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Beyond The Horizon: Sailing Around The World

by Werner H. Kraus

Published: 2010-11-23

Kindle Edition: 290 pages

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This book chronicles the authors 7 ½ year circumnavigation. Starting and ending in Hawaii, sailing as far north as Alaska and south to New Zealand. In addition to covering the places visited there are many descriptions of problems encountered and how they were solved. Ranging from experie...

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Miles from Nowhere: A Round the World Bicycle Adventure

by Barbara Savage

Published: 1985-01-01

Paperback: 340 pages

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This is the delightful and often humorous story of an around-the-world bicycle trip taken by two young people, Barbara and Larry Savage. It took them two years and 25 countries. Along the way, these neophyte cyclists encountered warm-hearted strangers, bicycle-hating drivers, rock-throwing...

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Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration

by David Roberts

Published: 2013-01-28

Hardcover: 368 pages

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His two companions dead, food and supplies vanished in a crevasse, Douglas Mawson was still one hundred miles from camp. On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs ...

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Shooting The Bruce

by Clive Doucet

Published: 2013-03-21

Kindle Edition: 161 pages

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The Bosnian War was the biggest, dirtiest European War since 1945.Canadian ‘peacekeepers’ were caught in the middle of it. Captain Tom Travis comes home to Bruce County and the only thing he wants to do is shoot a camera. He settles in on Main Street to become a wildlife photographer ...

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Tortilla Flat (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

by John Steinbeck

Published: 1997-06-01

Paperback: 174 pages

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"Steinbeck is an artists; and he tells the stories of these lovable thieves and adulterers with a gentle and poetic purity of heart and of prose." —New York Herald Tribune Adopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, John Steinbeck created a “Camelot” on a shabby hills...

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All Fall Down: A Novel

by Jennifer Weiner

Published: 2014-06-17

Hardcover: 400 pages

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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer WeinerAllison Weiss got her happy ending—a handsome husband, adorable daughter, a job she loves, and the big house in the suburbs. But while waiting in the pediatrician’s office, she opens a magazine to a quiz about addiction and start...

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Little Man

by Kent J Sievers

Published: 2013-11-24

Paperback: 350 pages

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It is the dead of winter. In Omaha, Nebraska’s north downtown, homeless men are disappearing. Alex Capstain sees it when no one else does because he lives among them. For nearly two years he has called a doghouse home. After losing everything to a failing economy, he’s working his way off the street...

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The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes

by Marcus Sakey

Published: 2012-05-01

Paperback: 400 pages

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?A brainy, twisty, sometimes twisted mystery.”--Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl A man wakes up naked and cold, half-drowned on an abandoned beach? The only sign of life for miles is an empty BMW. Inside the expensive car he finds clothes that fit perfectly, shoes for his tat...

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Apple Tree Yard

by Louise Doughty

Published: 2013-06-06

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An intelligent, erotically charged thriller with deep moral implicationsYvonne Carmichael, a renowned geneticist, public authority, and happily married mother of two, sits in the witness box. The charge is murder. Across the courtroom, not meeting her eye, sits her alleged accomplice. He w...

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The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan | Summary & Study Guide

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Published: 2011-09-01

Kindle Edition: 33 pages

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The Middle Place Study Guide contains comprehensive summaries and analysis of the book. This study guide includes a detailed Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Character Descriptions, Objects/Places, Themes, Styles, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion on The Middle Place by Kelly Co...