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Driving Hungry: A Memoir
Layne Mosler · Pantheon Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover |
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A delicious memoir that takes us from Buenos Aires to New York to Berlin as the author, driven by wanderlust and an unrelenting appetite, finds purpose, passion, and unexpected flavor. After putting her dream of opening her own restaurant on hold, Layne Mosler moves to Buenos Aires to write... |
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Gottland: Mostly True Stories from Half of Czechoslovakia
Mariusz Szczygiel · Melville House |
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Winner of the Europe Book PrizeOne of Europe’s most preeminent investigative journalists travels to the Czech Republic—the Czech half of the former Czechoslovakia, the land that brought us Kafka—to explore the surreal fictions and the extraordinary reality of its twentieth... |
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Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain
Charlotte Higgins · Overlook Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover |
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Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, the captivating and haunting exploration of the remnants of an empire What does Roman Britain mean to us now? How were its physical remains rediscovered and made sense of? How has it been reimagined, in story and song and verse? Sometimes on foot,... |
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Five Nights in Paris: After Dark in the City of Light
John Baxter · Harper Perennial
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback |
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The preeminent expat writer on Paris and author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the World takes you on an unforgettable nocturnal stroll through five iconic Parisian neighborhoods and his own memories.John Baxter enchanted readers with his literary tour of Paris in The Most Beautiful Walk... |
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Seven Letters from Paris: A Memoir
Samantha Vérant · Sourcebooks |
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Twenty years, seven letters, and one long-lost love of a lifetime At age 40, Samantha Verants life is falling apart-shes jobless, in debt, and feeling stuck... until she stumbles upon seven old love letters from Jean-Luc, the sexy Frenchman shed met in Paris when she was 19. With a quick... |
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The Rose Hotel: A Memoir of Secrets, Loss, and Love From Iran to America
Rahimeh Andalibian · National Geographic
Format: Hardcover |
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A country in chaos, a clash of civilizations, and a family torn asunder. In this searing memoir, Rahimeh Andalibian struggles to make sense of two brutal crimes a rape, solved by her father, and a murder, of which her beloved oldest brother stands accused. She takes us first into her familys... |
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White Eskimo: Knud Rasmussen's Fearless Journey into the Heart of the Arctic
Stephen R. Bown · Da Capo
Pages: 384
Format: Print book |
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Among the explorers made famous for revealing hitherto impenetrable cultures - T. E. Lawrence and Wilfred Thesiger in the Middle East, Richard Burton in Africa - Knud Rasmussen stands out not only for his physical bravery but also for the beauty of his writing. Part Danish, part Inuit,... |
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Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
Matthew Goodman · Ballantine Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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NATIONAL BESTSELLEROn November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly, the crusading young female reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's World newspaper, left New York City by steamship on a quest to break the record for the fastest trip around the world. Also departing from New York that day - and heading in the opposite... |
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