Robert Parker Livres

Depuis plus de vingt ans, Robert Parker sillonne le monde à la recherche non seulement des meilleurs crus, mais aussi de parfums nouveaux, de saveurs inédites. Il reste que, de son propre aveu, la terre du vin est la France, dont il continue de nous faire découvrir les multiples richesses, les innombrables nuances. Bordelais, Bourgogne, Champagne, vallées du Rhône et de la Loire, Alsace, Languedoc-Roussillon... trouvent dans ce nouvel ouvrage leur plus fin analyste, leur plus grand exégète. Loin des polémiques et des modes, ce dégustateur incomparable présente, décrit, commente - avec, pour certaines régions, la collaboration de Pierre-Antoine Rovani - plus de 7300 vins, y compris le millésime 2000 des vins de Bordeaux, et nous offre, par le biais de sa célèbre notation sur 100, une échelle de valeur précise tenant compte de tous les paramètres d'évaluation d'un vin. Une méthode qui a fait la réputation de cet inlassable défenseur du consommateur, qui persiste à croire que, au-delà des controverses et des innovations techniques, le vin demeure affaire de plaisir. Un plaisir qui commence avec le sentiment d'avoir acquis à son juste prix le flacon que l'on déguste.

Parker's ratings on wine have had an enormous impact on consumers, retailers, importers, and producers. Parker dissects each of the world's wine regions, advises consumers about the best and worst producers and their products, and reveals the world's finest wine values for under $10. 19 maps. 2-color.

In 1974, a revolutionary group held up the Old Shawmut Bank in Boston's Audubon Circle. Money was stolen. A woman named Emily Gordon, a visitor in town cashing traveller's cheques, was shot and killed. No one saw who shot her. Despite CCTV photos and a letter from the group claiming responsibility, the perpetrators remain at large for nearly three decades. Then Paul Giacomin, the closest thing Spenser has to a son, brings Daryl to see him. She is the daughter of the long gone Emily and wants to finally know the truth about her mother's death .

Buddy Bollen is a C-list movie mogul who made his fortune producing films of questionable artistic merit. When Buddy hires Sunny Randall to protect his rising star girlfriend, Erin, Sunny knows the prickly, spoiled beauty won't make her job easy. And when Erin's sister is found dead in the lavish home they share with sugar daddy Bollen, Sunny and partner Jesse start discovering a host of seedy complications, including shady film deals and mobsters out for revenge.

When a woman's partially decomposed body washes ashore in Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone is forced into a case far more difficult than it at first appears. Identifying the woman is just the first step in what proves to be a difficult and emotionally charged investigation. Florence Horvath was an attractive, recently divorced heiress from Florida; she also had a penchant for steamy sex and was an enthusiastic participant in a video depicting the same. Somehow the combination of her past and present got her killed, but no one is talking.

Melanie Joan Hall is a best-selling author in a bind. Her publisher needs her to tour on behalf of her newest blockbuster, and she needs a bodyguard to protect her from an overbearing ex-husband whose presence unnerves her to the point of hysteria. Sunny's cool demeanour, cop background and PI smarts are an instant balm for the older woman. She begins to sense that Melanie, Joan's ex and a psychotherapist, is not your basic stalker, and when an incident at a book signing leaves the ex-husband bloodied and the author unconcious, it's clear the stakes are high.

Boston PI Sunny Randall now faces the unthinkable: the marriage of her ex-husband, Richie, to someone else. Despite the finality of divorce, Sunny and Richie's relationship had continued, in its own headstrong way, until Richie's desire for marriage overtook Sunny's need for freedom. So when college student Sarah Markham comes asking for help in finding her birth parents, Sunny realises she must take the case, if only to distract her from her personal life. But life and work have a curious - and dangerous - way of intersecting.

Explore this introductory illustrated history and guide to the American D-Day landing at Utah beach.

Regardless of whether they’ve heard of jazz or Art Tatum, young readers will appreciate how Parker uses simple, lyrical storytelling and colorful, energetic ink-and-wash illustrations to show the world as young Art Tatum might have seen it. Tatum came from modest beginnings and was nearly blind, but his passion for the piano and his acute memory for any sound that he heard drove him to become a virtuoso who was revered by both classical and jazz pianists alike. Included in the back matter is a biography and bibliography.