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Outdoors expert Melissa Ozbek leads you up and down 75 different trails, all within two hours of Seattle

From the Pantheon and the Sistine Chapel to a great cappuccino at a local cafe, Rick covers the best that Rome has to offer in the new edition of this bestselling guide.

Charleston and Savannah expert Jim Morekis guides travellers to the best of this remarkable region, from kayaking to crab-eating

This helpful guide covers the best of this beautiful state, from Virginia Beach to the Appalachian Trail

Israel resident Genevieve Belmaker explores the breathtaking scenery, unparalleled historical sites, and world-class restaurants of this striking region

A patient-expert walks those newly diagnosed with lupus through everything they need to learn and do during their first year with the condition.

A ground-breaking new cookbook for everyone who wants to add a healthy dose of flax to their diet

"Rosenthal and Kubby offer crisp, well-reasoned arguments for legalizing marijuana." -Mike Tribby, Booklist

Ray Buck, who had once tried to become a screenwriter, drives endlessly around Los Angeles, worrying about his wife's growing mental problems and his son's future, remembering his own past, and observing the underside of life in the movie-making capital.

This title is a compilation of 25 stories concerned with fishing, features works by Raymond Carver, Thomas McGuane, P.J. O'Rourke, and Rip Torn, among others.

In this zany look at the world of romance and love,the author's shares observations on sex seminars, dating, the secrets of seduction, and marriage.

Zulu, the novel's protagonist, is badder than Shaft and gets more women into bed than James Bond (and with fewer gadgets). A "cultural megamix" with a Ph.D from Yale and something hotter than a pistol in his pants, he is Miami's most renowned P.I. and bon vivant. When a beautiful young rapper poised for the top of the charts is found dead in her apartment, not a mark on her perfect ebony body, Zulu is off and jamming, his two sidekicks, Lita ("a pure ghetto flower") and Roy (a B-boy, homeboy), trailing in his amplified wake.

In this volume, the author explores his obsession with boats, and describes his years of often hilarious boating adventures.

Novelist, short-story writer, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, Katherine Anne Porter is one of America's most respected and enduring literary figures. Upon her death in 1980 at the age of ninety, she left behind thousands of letters, from which Isabel Bayley, Porter's close friend for over twenty-five years and her literary archivist, selected the best.

Represented here are examples of various categories of Chinese literary composition-verses, songs, stories, essays, drama, and excerpts from novels from the Y'an and Ching Dynasties, as well as the Republican Period. Highlights include Songs from the Y'an Dynasty, The Temptation of Saint Pigsy by Wu Ch'eng-en, a selection from Peony Pavilion, early Ch'ing lyrics, and "Six Chapters" from A Floating Life by Shen Fu.

The popularity of the Chinese storyteller goes back to the marketplace of the T''ang dynasty, but the familiar figure came into its own in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. This selection of stories from Feng Menglong''s collection, Stories Old and New (originally published in 1624), includes representative types of the storyteller''s traditional art. "The Pearl-Sewn Shirt" is a cautionary romance describing the tragedy of a broken marriage; the heroic biography, which depicts a neglected man of high worth gradually receiving recognition, is represented by "Wine and Dumplings"; an authentic twelfth-century forerunner of the detective story is found in "The Canary Murders." The other tales concern traffic in the supernatural, didactic admonitions to observe morality in sex and loyalty in friendship, and realistic accounts of the meanness and corruption of official life. Also includes "The Lady Who Was a Beggar," "The Journey of the Corpse," "The Story of Wu Pao-an," and "The Fairy''s Rescue."

Travel expert Rick Steves explores Easter history, traditions, and celebrations across Europe, from Carnavale in Venice to Easter Sunday in Sevilla

In this brief and humorous satire, a man trapped in the bosom of the most venal media clique in London is losing his heart to a magazine columnist, about to lose his job at a magazine, losing his mind to cocaine, and losing his soul to a newspaper columnist, the kingpin of media scandal.

Close to the Bone scouts the territories of sex, the family, loneliness, the city, addiction, and AIDS, but these are not passive tales of victimization. Rather, these writers speak in voices that are unflinching, unerring, and filled with revelation.

This collection of poems concerning history and folk legend includes "Superman in Sunglasses," "Neanderthal," "Instead of Acceptance," "They Live Here," and "Legend of the Woolly Mammoth".

In the Nazi-occupied Warsaw of 1943, Irma Seidenman, a young Jewish widow, possesses two attributes that can spell the difference between life and death: she has blue eyes and blond hair. With these, and a set of false papers, she has slipped out of the ghetto, passing as the wife of a Polish officer, until one day an informer spots her on the street and drags her off to the Gestapo. At times a dark lament, at others a sly and sardonic thriller, The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman is the story of the thirty-six hours that follow Irma's arrest and the events that lead to her dramatic rescue as the last of Warsaw's Jews are about to meet their deaths in the burning ghetto.

This volume provides an insider's view of Hollywood's most glamorous era and the elements of film production.