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God's Middle Finger: Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre
by Richard Grant  Publisher Comments Twenty miles south of the Arizona-Mexico border, the rugged, beautiful Sierra Madre mountains begin their dramatic ascent. Almost 900 miles long, the range climbs to nearly 11,000 feet and boasts several canyons deeper than the Grand Canyon. The rules of...
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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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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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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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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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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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The Boys from Dolores: Fidel Castro's Schoolmates from Revolution to Exile (Vintage Departures)
by Patrick Symmes Synopsis From the author of "Chasing Che," here is the remarkable tale of a group of boys at the heart of Cuba's political and social history. Chosen in the 1940s from among the most affluent and ambitious families in eastern Cuba, they were groomed at the elite...
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Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America
by Andrew Ferguson Publisher Comments Abraham Lincoln was our greatest president and perhaps the most influential American who ever lived. But what is his place in our country today? In Land of Lincoln, Andrew Ferguson packs his bags and embarks on a journey to the heart of contemporary...
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The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris
by Edmund White Publisher Comments “One has the impression, reading The Flâneur, of having fallen into the hands of a highly distractible, somewhat eccentric poet and professor who is determined to show you a Paris you wouldn’t otherwise see…Edmund White tells such...
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Into Thick Air: Biking to the Bellybutton of Six Continents
by Jim Malusa Publisher Comments With plenty of sunscreen and a cold beer swaddled in his sleeping bag, writer and botanist Jim Malusa bicycled alone to the lowest point on each of six continents, a six-year series of “anti-expeditions” to the “anti-summits.” His...
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Alaska Blues: A Story of Freedom, Risk, and Living Your Dream
by Joe Upton Publisher Comments Step aboard Joe Upton's 32-foot troller and journey with him into another world. It's Southeast Alaska in the 1970s, and this evocative, true-life account chronicles four months of commercial fishing in the Inside Passage. Travel with Upton through open...
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Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land That Disappeared
by Christopher Robbins Publisher Comments A funny and revealing travelogue of Kazakhstan, a country rich with wild tulips, oil, nomads who hunt with golden eagles, and a disappearing landlocked sea. Closed to foreigners under Tsar and Soviet rule, Kazakhstan has remained largely hidden from the...
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Kinky Gazpacho: Life, Love & Spain
by Lori Tharps Publisher Comments Magazine writer and editor Lori Tharps was born and raised in the comfortable but mostly White suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she was often the only person of color in her school and neighborhood. At an early age, Lori decided that her destiny...
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Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
by Georgina Howell Publisher Comments A marvelous tale of an adventurous life of great historical import She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire:...
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Pilgrim in the Land of Alligators: More Stories about Real Florida (Florida History and Culture)
by Jeff Klinkenberg Publisher Comments Pilgrim in the Land of Alligators provides a welcome opportunity for readers to discover the character--and characters--of "real" Florida. In this compilation, drawn in part from his award-winning columns, Klinkenberg celebrates some of...
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Three Sheets to the Wind: One Man's Quest for the Meaning of Beer
by Pete Brown Publisher Comments Meet Pete Brown—beer journalist, beer drinker, and author of an irreverent book about British beer, Man Walks Into A Pub. One day, Pete's world is rocked when he discovers several countries produce, consume, and celebrate beer far more than the...
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The People on the Street: A Writer's View of Israel
by Linda Grant Publisher Comments "The further away anyone was from that block of Ben Yehuda street, the easier it seemed to find a solution to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, that stubborn mess in the center of the Middle East and the more I studied these solutions, the...
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A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France
by Georgeanne Brennan Publisher Comments Georgeanne Brennan moved to Provence in 1970, seeking a simpler life. She set off on her many adventures in Provençale cuisine by tracking down a herd of goats, a cool workshop, some rennet, and the lost art of making fresh goat cheese. From...
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Stingray Bit My Nipple!: True Stories from Real Travelers
by Erik Torkells Publisher Comments "One of the things I love most about our 'True Stories' section (and by extension, this book) is that readers are so willing to laugh at themselves--they send in what are sometimes very embarrassing stories, because we all know that that's life...
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The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Provence
by Martin Gayford Synopsis This chronicle of the two months in 1888 when Paul Gauguin shared a house in France with Vincent Van Gogh describes not only how these two hallowed artists painted and exchanged ideas, but also the texture of their everyday lives. Illustrated....
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