Nicholas's bookshelf: all en-US Sat, 26 Apr 2025 23:36:30 -0700 60 Nicholas's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Wine Simple: A Totally Approachable Guide from a World-Class Sommelier]]> 53045313 From the world-renowned sommelier Aldo Sohm, a dynamic, essential wine guide for a new generation

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY FOOD52

Aldo Sohm is one of the most respected and widely lauded sommeliers in the world. He's worked with celebrated chef Eric Ripert as wine director of three-Michelin-starred Le Bernardin for over a decade, yet his philosophy and approach to wine is much more casual. Aldo's debut book, Wine Simple, is full of confidence-building infographics and illustrations, an unbeatable depth of knowledge, effusive encouragement, and, most important, strong opinions on wine so you can learn to form your own. Imbued with Aldo's insatiable passion and eagerness to teach others, Wine Simple is accessible, deeply educational, and lively and fun, both in voice and visuals.

This essential guide begins with the fundamentals of wine in easy-to-absorb hits of information and pragmatic, everyday tips—key varietals and winemaking regions, how to taste, when to save and when to splurge, and how to set up a wine tasting at home. Aldo then teaches you how to take your wine knowledge to the next level and evolve your palate, including techniques on building aĚýâ€�flavor library,”Ě�a cheat sheet to good (and great) vintages (and why you shouldn't put everything on the line for them), tips on troubleshooting tricky wines (corked? mousy?), and, for the daring, even how to saber a bottle of champagne. This visual, user-friendly approach will inspire readers to have the confidence, curiosity, and enthusiasm to taste smarter, drink boldly, and dive headfirst fearlessly into the exciting world of wine.

Praise for Wine Simple

“If you’ve ever felt like you ought to be smart about wine, this is the book. Aldo makes wine approachable and never dumbed down.â€�—Madeline Puckette,Ěýco-founder ofĚýWine Folly

“A meal at Le Bernardin is always an incredible experience, especially with Aldo’s expert knowledge and effortless charm! It can be intimidating to choose wine, but withĚýWine Simple we can all feel like world-class sommeliers.â€�—Chrissy Teigen

“Whoever thinks wine is all about snobbery and intricate complexity should open this book! In less than 300 pages, Aldo Sohm manages to open the doors of this universe with wit, fun, and great pedagogy. A perfect, personal beginner’s guide by a legend in our industry,ĚýWine SimpleĚýwill surely be the bedside book for a new generation of wine lovers.â€�—Pascaline Lepeltier, Master Sommelier and managing partner, Racines NY]]>
265 Aldo Sohm 1984824260 Nicholas 5 4.44 Wine Simple: A Totally Approachable Guide from a World-Class Sommelier
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<![CDATA[Drink with the Devil (Sean Dillon #5)]]> 6498561 340 Jack Higgins 1101203625 Nicholas 5 4.31 1996 Drink with the Devil (Sean Dillon #5)
author: Jack Higgins
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average rating: 4.31
book published: 1996
rating: 5
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<![CDATA[The Accidental Connoisseur: An Irreverent Journey Through the Wine World]]> 19052392 274 Lawrence Osborne Nicholas 3 3.77 2004 The Accidental Connoisseur: An Irreverent Journey Through the Wine World
author: Lawrence Osborne
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average rating: 3.77
book published: 2004
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<![CDATA[Yukon Revenge (C.E. Brody, #2)]]> 51053300 "...Baird's high-octane sequel to 2016's Yukon Audit..." � Publishers Weekly

"...a fantastic sequel...another tight plot with plenty of action and adventure, right from the word go." � Readers' Favorite

Meet C.E. Brody, a Yukon renaissance man who leads a solitary life on the edge of civilization. Living without cell phones or internet is just fine with him—with a cabin on the river, a vehicle repair shop, an old pickup truck and plane, and two dogs to keep him company—he has everything he needs. Or does he?

It’s been a year since Brody was lucky to escape with his life after a harrowing chase down the Yukon River. A mobster named Kay had been intent on killing him, but after the two men entered a white water maelstrom, only Brody got through. Kay’s body was never found, and as far as Brody’s concerned, the man drowned. But with two recent murders pointing to Kay, the RCMP aren’t so sure about that.

After a suspicious fire close to home, Brody’s plane is vandalized, his dogs go missing, and a woman is murdered at his cabin. When he takes a contract to fly rock samples out of a remote mine site, the FBI turns up. They say the mine is a stock market scam and want Brody to fly in one of their undercover agents to investigate. But when that undercover agent turns out to be a former girlfriend—whom he barely recognizes—and with Kay still on the loose...

Now charged, tried and convicted by a pesky reporter for three murders and an assault he didn’t commit, and with the RCMP more hindrance than help, and with the FBI not concerned about finding Kay, Brody knows only he can unravel the mess he’s in. And that will take a lot of luck.

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518 Ken Baird Nicholas 5 4.62 2019 Yukon Revenge (C.E. Brody, #2)
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average rating: 4.62
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Dead Eye (Gray Man, #4) 75438101
Court Gentry has always prided himself on his ability to disappear at will, to fly below the radar and exist in the shadows—to survive as the near-mythical Gray Man. But when he takes revenge upon a former employer who betrayed him, he exposes himself to something he’s never had to face before: a killer who is just like him.

Code-named Dead Eye, Russell Whitlock is a graduate of the same ultra-secret Autonomous Asset Program that trained and once controlled Gentry. But now, Whitlock is a free agent who has been directed to terminate his fellow student of death. He knows how his target thinks, how he moves, and how he kills. And he knows the best way to do the job is to make Gentry run for his life—right up until the moment Dead Eye finally ends it...]]>
495 Mark Greaney Nicholas 4 4.59 2013 Dead Eye (Gray Man, #4)
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average rating: 4.59
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Ballistic (Gray Man, #3) 75438098
Years before, Eddie Gamboa had saved Court's life. Now, Eddie has been murdered by the notorious Mexican drug cartel he fought to take down. And Court soon finds himself drawn into a war he never wanted. But in this war, there are no sides—only survivors...]]>
496 Mark Greaney Nicholas 5 4.44 2011 Ballistic (Gray Man, #3)
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average rating: 4.44
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rating: 5
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On Target (Gray Man, #2) 58258235 An alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here and here.

The second entry in the explosive thriller series featuring the lethal assassin known as the Gray Man.

When an old comrade Court Gentry thought was dead returns to haunt him, his own life is put in the crosshairs.

The man wants Court to complete a mission, with one crucial catch to his orders: Instead of a difficult assassination, the job will entail a nearly impossible kidnapping--and Court must return his quarry to the very CIA team that turned on him.]]>
546 Mark Greaney Nicholas 4 4.36 2010 On Target (Gray Man, #2)
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average rating: 4.36
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<![CDATA[Angel Of Death (Sean Dillon, #4)]]> 8146584 337 Jack Higgins 1101203560 Nicholas 5 4.34 1995 Angel Of Death (Sean Dillon, #4)
author: Jack Higgins
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average rating: 4.34
book published: 1995
rating: 5
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The Gray Man (Gray Man, #1) 75438084
But there are forces more lethal than Gentry in the world. Forces like money. And power. And there are men who hold these as the only currency worth fighting for. And in their eyes, Gentry has just outlived his usefulness.

But Court Gentry is going to prove that, for him, there’s no gray area between killing for a living and killing to stay alive....]]>
471 Mark Greaney Nicholas 4 4.35 2009 The Gray Man (Gray Man, #1)
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average rating: 4.35
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<![CDATA[Innocent (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #8)]]> 8190864 Presumed Innocent, the men are once more pitted against one another in a riveting psychological match. When Sabich, now 60 years old and the chief judge of an appellate court, finds his wife Barbara dead under mysterious circumstances, Molto accuses him of murder for the second time, setting into motion a trial that is vintage Turow--the courtroom at its most taut and explosive. With his characteristic insight into both the dark truths of the human psyche and the dense intricacies of the criminal justice system, Scott Turow proves once again that some books simply compel us to read late into the night, desperate to know who did it.]]> 416 Scott Turow Nicholas 5 4.26 2010 Innocent (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #8)
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<![CDATA[Another Man's Moccasins (Walt Longmire #4)]]> 59125246 The fourth Longmire novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Land of Wolves
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Fans of Ace Atkins, Nevada Barr, and Robert B. Parker will love the fourth mystery inĚýNew York TimesĚýbestselling author Craig Johnson’s award-winning Longmire Mystery series, the basis forĚýLONGMIRE, the hit drama series now streaming on Netflix. It delivers more of the taut prose, engrossing characters, beautiful Wyoming setting, and satisfying depth that reviewers have been hailing since his first book,ĚýThe Cold Dish. InĚýAnother Man's Moccasins, the body of a Vietnamese woman dumped along the Wyoming interstate opens a baffling case for Sheriff Longmire, whose only suspect is a Crow Indian with a troubled past. But things get even stranger when a photograph turns up in the victim’s purse that ties her murder to one from Longmire’s past—a case he tackled as a Marine Corps investigator forty years earlier in Vietnam.

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299 Craig Johnson Nicholas 4 4.49 2008 Another Man's Moccasins (Walt Longmire #4)
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average rating: 4.49
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<![CDATA[Kindness Goes Unpunished (Walt Longmire, #3)]]> 59125241 Walt brings Western-style justice to Philadelphia in this action-packed thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Cold Dish and As the Crow Flies, the third in the Walt Longmire Mystery Series, the basis for LONGMIRE, the hit A&E original drama series
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Fans of Ace Atkins, Nevada Barr and Robert B. Parker will love New York Times bestselling author Craig Johnson's mystery series—starring Walt Longmire, the straight-shooting sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming, and the basis for LONGMIRE, the hit A&E original drama series�-is attracting more and more fans with its distinctive blend of humor and action. In Kindness Goes Unpunished, Walt's pleasure trip to Philadelphia to visit his daughter, Cady, turns into a nightmare when she is the victim of a vicious attack that leaves her near death. Walt is forced to unpack his saddlebag of tricks to mete out some Western-style justice, and the result is another action-packed thriller from this star of crime fiction.
Philadelphia gets a taste of Western justice in "a series that should become a 'must' read" (The Denver Post)



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258 Craig Johnson Nicholas 4 4.49 2007 Kindness Goes Unpunished (Walt Longmire, #3)
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Blue Heaven 8127354
A twelve-year-old girl and her younger brother are on the run in the Idaho woods, pursued by four men they have just watched commit murder—four men who know exactly who William and Annie are. And where their mother lives.

Retired policemen from Los Angeles, the killers easily persuade the local sheriff to let them lead the search for the missing children. Now there's nowhere left for William and Annie to hide…and no one they can trust. Until they meet Jess Rawlins.

Rawlins, an old-school rancher, knows trouble when he sees it. He is only one against four men who will stop at nothing to silence their witnesses. But in this thrilling mystery novel from C.J. Box, these ex-cops don't know just how far Rawlins will go to protect William and Annie…and see that justice is done.

Blue Heaven is the winner of the 2009 Edgar Award for Best Novel.]]>
353 C.J. Box Nicholas 5 4.49 2008 Blue Heaven
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average rating: 4.49
book published: 2008
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