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Palate Press: The online wine magazine, The Best of the Press, Volume I    by David Honig
Price: $4.99 USD. 78000 words. Published by Palate Press on November 20, 2010. .

Palate Press launched in September, 2009. Since then more than 100 different writers from around the world, including Dan Berger, W. R. Tish, and Mary Ewing-Mulligan, have contributed more than 800 stories on everything wine, from simple reviews to complex discussions of the science of wine. In this book we collect the most loved stories from our first year for wine lovers everywhere.
Of funerals, weddings and other parties    by Gordon Fischer
Price: $0.99 USD. 15230 words. Published on April 6, 2011. .

The third of the series of Fleeting Moments that takes the reader on a journey through the remarkable life and times of Walter Gordon Fischer. These autobiographical stories are told in Gordon's inimitable wry style as he journeys through the world in the search of adventure under the guise of making a living.
Portraits of France    by Robert Daley
Price: $5.99 USD. 189390 words. Published on July 15, 2011. .

Portraits of France is part memoir, part journalism, part history, part gastronomic adventure. An intensely personal tour of a France not found in guidebooks. From Heloise and Abelard to Lafayette to DeGaulle, from the guillotine to an 1806 Chateau Lafite, from lungbusting Tour de France climbs to the still pockmarked terrain around Verdun to a World War II concentrtion camp in the Pyrenees.
Palate Press: The eMagazine, Wine Reviews 2011    by David Honig
Price: $0.99 USD. 35200 words. Published by Palate Press on November 13, 2011. .

The Palate Press Wine of the Year, 44 Palate Press Wines of the Week, and more than 300 wine and spirits reviews from around the world.
Palate Press: The eMagazine, Volume 3, December 2011    by David Honig
Price: $0.99 USD. 18370 words. Published by Palate Press on November 18, 2011. .

Wine, food, and travel stories, including "Digging for White Gold: Truffle Hunting in Piedmont," "Putting Your Best Oak Forward: Diversity in the World of Barrels," and more, plus wine reviews.
The Philter    by Stendhal
Price: $2.15 USD. 11510 words. Published by Fario  on March 7, 2012. .

"The Philter" is a dual-language edition of "Le Philtre," Stendhal's brief tale of a young Spanish woman's inexplicable passion for a circus rider from Naples. Both the original French tale and the newly translated English version are hyperlinked to facilitate swift navigation from one language to the other.
Treachery in Bordeaux    by Jean-Pierre Alaux
Price: $7.99 USD. 30590 words. Published by LeFrenchBook on August 21, 2012. .

Strange things are happening at the Moniales Haut-Brion wine cellars in Bordeaux. Who would want to target this esteemed vintner? World-renowned wine specialist turned gentleman detective Benjamin Cooker and his sidekick Virgile Lanssien search the city and the vineyards for answers, uncovering mysteries lurking in the shadows of prestigious estates.
Le Pas de l'Empereur    by Alain Brouste
Price: $2.99 USD. 75910 words. Published on September 9, 2012. .

Fiction historique se déroulant en Gascogne au XIXe siècle, sous Napoléon III. L'essor de l'ère industrielle n'épargne pas la campagne qui doit abandonner définitivement son mode de vie agro-pastoral en vigueur depuis cinq siècles. Témoignage du chamboulement de la vie quotidienne des Landais sur fond de trafic d'influences et d'accaparement des maigres richesses.
Going Bare!    by John David Harding
Price: Free! 16370 words. Published on October 2, 2012. .

I have always wanted to try naturism and in August 2012 I got my wish as my terrified wife and excited kids joined me as we went to a naturist resort in southern France for a few days. This book offers a light-hearted look at our first family holiday in five years, when I persuaded them to go bare in public for the first time.
Le patient 127    by Gilbert Gallerne
Price: $5.99 USD. 79770 words. Published by Playblack on October 11, 2012. .

Carole, infirmière, a la charge d'un patient amnésique dont on ignore l'identité. La police pense qu'il s'agit d'un criminel mais Carole ne peut s'empêcher d'être attirée par l'inconnu. Mais voilà que lorsque son identité est sur le point d'être révéle, les cadavres commencent à surgir autour d'elle. A-t-elle raison de lui faire confiance envers et contre tous ?