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This classic follows coffee's journey around the world, from London to Brazil, telling in fascinating detail and amusing anecdote the singular history of the legendary commodity - from the discovery that chewing on the beans were keeping goats awake in Yemen to the author's own experiences with the bean in 1935.

Die große Welt des Tees, die bewegende Geschichte einer Frau, die ihren Weg geht und das Schicksal einer Kaufmannsfamilie - der zweite Band der Ronnefeldt-Saga. Frankfurt 1853: Die Teehändlerin Friederike Ronnefeldt möchte ihre zunehmend erwachsenen Kinder gut versorgt wissen. Schließlich hängt auch das Familienunternehmen von den Zukunftsplänen der neuen Generation ab. Doch die Geschwister entwickeln - zum Leid Friederikes - ihre eigenen Ideen. Mine lockt das Schauspiel, Elise möchte Lehrerin werden, anstatt zu heiraten, und Wilhelm möchte Malerei studieren.

Elle and Laurie are the last ones standing: they're single, they're not having babies any time soon and their weekends aren't filled with joyful meetings about mortgages. For Elle, this is fine. She likes her independent life, but Laurie wants love and she wants it now. So when Laurie begs Elle to come with her on a singles holiday to a beautiful vineyard in Tuscany, Elle is reluctant. She has no intention of swapping her perfectly lovely life for someone else's idea of her Mr Perfect, but 10 days under the Italian sun with her best friend and lashings of wine?

Camille Di Maio's novel The First Emma is the true story of Emma Koehler, whose tycoon husband, Otto, was killed in a crime-of-the-century murder by one of his two mistresses - both also named Emma - and her unlikely rise as CEO of a brewing empire during Prohibition. When a chance to tell her story to a young teetotaler arises, a tale unfolds of love, war, beer, and the power of women. 

The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo is a long essay linking the role of tea (teaism) to the aesthetic and cultural aspects of Japanese life. Addressed to a western audience, it was originally written in English and is one of the great English tea classics. Okakura had been taught at a young age to speak English and was proficient at communicating his thoughts to the Western mind. In his book, he discusses such topics as Zen and Taoism, but also the secular aspects of tea and Japanese life.

Max Bischoff, begnadeter Fallanalytiker, ermittelt in seinem 3. Fall – Der neue Thriller von Nr. 1-Bestseller-Autor Arno Strobel. Damit hat Fallanalytiker Max Bischoff nicht gerechnet. Keine andere als die Leiterin des KK 11 in Düsseldorf, Polizeirätin Eslem Keskin, die bislang kein gutes Haar an ihm gelassen hat, bittet Max um Hilfe. Er soll in dem kleinen Weinort Klotten an der Mosel inoffiziell in einem nie gelösten Vermisstenfall ermitteln.

Damit hat Fallanalytiker Max Bischoff nicht gerechnet. Keine andere als die Leiterin des KK 11 in Düsseldorf, Polizeirätin Eslem Keskin, die bislang kein gutes Haar an ihm gelassen hat, bittet Max um Hilfe. Er soll in dem kleinen Weinort Klotten an der Mosel inoffiziell in einem nie gelösten Vermisstenfall ermitteln. Keskin ist in ihrem privaten Umfeld auf neue Hinweise zu dem über zwanzig Jahre alten Fall gestoßen und hofft, dass es Max gelingt, die richtigen Schlüsse zu ziehen. Doch kaum vor Ort ereignet sich ein Mord. Max ist bald an etwas dran, aber ignoriert alle Warnungen.

The Book of Tea is much more than a book about tea. It's a celebration of the arts and culture of Japan, and a portrait of tea ceremony, the "Way of Tea", as the pinnacle of Japanese spirituality and artistic life. Written in 1906 by Kakuzo Okakura, curator of Chinese and Japanese Art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and a noted scholar and art critic, this modern classic traces the history of tea from its early medicinal uses in China, through the development of Chinese tea culture, and finally to the role of tea in Japanese Zen, culture, and politics.

Every wine has a story. In this collection of elegantly written essays from the past 30 years, updated with a new introduction and endnotes, renowned author Gerald Asher informs wine enthusiasts with insightful, engrossing accounts of wines from Europe and America that offer just as much for those who simply enjoy vivid evocations of people and places. Asher puts wine in its context by taking the reader on a series of discursive journeys that start with the carafe at his elbow.