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  The Haunting of Las Vegas

  Janice Oberding

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  The paranormal researcher and author of Haunted Nevada presents “a macabre compilation of the eeriest haunts of Sin City” (Kalila K. Smith, author of New Orleans Ghosts, Voodoo, and Vampires). 
   
  With its world-famous casinos and extravagant floor shows, Las Vegas is known as one of America’s liveliest cities. And true to its reputation, even the dead are especially active here. In Haunting Las Vegas, Janice Oberling offers a rare look beyond the neon glitz and into reports of ghostly sightings and lurid histories of The City that Never Sleeps.  
   
  Spirits of all kinds haunt the halls and corridors of the Las Vegas Strip, including apparitions of its most famous residents. There are many tales of Elvis idling backstage at the Hilton and Liberace appearing at his favorite restaurant, Carluccio’s. The legendary mobster Bugsy Segal is known to make spectral appearances, as is Shoney, the Luxor Hotel’s once-celebrated show elephant.

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  Get Lost - Seven Principles for...

  Erin Leider-Pariser

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  For nearly thirty years, Erin Leider-Pariser has designed women's adventure journeys that empower them to push their physical boundaries, bond through ancient rituals, and learn more about themselves than they ever imagined. Get Lost blends the wisdom and personal insights gleaned from these hiking, biking, and climbing trips through some of the world's most breathtaking landscapes with once-in-a-lifetime tales of dramas in the wild. For Leider-Pariser and her travelers, life is never the same after surviving a flash flood on a remote Columbian trail, getting lost in a Cambodian jungle, receiving shamanic healings in Ecuador, beholding the world from a Himalayan peak, and bonding with friends old and new through an ancient talking stick ceremony around the campfire. Through stories and anecdotes, the listener will witness how women's travel is soulful, flipped-out, hysterical fun—an absolute necessity for travel and everyday life.This inspiring volume includes Leider-Pariser's Seven Principles for Trekking Life with Grace, a set of golden rules for navigating toward your best self. Complete with advice for forming your own group travel adventures on any budget, this energizing and at times hilarious book invites women to ignite their adventurous spirit, whether through travels near or far or taking bold new steps toward their dreams.

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  The Architecture Lover's Guide...

  Elizabeth F. Heath

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  An informed, photo-filled guide to “all of the essential stopping places [with] terrifically detailed information on the architectural joys of Rome.” —Books Monthly 
   
  Rome’s architectural remains date as far back as the city’s founding in the 8th century BCE. The primitive settlement that began on the Palatine Hill grew over the next thousand years to the caput mundi—the capital of the world—the largest, most powerful presence in the ancient Western world. Along the way, Rome’s architectural styles, whether developed organically or appropriated from the cultures it subjugated and absorbed, were physical evidence of the politics, propaganda, and pragmatism of the times. 
   
  Written for readers passionate about Rome and how its architecture is inimitably linked to its history, The Architecture Lover’s Guide to Rome is the armchair architect’s tour of the Eternal City. It provides a timeline that begins with the founding of Rome and documents its significant architectural monuments and styles through the millennia, with photos, maps and practical information for visiting.

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  In the Valleys of the Noble...

  John Zada

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  On the central and north coast of British Columbia, the Great Bear Rainforest is the largest intact temperate rainforest in the world, containing more organic matter than any other terrestrial ecosystem on the planet. The area plays host to a wide range of species, from thousand-year-old western cedars to humpback whales to iconic white Spirit bears. According to local residents, another giant is said to live in these woods. For centuries, people have reported encounters with the Sasquatch?a species of hairy, bipedal man-apes said to inhabit the deepest recesses of this pristine wilderness. Driven by his own childhood obsession with the creatures, John Zada decides to seek out the diverse inhabitants of this rugged and far-flung coast, where nearly everyone has a story to tell, from a scientist who has dedicated his life to researching the Sasquatch to members of the area’s First Nations and a former grizzly-bear hunter-turned-nature tour guide. With each tale, Zada discovers that his search for the Sasquatch is a quest for something infinitely more complex, cutting across questions of human perception, scientific inquiry, indigenous traditions, the environment, and the power and desire of the human imagination to believe in?or reject?something largely unseen.

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  Mr Pikes: The Story Behind The...

  Matt Trollope, Tony Pike

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  From a poverty-stricken, sexually abused child to a globe-trotting, hedonistic and unapologetic international playboy, Mr Pikes‘ life was the definition of a rollercoaster. And at his world-renowned Rock 'n' Roll hotel (Pikes) in Ibiza, ANYTHING went. Partying hard, taking drugs, ripping clothes off A-list celebrities, enjoying the wildest sexual fantasies humanly possible... These were all on the daily order! And by listening to this autobiography, you now have the chance to embark on this exciting journey.Yes, the legendary Mr Ibiza has had a long life. But it STILL seems like he‘s lived 100 average lifetimes!Some of these mind-boggling stories will have you sitting on the edge of your chair, never wanting to leave. 
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  The Times  
  Much-married, hedonistic hotel owner who partied hard with many a pop star and was known as the Hugh Hefner of Ibiza; John Donne may have written that no man is an island, but Tony Pike came close. Known as Mr Ibiza, he was the embodiment of Balearic hedonism, a brash, hard-drinking, drug-taking philanderer whose way with women would have made even the love poet blush. 
    
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  Ibiza legend who founded legendary celeb hangout Pikes Ibiza and helped turn island into party paradise 
    
  The Independent  
  The resort, now known as Pikes Ibiza, was built, founded and run by Mercury's friend Tony Pike, an English-born Australian adventurer and playboy who had turned a ruined farmhouse into Spain's beacon hotel for sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. 
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  The incredible story of Tony Pike. 

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  So You Think You Know CANADA Eh?...

  Marianne Jennings

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  How well do you REALLY know Canada?  
  Did you know:Santa Claus is a Canadian citizen?That hockey is NOT the official national sport of Canada?The Canadian passport contains hidden images?Canada could have been named Britannia or Borealia?Parts of Canada are as cold as Mars?A Canadian pharmacist invented peanut butter? 
  If you're Canadian, know any Canadians, or have ever wanted to know more about Canada, this fun little fact book will help. 
  Inside this short and easy fun fact book, you'll discover interesting and fascinating nuggets of knowledge and trivia about:The kind people who live thereAll things maple syrupA list of cool Canadian inventionsFamous and amazing CanadiansUnique historyThe breathtaking natureA few words to help you speak Canadian 
  This is a great gift for family, friends, co-workers and anyone you think would enjoy learning more about Canada.

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