boy has to trade in his high-priced shoes for a pair of cowboy boots...and he's about to get a little help from the loveliest...
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Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"With gimlet eyed cool and razor sharp wit, The Low Desert explores both the depravity and humanity at the heart of Tod Goldberg's critically acclaimed gangster universe, first introduced in Gangsterland, continued in Gangster Nation, and expanded here with all-new and returning characters. The uncle of an FBI agent spends his life as sheriff in different cities, living too close to the violent acts of men; a cocktail waitress moves through several...
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