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Frommer's EasyGuide to Hawaii 2014

Jeanette Foster · FrommerMedia; Pap/Map edition

Selling for a lower price than any similar guidebook, and deliberately limited to a short 256 pages, this EasyGuide is an exercise in creating easily-absorbed travel information. It emphasizes the authentic experiences in each destination:the most important attractions, the classic method...
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Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush

Geoff Dyer · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

From a writer "whose genre-jumping refusal to be pinned down [makes him] an exemplar of our era" (NPR), a new book that confirms his power to astound readers. As a child Geoff Dyer spent long hours making and blotchily painting model fighter planes. So the adult Dyer jumped at the chance...
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Germany: A Literary Anthology

Brian Melican · Interlink Pub Group

xx, 240 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Brazil

Dorling Kindersley, Inc. · Dk Publishing, 2016.
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Brazil is your in-depth guide to the very best of this country in South America, publishing in time for the 2016 Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro.Whether you want to explore the streets of Rio de Janeiro or lounge on its beaches, celebrate the culture of Carnaval...
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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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No Baggage: A Minimalist Tale of Love and Wandering

Clara Bensen · Running Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

One Dress, Three Weeks, Eight Countries - Zero BaggageNewly recovered from a quarter-life meltdown, Clara Bensen decided to test her comeback by signing up for an online dating account. She never expected to meet Jeff, a wildly energetic university professor with a reputation for bucking...
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Conversations on the Hudson

Nick Hand · Princeton Architectural Press
Pages: 111
Format: Hardcover

One spring day in 2012, fresh from his circumnavigation of the British Isles, English designer Nick Hand set off on his bicycle from Brooklyn, New York, and pedaled north along the Hudson River toward its source in the Adirondack Mountains. His leisurely pace suited his simple agenda - to talk...
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Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings

Nellie Bly · Penguin Books,
Pages: 331
Format: Print book

The first edited volume of work by the legendary undercover journalistBorn Elizabeth Jane Cochran, Nellie Bly was one of the first and best female journalists in America and quickly became a national phenomenon in the late 1800s, with a board game based on her adventures and merchandise...
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We'll Always Have Paris: A Mother/Daughter Memoir

Jennifer Coburn · Sourcebooks

How her daughter and her passport taught Jennifer to live like there's no tomorrow Jennifer Coburn has always been terrified of dying young. So she decides to save up and drop everything to travel with her daughter, Katie, on a whirlwind European adventure before it's too late....
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Secrets of the National Parks - The Experts Guide to the Best Experiences Beyond the Tourist Trail

National Geographic Society (U.S.). Book Division. · National Geographic Society
Pages: 270
Format: Paperback

Identifies hidden treasures and lesser-known points of interest in each of America's national parks.
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