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Eating Rome: Living the Good Life in the Eternal City

Elizabeth Minchilli · St. Martin's Griffin

Elizabeth Minchilli has been eating her way through Rome since she was 12 years old. Eating Rome, based on her popular blog Elizabeth Minchilli in Rome, is her homage to the city that feeds her, literally and figuratively. Her story is a personal, quirky and deliciously entertaining look...
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Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

David Sedaris · Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A guy walks into a bar car and...From here the story could take many turns. When this guy is David Sedaris, the possibilities are endless, but the result is always the same: he will both delight you with twists of humor and intelligence and leave you deeply moved. Sedaris remembers his father's...
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Follow the Money: A Month in the Life of a Ten-Dollar Bill

Steve Boggan · Aurum Press Ltd; Reprint edition

What do you do if you want to really understand a country, to understand its people and feel its heartbeat? You can follow the rest of the tourists, or you can take the advice of Watergate reporter Bob Woodward's source, 'Deep Throat', and 'follow the money.'Starting...
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The road to little dribbling : adventures of an American in Britain

Bill Bryson · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: eBook

The hilarious and loving sequel to a hilarious and loving classic of travel writing: Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson's valentine to his adopted country of England In 1995 Bill Bryson got into his car and took a weeks-long farewell motoring trip about England before moving his family...
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In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond

Robert D Kaplan · Random House
Pages: 287
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world's Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a riveting journey through one of Europe's frontier countries - and a potent examination of the forces that will determine Europe's fate in the postmodern...
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Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air

Richard Holmes · Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)****Time Magazine 10 Top Nonfiction Books of 2013****The New Republic Best Books of 2013**In this heart-lifting chronicle, Richard Holmes, author of the best-selling The Age of Wonder, follows the pioneer generation of balloon aeronauts, the daring...
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Malaysia & Singapore

Dorling Kindersley, Inc. · Dk Publishing, 2016.
Pages: 356
Format: Print book

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Malaysia and Singapore is your in-depth guide to the very best of this region.Whether you want to discover the best places to spot colorful fish and jungle-dwelling animals like orangutans, or are looking to sample the incredible food in the ultra-modern metropolises...
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Walking The Himalayas

Levison Wood · Little
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Following his trek along the length of the Nile River, explorer Levison Wood takes on his greatest challenge yet-navigating the treacherous foothills of the Himalayas, the world's highest mountain range. Praised by Bear Grylls, Levison Wood has been called "the toughest man on TV"...
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Wide-Open World: How Volunteering Around the Globe Changed One Family's Lives Forever

John Marshall · Ballantine Books; First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

For readers of Three Cups of Tea; Eat, Pray, Love; and Wild comes the inspiring story of an ordinary American family that embarks on an extraordinary journey. Wide-Open World follows the Marshall family as they volunteer their way around the globe, living in a monkey sanctuary in Costa...
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Hemingway's Paris: A Writer's City in Words and Images

Robert Wheeler · Yucca Publishing
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Walk through the Streets of Paris with Ernest Hemingway.In gorgeous black and white images, Hemingway's Paris depicts a story of remarkable passion - for a city, a woman, and a time. No other city in any of his travels was as significant, professionally or emotionally, as was Paris....
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