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CONTEST OVER (TODAY, you have a chance to win a copy of Lonely Planet’s Great Journeys, a beautiful book. See more at end of this post.) Bring on the cake! Okay, I could settle for macarons in the shadow of the Eiffel tower. Print PDF
PDF Last night, the cupcake elves announced the winners of the drawings for Passports With Purpose prizes. I got all excited when I saw an e-mail headed “You’re a Passsports With Purpose Prize Winner.” Turns out they were not referring to ME (It’s not all about me???)–they were passing on the names of the three people [...]
I have been following Jane Boursaw‘s comments about movies and TV ever since I met her, and am so glad to have this treasure trove of entertainment knowledge join us on a regular basis at A Traveler’s Library. Although she does not mention it in the interview, Jane also teaches classes in blogging, and A [...]
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Is this how traveling makes you feel? Is this the way you want to act when you discover a wonderful travel book or movie that takes you away? We travelers who read are endlessly curious. We want to know about all the things that might make us want to travel. And when we plan our [...]
Banned Books Week September 24—October 1 Interlink Books reminds us that we are in the midst of Banned Books Week. Their recommendations for reading this week include The Calligrapher’s Secret, which was reviewed here a few months ago. Although the book is widely acclaimed, it is banned in the author’s native Syria. Needless to say, [...]
Special alert: A timely announcement given the happenings in Libya recently. BBC World Book Club used one of the questions I submitted in their interview of Hisham Matar. You can get the link to the broadcast and a download by going back to the review of In the Country of Men. Be patient, mine is [...]
NOTE: If you are reading this in e-mail, on Facebook, or otherwise not on the Blog Site, you may want to click through so that you can see the actually layout and better understand what I am explaining. I’ve been sprucing up some of the things you may not notice at A Traveler’s Library.(If you [...]
Just received my monthly newsletter from Longitude Guides, and I had to share it with you. They feature an enticing list of books about Machu Picchu, including some for kids, and a new one on the wild life of Machu Picchu. Although I can’t send you the newsletter, I CAN link you to their blog [...]
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Likin’ the New Stuff at A Traveler’s Library
NEW COLLEAGUES AT THE LIBRARY I hope you are enjoying the new contributors to A Traveler’s Library as much as I am. You have now met five of the current six contributors who are bringing you new reasons to travel and new resources. Kerry talked about Nova Scotia Music on Monday; Jessie talked about Scottish [...]
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