24 HOURS IN KANSAS CITY (hidden gems) - USA Road Trip

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  • Ballparks: A Journey Through the Fields of the Past, Present, and Future

    • ASIN: 0785836160
    • ISBN: 0785836160
    • Manufacturer: Chartwell Books

    If you love baseball and the venerable stadiums its played in, you need this definitive history and guide to Major League ballparks of the past, present, and future. With a tear-out checklist to mark ballparks you’ve visited and those on your bucket list, Ballparks takes you inside the histories of every park in the Major Leagues, with hundreds ... [Read More]

  • The Best Hits on Route 66: 100 Essential Stops on the Mother Road

    • ASIN: 1493036904
    • ISBN: 1493036904
    • Manufacturer: Globe Pequot Press

    Inspiring, practical, and entertaining, this is the premier guide to all the off-the-radar stops along America’s Mother Road that you simply must not miss. Author Amy Bizzarri, a Route 66 expert and enthusiast, provides a comprehensive list of 100 unique stops that you’ll want to take a moment to explore as you journey along the highway’s 2,5... [Read More]

  • Road Trip USA: Cross-Country Adventures on America's Two-Lane Highways

    • UPC: 884778975155
    • ASIN: 1612389023
    • ISBN: 1612389023
    • Brand: Avalon Travel Publishing
    • Manufacturer: Avalon Travel Publishing

    Now in its seventh edition, Jamie Jensen's best-selling Road Trip USA is better than ever. Inside, you’ll find cross-country routes and road-tested advice for adventurers who want to see the parts of America that the interstates have left behind. Jensen also includes mile-by-mile highlights celebrating major cities, obscure towns, popular attract... [Read More]

  • Neither Wolf nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder

    • ASIN: 1577312333
    • ISBN: 9781577312338
    • Brand: Brand: New World Library
    • Manufacturer: New World Library

    1996 Minnesota Book Award winner ― A Native American bookThe heart of the Native American experience: In this 1996 Minnesota Book Award winner, Kent Nerburn draws the reader deep into the world of an Indian elder known only as Dan. It’s a world of Indian towns, white roadside cafes, and abandoned roads that swirl with the memories of the Ghost... [Read More]

  • The Illustrated Route 66 Historical Atlas

    • UPC: 752748345430
    • ASIN: 0760345430
    • ISBN: 0760345430
    • Brand: Voyageur Press MN
    • Manufacturer: Voyageur Press

    The definitive, fully illustrated state-by-state atlas of the shifting alignments, historic sites, and current points of interest along the United States' beloved Route 66.Route 66 changed immensely in the six decades between its opening in 1926 and its removal from the U.S. highway system in 1985. Since that time, Route 66 has enjoyed a renaissanc... [Read More]

  • Day Trips from Kansas City, 15th: Getaway Ideas for the Local Traveler (Day Trips Series)

    • ASIN: 0762747749
    • ISBN: 0762747749
    • Manufacturer: GPP Travel

    This guide features more than 200 adventure-packed destinations and activities within a two-hour drive of Kansas City, including exploring Missouri's 5,000 caves; looking for migratory birds in Marais des Cygnes Wildlife Area; or experiencing a live theater performance in a century-old boiler room in St. Joseph, Missouri.

  • Easy To Fold: Kansas, Nebraska (Easyfinder Maps)

    • UPC: 070609854175
    • ASIN: 0528854178
    • ISBN: 0528854178
    • Brand: Rand McNally
    • Manufacturer: Rand McNally

    The durable and convenient Kansas and Nebraska EasyToFold state map will take all the wear and tear your journey can dish out. The heavy-duty laminated design allows you to mark your route, make notes, then wipe the surface clean for further use. This is a must-have for navigation whether you're a state resident or just passing through. Easy to fol... [Read More]

  • Glory Road: My Story of the 1966 NCAA Basketball Championship and How One Team Triumphed Against the Odds and Changed America Forever

    • ASIN: 1401307914
    • ISBN: 9781401307912
    • Brand: Haskins, Don/ Wetzel, Dan
    • Manufacturer: Hachette Books

    Timed to the release of Jerry Bruckheimer's movie, the moving autobiography of Hall of Fame basketball coach Don Haskins and his storied team of players, the Texas Western MinersIn 1966, college basketball was almost completely segregated. In the championship game for the NCAA title that year, Don Haskins, coach of the then little-known Texas Weste... [Read More]

  • The Tummy Trilogy: American Fried; Alice, Let's Eat; Third Helpings

    • ASIN: 0374524173
    • ISBN: 0374524173
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  • Listening to a Continent Sing: Birdsong by Bicycle from the Atlantic to the Pacific

    • ASIN: 0691166811
    • ISBN: 0691166811
    • Manufacturer: Princeton University Press

    Join birdsong expert Donald Kroodsma on a ten-week, ten-state bicycle journey as he travels with his son from the Atlantic to the Pacific, lingering and listening to our continent sing as no one has before. On remote country roads, over terrain vast and spectacular, from dawn to dusk and sometimes through the night, you will gain a deep appreciatio... [Read More]

  • Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain

    • ASIN: 038533303X
    • ISBN: 038533303X
    • Brand: Paterniti, Michael
    • Manufacturer: Dial Press

    Albert Einstein's brain floats in a Tupperware bowl in a gray duffel bag in the trunk of a Buick Skylark barreling across America. Driving the car is journalist Michael Paterniti. Sitting next to him is an eighty-four-year-old pathologist named Thomas Harvey, who performed the autopsy on Einstein in 1955 -- then simply removed the brain and took it... [Read More]

  • The Fourth Part of the World: An Astonishing Epic of Global Discovery, Imperial Ambition, and the Birth of America

    • ASIN: 1416535349
    • ISBN: 1416535349
    • Manufacturer: Free Press

    “Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling Waldseemüller world map of 1507.” So begins this remarkable story of the map that gave America its name.For millennia Europeans believed that the world consisted of three parts: Europe, Africa, and Asia. Th... [Read More]

  • Crooked Little Heart: A Novel

    • ASIN: 0385491808
    • ISBN: 0385491808
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

  • Just Visiting

    • ASIN: 1633920534
    • ISBN: 1633920534
    • Manufacturer: Spencer Hill Contemporary

    Reagan Forrester wants out - out of her trailer park, out of reach of her freeloading mother, and out of the shadow of the relationship that made her the pariah of Charytan, Kansas. Victoria Reyes wants in - in to a fashion design program and a sorority, in to the arms of a cute guy who doesn't go to Charytan High, and in to a city where she won't... [Read More]

  • The New Christian Traveler's Guide to the Holy Land

    • ASIN: 0802466508
    • ISBN: 0802466508
    • Manufacturer: Moody Publishers

    Knowing the Land helps us understand the Book in new and vivid ways. Charles Dyer, a Bible scholar and veteran Holy Land tour guide, and Greg Hatteberg, graduate of the Institute of Holy Land Studies in Jerusalem, created this reference guide for pilgrims who want to deepen the spiritual impact of their trip to Israel, as well as other travelers wh... [Read More]

  • Samba

    • ASIN: 067973256X
    • ISBN: 067973256X
    • Brand: Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    For one year, Alma Guillermoprieto lived in Manguiera, a village near Rio de Janeiro, to learn the ritual of samba--the sensuous song and dance marked by a rapturous beat--and to take part in Rio's renowned carnivale parade.

  • PrairyErth

    • ASIN: 0395486025
    • ISBN: 0395486025
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin

    Chronicles the author's eight-year research into the people, geology, legends, and history of a tiny cross-section of the Great Plains--Chase County, Kansas--to unearth some of the mysteries of nature

  • The Darkest Lie

    • ASIN: 1496703588
    • ISBN: 1496703588
    • Manufacturer: Kensington

    Is it better to live with a lie, or risk everything for the truth?“Heartbreaking and heroic. You won't be able to turn the pages fast enough!” --Romily Bernard, author of the Find Me trilogyIn Pintip Dunn’s gripping and timely novel, a young woman whose life unravels in the wake of her mother’s alleged suicide sets out to clear her name.“... [Read More]

  • The Good Stuff: Columns about the Magic of Sports

    • ASIN: 097091315X
    • ISBN: 097091315X
    • Brand: Brand: Kansas City Star Books/The Kansas City Star Co.
    • Manufacturer: Kansas City Star Books/The Kansas City Star Co.

    Baseball, football, basketball, golf : If they're playing it, Joe Posnanski savors it. As columnist for The Kansas City Star, he has written eloquently about big victors and stirring victories, and also about humbled losers and heartfelt loss. These essays, collected from his work for The Star, are all about life as told through the medium of sport... [Read More]

  • Are We There Yet?: The Golden Age of American Family Vacations (Culture America (paperback ))

    • ASIN: 0700617590
    • ISBN: 0700617590
    • Brand: Brand: University Press of Kansas
    • Manufacturer: University Press of Kansas

    When TV celebrity Dinah Shore sang "See the USA in your Chevrolet," 1950s America took her to heart. Every summer, parents piled the kids in the back seat, threw the luggage in the trunk, and took to the open highway. Chronicling this innately American ritual, Susan Rugh presents a cultural history of the American middle-class family vacation from ... [Read More]

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