Uncork your understanding of wine and develop your palate with 30 tasting lessonsEver wish you were the one to confidently grab the wine list and make a fantastic choice for the table? Wine Taster's Guide is your step-by-step manual to understanding why different wines taste the way they do through 30 tastings. You'll learn how grape varieties, wine-making processes, and regional styles impact the wine you drink.Find out how aging can affect the fi...

Awaken your inner strength to achieve the unthinkable in this extraordinary story that will inspire you to unlock your own unlimited possibilities.On a cold rainy night in 1989 Joe Roberts was homeless and destitute on a park bench in Vancouver. He made a promise if he was granted a second chance in life, he would pay it forward. Walk with Joe through his personal transformation, his success in business and the epic pay it forward campaign that saw Joe walk 9,064 km across Canada.

My Father Harry is a nostalgic view of a time and place that few have experienced. It is seasoned with proverbial lessons of a righteous father.

Joe Roberts stayed for five months with the Trivedis family in Bangalore, while travelling all over southern India. In Pondicherry he found Rita, a melancholic divorcee banished to an ashram. He saw the great temple at Madurai, watched the snakeboat races at Arunmala, stayed with Syriac Christians at Cochin and was offered heroin in a Jewish cemetery. Wherever he went he met extraordinary people, but these encounters take second place to his ripening friendship with the Trivedi family, and...

The Narrow Road: Poems along the Way.The Narrow Road is a collection of spiritual poems that chronicles Rev. Roberts' personal journey in search of, finding and walk with Jesus Christ. It is the author's hope that others will see their own walk among these words and that these poetical pieces might inspire, encourage, and aid in their own journey. The author also hopes that for those seeking meaning in their lives will ask the question, "Who is this Jesus and what can he do for me?...

In Poetry and Reflections of Joe Robert Shuford, poet Joe Shuford uses poetic verse in this manuscript to reflect on his experiences throughout life. “Choices Every Day” explores how both big and small decisions affect ourselves and those around us. The collection also includes a poem that lists “greetings one might say which affect your spirits in many ways.” The book also features verse about faith and spirituality, aging, pop culture, humanity, and “what makes life worth living.”

Take a journey to that place of the memory, of recalling good times, times that were not so good, a place you would like to return to if only for a little while. That place is OSullivans Place. Once there, you can explore, not only past memories, but current encounters with real people who face the daily grind of their jobs yet still perform out of dedication. Also explore some of the wonders and questions of nature and some of our most personable critters. And delve into the human experie...

A "humbling, inspiring . . . deeply emotional" biography of the boxing legend who held the heavyweight world championship for more than eleven years ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).Known as the Brown Bomber, Joe Louis defended his heavyweight title an astonishing twenty-five times. Through the 1930s, he got more column inches of newspaper coverage than President Roosevelt. At a time when the boxing ring was the only venue where black and white could meet...

“Elvis Cole provides more fun for the reader than any L.A. private eye to come along in years.”—Joseph WambaughWINNER OF THE ANTHONY AND MACAVITY AWARDS FOR BEST NOVEL • NOMINATED FOR THE EDGAR AND SHAMUS AWARDS FOR BEST NOVELMeet Elvis Cole, L.A. Private Eye. . . . He quotes Jiminy Cricket and carries a .38. He’s a literate, wisecracking Vietnam vet who is determined to never grow up.When quiet Ellen Lang enters Elvis Cole’s Disney...

'Crais just gets better and better . . . Crais's novels are as appealing as chocolate eclairs and just as satisfying. Trouble is, like cream cakes, I want to eat them all at once' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY***'***A nerve-racking, switchbacking tale of guilt and redemption...so good it gives you goosebumps' EVENING STANDARDJoe Pike is out for revenge and no cop, no bad guy, no one alive, is going to stop him.Frank Meyer h...

**Winner of the 2026 Edgar Award for Best NovelElvis Cole and his enigmatic partner, Joe Pike, race to find a terrifying, unidentified killer in this twisting, unpredictable thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Robert Crais.**Traci Beller was thirteen when her father disappeared in the sleepy town of Rancha, not far from Los Angeles. The evidence says Tommy Beller abandoned his family, but Traci never believed it. Now, ten years later, Traci is a high...

“[A] riveting novel with a vivid sense of place . . . Anyone who enjoys a well-written, fast-paced, noirish thriller with a great aha! moment shouldn’t miss The Forgotten Man.”—The Boston GlobeIn an alleyway in Los Angeles, an old man, clutching faded newspaper clippings and gasping his last words to a cop, lies dying of a gunshot wound. The victim claims to be P.I. Elvis Cole’s long-lost father—a stranger who has always haunted his son.As...