Day: September 11, 2021

Twin Liquors’ September virtual events

Twin Liquors will host September virtual events for tequila and bourbon lovers. Photo: Twin Liquors, used with permission.

Join Twin Liquors for two virtual tasting events this month. On September 16, in honor of Bourbon Heritage Month, Woodford Reserve Master Distiller Chris Morris, in partnership with Twin Liquors, will host a fun and informative evening, complete with a brief history on the brand and a virtual tasting and Q&A. Must be 21+. Twin Liquors will also have a Heritage Bourbon Sale throughout the month of September to include discounted prices on delicious Bourbon, like Four Roses, Maker’s Mark, Angel’s Envy, Woodford Reserve, Brother’s Bond, and dozens more. (Twin Liquors, 2021)

Additionally, on September 23, Twin Liquors invites guests to join Tequila Herradura’s Global Brand Ambassador, Ruben Aceves & NFL Hall of Famer, #22 Emmitt Smith for a virtual Tequila experience. Guests 21+ will experience conversations around Tequila Herradura, The Casa Herradura story and the founding of Tequila. Smith and Aceves will also walk viewers through a virtual tasting of the Tequila Herradura Silver, Reposado, Añejo, and Ultra Cristalino Añejo.

• September 16: Woodford Reserve with Master Distiller, Chris Morris at 6p.m.
• September 23: Herradura Tequila Virtual Experience with Ruben & Emmitt Smith at 6p.m.

• To register for the Woodford Reserve with Master Distiller, Chris Morris follow the link here.
• To register for the Virtual Experience with Ruben & Emmitt Smith follow the link here.

Born and raised in downtown Austin, Texas, Twin Liquors began as one small store and has developed into a successful “home-grown” Texas family-owned company. Twin Liquors now has a unique and well reputation throughout the United States for having impeccable team members, outstanding customer service, conveniently located stores, extensive selections of fine wines and premium spirits from around the world, and substantial community involvement. Twin Liquors currently operates 100+ neighborhood stores from Austin to San Antonio, the Hill Country to Houston, and the DFW area with their Sigel’s branded stores.

Upcoming new book release: ‘Babe in the Woods’ by Yvonne Wakefield

‘Babe in the Woods’ by Yvonne Wakefield will be released October 26, 2021. Photo: amazon

Yvonne Wakefield, also known as Yvonne Pepin-Wakefield, is an internationally exhibited artist and published author who lives and works from a home and studio on an Oregon-side shore of the Columbia River. Both of her books, “Suitcase Filled with Nails: Lesson Learned from Teaching Art in Kuwait,” and “Babe in the Woods: Building a Life One Log at a Time,” are available in print, digital and audio formats and have been the focus of film, television, and radio interviews across the country, including Rick Steves’ NPR program. They have also been reviewed in print and electronic media, and incorporated into college curricula. In 2018, Yours in Sisterhood, a documentary, premiering at the Berlineal, included an interview with Yvonne at her log cabin with filmmaker Irene Lusztig. “Babe in the Woods: Self Portrait” is the second book in her three-book series that chronicles her over four-decade-long relationship with her wilderness log cabin. “Babe in the Woods: Self Portrait” is releasing October 26, 2021. (Yvonne Wakefield, 2021)

The first book, “Babe in the Woods: Building a Life One Log at a Time” was recently re-released. The first edition received acclaim and outstanding reviews. In it, Wakefield strikes out on her own as an 18-year-old orphan, with a chainsaw and an axe, to build a log cabin in the Oregon woods. The second book in the series, “Babe in the Woods: Self Portrait,” follows Wakefield as an artist as she continues to learn to live with the uncertainties of the wilderness – such as experiences with bears – while independently building her second log structure and exercising her artistic skills. Over forty years later, both the cabin walls and the author show signs of weathering, but both remain rooted in a place of peace, quiet, beauty and repose.

Of her series, Yvonne says, “Whether it is one book or the entire series, it is for anyone who wants to read a story that is simply told about surviving the wilderness within and outside of oneself. I wrote the series because one book could not contain my over a four-decade-long relationship with this wilderness, and the cabin.”

Beyond her time in the woods, Yvonne delves into her younger years and life as an orphan. For most of her childhood, Yvonne floated about in a Catholic Middle-Class system. Detailing her ongoing sexual, physical, psychological and financial manipulation and abuse, she explores the important differences between caring and grooming that she was unable to differentiate as a child. Once Yvonne was able to build the cabin and reflect with her art, this distinction came to light. Follow Yvonne Wakefield in her triumph over adversity, and her experiences in the rawness of nature.

“Babe in the Woods: Self Portrait” by Yvonne Wakefield is available for pre-order on Amazon.
ISBN: 978-1737459118
Price: $16.95
Publisher: Pepin Enterprises

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New book release: ‘The Bone Code’ by Kathy Reichs

‘The Bone Code’ is the new Temperance Brennan novel by Kathy Reichs. Photo: amazon

Kathy Reichs’s first novel “Déjà Dead,” published in 1997, won the Ellis Award for Best First Novel and was an international bestseller. Kathy was a producer of Fox Television’s longest running scripted drama, Bones, which is based on her work and her novels. One of very few forensic anthropologists certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology, Kathy divides her time between Charlotte, North Carolina, and Montreal, Québec. Her new novel “The Bone Code” is Kathy’s twentieth entry in her series featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. This time around, Temperance’s examinations, fifteen years apart, of unidentified bodies ignite a terrifying series of events. (amazon, 2021)

“The Bone Code” – On the way to the hurricane-ravaged Isle of Palms, a barrier island off the South Carolina coast, Tempe receives a call from the Charleston coroner. The storm has tossed ashore a medical waste container. Inside are two decomposed bodies wrapped in plastic sheeting and bound with electrical wire. Tempe recognizes many of the details as identical to those of an unsolved case she handled in Quebec years earlier. With a growing sense of foreboding, she travels to Montreal to gather evidence. Meanwhile, health authorities in South Carolina become increasingly alarmed as a human flesh-eating contagion spreads. So focused is Tempe on identifying the container victims that, initially, she does not register how their murders and the pestilence may be related. But she does recognize one unsettling fact. Someone is protecting a dark secret—and willing to do anything to keep it hidden. An absorbing look at the sinister uses to which genetics can be put, and featuring a cascade of ever-more-shocking revelations, “The Bone Code” is Temperance Brennan’s most astonishing case yet—one that gives new meaning to today’s headlines.