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The period from the 1890s to the mid-1950s is generally considered the "golden era" of passenger rail travel in America. It was a time of celebrated locomotives and luxurious passenger service, a time when rail technology saw its greatest advances and railroads became the nation's favored mode of transportation. These glory years come alive in American Passenger Trains and Locomotives Illustrated, 1889"971. For this volume, author and illustrator...
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Jane's time aboard the ship grows short as questions and answers rush at her. The dark shadow that stalks the halls makes its demands, and Archer makes his vows to her. She is torn between her love for the man and her lust for the book, but a surprise awaits her as she finally learns the truth about her time as a passenger aboard this strange cruise.
** The Passenger's Pleasure series is an episodic serial with cliffhangers and sensual fun. **
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Jane Johnson is Plain Jane to everyone in her life, even herself. She longs for some excitement to penetrate her life with the full thrust of change. Her wish is granted when she wins a contest she doesn't remember entering and finds herself aboard a fashionable cruise liner with a rich, handsome neighbor in the next suite. He's in possession of a most unusual book that fills her with a deep, sensual longing she can't overcome. A desire that threatens...
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Jane's relaxing vacation aboard ship turns into a test of patience and belief as criminal accusations are thrown in her direction. She weathers the storm by luck, and a little disappearing act by the book, but her troubles aren't over as a mysterious shadow envelopes those around her. Her greatest comfort comes from the pages of the book, but she wonders what lies at the bottom of the wonderful ecstasy of those loving arms.
** The Passenger's Pleasure...
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Jane's terrifying ordeal grows more mysterious. The shadow that haunts the halls of the ship stalks her, as well, and she finds herself torn in her trust of Max Archer. Accusations swirl around him and the captain is forced to take action, but against all the evidence Jane believes him to be innocent. Through all the doubt the book is a lighthouse of happiness for her, granting her delicious delights in the night even as her life in the day becomes...
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A Sexy Contemporary Paranormal Mystery Suspense Romance.
The entire Ensnare the Passenger series in one complete package!
Jane Johnson won an all-expenses paid trip aboard a cruise-liner, but she finds herself an outcast at sea among the first-class passengers. Things change one night during a party below-deck when one of the rich, handsome passengers produces a book and offers it as a prize to the woman who would have his heart. Scuffles ensue...
9) Passenger
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In one devastating night, violin prodigy Etta Spencer loses everything she knows and loves. Thrust into an unfamiliar world by a stranger with a dangerous agenda, Etta is certain of only one thing: she has traveled not just miles, but years from home. And she's inherited a legacy she knows nothing about from a family whose existence she's never heard of. Until now. Nicholas Carter is content with his life at sea, free from the Ironwoods-a powerful...
10) Wayfarer
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"Robbed of the powerful object she needed to save her mother, time traveler Etta Spencer is stranded far from home and the privateer she loves before resolving to destroy the astrolabe, a mission that is challenged by a shattering revelation." --
11) Japan
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Explore Japanese society in the lively series that collects the best new writing, photography, art, and reportage from around the world.
Visitors from the West look with amazement, and sometimes concern, at Japan's social structures and unique, complex culture industry; the gigantic scale of its tech corporations and the resilience of its traditions; the extraordinary diversity of the subcultures that flourish in its "post-human" megacities. The...
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When Peter Passenger's parents die, he becomes a man on a mission: a mission to find their killer, and a mission to find answers to those things his family has researched his entire life. But what secrets did his parents leave behind?
When the Mothman suddenly appears, Peter knows he must pursue him. Leaving everything important to him, Peter chases the Mothman and soon finds that a warning is not the only thing the Mothman wants to give him.
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13) Berlin
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The best new writing, photography, art, and reportage from and about Berlin-in the series that's "like a literary vacation" (Publishers Weekly).
In 1990s Berlin, the scars of a century of war were still visible everywhere: coal stoves, crumbling buildings, desolate minimarts, not a working buzzer or elevator. To visit the city then was a hallucinatory experience, a simultaneous journey into the past and into the future.
The abandoned ruins, the...
14) India
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Since its earliest interactions with the West, India has been the object of a gross misinterpretation, a vague association with ideas of peace, spiritualism, the magic of the fakirs. Constantly reframed and mythologized by Westerners fleeing their supposedly rationalist societies, India continues to fascinate with its millennia-old history, shrines on every street corner, ancient beliefs and rituals, and unique linguistic and cultural diversity.
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15) Paris
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The best new writing, photography, art, and reportage from and about Paris-in the "rich and engrossing" series for literary travelers (Times Literary Supplement).
Paris's postcard image has suffered multiple blows in recent years: the November 2015 terrorist attacks, the demonstrations of the yellow vests, the riots in the suburbs, Notre-Dame in flames, record heatwaves and the coronavirus. Meanwhile, soaring living costs are forcing many Parisians...
16) Turkey
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Turkish culture and history is explored in the wide-ranging series that is "like a literary vacation" (Publishers Weekly).
The birth of the "New Turkey," as the country's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called his own creation, is an exemplary story of the rise of "illiberal democracies" through the erosion of civil liberties, press freedom, and the independence of the judicial system. Turkey was a complex country long before the rise of its new...
17) California
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The best new writing, photography, art, and reportage from and about California-in the "rich and engrossing" series for travelers and armchair travelers (Times Literary Supplement).
From the Gold Rush to Hollywood's golden age to the rise of Silicon Valley, California has long stood as the brightest symbol of the American dream. In recent years, however, the country's mainstream media has been declaring with increasing frequency-and thinly veiled...
18) Ireland
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The best new writing, photography, art, and reportage from and about Ireland-in the series that's "like a literary vacation" (Publishers Weekly).
Ireland is a land full of charm and conflict, a country that in just a few decades has gone from being a poor, semi-theocratic society to a thriving economy free from the influence of the Catholic Church. With the 1998 peace agreements, the conflict between nationalists and unionists seemed, if not resolved,...
19) The passenger
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Passenger ; 1
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"In 1980 Pass Christian, Mississippi, salvage diver Bobby Western, after a plane crash, discovers that the pilot's flight bag, the plane's black box and the tenth passenger are missing, submerging him in a conspiracy beyond his understanding as he is shadowed in body and spirit by the past and present."--
20) Rome
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The best new writing, photography, art, and reportage from and about Rome-in the series that's "like a literary vacation" (Publishers Weekly).
If you believe recent chatter about Rome-in the media and by its residents-the city is on the verge of collapse. Each year, it slips further down the ranking of the world's most livable cities. To the problems faced by all large capitals-hit-and-run tourism, traffic, the divide between elegant, Airbnb-dominated...
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