A Proper Drink: The Untold Story of How a Band of Bartenders Saved the Civilized Drinking World
10 best books like A Proper Drink: The Untold Story of How a Band of Bartenders Saved the Civilized Drinking World (Robert Simonson): The Shape of Water, Devil in a Blue Dress, Savage Season, Savages, Patterns in Nature: Why the Natural World Looks the Way It Does, The Essential Cocktail: The Art of Mixing Perfect Drinks, Midnight in Europe, White Butterfly, A Red Death, A Hero in France
| Author | Andrea Camilleri |
| ISBN | 0142004715 |
The Shape of Water is the first in Andrea Camilleri's wry, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime series, featuring Inspector Montalbano.The goats of Vigàta once grazed on the trash-strewn site still known as the Pasture. Now local enterprise of a different sort flourishes: drug dealers and prostitutes...
When a jobless World War II vet named Easy Rawlins is hired to find a woman, he finds himself ensnared in a web of lies and murder. Can Easy find Daphne Monet without becoming another victim? And what secrets is Daphne Monet carrying?
Devil in a Blue Dress is a throwback to the pioneers of noir like...
| Author | Joe R. Lansdale |
| ISBN | 0753814382 |
Here comes Trudy back into Hap's life, thirty-six but looking ten years younger, with long blonde hair and legs that begin under her chin, and the kind of walk that'll make a man run his car off the road. Here comes trouble, says Leonard, and he's right. She was always trouble, but she had this laugh when...
| Author | Don Winslow |
| ISBN | 1439183368 |
Part-time environmentalist and philanthropist Ben and his ex-mercenary buddy Chon run a Laguna Beach-based marijuana operation, reaping significant profits from their loyal clientele. In the past when their turf was challenged, Chon took care of eliminating the threat. But now they may have come...
Though at first glance the natural world may appear overwhelming in its diversity and complexity, there are regularities running through it, from the hexagons of a honeycomb to the spirals of a seashell and the branching veins of a leaf. Revealing the order at the foundation of the seemingly chaotic...
The Essential Cocktail: The Art of Mixing Perfect Drinks
| Author | Dale DeGroff |
| ISBN | 0307405737 |
Dale DeGroff is widely regarded as the world’s foremost mixologist. Hailed by the New York Times as “single-handedly responsible for what’s been called the cocktail renaissance,” he earned this reputation during his twelve years at the fashionable Promenade Bar in New York City’s Rainbow...
| Author | Alan Furst |
| ISBN | 1400069491 |
Paris, 1938. As the shadow of war darkens Europe, democratic forces on the Continent struggle against fascism and communism, while in Spain the war has already begun. Alan Furst, whom Vince Flynn has called “the most talented espionage novelist of our generation,” now gives us a taut, suspenseful,...
| Author | Walter Mosley |
| ISBN | 0743451775 |
The police don't show up on Easy Rawlins's doorstep until the third girl dies. It's Los Angeles, 1956, and it takes more than one murdered black girl before the cops get interested. Now they need Easy. As he says: "I was worth a precinct full of detectives when the cops needed the word in the ghetto." But...
| Author | Walter Mosley |
| ISBN | 1852427698 |
'It has come to my attention, sir, that between August 1948 and September of 1952 you came into possession of at least three real estate properties.? 'I have reviewed your tax records back to 1945 and you show no large income, in any year. This would suggest that you could not legally afford such expenditures...'...
Spring, 1941. Britain is losing the war. Paris is occupied by the Nazis, dark and silent at night. But when the clouds part, and moonlight floods the city, a Resistance leader called Mathieu steps out to begin his work. The fighters of the French Resistance are determined not to give up. These courageous...
