| A Writer's World: Travels 1950-2000 | | Jan Morris | | Some of the author's finest articles are brought together here. Age might now restrict her travels, but her memories of travel are a delight. Her wonderful descriptions evoke the spirit of so many places. For example, Delhi is: the capital of the losing streak, the metropolis of the crossed wire, the missing appointment, the puncture, the wrong number. |  | | |
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| Too Young to Die | | David Snowdon | | This exciting detective thriller set in London, Jamaica and Miami will keep you on the edge of your seat. When June Patterson was brutally murdered on Streatham Common, the whole nation was shocked by the gruesome, cold-blooded killing. After police failure spanning four years, out of desperation, June's multi-billionaire father hires Private Investigator, Mike Heaton, to find the killer. Then the action begins. |  | | |
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| 1,000 Places to See Before You Die | | Patricia Schultz | This hefty volume reminds vacationers that hot tourist spots are small percentage of what's worth seeing out there. Its scope is from beaches to museums to cathedrals to bustling markets, grand hotels to backwater inns, rugged safaris to the most pampering spas.
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| Private Lives | | Simon Marshland | Charlie Parker has problems trying to dismiss flashbacks to previous lives and wars spread over over three centuries as mental aberrations. But they increase in intensity until he is living past and present almost simultaneously. Then his daughter is abducted by terrorists.
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