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This is the story of the year 1998 in the Solari family vineyard at Bennett Lane near Calistoga: How the grapes were grown, the problems that time and nature threw in their way. The harvest, the fruit, the family. You will remember this book every time you drink a glass of wine.

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TRAMPER tells the story of the Capelin, a battered old World War II supply ship that earns its keep crossing the stormy North Pacific between Seattle and the Aleutian Islands delivering cargo to the remote fishing villages of Western Alaska. Rugged trip, rugged people and a dangerous part of the world with a violent history. Its not tourist Alaska.

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“These are remarkable and poignant stories that need to be told.” —Ken BurnsMore than six million people watch Bob Dotson’s Emmy award-winning segment, American Story, on NBC’s Today Show. For the last four decades, Dotson has traveled the country searching out inspiring individuals who quietly perform everyday miracles. In the process, he has become the treasured cartographer of America’s heart and soul.Today’s news is overwhelmingly grim; it’s al...

A hilarious collection of the funniest family-friendly jokes, quotes, stories, cartoons, and anecdotes from the past 100 years of Reader’s Digest magazine. A little chuckle every day will keep the doctor away.Editors have mined the Reader’s Digest archives to bring you Laughter Is the Best Medicine, All-Time Favorites, a collection of the most hilarious jokes and anecdotes we’ve come across over the years. As you turn the pages of our new...

With the warmth and humor we've come to know, the creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion shares his own remarkable story.In That Time of Year, Garrison Keillor looks back on his life and recounts how a Brethren boy with writerly ambitions grew up in a small town on the Mississippi in the 1950s and, seeing three good friends die young, turned to comedy and radio. Through a series of unreasonable lucky breaks, he founded A Prairie Home Com...

Some folks will often ask Tom what his columns in that Wisconsin newspaper are all about. He will answer, Do you mean the one in the Fennimore Times, called FennimoreAs I remember?As though there were any other. Then he will respond:Oh, I write about a special place, friends and neighbors, happy times what ever. Like swimming pools and pool halls, town constables and chiefs. City parks, paper routes, pastors, parsons and priests.I wont forget town and country schools and dedi...

Thumbs Up, V for Victory, I Love You chronicles a special time, from the early 1940s through the mid-50s. It reveals how people moved forward in a world in tumult, and the payoff they received having survived it. Its about a handful of kids who because they were in the right place at the right time were provided an education well above the norms of the day. It reflects the melodrama that is real life, when young and old lived each day to the fullest while making the most of what they had. ...

Growing up in the Great Depression, serving in World War II, living through the rapidly changing times of our modern age Ed Pendrys witnessed most of the twentieth century. Perhaps nothing so appropriately symbolized the quickening lifestyle of America as much as the rise of the fast food industry. Granting us a unique perspective, Pendrys memoirs take us back to the industrys very beginnings. Owner of the very first Chicago area Burger King, and the second one in the world outside of Flor...

Voices of Sag Harbor collects more than 80 reminiscences about life in Sag Harbor. It's a broad range of voices and backgrounds, all bound together by their fierce attachment to Sag Harbor and their awareness that despite the many profound changes that have taken place over the past several decades, this is a village that still holds them close. As E. L. Doctorow notes in his Foreword, "Sag Harbor... is a modestly lovely creation, human in scale, with its history available on every stre...