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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Brazil
Dorling Kindersley Inc. · Dk Publishing, 2016.
Pages: 448
Format: Print book |
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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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City Squares: Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World
Catie Marron · Harpercollins, 2016.
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
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In this important collection, eighteen renowned writers, including David Remnick, Zadie Smith, Rebecca Skloot, Rory Stewart, and Adam Gopnik evoke the spirit and history of some of the world's most recognized and significant city squares, accompanied by illustrations from equally distinguished... |
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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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From Moon Cakes to Mao to Modern China: An Introduction to Chinese Civilization
Fayuan Zhu · CN Times Books,
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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To understand China, we need to step into the palace of her culture and explore her rich history. With this in mind, a group of scholars from China and America have put this book together as a primer on all things China, from art and science to religion and society. In this book they offer... |
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Lingo: Around Europe in Sixty Languages
Gaston Dorren · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover |
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Whether you're a frequent visitor to Europe or just an armchair traveler, the surprising and extraordinary stories in Lingo will forever change the way you think about the continent, and may even make you want to learn a new language.Lingo spins the reader on a whirlwind tour of sixty... |
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Hope Runs: An American Tourist, a Kenyan Boy, a Journey of Redemption
Claire Diaz-Ortiz · Revell,
Pages: 204
Format: Print book |
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Sammy Ikua Gachagua had lost his father to illness, his mother to abandonment, and his home to poverty. By age ten, he was living in a shack with seven other children and very little food. He entered an orphanage seeing it as a miracle with three meals a day, a bed to sleep in, and clothes... |
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Walking Home: A Poet's Journey
Simon Armitage · Liveright; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Nineteen days, 256 miles, and one renowned poet walking the backbone of England. The wandering poet has always been a feature of our cultural imagination. Odysseus journeys home, his famous flair for storytelling seducing friend and foe. The Romantic poets tramped all over the Lake District... |
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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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