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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
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Eric Weiner (Read by)
Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes us from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness. Using a beguiling mixture of travel, psychology, science and humor, Eric Weiner investigates not what happiness is, but where it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is ...
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River Why
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David James Duncan
Leaving behind a madcap, fishing-obsessed family, Gus embarks on an extraordinary voyage of self-discovery along his beloved Oregon rivers. What he unexpectedly finds is man's wanton destruction of nature and a burning desire to commit himself to its preservation. This is the funny, sensitive, very special story of one man's search for meaning, ...
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Savvy
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Ingrid Law
For generations, the Beaumont family has harbored a magical secret. They each possess a savvy--a supernatural power they acquire at 13. On the eve of Mibs's big day, she finds herself on an unforgettable odyssey that will force her to make sense of growing up.
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Road
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Cormac McCarthy
A man and his young son traverse a blasted American landscape, covered with "the ashes of the late world." The man can still remember the time before. The boy knows only this time. There is nothing for them but survival- they are "each other's world entire"- and the precious last vestiges of their own humanity. At once brutal and tender, ...
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Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 of the World's Greatest Trips
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National Geographic (Creator)
Here are 500 of the greatest journeys readers could ever make, by every conceivable means of transportation: on land, air, and sea; by boat, bicycle, car, canoe, foot, helicopter, or horseback. For those who like the idea of a leisurely boat journey, "500 Journeys of a Lifetime" shows how to take a felucca down the Nile River or rent a gulet off ...
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No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach
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Anthony Bourdain, Lord
"No Reservations" is Bourdain's fully illustrated journal of his far-flung travels throughout the world. The book traces his trips from New Zealand to New Jersey and everywhere in between, mixing beautiful, never-before-seen photos and oddball mementoes with Bourdain's hilarious and outrageous tales of what really happens when you give a bad-boy ...
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13 Little Blue Envelopes
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Maureen Johnson
From the acclaimed author of "The Key to the Golden Firebird." When Ginny receives 13 little blue envelopes with instructions to buy a plane ticket to London, she's soon on an adventure that will change her in more ways than one.
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Queen of the Road: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, and a Bus with a Will of Its Own
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Doreen Orion
"Queen of the Road" is Orion's priceless journal of her travels with her husband cross-country in an RV. Although they experience their share of misadventures, the trip has a remarkable effect as these two polar opposites grow closer than ever.
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Eve of the Emperor Penguin: Merlin Mission
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Mary Pope Osborne, Salvatore Murdocca (Illustrator)
Jack and Annie continue their quest for the secrets of happiness--secrets they need to save Merlin. This time, the Magic Tree House takes them to the one continent they haven't visited before: Antarctica. What can they hope to learn about happiness in such a barren place? Only the penguins know for sure.
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Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World
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Rita Golden Gelman
After a sudden divorce, Rita Gelman packed her bags and got on a plane. In the 15 years since, she has been circling the globe, reveling in and writing about her nomadic lifestyle; she has been everywhere from Borneo to Nicaragua to Israel. In retelling some of her adventures, Gelman enthuses about traveling and reminisces on how, with a lot of ...
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Whirligig
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Paul Fleischman
When 16-year-old Brent Bishop inadvertently causes the death of a young woman, her mother requests that, as his repentance, Brent travel to the corners of the United States--Washington, California, Florida, and Maine--to create whirligigs in her daughter's image. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
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Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip
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Jim Rogers
Investor Jim Rogers proves that the best way to profit from the global situation is to see the world mile-by-mile in the course of his three-year adventure which set the Guinness record for longest continuous car journey.
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Stuart Little
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E B White
Stuart Little, the Little's second son, looks very much like a mouse--he has whiskers, a long tail, and is only a little more than two inches tall. Dapper, elegant, and heroic, Stuart is content with his life in New York City, a dangerous yet exciting place for a mouse. Then he meets Margalo, a pretty bird whom the Littles had found half-dead on ...
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Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It
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Geoff Dyer
Geoff Dyer writes about his international travels, including not only the good times but the moments of despair. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.
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Revealed
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Tamera Alexander
Annabelle Grayson has been given a second chance at life, but she can't claim it with the cloud of her past hanging over her in Willow Springs. After her husband dies, she advertises for a trail guide to accompany her to land waiting for her in Idaho--and a most unlikely candidate applies for the job. Matthew Taylor is a man on the run, with ...
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When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home
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Erma Bombeck
Erma Bombeck takes her show on the road in this book about family travel.
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Travels of Marco Polo
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Marco Polo
Chronicling the 13th-century world of Venice, his birthplace, to the far reaches of Asia, Marco Polo tells of the foreign peoples he meets as he travels by foot, horse and boat. This edition is illustrated with 32 woodcut images that were created for the classic 1926 publication.
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Twenty-One Balloons
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William Pene Du Bois
Professor William Waterman intends to fly across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon. When he lands on Krakatoa island, he discovers a land of incredible wealth, eccentric inhabitants, and amazing balloon inventions. Winner of the 1948 Newbery Medal.
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The royal road to romance
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Richard Halliburton
"The Royal Road to Romance" chronicles the author's choice of adventure over career after graduating from college in the early 1900s, and includes his recollections of a breakthrough ascent of the Matterhorn to being jailed on Gibraltar for taking forbidden photos.
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Ship of fools
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Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter's long-anticipated allegorical novel is set on a German ship sailing from Mexico to Germany in 1931 with an international passenger list. Conceived as symbols of their respective nations, the more than 40 characters' interactions and involvements with each other on the course of a tense month-long voyage vividly reveal their ...
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Where's Waldo? the Wonder Book
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Martin Handford
Bespectacled, amiable Waldo goes for a world-wide hike through one incredibly cluttered scene after another. See if you can spot him in the railroad station, the zoo, the museum, and many more places. While you're looking, enjoy the abundance of slapstick goings-on in these funny, detailed pictures.
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Looking for Trouble: Adventures in a Broken World
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Ralph Peters
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Wolf Brother
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Michelle Paver
In a world 6,000 years younger, Torak and his father, estranged members of the Wolf Clan, hunt the Forest. After an unnaturally large, demon-possessed bear brutally attacks his father, the 12-year-old is suddenly alone, left with only the obscure knowledge that, with the help of a guide, he must seek out the Mountain of the World Spirit. And above ...
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Sunset
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Erin Hunter
The sixth and final book in the nationally bestselling Warriors spin-off series is a tense, epic feline adventure packed with perilous battles, dark secrets, and heroic choices that will affect the destinies of all the Clans for generations to come.
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Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories
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Ben Fountain
The well-intentioned protagonists of "Brief Encounters with Che Guevara" are caught -- to both disastrous and hilarious effect -- in the maelstrom of political and social upheaval surrounding them. In "Near-Extinct Birds of the Central Cordillera," an ornithologist being held hostage in the Colombian rain forest finds that he respects his captors ...
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