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The Winning Certificate is a mystery that centers on issues related to adoption. In addition the book features seven Santa Cruz Mountain wines paired with ethnic dishes from:

 Italy

Teresa's Hot Italian Sausages and Peppers

Teresa's Hot Italian Sausages and Peppers with Travieso Winery's Amaranta

Elaine's Chicken Cacciatore with a Cooper-Garrod Cabernet Franc

Mexico

Ceviche

Leti's Mexican Ceviche and Rick's Roasted Asparagus And Red Onion Quesadillas with Hallcrest Pinot Noir

Antonio's Famous Pozole with a Soquel Vineyards Trinity

Ireland

Apple Maple Pork Chops

Jenny's Irish Apple Maple Pork Chops with Vine Hill Zinfandel

Poland

Rick's Polish Beef Rolls With Dill Pickles and Silver Mountain Winery's Alloy

Kaz's Fish Bigos with Martin Ranch Grenache

The Book

In The Winning Certificate, Sylvia Medina, a student at Central High joins a teenage gang after her adopted mother's death and is trapped in a life style of violence and hopelessness. Can the school's Literary Club and an image on the computer of her birth mother provide the hope necessary for Sylvia to survive?

Antonio Medina, after his wife's death from cancer tries everything to get Sylvia back on track. However, nothing helps until Rick Podowski and Leti Rios, advisors to the high school Literary Club, get Sylvia involved. Sylvia reluctantly shares some of her poems. Then, as Sylvia becomes more committed, she begins to change and becomes in touch with her feelings.

As Sylvia develops her ties to the Literary Club, she gets more intrigued by the picture of her birth mother and tries to find her. She learns that her mother lives in New York and when members of the Literary Club go to Columbia University to attend a conference and receive an award for their magazine, Sylvia goes along. Instead of going to the conference, she visits her mother.

She finds out that her mother married a very rich man, and she has two stepsons. The stepfather is dead, and the two sons along with her lawyer are trying to get her farm and include it as part of a land trust being used as a means to launder money for the mob. Murder, kidnapping, money laundering, and mob activities are included in this novel.

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