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A Past Unearthed

Return of the Condor Heroes Volume 1

by Jin Yong ...

Translated by Gigi Chang ...

Series series Legends of the Condor Heroes
THE CHINESE "LORD OF THE RINGS" - NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME.THE SERIES EVERY CHINESE READER HAS BEEN ENJOYING FOR DECADES - 300 MILLION COPIES SOLD."Jin Yong's work, in the Chinese-speaking world, has a cultural currency roughly equal to that of "Harry Potter" and "Star Wars" combined" New Yorker"If you haven't read Jin Yong's work, you haven't yet fully experienced the fantasy genre" ... Read more

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THE CHINESE "LORD OF THE RINGS" - NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME.THE SERIES EVERY CHINESE READER HAS BEEN ENJOYING FOR DECADES - 300 MILLION COPIES SOLD."Jin Yong's work, in the Chinese-speaking world, has a cultural currency roughly equal to that of "Harry Potter" and "Star Wars" combined" New Yorker"If you haven't read Jin Yong's work, you haven't yet fully experienced the fantasy genre"
... Read more
The Future Is Peace

A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land

by Aziz Abu Sarah, Maoz Inon ...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Two lifelong peace activists and guides to Israel/Palestine, both of whom have lost family in the conflict, take readers on a revealing life-changing journey across this holy, bloodstained land and discover the mythic, political, and personal history that divides but also binds them and their peoples.“[A] short but immensely poignant account of a shared journey across ... Read more

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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Two lifelong peace activists and guides to Israel/Palestine, both of whom have lost family in the conflict, take readers on a revealing life-changing journey across this holy, bloodstained land and discover the mythic, political, and personal history that divides but also binds them and their peoples.“[A] short but immensely poignant account of a shared journey across
... Read more
Lizards on the Mantel, Burros at the Door

A Big Bend Memoir

by Etta Koch, June Cooper Price ...

A warm, witty memoir of a young family's rugged adventure living in the newly established Big Bend National Park in the 1940s.A woman who went West with her husband in the 1840s must have expected hardships and privation, but during the 1940s, when Etta Koch stopped off in Big Bend with her young family and a twenty-three-foot travel trailer in tow—which they named Porky, the Road Hog—she ... Read more

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A warm, witty memoir of a young family's rugged adventure living in the newly established Big Bend National Park in the 1940s.A woman who went West with her husband in the 1840s must have expected hardships and privation, but during the 1940s, when Etta Koch stopped off in Big Bend with her young family and a twenty-three-foot travel trailer in tow—which they named Porky, the Road Hog—she
... Read more
The Indifferent Stars Above

The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party

by Daniel James Brown ...

From the #1 bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat and Facing the Mountain comes an unforgettable epic of family, tragedy, and survival on the American frontier“An ideal pairing of talent and material.… Engrossing.… A deft and ambitious storyteller.” — Mary Roach, New York Times Book ReviewIn April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois ... Read more

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From the #1 bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat and Facing the Mountain comes an unforgettable epic of family, tragedy, and survival on the American frontier“An ideal pairing of talent and material.… Engrossing.… A deft and ambitious storyteller.” — Mary Roach, New York Times Book ReviewIn April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois
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Krakatoa

The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883

by Simon Winchester ...

The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic volcanic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth’s most dangerous volcano — Krakatoa.The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa — the name has since become a byword for a cataclysmic natural disaster — was ... Read more

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The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic volcanic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth’s most dangerous volcano — Krakatoa.The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa — the name has since become a byword for a cataclysmic natural disaster — was
... Read more
The Devil's Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee

by Stewart Lee Allen ...

In this captivating book, Stewart Lee Allen treks three-quarters of the way around the world on a caffeinated quest to answer these profound questions: Did the advent of coffee give birth to an enlightened western civilization? Is coffee, indeed, the substance that drives history? From the cliffhanging villages of Southern Yemen, where coffee beans were first cultivated eight hundred years ago, to ... Read more

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In this captivating book, Stewart Lee Allen treks three-quarters of the way around the world on a caffeinated quest to answer these profound questions: Did the advent of coffee give birth to an enlightened western civilization? Is coffee, indeed, the substance that drives history? From the cliffhanging villages of Southern Yemen, where coffee beans were first cultivated eight hundred years ago, to
... Read more
There's Treasure Inside: The Appalachian Footpath Treasure Box

by Jon Collins-Black ...

Series Book 5 - There's Treasure Inside
Discover the Greatest Treasure in American History!"I've hidden a treasure somewhere in the United States that's worth millions upon millions of dollars, and it's waiting for you to find it." – Jon Collins-BlackFive treasure boxes have been hidden in five locations across the country. One of these treasure boxes is named The Appalachian Footpath Treasure Box. Inside this box are various valuable ... Read more

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Discover the Greatest Treasure in American History!"I've hidden a treasure somewhere in the United States that's worth millions upon millions of dollars, and it's waiting for you to find it." – Jon Collins-BlackFive treasure boxes have been hidden in five locations across the country. One of these treasure boxes is named The Appalachian Footpath Treasure Box. Inside this box are various valuable
... Read more
There's Treasure Inside: The Forrest Fenn Treasure Box

by Jon Collins-Black ...

Series Book 2 - There's Treasure Inside
Discover the Greatest Treasure in American History!"I've hidden a treasure somewhere in the United States that's worth millions upon millions of dollars, and it's waiting for you to find it." – Jon Collins-BlackFive treasure boxes have been hidden in five locations across the country. One of these treasure boxes, inspired by the famous Forrest Fenn treasure hunt, is named the Forrest Fenn Box ... Read more

$5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Discover the Greatest Treasure in American History!"I've hidden a treasure somewhere in the United States that's worth millions upon millions of dollars, and it's waiting for you to find it." – Jon Collins-BlackFive treasure boxes have been hidden in five locations across the country. One of these treasure boxes, inspired by the famous Forrest Fenn treasure hunt, is named the Forrest Fenn Box
... Read more
Underground

A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet

by Will Hunt ...

“[A] winningly obsessive history of our relationship with underground places” (The Guardian), from sacred caves and derelict subway stations to nuclear bunkers and ancient underground cities—an exploration of the history, science, architecture, and mythology of the worlds beneath our feetNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPRWhen Will Hunt was sixteen years old, he discovered an abandoned ... Read more

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“[A] winningly obsessive history of our relationship with underground places” (The Guardian), from sacred caves and derelict subway stations to nuclear bunkers and ancient underground cities—an exploration of the history, science, architecture, and mythology of the worlds beneath our feetNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPRWhen Will Hunt was sixteen years old, he discovered an abandoned
... Read more
The New Guys

The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel

by Meredith Bagby ...

The never-before-told story of NASA’s 1978 astronaut class, which included the first American women, the first African Americans, the first Asian American, and the first gay person to fly to space. With the exclusive participation of the astronauts who were there, this is the thrilling, behind-the-scenes saga of a new generation that transformed space explorationThe story of NASA’s Astronaut Class ... Read more

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The never-before-told story of NASA’s 1978 astronaut class, which included the first American women, the first African Americans, the first Asian American, and the first gay person to fly to space. With the exclusive participation of the astronauts who were there, this is the thrilling, behind-the-scenes saga of a new generation that transformed space explorationThe story of NASA’s Astronaut Class
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Neither here nor there

Travels in Europe

by Bill Bryson ...

In the early seventies, Bill Bryson backpacked across Europe—in search of enlightenment, beer, and women.He was accompanied by an unforgettable sidekick named Stephen Katz (who will be gloriously familiar to readers of Bryson's A Walk in the Woods). Twenty years later, he decided to retrace his journey.Setting out in the dead of winter, he rides a bouncing bus to northern Norway—hoping for ... Read more

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In the early seventies, Bill Bryson backpacked across Europe—in search of enlightenment, beer, and women.He was accompanied by an unforgettable sidekick named Stephen Katz (who will be gloriously familiar to readers of Bryson's A Walk in the Woods). Twenty years later, he decided to retrace his journey.Setting out in the dead of winter, he rides a bouncing bus to northern Norway—hoping for
... Read more
No Way Down

Life and Death on K2

by Graham Bowley ...

New York Times Bestseller“A refreshingly unadorned account of the true brutality of climbing K2, where heroes emerge and egos are stripped down, and the only thing achieving immortality is the cold ruthless mountain.” — Norman Ollestad, author of Crazy for the StormIn this riveting work of narrative nonfiction, New York Times journalist Graham Bowley re-creates one of the most dramatic tales of ... Read more

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New York Times Bestseller“A refreshingly unadorned account of the true brutality of climbing K2, where heroes emerge and egos are stripped down, and the only thing achieving immortality is the cold ruthless mountain.” — Norman Ollestad, author of Crazy for the StormIn this riveting work of narrative nonfiction, New York Times journalist Graham Bowley re-creates one of the most dramatic tales of
... Read more
Until Thy Wrath Be Past

The Arctic Murders - atmospheric Scandi murder mysteries

Translated by Laurie Thompson ...

by Åsa Larsson ...

Series Book 2 - The Arctic Murders
"Rebecka Martinsson: the new Scandi-noir heroine to rival Saga Noren and Sarah Lund" iNews"In a television world now awash in female coppers, there aren't many as interesting and human as Rebecka" Wall Street JournalIn the first thaw of spring the body of a young woman surfaces in the River Torne in the far north of Sweden.Rebecka Martinsson is working as a prosecutor in nearby Kiruna, her sleep ... Read more

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"Rebecka Martinsson: the new Scandi-noir heroine to rival Saga Noren and Sarah Lund" iNews"In a television world now awash in female coppers, there aren't many as interesting and human as Rebecka" Wall Street JournalIn the first thaw of spring the body of a young woman surfaces in the River Torne in the far north of Sweden.Rebecka Martinsson is working as a prosecutor in nearby Kiruna, her sleep
... Read more
The Table Comes First

Family, France, and the Meaning of Food

by Adam Gopnik ...

Never before have we cared so much about food. It preoccupies our popular culture, our fantasies, and even our moralizing—“You still eat meat?” With our top chefs as deities and finest restaurants as places of pilgrimage, we have made food the stuff of secular seeking and transcendence, finding heaven in a mouthful. But have we come any closer to discovering the true meaning of food in our lives ... Read more

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Never before have we cared so much about food. It preoccupies our popular culture, our fantasies, and even our moralizing—“You still eat meat?” With our top chefs as deities and finest restaurants as places of pilgrimage, we have made food the stuff of secular seeking and transcendence, finding heaven in a mouthful. But have we come any closer to discovering the true meaning of food in our lives
... Read more
The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days

by Noah Smithwick ...

A blacksmith and a tobacco smuggler, Noah Smithwick made weapons for the Battle of Concepcion, and he fought in that battle. With Hensley's company, he chased the Mexican army south of the Rio Grande after the Battle of San Jacinto. Twice he served with the Texas Rangers. In quieter times, he was a postmaster and justice of the peace in little Webber's Prairie.Eyewitness to so much Texas history, ... Read more

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A blacksmith and a tobacco smuggler, Noah Smithwick made weapons for the Battle of Concepcion, and he fought in that battle. With Hensley's company, he chased the Mexican army south of the Rio Grande after the Battle of San Jacinto. Twice he served with the Texas Rangers. In quieter times, he was a postmaster and justice of the peace in little Webber's Prairie.Eyewitness to so much Texas history,
... Read more
The Map That Changed the World

William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology

by Simon Winchester ...

From the author of the bestselling The Professor and the Madman comes the fascinating biography of science detailing the story of William Smith, the orphaned son of an English country blacksmith, who became obsessed with creating the world's first geological map and ultimately became the father of modern geology.In 1793 William Smith, a canal digger, made a startling scientific discovery that was ... Read more

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From the author of the bestselling The Professor and the Madman comes the fascinating biography of science detailing the story of William Smith, the orphaned son of an English country blacksmith, who became obsessed with creating the world's first geological map and ultimately became the father of modern geology.In 1793 William Smith, a canal digger, made a startling scientific discovery that was
... Read more
Galapagos

A Natural History

by Michael H. Jackson ...

Twenty thousand copies of the first edition of Galápagos were sold. An attractive and comprehensive guidebook, this work has been completely revised and updated by the author. The reader will find an easy-to-use text which details the natural history of the plants and animals found in the Galápagos Islands. Management and conservation of the Galápagos National Park is discussed, and visitor ... Read more

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Twenty thousand copies of the first edition of Galápagos were sold. An attractive and comprehensive guidebook, this work has been completely revised and updated by the author. The reader will find an easy-to-use text which details the natural history of the plants and animals found in the Galápagos Islands. Management and conservation of the Galápagos National Park is discussed, and visitor
... Read more
Out of Africa

and Shadows on the Grass

by Isak Dinesen ...

Series series Vintage International
With classic simplicity and a painter's feeling for atmosphere and detail, Isak Dinesen tells of the years she spent from 1914 to 1931 managing a coffee plantation in Kenya. ... Read more

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With classic simplicity and a painter's feeling for atmosphere and detail, Isak Dinesen tells of the years she spent from 1914 to 1931 managing a coffee plantation in Kenya.
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Ecology of Nusa Tenggara

by Yance De Fretes, Kathryn Monk ...

Series series Ecology Of Indonesia Series
The Ecology of Nusa Tenggara and Maluku is a comprehensive ecological survey of a series ecologically diverse islands in the Pacific.It contains extensive baseline data on the region’s people, ecosystems, biodiversity and land use, and discusses these in a historical as well as a developmental context. It also provides guidelines for scientific researchers on worthwhile ecological and socio ... Read more

$14.99 USD

The Ecology of Nusa Tenggara and Maluku is a comprehensive ecological survey of a series ecologically diverse islands in the Pacific.It contains extensive baseline data on the region’s people, ecosystems, biodiversity and land use, and discusses these in a historical as well as a developmental context. It also provides guidelines for scientific researchers on worthwhile ecological and socio
... Read more
Overlanding 101

A Field Guide to Vehicle-Based Adventure Travel

by Scott Brady ...

Series series Overland Journal
Travel off the grid and explore the world with this ultimate guide to vehicle-based adventure travel, perfect for beginner and intermediate adventurers alike.Overlanding 101 is the first and ultimate guide to vehicle-based adventure travel. Authored by renowned adventure traveler Scott Brady and the editors at Overland Journal, this book puts you in the driver’s seat, taking you through all ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Travel off the grid and explore the world with this ultimate guide to vehicle-based adventure travel, perfect for beginner and intermediate adventurers alike.Overlanding 101 is the first and ultimate guide to vehicle-based adventure travel. Authored by renowned adventure traveler Scott Brady and the editors at Overland Journal, this book puts you in the driver’s seat, taking you through all
... Read more
Japanese Mind

Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture

by Roger J. Davies, Osamu Ikeno ...

In The Japanese Mind, Roger Davies offers Westerners an insightful guide to understanding the unique aspects of Japanese culture.Readers of this book will develop a comprehensive grasp of Japanese society and the core values that remain at its foundation.Among the topics explored are:aimai (ambiguity), amae (dependence upon others' benevolence), and amakudari (the nation's descent from heave... ... Read more

$13.99 USD

In The Japanese Mind, Roger Davies offers Westerners an insightful guide to understanding the unique aspects of Japanese culture.Readers of this book will develop a comprehensive grasp of Japanese society and the core values that remain at its foundation.Among the topics explored are:aimai (ambiguity), amae (dependence upon others' benevolence), and amakudari (the nation's descent from heave...
... Read more
The Passenger: Turkey

by The Passenger, Elif Batuman, Burhan Sönmez, Elif Shafak ...

Series series The Passenger
Turkish culture and history is explored in the wide-ranging series that is "like a literary vacation" ( Publishers Weekly).The birth of the "New Turkey," as the country's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called his own creation, is an exemplary story of the rise of "illiberal democracies" through the erosion of civil liberties, press freedom, and the independence of the judicial system. Turkey ... Read more

$2.99 USD

Turkish culture and history is explored in the wide-ranging series that is "like a literary vacation" ( Publishers Weekly).The birth of the "New Turkey," as the country's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called his own creation, is an exemplary story of the rise of "illiberal democracies" through the erosion of civil liberties, press freedom, and the independence of the judicial system. Turkey
... Read more
Moon Oaxaca

Archaeological Sites, Best Beaches, Food & Festivals

by Moon Travel Guides, Ashley C. Roberts ...

Series series Moon Latin America & Caribbean Travel Guide
With rugged mountain ranges and stunning Pacific coastline, savory mole and smoky mezcal, Oaxaca is more than just a stop along the way: it’s an adventure in itself. Stay a while with Moon Oaxaca. Inside you’ll find:Strategic itineraries, whether you’re spending ten days or just a weekend in OaxacaThe top activities and unique experiences: Spend a day strolling Oaxaca City’s cobblestone streets ... Read more

$12.99 USD

With rugged mountain ranges and stunning Pacific coastline, savory mole and smoky mezcal, Oaxaca is more than just a stop along the way: it’s an adventure in itself. Stay a while with Moon Oaxaca. Inside you’ll find:Strategic itineraries, whether you’re spending ten days or just a weekend in OaxacaThe top activities and unique experiences: Spend a day strolling Oaxaca City’s cobblestone streets
... Read more
Blue Guide New York

by Carol von Pressentin Wright ...

A guide to New York City that works for residents and visitors alike. This digital edition of the essential Blue Guide takes you on a meticulous tour of the well-known, lesser-known and almost unknown sights of the city as well as being a discerning guide to where to stay and eat. Ideal for on-street use and at-home reference, the depth of coverage is second to none: this is a mini-encyclopedia of ... Read more

$9.99 USD

A guide to New York City that works for residents and visitors alike. This digital edition of the essential Blue Guide takes you on a meticulous tour of the well-known, lesser-known and almost unknown sights of the city as well as being a discerning guide to where to stay and eat. Ideal for on-street use and at-home reference, the depth of coverage is second to none: this is a mini-encyclopedia of
... Read more

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