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  • Best American Travel Writing 2018 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 1328497690
    • ISBN: 9781328497697
    • Manufacturer: Best American Paper

    Everyone travels for different reasons, but whatever those reasons are, one thing is certain: they come back with stories. Each year, the best of those stories are collected in The Best American Travel Writing, curated by one of the top writers in the field, and each year they “open a window onto the strange, seedy, and beautiful world, offering ... [Read More]

  • The Best American Travel Writing 2014 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0544330153
    • ISBN: 0544330153
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    “Travel connoisseurs divide the world into those places they’ve been dying to visit or revisit and places they’d never set foot in but are glad someone else did. This year’s volume of travel writing . . . focuses mostly on the latter with derring-do dispatches.” — USA TodayA far-ranging collection of the best travel writing pieces publi... [Read More]

  • Best American Travel Writing 2016 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0544812093
    • ISBN: 9780544812093
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Best American Paper

    Why do I travel? Why does anyone of us travel? Bill Bryson poses these questions in his introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2016, and though he admits, “I wasn’t at all sure I knew the answer,” they are questions worthy of examination. While the various contributors to this collection all travel for different reasons, one thing i... [Read More]

  • Best American Travel Writing 2017 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 1328745732
    • ISBN: 9781328745736
    • Manufacturer: Best American Paper

    “The Best American Travel Writing has been the gold standard for short-form travel writing from newspapers, magazines, and the Internet since its inception.” —New York Times Book Review Everyone travels for different reasons, but whatever those reasons are, one thing is certain—they come back with stories. Each year, the best of those stori... [Read More]

  • The Best American Travel Writing 2019 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0358094232
    • ISBN: 0358094232
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    An eclectic compendium of the best travel writing essays published in 2018, collected by Alexandra Fuller. BEST AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING gathers together a satisfyingly varied medley of perspectives, all exploring what it means to travel somewhere new. For the past two decades, readers have come to recognize this annual volume as the gold standard f... [Read More]

  • The Best American Travel Writing 2013 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: B00AXS6BFW
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    Number-one New York Times best-selling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed: A Love Story, Elizabeth Gilbert transports readers to far-flung locales with this collection of the year’s lushest and most inspiring travel writing.

  • The Best American Travel Writing 2008 (The Best American Series ®)

    • UPC: 046442858649
    • ASIN: 0618858644
    • ISBN: 0618858644
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    In his introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2008, editor Anthony Bourdain writes that the pieces that “spoke the loudest and most powerfully to me were usually evocative of the darker side, those moments fearful, sublime, and absurd; the small epiphanies familiar to the full-time traveler, interspersed by a sense of dislocation—and ... [Read More]

  • The Best American Travel Writing 2015 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0544569644
    • ISBN: 0544569644
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    In his introduction, guest editor Andrew McCarthy says that the best travel writing is “the anonymous and solitary traveler capturing a moment in time and place, giving meaning to his or her travels.” The stories in The Best American Travel Writing 2015 demonstrate just that spirit, whether it is the story of a marine returning to Iraq a deca... [Read More]

  • The Best Travel Writing, Volume 11: True Stories from Around the World

    • ASIN: 160952117X
    • ISBN: 160952117X
    • Brand: TRAVELERS TALES
    • Manufacturer: Travelers' Tales

    The Best Travel Writing, Volume 11 is the latest in the annual Travelers' Tales series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing — from Nobel Prize winners to emerging new writers. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes encompass high adventure, spiritual growth, romance, hilarity and misadventure, service ... [Read More]

  • The Best American Travel Writing 2011 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0547333366
    • ISBN: 0547333366
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    The Best American Series® First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites . A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the bes... [Read More]

  • The Best American Travel Writing 2000

    • UPC: 046442074674
    • ASIN: 0618074678
    • ISBN: 0618074678
    • Manufacturer: Best American

    The extraordinary popularity of books and magazines dedicated to travel comes as no surprise, given that more and more Americans are traveling each year for business, pleasure, and especially adventure. Our fascination with travel has never been so well represented as in this new addition to the Best American series: a wide-ranging compendium of th... [Read More]

  • The Mesmerist: Hope Chest Time Travel Romance Series, Book 1 (Hope Chest Series)

    • ASIN: B00MYRE9ZY
    • Manufacturer: Parker Hayden Media

    A woman fleeing her unfaithful fiancé. A cuddly ghost seeking the manner of his death. A magical matchmaker determined to bring the two together, even across time.When dog trainer Gina Charles flees her unfaithful fiancé, she ends up at a hotel room with another occupant—a ghost with compelling dark eyes who cuddles up to her in the middle of t... [Read More]

  • The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 10: True Stories from Around the World

    • ASIN: 160952098X
    • ISBN: 160952098X
    • Brand: Travelers Tales Guides
    • Manufacturer: Travelers' Tales

    In The Best Women’s Travel Writing, Volume 10: True Stories from Around the World, thirty celebrated and emerging writers invite you to ride shotgun as they travel the globe to discover new places, people, and facets of themselves. The essays are as diverse as the destinations, the common thread being fresh, compelling storytelling that will make... [Read More]

  • The Best American Travel Writing 2002

    • UPC: 046442118798
    • ASIN: 0618118799
    • ISBN: 0618118799
    • Brand: Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

    Edited by acclaimed travel writer Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun, the latest volume in the annual series presents a wide- ranging anthology of the finest travel writing published over the past year, selected from a wide variety of magazines, newspapers, and websites and encompassing articles and essays on adventures and locales aroun... [Read More]

  • The Best American Travel Writing 2004 (The Best American Series)

    • UPC: 046442341264
    • ASIN: 0618341269
    • ISBN: 0618341269
    • Manufacturer: Best American

    Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to twenty or so very best pieces by a... [Read More]

  • The Best American Travel Writing 2005 (The Best American Series)

    • UPC: 046442369527
    • ASIN: 061836952X
    • ISBN: 061836952X
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin

    The Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the very best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made ... [Read More]

  • The Best American Travel Writing 2006 (The Best American Series)

    • UPC: 046442582155
    • ASIN: 0618582150
    • ISBN: 0618582150
    • Manufacturer: Best American

    Tim Cahill writes in his introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2006, "'Story' is the essence of the travel essay. Stories are the way we organize the chaos in our lives, orchestrate voluminous factual material, and -- if we are very good -- shed some light on the human condition." Here are twenty-six pieces that showcase the best travel ... [Read More]

  • The Tenth Gift: A Novel

    • ASIN: B0018SJO9G
    • Manufacturer: Crown

  • Outlander 4-Copy Boxed Set: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn

    • ASIN: 1101887486
    • ISBN: 9781101887486
    • Brand: Dell
    • Manufacturer: Dell

    There’s never been a better time to discover the novels behind the blockbuster Starz original series Outlander. Blending rich historical fiction with riveting adventure and a truly epic love story, here are the first four books of Diana Gabaldon’s New York Times bestselling saga that introduced the world to the brilliant Claire Randall and vali... [Read More]

  • Just Between Us: Mother & Daughter: A No-Stress, No-Rules Journal (Activity Journal for Teen Girls and Moms, Diary for Tween Girls)

    • ASIN: 0811868958
    • ISBN: 0811868958
    • Brand: Chronicle Books CA
    • Manufacturer: Chronicle Books

    Looking for tween gifts for girls or the perfect mother gift?A journal for girls or girl's diary—Just Between Us: Mother and Daughter: "Packed with writing prompts, it's the perfect gift for Mother's Day."— Girl's Life magazineHave you ever wondered...What your mom thought the moment you were born?Or where your daughter would go if she could go... [Read More]

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