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Greater than a Tourist: Cairns Queensland, Australia by author Rachel Caborn offers firsthand and personal insight into the best ways to visit and travel Tropical North Queensland. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this book will give you candid travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

A century ago, the American Southwest was a region of savage natural beauty. There, the Navajo people worshipped the land, spinning folk tales into legends and prayers into songs. But besieged by US Army soldiers, the tribe was suddenly thrust into a battle that nearly destroyed the proudly woven fabric of its culture.

Travel Like a Local is a series of travel guidebooks written by local experts to help travelers explore new places like an insider. Travel Like a Local Seattle, Washington of the United States by Author Nichole Howell-Cook offers first-hand and personal insight into the best ways to visit Emerald City. From learning about the culture and customs to finding the best restaurants and attractions, these guidebooks provide comprehensive information to ensure a hassle-free unforgettable journey.

Ava Clayton is a pragmatic woman, fond of her lists. She is a retired English professor, a mildly intrusive mother to two grown children, and a mouthy wife to a beloved husband of fifty years. Known for her bracingly direct remarks, she is nonetheless speechless when her dead mother sits on the side of her bed one night and tells her when she is going to die—but not how.

One hundred years ago, Rudyard Kipling travelled to India as a young journalist and wrote the fabulous stories of the Jungle Books about Mowgli, the jungle boy raised by a wolf pack, and his friends, Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the bear. Kipling’s original stories ended before Mowgli became of age, and generations of listeners have wondered what happened to Mowgli as he grew up. The Third Jungle Book is Mowgli’s continuing story.

In River Without End, Jekel brings to life a wilderness swamp of mystery and magic, savagery and sanctuary, and the Seminole people of Osceola and the region of the Suwannee River.

Beverly Grady may just be the world’s loneliest woman. Her husband is dead, she hates her sister, and she has no friends—other than the birds she watches every day in her yard. When she finds out her late husband left behind mountains of debt, she has no choice but to downgrade her lifestyle, moving from her dream house to a cheap apartment in nearby Brookside Manor.

With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit Bilbao. Greater than a Tourist: Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain by Jessica Leigh Crane is a compilation of tips and inside information about the city of Bilbao in Northern Spain.

Jenny Stone, a blossoming art student, is lured into the LA underground by a blue-haired, goth street artist with a purse full of drugs and a not-so-lucky rabbit’s foot. Lost, she lands at the feet of a charismatic rock star, Evan Reed.

Benny the Ostrich is determined to find a food that is tastier than his usual meal of grass, so he decided to ask other animals what they like to eat.

Benny was having a hard time falling asleep that night. He kept tossing and turning. He got to thinking, how do other animals sleep? Will he end up sleeping in a tree with the baboons? Or in the water with the hippos? Join Benny on another exciting adventure to find the perfect spot to sleep.