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1) The villa
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts exposes a proud family’s deadly secrets in this passionate tale of two Napa Valley rivals...
PR executive Sophia Giambelli loves her job and has never worried about competition. For three generations, her family’s wines have been world-renowned for their quality. But things are about to change at Villa Giambelli. Tereza, the matriarch, has announced a merger with the MacMillan...
PR executive Sophia Giambelli loves her job and has never worried about competition. For three generations, her family’s wines have been world-renowned for their quality. But things are about to change at Villa Giambelli. Tereza, the matriarch, has announced a merger with the MacMillan...
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A globetrotting detective story, filled with the culinary delights and entertaining characters from the national bestselling author of A Year in Provence and our most treasured chronicler of French life.
“Wine and food aficionados will find much to savor.... Light, funny, and packed with a menu’s worth of scrumptious descriptions of exceptional dinners and drinks.” —USA Today
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“Wine and food aficionados will find much to savor.... Light, funny, and packed with a menu’s worth of scrumptious descriptions of exceptional dinners and drinks.” —USA Today
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3) A good year
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English
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A delightful, best-selling tale about the business and pleasure of wine, adapted into a Ridley Scott movie starring Russell Crowe and Marion Cotillard.
Max Skinner has recently lost his job at a London financial firm and just as recently learned that he has inherited his late uncle’s vineyard in Provence. On arrival he finds the climate delicious, the food even better, and two of the locals ravishing. Unfortunately, the wine produced
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"When 76-year-old Natalie announces plans to marry within months of the death of her husband of 58 years, her family is stunned. Natalie decides that it's time to reveal her past and hires Olivia to help write her memoir. As the vineyard matures, her story unfolds."--
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Black Dog Bay ; 4
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"TURNING SOUR GRAPES INTO SPARKLING WINE Cammie Breyer needs a big glass of Cabernet--her restaurant failed and her chef boyfriend left for a hotter kitchen. Just when she thinks she's hit rock bottom, her aunt Ginger calls with a surprise. She has bought a vineyard--in Delaware. At Ginger's command, Cammie returns to Black Dog Bay, the seaside town where she spent her childhood summers with her aunt and her cousin Kat. The three women reunite, determined...
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Esbeth Walters is 72, a retired teacher, and shouldn't be messing around with murder, but when Texas Hill Country winemaster Win Castle pits his sons against each other over the inheritence of a 21,000 acre spread, including the winery where Esbeth works part-time, the result is murder, and Esbeth is in the middle of it. Texas Ranger Tillis Macrory and Sheriff Watkins think she knows more than she's telling.
10) Tangled vines
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Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1992]
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English
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A successful television news anchor who pulled herself through an ugly childhood is haunted by her past when she discovers that her father is linked to a murder on the famous Rutledge Estate Winery.
12) Awakened
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Waterhouse Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Ashley White can't wait to begin her internship at Steel Vineyards. As an oenology doctoral candidate, she knows all the theory but lacks practice. Working under renowned winemaker Ryan Steel--and his equally talented nephew, Dale--is an opportunity she can't refuse. Dale Steel is a loner. Despite his huge family full of uncles, aunts, and cousins, he's more at home in his vineyards, where he finds something that comes close to the tranquility he...
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Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
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English
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A Napa Valley chef investigates after her new beau is accused of dishing out murder in this cozy mystery by the author of Sharpshooter.
High-stakes wine fraud and murder disguised as a heart attack compel Sunny McCoskey to again toss aside her chef's apron and don the role of sleuth. When the list of suspects includes her new lover, the celebrity chef at a posh Napa Valley eatery, the personal risks of her investigation rise dramatically. With the...
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Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
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English
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A disturbing murder scene makes a Napa Valley chef hungry for justice in this cozy mystery by the author of Death by the Glass.
Returning from a party late one night, chef Sunny McCoskey is the first to discover the body of a murdered woman left outside a local winery. Shortly before, she'd seen a truck leaving a local winery, driving without its headlights on. Was it the murderer? And, did the murderer see her as well?
Thrust into the center of...
15) Root cause
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Publisher
Turner Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A winemaker and a wine expert hunt a destructive aphid that threatens the world's wineries." --
16) Nose
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
Description
Egotistic wine critic Clyde Craven-Jones gives a bottle of Cabernet the highest score on his self-devised scale, but the bottle's unknown provenance leads to problems ranging from compromised positions in a fermentation tank and an internal family squabble becoming a public scandal.
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English
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Brenna dreams of inheriting her family's winery, but her grandfather's chauvinistic attitudes and schemes against her drive her into the arms of Nic Giovanni, her secret ex-lover and her family's chief rival. Will Nic betray her, breaking her heart and taking over the winery?
20) Sonoma
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
Description
Epic story of the Morettis, a family turned against itself, in Sonoma County and the Moretti winery.
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