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We'll Always Have Paris: A Mother/Daughter Memoir

Jennifer Coburn · Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback

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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National Parks Explore America's 60 National Parks

Rand McNally · Rand McNally
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

A perfectly packaged, awe inspiring tour of America's 60 National Parks complete with Rand McNally maps, stunning photography, park highlights, lodging options, and tips for hitting the road. This gem of a book showcases America's adventurous spirit and its astonishing beauty, park...
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The Great Canadian Bucket List - Alberta

Robin Esrock · Dundurn
Format: Book

On his personal quest to check off the best of his home country, travel writer and host Robin Esrock catalogues must-sees, including nature, food, culture, history, adrenaline rushes, and quirky Canadiana. After spending years crafting the definitive Canadian Bucket List, hes packed in enough...
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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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Meet Me in Atlantis: My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City

Mark Adams · Dutton Books
Format: Hardcover

"Adventurous, inquisitive and mirthful, Mark Adams gamely sifts through the eons of rumor, science, and lore to find a place that, in the end, seems startlingly real indeed." -Hampton Sides "Infused with humor and pop culture references, Adams makes what could have been a tedious...
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The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World 2015

Bob Sehlinger · Unofficial Guides
Format: Book

If you purchase The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World in ebook format, receive free monthly updates via your device so youll be in the know about important changes, making your vacation planning better than ever! Compiled and written by a team of experienced researchers whose work has been...
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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,...
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Rhythm of the Wild: A Life Inspired by Alaska's Denali National Park

Kim Heacox · Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover

From Kim Heacox, the acclaimed author of The Only Kayak and John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire, comes Rhythm of the Wild, an Alaska memoir focused on Denali National Park. Music runs through every page of this book, as do stories, rivers and wolves. At its heart, Rhythm of the Wild...
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Ultimate Journeys for Two: Extraordinary Destinations on Every Continent

MIKE HOWARD · National Geographic
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

Written by the founders of HoneyTrek.com, this inspiring book reveals hidden-gem destinations and insider tips for unforgettable couples travel.

In these informative pages, Mike and Anne Howard - officially the World's Longest Honeymooners and founders of the acclaimed travel blog...
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Fodor's In Focus Florida Keys: with Key West, Marathon & Key Largo

Fodor's · Fodor's
Format: Book

A slender necklace of landfalls off the southern tip of Florida, the Florida Keys are nirvana for anglers, divers, literature lovers, and Jimmy Buffet wannabes. The favorite of many travelers--and the biggest tourist draw--is Key West, the southernmost point in the continental United States,...
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Lingo: Around Europe in Sixty Languages

Gaston Dorren · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

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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Embracing Cuba

Byron Motley · University Press of Florida
Pages: 210
Format: Print book

"Words alone do not do Cuba justice. They depict only fragments of her mystery and beauty, her strength and fragility, her spirit and song. And so I turn to my cameras . . ." - from the introduction, Embracing Cuba

"Motley's images of Cuba's people, arts,...
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The Outer Beach: A Thousand-Mile Walk on Cape Cod's Atlantic Shore

Robert Finch · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A poignant, candid chronicle of a beloved nature writer's fifty-year relationship with an iconic American landscape.

Those who have encountered Cape Cod -- or merely dipped into an account of its rich history -- know that it is a singular place. Robert Finch writes of its beaches:...

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In Other Words

Jhumpa Lahiri · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 233
Format: Print book

National Best Seller

From the best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful nonfiction debut - an "honest, engaging, and very moving account of a writer searching for herself in words." - Kirkus Reviews (starred)

In Other Words is...
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Hallowed Ground: A Walk at Gettysburg

James McPherson · Zenith Press
Format: Hardcover

Enjoy this fully illustrated edition of Hallowed Ground by James M McPherson one of todays greatest Civil War historiansJames M McPherson the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom and arguably the finest Civil War historian in the world walks readers through the Gettysburg...
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