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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK from the author of the GEEK GIRL series, now on NETFLIX!
"Fascinating...witty...self-deprecating...We meet Cassandra on the worst day of her life. She's getting fired, her boyfriend dumps her, and her roommates hate her. On that same day, she discovers she has the power to go back in time. You'd think you would know how this book is going to end, but it really surprised...
"Fascinating...witty...self-deprecating...We meet Cassandra on the worst day of her life. She's getting fired, her boyfriend dumps her, and her roommates hate her. On that same day, she discovers she has the power to go back in time. You'd think you would know how this book is going to end, but it really surprised...
Author
Publisher
Motivational Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Master of Alaska - the exciting story of Aleksandr Baranov, a charismatic Russian leader, who left his family in 1790 to sail to Alaska as chief manager. Shipwrecked, he survived a harsh wilderness; motivated Aleuts to help him; married a young Native; and endured massacres from the Tlingit, meddling priests, the Battle of Sitka and a running duel with powerful Tlingit Chief Katlian. He built an empire and sought peace with the Tlingit, helped by...
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Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
There is more to Indiana than the Indy 500, interstate highways (seven cross its borders), and basketball! The Hoosier State is teeming with fascinating people, one-of-a-kind places, and things with unique and bizarre histories. Skip the scenic dunes and cozy bed-and-breakfasts— let Oddball Indiana, now fully updated and expanded, take you where you really want to go. See: The World's Largest Ball of Paint, Peggy the Flying Red Horse, Square Donuts,...
4) Vacation on Location : Midwest: Explore the Sites Where Your Favorite Movies Were Filmed (Edition 1)
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
If you've ever wanted to step into your favorite movie, Vacation on Location, Midwest is the perfect guidebook. Author Joey Green gives readers detailed, chronological, scene-by-scene breakdowns with addresses and maps to visit sites in the Midwest where the most popular films of all time were shot. With this book as your guide, you can turn these excursions into full-scale vacations or quirky side trips to enhance your appreciation of your favorite...
Author
Publisher
Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
“My Winter on the Nile,” and its sequel, “In the Levant,” which record the experiences and observations of an Oriental journey, were both published in 1876; but as this volume was issued only by subscription, it has never reached the large public which is served by the general book trade.
It is now republished and placed within the reach of those who have read “In the Levant.” Advantage has been taken of its reissue to give it a careful...
Publisher
Harper and Brothers
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Contents [excerpt]:
I. Something about my Home and Track’s End: with how I leave the one and get acquainted with Pike at the other.
II. The rest of my second Night at Track’s End, and part of another: with some Things which happen between.
III. A Fire and a Blizzard: with how a great many People go away from Track’s End and how some others come.
IV. We prepare to fight the Robbers and I make a little Trip out to Bill Mountain’s House:...
Author
Publisher
W. & R. Chambers
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
With health impaired by a strain of three laborious years as Lord Provost of Edinburgh—and more particularly enfeebled by a malarious fever caught in the course of making explorations with a view to sanitary improvements in the older part of the city—I sought a restorative by a visit to Mentone (or Menton, as the French prefer to call it), in the winter of 1868-69. The object of my visit was gained; but having been so indiscreet as to enter on...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
excerpt from GENERAL INTRODUCTION
A two-fold purpose has been kept in view during the preparation of these volumes—on the one-hand, to refresh the memories and, if possible, to enlarge the knowledge, of readers who have already visited Europe; on the other, to provide something in the nature of a substitute for those who have not yet done so, and to inspire them with new and stronger ambitions to make the trip.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
excerpt from GENERAL INTRODUCTION
A two-fold purpose has been kept in view during the preparation of these volumes—on the one-hand, to refresh the memories and, if possible, to enlarge the knowledge, of readers who have already visited Europe; on the other, to provide something in the nature of a substitute for those who have not yet done so, and to inspire them with new and stronger ambitions to make the trip.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
excerpt from GENERAL INTRODUCTION
A two-fold purpose has been kept in view during the preparation of these volumes—on the one-hand, to refresh the memories and, if possible, to enlarge the knowledge, of readers who have already visited Europe; on the other, to provide something in the nature of a substitute for those who have not yet done so, and to inspire them with new and stronger ambitions to make the trip.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
excerpt from GENERAL INTRODUCTION
A two-fold purpose has been kept in view during the preparation of these volumes—on the one-hand, to refresh the memories and, if possible, to enlarge the knowledge, of readers who have already visited Europe; on the other, to provide something in the nature of a substitute for those who have not yet done so, and to inspire them with new and stronger ambitions to make the trip.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
excerpt from GENERAL INTRODUCTION
A two-fold purpose has been kept in view during the preparation of these volumes—on the one-hand, to refresh the memories and, if possible, to enlarge the knowledge, of readers who have already visited Europe; on the other, to provide something in the nature of a substitute for those who have not yet done so, and to inspire them with new and stronger ambitions to make the trip.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
excerpt from GENERAL INTRODUCTION
A two-fold purpose has been kept in view during the preparation of these volumes—on the one-hand, to refresh the memories and, if possible, to enlarge the knowledge, of readers who have already visited Europe; on the other, to provide something in the nature of a substitute for those who have not yet done so, and to inspire them with new and stronger ambitions to make the trip.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
excerpt from GENERAL INTRODUCTION
A two-fold purpose has been kept in view during the preparation of these volumes—on the one-hand, to refresh the memories and, if possible, to enlarge the knowledge, of readers who have already visited Europe; on the other, to provide something in the nature of a substitute for those who have not yet done so, and to inspire them with new and stronger ambitions to make the trip.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
excerpt from GENERAL INTRODUCTION
A two-fold purpose has been kept in view during the preparation of these volumes—on the one-hand, to refresh the memories and, if possible, to enlarge the knowledge, of readers who have already visited Europe; on the other, to provide something in the nature of a substitute for those who have not yet done so, and to inspire them with new and stronger ambitions to make the trip.
Author
Publisher
Virtue & Co.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"The object of the present work is to bring before the notice of the general reader and tourist the advantages and pleasure accruing from a few weeks’ sojourn among the mountains and fjords of ... Norway." "... Norway presents a wide field for observation and research ... Here may the geologist ... find ample material for study; the archæologist and antiquarian may revel among Runic stones, Viking tumuli, rites and ceremonies, quaint wood-carvings...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer. A celebrity in his own time, Stevenson was seen for much of the 20th century as a second-class writer, his writings relegated to children's literature and horror genres. However, the late 20th century brought a re-evaluation of Stevenson as an artist of great range and insight, a master story-teller, an essayist and social critic, a witness to the colonial
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Publisher
Charles J. Skeet
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Account of Richardson's travels in Morocco, edited by his widow after his death.
Excerpt of contents:
"CHAPTER I.
The Mogador Jewesses.—Disputes between the Jew and the Moor.—Melancholy Scenes.—The Jews of the Atlas.—Their Religion.—Beautiful Women.—The Four Wives.—Statues discovered.—Discrepancy of age of married people.—Young and frail fair ones.—Superstition respecting Salt.—White Brandy.—Ludicrous Anecdote.
CHAPTER...
Author
Publisher
George W. Jacobs & Co.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Illustrated by the author.
At times I digress in my pictorial descriptions and offer some Bits of personal experience that have befallen me upon my journeys, which I trust may prove of interest and perhaps be of service to others travelling through the same places. It is with these purposes in view that the following pages have been written, and my hope is that they may serve to guide other lovers of the beautiful to some of the attractive spots and...
Author
Publisher
A. S. Barnes and Company, Inc.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Judy is a young girl just past her fifteenth year. Her parents are musicians--staff members at the Music School at Aspen--and they are anxious for her to share with them some of the enchantment of the famed music festival in Colorado.But for Judy other plans and other dreams are more important. A part in the new theatre group? Romance? Adventure? Anything but the dreary routine of piano lessons and practice. In her attempt to escape the discipline...
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