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Istanbul: The Collected Traveler: An Inspired Companion Guide (Vintage Departures Original) THE COLLECTED TRAVELERFor Travelers Who Want More Than a Guidebook Bringing The Collected Traveler along on your trip is like having your own savvy personal tour guide who knows the place intimately. This unique guide to one of today’s hottest tourist destinations combines fascinating articles by a wide variety of wri

Rooted Reflections: A Collection of Hair Stories, Trials and Triumphs Just how much importance does hair have in the black community? Just over 9 billion dollars worth of importance, at last count! But even beyond the dollar figures, hair has even greater power and influence in our community because it speaks. Hair is the central theme in this anthology book which includes forty-five original short essays— all

Travels with Myself and Another: A Memoir “Martha Gellhorn was so fearless in a male way, and yet utterly capable of making men melt,” writes New Yorker literary editor Bill Buford. As a journalist, Gellhorn covered every military conflict from the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam and Nicaragua. She also bewitched Eleanor Roosevelt’s secret love and enraptured Ernest Hemingway with her courage as the

Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own! “She goes a long way with her book to prove that humor is the best — possibly the only — way to keep the world on an even keel.”CHICAGO SUN-TIMESRemember the things Mother used to say? Erma Bombeck remembers them all and now she’s using them on her own kids! With clever illustrations by Bob Keane, these really funny, too-true observations

Raymond Chandler: Later Novels and Other Writings: The Lady in the Lake / The Little Sister / The Long Goodbye / Playback /Double Indemnity / Selected Essays and Letters (Library of America) Raymond Chandler is arguably the best American pulp novelist. His prose is so acutely visual, his characters so raw and intense that it is small wonder that all but one of his books have been made into movies. And his hero

The Essays of Montaigne – Volume 08 This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes

On the Good Life (Penguin Classics) For the great Roman orator and statesman Cicero, the good life’ was at once a life of contentment and one of moral virtue and the two were inescapably intertwined. This volume brings together a wide range of his reflections upon the importance of moral integrity in the search for happiness. In essays that are articulate, meditative and inspirational, Cicero presents his vi