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The extraordinary and enduring memoir of Axel Munthe, a travel bestseller since first published in 1929, captures the spirit and feel of an eraCategories: T...

A true story of food, Paris, and the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. Publishers Weekly When the author, an American journalist and software executive wo...

How To Travel As A Political Act -- Lessons From The Former Yugoslavia: War And Peace In Modern Times -- Europe Unites: Successes And Struggles -- Resurrect...

Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography An extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired women, Per...

Bestselling poet r.h. Sin completes the trilogy with Whiskey Words & a Shovel III. His raw voice delivers gritty, impassioned truths on matters of lov...

"An affecting, singular story...a bracing tale of life on the edge of death." --Kirkus Reviews When veteran war reporter Benjamin Hall woke up in Kyiv on...

Oscar-winner Peter Lamont has a global reputation as one of the film industry's leading designers. For a large part of his career he worked on 18 of the Jam...

Best of the Best. In this follow-up to her bestselling account of her love affair with Tuscany, Mayes carries forward the concerns and people of Under the ...

The Nile, one of the world’s great rivers, has long been an object of fascination and obsession. From Alexander the Great and Nero, to Victorian adventure...

We All Know The Basics Of Punctuation. Or Do We? A Look At Most Neighborhood Signage Tells A Different Story. Through Sloppy Usage And Low Standards On The ...

It's 3 A.m. And Elizabeth Gilbert Is Sobbing On The Bathroom Floor. She's In Her Thirties, She Has A Husband, A House, They're Trying For A Baby - And She D...

From the highly acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts comes a collection of alternately playful and exquisite essays borne of a lifeti...

Whether chugging up the Congo on a paddle-wheel steamboat, rubbing elbows with pygmy chiefs (or wealthy colonial neighbors), being pursued through the dark...

“[A] smartly entertaining reimagining of Agatha Christie’s classic And Then There Were None… Swanson cunningly plays with readers’ heads as we hope ...

Pierce Penniless His Supplication To The Devil Summer's Last Will And Testament The Terrors Of The Night, Or, A Discourse Of Apparitions The Unfortunate Tra...

From London to New York, Ewan and Charley chased their shadows through Europe, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Russia, across the Pacific to Alaska, t...

Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted ...

The author describes his year spent in Delhi, India, reflecting on the city's history and culture, including religious practices, industry, the arts, festiv...

Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés, breathtaking façades around every corner—in short, an exquisite rom...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the host of Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News and the New York Times bestselling author of Ship of Fools, a collecti...

Throughout Zen history, stories and anecdotes of Zen masters and their students have been used as teaching devices to exemplify the enlightened spirit. Un...

this Lyrical, Evocative, Thought-provoking Journal Of A Man's Quest For Truth—and For Himself—was An Instant Classic, Now Available Unabridged On Cd villag...

Authoritative As It Is Amusing, This Book Distills Everything Benjamin Dreyer Has Learned From The Hundreds Of Books He Has Copyedited, Including Works By E...

There's Nothing Quite Like The Special Bond That Someone Has With Their Unicorn - It's Full Of Magic And Adventure. This Book Invites Unicorn Lovers To Reco...

Students And Researchers All Write Under Pressure, And Those Pressures--most Lamentably, The Desire To Impress Your Audience Rather Than To Communicate With...

Winner of the 2017 IACP Award: Literary or Historical Food Writing Gourmand World Cookbook Award Winner: Culinary Travel Amazon Best Book of November (2016...

Short Autobiography About Author's Processes Of Researching, Interviewing, And Writing His Books--Categories: Biographies & MemoirsMemoirs

BeaverbrookCategories: Reference Writing, Research & Publishing Guides WritingJournalism & Nonfiction

"So often people ask me if there's a book on story I can recommend. This is the one. I can't recommend it highly enough."--Alexa Junge, writer/producer, ...

From the inimitable New Yorker journalist Lillian Ross—“a collection of her most luminous New Yorker pieces” (Entertainment Weekly, grade: A).A staff ...

The latest in the highly successful Journeys of a Lifetime series and the sequel to the original bestseller, Secret Journeys of a Lifetime offers in-depth s...

Dillard Describes The Working Life Of A Writer. She Probes And Exposes, Examines And Analyzes, As She Recounts What The Actual Process Of Writing Feels Like...

This inspirational book showcases 500 of the world's most powerful and spiritual places–and guides modern-day travelers who wish to visit them. With elo...

The New York Times bestselling author of Elevator Pitch andmaster of psychological suspense returns with a riveting thriller in which the possible heirs of ...

A lovely small-trim edition of the award-winning Atlas of Remote IslandsThe Atlas of Remote Islands, Judith Schalansky’s beautiful and deeply personal ac...

Written in a style similar to that of Nigel Slater’s multi-award-winning food memoir ‘Toast’, this is a celebration of the glory, humour, eccentricit...

IF YOU'RE TIRED OF REJECTION, THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU. Whether you are a novice writer or a veteran who has already had your work published, rejection i...

This title is available in a new editionThe Act of Writing is a classic Canadian text that is known for its ability to interest students and generate discus...

Nice copyCategories: Reference Writing, Research & Publishing Guides WritingWriting Skills

This memoir of the French provincial capital of Aix-en-Provence is, as the author tells us, "my picture, my map, of a place and therefore of myself...just ...

culled From National Geographic's Vast Photographic Archive As Well As Other Important Collections, This Fascinating, Wide-ranging Volume Presents A Wonde...

The Modern Language Association, The Authority On Research And Writing, Takes A Fresh Look At Documenting Sources In The Eighth Edition Of The Mla Handbook....

A Wise, Passionate Account Of The Pleasures Of Traveling Solo In Our Increasingly Frantic Daily Lives, Many People Are Genuinely Fearful Of The Prospect Of ...

Fiction/Non-Fiction: A Reader and Rhetoric acquaints students with the basic principles of good writing and is organized in three parts: Part One discusses ...

A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body.Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bi...

The new edition of this popular course in translation from French into English offers a challenging practical approach to the acquisition of translation sk...

Award-winning sportswriter Steve Craig shows young adults all the tricks of the trade. Beginning with the basics of good reporting, note-taking and intervie...

A completely revised new edition! This best-selling language reference covers the core vocabulary of everyday life. More than 75,000 definitions. Includes p...