Get ready for the world's first no-holds-barred journey through China's emerging wine culture. Following the tradition of great traveling sommeliers, Noel Shu guides us through the misty vineyards and crowded wineries of China. A delicate interplay unfolds: The PRC struggles with wine's infamous bourgeois reputation (read-million dollar wine collections seized anti-corruption crackdowns) even as the blossoming middle class gravitate toward all things Western. Cross-cultural examination, ethnography, travel book, and tasting guide, one thing is for certain, once you've seen China "through a glass of wine," you'll never see it the same again!

China Through a Glass of Wine

Biographies & Memoirs

Shu, Noel

Community & Culture

Cafe Con Leche Books

La vida es sorpréndete y un gran misterio. Para Silu Scheffer, la vida tomó muchos giros drásticos y emocionales tras descubrir como alimentar su autoestima con su dieta del espejo, la cual enseña que cualquier transformación comienza de adentro hacia fuera. Esta filosofía permitió que Silu perdiera más de 30 kilos, embelleciendo su forma de ver la vida y como proyectarse en ella. Diario de una ex-gordita te invita a revivir nuevamente--paso a paso--como una niña pobre de un pueblo pequeño y humilde de Brasil logró convertirse tres veces en una reina de belleza con un propósito más allá de lo que ella se imaginaba. Silu cuenta detalle a detalle como primero se encontró atrapada, viviendo entre barreras causadas por su entorno y tristes experiencias desde su niñez. Eventualmente Silu muestra como se liberó de su pasado y vio sus sueños volverse realidad. Hoy Silu te muestra porque eres un ser fascinante, motivándote a encontrar y usar la chispa que existe dentro de ti para crear metas, logros y sorpresas maravillosas.

Diario de una ex-gordita: ¡Transforma tu cuerpo y fortalece tu autoestima! (Spanish Edition)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Scheffer, Silu

Diets & Weight Loss

How so little can add up to be priceless, and how often so much can prove to be so worthless. 
Commercial Airline Pilot Douglas Andrew Keehn feels a tug toward something. What exactly that "something" might be he doesn't really know. Residing in a nice home in a secure neighborhood and living his boyhood dream of flying large commercial jets, a constant restlessness draws his attention to a void in his life. The only solace comes out on the water when pods of dolphins surround his boat with their playful joyful energy. 
He begins to explore a continent that exerts a strange pull: South America. He requests flight assignments that allow him to layover in several countries; Brazil, Argentina, and Chile--just to name a few. In each place, he notices a staggering difference between the everyday wealth and lifestyles that many Americans take for granted and the severe limitations associated with the Third World. Poverty, unemployment, and weak governmental support frequently prevent even the most motivated of people from getting ahead. Oddly, they seem to have an amazing ability to adapt, turning the darkest of moments into bright positive celebrations. What eventually stands out is a laid back attitude that's coupled with a healthy and upbeat approach to living.
A focus on family, friends and friendship, relaxed conversation; fun and genuine laughter all become routinely witnessed and experienced by Doug. The people he meets remind him of the many characteristics that dolphins seemingly possess. They recognize and focus on what's truly valuable in life. When economic difficulties prompt his airline to offer extended leaves of absence, Doug leaps at the chance. He heads south and lives in Brazil for several years. A small oceanfront lot becomes the landing pad where he builds his new home. The love and guidance of a local woman helps him parse decades of regimented viewpoints and discover a new way to be. He learns to live a bit like a dolphin.
His return to the US shakes with cultural shock. Many seem glued to their digital devices, rushed, and obsessed with their schedules. Through an unscripted chain of events containing subtle and strong messages, and with the dolphin's assistance, Doug learns how to integrate the best of Latin living with his North American location. Allow the many unique hints from the eyes of others to resonate. He has walked with the dolphins, and invites readers to do the same.

Where Dolphins Walk: A Memoir of Bridging National Lifestyles, Positive Change, and the Powers of Silence

Keehn, Douglas a

Jazz, the quintessential American art form, serves as a blueprint for these personal essays that wrestle with inequalities in medicine based on "race." Sick and Tired is a collective of stories, personal essays, letters, vignettes, and song, as it were, that challenges the concept of race, itself, and considers the possibility of American action toward addressing real, physical differences in health outcomes between the races. Poverty, to be sure, is important in understanding unequal health realities in America; but race, itself, persists even in the face of whatever progress so far. This is gruesomely and predictably demonstrated in the current pandemic.As with jazz, the audience is most critical here. This book addresses the rhetorical triad - speaker, speech, audience - and calls upon the audience, the way the preacher calls upon the pews, to join in the solution to the human condition rooted in millennia of conflict with the other.Dissonance is the word in bebop jazz. These chapters are rooted in science, social science, and literature. At once, they call upon the audience to participate in would-be solutions that promise to vary across the varied communities. That is, the responses will be particular, like the audience participating in live jazz.These personal essays are intended for an audience interested in race, health outcomes, healthcare costs, and a literary approach that suggests artistic ways into the quagmire, and human catastrophe, of race and medicine.

Sick and Tired: Race, Medicine, and Jazz

Garcia MD, Richard

Self-Help

Product Description 
Through the Dark, a nourishing and inspirational memoir penned by Emmy Award-Winning Journalist Yolanda Nava is about her journey of self-discovery as a result of sudden blindness due to an undiagnosed autoimmune disease. The Foreword for this book has been penned by Nationally Renowned Oncologist, Lawrence Piro, M.D who offers brilliant insights. \nThrough the Dark is a story of challenge, spiritual awakening, and growth, which is both inspiring and instructive. As with her best-selling book It's All in the Frijoles published by Simon & Schuster, readers will gather strength and wisdom from Nava's story and learn how to empower themselves to confront their own challenges and circumstances. A strong sense of resilience moves across the pages of this story, and the lessons learned provide food for thought as readers embark upon their personal journeys of self-awareness and healing. \nWhat makes Through the Dark distinct from other inspirational books is Nava's journalistic perspective, combined with a compelling third person point of view. Nava is able to move through suffering and challenges with the objectivity of a seasoned journalist. Courage and resilience, fortitude and inspiration abound in this book. I believe the reader will be pulled in immediately by Nava's remarkable journey. \nAbout the Author 
Yolanda Nava is an Emmy award-winning broadcast journalist, columnist, and author who has appeared on NBC, CBS, PBS and Cable TV stations in Los Angeles, Sacramento, and nationally. She is the author of the best-selling, award-winning book of Latino virtues, It's All in the Frijoles, published by Simon and Schuster. Yolanda is also a political wife, mother, and honored community leader. In 2009, she suddenly lost sight in both eyes, yet she continues to inspire and empower others through her writing and speaking. For more about Yolanda Nava, please visit www.YolandaNava.com

Through the Dark

Nava, Yolanda

Arts & Literature

The Long Way to Mexico by Roger Rodriguez is a contemporary Western/Suspense Thriller filled with irony and mystery. Peter "Boy" Jenkins has a very bad temper. It does not take much to get him into a raging bad mood, so when his girlfriend Mary Beth dies after he slaps her, he's sure he is responsible for her death. "Boy" is obviously not as tough as his reputation and he doesn't think he'll survive life behind bars. With his best friend and only supporter Curtis Cash at his side, the pair of misfits go on the run to Mexico, but they encounter much more than an escape route. The two men totally expected to come across beautiful señoritas and strong margaritas along the way, but instead they are met with illegal immigration camps, suspicious state troopers, ruthless drug cartels, witch doctors, and even valuable treasures. But was all of this worth it? The ironic ending just may leave readers wonder if it truly was.

The Long Way to Mexico

Literature & Fiction

Rodriguez, Roger

Genre Fiction

A Father's Dream: My Family's Journey in Music chronicles the life of a musician, performer, man of God, and successful Mexican American entrepreneur. This is the story of a man who has experienced great joy and even greater pain, but by holding onto the strength embedded in each of us, embracing the love of family, and leaning on his faith in God, he is able to move forward toward the future with a positive disposition. Abraham Quintanilla takes the reader on the journey of his life, a life that reflects the up and down experiences of a self-made success. With a raw emotion and honesty, he shares the twists and turns of a road many readers may have been forced to travel and a few others hope never to traverse. From the sublime joys of fatherhood, to the accomplishment of creating a musical empire and surviving its failures, he shares the unexpected life events that make up each of our lives. Every reader will gain a stronger sense of humanity and a deeper understanding of just how precious and fleeting life can be from reading this memoir. Readers will also be given a close and personal view into the behind-the-scenes intricacies of a successful family business. Share the joy a parent feels for their children's success. And most of all, readers will understand the human need to embrace one's own talents. Finally, anyone who picks up this book and reads it will come to know that unforeseen tragedy can and does happen, but with faith and family as our support system, we are able to pick up the pieces of our broken hearts and walk bravely into the future with our newfound hope lighting the way.

A Father's Dream: My Family's Journey in Music

Quintanilla, Abraham

Amor Insepulto no está basado en la historia de una persona. Está basado en algo que definitivamente pasa billones de veces, y en billones de personas. El hecho de que algo haya sido escrito por otra persona, no significa que no puedas encontrarte en él. Muchas personas me dicen: "No me gusta la poesía porque no la entiendo." Mientras otras dicen, "No me gusta mucho leerla porque tengo problemas para conectarme con la historia." Bueno, Amor Insepulto es diferente. Muy diferente. Aquí se expresa tu historia, mi historia, y la historia de billones de personas de cualquier ciclo de vida, sea esta, de los llamados Baby-boomers, Generación X, Millennials o Generación Z, claramente, en una manera y lenguaje que todos entendemos. Amor Insepulto es la historia del profundo amor. Una historia que jamás la podremos enterrar, porque nos ha consumido eternamente. Es la expresión artística de nuestra alma, que aunque es compleja, la podemos entender, porque somos parte de ella, nos pertenece y le pertenecemos.

Amor Insepulto (Spanish Edition)

Lárraga, José

Poetry

Loriana Hernandez-Aldama went from telling everyone else's story to "becoming the story." In 2014, her high-profile career as an Emmy award-winning journalist, news anchor and health and wellness expert took an unexpected, near-fatal turn when she was diagnosed with leukemia (AML).A year-long hospitalization and separation from her two-year-old son followed, forcing Loriana to search deep within and reflect on the many missed warning signs from the stresses of her career. Five years later as Loriana celebrated a major milestone of surviving leukemia, she got the most unexpected gift: breast cancer. What she discovered were more health disparities and voids in the health care system. Now Loriana is sounding the alarm bells and sharing her personal journey across the country about the RETURNS of "prioritizing your own well-being," the Power of PREHAB(TM), and how, through wellness, we can strategically position ourselves for success.

Becoming the Story: The Power of PREhab

Hernandez-Aldama, Loriana

Diseases & Physical Ailments

One-third of your life is allocated to sleep, another third is dedicated to work, and the remaining time should be priceless. Unfortunately, all three areas are not managed well, if at all. Without a strategy to excel in life, you've been unmanageable to date. You rely on didactic learning and developing technical skills to pursue excellence. This is good, but more importantly, you need to be well-equipped to effectively maneuver through life's opportunities and challenges.\nBuilding the Best Version of You provides a strategy to achieve your goals, which we refer to as the Ten Principles for Success and Happiness. Each principle correlates to a chapter that helps you develop the Discipline to be consistently productive and the EQ to manage emotions, communicate effectively and manage relationships. You will also learn to train your mind to hold yourself accountable to attain your goals, operate with urgency, stop wasting time, manage your sleep, maintain a daily health regimen, excel in your career and manage your money. In fact, acing these principles is the be all end all to achieve self-mastery.\nBeing disciplined and maturing your EQ will take you to new heights and the rewards are second-to-none. For example, imagine the feeling of seeing your awesome invention being sold like hotcakes on Amazon. Imagine having enough money to buy whatever you desire or how about doing something that positively impacts others. Stop and ask yourself, "How badly do you want to see your dreams become a reality?"\nThis book simplifies the complexity of achieving success in every facet of your life into ten principles that you can understand and use right away. It is the proof not the hype. In fact, the lens through which you view the world will be Discipline.

Building the Best Version of You

Kern, Harris

Khan, A'Ishah

Success

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