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Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[c2016].
Physical Desc
433 pages ; 25 cm
Description
When a woman with whom he has shared a harmless flirtation shows up at his hotel door with a gun, travel writer and food expert Will Rhodes discovers the real reason his job occasionally requires him to assume different names and deliver mysterious parcels.
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"Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century--1951--in the middle of the United States--Des Moines, Iowa--in the middle of the largest generation in American history--the baby boomers. As one of the funniest writers alive, he is perfectly positioned to mine his all-American childhood for memoir gold. Like millions of his generational peers, Bill Bryson grew up with a rich fantasy life as a superhero. In his case, he ran around his house...
Author
Series
Poke Rafferty Bangkok thrillers volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
328 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Finding himself embracing domestic life in Bangkok in spite of his love for adventurous travel, writer Poke Rafferty has his world thrown into turmoil by a troubled homeless youth, a distraught woman's missing uncle, and a blackmailing thief.
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
xx, 420 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Description
"The author who captured the experience of starting a new life in Tuscany expands her horizons to immerse herself--and her readers--in the sights, aromas, and treasures of twelve new special places. This book is a celebration of the allure of travel, of serendipitous pleasures found in unlikely locales, of memory woven into the present, and of a joyous sense of quest. She rents houses among ordinary residents, shops at neighborhood markets, wanders...
6) Red rain
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
369 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
In the aftermath of a hurricane from which she barely escapes while on a small island off the coast of South Carolina, travel writer Lea Sutter impulsively adopts a pair of orphaned twin boys against the wishes of her family before encountering the twins' sinister natures.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
246 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Her happiness shattered by her movie director boyfriend's announcement that he intends to reconnect with a woman from his past, travel columnist Annie Adams impulsively marries a charming chef and attempts to restart her life in rural Massachusetts.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
388 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Description
"Here, travel writer Shah sets out on a bold new journey across Morocco. As he wends his way through the labyrinthine medinas of Fez and Marrakesh, traverses the Sahara sands, and tastes the hospitality of ordinary Moroccans, Tahir collects a dazzling treasury of traditional stories, gleaned from the heritage of A Thousand and One Nights. The tales, recounted by a vivid cast of characters, reveal fragments of wisdom and an oriental way of thinking...
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
704 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Description
The author details her travels to Spain, Portugal, France, Britain, Turkey, Greece, southern Italy, and North Africa, interweaving personal insights with commentary on art, history, landscape, culture, and tradition.
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
p2006
Physical Desc
5 CDs (ca. 6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Year in the World is vintage Frances Mayesā celebration of the allure of travel, of serendipitous pleasures found in unlikely locales, of memory woven into the present, and of a joyous sense of quest. An ideal travel companion, Frances Mayes brings to the page the curiosity of an intrepid explorer, remarkable insights into the wonder of the everyday, and a compelling narrative style that entertains as it informs. With her beloved Tuscany as a...
12) The land across
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Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"An American writer of travel guides in need of a new location chooses to travel to a small and obscure Eastern European country. The moment Grafton crosses the border he is in trouble, much more than he could have imagined. His passport is taken by guards, and then he is detained for not having it. He is released into the custody of a family, but is again detained. It becomes evident that there are supernatural agencies at work, but they are not...
Author
Series
Poke Rafferty Bangkok thrillers volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
314 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Seeking to retire and settle down with his girlfriend and newly adopted daughter, travel writer Poke Rafferty unexpectedly meets up with his long-lost father, who asks for his help in safeguarding a stolen cache of priceless rubies and forged identity papers.
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Series
Lily Moore mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
349 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Traveling with fellow journalists on an all-expenses-paid trip to Acapulco, Lily Moore worries about a colleague who goes missing after revealing an intention to expose a company's fraudulent activities.
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"Sometimes a familys deepest silences hide the most important secrets. For Mina, a London-based travel writer, the enigmatic silence surrounding her aunt Carmela has become a personal obsession. Carmela disappeared from her Italian hometown long ago and is mentioned only in fragments and whispers. Mina has resisted prying, respectful of her familys Sardinian reserve. But now, with her mother battling cancer, its time to learn the truth. In 1952, Simius...
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Series
Faith Fairchild mysteries volume 21
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While celebrating their anniversary in Italy, amateur sleuth/caterer Faith Fairchild and her husband, the Reverend Tom Fairchild, find murder on the itinerary when a new acquaintance is killed in the Eternal City and someone tries to sabotage her former assistant's new cooking school in Florence.
17) Eat pray love
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
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Description
A happily married woman who is trying to get pregnant realizes that her life needs to go in a new direction. After a very painful divorce, she risks everything and embarks on a journey around the world that becomes a quest for self-discovery.
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
320 pages
Description
"Dominique Monahan just wanted to get even with her two-timing, married boyfriend, a washed-up boxer stuck in a toxic marriage to a dangerously spoiled socialite. However, an elaborate blackmail scheme soon lands her in the middle of an unexpected kidnapping . . . and attempted murder. But who is actually out to kill whom? Desmond Edgars, Dominique's big brother, has looked out for his wayward sister ever since their mother was convicted of murdering...
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"A product of beige California suburbs, Mandel was overlooked and unexceptional. When her father ships her off on a youth group tour of Israel, he inadvertently catapults his seventeen-year-old daughter into a world of angry European backpackers, seize-the-day Israelis, and the fall out of cold war-era politics. Border violence hadn't been on the birthright tour agenda. But then neither had domestic violence, going broke, getting wasted, getting sick,...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xiv, 283 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Embarking on another journey into uncharted territory: the past, the author, world-famous crossing 1,700 miles of Australian desert in 1977, presents the story of a mother and daughter through time: of their despair and survival, and their unbreakable bond with a landscape that would define, scar and heal them.
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