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Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She's even started to feel like she knows them. "Jess and Jason," she calls them. Their life -- as she sees it -- is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost. And then she sees something shocking. It's only a...
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This rich, enthusiastic guide to the Tucson, Rincon, Santa Catalina, and Santa Rita Mountains has been completely revised. Betty Leavengood's fourth edition of her bestselling Tucson Hiking Guide offers new routes and updated access information, detailed maps, and clear descriptions to area trailheads. This latest edition includes thirty-seven hikes rated easy to difficult by mountain range; revised information on precautions for desert hiking; historical...
26) One last stop
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue comes a new romantic comedy that will stop readers in their tracks... "Dreamy, other worldly, smart, swoony, thoughtful, hilarious - all in all, exactly what you'd expect from Casey McQuiston!" - Jasmine Guillory, New York Times bestselling author of The Proposal and Party for Two Cynical twenty-three-year old August doesn't believe in much. She doesn't believe in psychics, or...
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Condé Nast Traveler magazine is filled with the travel secrets of celebrated writers and sophisticated travelers. Each monthly issue features breathtaking destinations, including the finest art, architecture, fashion, culture, cuisine, lodgings, and shopping. With Condé Nast Traveler as your guide, you'll discover the best islands, cities, spas, castles, and cruises.
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Skeletons on the Zahara chronicles the true story of twelve American sailors who were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1815, captured by desert nomads, sold into slavery, and subjected to a hellish two-month journey through the perilous heart of the Sahara.
The western Sahara is a baking hot and desolate place, home only to nomads and their camels, and to locusts, snails and thorny scrub — and its barren and ever-changing coastline...
The western Sahara is a baking hot and desolate place, home only to nomads and their camels, and to locusts, snails and thorny scrub — and its barren and ever-changing coastline...
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" ... based on the journal Clarence Boynton kept which documented the driving trip he took with his wife, Mariquita ("Quita"), Dr. Watkins, his wife Bessie and their daughter Merial. ... The journal is well written, interesting and really gives the reader an idea of what road trael was like in the fall of 1913 Arizona"--Page xiii.
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View the art of Velazquez, El Greco, and Goya in Madrid. Visit El Estorial, a palace monastery so grand, it's called the 8th wonder of the world. See Segovia, home of the Alcazar and a Roman aqueduct that still works. Travel back in time to Toledo. Explore the gypsy caves of Cordoba. Discover Moorish Spain in Granada. See Seville, the city that inspired four operas and Don Quixote. Enjoy the Costa del Sol. Peruse the Salvador Dali museum. Then see...
32) Passenger
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When a violin prodigy who has lost everything wakes up on a ship in another time, a man who wants to escape a life of servitude is forced to confront his past while keeping his former captors from claiming a stolen object of untold value.
33) A year in Italy
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Geographic travel journalist Steven McCurdy shares his love of Italy and his experiences with those who have been there and those who are planning to go.
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"George and Harold have been turned into evil zombie nerds doomed to roam a devastated, postapocalyptic planet for all eternity! Unfortunately, the boys can't count on Captain Underpants for help because Tippy Tinkletrousers and his time-traveling hijinks prevented George and Harold from creating him in the first place! With Tippy having changed the course of human history forever, George and Harold will have to figure out a way to change it back!"...
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Japan is a country of contrasts, as Eastern values and traditions of its unique past co-exist with practices of Westernized present. Industrialized modern cities connect by bullet trains, but visitors can also discover of world of wonderful shrines with torii gateways, Buddist statues and peaceful gardens in quiet backwaters.
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The Emerald Isle is a country of dazzling contrasts and contradictions, with its beautiful landscapes and craggy coastlines, to its cosmopolitan cities. Explore the island's rich heritage, where ancient relics and monuments tell the story of a culture forged by myth, legend, and adversity.
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Standing at the gateway between North Africa and the Middle East, Egypt is home to one of the world's most celebrated ancient civilizations. Here, in a land of wind-blown sand dunes, ancient monuments and fascinating mythology, the pharaohs and the pyramids contrast with the bustling souks of Cairo and the majestic Sahara Desert.
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