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On What Grounds (Coffeehouse Mysteries)

by Cleo Coyle

"The perfect cup of coffee is a mystifying thing. To many of my customers, the entire process seems like some sort of alchemy they dare not try at home...." Ten years ago, Clare Cosi left an unhappy marriage along with a job she loved: managing the historic Village Blend coffeehouse in New York's Greenwich Village. For a decade, she was happy raising her daughter in the quiet suburbs of New Jersey; but now that... (more)

Through the Grinder (A Coffee House Mystery)

Through the Grinder (A Coffee House Mystery)

by Cleo Coyle

Business is booming at Clare Cosi's Village Blend, until her female customers start to die. Lieutenant Quinn is convinced that someone has an axe to grind, and, unfortunately, his prime suspect is the new man in Clare's life. Now Clare will risk her heart--and her life--to follow the killer's trail to the bitter end.

Murder Most Frothy: A Coffeehouse Mystery (Coffeehouse Mysteries)

Murder Most Frothy: A Coffeehouse Mystery (Coffeehouse Mysteries)

by Cleo Coyle

"A bright new light in the mystery horizon,"(The Best Reviews) Cleo Coyle returns with a mystery full of fraud, fun, and froth. New Yorker Clare Cosi manages a coffee shop, but this summer she'll leave it behind as she heads for the Hamptons-and perhaps the biggest jolt of her life... Clare Cosi's new friend, millionaire David Mintzer, has an offer no New York barista could turn down: an all-expenses-paid summer... (more)

Coffeehouse Mysteries

Latte Trouble

by Cleo Coyl

When one of her baristas unwittingly serves a poisonous latte to a prominent figure on the fashion scene, Clare Cosi must uncover some jolting secrets to save her shop.

No One You Know

by Michelle Richmond

Michelle Richmond dazzled readers and critics alike with her luminous novel The Year of Fog . Now Richmond returns with an intensely emotional, multilayered family drama—a woman’s search for her sister’s killer that spirals into a journey of secrets, revelations, and damaged lives. All her life Ellie Enderlin had been known as Lila’s sister. Until one day, without warning, the shape of their family changed... (more)

How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else

How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else

by Michael Gates Gill

Now in paperback, the national bestselling riches-to-rags true story of an advertising executive who had it all, then lost it all—and was finally redeemed by his new job, and his twenty-eight-year-old boss, at Starbucks . In his fifties, Michael Gates Gill had it all: a mansion in the suburbs, a wife and loving children, a six-figure salary, and an Ivy League education. But in a few short years, he lost his job,... (more)

How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else

by Michael Gill

In his fifties, Michael Gates Gill had it all: a big house in the suburbs, a loving family, and a top job at an ad agency with a six-figure salary. By the time he turned sixty, he had lost everything except his Ivy League education and his sense of entitlement. First, he was downsized at work. Next, an affair ended his twenty-year marriage. Then, he was diagnosed with a slow-growing brain tumor, prognosis... (more)

Decaffeinated Corpse: A Coffehouse Mystery

Decaffeinated Corpse: A Coffehouse Mystery

by Cleo Coyle

When an old friend of her ex-husband develops the world's first botanically decaffeinated coffee bean and smuggles it into the country, Clare Cosi, manager of Village Blend, believes it's a business opportunity she needs to investigate...at least until the first dead body shows up.

Devil's Cup

by Stewart Lee Allen

In this captivating book, Stewart Lee Allen treks three-quarters of the way around the world on a caffeinated quest to answer these profound questions: Did the advent of coffee give birth to an enlightened western civilization? Is coffee, indeed, the substance that drives history? From the cliffhanging villages of Southern Yemen, where coffee beans were first cultivated eight hundred years ago, to a cavernous... (more)

Death by Latte

by Linda C. Gerber

It was only a few weeks ago that Aphra Connolly’s life changed completely. She had been living a quiet existence on her father’s secluded island resort, until Seth Mulo turned up and stole her heart . . . and provided information that led her to find her mom in Seattle. But the reunion isn’t quite what she expected. Aphra’s mom, Natalie, doesn’t seem happy to see Aphra, and Natalie’s boyfriend, Joe, insists that... (more)

The Various Flavors of Coffee

by Anthony Capella

From the internationally bestselling author of The Wedding Officer comes a novel whose stunning blend of exotic adventure and erotic passion will intoxicate every reader who tastes of its remarkable delights. When a woman gives a man coffee, it is a way of showing her desire. —Abyssinian proverb It was a cup of coffee that changed Robert Wallis’s life—and a cup of very bad coffee at that. The... (more)

Pour Your Heart into It : How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time

Pour Your Heart into It : How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time

by Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang

The "BusinessWeek" bestseller, now in paperback. "Pour Your Heart Into It" tells the story of how small-company values, passion, and integrity turned six local coffee stories into the Starbucks chain.--"Fortune".

The Starbucks Experience: 5 Principles for Turning Ordinary Into Extraordinary

The Starbucks Experience: 5 Principles for Turning Ordinary Into Extraordinary

by Joseph A. Michelli

WAKE UP AND SMELL THE SUCCESS! You already know the Starbucks story. Since 1992, its stock has risen a staggering 5,000 percent! The genius of Starbucks success lies in its ability to create personalized customer experiences, stimulate business growth, generate profits, energize employees, and secure customer loyalty-all at the same time. The Starbucks Experience contains a robust blend of home-brewed... (more)

Making Your Own Gourmet Coffee Drinks: Espressos, Cappuccinos, Lattes, Mochas, and More!

Making Your Own Gourmet Coffee Drinks: Espressos, Cappuccinos, Lattes, Mochas, and More!

by Mathew Tekulsky

Mathew Tekulsky chronicles the history of coffee drinking, surveys the types of beans and blends available, reviews coffee-making accessories and their uses, and dispenses tips for brewing a perfect cup of smooth, flavorful coffee. An appendix lists sources for gourmet coffee beans and flavorings and coffee-making equipment. 10 line drawings.

The New Complete Coffee Book: A Gourmet Guide to Buying, Brewing, and Cooking

The New Complete Coffee Book: A Gourmet Guide to Buying, Brewing, and Cooking

by Maren Caruso, Sara Perry

No need to be a coffee has-bean. This completely revised and updated, sumptuously photographed book (over 80,000 previously sold!) is brimming with information on buying, drinking, and cooking with the world's favorite libation. The New Complete Coffee Book includes a brief illustrated history and a survey of the myriad coffee beans, types of roasts, and brewing methods. Plus there are detailed descriptions of... (more)

The Joy of Coffee: The Essential Guide to Buying, Brewing, and Enjoying - Revised and Updated

The Joy of Coffee: The Essential Guide to Buying, Brewing, and Enjoying - Revised and Updated

by Corby Kummer

In this revised and updated edition of the most authoritative guide to coffee, Corby Kummer travels the country and the world to give you all the latest information you need to make a great cup at home: • The best beans and how to buy and store them • The grinder that's essential for great coffee • Incisive reports on brewing and espresso-making equipment and tips on how to get the best from them, with photographs... (more)

French Pressed: A Coffeehouse Mystery

by Cleo Coyle

Murder takes the plunge in the sixth book in the Coffeehouse mystery series. Clare Cosi's daughter, Joy, is interning-and falling- for a top New York chef when his kitchen turns cutthroat, and Joy becomes a murder suspect. Clare knows she must catch the real killer-even if it lands her in the hottest water of her life.

How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else

by Michael Gates Gill

Now in paperback, the national bestselling riches-to-rags true story of an advertising executive who had it all, then lost it all—and was finally redeemed by his new job, and his twenty-eight-year-old boss, at Starbucks . In his fifties, Michael Gates Gill had it all: a mansion in the suburbs, a wife and loving children, a six-figure salary, and an Ivy League education. But in a few short years, he lost his job,... (more)

Starbucked: A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce, and Culture

Starbucked: A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce, and Culture

by Taylor Clark

STARBUCKED will be the first book to explore the incredible rise of the Starbucks Corporation and the caffeine-crazy culture that fueled its success. Part Fast Food Nation , part Bobos in Paradise , STARBUCKED combines investigative heft with witty cultural observation in telling the story of how the coffeehouse movement changed our everyday lives, from our evolving neighborhoods and workplaces to the ways we... (more)

It's Not About the Coffee: Leadership Principles from a Life at Starbucks

It's Not About the Coffee: Leadership Principles from a Life at Starbucks

by Howard Behar

“At Starbucks, the coffee has to be excellent, from the sourcing and growing to the roasting and brewing. The vision has to be inspiring and meaningful. Our finances have to be in order. But without people, we have nothing. With people, we have something even bigger than coffee.” During his many years as a senior executive at Starbucks, Howard Behar helped establish the Starbucks culture, which stresses the... (more)

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