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1. Camino winds
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Camino Island volume 2
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.1 stars
Description:
Welcome back to Camino Island, where anything can happen--even a murder in the midst of a hurricane, which might prove to be the perfect crime . . . Just as Bruce Cable's Bay Books is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann, Hurricane Leo veers from its predicted course and heads straight for the island. Florida's governor orders a mandatory evacuation, and most residents board up their houses and flee to the mainland, but Bruce...
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Series:
Camino Island volume 3
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
On Camino Island, popular bookseller Bruce Cable tells Mercer Mann an irresistible tale that might be her next novel. A giant resort developer is using its political muscle and deep pockets to claim ownership of a deserted island between Florida and Georgia. Only the last living inhabitant of the island, Lovely Jackson, stands in its way. What the developer doesn't know is that the island has a remarkable history, and locals believe it is cursed......
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Series:
Camino Island volume 1
Lexile measure:
860L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.4 stars
Description:
Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts. Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer's block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. She is approached by an elegant, mysterious...
4. Buen Camino
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Language:
English
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Lots of people take a walk to clear their heads, but have you ever walked over six hundred miles to do it? On a misty, gray morning in the summer of 2018, Gordon Bernhardt set out from a small town in the French Pyrenees to walk the ancient pilgrim route of Camino de Santiago, seeking clarity for his business, his relationships, and his priorities in life. The lessons he learned as a peregrino-a pilgrim-ranged from insights on financial advising and...
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Publisher:
Ngan H Nguyen, LLC
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
Stretching 500-miles across the northern part of Spain is the Camino Francés of the Camino de Santiago. A pilgrimage to the Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela. It was by fate that I found this path and it became one of the greatest adventures of my life. Over a million steps crossing the rugged Pyrenees and spanning undulating plains before winding through lush hillsides. The path was a unique window into historical, natural and cultural beauty,...
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Publisher:
Winnowing Words Publishing
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
In the pursuit of healing on ancient trails, every step uncovers a world beyond After my son died, I wondered if traversing the Camino de Santiago, the same pilgrimage as Tom did in the movie, The Way, might bring me healing from grief just as it did for him. At age 70, I knew this might be my last chance to try. This is the story of how my journey through Spain brought me healing. Walking on the Camino de Santiago taught me that life is never what...
7. Hustle
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Publisher:
Sarabande Books
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
Description:
The dark peoples with things: for keys, coins, pencils and pens our pockets grieve. No street lights or signs, no liquor stores or bars, only a lighter for a flashlight, and the same-faced trees, similar-armed stones and crooked bushes staring back at me. There is no path in the woods for a boy from the city. I would have set fire to get off this wilderness but Palomar is no El Camino in an empty lot, the plastic dripping from the dash and the paint...
Author:
Publisher:
Wayne Kyle Spitzer
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
It's the dawn of the 1970s and everything is changing. The war in Vietnam is winding down. So is the Apollo Space Program. The tiny northwestern city of Spokane is about to host a World's Fair. But the Watergate Hearings and the re-entry of Skylab and the eruption of Mount Saint Helens are coming … as are killer bees and Ronald Reagan. Enter 'The Kid,' a panic-prone, hyper-imaginative boy whose life changes drastically when his father brings home...
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Publisher:
Editorial Bubok Publishing
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
Spanish
Description:
Este no es un libro para (solamente) leer. Es una invitación a la escucha activa de música que, aunque conozcas, redescubrirás con nuevos matices y detalles. También es una provocación para que te atrevas a disfrutar de grupos y músicos nuevos para ti. Estas páginas reúnen una cuidada selección de más de mil canciones de más de cuatrocientos músicos y grupos musicales que se hizo con rigurosidad para asegurar que fuera divertida, original...
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Publisher:
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
Spanish
Description:
Un libro en el que se entrecruzan el arte, la literatura y la vida: la confirmación del inmenso talento de María Gainza. Una noche, durante su estancia bonaerense para el rodaje de su película Tetro, Francis Ford Coppola le dijo a María Gainza: «El artista viene al mundo con un carcaj que contiene un número limitado de flechas doradas. Puede lanzar todas sus flechas de joven, o lanzarlas de adulto, o incluso ya de viejo. También puede ir lanzándolas...