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Two sisters, one farm. A family is split when their father leaves their shared inheritance entirely to Helen, his younger daughter. Despite baking award-winning pies at the local nursing home, her older sister, Edith, struggles to make what most people would call a living. So she can't help wondering what her life would have been like with even a portion of the farm money her sister kept for herself. With the proceeds from the farm, Helen builds one...
4) Beerfest
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
Jan and Todd Wolfhouse are given the task of taking their grandfather's ashes to be settled in the family plot in Germany. Little do they know, the family plot is actually Beerfest, an Olympic-like test of a beer gamer's mettle. When they get there and are accused by their German cousins of having stolen the family beer recipe, they are quickly humiliated in a drinking contest and sent back to America with their tails between their legs. They vow...
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Pub. Date
c2000
Description
"Citizen Coors is the saga of an American dynasty. From the moment the destitute Prussian Adolph Coors stows away on a Baltimore-bound ship in 1868 to the worldwide expansion of the billion-dollar Coors Brewing Company, Citizen Coors is a headlong American tale of triumph over bare-knuckle competition. The Coors family does it the old-fashioned way, through fearsome devotion to product, rejection of modern marketing, and refusing to borrow so much...
6) Beerfest
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Jan and Todd Wolfhouse are given the task of taking their grandfather's ashes to be settled in the family plot in Germany. Little do they know, the family plot is actually Beerfest, an Olympic-like test of a beer gamer's mettle. When they get there and are accused by their German cousins of having stolen the family beer recipe, they are quickly humiliated in a drinking contest and sent back to America with their tails between their legs. They vow...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"We all know that the dream of opening a microbrewery starts with making great beer. But this day in age, the point many hopeful brewery owners miss is that great beer is merely the price of entry. Now it's required to create a sense of place. It's required to do your research, understand financing and cash flow and how you measure success. It's required to construct a well-run company that attracts the right employees and makes them your biggest...
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Lady joker volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
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"This tour-de-force is widely regarded as the quintessential post-WWII Japanese novel. A plan to kidnap a major corporation's CEO becomes an allegory for the alienation of the individual self, a mirror to modern-day Japaense identity. In 1995 in Tokyo, five men meet at the racetrack every Sunday to bet on the horses. They have little in common except a disaffection with their lives. One is a poorly socialized but genius factory welder. One is a demoted...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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The story of the iconic Anheuser-Busch dynasty, written—for the first time—by a Busch heir.
As an heir to the Anheuser-Busch company and fortune, Billy Busch was raised on the real stories of how his family built one of America's oldest and most iconic brands. Since the company was formed almost 150 years ago, the Busch family, their beer, the famous Clydesdales in their advertising, and even their style of business have become a symbol of the...
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