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Travel and geography, European travel and geography
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A guided tour of the English cottages, castles and countryside spots that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle used as settings for the Sherlock Holmes stories. 1985.
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Travel and geography, European travel and geography
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Novelist, critic, and biographer White, who moved to Paris in 1983, describes his wanderings through the city's arrondissements, including districts…
congenial to writers, African-Americans, Jews, artists, gays and lesbians, and royalists. A flâneur is someone who strolls about a city with no specific purpose, yet is attuned to its history and character. Bestseller. 2001.
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Travel and geography, European travel and geography
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Award-winning journalist and author Simon Winchester takes readers on a personal tour of the Balkans. Combining history and interviews with…
the people who live there, Winchester offers a fascinating glimpse into the complex issues at work in this chaotic region. 2001.
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Travel and geography, European travel and geography
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A history of the Mediterranean world from the dramatic creation of the sea when the Atlantic flooded across the barrier…
of land connecting Morocco and Gibraltar and plunged over a cliff 50 times the height of Niagara. The transformation of man in this rich region from hunter-gather to a settled form of existence was the beginning of civilisation and so began the process that was to transform the whole area. 1987.
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Paranormal
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This text covers all the major stones currently available and many lesser known, recently discovered crystals. This is a comprehensive…
guide to crystals, their shapes, colours and applications. The text also covers the practical and esoteric properties of each crystal, including spiritual, mental, psychological, emotional and physical effects, plus its use in crystal healing. 2003.
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Canadian non-fiction, Travel and geography, Asian travel and geography, European travel and geography
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Taras Grescoe plunges into the ruts where the tourists are thickest, starting at the tip of Spain's Land's End and…
finishing, nine months later, on the soldier-patrolled beaches of China's End of the Earth. Along the way, he crosses the entire Eurasian landmass, experiencing all sorts of travel such as all-inclusive resorts, pilgrimages, and bus tours. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2003.
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Travel and geography, European travel and geography, Travelogues
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Greece as seen through the eyes of a sensitive traveller - English classicist, archaeologist, and former Jesuit priest, whose poetic…
observations about the land and its people are interspersed with personal narrative. c1981.
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Paranormal
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Jack and Janet Smurl live in West Pittston, Pennsylvania with their four daughters, Jack's parents, and four spirits. A gruesome…
saga of supernatural encounters based on statements by the Smurls, their neighbours and the Warrens, a demonology team who investigated the possession of the house. c1988.
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Travel and geography, European travel and geography, Travelogues
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The author recounts his 1500 mile journey, much of it on foot, through Eastern Germany, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, and Romania,…
making personal connections with people in the turbulent region, and learning more about himself and his parents who had escaped from there years before. 1997.
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Journals and memoirs, Canadian non-fiction, Travel and geography, European travel and geography
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille
They arrived as tourists in Corfu, Wendy from Canada and James from England. They enjoyed the sun, an idyllic beach,…
olives, fresh apricots and marinated lamb, and long evenings of storytelling at the local taverna. But what captivated James and Wendy was the way the islanders embraced them, and how their deep connection to Corfu and its people sustained them through tragedy just as it had carried them into love. Some strong language. 2005.
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Travel and geography, European travel and geography
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A witty account of a first journey to England with visits to Windsor, Oxford and London. Sequel to "84 Charing Cross Road". 1983.
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History, European history, Paranormal, Witchcraft
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A reconstruction of sensational occurrences at the Ursuline Convent in Loudun during the early 1600s. After a group of nuns…
were swept into a prolonged state of frenzy, they accused Urbain Grandier, Loudun's parson, of witchcraft. Huxley includes insights of modern psychology as well as his own speculations on good and evil. 1952.
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Biography, Travel and geography, European travel and geography
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Taking the fire that destroyed the Fenice theatre in 1996 as his starting point, John Berendt creates a portrait of…
Venice and its extraordinary inhabitants. Beneath the exquisite facade of the world's most beautiful historic city, scandal, corruption and venality are rampant, and John Berendt is a master at seeking them out. It is the inhabitants of Venice who are the real stars of this story: Ezra Pound and his mistress, Olga; poet Mario Stefani; the Rat Man of Treviso; or Mario Moro self-styled carabiniere, fireman, soldier or airman, depending on the day of the week. 2006.
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Canadian non-fiction, Paranormal
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What were the "ghost airplanes" seen over the Parliament Buildings in 1915, or the flying saucers seen by officers over…
Goose Bay Air Force Base in the 1940s and 1950s? Was a prospector burned by a UFO in Manitoba in 1967, did a UFO crash off the coast of Nova Scotia, and was Quebec invaded by UFOs in 1973? Drawn from government documents and civilian case files, this book includes a chronological overview of the best Canadian UFO cases, from the very first sighting of "fiery serpents" over Montreal in 1662 to more recent reports. c2006.
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Biography, Literature biography, Paranormal
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The author writes of his long quest for his soulmate. In this book, he shares an intimate view of their…
discovery of each other, and their love which has led them on many journeys, including out-of-body experiences. Bestseller 1984.
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European travel and geography
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Superbement écrit, ce livre raconte une aventure : vivre en Toscane, tomber amoureux d'une maison, la restaurer, s'adonner aux plaisirs…
de la cuisine italienne et découvrir les liens entre les plats et la culture.
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Paranormal
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Using powerful ancient techniques to alter his state of consciousness, Castaneda travels into new worlds and encounters remarkable but dangerous…
beings; he conjoins energy bodies with another dreamer in order to dream and explore together, and thus acquires new knowledge and understanding. This book is an extraordinary and exciting adventure of the psyche unlike any other, which enables the reader to participate fully in the author's latest eye-opening and thrilling discoveries and explorations. 1993.
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Paranormal
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Describes the secret cosmic battle between positive and negative happening every day, hidden in both the traumas of our own…
lives and the world's headlines. Through his contact with a positive higher intelligence behind the UFO phenomenon, groundbreaking scientific information, and data from high-ranking government whistle-blowers, David reveals that the earth is now on the front lines of a battle that has been raging between positive and negative extraterrestrials for hundreds of thousands of years. By unifying ancient texts from a variety of religions with scientific data and insider testimony, David posits that Earth is on the verge of a massive cosmic event that will transform matter, energy, consciousness, and biological life as we now know it, and will utterly defeat the great villains of our time. 2016.
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Travel and geography, European travel and geography
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An unforgettable look at a land that holds Ireland's ancestral language, culture and uncorrupted heart. Synge's lyrical glimpses into the…
past, coupled with Donal Donnelly's rich, lilting voice, transport listeners to these tiny Emerald Islands. 1997.
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Movie and television tie-insParanormal
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In December 1975, the Lutz family moved into their new home on suburban Long Island. George and Kathleen Lutz knew…
that, one year earlier, Ronald DeFeo had murdered his family in the house, but the property and the price had been too good to pass up. Twenty-eight days later, the entire Lutz family flee the house in terror. 2006, c1978.