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Series
Language
English
Description
A wealthy man and his valet race against time to circumnavigate the world in eighty days in one of Jules Verne's best known tales—now with an arresting new look!
Phileas Fogg has always been a quiet, orderly, and predictable English gentleman who reads the newspaper, visits the Reform Club, and dines at exactly the same time each day. But this routine is abandoned when he wagers his fortune in an outlandish bet that he can travel around...
Phileas Fogg has always been a quiet, orderly, and predictable English gentleman who reads the newspaper, visits the Reform Club, and dines at exactly the same time each day. But this routine is abandoned when he wagers his fortune in an outlandish bet that he can travel around...
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Language
English
Formats
Description
Winning a once-in-a-lifetime trip around the world with a catch: her travel partner must be a contact randomly selected on her phone, magazine writer Dylan Coughlan and Jack, a man she accidentally ghosted, form an unexpected bond, forcing her to choose between salvaging her career and following her heart.
5) Blue water
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
6) Heather Mary
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
1953.
Edition
[First edition].
Physical Desc
224 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of a perilous trip across the Atlantic from England to Bermuda in a sailing yacht.
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When Sophie meets Carson, a free-spirited artist, on a trip to Hong Kong, she decides to join him on his haphazard journey around the world, forcing her to question if the reliable life she's chosen is really what she wants.
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Attempting to beat Jules Verne's round-the-world record, Victorian Age reporter Nellie Bly hides from official records the secret details about a mysterious death in the bustling harbor city of Port Said where she is targeted by a killer and embroiled inan international plot.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
260 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1905, a tourist agent and amateur antiques collector named Armand de Potter mysteriously disappeared off the coast of Greece. His body is never recovered and his wife is left to manage his affairs on her own. But as she starts to piece together his life, she realizes that everything was not as he had said. Infused with details from letters and diary entries, the [book] twists forward and backward through time, revealing a lost world of fake identities,...
13) The blue
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"They found paradise... what would they do to keep it? [A] spine-tingling adventure novel about a group of friends whose journey around the world on a yacht turns from a trip to paradise into a chilling nightmare when one of them disappears at sea. Lana and her best friend Kitty leave home looking for freedom-- and that's exactly what they find when they are invited onto The Blue, a fifty-foot yacht making its way from the Philippines to New Zealand....
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books, Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Pegasus Books edition.
Physical Desc
277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"[Annie Londonderry] captured the popular imagination with her daring 'round the world trip on two wheels. It was, declared The New York World in October of 1895, "the most extraordinary journey ever undertaken by a woman." But beyond the headlines, Londonderry was really Annie Cohen Kopchovsky, a young, Jewish mother of three small children, who climbed onto a 42-pound Columbia bicycle and pedaled away into history. Reportedly set in motion by a...
Author
Publisher
Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
287 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After losing her mother, Imogen Holgate believes she's living on borrowed time with the same terminal illness. So the cautious accountant blows all her savings on a once-in-a-lifetime trip around the world, where she meets sexy Parisian Thierry Girard. But after two steamy weeks there are permanent consequences to their temporary affair...Now with more than herself to think about, Imogen turns to Thierry to help, but the last thing she expected was...
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