Lily and Isla the Flamingo: Fun and Games at Grammy's House


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Lily and Isla go on a fun-filled visit to Grammy's house and decide to give a few games a try. Which one do you think they will like most? Let's have a look inside and find out!







Birnbaum's Cancun, Cozumel and Isla Mujeres, 1996


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The essential guide to the Yucatan Peninsula. Beginning with how to plan and budget your trip and the best hotels and restaurants at every price, this guide also gives you detailed driving tours of the the Yucatan Peninsula, essential Spanish words and phrases, and takes you to the Yucatan's amazing beaches and sensational scuba and snorkeling spots.




Birnbaum's Cancun, 1993


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Moon Dominican Republic


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Diamond white beaches, countrywide carnivals, and never-ending music: discover why so many have fallen head-over-heels for the Dominican Republic. Inside Moon Dominican Republic you'll find: Flexible itineraries including the best of the Dominican Republic in 10 days, plus roundups of the best beaches, spots for diving and snorkeling, outdoor adventures, and more Strategic advice for culture buffs, honeymooners, foodies, night owls, and more, whether you're in the DR for a few days or a few weeks The top activities and unique experiences: Take a dip in crystal-clear water and dry off with a walk to one of the best seaside fish shacks for lunch. Enjoy a rich Dominican mangú and coffee for breakfast before a day of snorkeling alongside spotted eagle rays. Wander the clamoring outdoor markets or stroll past restored Spanish colonial buildings and boutique sidewalk restaurants. Hike to hidden waterfalls or go ziplining through the forest and dance the night away to local live merengue Local insight from DR-insider Lebawit Lily Girma on how to support local businesses and explore ethically and sustainably Full-color, vibrant photos throughout Detailed maps for exploring on your own, and useful tips on public transportation, car and bike rentals, and domestic air travel within the Dominican Republic Thorough background information on the landscape, wildlife, history, government, and culture Handy tools including a Spanish phrasebook, health and safety tips, visa information, and advice for LGBTQ, senior, and solo travelers With Moon Dominican Republic's practical advice and insider tips, you can plan your trip your way. Craving more Caribbean adventures? Try Moon Jamaica or Moon Aruba.




Where I Was From


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From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking: In this "arresting amalgam of memoir and historical timeline” (The Baltimore Sun), Didion—a native Californian—reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history, and ours. Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to California's ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic’s often tenuous relationship to reality. Combining history and reportage, memoir and literary criticism, Where I Was From explores California’s romances with land and water; its unacknowledged debts to railroads, aerospace, and big government; the disjunction between its code of individualism and its fetish for prisons. Whether she is writing about her pioneer ancestors or privileged sexual predators, robber barons or writers (not excluding herself), Didion is an unparalleled observer, and this book is at once intellectually provocative and deeply personal.




Natural History


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The Raging Storm


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Ann Cleeves—New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows—returns with The Raging Storm, the extraordinary third installment in the Matthew Venn series. Fierce winds, dark secrets, deadly intentions. When Jem Rosco—sailor, adventurer, and legend—blows into town in the middle of an autumn gale, the residents of Greystone, Devon, are delighted to have a celebrity in their midst. But just as abruptly as he arrived, Rosco disappears again, and soon his lifeless body is discovered in a dinghy, anchored off Scully Cove, a place with legends of its own. This is an uncomfortable case for Detective Inspector Matthew Venn. Greystone is a place he visited as a child, a community he parted ways with. Superstition and rumor mix with fact as another body is found, and Venn finds his judgment clouded. As the winds howl, and Venn and his team investigate, he realizes that no one, including himself, is safe from Scully Cove’s storm of dark secrets. “A friend of mine once joked that the work of Ann Cleeves is the closest the crime fiction genre comes to evoking ASMR—the euphoric, pleasant, spine-tingling sensation that’s all the rage on YouTube. The books never get too dark, never venture too far into dangerous territory, but aren’t outright cozy, either.”—The New York Times