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            <title>Wine & Book Group Pick for Feb-Mar</title>
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            <description><![CDATA["When a major writer emerges, the time for comparison ends, and the time to celebrate begins,"  so says The National Post about one of Canada&#039;s fresh literary voices, Rabindranath Maharaj whose forth novel, The Amazing Absorbing Boy has just been published by Knopf, Canada, 2010. But I can&#039;t help compare Maharaj&#039;s writing style and subject matter as a cross between Junoz Diaz&#039;s The Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao for its liberal use of foreign slang throughout the book, and Michael Chabon&#039;s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay for its character&#039;s obsession with comic books. It seems many talented writers of this generation refer back to comics as the portal to their protagonist&#039;s relationship-slash-coping mechanisms for the real world. It makes me wonder if anyone has ever done a study on the affect that super hero, super powers has on the socio-development of little boys. No one seems to quote Archie. It&#039;s always Spider Man, the Incredible Hulk, etc with Hugh Jackman-type actors filling in the film roles. I suppose GI Joe is the inspiration for writers like "Full Metal Jacket" or why boys become Jar Heads?  Psychology aside, I read this book in three sittings. It captures the culture of Trinidad through the eyes of a 17 year-old boy whose mother has died and whose father reluctantly sends for him to come to Canada. With fantasies of reuniting with his long-lost, deadbeat dad, he soon discovers his father has no intention of making up for lost time with his son. Left to fend pretty much for himself, Samuel negotiates the strange streets of Toronto with its frigid northern temperatures and unfamiliar immigrant neighborhoods, giving the reader an incredibly fresh view of Canada&#039;s culture and the machinations of assimilation. To accompany this book we&#039;ve selected an Alsace Pinot Gris as recommended for spicy Indian style foods by Decanter]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>Wine & Book Group Pick for Dec-Jan</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Who can resist the delicious red cover of The Winter Vault by Canadian powerhouse, Anne Michaels (McClelland and Stewart, 2009) $15.88. Her last book Fugitive Pieces launched her literary career and garnered her several literary awards including the UK&#039;s prestigious Orange Prize and Guardian Fiction Prize. Readers say they "have been aching for her next novel" ever since. Now over a decade later, it has arrived. Judging by the reviews, Michaels has not disappointed her readership. Publisher&#039;s Weekly says Winter Vault is "a tender love story set against an intriguing bit of history is handled with uncommon skill." (starred review) and the New York Times writes, "Literature is all the better for it." What could be a better read over the holidays? The story is about a couple who travel to Egypt to live on a houseboat on the Nile River just below Abu Simbel during the &#039;60&#039;s, the period of the building of the Aswan Dam. 

"Avery Escher is one of the engineers responsible for the dismantling and reconstruction of a sacred temple... Jean is a botanist by avocation, passionately interested in everything that grows. They met on the banks of the St. Lawrence River, witnessing the construction of the Seaway as it swallowed towns, homes, and lives. Now, at the edge of another world about to be inundated in the name of progress, much of what they most believe in is tested.

When a tragic event occurs, nearing the end of Avery’s time in Egypt, he and Jean return to separate lives in Toronto; Avery to school to study architecture and Jean into the orbit of Lucjan, a Polish émigré artist..." - McClelland and Stewart

What could be a better Wine & Book Group read over the holidays? To celebrate we&#039;ve paired this book with a spicy delicious red, evocative of exotic locations from a stunning winemaker]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>Wine & Book Groups for June-July</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In 1965 Helen Gurley-Brown became the Executive Editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine. She earned the spot by coming up through the ranks as a secretary whose writing abilities were next scooped into the copy writing department at a prominent L.A. advertising agency. But what really tipped the scale for the position offered by Randolf Hearst&#039;s magazine was her first book, published at the unlikely age of 40, titled Sex and The Single Girl (1962) that is still in print and now labeled a cult classic. At the time, it was rare for a woman to choose a career over motherhood and a life of domestic bliss. (Yeah, yeah... we hear the criticism of those who say it was just a play at the secretary pool to seduce their bosses.) The magazine&#039;s profitability and circulation increase was as shocking as its content with its sexual preoccupation and encouragement of the emancipated woman. Heck, even I remember the stir in my young]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>Wine & Book Group Pick for Mar-Apr</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ This month&#039;s Wine & Book Group pick is Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell (Little Brown & Co 2008) the latest block-buster nonfiction title from the New Yorker staff writer who moonlights as a penetrating social anthropologist. His first two books, "Tipping Point" and "Blink", talked about things that combine to push us over the edge into a new paradigm, and conversely, the things that we conclude in a flash or blink of an eye based on all of our previously learned knowledge and assumptions. This time Gladwell examines success - both debunking our misconceptions and drawing upon new examples to explain why some people succeed where others do not. This should be a thought-provoking discussion and so we&#039;ve paired it up with some complex, "heady" wines... Details of how to join the group and discussion points and added research enclosed.  Why not discover great wines and good books together! Enjoy]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>Wine & Book Group Club Pick For Jan-Feb</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The International Dateline sits in the Bering Straight.  William L Iggiagruk Hensley was raised just north of the Arctic Circle on the shores of Kotzebue Sound in a sod house with an ice floor in the tradition of his people&emdash;the Inupiat. Just like Sarah Palin, he can probably see Russia from his house on a clear day. Let us not be embarrassed to say that it is because of Sarah Palin people are sensitized to know more about this frozen frontier, and the perfect book to bring you there is an autobiography called, Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009) It is the epic story of Alaska told through the eyes of an Inupiat elder. Hensley is to Alaska what Joseph Boyden is to Canada (only the latter writes fiction, while the former writes nonfiction-but you get my gist). In this first-person history lesson witness a people going from a virtual icy stone age to the current petrostate with the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971, awarding 44 million acres of land and nearly $1 billion to the first Alaskans. making them shareholders in a series of regional corporations, some of which became Fortune 500 companies worth billions of dollars. Can you imagine that?  As the Wine & Book winter selection, we&#039;ve selected some delicious ice wines. So purchase this book online, gather your group beside a cozy fire while you sip the sweet elixir of the late-harvest vines, and together you will be transported to the land of the midnight sun.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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