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21) Tourist season
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Language
English
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A reporter-turned-private eye moves from muckraking to uncovering murder in a caper that mixes football players, politicians, and a very hungry crocodile.
22) Budget travel
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Series
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Budget Travel For Dummies will help you plan your next vacation and make it affordable, with tips on how to maximize your budget and squeeze amazing experiences out of every penny. Written by a travel expert who has visited 60 countries across 6 continents, this book will help you find the best deals, including cheap flights and accommodations. You'll learn how to pick a destination, set and stick to a budget, minimize bank and credit card fees, and...
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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Drawn to dark places, an award-winning crime novelist, in this deeply personal memoir, travels to some of the earth's most tragic locales where he finds the light that can illuminate the darkness within each one of us. --wordery.com.
24) How to make a spaceship: a band of renegades, an epic race, and the birth of private space flight
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Alone in a spartan black cockpit, test pilot Mike Melvill rocketed toward space. He had eighty seconds to exceed the speed of sound and begin the climb to a target no civilian pilot had ever reached. He might not make it back alive. If he did, he would make history as the world's first commercial astronaut. The spectacle defied reason, the result of a competition dreamed up by entrepreneur Peter Diamandis, whose vision for a new race to space required...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author of How to Travel the World on $50 a Day, Matthew Kepnes knows what it feels like to get the travel bug. After meeting some travelers on a trip to Thailand in 2005, he realized that living life meant more than simply meeting society's traditional milestones, such as buying a car, paying a mortgage, and moving up the career ladder. Inspired by them, he set off for a year-long trip around the world before he started...
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Based on exclusive inside reporting, New Yorker writer Nicholas Schmidle tells the remarkable story of the test pilots, engineers, and visionaries behind Virgin Galactic's campaign to build a space tourism company. Schmidle follows a handful of characters -- Mark Stucky, Virgin's lead test pilot ; Richard Branson, the eccentric billionaire funding the venture ; Mike Moses, the grounded, unflappable president ; Mike Alsbury, the test pilot who lost...
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Terrace Books, a trade imprint of the University of Wisconsin Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Six deaths mar the holiday mood as summer vacationers enjoy Wisconsin{u2019}s beautiful Door County peninsula. Murders, or bizarre accidents? Newly hired park ranger Dave Cubiak, a former Chicago homicide detective, assumes the worst but refuses to get involved. Grief-stricken and guilt-ridden over the loss of his wife and daughter, he{u2019}s had enough of death.
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Mallory McDonald books volume 11
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
©2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
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English
Description
Mallory's journal of her fourth-grade trip to Washington D.C. reveals how much fun she has, despite a loose tooth, being upset with her best friend Mary Ann and getting separated from her class in a museum.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Lisa is the last person some would expect to find in a highway-side 'sports bar with curves,' but as general manager at Double Whammies, she has come to love the place and its customers. An incurable den mother, she nurtures and protects her girls fiercely, but over the course of one trying day, her optimism is battered from every direction. Double Whammies sells a big, weird American fantasy, but what happens when reality pokes a bunch of holes in...
Publisher
Lonely Planet
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
You don't need to take a flight to experience the best of Europe. The continent's high-speed and sleeper trains, electric vehicle recharging network and extensive cycle routes mean that it's possible to travel widely leaving a smaller carbon footprint. This collection of 80 detailed trip itineraries opens your eyes to what is possible without air travel.
32) Kilt trip
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English
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"Ready or Scot... Globetrotter Addie Macrae always follows her wanderlust. As a travel consultant, she jet sets around the world -- anywhere but Scotland. But when she's sent on assignment to help a struggling family-run tour company in the Highlands -- and save her own job -- Addie packs away her emotional baggage and turns on the professional charm. Rugged as the land he loves, Logan Sutherland's greatest joy is sharing the beauty of Scotland's...
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Series
Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 27
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Police Constable Hamish Macbeth investigates incidents of vandalism and violence in a quaint Scottish village that is trying to lure tourists to its newly christened "Fairy Glen.".
Author
Publisher
Simon Element
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
The ultimate collection of must-have recipes, stories, and behind-the-scenes photos from the beloved Netflix show Somebody Feed Phil. Phil Rosenthal, host of the beloved Netflix series Somebody Feed Phil, really loves food and learning about global cultures, and he makes sure to bring that passion to every episode of the show. Whether he's traveling stateside to foodie-favorite cities such as San Francisco or New Orleans or around the world to locations...
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English
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Isabelle Austen returns to her hometown on a small, isolated Pacific Northwest island to take over the family tourism business after the death of her mother. Struggling with a recent divorce, she is wondering if she'll ever come into her own. When Henry North steps off a seaplane, he changes Isabelle's world forever. Their relationship is heady and intense-- until Isabelle learns of Henry's disturbing past involving the death of a fiancée and the...
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Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Travelers are showing a huge interest in the fast-growing sector known as experiential tourism--vacations that encompass heritage, culture, nature, ecology, and soft adventure. In the footsteps of the briskly selling The 100 Best Vacations to Enrich Your Life featuring North American destinations, our new title extends these ardent travelers' sights to global scale. From helping to build a health clinic in Tanzania to learning massage in Thailand...
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