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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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The visual artist behind such cult films as "Hairspray" traces his haphazard cross-country hitchhiking journey at the sides of a motley group of unsuspecting drivers, including a gentle farmer, an indie band, and the author's unexpected hero. --Publisher's description.
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English
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A Tramp Abroad is a work of travel literature, including a mixture of autobiography and fictional events, by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880. The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris (a character created for the book, and based on his closest friend, Joseph Twichell), through central and southern Europe. While the stated goal of the journey is to walk most of the way, the men find themselves using other forms...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1983
Language
English
Description
After eleven years as an American living in London, the renowned travel writer Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise around the coast of Great Britain to find out what the British were really like. The result is this perceptive, hilarious record of the journey. Whether in Cornwall or Wales, Ulster or Scotland, the people he encountered along the way revealed far more of themselves than they perhaps intended to display to a stranger. Theroux captured...
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Based on author and naturalist Gerald Durrell's much-loved Corfu trilogy of novels, The Durrells sees impoverished but sparky widow Louisa Durrell make the radical decision to leave 1930s England in hopes of a better life for her children. As Louisa relocates her reluctant brood to a dilapidated house in the Greek sun, the Durrells face a whole new set of challenges as they meet new friends, rivals, lovers, and animals.
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Publisher
Project Gutenberg
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English
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Tomorrow I shall leave by the Messina boat, which calls at Paola. It is now more than a twelvemonth since I began to think of Paola, and an image of the place has grown in my mind. I picture a little marina; a yellowish little town just above; and behind, rising grandly, the long range of mountains which guard the shore of Calabria. Paola has no special interest that I know of, but it is the nearest point on the coast to Cosenza, which has interest...
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Publisher
Mira Publications
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Centuries ago, by a scaffold in Manhattan, rose petals drifted gently to the ground like snow on a wintry Massachusetts night. Melody Tarleton is driving home for Christmas when a man clad in Revolutionary War-era costume appears out of nowhere, right in the path of her car. Shaken, she takes in the injured stranger, listening with concern to Jake Mallory's fantastic claim that he's a Patriot soldier, sentenced to death by British authorities....
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Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
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This early work by Henry James was originally published in 1884 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Henry James was born in New York City in 1843. One of thirteen children, James had an unorthodox early education, switching between schools, private tutors and private reading.. James published his first story, 'A Tragedy of Error', in the Continental Monthly in 1864, when he was twenty years old. In 1876, he emigrated...
10) Mammal takeover!
Author
Series
Earth before us volume 3
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Fifth-grader Ronnie and Ms. Lernin tour the Cenozoic Era, where they encounter three kinds of mammals--monotremes, marsupials, and placental mammals--and other animals with which they shared the Earth."--Provided by publisher.
11) Walker of Time
Author
Series
Walker of time trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Roberts Rinehart
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
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Description
A compelling story of a 15-year-old Hopi Indian boy, Walker Talayesva, and his companion, Tag, who stumble into the midst of Walker's ancestral home.
Second book in the series: Walker's Journey Home
Third book: Tag Against Time
Second book in the series: Walker's Journey Home
Third book: Tag Against Time
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English
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Pioneering science-fiction writer Jules Verne is the second most translated author of all time (after Agatha Christie.) This translation of his short story A Voyage in a Balloon first appeared in Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art in a May 1852 edition, making it the first of the French writer's stories to be published in English. As Verne writes in this story: "May this terrific recital, while it instructs those who read it, not discourage...
13) Llévame Contigo
Author
Publisher
Women Plot
Pub. Date
2021
Language
Español
Description
El viaje de una joven por Europa y por las profundidades de su propia alma... hasta que permite que el amor cambie su vida.
Erica, de 22 años, viaja - o, si es sincera, huye - por toda Europa, mientras hace lo posible por no enfrentarse a sus problemas. Las innumerables personas que conoce son básicamente medios para un fin, ya que Erica se encierra en una relación sin sentido tras otra, todo para evitar enfrentarse a sí misma.
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Stein spends a week in Roberts County, Texas, which had the highest percentage of Trump voters in the country. He goes to the home of Trump-loving Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams; meets people who create fake news; and finds the new elitist organizations merging both right and left to fight the populists.
Author
Series
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Second in the pulp science fiction series that inspired the popular comic, TV, and movie franchise, from the author of Armageddon 2419.
Anthony "Buck" Rogers burst onto the sci-fi scene in an explosion of futuristic weapons and rip-roaring adventure. In Armageddon 2419, after being overcome by radioactive gases, the World War I veteran existed in a state of suspended animation until he awoke to a whole new century and a completely different...
Author
Series
Newirth mythology volume 1
Publisher
Will Dreamly Arts
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Psychologist Loche Newirth becomes hunted when he sees a painting that opens a window onto the afterlife. An ancient order of men seeking to control the art pursue him across the world, through centuries, into madness and beyond. The first part of Michael B. Koep's The Newirth Mythology-The Invasion of Heaven is mystery, adventure, myth, betrayal, murder and madness. Psychologist Loche Newirth wonders if it was his fall: the fifty foot drop from...
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