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Clotilde's Edible Adventures in Paris
by Clotilde Dusoulier  Publisher Comments Clotilde Dusoulier, a native Parisian and passionate explorer of the city's food scene, has won a tremendous following online with her insider reports and wonderful recipes. Her book Chocolate & Zucchini introduced her to a wider, equally...
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The Illustrated Olive Farm: A Newly Written, Illustrated Companion to Her Bestselling Trilogy
by Carol Drinkwater Publisher Comments A sumptuously illustrated companion to the bestselling Olive Farm trilogy. Carol Drinkwater, whose three books—The Olive Farm, The Olive Season, and The Olive Harvest—sold more than a quarter of a million copies in the UK alone, has produced...
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Deep Survival : Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why (03 Edition)
by Laurence Gonzales Synopsis Fascinating for any reader, and absolutely essential for anyone who takes a hike in the woods, this book will change the way readers understand themselves and the great outdoors....
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (P.S.)
by Robert M. Pirsig Publisher Comments A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and hisson, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions on how to live. The narrator's relationship with his son leads to...
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Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
by Carlos Eire 
Publisher Comments "Have mercy on me, Lord, I am Cuban." In 1962, Carlos Eire was one of 14,000 children airlifted out of Cuba -- exiled from his family, his country, and his own childhood by the revolution. The memories of Carlos's life in Havana, cut short when he was...
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Way Off the Road: Discovering the Peculiar Charms of Small Town America
by Bill Geist Publisher Comments “To say it very simply, freezer burn may very well have set in.” —neighbor on the frozen dead guy kept on ice in a backyard shed in Nederland, Colorado. “Everybody loves a parade; we were just geographically...
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Into Thin Air : a Personal Account of the MT. Everest Disaster (97 Edition)
by Jon Krakauer Publisher Comments A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. The storm, which claimed...
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Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels: Travel and Colonial Writing in English, 1550-1630: An Anthology
by Andrew Hadfield Publisher Comments Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels is an accessible and unique anthology of travel and colonial writing in the English Renaissance, selected to represent the world-picture of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century readers in England. It includes not just the...
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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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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
by Candice Millard
Powells.com Staff Pick This true story traces the exploration of a previously un-navigated tributary of the Amazon River by Theodore Roosevelt, accompanied by his son Kermit. The trip was extremely dangerous, and Candice Millard tells the story with detail that makes you...
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A Field Guide to Getting Lost
by Rebecca Solnit Publisher Comments Whether she is contemplating the history of walking as a cultural and political experience over the past two hundred years (Wanderlust), or using the life of photographer Eadweard Muybridge as a lens to discuss the transformations of space and time in...
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Merde Happens
by Stephen Clarke Publisher Comments From Stephen Clarke, the internationally bestselling author of A Year in the Merde and In the Merde for Love, Merde Happens is the third installation of Paul West's hilarious mis-adventures in merde. This time around Paul finds himself in financial...
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One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
by Sam Keith Synopsis To live in a pristine land . . . roam the wilderness . . . build a home. . . . Thousands have had such dreams, but Richard Proenneke lived them. Here is a tribute to a man who carved his masterpiece out of the beyond....
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North To the Night (98 Edition)
by Simon
Publisher Comments In June 1994 Alvah Simon and his wife, Diana, set off in their 36-foot sailboat to explore the hauntingly beautiful world of icebergs, tundra, and fjords lying high above the Arctic Circle. Four months later, unexpected events would trap Simon alone on...
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A Year in Provence
by Peter Mayle Publisher Comments In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lubéron with his wife and two large dogs. He endures...
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Passion on the Vine: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Family in the Heart of Italy
by Sergio Esposito Publisher Comments As a young child in Naples, Italy, Sergio Esposito sat at his kitchen table observing the daily ritual of his large, loud family bonding over fresh local dishes and simple country wines. While devouring the rich bufala mozzarella, still sopping with milk...
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A Thousand Days in Venice
by Marlena De Blasi Synopsis When Marlena de Blasi traveled to Italy, she expected to fall in love with the country, not to be swept away by a Venetian man. Filled with the foods and flavors of Italy, "A Thousand Days in Venice" is an enchanting story....
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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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The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character
by Samuel Kramer Publisher Comments The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums B.C....
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Do Travel Writers Go to Hell?: A Swashbuckling Tale of High Adventures, Questionable Ethics, & Professional Hedonism
by Thomas Kohnstamm Publisher Comments For those who think that travel guidebooks are the gospel truth. The waitress suggests that I come back after she closes down the restaurant, around midnight. We end up having sex in a chair and then on one of the tables in the back corner. I pen a...
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