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  • Breakfast in Burgundy

    A Hungry Irishman in the Belly of France

    by Raymond Blake ...
    Laced with compelling writing about French food and its ways, Breakfast in Burgundy is part travel memoir, part foodie detective story, and part love song to Raymond’s adopted home. This book tells the story of the Blakes’ decision to buy a house in Burgundy. Raymond describes the moments of despair-such as the water leak that cost a fortune-and the fantastic times too.Blake has admitted to being ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Wine Talk

    An Enthusiast's Take on the People, the Places, the Grapes, and the Styles

    by Raymond Blake ...
    In Wine Talk, seasoned wine professional Raymond Blake, who has been writing about wine for twenty-five years, caters to those who want to drink their wine without ceremony but with some engagement. For those who have been put off by highfalutin terminology and forbidding ritual. For those who want the message simplified but not dumbed down and for those who love a glass of wine but for whom ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • How to Land a Top-Paying CPR instructors Job: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, Interviews, Salaries, Promotions, What to Expect From Recruiters and More

    by Blake Raymond ...
    For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first CPR instructors job, or to apply for a better job.What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Côte d'Or

    The wines and winemakers of the heart of Burgundy

    by Raymond Blake ...
    Series series The Classic Wine Library
    Located in the very heart of Burgundy, Côte-d’Or stretches for a narrow 35-mile band but holds some of the world’s most expensive vineyard real estate, where some of the great names of French wine, such as Gevrey-Chambertin, Nuits-Saint-Georges and Puligny-Montrachet, are produced. There is hardly another wine region where knowledge of the back-story is so critical to understanding the wine, for ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Sun Sets In The West

    The Sun Sets in the West is an intriguing and creative novel set in Southern California mingling reality-based events with larger-than-life fiction.The story takes the reader through the journey of a virtuous man who seeks to set things right. The plot combines science fiction, romance, history, mystery, murder and intrigue. The theme entails justice on a grander scale. The novel depicts a hero ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Canadians at Last

    The Integration of Newfoundland as a Province

    by Raymond Blake ...
    Series series Heritage
    History provides some interesting case studies of what happens when trade barriers come down. Among them is the story told in this book of Newfoundland's integration into Canada in the aftermath of the province's 1948 referendum. Raymond B. Blake takes a refreshing approach to this episode in Canadian history, avoiding the old shibboleths of conspiracy and local nationalism, and instead making a ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Raymond Blake's Directory of Côte d'Or Producers

    by Raymond Blake ...
    Series series The Classic Wine Library
    This short ebook comprises a select directory of Côte d’Or wine producers. Raymond Blake provides profiles of 49 of his favourite wine producers across the côte’s two sub-regions, the Côte de Nuits and the Côte de Beaune. The experience of drinking a great Côte d’Or wine is one Blake believes is difficult to match – as are the prices paid for some parcels of land in this small but celebrated ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

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    Series series The Classic Wine Library
    This short ebook comprises a directory of many of the most significant producers of wine in Greece today. Greek Master of Wine Konstantinos Lazarakis offers profiles of over 170 of Greece’s 700 wine producers. Wine is made across the country, from the influential and innovative wines of Macedonia, to the vivid Mediterranean wines of the Peloponnese and Greece’s many island wines. Producers are ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • The Shape of a Life

    One Mathematician's Search for the Universe's Hidden Geometry

    A Fields medalist recounts his lifelong effort to uncover the geometric shape—the Calabi-Yau manifold—that may store the hidden dimensions of our universe.Harvard geometer Shing-Tung Yau has provided a mathematical foundation for string theory, offered new insights into black holes, and mathematically demonstrated the stability of our universe. In this autobiography, Yau reflects on his improbable ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • (Not Quite) Mastering the Art of French Living

    WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLEREvery year upon arriving in Plobien, the small Breton town where he spends his summers, American writer Mark Greenside picks back up where he left off with his faux-pas–filled Francophile life. Mellowed and humbled, but not daunted (OK, slightly daunted), he faces imminent concerns: What does he cook for a French person? Who has the right-of-way when entering or ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Writers and Their Notebooks

    Edited by Diana M. Raab ...
    A peek inside the writerly testing grounds of Sue Grafton, Kim Stafford, Maureen Stanton, and othersThis collection of essays by well-established professional writers explores how their notebooks serve as their studios and workshops—places to collect, to play, and to make new discoveries with language, passions, and curiosities. For these diverse writers, the journal also serves as an ideal forum ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Pardon My French

    How a Grumpy American Fell in Love with France

    by Allen Johnson ...
    To make a friend is a joy. To make a friend in another country is a wonderment-a small miracle. Pardon My French follows the lives of an American couple who have embraced a daunting mission: Not to be spectators in France, but to be absorbed by France.Amidst the minefields of linguistic faux pas, the perplexities of French gestures, the exquisite and often exotic cuisine, and the splendor of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD