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In Search of King Solomon's Mines
Tahir Shah - Arcade
Format: Paperback
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For more than a century Henry Rider Haggard's novel King Solomon's Mines has inspired generations of young men to set forth in search of adventure. But long before Rider Haggard's classic, explorers, theologians and scientists scoured the known world for the source of King Solomon's astonishing... |
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The improbability of love
Hannah Rothschild - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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Wickedly funny, this totally engaging, richly observed first novel by Hannah Rothschild is a tour de force. Its sweeping narrative and cast of wildly colorful characters takes you behind the scenes of a London auction house, into the secret operations of a powerful art dealer, to a flamboyant... |
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The Secret Chord: A Novel
Geraldine Brooks - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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"A page turner. . .Brooks is a master at bringing the past alive. . .in her skillful hands the issues of the past echo our own deepest concerns: love and loss, drama and tragedy, chaos and brutality." - Alice Hoffman, The Washington PostA rich and utterly absorbing novel... |
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A Winter in Arabia
Freya Stark - Overlook Press
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One of the most unconventional and courageous explorers of her time, Freya Stark chronicled her extraordinary Travels in the Near East, establishing herself as a twentieth century heroine. A Winter in Arabia recounts her 1937-8 expedition in what is now Yemen, a journey which helped secure... |
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The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty: A Novel
Vendela Vida - Ecco
Format: Print book
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From the acclaimed author of Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name and The Lovers comes a taut, spellbinding literary thriller that probes the essence and malleability of identity.In Vendela Vida's taut and mesmerizing novel of ideas, a woman travels to Casablanca, Morocco, on mysterious... |
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Lonely Planet The Travel Book
Lonely_Planet - Lonely Planet
Format: Hardcover
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Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher*Celebrate the world. 229 countries & destinations to explore, 817 beautiful images to inspire - this international best seller features 100% all NEW images and text.Bigger, brighter and bolder than ever, the second edition... |
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Undermajordomo Minor: A Novel
Patrick deWitt - Ecco
Format: Print book
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From the bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Sisters Brothers, comes a brilliant and boisterous novel that reimagines the folk tale.A love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners, Undermajordomo Minor is Patrick deWitt's long-awaited... |
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Radio Shangri-la: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth
Lisa Napoli - Crown Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Lisa Napoli was in the grip of a crisis, dissatisfied with her life and her work as a radio journalist. When a chance encounter with a handsome stranger presented her with an opportunity to move halfway around the world, Lisa left behind cosmopolitan Los Angeles for a new adventure in the ancient... |
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Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 of the World's Greatest Trips
National Geographic - National Geographic Society
Format: Book
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No one knows the world like National Geographic - and in this lavish volume, we reveal our picks for the world's most fabulous journeys, along with helpful information for readers who want to try them out. Compiled from the favorite trips of National Geographic's travel writers, Journeys... |
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The Harder They Come: A Novel
T.C. Boyle - Ecco
Format: Print book
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Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author T.C. Boyle makes his Ecco debut with a powerful, gripping novel that explores the roots of violence and anti-authoritarianism inherent in the American character.Set in contemporary Northern California, The Harder They Come explores the volatile... |
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Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes
Elizabeth Bard - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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In Paris for a weekend visit, Elizabeth Bard sat down to lunch with a handsome Frenchman--and never went home again. Was it love at first sight Or was it the way her knife slid effortlessly through her pav au poivre, the steak's pink juices puddling into the buttery pepper... |
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M Train
Patti Smith - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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National Best Seller From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of the cafs and haunts she has worked in around the world. It is a book Patti Smith has described as "a roadmap to my life."... |
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Zeitoun
Dave Eggers - Vintage Books
Format: Print book
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National Bestseller A "New York Times "Notable Book An "O, The Oprah Magazine "Terrific Read of the YearA "Huffington Post "Best Book of the Year A "New Yorker "Favorite Book of the Year A "Chicago Tribune "Favorite Nonfiction Book of the Year... |
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Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
William Finnegan - Audible Studios
Format: Audiobook
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Pulitzer Prize, Biography, 2016A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writer. Barbarian Days is William Finnegans memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates it is something else entirely: a beautiful... |
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Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey
Marie Mutsuki Mockett - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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How does one cope with overwhelming grief?Marie Mutsuki Mockett's family owns a Buddhist temple 25 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. In March 2011, after the earthquake and tsunami, radiation levels prohibited the burial of her Japanese grandfather's bones. As Japan... |
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Compact Atlas of the World
DK - Dorling Kindersley
Format: Paperback
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This atlas has been fully revised and updated. The fourth edition includes all recent border, place name, and flag changes around the world, including the new nations of Montenegro and Kosovo. Modern redesign with improved physical relief bases on each map. |
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Glitter and Glue: A Memoir
Kelly Corrigan - Ballantine
Format: Book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the author of The Middle Place comes a new memoir that examines the bond - sometimes nourishing, sometimes exasperating, occasionally divine - between mothers and daughters. When Kelly Corrigan was in high school, her mother neatly summarized... |
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An American Childhood
Annie Dillard - G.K. Hall
Format: Hardcover
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A book that instantly captured the hearts of readers across the country, An American Childhood is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's poignant, vivid memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s. ''Dillard's luminous prose painlessly captures the pain of growing up in this... |
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Laughing Without an Accent: Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad
Firoozeh Dumas - Villard
Format: Book
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In the bestselling memoir Funny in Farsi, Firoozeh Dumas recounted her adventures growing up Iranian American in Southern California. Now she again mines her rich Persian heritage in Laughing Without an Accent, sharing stories both tender and humorous on being a citizen of the world, on her well-meaning... |
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Paris to the Moon
Adam Gopnik - Random House
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Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafs, breathtaking faades around every corner--in short, an exquisite romanticism that has captured the American imagination for as long as there have been Americans. In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant... |
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River Town: Two Years On The Yangtze
Peter Hessler - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Print book
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In the heart of Chia's Sichuan province lies the small city of Fuling. Surrounded by the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, Fuling has long been a place of continuity, far from the bustling political centers of Beijing and Shanghai. But now Fuling is heading down a new path, and gradually,... |
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Life From Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness
Sasha Martin - National Geographic Soc
Format: Book
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Witty, warm, and poignant, food blogger Sasha Martin's memoir about cooking her way to happiness and self-acceptance is a culinary journey like no other. Over the course of 195 weeks, food writer and blogger Sasha Martin set out to cook - and eat - a meal from every country in the world.... |
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Assassination Vacation
Sarah Vowell - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author of The Wordy Shipmates and contributor to NPR's "This American Life" Sarah Vowell embarks on a road trip to sites of political violence, from Washington DC to Alaska, to better understand our nation's ever-evolving political system... |
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