• The first of a new series for readers for Mango curated by Books and Books! • . The upward trend for wine consumption in America is positive, and expected to keep growing at a small but steady rate of around 2 to 3 percent per year. • Wine tourism is a fast growing business with people taking vacations for the single purpose of trying new wines. • What beverage has grown continuously in consumption for the past 20 years in America? Wine. The popularity of wine has reached new heights and...

A delightfully informative guide to two of the world's most rewarding pleasures—fine wine and great literature—that make for an irresistible pairing.Nothing in the world is more satisfying to the soul than a glass of excellent cabernet sauvignon, pinot grigio, bordeaux, or any number of fine varietals—unless it's curling up by the fire with a truly exceptional novel, history, or collection of short fiction. Now Patrick Alexander, wine aficionado and author of T...

This book examines the nature of age as an aspect of social identity and its relationship to experiences of formal education. Providing a new and critical approach to debates about age and social identity, the author explores why age remains such an important aspect of self-making in contemporary society. Through an ethnographic account of a secondary school in the south-east of England, the author poses three principal questions. Why are schools in English organised according to age? How ...

An ancient evil defeated, the heroes return home, but something still feels off. Unable to fully process just what that something is, they are plunged into a fight for their very lives as a bestial war descends upon them. Can they repel this latest threat to their way of life while hunting for the answers they seek or are they already doomed?

A warrior priest lies wounded beyond measure, but refuses to succumb to death's siren call. While his ancient enemy gathers her strength and readies a plan to thrown the land of Embre into all out war. Can the warrior priest and his allies rally in time to avoid annihilation, or will all of their struggles be in vain? Find out in the third and final book of the Trinity collection.

An accessible, irreverent guide to one of the most admired—and entertaining—novels of the past century: Rememberance of Things Past. There is no other guide like this; a user-friendly and enticing entry into the marvelously enjoyable world of Proust.At seven volumes, three thousand pages, and more than four hundred characters, as well as a towering reputation as a literary classic, Proust’s novel can seem daunting. But though begun a century ago, in 1909, it is in fact as ...

Martin Harrison is childless. He needs an heir: a man who will lead the Progressive Agenda, a man with no emotions except loyalty to the Madison ideal. He needs his own Dream Catcher, and he has found him in Mathew Fuller.As Mathew prepares for his future role, he meets Robbie and Adam for the first time. These two yellow-eyed men must face the new Dream Catcher and survive in a world that wants them to fail.Meanwhile, the Brotherhood leadership is under threat, and Harriso...

To save the planet you must earn your place. Those who cannot or will not contribute should not take from the planet.This is a powerful and compelling argument in a world alarmed by massive over population, global warming and dwindling resources; it is an argument Alexander chooses to fight but knows he cannot win. No country wants a new god especially one who tries to stop progress.Matrix may have won the revolution, but the ideas of New Fabian have found a new an...

An ancient evil stirs in a temple long forgotten. For fifty years it has been trapped, as the world above prospered; its people in balance with one another. But the Dark King's malice and spite are unending and after fifty years of bombardment, cracks have begun to appear. Some of the people of Embre have noticed a change in the land and the balance they cherish. They feel the balance weakening. But will this knowledge be in time to halt the oncoming storm which threatens to once again swe...

It is 2053, six years after the Final Reckoning, six years since the ‘death’ of the Dream Catcher. The world is changing. The revolution has failed and the substrata are once again under attack. The Madison elite believe they have destroyed Matrix and the Brotherhood. They thought they had won.Yet unexpectedly, progressive has been slow. Harrison is sure he knows why. Madison failed to destroy Cyclops. Cyclops is holding back the Balanced Society.Therefore Cyclops must die....

Elmscott is a world of lies, whispering walls and shadows that contain men with guns. And at the centre of this dark world sits Martin Harrison, a man defined by secrets, a man who has learned to keep his secrets close to his heart, even from his Truth Seeker, Mathew Fuller.Harrison does not trust his Dream Catcher. And his Dream Catcher does not trust him. Mathew also has secrets to protect, and soon he is setting in motion his own plans and ambitions.As friend betrays fri...

Everyone has a story to tell and this is the story of Matrix – the Dream Catcher.It begins in 2012 in a small cottage hospital in the Scottish Highlands. A boy with yellow eyes is born – destined to be an outcast – a god – a devil – Matrix. A man who will suffer more than any man and who will lead a revolution to free people like him from institutional abuse and murder.Matrix can read your heart, steal your dreams and make them into your darkest nightmares. This is his promi...