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Bean-to-Bar Chocolate: America's Craft Chocolate Revolution: The Origins, the Makers, and the Mind-Blowing Flavors

Megan Giller · Storey Publishing, LLC
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Author Megan Giller invites fellow chocoholics on a fascinating journey through America's craft chocolate revolution. Learn what to look for in a chocolate bar and how to successfully pair chocolate with coffee, beer, spirits, cheese, and bread. This comprehensive celebration of chocolate...
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From Napa with Love: Who to Know, Where to Go, and What Not to Miss

ALEXIS TRAINA · Abrams Image
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

Napa Valley is a wonderland boasting beautiful weather, exquisite vistas, bespoke hotels, Michelin-rated restaurants, and world-class wineries. From Napa with Love is equal parts travel- and lifestyle-guide celebrating this famed and incredibly popular California destination. Featuring...
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The Complete Civil War Road Trip Guide: More than 500 Sites from Gettysburg to Vicksburg

Michael Weeks · The Countryman Press
Pages: 665
Format: Paperback

The definitive guidebook for Civil War tourists, from the novice historian to the die-hard buff For those who can't resist trying to see it all, this indispensable book contains information on and reviews of almost 450 historical sites across the United States related to the Civil War,...
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A Field Guide to Gettysburg, Second Edition: Experiencing the Battlefield through Its History, Places, and People

Carol Reardon · The University of North Carolina Press
Pages: 488
Format: Paperback

This second, updated edition of the acclaimed A Field Guide to Gettysburg will lead visitors to every important site across the battlefield and also give them ways to envision the action and empathize with the soldiers involved and the local people into whose lives and lands the battle...
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Wanderful: The Modern Bohemian's Guide to Traveling in Style

ANDREA LESTER EATON · Abrams Image
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

A girl with a love for off-the-beaten-path destinations, fashion maven Andi Eaton found herself putting aside the Lonely Planet and Condé Nast Traveler guides and, instead, looking to bohemians and artists for travel and style inspiration: What do the flower children wear on their excur­sions?...
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Starring the Plaza: Hollywood, Broadway, and High Society Visit the World's Favorite Hotel

PATTY FARMER · Beaufort Books
Pages: 130
Format: Hardcover

From the day it opened, on October 1, 1907, the lavish 19-story French Renaissance building on the southeast corner of Fifth Avenue and Central Park South was simply the grandest hotel in the world. It's no wonder that the Plaza's lavish interiors and exteriors have remained sought-after...
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Oh, Florida!: How America's Weirdest State Influences the Rest of the Country

CRAIG PITTMAN · Picador
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

Oh, Florida! To some people, it's a paradise. To others, it's a punch line. As Oh, Florida! shows, it's both of these and, more important, it's a Petri dish, producing trends that end up influencing the rest of the country. Without Florida there would be no NASCAR, no Bettie...
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Havana without Makeup: Inside the Soul of the City

HERMAN PORTOCARERO · Turtle Point Press
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

"The story Portocarero weaves here is rich and fascinating, and vital to understanding an often mysterious place." - Patrick Oppmann, CNN Havana Correspondent and Bureau Chief Havana without Makeup is the ultimate insider's view of Havana, a wide-ranging exploration of its complex...
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Lonely Planet Morocco

LONELY PLANET. · Lonely Planet
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback

#1 best-selling guide to Morocco* Lonely Planet Morocco is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Explore the medina and tanneries in Fez, hop between kasbahs and oases in the Draa Valley, or catch a wave at Taghazout;...
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Epic Drives of the World

LONELY PLANET. · Lonely Planet
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover

Buckle up for the next installment of Lonely Planet's Epic series: Epic Drives of the World. This beautifully illustrated hardcover features 50 classic road trips across the world, with 150 additional suggestions for both long and short drives. Each trip includes a first-hand description,...
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