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Written by Terry Stevens.
The Stories Behind 50 of the World's Great Destinations.
This book will give tourists and travelers a description of each of the 50 destinations with a personal explanation giving an insight as to why, and how, these destinations consistently deliver high quality visitor experiences. It aims to show the visitor how good management and an understanding of the importance of hospitality underpins the success of each destination....
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Sam and their intrepid grandma bike around the world together in this sweet intergenerational adventure!
Grandma Rose's job is having amazing adventures around the globe and writing about them. Her next trip is extra-special-because this time, Sam is tagging along! Together Sam and Grandma Rose will bike and explore national parks, villages, and sprawling cities, from bear sightings in Alberta to sloths in Costa Rica, and from gelato in Italy to...
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One of seven touching true stories from Wish You Were Here!, the tale of Butlin's holiday camps. 'When I got to the camp I felt as if I'd suddenly walked into Utopia — it was so colourful, so warm, so friendly. There were lights across the roads, there were banners fluttering in the breeze... There seemed to be laughter coming from every building.' With grey post-WWII skies hanging low over Britain, factories lining the streets and smoke stacks...
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One of seven touching true stories from Wish You Were Here!, the tale of Butlin's holiday camps. 'When I got to the camp I felt as if I'd suddenly walked into Utopia — it was so colourful, so warm, so friendly. There were lights across the roads, there were banners fluttering in the breeze... There seemed to be laughter coming from every building.' With grey post-WWII skies hanging low over Britain, factories lining the streets and smoke stacks...
7) Sue's Story
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One of seven touching true stories from Wish You Were Here!, the tale of Butlin's holiday camps. 'When I got to the camp I felt as if I'd suddenly walked into Utopia — it was so colourful, so warm, so friendly. There were lights across the roads, there were banners fluttering in the breeze... There seemed to be laughter coming from every building.' With grey post-WWII skies hanging low over Britain, factories lining the streets and smoke stacks...
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One of seven touching true stories from Wish You Were Here!, the tale of Butlin's holiday camps. 'When I got to the camp I felt as if I'd suddenly walked into Utopia — it was so colourful, so warm, so friendly. There were lights across the roads, there were banners fluttering in the breeze... There seemed to be laughter coming from every building.' With grey post-WWII skies hanging low over Britain, factories lining the streets and smoke stacks...
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One of seven touching true stories from Wish You Were Here!, the tale of Butlin's holiday camps. 'When I got to the camp I felt as if I'd suddenly walked into Utopia — it was so colourful, so warm, so friendly. There were lights across the roads, there were banners fluttering in the breeze...There seemed to be laughter coming from every building.' With grey post-WWII skies hanging low over Britain, factories lining the streets and smokestacks dotting...
10) Anji's Story
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One of seven touching true stories from Wish You Were Here!, the tale of Butlin's holiday camps. 'When I got to the camp I felt as if I'd suddenly walked into Utopia – it was so colourful, so warm, so friendly. There were lights across the roads, there were banners fluttering in the breeze… There seemed to be laughter coming from every building.' With grey post-WWII skies hanging low over Britain, factories lining the streets and smoke stacks...
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and The Book of Two Ways comes a deeply moving novel about the resilience of the human spirit in a moment of crisis. Diana O'Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She's an associate specialist at Sotheby's...
12) If you were here
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Manhattan journalist McKenna Jordan is chasing the story of an unidentified woman who heroically pulled a teenaged boy from the subway tracks when she discovers that the woman in the subway's video bears a strong resemblance to Susan Hauptmann, a close friend who disappeared without a trace a decade earlier.
13) You were here
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[2017]
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"Death, accidental and early, has always been Abby Walters's preoccupation. Now thirty-three and eager to settle down with her commitment-shy boyfriend, a recurring dream from her past returns: a paralyzing nightmare of being buried alive, the taste of dirt in her mouth cloying and real. But this time the dream reveals a name from her family's past. Looking for answers, Abby returns home to small-town Minnesota for the first time in fourteen years,...
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On an autumn day in 2006, Jack Luxton, former Devon farmer and now the proprietor of a seaside caravan park, receives the news that his soldier brother, Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in Iraq. As he travels to bring the body of his brother, who has been killed in the Iraq War, home to England, the process has a terrible impact on Jack and on his relationship with his wife.
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A year after the death of her husband, Emily Maxwell gathers her family by Lake Chautauqua in western New York for what will be a last vacation at their summer cottage. Joining is her sister-in-law, who silently mourns the sale of the lake house, and a long-lost love. Emily's firebrand daughter, a recovering alcoholic recently separated from her husband, brings her children from Detroit. Emily's son, who has quit his job and mortgaged his future to...
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Family secrets revealed, unannounced house guests, a husband's wandering eye, and an old love affair to boot...so much for Flora's luxurious escape to the chateau in the South of France.
When Flora, James, and their two teenage daughters are, offered the holiday of a lifetime in a chateau in the south of France in return for one simple good deed, they jump at the chance. They exchange the confines of London, the weight of the mortgage, and anxieties...
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Fix-it friends volume 4
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IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
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The Fix-It Friends are confronted with loss when their friend's pet passes away. Includes a toolbox about grief and resources for parents.
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HarperCollins Publishers
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2017
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The charming new bestseller from the No.1 bestselling author of The Canal Boat Cafe Robin decides that a grand gesture is what's needed to prove her feelings to Will and, with the help of her guests, hatches a plan that he won't be able to ignore. But when two of her guests go missing, the only thing that matters is their safe return.As the summer season comes to an end, is Robin's Campion Bay dream about to shut down too? Or will her guesthouse be...
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Everything is falling apart for high school senior Jackson Watt. His best friend Brady disappears without a word. His mom remarries, which means a new stepdad, a new house . . . a new life. He falls in love with the girl of his dreams, and then risks blowing it for good. It's only when Jax takes one last road trip to Graceland that he can accept the past year-and what it really means to grow up.