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September 2024: Wine and Yoga

September is National Yoga Month and California Wine Month. Relax, savor the season, and rekindle your divine spark with a great read from this mash-up list celebrating both!

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  • Adventures With Old Vines

    A Beginner's Guide to Being a Wine Connoisseur

    Richard L. Chilton Jr.
    “Adventures with Old Vines” offers an engaging and knowledgeable guide to demystify wine for novice enthusiasts. Richard Chilton provides detailed information about buying and storing wine, how to read a wine list, the role of the sommelier, wine…
    eBook, 2017Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2017
  • American Wine

    a Coming-of-age Story

    Acitelli, Tom,
    James Beard Book Award Nominee 2016 Readable Feast Winner 2016 From the author of The Audacity of Hops: The History of America's Craft Beer Revolution comes the triumphant tale of how America belted France from atop its centuries-old pedestal as…
    Book, 2015Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2015?]
  • SERIES: Auntie Poldie Novels Book 2: When prosecco-loving Auntie Poldi retired to Sicily from Germany, she never dreamt her tranquil days would be interrupted by murder. But Sicily had other plans, and Poldi found herself honor-bound to solve the…
    Book, 2019Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019
  • The Billionaire's Vinegar

    The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine

    Wallace, Benjamin
    It was the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold. In 1985, at a heated auction by Christie’s of London, a 1787 bottle of Château Lafite Bordeaux—one of a cache of bottles unearthed in a bricked-up Paris cellar and supposedly owned by Thomas…
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  • Max Maguire of the NYPD, daughter of a legendary NY cop and a French mother disowned by her aristocratic family when she married, met examining magistrate Olivier Chaumont over murder at the wedding of an old friend in the Champagne wine region.…
    Book, 2017Scottsdale, Arizona. : Poisoned Pen Press, 2017
  • Todiwala, perhaps London's most celebrated Indian chef, offers a collection of 105 recipes for "modern" Indian cuisine, including such delights as Jardaloo Ma Murghi (Chicken with Apricots) and Massala Na Papeta Ma Kolmi (Prawns with Spicy…
    Book, 1998San Francisco, Calif. : Soma Books : Distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West, c1998
  • Chi Fitness

    a Workout for Body, Mind, and Spirit : Movements and Meditations for Enhancing the Power of Your Life Force Energy

    Benton, Sue, 1957-
    The ultimate guide to creating a total mind-body-energy connection, Chi Fitness builds readers' self-esteem, enhances decision-making abilities, releases fear, and deepens relationships through simple yet powerful movements and meditations.
    Book, 2002New York : HarperResource, 2002, c2001
  • Cork Dork

    A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste

    Bosker, Bianca
    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' PICK “Thrilling . . . [told] with gonzo élan . . . When the sommelier and blogger Madeline Puckette writes that this book is the Kitchen Confidential of the wine world, she’s not wrong,…
    eBook, 2017Penguin Publishing Group, 2017
  • Welcome to Culinary Symphony: Pairing Food and Wine – a gastronomic journey where flavors harmonize and wines dance with dishes in perfect unity. In this book, we present exquisite recipes spanning appetizers, soups, salads, pasta, seafood, poultry,…
    eBook, 2024Richards Education, 2024
  • Cultivating Change

    Regenerating Land and Love in the Age of Climate Crisis

    Feely, Caro
    SERIES: Vineyard Series Book 4: Caro Feely is a South African-born Irish writer, Wine & Spirit Education Trust certified wine educator, winemaker organic activist, and yoga instructor living in Saussignac, France. What will it take to change? Can we…
    eBook, 2023Caro Feely, 2023
  • SERIES: Bruno Courreges Mysteries Book 2:In this riveting sequel to Martin Walker's internationally acclaimed novel Bruno, Chief of Police, some of France's great pleasures--wine, passion and intrigue--converge in a dark chain of events that…
    Book, 2010New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010, c2009
  • SERIES: Lord Francis Powerscourt Book 9: The scion of the Colvilles, who are wealthy wine merchants, is about to marry the daughter of the even grander Nash family. Immediately after the nuptials, the bridegroom's uncle Cosmo is found clutching a…
    Book, 2010New York : SOHO Constable, c2010
  • Desk Yoga Deck

    52 Simple Practices for Mental and Physical Wellness, No Matter Where You Work

    Zeer, DarrinTalleur-Zeer, Daisy
    Desk Yoga offers approachable stretching and wellness practices that are easy to incorporate into your workday routine, wherever your office might be. Work and life have changed, so it's time to change how we care for our bodies during work hours.…
    eBook, 2022Chronicle Books LLC, 2022
  • Do Your Om Thing

    Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

    Pacheco, Rebecca,
    From an acclaimed master yoga teacher and creator of one of the most popular yoga blogs on the Internet comes a contemporary guide to the full mind-body practice, combining intention and enlightenment with athleticism and physicality. While the…
    Book, 2015New York, NY : Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2015?]
  • Drunk Yoga

    50 Wine & Yoga Poses to Lift Your Spirit(s)

    Walker, Eli
    The OFFICIAL Drunk Yoga book by the rebel behind the viral phenomenon! The Drunk Yoga craze is taking over… not even your bookshelf is safe! The official Drunk Yoga book includes 50 fun (and funny!) variations on traditional yoga poses including: •…
    eBook, 2019Skyhorse, 2019
  • Weeks before her wedding, Georgia Ford finds out that her fiancé has a four-year-old daughter from his prior relationship with a famous actress. Georgia flees to her family's Sonoma Valley winery, only to find her parents' marriage foundering, her…
    Book, 2015New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015.