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21) Fodor's Israel
Author
Publisher
Fodor's Travel
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
9th edition.
Physical Desc
543 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A travel guide to Israel, with maps, photographs, and information on hotels, restaurants, historic and religious sites, and nightlife.
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st United States ed.
Physical Desc
228 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
A short study of everything that goes on under London--from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheaters to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts, and modern tube stations.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
vi, 217 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The journey starts in London, Phileas Fogg's home base, and follows Fogg's itinerary to France and Italy before veering off in search of compelling wine stories in Syria, Georgia, and Lebanon. Every glass of wine tells a story, and so each of the eighty wines must tell an important tale. We head back across Northern Africa to Algeria, once the world's leading wine exporter, before hopping across the sea to Spain and Portugal. We follow Portuguese...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Stranded for eighteen years since the 1990s, time-traveling agent Kin Stewart, suffering from memory loss, has started a new life, but when rescuers from the year 2142 finally arrive, he must choose between his current family and the one he left behind in the future.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Savor the magic of the season with #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber's newest Christmas novel, filled with warmth, humor, the promise of love, and a dash of unexpected adventure. Ashley Davison, a graduate student in California, desperately wants to spend the holidays with her family in Seattle. Dashiell Sutherland, a former army intelligence officer, receives a job in Seattle and must arrive by December 23. Though frantic to book...
26) Bay of sighs
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"To celebrate the rise of their new queen, three goddesses of the moon created three stars, one of fire, one of ice, one of water. But then they fell from the sky, putting the fate of all worlds in danger. And now three women and three men join forces to pick up the pieces Mermaid Annika is from the sea, and it is there she must return after her quest to find the stars. New to this world, her purity and beauty are nothing less than breathtaking, along...
27) The time machine
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A scientist invents a time machine and uses it to travel hundreds of thousands of years into the future, where he discovers the childlike Eloi and the hideous underground Morlocks.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Description
"Does George Washington still matter? The bestselling author argues for his unique contribution to the forging of America by retracing his journey as a new President through the former colonies, now an unsure nation. A new first-person voice for Philbrick, weaving history and personal reflection into one narrative. When George Washington became president in 1798, the United States of America was still a loose and quarrelsome confederation and a tentative...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 296 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Hidden Tuscany vividly displays the coastal areas of Tuscany, a territory often overlooked by visitors to Italy eager to see Chianti, Florence or Siena. Veteran journalist and Italophile John Keahey points out the keen distinctions that the western cities maintain: in food, lifestyle, and the way its artists are paving new directions in art that differ mightily from the Renaissance-rich interior. Keahey interviews sculptors and their artigiani,...
Series
Publisher
Fodor's Travel Pub
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
683 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Offers tips on accommodations, restaurants, walking and driving tours, sightseeing, shopping, and seasonal festivals, and details the cultural attractions of Sydney, New South Wales, and Victoria.
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1911, Carrie Strahorn wrote a memoir entitled Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage, which shared some of the most exciting events of 25 years of traveling and shaping the American West with her husband, Robert Strahorn, a railroad promoter, investor, and writer. That is all fact. Everything She Didn't Say imagines Carrie nearly ten years later as she decides to write down what was really on her mind during those adventurous nomadic years.
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Marco Polo's journey to China, describing some of the things he saw while in the service of Kublai Khan. Written in graphic-novel format.
34) Into the wild
Author
Language
English
Description
The story of Chris McCandless, a young man who embarked on a solo journey into the wilds of Alaska and whose body was discovered four months later, explores the fascinating allure that the wilderness has for the American imagination
Author
Publisher
Harperone, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
239 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Miss Norma was diagnosed with uterine cancer, she was advised to undergo surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. But instead of confining herself to a hospital bed for what could be her last stay, Norma--newly widowed after nearly seven decades of marriage--rose to her full height of five feet and told her doctor, 'I'm ninety years old. I'm hitting the road.' Packing what she needed, Norma took off on an unforgettable cross-country journey with...
36) One last stop
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue comes a new romantic comedy that will stop readers in their tracks... "Dreamy, other worldly, smart, swoony, thoughtful, hilarious - all in all, exactly what you'd expect from Casey McQuiston!" - Jasmine Guillory, New York Times bestselling author of The Proposal and Party for Two Cynical twenty-three-year old August doesn't believe in much. She doesn't believe in psychics, or...
37) All systems red
Author
Series
Murderbot diaries volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting tests, shadowed by their company-supplied bot - a self-aware SeeUnit that refers to itself as "Murderbot."
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
vi, 326 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A vibrant look at Berlin--perhaps Europe's most exciting city--since the fall of the Wall"--
"A smartly guided romp, entertaining and enlightening, through Europe's most charismatic and engimatic city. It isn't Europe's most beautiful city, or its oldest. Its architecture is not more impressive than that of Rome or Paris; its museums do not hold more treasures than those in Barcelona or London. And yet, when citizens of "New York, Tel Aviv, or Rome...
Author
Series
Publisher
Fodor's Travel, a division of MH Sub I, LLC, dba Internet Brands
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Thirty-third edition.
Physical Desc
912 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 21 cm + 1 pull-out map
Language
English
Description
Ready to experience California? The experts at Fodor’s are here to help. Fodor’s California travel guide is packed with customizable itineraries with top recommendations, detailed maps of California, and exclusive tips from locals. Whether you want to get a glimpse of the Hollywood sign, wander among giant redwood trees at Muir Woods, or camp in a National Park, this user-friendly guidebook will help you plan it all out. Our local writers vet...
Author
Series
Outlander novel volume 8
Language
English
Description
"In her now classic novel Outlander, Diana Gabaldon told the story of Claire Randall, an English ex-combat nurse who walks through a stone circle in the Scottish Highlands in 1946, and disappears into 1743...Now the story continues in Written in My Own Heart's Blood. 1778: France declares war on Great Britain, the British army leaves Philadelphia, and George Washington's troops leave Valley Forge in pursuit. At this moment, Jamie Fraser returns from...