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Best friends Alex and Poppy try to repair their relationship two years after a disastrous vacation together by planning another vacation together.
"What happens when best friends with nothing in common come together, fall apart, and fall in love? The Vacationers meets When Harry Met Sally..., from the author of Beach Read When Poppy met Alex, there was no spark, no chemistry, and no reason to think they'd ever talk again. Alex is quiet, studious,...
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"Annie Adams thinks she has it all. Her longtime boyfriend, Nick, is on the verge of becoming a successful film director, her travel column is nationally syndicated, and they've got a great dog. Her life finally feels like it is falling into place. Until, out of nowhere, Nick announces that he's reconnected with a woman from his past and he's moving out. Reeling from Nick's exit, Annie stumbles into her neighborhood bar and finds Griffin, a down...
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Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century--1951--in the middle of the United States--Des Moines, Iowa--in the middle of the largest generation in American history--the baby boomers. As one of the funniest writers alive, he is perfectly positioned to mine his all-American childhood for memoir gold. Like millions of his generational peers, Bill Bryson grew up with a rich fantasy life as a superhero. In his case, he ran around his house...
5) For the dead
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Poke Rafferty Bangkok thrillers volume 6
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English
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"Poke Rafferty is happier than he's ever been. He's financially solvent, his family is about to grow larger, and his adopted Thai daughter, Miaow, seems to have settled in at junior high school. All that is endangered when Miaow and her boyfriend, Andrew, buy a stolen iPhone from a shady vendor and discover photographs of two dead police officers on it--disgraced officers, violently murdered to avenge the long-dead. Surrounding the murder investigation...
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Will Rhodes has made a terrible mistake. Harmless flirtations are part of his job. But these flirtations have never showed up at his hotel room with a gun, threatening his life. Will is a travel writer - a wine aficionado and international food expert for Travelers magazine. Though he's wondered why he sometimes has to deliver bulky sealed packages to consulates all over the world, or why he occasionally has to use a fake name. Now those shadowy errands...
8) Fools' river
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Soho Crime
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[2017]
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English
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"The two most difficult days in Bangkok writer Poke Rafferty's life begin with an emergency visit from Edward Dell, the almost-boyfriend of his teenage daughter, Maiow. The boy's father, Buddy, a late-middle-aged womanizer who has moved to Bangkok for happy hunting, has disappeared, and money is being siphoned out of his bank and credit card accounts. It soon becomes apparent that Buddy is in the hands of a pair of killers who prey on Bangkok's "sexpats";...
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Harper Horizon
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Despite a glamorous lifestyle full of globetrotting adventures, travel expert and entrepreneur Anna Kloots felt lost and directionless. Now, for every woman searching for her voice, Anna shares her story of finding and believing in her own magic"--
"Despite what appeared to be a glamorous existence full of globetrotting adventures, behind the scenes, Anna Kloots felt invisible in her own life. Consumed by a marriage that left no space for her own...
10) Travel writing
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Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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Pete Ferry, our narrator, teaches high school English in the wealthy suburb of Lake Forest outside of Chicago, and moonlights as a travel writer. On his way home after work one evening he witnesses a car accident that kills a beautiful woman named Lisa Kim. But was it an accident? Could Pete have prevented it? And did it actually happen, or is this just an elaborate tale he concocts to impart the power of story to his restless teenage charges? Why...
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Kensington Books
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2017.
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English
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Sometimes a family's deepest silences hide the most important secrets. For Mina, a London-based travel writer, the enigmatic silence surrounding her aunt Carmela has become a personal obsession. Carmela disappeared from her Italian hometown long ago and is mentioned only in fragments and whispers. Mina has resisted prying, respectful of her family's Sardinian reserve. But now, with her mother battling cancer, it's time to learn the truth.
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Lily Moore mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
cc2012
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English
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Travel writer Lily Moore embarks on a visit to Peru with photographer Jesse Robb, where the suspicious falling death of a tourist prompts Lily to question the victim's three traveling companions.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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After the disappearance of his eight-year-old son, writer George Gates lost his fascination for places where people had disappeared, until retired missing-persons detective Arlo McBride asks Gates for help in investigating the disappearance of Katherine Carr, a woman who vanished twenty years earlier whose case my help Gates find his son.
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Murder packs a suitcase mysteries volume 1
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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"Mallory Marlowe is ready to turn a corner--one lined with palm trees, plastic pink flamingo lawn ornaments, and snack bars shaped like giant ice-cream cones. Thanks to her new job as travel writer for the New York magazine 'The Good Life', recently widowed Mallory is zipping around Orlando, assigned to rediscover the glory days of 'old Florida.' It's the first of what she hopes will be many exciting adventures...but she's about to discover that the...
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Hardie Grant Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Cassoulet Confessions is an enthralling memoir by award-winning food and travel writer Sylvie Bigar that reveals how a simple journalistic assignment sparked a culinary obsession and transcended into a quest for identity. Set in the stunning southern French countryside, this honest and poignant memoir conveys hunger for authentic food and a universal hunger for home. In Cassoulet Confessions, Sylvie travels across the Atlantic from her home in New...
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Tor Books
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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An American writer of travel guides in need of a new location chooses to travel to a small and obscure Eastern European country. The moment Grafton crosses the border he is in trouble. His passport is taken by guards and then he is detained for not having it. He is released into the custody of a family but is again detained. It becomes evident that there are supernatural agencies at work but they are not in some ways as threatening as the brute forces...
20) One for the road
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Travel writer Jill Curtis is sent to Kentucky to uncover what makes the state's bourbon tours so popular. But her visit goes awry when she trips over a body at one of the distilleries and becomes a suspect in a brutal murder. Can she navigate high-stakes Bourbon rivalries, centuries-old family feuds and ill-fated romance to find a killer?"--
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