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Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
198 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"While some information about accessibility to certain sites may be found online, these insider's guides helps readers find the very best places to visit in 12 US cities. With information about places to visit, tours to take, and the best services for those who are seeing, hearing, or physically impaired, Simon Hayhoe takes readers on a journey of exciting destinations that anyone can enjoy"--
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xii, 301 pages : color illustrations; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Stephanie and Jeremy Puglisi were stressed out, sleep-deprived, and near the end of their rope with infant twins. They had no clear idea of how they could continue to travel with a growing family and full-time jobs. Then they bought a pop-up camper, and their lives changed forever. In See You at the Campground, Stephanie and Jeremy show readers how the open road could be the ticket to a happier, healthier family. From cabin camping to RVs to tents,...
3) Small fry
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A frank, smart and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs. Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents--artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs--Lisa Brennan-Jobs's childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa's father was a mythical figure who was rarely present in her life. As she grew older, her father took an interest in her, ushering her into a new world of mansions, vacations,...
4) Calypso
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"When he buys a beach house on the Carolina coast, Sedaris envisions long, relaxing vacations spent playing board games and lounging in the sun with those he loves most. And life at the Sea Section, as he names the vacation home, is exactly as idyllic as he imagined, except for one tiny, vexing realization: it's impossible to take a vacation from yourself. With Calypso, Sedaris sets his formidable powers of observation toward middle age and mortality....
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2014.
Physical Desc
351 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
""An emporium of retro treasure...from shocking sculptures of the 1700s, to Kodachrome snaps of 1950s Piccadilly Circus, to biblical scenes captured by Google Earth. Rather than nostalgia or folly, the aim is enlightenment, wonder and the pleasure of weirdness." --The Guardian Based on the widely popular blog that started as a side project in a basement, Retronaut reveals strange yet enlightening photographs from the past that somehow seem to depict...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxxii, 623 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American authors of the last hundred years and among our greatest writers of the female experience. This extraordinary compilation of personal correspondence has all the hallmarks of Jackson's beloved fiction,and also features family photographs and Shirley's own illustrations. Written over the course of nearly three decades, from Jackson's college years to three months before her premature death at the...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener -- stuck, broke, and looking for meaning in her work, like any good millennial -- left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. She moved from New York to San Francisco, where she landed at a big-data startup in the heart of the Silicon Valley bubble: a world of surreal extravagance, dubious success, and fresh-faced entrepreneurs hell-bent on domination,...