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This impressive selection is highly recommended for geologists or for anyone with an interest in what lies beneath our feet.
A must purchase; those who love New York will adore it, and those less enamored with the Big Apple will still find this fun and informative encyclopedia a fascinating portrait of the metropolitan area.
This scholarly work provides an intriguing, unique way to consider maps. Recommended for those who like cartography and history.
A must for anyone who appreciates geology or antique atlases and maps.
Besides appealing to general readers who enjoy cartography, art, and “superlative” books, such as the Guinness Book of World Records, this is also well suited to academics and students of history, geography, and art.
The quality of this tome and its emphasis on current features make it worth a purchase even where libraries own National Geographic the National Parks: An Illustrated History.
Highly recommended for anyone who has visited or is planning to visit Tokyo. Readers will gain insight into the history, culture, and language of Japan as well as ideas on city hot spots.
Recommended for Latin American collections, and for those who study labor history, this "blend of travel writing and memoir" will consume readers.
The upcoming Summer Olympics offer Tokyo the opportunity to showcase its fine qualities on the global stage and present visitors with a view of this impressive city and fascinating country.
PREMIUM
Mourning
For readers interested in family, memory, 20th-century history, and strong literature.
PREMIUM
The Story of a Marriage
Not for the plot-hungry, this deeply interior meditation will reward serious-minded readers.
PREMIUM
Against the Inquisition
Both strong historical chronicle and spirited defense of the right to believe, presented in straightforward language appropriate for the widest range of readers.
PREMIUM
I Didn't Talk
An arresting work, told in stringently beautiful prose; for all smart sophisticated readers.
Essential for potential pilgrims and an excellent European history for others.
An easy read for those interested in exploring broader cultural and historical connections during the Roman transition into the European continent and its continuing impact on the region.
An excellent corpus collection and reference for classicists and historians. Highly recommended for classical departments.
A fun, informative, and entertaining way to explore Paris, especially for those who enjoy their travels off the beaten path.
An engaging, delightful glimpse into female writers' experiences in Paris.
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The Beach at Painter's Cove
With fully fleshed-out characters and family drama to spare, Noble's latest (after Forever Beach and Whisper Beach) is a summer read with substance. For fans of women's fiction and the works of Elin Hilderbrand and Nancy Thayer.
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The Salt House
With alternating chapters focusing on each family member's thoughts and interactions, debut author Duffy eloquently displays the emotional complexities of a family going through the healing process. Readers of Elin Hilderbrand or Luanne Rice will enjoy.
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The Beach House: Coming Home
Bockoven's second "Beach House" novel weaves a lovely tapestry depicting the many threads that form a life. With a focus on family, relationships, loss, and reconciliation, along with a pleasing hint of romance, this novel will appeal to fans of Luanne Rice and Elin Hilderbrand.
For libraries with large travel and recreational collections.
Anybody living near or traveling to San Francisco can utilize this handy and fascinating walking guide. If only every city had one as comprehensive as this.
Perfect for armchair travelers, adventure swimmers, families, and for those who simply love or want to explore open-water swimming. Avid swimmers will clamor to get to Ireland posthaste.
For more enjoyable travel writing, try National Geographic's Journeys Home: Inspiring Stories, Plus Tips and Strategies To Find Your Family History; for better history in maps, suggest The Times History of the World in Maps.
An absorbing browse as well as a valuable companion to history classes.
A perfect companion to the publisher's 2014 Great Maps, but also a worthwhile stand-alone purchase, especially where cartography books are needed that serve YA as well as adult patrons.
A beautiful title that offers something different for both crafters and cartophiles.
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Top Ten Sights: Rio de Janeiro
This ebook is one of many Brazil-themed works by travel writer and editor Jones, who has also written on Salvador de Bahia, São Paulo, Brasilia, and Recife...
The Olympics' official app includes historic, current, and future games information (results and records for all Olympic sports, athletes, and games); schedules for the Rio 2016 and Pyeongchang 2018 games; photos and videos; the ability to search for Olympic medalists by games, athlete, and country; and tracking options...
PREMIUM
Rio 2016
This Olympics app includes a countdown to the opening ceremony; ticket information; schedules for the games (including Paralympics); and information about venues and history...
PREMIUM
Brazil with Michael Palin
This lively four-part series is hosted by Palin (of "Monty Python" fame), a wonderfully engaging performer and travel writer...
PREMIUM
Hard Time in the Marvelous City: From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro
This work focuses on the favelas (the overcrowded, often lawless, ramshackle communities that cling to the hillsides and are home to the poor of Rio)...
Though Rio is not the capital of Brazil's government, it is considered its cultural epicenter...
Inclusive and up-to-the-minute info on the games as viewed through a U...
PREMIUM
Lonely Planet: Rio de Janeiro
This is Lonely Planet's ninth edition of Rio de Janeiro, specially updated for the Olympics...
This is a 2014 e-only guide, derived from the Rough Guide to Brazil, part of the popular series that is particularly prized by the young or adventuresome traveler...
Zirin, an experienced sports journalist (Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down), here spotlights the hypocrisy, greed, and societal impact of bringing world-class events to a country already struggling with poverty, crime, governance, and crippling environmental and health crises...
An updated third edition of a reliable guide, with special attention given to the 2016 Summer Olympic Games...
This thorough resource can stand on its own as a historical, statistical, and geographical account of the Mormon faith from its beginnings. Highly recommended for those wishing to study the origins of Mormonism, its continuing development, and its current place in the world.
A festive collection of travel stories from some amazing writers. The only thing lacking in this collection is more entries! Lovers of travel writing, as well as fans of fiction, will thoroughly enjoy this collection.
Townsend makes every word count. Readers interested in the Pacific Northwest and wilderness backpacking will enjoy the combination of nature writing and practical advice.
This entertaining and informative work is recommended for high school and public libraries, and for casual readers and fact afficionados everywhere.
This collection spans human exploration over many years and around the world, and is as much about writing as about travel, fortitude, and desperation. The author accomplishes what she praises other brilliant travel writers for achieving: holding up a mirror that reflects back the world. Highly recommended for lovers of travel writing and smart literary essays.
Armchair travelers and history fans will both find riches in this unusual work.
This well-constructed travel memoir offers subtle political insight, well-drawn characters, lush detail, and poignant personal narrative. A welcome blend of journalism, travel writing, and memoir; strongly recommended.
This book will reward insightful readers. Certainly for regionalists, this also will be popular with any reader with a fond place in their heart for Wisconsin.
PREMIUM
The Longest Way Home
Combining the best aspects of Paul Theroux’s misanthropy in books like Old Patagonian Express and Elizabeth Gilbert’s emotions in Eat, Pray, Love, this book is hard to put down. Bound to be popular, this compelling and honest chronicle will not disappoint readers.
The print version is a wonderful title to keep in your cabin for the big snow but will probably see little use in today’s libraries, except in those lacking Internet access and multivolume encyclopedias. The online version is not recommended in its present form.
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