Sideways and Vertical, 2 Book Collector's Edition *Signed by Author*

Rex Pickett

Loose Gravel Press

It is ten years later and the two (now well known) on the road buddies--Jack, now divorced, and Miles dealing with new found fame as a writer of a novel now Oscar winning film--reunite and travel to Oregon's famed Pinot Noir wine country to attend the International Pinot Noir celebration. Unable to keep it simple, Miles steals his septuagenarian Mother away from her senior housing prison in California, which means bringing her pot smoking caretaker as well. Not only do Miles and Jack find themselves in troubled, new relationships and almost unfathomable hilarious situations, but they confront sobering challenges of being over 40--and looking at 70. All of this is set in the heart-stoppingly, wine-rich beautiful landscape of Oregon's own Burgundy country. This book will take you on a funny yet touching road trip through 21st century America, and have you laughing and crying. Wine lovers will appreciate it, but any adult will appreciate this touching tale of a Mother-Son reconciliation of a road trip which culminates in a very touching ending. As one wine critic put wrote, "if you like Sideways, you will love Vertical."

Vertical: Passion and Pinot on the Oregon Wine Trail: Wine Blogger Early Review Edition

Literature & Fiction

United States

It is ten years later and the two (now well known) on the road buddies--Jack, now divorced, and Miles dealing with new found fame as a writer of a novel now Oscar winning film--reunite and travel to Oregon's famed Pinot Noir wine country to attend the International Pinot Noir celebration. Unable to keep it simple, Miles steals his septuagenarian Mother away from her senior housing prison in California, which means bringing her pot smoking caretaker as well. Not only do Miles and Jack find themselves in troubled, new relationships and almost unfathomable hilarious situations, but they confront sobering challenges of being over 40--and looking at 70. All of this is set in the heart-stoppingly, wine-rich beautiful landscape of Oregon's own Burgundy country. This book will take you on a funny yet touching road trip through 21st century America, and have you laughing and crying. Wine lovers will appreciate it, but any adult will appreciate this touching tale of a Mother-Son reconciliation of a road trip which culminates in a very touching ending. As one wine critic put wrote, "if you like Sideways, you will love Vertical."

Vertical

Sideways is the story of two friends--Miles and Jack--going away together for the last time to steep themselves in everything that makes it good to be young and single: pinot, putting, and prowling bars. In the week before Jack plans to marry, the pair heads out from Los Angeles to the Santa Ynez wine country. For Jack, the tasting tour is Seven Days to D-Day, his final stretch of freedom. For Miles--who has divorced his wife, is facing an uncertain career and has lost his passion for living--the trip is a weeklong opportunity to evaluate his past, his future and himself.\nA raucous and surprising novel filled with wonderful details about wine, Sideways is also a thought-provoking and funny book about men, women, and human relationships.

Sideways Large-print

St.Martin's Press

[MP3CD audiobook format in Vinyl case.] [Read by Scott Brick] Vertical is the follow-up novel to the blockbuster Sideways (which was the basis of a major motion picture) -- and it tracks the continuing story of Miles Raymond and his buddy Jack. It's seven years later. Miles has written a novel that has been made into a wildly successful movie, and the movie has changed his life. Jack, contrarily, is divorced, has a kid, and is on the skids. Phyllis, Miles' mom, has suffered a stroke that's left her wheelchair bound and wasting away in assisted living. She desperately wants to live with her sister in Wisconsin. When Miles gets invited to be master of ceremonies at the International Pinot Festival in Oregon, he hatches a harebrained road trip. With Jack as his copilot, he leases a handicapped-equipped van, hires a pot-smoking Filipina caretaker, and, with his mother's rascally Yorkie in tow, they take off for Wisconsin via Oregon's fabled Willamette Valley. This is a road novel for the smart set and wine lover, and it is anything but predictable.

Vertical (Sideways Trilogy)

Contemporary

Blackstone Audiobooks

[Read by Scott Brick] Vertical is the follow-up novel to the blockbuster Sideways (which was the basis of a major motion picture) -- and it tracks the continuing story of Miles Raymond and his buddy Jack. It's seven years later. Miles has written a novel that has been made into a wildly successful movie, and the movie has changed his life. Jack, contrarily, is divorced, has a kid, and is on the skids. Phyllis, Miles' mom, has suffered a stroke that's left her wheelchair bound and wasting away in assisted living. She desperately wants to live with her sister in Wisconsin. When Miles gets invited to be master of ceremonies at the International Pinot Festival in Oregon, he hatches a harebrained road trip. With Jack as his copilot, he leases a handicapped-equipped van, hires a pot-smoking Filipina caretaker, and, with his mother's rascally Yorkie in tow, they take off for Wisconsin via Oregon's fabled Willamette Valley. This is a road novel for the smart set and wine lover, and it is anything but predictable.

A November Book Pick from The New York Times When archivist Nadia Fontaine is found dead of an apparent drowning, Emily Snow is hired by Regents University to finish the job she started--to organize and process the papers of Raymond West, a famous Pulitzer Prize-winning author who has been short-listed for the Nobel. Emily's job comes with its inherent pressures. West's wife, Elizabeth, is an heiress who's about to donate $25 million to the Memorial Library--an eight-story architectural marvel that is the crown jewel of the university. The inaugural event in just a few months will be a gala for the who's who of San Diego to celebrate the unveiling of the Raymond West Collection and the financial gift that made it all possible. As Emily sets to work on the West papers, it begins to dawn on her that several items have gone missing from the collection. To trace their whereabouts, she gains unsupervised access to the highly restricted "dark archives," in which she opens a Pandora's box of erotically and intellectually charged correspondence between Raymond West and the late Nadia Fontaine. Through their archived emails, Emily goes back a year in time and relives the tragic trajectory of their passionate love affair. Did Nadia really drown accidentally, as the police report concluded, or could it have been suicide, or, even worse, murder? Compelled to complete the collection and find the truth, Emily unwittingly morphs into an adult Nancy Drew and a one-woman archivist crusader on a mission to right the historical record. Twisting slowly like a tourniquet, The Archivist turns into a suspenseful murder mystery with multiple and intersecting layers. Not just a whodunit, it is also a profound meditation on love, privacy, and the ethics of destroying or preserving materials of a highly personal nature.

The Archivist: A Thriller

Blackstone Publishing

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Sideways: Chile (The Sideways Series)

Humor & Satire

Sideways (Sideways Series, Book 1)

Literary

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Sideways and Vertical, 2 Book Collector's Edition Signed by Author

Vertical: Passion and Pinot on the Oregon Wine Trail: Wine Blogger Early Review Edition

Vertical

Sideways Large-print

Vertical (Sideways Trilogy)

Vertical (Sideways Trilogy)

The Archivist: A Thriller

The Archivist: A Thriller

Sideways: Chile (The Sideways Series)

Sideways (Sideways Series, Book 1)