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Waltzing Australia is a captivating tale of adventure and personal discovery--and a vivid portrayal of Australia, its history and legends, its wonders, its people, and its enduring beauty. It recounts the six-month, 20,000-mile journey around and across Australia that marked the author's departure from the corporate world to pursue a writing career.Best-selling author Richard Lederer wrote of Waltzing Australia, "Cynthia Clampitt's luminous chronicle...
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Fed up with the strenuous process of travel: the slow queues, the delays, the crowds and the extreme discomfort of the average economy airline seat?The author in this case, decided it was time to do something about this. He arranged a trip designed to be the antidote to the routine travel misery - and booked a trip travelling only first class. The first challenge was to decide where to go. He decided to fly to Bangkok, stay in the world renowned Oriental...
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Updated and expanded third edition!Grab your sombrero and follow along on this wild ride through Mexico as the author pet-sits for four different homeowners in four small villages over five months. From the cool, misty mountains of Central Mexico to the hot, humid beaches of the Mexican Riviera, get an inside look at the truth about cats and dogs, and the day-to-day fun and fuss of caring for them.Read about the dogs that cornered the possum on the...
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It is not common knowledge, even elsewhere in France, that the Loire Valley, that natural dividing line between the north and the south of France, is riddled with caves. Almost all of them are human creations, cavities hollowed out of the earth in the course of the last two millennia or more. Originally some caves were excavated to serve as refuges from marauders, others as stone quarries, others as mines. Once created, a variety of uses could be...
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Faith Donahue's destiny is fulfilled in the arms of a dashing stranger one hundred years in the past. Dr. Ian Forrester has a young son and socialite fiance in San Francisco in 1906. He doesn't anticipate the earthquake that occurs, the upheaval in his life, as well as in his city. Faith Donahue enters his life and becomes the goveness to his beloved son. A scientific man, he questions her claim to be from the future, yet her gift of prophesy prevents...
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A practical guide to Paris for the tourist interested in exploring the dark and macabre side of the City of Light. This book highlights places connected with the more gruesome aspects of French history from the 16th century to just after the French Revolution. Visits to prison sites, museums, cemeteries, and places of torture and execution are interspersed with stories of notorious criminals and notable historical figures. Discover where to see a...
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Why does a woman go to the Middle East alone?Why would a mainstream, fairly sane woman travel on her own through the Middle East - through Greece, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt - when she is not a journalist, not rescuing any children and not on an archaeological trek?With an interest in alternate travel and ancient history, she ignores pulped opinion and terrorist hype and goes to find the 'truth'. She sketches an itinerary, grabs her...
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In 2005, Uzodinma Iweala stunned readers and critics alike with Beasts of No Nation, his debut novel about child soldiers in West Africa. Now his return to his native continent has produced Our Kind of People, a nonfiction account of the AIDS crisis that is every bit as startling and original.
Iweala embarks on a remarkable journey in his native Nigeria, meeting individuals and communities that are struggling daily to understand both the impact and...
11) Ámsterdam
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La guía de Ámsterdam recopila lo mejor de la capital de los Países Bajos para sacar el máximo provecho a una escapada de varios días. Se detallan todos los puntos de imprescindible visita, barrio a barrio, desde los famosos canales y parques de la ciudad, a sus museos y edificios reconocidos mundialmente. Se recomiendan restaurantes para todos los gustos y presupuestos, especialmente seleccionados para esta guía; así como tiendas de interés...
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One minute you're relaxing by the pool in a luxury Thai resort and the next you're a gringo with a donkey on an isolated island off Brazil!When Tony and his wife Sue were caught in the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami that devastated hundreds of thousands of lives, they wanted more than to return to the rat race of suburban life, they wanted to 'live the dream'. After careful consideration, or possibly in a moment of insanity, they decided that the dream was...
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Keith's wife Gail is looking forward to travelling the world and staying in comfortable hotels when Keith takes early retirement from his high-pressure job. But he has a shock in store for her. He unexpectedly decides to buy a huge American Winnebago-type motorhome (RV), tow a car behind 'so they can bugger off for months on end around Europe'. Their only experience a brief episode 30 years earlier, when their VW pop-top blew up on a remote mountain...
14) Tangled Memories
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After losing his wife, Dr. Alexander Dominican is determined his infant daughter will not grow up motherless as he did. Offering sensible, kind kindergarten teacher Mary Adams a marriage of convenience seems like the perfect solution. The widow's husband left her with a mountain of debt. For Alex, paying it off is a small price to pay for his daughter's happiness. Until his sensible new wife begins to lose her mind.On the day of their marriage, Mary...
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When a plane crashes fifty years in the future, the survivors learn:1. Nuclear war destroyed the world they knew.2. Plague has reduced the female population to a pitiful few and every woman is worth her weight in gold.3. Werewolves are more than mere legend and they want mates. Connie Mondale, co-pilot of the plane, has no intention of being forced into marriage, thank you very much. A former fighter pilot, she's accustomed to being in charge. But...
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Ibiza (Eivissa) y Formentera forman las islas Pitiüses, que los antiguos denominaron aparte de las Balears, por su personalidad propia. Y ello se ha mantenido hasta nuestros días. Hay nexos comunes con las islas mayores, como la lengua, la cultura, determinado tipo de paisajes… Sin embargo, Formentera y, sobre todo, Ibiza, mantienen sus rasgos particulares. La isla mayor no es solo el nido de salas de fiestas que se ha querido vender al mundo....
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Skye Bancroft, assistant art director at a small New York publisher, is used to dealing with the occasional spoiled and egocentric model. After all, it's part of her job description. But during a photoshoot, she didn't count on one to become so delusional as to think himself a Highlander from 1814 Scotland. Cailin Thorburn is every woman's dream: A warrior who is fierce, passionate, and protective. Rendered unconscious during battle, he awakens in...
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Could you handle watching your wife share her body with strangers in front of your eyes? Regency England 1814 was a time unlike any other William and Elizabeth Redell were surviving day to day as the War raged on. Like everyone else, the married couple knew they needed to do what was necessary to survive. Merchant William had sent a merchant ship to Denmark amidst the chose of the war. The vessel had suddenly vanished - all men and goods on the ship...
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Nous sommes en 1990. Jake Stevenson a enfin terminé la machine à remonter le temps sur laquelle il travaillait depuis des années. Son but étant de partir rencontrer les plus grands inventeurs de ce monde, il a programmé la machine afin que celle-ci stoppe à des dates et des endroits importants de l'histoire de l'humanité. Mais c'est sa fiancée, Diane Reddams, qui entre dans la machine temporelle par accident.En dépit de son scepticisme, Diane...
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When the planet's wealthiest man receives a terminal diagnosis, he faces the ultimate decision: accept his fate, or deploy his nearly limitless fortune in the quest for a cure. Having exhausted every conventional option, Michel Bouchon is left with little choice but to build the one technological marvel he knows will yield a universal panacea. With his future, and that of mankind's hanging in the balance, Michel begins construction and names his...
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