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Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America

John Waters · Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pages: 322
Format: Hardcover

A cross-country hitchhiking journey with America's most beloved weirdoJohn Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thin mustache, and a cardboard sign that reads "I'm Not Psycho," he hitchhikes across America from Baltimore to San Francisco, braving...
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The Lost Book of Mormon: A Journey Through the Mythic Lands of Nephi, Zarahemla, and Kansas City, Missouri

Avi Steinberg · Nan A. Talese
Format: Hardcover

Is the Book of Mormon the Great American Novel? Decades before Melville and Twain composed their great works, a farmhand and child seer named Joseph Smith unearthed a long-buried book from a haunted hill in western New York State that told of an epic history of ancient America, a story...
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A Kitchen in France: A Year of Cooking in My Farmhouse

Mimi Thorisson · Clarkson Potter; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

With beguiling recipes and sumptuous photography, A Kitchen in France transports readers to the French countryside and marks the debut of a captivating new voice in cooking. When Mimi Thorisson and her family moved from Paris to a small town in out-of-the-way Médoc, she did not quite...
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Rick Steves Belgium: Bruges, Brussels, Antwerp & Ghent

Rick Steves · Avalon Travel, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2015. ©2014
Pages: 408
Format: Print book

You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Belgium.With this guide, you'll ride bikes over cobblestone streets and embark on cruises through charming canals. Stop and smell the tulips as you hike past whirring windmills. Visit the ultramodern...
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Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks

Mark Woods · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Many childhood summers, Mark Woods piled into a station wagon with his parents and two sisters and headed to America's national parks. Mark's most vivid childhood memories are set against a backdrop of mountains, woods, and fireflies in places like Redwood, Yosemite, and Grand Canyon national...
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Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York

Sari Botton · Touchstone
Format: Book

“Gets right to the heart of what it feels like to be a New Yorker—slightly insane, broke, and madly in love. These essays made me laugh out loud with recognition. New York City isn’t an easy place to live, but is anything easy really worth doing?” —Emma Straub,...
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The 500 Hidden Secrets of Rome

LUISA CRIGOLETTO · Uitgeverij Luster
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Written by true locals, addresses selected after independent research, 100 lists of 5 addresses/secrets each.What are the 5 most beautiful churches? Where can you discover the 5 most secret squares? Which are the 5 best places for a Sunday brunch? The 500 Hidden Secrets of Rome reveals...
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Rio Noir

Tony Bellotto · Akashic Books
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

"The latest installment of Akashic's geographically wide-ranging mystery series lands in Rio de Janeiro, a city whose famous imagery--the massive statue of Christ the Redeemer, Sugarloaf mountain, the beautiful beaches--constitutes the public face of the city, but behind lurks...
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The Memory Book: One Woman's Self-Discovery in the Mist of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy

Linda Fischer · Minted Prose LLC
Format: Paperback

Found in an antique store while the author was on a short vacation to Budapest, the small leather book—filled with watercolors, drawings, and messages—turned out to be a memory book. At the turn of the twentieth century, many Eastern European girls kept memory books as keepsake...
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The New York Times: Footsteps: From Ferrante's Naples to Hammett's San Francisco, Literary Pilgrimages Around the World

New York Times · Three Rivers Press
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

A curated collection of the New York Times' travel column, "Footsteps," exploring iconic authors' relationships to landmarks and cities around the world Before Nick Carraway was drawn into Daisy and Gatsby's sparkling, champagne-fueled world in The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald...
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World Heritage Sites: A Complete Guide to 981 UNESCO World Heritage Sites

UNESCO · Firefly Books; Fifth Edition, Revised and Updated edition
Format: Book

Expanded and updated to include the 45 sites added to the World Heritage List in 2012 and 2013. Praise for previous editions: "No school, public, or academic library could go wrong including the very affordable World Heritage Sites in both reference and circulating collections."...
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365 Things to Do in Ithaca New York: Complete Insider's Guide to All Things Ithaca

Laurel Guy · Schiffer Publishing
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

On Cayuga Lake in the heart of the Finger Lakes, Ithaca, NY, is home to Cornell University and Ithaca College. Gorges. Enlightened. Quirky. Ithacans do things differently. For every day of the year, there is something interesting in this guidebook to see or do. Laurel Guy weaves 10,000...
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Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders

Joshua Foer · Workman Publishing Company
Pages: 481
Format: Hardcover

It's time to get off the beaten path. Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura celebrates over 700 of the strangest and most curious places in the world. Talk about a bucket list: here are natural wonders - the dazzling glowworm caves in New Zealand, or a baobob tree in South...
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