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Notes from a Small Island
by Bill Bryson  
Publisher Comments "Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain-which is to say, all of it."<P>After nearly two decades spent on British soil, Bill Bryson-bestsellingauthor of The Mother Tongue and Made in America-decided to...
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
by Bill Bryson Publisher Comments Following an urge to rediscover his youth, Bill Bryson left his native Des Moines, Iowa, in a journey that would take him across 38 states. Lucky for us, he brought a notebook. With a razor wit and a kind heart, Bryson serves up a colorful tale of...
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Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu
by J. Maarten Troost Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals, the laugh-out-loud true story of his years on the islands of Vanuatu and Fiji, among cannibals, volcanoes...and the world's best narcotics. With The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Maarten Troost...
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Lost Cosmonaut: Observations of an Anti-Tourist
by Daniel Kalder Publisher Comments In a tale of adventure, boredom, conversation, and observation, Kalder reveals a world of hidden cities, bizarre suicidal customs, lost rites, and insanely inventive serial killers in the former Soviet Union....
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Neither Here Nor There:: Travels in Europe
by Bill Bryson Publisher Comments Like many of his generation, Bill Bryson backpacked across Europe in the early seventies -- in search of enlightenment, beer, and women. Twenty years later he decided to retrace the journey he undertook in the halcyon days of his youth. The result is...
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Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
by Frances Mayes Publisher Comments Frances Mayes entered a wondrous new world when she began restoring an abandoned villa in the spectacular Tuscan countryside. There were unexpected treasures at every turn: faded frescos beneath the whitewash in her dining room, a vineyard under wildly...
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A Year in Provence
by Peter Mayle Publisher Comments A funny--and often hilarious--month-by-month account of the charms and frustrations of moving into an old French farmhouse in Provence and adapting to a very different way of life....
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Around the World in a Bad Mood!: Confessions of a Flight Attendant
by Rene Foss Publisher Comments A hilarious slant on the culture of airline travel -- by a flight attendant who's logged more in-flight hours than Federal Express. Around the World in a Bad Mood is a center seat on an oversold flight to laughter. And there's no one better qualified...
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Pasquale's Nose: Idle Days in an Italian Town
by Michael Rips Publisher Comments Hailed for its quirkiness and charm, this book tells the story of a New York City lawyer who runs away to a small Etruscan village with his wife and baby and discovers a community of eccentrics who make them feel right at home....
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The City of Falling Angels
by John Berendt
Powells.com Staff Pick Once again John Berendt proves he is a powerful magnet for eccentrics. With clever proficiency, Berendt depicts for readers a host of quirky characters, providing an exclusive glimpse into the Venice you won't see as a tourist. Gossipy yet wholly...
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Cest La Vie an American Woman Begins A
by Suzy Gershman Publisher Comments Bestselling writer Suzy Gershman (dubbed "Super Shopper Suzy" by Oprah) is our answer to Peter Mayle in this heartfelt, breezy, and funny story of starting over in Paris. Suzy had always fantasized about moving to Paris with her husband, but when he dies...
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Travels
by Michael Crichton Publisher Comments ...
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The Orchid Thief
by Susan Orlean
Publisher Comments The orchid thief in Susan Orlean's mesmerizing true story of beauty and obsession is John Laroche, a renegade plant dealer and sharply handsome guy, in spite of the fact that he is missing his front teeth and has the posture of al dente spaghetti. In...
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Almost French
by Sarah Turnbull
Publisher Comments A delightful, fresh twist on the travel memoir, Almost French takes us on a tour that is fraught with culture clashes but rife with deadpan humor. Sarah Turnbull's stint in Paris was only supposed to last a week. Chance had brought Sarah and Frdric...
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Honeymoon With My Brother: A Memoir
by Franz Wisner
Publisher Comments This is the true story of Franz Wisner, a man who thought he had it all — a high profile career and the fiancée of his dreams — when suddenly, his life turned upside down. Just days before they were to be married, his fiancée...
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What Am I Doing Here?
by Bruce Chatwin Publisher Comments Here is a journey into the interior of a celebrated novelist and traveler, charged with all of the narrative power and intellectual challenge of his fiction....
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Paris to the Moon
by Adam Gopnik Publisher Comments Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés, breathtaking façades around every corner — in short, an exquisite romanticism that has captured the American imagination for as long as there have been Americans....
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An Italian Education: The Further Adventures of an Expatriate in Verona
by Peter Benjaminson Publisher Comments Tim Parks's best seller, "Italian Neighbors", offered a sparkling, witty, and acutely observed account of an expatriate's life in a small village outside of Verona. Now in "An Italian Education", Parks continues his chronicle of adapting to Italian...
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Italian Neighbors
by Tim Parks Publisher Comments In this deliciously seductive account of an Italian neighborhood with a statue of the Virgin at one end of the street, a derelict bottle factory at the other, and a wealth of exotic flora and fauna in between, acclaimed novelist Tim Parks celebrates ten...
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Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
by Carlos Eire
Publisher Comments This haunting memoir of the Cuban Revolution, seen through the eyes of a small boy, is the heartbreaking story of the author's privileged childhood in pre-Revolution Havana, and how he lost everything, including his father....
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