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Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Isolated, broke, and restless in a drafty mountain A-frame with colicky twins, Brook Eddy needed a path out. STEEPED: Adventures of a Tea Entrepreneur is the story of how Brook built a socially conscious multimillion-dollar tea company with a fierce devotion to sustainability. Part business memoir, part India travelogue, STEEPED is brimming with provocative prose, transcendent images of travel throughout India, and advice for aspiring entrepreneurs,...
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Series
Tea Shop mysteries (Laura Childs) volume 5
Description
While catering a Charleston benefit that includes a "Ghost Crawl" through Jasmine Cemetery, Theodosia Browning finds herself investigating the mysterious death of the event's organizer, who drops dead during a theatrical performance
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When social darling Delaine Dish throws a lavish benefit for the restoration of a run-down Victorian home, Theodosia Browning donates tea and treats from her Indigo Tea Shop. But the grand unveiling of Theo's spread proves a gruesome scene when a beloved local politico falls dead with a jagged piece of metal in his neck. Anyone at the event could be the culprit, but the police have few leads-and no suspects. Try as she might, Theodosia can't help...
Author
Series
Atelier volume 5
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"What is the place of quality in contemporary capitalism? How is a product as ordinary as a bag of tea valued for its quality? In her innovative study, Sarah Besky addresses these questions by going inside an Indian auction house where experts taste and value mass-market black tea, one of the world's most recognized commodities. Pairing rich historical data with ethnographic research among agronomists, professional tea tasters and traders, and tea...
6) The Tea Rose
Author
Series
Tea rose trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2007, c2002
Description
East London, 1888-a city apart. A place of shadow and light where thieves, whores, and dreamers mingle, where children play in the cobbled streets by day and a killer stalks at night, where bright hopes meet the darkest truths. Here, by the whispering waters of the Thames, Fiona Finnegan, a worker in a tea factory, hopes to own a shop one day, together with her lifelong love, Joe Bristow, a costermonger's son. With nothing but their faith in each...
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Theodosia Browning and the staff of the Indigo Tea Shop are feeling the heat, and not just because it's August. The Charleston Film Festival has brought them a busy week of catering jobs, including the opening night gala at the historic Belvedere Theatre. Theo notices that the atmosphere backstage appears to be tense. Then, famous director Jordan Cole is shot on his way to the podium, and the entire audience witnesses his death. Never has a festival...
Author
Pub. Date
p2010
Description
In 1848, the British East India Company, having lost its monopoly on the tea trade, engaged Robert Fortune, a Scottish gardener, botanist, and plant hunter, to make a clandestine trip into the interior of China-territory forbidden to foreigners-to steal the closely guarded secrets of tea horticulture and manufacturing. For All the Tea in China is the remarkable account of Fortune's journeys into China-a thrilling narrative that combines history, geography,...
11) Life by the cup: ingredients for a purpose-filled life of bottomless happiness and limitless success
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Pub. Date
[c2014]
Description
"The founder of Zhena's Gypsy Tea Company tells her extraordinary story of struggle, hope, and audacity, inspiring women to overcome setbacks--no matter how daunting--and pursue their dreams. As a twenty-four-year-old single mom, Zhena Muzyka had a young son in need of life-saving surgery and only six dollars in her wallet. But she also had three other powerful motivators: hope, a love of tea, and a dream to share beautiful, aromatic, organic teas...
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