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In the middle of a training trip, Keeska's shuttle navigation fails and strands Keeska on Earth-alone, no way to contact home, and with no chance of help from the locals…until one does.When Eric starts leaving food in front of an abandoned storefront in the crappy strip mall by his house, he thought he was helping a dog or a homeless kid. He gets the shock of his life when he discovers an alien instead. Not sure what else to do, especially with...
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I have enjoyed solo travel and would like to encourage others to try it. So I have recounted interesting experiences i have had with persons in Columbia, Turkey, Tunisia, Guatemala, Ecuador, China, and Kenya. When traveling solo, I was the victim of various confidence games in Italy, Spain, Argentina, and Ecuador. Traveling solo means taking public transportation, so I have included my encounters with taxi drivers in Italy, Israel, Nigeria, Lebanon,...
63) Ali's Rocky Ride
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Come along for a wild ride as the Shred Girls take on mountain biking! Readers are sure to feel like part of the team in this empowering read. In the follow-up to LINDSAY'S JOYRIDE, the Shred Girls reunite at Ali's home for a mountain-biking training trip that builds up to an elite competition! Even though Ali grew up on the mountain biking with her professional-biker older brothers, she's anxious. Her brothers always make her feel like she's not...
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White Feather is back to solve another intricate and twisting mystery. And once again, the old geezers show why life after 65 can still be interesting.
St. Jude Methodist Retirement Center is impacted, when illegal marijuana grow sites are raided by multi-agency task forces and three members of a Cuban Cartel ring manage to escape. Will Ralph's military experience save him?
The prestigious Columbine Ladies Club decides to celebrate their 100th anniversary...
65) The Crime Doctor
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In the tradition of the Great Detective, Sherlock Holmes, we present E.W. Hornung's THE CRIME DOCTOR. John Dollar, a former soldier recovering from a head injury, becomes an amateur sleuth, as well as a man of medical science- one with a unique outlook on the criminal mind, and how to treat this growing threat to Crown and Country, and as the villains will discover, he stands ready to use the black arts of subterfuge, disguise, and violence in the...
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In Golden Boxty in the Frypan, Pat Spencer captivates readers with a heartrending and absorbing coming-of-age saga inspired by true events. Her poignant story captures the hearts of readers as they follow Katie's journey through poverty, illness, and discrimination in Philadelphia to a glorious train trip out west in search of the American dream. But just as she thinks the worst is behind her, a twist of fate reverses her good fortune. Katie must...
67) Gravedigger
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Danny - just an ordinary boy, decides one day that he won't be bullied or pushed around anymore. Trouble is, when he fights back, his nemesis winds up dead with a knife in his heart. Sentenced to four years in a juvenile centre, he meets with the leader of a vicious gang and is invited to join them. Saying 'no' is not an option, and he is dragged into the brutal world of a criminal life-style.
A vocation as a hitman ends disastrously when he kills...
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Ever get tired of having the same conversation over and over again, just talking or thinking about what needs to be done instead of getting motivated to act? This book is for anyone who needs a heaping dose of momentum and focus, and who better to dish out such advice than Pierre Bennu, an award-winning filmmaker and artist who's had such conversations countless times. This page-turner is the perfect companion for those times you need a little motivation,...
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Afraid of flying, college professor Hallie Monroe embarks on a train trip from Chicago to Salt Lake City. Only riding the train to avoid flying to a conference for a presentation all but guaranteeing tenure, she attracts the attention of another passenger. This other passenger just so happens to be a mysteriously handsome man traveling with a precocious eight-year-old boy. Accompanying his nephew, not allowed to fly due to a medical condition, businessman...
70) Road Trip Activity Book for Kids 8-14: 87 Pages of Riddles, Trivia, Would You Rather Questions &
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Bust back-seat boredom and entertain the kids on road trips with zero screen time!
This book is your ultimate travel buddy! It's a must-have vacation activity book for kids ages 8-14. You can find "Would you rather" questions, trivia, riddles, word puzzles, scavenger hunts, and suggestions for games that the entire family can play. For example, I'm going on a picnic, 20 questions, the license plate game, don't say this, and I Spy.
Pick up this road...
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Love, Lies, Bleeding is an epic collection of eleven stories, from very short to very long, with a variety of approaches-both traditional and experimental-and the common theme of romantic love. From infatuation to obsession, from bliss to heartbreak-these stories try to answer the big questions. Love-what is it? Why are we obsessed with it? Is it worth it? Is it possible to live without it? Or is it essential...
On the first few days of the new millennium,...
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In 1990 author Kyoko Mori returned to her native Japan to visit the "landscape of my childhood." There-looking for the house in which her mother killed herself, running on land that was once water, and retracing childhood train trips to her grandparents' farm-she relived the memories and uncovered the secrets that unlocked her past. In The Dream of Water, a series of chapters that are themselves "small perfections," she leads us to the "larger happiness"...
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Using a wealth of real-world examples, this breakthrough book offers a new freedom-based management paradigm that radically improves every aspect of business-from how we hire, compensate, and motivate people to how we address quality issues, serve customers, review employees, and more. Accountability tells the story of Pete Williams, a hard-charging CEO, who meets Stan "Kip" Kiplinger, a retired businessman, during a cross-country train trip. Pete's...
74) The Real Mr. Big: How a Colombian Refugee Became the United Kingdom's Most Notorious Cocaine Kingpin
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This true crime memoir is both a "high-speed train trip through the modern cocaine trade" and a story of reform, redemption and family (Gerald Posner, and author of Pharma).
Born in 1960, Jesus Ruiz Henao wanted to be rich like the drug dealers he saw as he grew up in the cocaine-producing region of Colombia's Valle of the Cauca. In 1985, he moved to the quiet London suburb of Hendon, where he and his wife held down mundane cleaning and bus driving...
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David Martin is a young college professor when, on a train trip to Chicago, he realizes he is the only one able to see Rosalind La Page, a resident apparition who makes a ghostly appearance every year on the anniversary of her 1940s murder. After he arrives in Chicago, David reveals his experience to his mother, Kathleen, who tells him he is a Sensitive with a special gift. As David continues to feel Rosalinds presence, he immerses himself in learning...
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Zephaniah and Charlotte scarcely knew each other and never spent any time together. He just admired her from afar. Both had their ranches to maintain in Montana. Both were busy from long before dawn to long after the sun set. Both only had a hat tip or head nod or a "good day" for each other if they crossed paths in Virginia City.
Suddenly, one morning, everything changes. A murderous gang slaughters a group of settlers. Two children witness the...
77) Tracks to Murder
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A witty and informative look at classic American murder cases. On a 6,000-mile train trip across the North American continent from New York City to the West Coast, then back to New York over a southern route, prize-winning English crime historian Jonathan Goodman visited a number of sites where notorious murders occurred-the Kingsbury Run torso murders in Cleveland; the murder by 'thrill-killers' Leopold and Loeb; the St. Valentine's Day Massacre,...
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Explore the art of mindful travel with Kinfolk, the pioneers in "slow living," their philosophy of simplicity, authenticity, intentionality and community. With nearly 450,000 copies in print, the Kinfolk series has applied this philosophy to entertaining (The Kinfolk Table), interior design (The Kinfolk Home), and living with nature (The Kinfolk Garden). Now they have turned their attention to "slow travel," offering readers a road map for planning...
79) Back on Track
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Bestselling author and voice of Australian storytelling Tricia Stringer tackles troubled relationships, ageism, and love old and new in this warm, funny, uplifting story of colleagues and unlikely travel companions thrown together on an astonishing (and revealing) train trip across Australia.
Ketty Clift's couture dressmaking business is thriving but the same can't be said for her staff. Lately, cracks have appeared in the team's harmony, testing...
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The heartfelt memoir of Ray Raghunath Cappo, a legendary hardcore punk musician-turned-monk-and pioneer of the straight-edge movement-told with warmth, candor, and humor. Narrated by the author himself.
Ray Cappo was a hardcore punk singer and pioneer of the straight-edge movement living on the Lower East Side of New York City in the '80s, where his band Youth of Today played to packed clubs and touched thousands of people across the globe. But despite...