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Publisher
Avalon Travel
Language
English
Description
Who else but Rick Steves can you trust to show you the best of Europe? Focus on the top sights, explore the most characteristic neighborhoods, dine on the best local cuisine, and stay in good-value hotels. Use Rick's tips to beat the crowds, skip lines, and avoid tourist traps. The Best of Europe means experiencing its Old World romance and new World excitement for yourself. -- Adapted from back cover.
3) Europe
Series
Publisher
Lonely Planet
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Raise a glass of champagne at the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, marvel at the number of masterpieces at the Hermitage in St Petersburg, and explore Prague's neighbourhoods, galleries and bars - all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Europe and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet's Europe: Full-colour maps and images throughout Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests...
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English
Description
"As World War II raged, millions of young Jewish people were caught up in the horrors of the Nazis' Final Solution. Many readers know of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi state's genocidal campaign against European Jews and others of so-called "inferior" races. Yet so many of the individual stories remain buried in time. Of those who endured the Holocaust, some were caught by the Nazis and sent to concentration camps, some hid right under Hitler's nose, some...
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Language
English
Description
The classic novel of a boy's struggle for survival in WWII Poland, from the National Book Award–winning author of Steps and Being There. Originally published in 1965, The Painted Bird established Jerzy Kosinski as a major literary figure. With sparse prose and vivid imagery, it is a story of mythic proportion and timeless human relevance.
6) Us: a novel
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Language
English
Description
"David Nicholls brings the wit and intelligence that graced his enormously popular New York Times bestseller, One Day, to a compellingly human, deftly funny new novel about what holds marriages and families together--and what happens, and what we learn about ourselves, when everything threatens to fall apart. Douglas Petersen may be mild-mannered, but behind his reserve lies a sense of humor that, against all odds, seduces beautiful Connie into a...
Author
Language
English
Description
After the death of her father, Isabel Archer, a young American woman, travels to England to stay with her aunt, where she finds herself an object of affection for several men. When she is left a large legacy by her ailing uncle, she also attracts the attention of those with an interest in her substantial fortune. Faced with decisions about her future, Isabel must live with the consequences of the choices she makes, as her life is forever altered.
The...
Author
Series
Montague siblings volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Henry and his best friend travel Europe to not only discover the land but also each other.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Age of Discovery by telling the story of the Indigenous Americans who journeyed across the Atlantic to Europe after 1492. We have long been taught to presume that modern global history began when the "Old World" encountered the "New", when Christopher Columbus "discovered" America in 1492. But, as Caroline Dodds Pennock conclusively shows in this groundbreaking...
Author
Series
Heist society novels volume 2
Language
English
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Fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop and her fellow talented teenagers work together to find and steal the "Cleopatra Emerald" from an unscrupulous dealer and return it to its rightful owner, while a former love of her Uncle Eddie tries to get the gem for herself.
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Series
Language
English
Description
The future of Spain is at stake. Germany and Italy have ensured that Republican forces are starved of weapons and a Franco victory now looks likely. Cristian Ferrar, a Spanish lawyer living in Paris, is a well-connected man. When Ferrar is approached by anti-Franco forces, he readily agrees asked to help smuggle arms into his homeland. Working with de Lyon - an enigmatic man of Slavic descent - Ferrar goes on a quest which will take him from libertine...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In this passionate, deeply personal book, Adam Nicolson explains why Homer matters--to him, to you, to the world--in a text full of twists, turns and surprises. In a spectacular journey through mythical and modern landscapes, Adam Nicholson explores the places forever haunted by their Homeric heroes. From Sicily, awash with wildflowers shadowed by Italy's largest oil refinery, to Ithaca, southern Spain, and the mountains on the edges of Andalusia...
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 26
Language
English
Description
Stone Barrington as an attorney for Woodman & Weld has seen more than his share of schemes and deceptions, but now he must unravel a puzzle leading him into the rarefied world of European ultrawealth and privilege, where murder is never too high a price to pay for a desired end.
19) Changeling
Author
Series
Order of darkness volume 1
Language
English
Description
It's Italy in 1453 and eighteen-year-old Luca is accused of heresy and cast out of his religious order for using new science to question old beliefs. He is recruited into a secret sect called the Order of the Dragon to investigate evil and danger in many forms. Then he meets a young girl accused of witchcraft and plots her escape from a nunnery.
20) Paradise
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Language
English
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Description
From the Nobel Prize winner, a coming-of-age story that illuminates the harshness and beauty of an Africa on the brink of colonization.
Paradise was characterized by the Nobel Prize committee as Abdulrazak Gurnah's "breakthrough" work. It is at once the chronicle of an African boy's coming-of-age, a tragic love story, and a tale of the corruption of African tradition by European colonialism.
Sold by his father in repayment of a debt, twelve-year-old...
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