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The Billionaire’s Vinegar tells the true story of a 1787 Château Lafite Bordeaux—supposedly owned by Thomas Jefferson—that sold for $156,000 at auction and of the eccentrics whose lives intersected with it. Was it truly entombed in a Paris cellar for two hundred years? Or did it come from a secret Nazi bunker? Or from the moldy basement of a devilishly brilliant con artist?

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The Billionaire’s Vinegar
The Mystery of the World’s Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
by Benjamin Wallace

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A lively, wonderfully enjoyable anthology of hundreds of quotes you probably have never heard before, arranged thematically from A to Z. From laugh-out-loud-funny bon mots to some real headscratchers, John Lloyd and John Mitchinson have gathered a universe of star-studded blurbs.

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If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Aren’t There More Happy People?
Smart Quotes for Dumb Times
by John Lloyd & John Mitchinson

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Gifts for the Hard-to-Buy-for Person

Costa Rica has become one of the most popular destinations for travelers seeking natural beauty, outdoor adventure, and sun. It’s no wonder. Little Costa Rica is endowed with a mosaic of natural landscapes that are packed with an amazing array of flora and fauna. This is also one of the easiest places in the world to experience the beauty and complexity of tropical nature.

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Fodor’s Costa Rica 2010

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In the pre-television era, the editors of Look recognized the great demand for photographs of all kinds—politicians, titans of industry, and unsung heroes, glamorous events and intimate moments, society matrons and showgirls, violent crime and courtroom drama—that provided entertainment and diversion to voyeuristic subscribers to the magazine.

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Only in New York
Photographs From Look Magazine
by Duncan Birmingham

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A thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing K2, the world’s most difficult and unpredictable mountain. Focusing on seven of the mountain’s most dramatic campaigns, from his own troubled ascent to the 2008 tragedy, Ed Viesturs and David Roberts crafts an edge-of-your-seat narrative that climbers and armchair travelers alike will find unforgettably compelling.

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K2
Life and Death on the World’s Most Dangerous Mountain
by Ed Viesturs & David Roberts

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Books About the Great Outdoors

The #1 New York Times bestseller! Michael Jackson’s one and only autobiography – his life, in his words. With original Foreword by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, a new introduction by Motown founder Berry Gordy, and an afterword by Michael Jackson’s editor and publisher, Shaye Areheart.

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Moonwalk
by Michael Jackson

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