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Frommer's Utah

Travel

Don Laine

Barbara Laine

Eric Peterson

United States

Frommer

A must for savvy travelers to the Longhorn State ? Delivers frank, up-to-date travel advice on Texas, a top destination state that had more than $100 million leisure travelers in 2001 who spent $40.4 billion ? Guides visitors to the best accommodations, dining, nightlife, and sights in Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Corpus Christi, El Paso, Amarillo, and more ? Highlights Texas's many family-friendly attractions (amusement parks, Big Bend and Guadalupe Mountains National Parks, and wonderful beaches), nature tourism options (such as the Great Texas Costal Birding Trail), and historic sites (such as the Alamo and the Caddoan Mounds) ? Provides the lowdown on Texan music and food and even offers tips on how to talk like a Texan

Frommer's Texas

David Baird

Neil E. Schlecht

Edie Jarolim

Frommer's

It's the verge of the millennium, and the California economy is booming. The backdrop for this hilarious novel is the sprawling, colorful, bursting-at-the seams megalopolis of San Diego a picture-postcard setting with a seamy underside, where blind ambition and entrepreneurial zeal blur boundaries of law, common sense, and decency. Protagonist Wallace Noe and his wife, Hannah, are card-carrying members of the sandwich generation: squeezed between raising children and looking after an elderly parent, struggling to make ends meet and to keep their marriage together. When a family tragedy forces Wallace to reevaluate his life, he stakes his future on a start-up company and the values and work ethics of his father's generation, never imagining the sequence of events that will shatter his comfortable world. With sharp humor and masterly insight, author Eric Peterson dishes up a rollicking account of California's modern-day gold rush the heady times of the high-tech boom, when stories of mind-boggling riches are commonplace and everyone wants a bigger piece of the pie. In Life as a Sandwich, Peterson delivers more than a romp of a novel. It's a devastatingly funny look at one man's quest for identity and the unforgettable cast of characters that threatens to turn a crusade for redemption into a staggering, personal defeat.

Life as a Sandwich

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Huckleberry House

It's the verge of the millennium, and the California economy is booming. The backdrop for this hilarious novel is the sprawling, colorful, bursting-at-the seams megalopolis of San Diego a picture-postcard setting with a seamy underside, where blind ambition and entrepreneurial zeal blur boundaries of law, common sense, and decency. Protagonist Wallace Noe and his wife, Hannah, are card-carrying members of the sandwich generation: squeezed between raising children and looking after an elderly parent, struggling to make ends meet and to keep their marriage together. When a family tragedy forces Wallace to reevaluate his life, he stakes his future on a start-up company and the values and work ethics of his father's generation, never imagining the sequence of events that will shatter his comfortable world. With sharp humor and masterly insight, author Eric Peterson dishes up a rollicking account of California's modern-day gold rush the heady times of the high-tech boom, when stories of mind-boggling riches are commonplace and everyone wants a bigger piece of the pie. In Life as a Sandwich, Peterson delivers more than a romp of a novel. It's a devastatingly funny look at one man's quest for identity and the unforgettable cast of characters that threatens to turn a crusade for redemption into a staggering, personal defeat.

Life as a Sandwich:A Novel

The Book of Incredible Information, from the popular Armchair Reader series, is an informative and entertaining compilation of data covering hundreds of fascinating, funny, and unfamiliar facts on topics ranging from the odd to the obscure. This book will cause you to both laugh out loud and shake your head in amazement. Here is a sampling of what you will find in The Book of Incredible Information: You can earn a good living by working as a banana gasser. In Ohio, it s illegal to get a fish drunk. Charlie Chaplin once lost a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest. United States President James Garfield could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other--at the same time. In some parts of Italy, people savor a worm-filled cheese called casu marzu. The Book of Incredible Information is a treasure trove of not-so-common knowledge, presenting anecdotes, stories, trivia, fun facts, and quotations that will entertain history buffs, trivia experts, and anyone who delights in the quirky and unusual.

Armchair Reader: The Book of Incredible Information: A World of Not-So-Common Knowledge

Donna Beech

Mary Fons

J.K. Kelley

Anna Zaigraeva

Mary C. Nadalin

Reference

West Side Publishing

Roadside Americana takes you on an armchair tour of some of the gaudiest, kitschiest, and weirdest wonders in the United States and Canada. The book explains the history of the roadside attraction and gives you an up-close look at hundreds of fascinating examples, including: Solomon s Castle in Ona, Florida, a shiny 10,000-square-foot private residence and bed and breakfast constructed from recycled materials in the style of a mediaeval castle W eel, a 40-foot turtle in Dunseith, North Dakota, made from 2,000 tire rims The Mitchell Corn Palace, a turreted palace in Mitchell, South Dakota, decorated with thousands of bushels of corn and other grains The world s largest red wagon, Spokane Washington s 12-foot-high, 27-foot-long Radio Flyer that can hold 300 children Elbe, Washington s Hobo Inn, a collection of seven old cabooses converted into motel rooms If you want to get a good look at the crazy and zany side of America, Roadside Americana is the perfect book for you.

Roadside Americana

Publications, International, Ltd.

Where do the tunnels under the Colorado State Capitol go and why were they dug there in the first place? What is the backstory behind Tom's Baby, the largest piece of gold ever unearthed in Colorado? Denver may be known worldwide as the Mile High City, but its elevation is just one item on a long list of anomalies. In Secret Denver: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure you'll find many more quirks and mysteries to explore. Learn why Lakeside is one of the most historic amusement parks in the nation. Discover cemeteries repurposed as parks, streets once paved with radium, elves hiding in museum dioramas, and a seemingly endless parade of ghosts. Local journalists David Lewis and Eric Peterson tackle these conundrums and many others in the city they call home. With their combined experience traveling the trails less taken and the questions rarely asked, Secret Denver is bound to illuminate the city from an unexpected perspective.

Secret Denver: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure

History

David, Lewis

Americas

Reedy Press

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