Robert Wheeler
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Ernest Hemingway lived in Cuba for more than two decades, longer than anywhere else. He bought a home-naming it the Finca Vigia-with his third wife, Martha Gellhorn and wrote his masterpiece The Old Man and the Sea there. In Cuba, Papa Hemingway found a sense of serenity and enrichment that he couldn't find anywhere else. Now, through more than a hundred color photographs and accompanying text, Robert Wheeler takes us through the streets and near...
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Walk through the Streets of Paris with Ernest Hemingway.
In gorgeous black and white images, Hemingway's Paris depicts a story of remarkable passion-for a city, a woman, and a time. No other city in any of his travels was as significant, professionally or emotionally, as was Paris. And it remains there, all of the complexity, beauty, and intrigue that Hemingway described in the pages of so much of his work.
It is all still there for the reader and...
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A Moving and Informative Guidebook and Keepsake Worthy of Coffee Table Display!
Through lyrical paragraphs and poignant black and white images, The Boston Freedom Trail reveals the essence of each site along the Freedom Trail, thereby allowing the reader to be moved and to connect more intimately with the splendor of liberty itself.
Said to be the soul of the city, Boston's Freedom Trail embodies the remarkable and courageous spirit of America's...
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In many ancient cultures, divination was, used to determine if an action taken would be favorable. In ancient Greece, an oracle was a seer who was the intermediary between the people and the gods and goddesses. In The Chakana Oracle, the cards themselves play the role of the ancient oracle, connecting the user to an ancient Andean lineage, whose roots go back over 500 years to the Inka Empire.
The Chakana Oracle Guidebook, which is a companion to...
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Published in 1926 to explosive acclaim, The Sun Also Rises stands as perhaps the most impressive first novel ever written by an American writer. A roman ̉clef about a group of American and English expatriates on an excursion from Paris's Left Bank to Pamplona for the July fiesta and its climactic bull fight, a journey from the center of a civilization spiritually bankrupted by the First World War to a vital, God-haunted world in which faith and honor...
9) The list
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[2008]
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Fresh out of law school and full of hope for the future, Renny Jacobson is stunned by his father's sudden death, and then by the terms of his will. The elder Jacobson has left the bulk of his estate to charity. For his only son, he has left nothing more than the contents of a deposit box and interest in a company no one has heard of, the Covenant List of South Carolina, Ltd. When Renny encounters lovely Jo Johnston, meets the members of 'The List,...
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