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Compared to his Australian excursions Bill Bryson had it easy on the Appalachian TrailnbspnbspNonetheless Bryson has on serveral occasions embarked on seemingly endless flights bound for a land where Little Debbies are scarce but insects are abundant up to 220000 species of them not to mention the crodilesTaking readers on a rollicking ride far beyond packagedtour routes IN A SUNBURNED COUNTRY introduces a country where interesting things happen all the time from a Prime Minister who was lost at sea while swimming at a Victoria beach to Japanese cult members who managed to set off an atomic bomb unnoticed on their 500000acre propertynbspnbspLeaving no Vegemite unsavored readers will accompany Bryson as he dodges jellyfish while learning to surf at Bondi Beach discovers a fish that can climb trees dehydrates in deserts where the temperatures leap to 140 degrees and tells the true story of the rejected Danish architect who designed the Sydney Opera HousePublished just in time for the Olympics IN A SUNBURNED COUNTRY provides a singularly intriguing wonderfully wacky take on a glorious adventurefilled locale
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Read by the authorNine CDs 10 hoursJust in time for the 2000 Olympicsthe bestselling quthor of A Walk in the Woods takes listeners on a truly outrageous tour Down UnderCompared to his Australian excursions Bill Bryson had it easy on the Appalachian TrailnbspnbspNonetheless Bryson has on several occasions embarked on seemingly endless flights bound for a land where Little Debbies are scarce but insects are abundant up to 220000 species of them not to mention crocodilesTaking listeners on a rollicking ride far beyond packagedtour routes IN A SUNBURNED COUNTRY introduces a place where interesting things happen all the timenbspnbspLeaving no Vegemite unsavored listeners will accompany Bryson as he dodges jellyfish while learning to surf at Bondi Beach discovers a fish that can climb trees dehydrates in deserts where temperatures leap to 140 degrees F and tells the true story of the rejected Danish architect who designed the Sydney Opera House
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In a Sunburned Country by Bryson Bill Published by Broadway2001 Binding Paperback
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Interest in craft cocktails has reached fever pitch with every city in the country boasting at least one craft cocktail bar Whether youre a professional looking to take your bar game to the next level or a passionate amateur interested in better understanding concepts like batching mise en place or the mechanics of drink making Meehans Bartender Manual is the definitive guide to the art of bar building Featuring chapters on the history of the cocktail and bar hospitality service and etiquette home and professional bar design and tools and machinery Jims authoritative yet engaging voice is on full display This hardworking practical bar book also includes the 100 cocktail recipes that every serious cocktail aficionado should know groundbreaking neverbeforepublished information on spirits from around the world and unprecedented access to Meehans creative process The incredible content in this densely informative yet completely approachable manual is matched only by its gorgeous photography and elevated package design making it an instant classic to be enjoyed now and for years to come Published by Penguin Random House Imported
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A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that twotime Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his countrys civil war A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect gameand then another and then another and then many more in a row until he winds up ESPNs newest celebrity and he must decide if the combination of perfection and celebrity has ruined the thing he loves An eccentric billionaire and his faithful executive assistant venture into America looking for acquisitions and discover a down and out motel romance and a bit of real life These are just some of the tales Tom Hanks tells in this first collection of his short stories They are surprising intelligent heartwarming and for the millions and millions of Tom Hanks fans an absolute musthave
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From one of the most beloved authors of ournbsp timemore than six million copies of his books have been sold in this country alonea fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home Houses arent refuges from history They are where history ends up nbspBill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped Yet one day he began to consider how very little he knew about the ordinary things of life as he found it in that comfortable home To remedy this he formed the idea of journeying about his house from room to room to write a history of the world without leaving home The bathroom provides the occasion for a history of hygiene the bedroom sex death and sleep the kitchen nutrition and the spice trade and so on as Bryson shows how each has figured in the evolution of private life Whatever happens in the world he demonstrates ends up in our house in the paint and the pipes and the pillows and every item of furniture Bill Bryson has one of the liveliest most inquisitive minds on the planet and he is a master at turning the seemingly isolated or mundane fact into an occasion for the most diverting exposition imaginable His wit and sheer prose fluency make At Home one of the most entertaining books ever written about private life
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A young woman is caught up in a dangerous double life on behalf of her country during World War II in Danielle Steels thrilling new novel nbsp At eighteen Alexandra Wickham is presented to King George V and Queen Mary in an exquisite white lace and satin dress her mother has ordered from Paris With her delicate blond looks she is a stunning beauty who seems destined for a privileged life But fate a world war and her own quietly rebellious personality lead her down a different path By 1939 Europe is on fire and England is at war From her home in idyllic Hampshire Alex makes her way to London as a volunteer in the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry But she has skills that draw the attention of another branch of the service Fluent in French and German she would make the perfect secret agent Within a year Alex is shocking her family in trousers and bright red lipstick They must never know about the work she doesno one can know not even the pilot she falls in love with While her country and those dearest to her pay the terrible price of war Alex learns the art of espionage leading to lifeanddeath missions behind enemy lines and a long career as a spy in exotic places and historic times Spy follows Alexs extraordinary adventures in World War II and afterward in India Pakistan Morocco Hong Kong Moscow and Washington DC when her husband Richard enters the foreign service and both become witnesses to a rapidly changing world from postwar to Cold War She lives life on the edge with a secret she must always keep hidden
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If the world as you know it ended today how would you surviveAfter a sudden mysterious disease is unleashed on the country claiming millions of lives including that of his family Mark is left alone The cities are in chaos with survivors killing for food and water Knowing as supplies dwindle the insanity will spread to his neighborhood he creates a fortress in the basement of his suburban home stock piles food water weapons and medical supplies and stays out of sight during the day Weeks later the deadly street gangs have been organized becoming a more dangerous and brutal army In methodical fashion they begin a neighborhood by neighborhood search stripping houses and businesses of anything useful killing those who stand in their way and enslaving the rest Mark knows if they find him they will kill him and works to not only stay hidden but conceal his stash of supplies However when a woman and her family are trapped by the horde Mark attempts a daring rescue and becomes the focus of a deadly manhuntTrapped and outnumbered the killers closing in Mark must find a way to keep them all aliveA fastpaced action thriller bound to keep the pages turning
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This posthumous volume brings together the poems of Tom Andrews whose untimely death in 2001 cut off a career marked by early achievement and remarkable innovation It comprises two previously published books The Brothers Country and The Hemophiliacs Motorcycle and two unpublished manuscript closing with two late uncollected poems
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This book is a kind of travel down the memory lane of the author putting pen to paper urged to do so by his numerous friends and admirers This work however covers five decades of the countrys political and social history and gives the reader a true insight into the daily life of a growing young man and later of an officer serving the British regime and in Independent India About The Author DG Bhattacharyya was born in 1913 in a family of Zamindars The family had taken up commercial activity which suffered reverses forcing the closure of the business and making the young scion seek employment After graduating in Science from the Calcutta University Bhattacharyya joined the Indian Imperial Police Service and retired from the same in 1971 with the rank of Inspector General of Police During his service years he saw almost all the major events of the century from a participants perspective although his nationalistic feelings did time and again come into conflict with his official duties He was privileged to have come into close contact with the three great come into conflict with his official duties He was privileged to have come into close contact with the three great sons of modern IndiaRabindranath Tagore Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru He occupied ringside seats during the freedom struggle the Bengal Famine of 1943 the preindependence riots as well holding a border area posting during the 1962 SinoIndian border dispute He was awarded the Police Medal in 1952 A keen sportsman traveller and photographer Mr Bhattacharyyas interests have taken him all over the world He is a keen angler in still running and seawater and hunted for sport Later he put up his guns and took to still and cine photography Retirement opened up new vistas for Mr Bhattacharyya and he founded one of the most successful security and investigation agencies in Eastern India A deep personal tragedy the loss of his beloved wife in 1979 led to the
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RANDOM WINDS is an epochal saga about a family of physicians first Enoch the dedicated country doctor then Martin his son a brilliant neurosurgeon and Claire his flamboyant unconventional daughter The story moves from a turnofthecentury village in upstate New York to privileged estates outside London from the bedsides of the rural poor to the frenetic emergency room of a New York hospital from wartorn London to hideaways on the French Riviera It tells of the trials and triumphs of a dynamic family struggling to hold its center and of love beyond anyones power to deny Belva Plain creates vivid people and involves us with them She is at the top of the novelists profession BOT Editorial Review Board
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A new edition of Bernice Morgans classic bestselling family saga Forced to flee England the Andrews family books passage from Weymouth England to unknown prospects only to discover a barren inhospitable land at the end of their crossing a fresh start in a distant country New Found Land There on the island of Cape Random the Vincent family introduces them to their way of life To the pensive seventeenyearold Lavinia Andrews uprooted from everything familiar it seems a fate worse than the one they left behind Driven by loneliness she begins a journal Random Passage satisfies the craving for those details that headstones and history books can never give the real story of our Newfoundland ancestors of how time and chance brought them to the forbidding shores of a new found land It is a saga of families and of individuals of acquisitive Mary Bundle of charming Ned Andrews whose thievery has turned his family into exiles of mad Ida of Thomas Hutchings who might be an aristocrat a holy man or a murderer and of Lavinia who wrote down the truth and lies about them all Random Passage has been adapted into a CBC miniseries and is now a national bestseller
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From a leading scholar of our countrys foreign policy the brilliant essay about America and the world that has caused a storm in international circles now expanded into book formEuropean leaders increasingly disturbed by US policy and actions abroad feel they are headed for what the New York Times July 21 2002 describes as a moment of truth After years of mutual resentment and tension there is a sudden recognition that the real interests of America and its allies are diverging sharply and that the transatlantic relationship itself has changed possibly irreversibly Europe sees the United States as highhanded unilateralist and unnecessarily belligerent the United States sees Europe as spent unserious and weak The anger and mistrust on both sides are hardening into incomprehensionThis past summer in Policy Review Robert Kagan reached incisively into this impasse to force both sides to see themselves through the eyes of the other Tracing the widely differing histories of Europe and America since the end of World War II he makes clear how for one the need to escape a bloody past has led to a new set of transnational beliefs about power and threat while the other has perforce evolved into the guarantor of that postmodern paradise by dint of its might and global reach This remarkable analysis is being discussed from Washington to Paris to Tokyo It is esssential reading
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The first indepth behindthescenes look at the White House Chiefs of Staff whose actionsand inactionshave defined the course of our country What do Dick Cheney and Rahm Emanuel have in common Aside from polarizing personalities both served as chief of staff to the president of the United Statesas did Donald Rumsfeld Leon Panetta and a relative handful of others The chiefs of staff often referred to as the gatekeepers wield tremendous power in Washington and beyond they decide who is allowed to see the president negotiate with Congress to push POTUSs agenda andmost cruciallyenjoy unparalleled access to the leader of the free world Each chief can make or break an administration and each president reveals himself by the chief he picksnbsp Through extensive intimate interviews with all seventeennbspliving chiefs and two former presidents awardwinning journalist and producer Chris Whipple pulls back the curtain on this unique fraternity In doing so he revises our understanding of presidential history showing us how James Bakers expert managing of the White House the press and Capitol Hill paved the way for the Reagan Revolutionand conversely how Watergate the Iraq War and even the bungled Obamacare rollout mightnbsphave been prevented by a more effective chiefnbsp Filled with shrewd analysis and neverbeforereported detailsnbspThe Gatekeepersnbspoffers an essential portrait of the toughest job in Washington
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1 New York Times BestsellerFrom thenbspbestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the LusitaniaOn May 1 1915 with WWI entering its tenth month a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York bound for Liverpool carrying a record number of children and infants The passengers were surprisingly at ease even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone For months German Uboats had brought terror to the North Atlantic But the Lusitania was one of the eras great transatlantic Greyhoundsthe fastest liner then in serviceand her captain William Thomas Turner placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attacknbspGermany however was determined to change the rules of the game and Walther Schwieger the captain of Unterseeboot20 was happy to oblige Meanwhile an ultrasecret British intelligence unit tracked Schwiegers Uboat but told no one As U20 and the Lusitania made their way toward Liverpool an array of forces both grand and achingly smallhubris a chance fog a closely guarded secret and moreall converged to produce one of the great disasters of history It is a story that many of us think we know but dont and Erik Larson tells it thrillingly switching between hunter and hunted while painting a larger portrait of America at the height of the Progressive Era Full of glamour and suspense Dead Wake brings to life a cast of evocative characters from famed Boston bookseller Charles Lauriat to pioneering female architect Theodate Pope to President Woodrow Wilson a man lost to grief dreading the widening war but also captivated by the prospect of new lovenbsp Gripping and important Dead Wake captures the sheer drama and emotional power of a disaster whose intimate details and true meaning have long been obscured by history
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